Mr. Hunter Bailey (Technology/Computer Teacher at Salem)

Name/Nicknames ||
Hunter Aston Bailey

Age/Birthday ||
Forty Years old, born on October 12th.

Reputation ||
Hunter is basically known as that one annoying teacher at Salem High. You know, the one who always tries to get in student's business when he thinks something is wrong with or, and the teacher who puts on dramatic motivational speeches at the wrong time. He has good intentions, but most students have learned to roll their eyes at him and just agree with what he says. Those unfortunate enough to not know Mr. Bailey is often subject to his little lectures, especially the freshmen that take his class. He's also known for being the assistant coach for the soccer team; always rubbing salt in their wounds after they lose when trying to motivate them, and being embarrassingly over enthusiastic when they win. He's basically known as being a big kid who doesn't know when to shut up and sit down. 

Job ||
Hunter works at Salem High School as the technology teacher; or rather as the computer guy.

School and Class and Subject ||
Salem High. He teaches freshmen through high school, starting with the basics of typing, how to navigate through the internet safely and confidently, and moving his way through the mechanics, complexities, and coding of computers and other technologies and then finishing off with STEM which is reserved for those seniors who are interested in furthering their career in that type of field, occasionally having academically advanced juniors in the class as well.

Friend(s) ||
TBA

Enemies/Rivals ||
If anything, Hunter has a long list of people that he's annoyed, most of those being students who have taken his class and think he's over the top and those students on the soccer team. He likes to think that the coach is a friend of his, but the man may only be cordial to Hunter as far as he knows.

Sexuality ||
Heterosexual 

Relationship Status ||
Single. Yeah, he's never been good when dealing with the ladies. He either gets too into the relationship, scaring them off, or he gets to the point where he's so awkward that he can't function. Though he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life alone, he's almost resigned himself to the fact. What can he say; there may not be a woman out there that can handle his energy.

Height/Body Type ||
6"1' and built fairly well. When he was in high school and college himself he used to work out a lot, keeping a general athletic build, but as he grew on in age and settled into his career he sort of dropped out of the athletic world, leaving him to start gaining weight. The past couple of years have been particularly bad when speaking about his health and the beginnings of a swollen belly from no exercise and overeating is beginning to show. He keeps telling himself that he'll get back into exercising, or at the very least running, but he has yet to take himself up on that goal. The most exercise he gets is when running back and forth on the soccer field to watch his students.

Hair color ||
Blond. He keeps it generally at medium length on the top of his head. He doesn't like it to get to long, saying that he looks like a hippy like that, and occasionally he'll come to school with a bit of blonde stubble across his cheeks, chin, and upper lip.

Eye color ||
Blue

Clothing style ||
He likes to wear polo or button down shirts, always in the mindset that they make him look better. Generally he'll be caught wearing jeans most days, even at school, and says that he's just most comfortable like that. Gym shoes are his go to, and only on special occasions will he be caught wearing anything formal. School dances don't entirely count as special occasions either; that's been proven by his general lack of formal attire when chaperoning Salem dances. 

Ethnicity ||
Caucasian; German American

Playby ||
Chip Gaines

Likes ||
Technology, PCs (he can't stand Apple or Mac products), computer language, his STEM classes, joking around, motivation, track (he played that in high school and college), sports in general, coaching, teaching, apples (an apple a day keeps the doctor away!), CSI and other shows like that (he likes to think that he's a detective sometimes), action movies, friends.

Dislikes ||
Angry students, students who don't try, being rejected, the rivalry between Metric and Salem, writing students up, hearing his coworkers talk about him behind his back, not being able to figure out a problem, getting shocked (that's happened a lot when taking apart computers; he's got a lot of scars and markings to prove it.), people thinking he's stupid just because he's enthusiastic about life

Positive traits ||
Motivating, hard worker, cheerful, enthusiastic, techie, caring, energetic,

Negative Traits ||
Overenthusiastic, aggravating, energetic, stubborn, push over,   

Hobbies ||
He used to run track for high school and college, but since leaving school himself he's stopped running and playing sports in general. Instead, he now lives vicariously through the kids that play soccer and he assists with the coaching for the Salem High team. He's also an avid Netflix watcher, if that can be considered a hobby. Otherwise, he's planning his classes and trying to find the best way to make them fun, interesting, but also informative.

