Post by mac on Sept 19, 2016 2:44:13 GMT
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Basics
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Name || Todd Michael Bennett
Nicknames/Aliases || Todd, Double D.
Age/Year/School || 20, his birthday is April 13th. He’s a junior at the college.
Zodiac || Aries
Reason for Enrolling || He’s a model, usually for male fashion but lately has been getting into more androgynous work (not to his family’s knowledge). He often works off campus and goes to photoshoots with Gavin and already has a job secured for him post-graduation.
Major/GPA || Modeling; about 3.5.
Gender || Male
Sexuality || Bisexual; he leans towards men but is deep in the closet.
Health Issues? || Nothing too pressing. Todd is on a strict diet and while he doesn’t skip any meals he can’t eat too many fried things, too much salt, or too many things that might ruin his completion or physique. He usually eats fruit and vegetables despite the fact he would rather eat meat, pizza, and fried food.
School/Social Life
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Job || He works as a model. His agent, Gavin, manages his gigs and transports him. Because he already has work as a model with XYZ agency sometimes he is pulled from class, but his photoshoots often will be excused absences (especially from modeling courses).
Reputation || Todd is most known probably for his friends – Amy, Ace, and Max. He is also known for the drama that happened to him and Gracie during the party last year where he make out with the guy then denied it – and simultaneously ruined anything he might have had with Niko too. Todd is also known for barely being in class due to his work and because of his involvement in a career post-college many people are envious.
Friends || His best friends are Amy, Ace, and Max. Often he’s seen with them, and he likes them a lot even though sometimes the girls have to drag him to do things. While modeling one day, Todd met Niko, a coworker who also attended Metric.
He’s also friendly with Mal, who he models for in some of her videos. Through Mal he met Gracie.
Enemies/Rivals Todd wouldn’t call anyone out as an enemy, but he does get intimidated by people easily. He also has a job lined up for himself post-graduation and is not a stranger to the dislike fellow models have for him because of that. Still, he does his best, and will not back down when faced with a rival... he’ll just do what he came to do.
Relationship Status || Single. He does have two things that would constitute as crushes, though. The first is Niko Connor, who he met through their jobs coinciding. Their agents got along well and they were told to go to a shoot to the amusement park and had all day to play around. He felt attracted to Niko and thought she was cute and pretty, and got nervous around her, and basically he had a schoolboy crush on her. Though he’s pretty sure he ruined every chance he had with her given what happened between him and Grace – right in front of her.
Ever since Todd met Gracie he thought the guy was attractive in a weird, indescribable way. During last year’s party, he wound up making out with Gracie and winding up half-naked in a bed with the guy the next morning. The fact he had caved and made out with a guy – and enjoyed it – sent Todd into a panic about his sexuality and he desperately tried to mask it. he avoided Gracie and probably wound up hurting the guy in the process. He knows Amy is disappointed in him for that, but he just can’t face how he feels due to his fear.
Clubs and Organizations || He’s a ‘phantom member’ of the shipping club.
Appearance
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Height/Weight/Body Type || 6’5”, Todd has always been one of the tallest, if not, the tallest person in a room. He’s very lanky and scrawny and has no muscles to speak of. He’s on a strict diet so his body is lithe. Though tall, he is not very intimidating because he can easily be snapped like a twig.
Hair color/style || Blonde, though he was actually born a brunette. When he started modeling, his manager got him to dye his hair because it fit the aesthetic of one of his shoots. Ever since then Todd’s liked the way his hair looks blonde, so he dyes it once a month.
Eye color/makeup preferences || His eyes are actually a sky blue color, though often for shoots he’ll wear colored contacts. He rarely wears makeup of his own design, and usually lets his makeup designers just put whatever they want to put on him.
Clothing Style || Usually jeans and tee shirts, though he tends to wear higher end clothes because he gets most of his wardrobe from companies he models for. He can be a bit of a clothing snob.
Notable Traits || His height.
Ethnicity || Russian-American
Playby || Paul Craddock
Personality
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Likes || Fruit; His friends; Fried food (though he can’t eat it); Pizza (same story); Collecting cards; His family; Being able to support his family with his career; Old Cartoons; Nickelodeon; Spongebob; Dressing in drag; Underwear models
Dislikes || Driving; Cars; Rap music; parties; Drinking; Getting lost; Disney Channel; Animatronics; Video games (he’ll play plotless ones with friends but getting too invested in one seems pointless to him)
Nervous Habits || Stuttering; flushing; touching his face
Hobbies || Playing baseball/collecting baseball cards; His card collection is huge, and he has about 3 card collecting binder organized in painstaking detail. He and his father constantly compare cards and trade them when they meet up, and so that hobby is one that connects him to his father so it holds a huge sentimental value to him.
