Age: 23
Gender: male
Height: 6'3"
Facial expression: slight blush, mouth opened as if talking - an overall gentle feel
Hair: dark purple - style exactly as in ref
Eye color: bright green
Skin color: dark brown - see ref
Profession: wallist
Military outfit:
• knot shirt
• no chest harness
• no waist wrap
Personality:
excitable | stubborn | clumsy | naive | optimistic | hedonistic
optimistic/naive - To Alister, every day, no matter how average, is a strange gift to be treasured. There is a beauty in the normalcy provided by the walls and he revels in it. Everything will be alright in the end. Born into the Hayes family, he has never known true want and seems vaguely confused by it. If the poor do not wish to be poor, why don't they simply get better jobs? As poverty has never directly effected him, he tends not to dwell on it.
excitable - Everything Alister feels, he seems to feel threefold. Instead of not having a dramatic bone in his body, it's as though all the bones in his body are dramatic. He over-exaggerates, loves easily, forgives easily, bounces about like an overgrown rabbit. Emotions swell inside him sometimes so much that he feels like he will burst. Because of how excitable he can be, he also has a difficult time focusing on things one at a time. Somehow, thinking of the walls or his childhood friend, Stephen, helps to calm him.
clumsy/absentminded - Alister is tall and thin and has never quite gotten used to being so. He often loses himself in thought and subsequently loses his footing. It has become a sort of game to him: to count how many time he's fallen down. His clumsiness doesn't bother him overmuch, but when it affects others, he will stammer out apologies for hours on end. The Hayes family attempted to rectify this with dancing and horse-riding lessons. While Alister is now an accomplished horseman, his dancing is more liable to kill his partner than look graceful.
stubborn - Once an idea is planted in Alister's head, he is immovable in his pursuit of its realization. Alister is fantastic at badgering people to do things until they give in. His stubbornness manifests mostly in gentle, coercive words, designed to wear down people slowly until they do as he wishes. Because of this, he makes an excellent Wallist, converting by force of words rather than force. If anyone were to oppose him, Alister carefully gauges that opposition and chooses the best way to succeed: by words, by ignoring them, or by going around them. However, if there is ever a time when he simply cannot get his way, he shrugs, gives up, and tries again later.
History:
If there's one word to describe the Hayes family... it's huge. Alister has three brothers, two sisters, and at least five uncles. Frankly, he's a little unsure of how many cousins he has. But sometimes, when a boy had so many siblings, so many relatives, he got lost in the labels of what he was to them: brother, wallist, play horse, needle-point companion. Sometimes, he thought it would be nice to be himself, alone. But his family is loving and utterly devoted to the walls. On a more mercenary note, Alister's particular branch of the Hayes family is exceedingly well off, although not nobles.
In fact, before joining the military, Alister's one job is leading the Wallist choir every week. If he were to want for anything material, he receives a weekly stipend from his father, as do his other siblings. His father runs one of the churches in Trost, his booming voice always happy to praise the walls. While the Hayes family is nice, there are certain times where Alister feels quite distant from everyone. From a young age, Alister found himself only sticking close to a few people, one of them being his current best friend, Stephen. They have been friends so so long that Alister would swear he is closer with him than any of his brothers.
However, eventually Alister can no longer stand his mediocre existence. Day in and day out, it had become a routine of nothing. In the military, he believes he can protect the sacred walls from the outside in. And if he dies in that service, it was a life finally worth living.
Zinnia Hayes - my cousin, we don't speak much, but I heard she joined the military! Glory to the walls!
Hobbies:
composing songs, singing, drawing caricatures, needle-point, reading really weepy novels