Family ||  

Kelly Bailey - Sister - Pharmacist || Hunter's younger sister and younger brother are the only family he has left other than a few stray cousins that he doesn't talk with very much and his nieces and nephews that he loves and dotes on after the death of their parents. Kelly is the second oldest out of the three and the most responsible; she has the highest degree as well ans is always getting on to Hunter about starting a family of his own since he loves kids so much. Like Hunter, she lives in Salem with her husband and three kids, and will often go visit her older brother, keeping him out of the loneliness she believes he has trapped himself in by not getting in a relationship and only having friendships with people, or invite him to her place so that he can enjoy the company of his brother in law who talks sports with him and the kids that he loves so much.

When they were little she always worried and chastised Hunter despite being three years younger. She was the one who took the death of their parents hardest, and Hunter was the one that was always there for her; making sure that the kids were okay, and giving her husband a chance to console her while he tried to keep on a brave face. Without Kelly, Hunter knows that he wouldn't be on as straight of a path as he is on now; he may not have finished college without her demands and nagging and he's forever grateful for her for that.

Austin Bailey - Brother - News Reporter || Austin is the youngest of the three siblings, and throughout his years of childhood he was always reminding of that, especially by Hunter. Before he was big enough Hunter always picked on his little brother--taking his toys away from him, hiding his favorite things, and even plucking strands of hair from the top of his head. They used to argue constantly, getting yelled at by their parents to shut up and not yell in the house everyday. It was because of that that the two of them were often grounded together, at times making Austin harbor resentment towards his older brother.

Despite their constant squabbling, however, the two are very close and always have been. Austin liked to follow his older brother as much as he can and tried to mimic him and be like his older brother. The two hold a lot of kept secrets between one another, like the time when Hunter sneaked out of the house in order to hand out with some friends well past midnight and other instances such as that. Though they got each other into trouble a lot, they often kept each other out of trouble as well, or serious trouble, rather. They're more a like than either would like to admit, but Hunter calls his little brother almost every day and even watches him on tv, always teasing him about his hair being a miss during his segment or that he looked awkward which usually results in him being hung up on. 

Backstory ||  

It first started with Hunter; an accident in every sense of the word, but something that turned out to be a delight in Samantha and Joshua Bailey's lives. He was always an active baby; he learned to climb out of his crib early, he learned how to get out of his high chair by himself long before he should have had the strength to do that, and he was just in general an escape artist. In order to keep him out of things they had to double baby proof the house and they had to keep constant watch of him, which turned out to be a lot more work than either of the couple had anticipated. Three years later they had a little girl that Hunter hadn't taken a liking to in the early days. He grew jealous of the new baby quickly and tried to send her away a few times; putting her in a box once, putting various stamps on her forehead another time. He got in a lot of trouble, and it took a while for him to come to terms with the fact that the girl wasn't going to go away and that he had a sister that he had to love and watch out for. Four years after Kelly's birth came the birth of their last kid, another son who Hunter took a quick liking to. Another boy! A brother than he could play around with and not have dolls shoved in his face for!

Otherwise Hunter had a pretty normal child hood, side from the mishaps that happened to him in school. In elementary his teachers were convinced that he suffered from ADD because of how distracted he became in class and because of how much of a disruption he could be. Numerous notes had been sent home to his parents, informing them that they wanted him to get tested so that they could take the necessary measures to fully 'bring out the strengths in their son". It was safe to say that Hunter changed a lot of school because of this, but every school said the same thing; they wanted him to get tested. As confident as his parents were, they had no choice. They got Hunter tested and found out that he didn't have ADD and that he was just... A hyper child, someone that needed to be occupied at all times. Even still that wasn't really the problem; Hunter just wasn't challenged enough in school, and though his parents and teachers continued to tell him that he needed to behave in class he couldn't help it.