Positive Traits || Shy; kind; timid; modest; Easy to impress/please; Understanding; Empathetic; Friendly; Generous; Nurturing; Trusting; Blabbermouth (though unintentionally);
Negative Traits || Yes-man; people pleaser; Can’t say no; Slow; Naïve; Trusting; Gullible; Passive-aggressive
History
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Family ||
John Bennett – Father – 48 – Plant Manager || Todd has always looked up to his father, who’s always been proud of his first child and only son. Todd was taught how to play baseball by him when he was able to walk for the first time. Most of the time when he goes home, or talks to his father at all, their conversation topics center around the baseball teams they like or the card collections they both maintain. Todd has a lot of respect for his father, but he is traditional. Todd is scared that somehow he’ll disappoint his father. His father seems slightly hesitant to support Todd’s career path as a model and only seemed to relent when he found out how much money he made. Constantly Todd is asked about any girlfriends, and the idea of being bisexual scares Todd because he doesn’t know how his father would react if he had a boyfriend, instead. Not that he has either, but, still.
Elizabeth Bennett – Mother – 46 -- Receptionist || Todd’s relationship with his mother isn’t as strong as his relationship with his father. She’s very soft spoken and they have an almost identical personality. Like her son, Elizabeth is tall and very photogenic, though her hair is black and reaches her waist. When she’s not at work she’s a housewife, and Todd’s always had his mother there for him as a reliable backbone. She’s less judgmental about Todd’s career path and tries to talk her husband down from his harsh judgements, but she can’t really change much because John talks right over her.
Clementine Bennett – Sister – 13 – Middle School Student || Clementine is Todd’s little sister, and she is basically evil. If Todd got the sweetness of the family she got the sourness. Clementine has only one soft spot and it’s for her older brother. Otherwise she’s a mastermind prankster. She likes to win and is a very sore loser. Todd always plays with her when they go home and lets her win. He does let her walk all over him most of the time, but he likes seeing her happy when she’s victorious, so it’s all good.
Gavin Mendel – Brother Figure/Manager – Modeling Manager for XYZ Agency || Gavin may be his manager, but Todd’s always thought of him as more of a brother. They get along really well and Gavin has a thick Australian accent. He’s about 35 now, and though he’s a little old for Todd to consider him a real brother or anything like that, Gavin’s very childish, and likes to have fun when he takes Todd out. Like his father, Gavin will taunt Todd about his relationship status, though of all his ‘family’ (quotes because this includes Gavin) Gavin is the most open about the possibility of Todd being gay, after making one comment something like ‘...or a boyfriend’ in response to Todd’s ‘no’ answer on whether or not he had a girlfriend. Todd trusts Gavin, and maybe he’s being a little naïve if he thinks Gavin’s first priority isn’t business... but the guy’s nice enough to him, anyway!
Hometown || Dewpoint, Tennessee.
Vehicle/Transportation || Gavin is his car pool. He doesn’t have a license, nor does he want one.
Backstory || Todd was born to very poor parents. He grew up in a small ranch style home in Tennessee, and was always conscious of money as a kid. He knew he got less in his lunches than his classmates did. He never blamed his parents or anything like that, but he did always feel bad. His biggest hobby as a child was collecting baseball cards. At first, it was a joint collection with his dad. They’d spend hours talking about each of the cards and all of the players on them. Todd didn’t’ always understand, but he liked listening to his father talk about the players. When he was old enough his father took him out to the backyard and taught him how to play baseball. His mother usually watched from the doorway with a smile on her face as Todd slowly improved at baseball, day by day. Todd loved to spend the day outdoors and he loved to play baseball with his father.
From a very young age, Todd was photogenic. The neighbors always commented on it, as did his teachers when he reached the age where school photographs were taken. In middle school, though, it was really hard. Because Todd was so small and fragile looking, he was picked on a lot by the boys. They called him a sissy, a girl, a crybaby, and he felt miserable. He went home every day and played with his father, but there was something wrong. His father gave him a present then – a collecting binder for his own, to collect baseball cards in. Todd was really happy and started his own collection, then. Sometimes his father would even let him trade cards with him. Todd got his favorites from his father, but there were some even his father wouldn’t relinquish to him.
