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Name: Joseph Madrid
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Sexual preference: Questionable
Race: Human
Personality: Artistic type. Quiet that is sometimes mistaken for being shy. Uses art to calm his nervous habits.
Skills/Abilities: Skilled at painting, sculpting, paper folding, ect.
Bio: Joseph was raised in a rather conservative house hold. Art was not something that Joseph was meant to be into. No, his father had already planned out way before Joseph was born that he would be star foot ball player or a wrestler. During the early years of his schooling it would seem that such a feat was very possible. Joseph was always very eager to please his father doing everything he asked. Though even as a child he had more of his mother body type, lean and thin, which made it difficult for him to do well in football or wrestling. Rather than push his ten year old son, Joseph’s father settled for other sports like baseball and swimming. The young boy excelled, but that same year he was taken on a class trip to an art museum. He fell in love.

Looking at the great pieces of art Joseph found himself in complete awe of it all. Excited by this like only a child can, the boy came home and told his mother of all he had seen. She smiled a sad knowing smile but indulged in his request for new markers, pens, paints, and notebooks. As soon as he got home with his new supplies he went straight to work on art for his father. It was a picture of them throwing a baseball outside. When he presented it to his dad, there was mixed feeling for it. Half of his father wanted to say thank you and half of him wanted him to never do this sissy stuff again. True, Joseph had a natural talent for art and it made Joseph’s father pleased to see his subject was sports. But still his father was afraid even than he would get too into it and would turn into a homosexual, even though he was only ten. Giving only a gruff thank you the father placed the drawing on the counter and went to his room.

Being also very confused by this Joseph stopped drawing for a couple of years, filling up the empty space that art had made up with more boy friendly activities. It wasn’t until he reached middle school and the art teacher took a serious interest in each of the students’ art that Joseph started to work harder at it. The teacher nurtured the natural talents that Joseph possessed and urged him to practiced at home. Joseph refused at first but after a while he started to sneak a sketch or two while at home. In school his notebook started to fill with doodles of pretty girls or things he had seen that day. Though he was still doing well in class, one math teacher made it a point to bring the doodling up to his parents. His father was unpleased. But Joseph had been happier in that first year of junior high than he had been in a long while so his father said nothing. And worse soon took to ignoring his son all together.

His mother however was rather proud of her son and all through junior high and high school would attend all of his art shows. And when he was accepted to a prestigious art college his mother took him and his dad stayed at home. Now he is on summer break with his family. And his father had come to accept his son for an artist after he met his girlfriend he brought home with him for a couple of weeks.
Other: Expect him to doodle a lot if given the chance. Is still technically in a relationship so getting him to think otherwise might take a bit.
Current Master: None