He always finished assignments early and was left to sit in his desk with nothing to do, and when listening to the teacher lecture in front of class he found himself falling asleep. School was and wasn't his forte, if you will. Because of the little money the elementary school he went to had they didn't have any accelerated programs for him to get into, not that he would have made it into any even if they had; he didn't make straight A's, though he surely could have. He just didn't want to be known as that 'nerd' in the class, especially when in high school. Instead, in high school, he set his sights on making name for himself when going to Salem High School through track. He didn't care about the rivalry that Salem and Metric had, but he does know all about how it felt to be overshadowed by the 'talented' kids in the area. People didn't consider you talented unless you were able to go to metric, but Hunter was determined to prove otherwise. He didn't hate those kids though, not like many of his friends did, though he had, a few times, sneaked onto the Metric property to pull a few pranks--graffiti on the walls saying that Salem was the best, tepeeing the dorm buildings.

He earned a track and field scholarship to a university in Wyoming where he attended school with not much in mind for what he wanted to do with his life. For the time being he focused most of his times on sports and reveled in the attention that he received from it. The fact that he didn't have to pay for college was a bit of a hit for him as well, but that also kept him from really focusing on his studies. After all, it's not like he was wasting his or his parents money for school, so there were no dire needs for him to really care. He started getting into relationships by that point in his life. He had had a few in high school, just flings really, and nothing had really changed in college until he met this one girl--no, woman, namely his physiology professor. He didn't know why or how it happened, but the two of them got close and soon he started having feelings for the woman. Deep, loving feelings. She reciprocated the feelings he had for her, too. Or, rather, she acted like it.

A year into the relationship she called it off and laughed in his face when he said that he was in love with her one night after a roll in the sack. She turned and looked at him, her face twisting with amusement, as Hunter's embarrassment started to rise. She called him a child; a good looking one, but one that she did not see herself spending the rest of her life with. He didn't even know what to do with his life! He had no major! He was just... Fun to sleep with  and he had an enjoyable presence. 

It hurt him more than he liked to admit. Through the taboo of the relationship he figured that he was more to her than just a piece of meat, but alas that was exactly what he was! He became stuck in a rut by that point; his track abilities were beginning to dwindle, and his already low grades began to crash. His parents didn't understand (they were alive at the time and died when he was 37), Austin tried to tell him to go find another girl to make him feel better, but it was really Kelly who brought him out of that funk. "Prove her wrong," she told him. "Become something good. Something admirable!"

Of course he had no idea what would be admirable or anything to prove her wrong. A doctor? No, he couldn't stand the thought of cutting people open or being around people who were sick. A Lawyer? No, he'd never be able to stand in a courtroom and defend a murderer or try and settle a spat between a divorcing couple, especially one with kids. It didn't happen through any epiphany, nor was it anything astounding when he finally came to the conclusion, but he decided to be a teacher. In technology. He had always loved technology and been a fan, he loved kids, so why not do that? Why not bring value into the futures lives! It was great! It was amazing! Through the years he finished college (late) and ended up getting his masters before he took on his first real teaching gig, somewhere in a small town in Wyoming. He found his former... Professor, trying to prove to her that he was a something and he was doing good. But it still wasn't enough, and it was too late.

By the end of the year he was determined to get out of the state and head back to California, back to Salem. To his surprise, and luck, they had an opening for a teaching position, for someone who was well versed in technology or wood shop and he took the job of teaching in technology. What better way to prove himself than to help the generations of Salem High students prosper when he himself had been one of them?

He hasn't been in a relationship since his time with the psychology professor; afraid to get his heartbroken, but also because he's in a generally good place in his life. He does wants kids one day, but has pretty much given up the hope that he will have any and he's okay with that. That's why he cares so much for the students that he teaches.