When he hit eighth grade, Todd shot up. He towered over the majority of his class and the girls started to really like him. It wasn’t always romantic, but they just liked to spend time with him and fluff his hair, which many of them envied. He was still as photogenic as ever, and for every dance he always had a date, someone who went with him as friends. The girls tended to get catty over it sometimes, but Todd didn’t pay them much mind and just considered himself friends with all of them. The boys in his class disliked him from a distance.
When the only friends he seemed to make were girls, though, Todd noticed that his father seemed to grow concerned. He never said anything about it and if he started to his mother chastised him, but often John would wonder why Todd was so popular with the girls and not with the guys. When Todd attempted to explain the situation, his dad assumed that Todd was popular romantically with them and told him that was normal and that soon the guys would come around. He’d constantly joke about Todd becoming a little womanizer and that always made Todd nervous. Mostly because he didn’t want to fool around with any of his friends, or hurt them, like his father began to tease him of doing. His dad always asked him about which one he was going to date or which one he had a crush on. Todd’s answers fluctuated because he didn’t really like any of them romantically. He picked a few names to make his dad happy and blushed about it but really wasn’t interested.
Todd noticed his parents’ issues with money increasing. They were struggling to make ends meet when his father was fired and fought a lot, resulting in Todd feeling useless as he tried to avoid rocking the boat as much as possible. When he was in eighth grade, he was scouted by XYZ agency’s agent, Gavin Mendel. Gavin’s niece was in a class photo with Todd and he fit the image of an ad for a model that Gavin knew about. He contacted Todd’s parents who were skeptical, especially John, but when Gavin mentioned the gig would make 500 dollars, Todd eagerly agreed to go.
Despite his shyness, Todd found modeling easy. The camera loved him, as did the people who worked with him. He was always so accommodating and listened to demands that he was told to do. Sure, some of the shots came out a little awkward, but for his first time, the shoot went exceptionally well. The Bennett family was given 500 dollars for Todd’s work, and that helped appease the family budget and helped them pull through. Todd was glad for that and forgot all about modeling – until the advertisements came out.
There was a huge flourish in the modeling industry. Who was this male model, where’d he come from? XYZ agency kept getting calls and offers for him and so Gavin came to the Bennetts again and asked them if Todd was interested in more modeling. John was skeptical of this, claiming that his already feminine son didn’t need such a ‘womanly’ career, and hearing those words stung Todd. But Gavin insisted John give it a chance and pointed out there were many male models and that women loved a well put together man. The money was what ultimately won John over and he gave Todd the OK to go for this career. Todd went along with it and, when he was a freshman, he enrolled at Metric Academy under the guidance of Gavin.
At the school he met his first close friend, Bandi. Unfortunately, Todd found himself developing something more than friendship for the boy. He began to fear that maybe he was gay, maybe his father would be angry and say modeling had caused this. But by that point Todd liked being a model. He liked being in front of a camera and looking his best – his pictures always came out well and he was making plenty of money to send back home to his struggling family. Through the years, Gavin managed Todd’s jobs under the express condition that he only worked for XYZ agency. Todd’s basically got a contract waiting for him the second he graduates college, and he doesn’t know how to feel about that, but it’s a secure future, anyway. Over time his friendship with Bandi became more toxic, but Todd kept the friendship going anyway because he felt like he couldn’t turn his back on Bandi.
When he was a senior in High School he met Amy, Ace, and Max, who became his close-knit group of friends. Though he always was friendly before then he had no close friends besides Bandi. It was thanks to them that he managed to distance himself from Bandi and then when Bandi moved, the move was hard to get through, but he had support.
After he graduated, Todd became more involved in XYZ agency. He wound up working with a fellow model Niko Connors, who immediately struck him as beautiful. He was drawn to her and, admittedly, part of his crush forming was because he was so desperate to find a girl he liked to make his father happy. However, he does seriously like her and want to protect her from skeevy guys he sees (example in point: the party) and he’s just too nervous to officially ask her out or anything. He met a boy named Gracie through Mal, though, and unfortunately for him, he found himself drawn to the guy. He’s very attractive and Todd’s gut instinct is to flirt back when Gracie tends to make advances... but he’s scared to, for the sake of his father ever finding out, or word getting out, that he’s attracted to men.
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