Post by mac on Feb 10, 2017 4:24:27 GMT
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Basics
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Name || Wren Daneil Ironsi
Nicknames/Aliases || He is 33 years old, and teaches History at Salem High School. His birthday is June 23rd.
Zodiac || Cancer
Gender || Male
Sexuality || Tragically, heterosexual
Health Issues? || Nothing really of note. When he was in college, Wren was quite the partier, often going out to drink, do drugs, and have a good time. After he graduated, though, Wren just found he lost his interest in doing most of those things and wanted to clean up his act. He considers himself quite lucky that he only did those things recreationally; he still drinks on occasion and smokes weed on occasion, usually only when meeting up with old college friends, but he does nothing in excess. And of course, no drugs or drinks (or any of his old college friends sans Oscar) are allowed anywhere near his daughter. Especially with his job as a teacher, he is very sparing with weed and only really drinks now a days.
School/Social Life
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Current Job and Work History || Salem High’s History teacher, currently. He’s been in the position for about 7 years. His first job was in college as a cashier, and he worked at an internship for the latter half of his senior year in Washington D.C. When he left his internship he returned to Salem. He acquired a job as a waiter, but quickly learned that position was not for him. After a job hunt to get out of waiting tables, Wren acquired a job at a local hospital as a part-time receptionist while volunteering at the library when he had time. He remained in this position until he was given the opportunity to move to the school and work as a teacher.
Reputation || Wren is known as being one of the fun teachers at Salem High. He often goes on tangents in the middle of teaching, which distracts from the lesion. Typically, he uses activities and group projects to help his class learn. One bad thing about his classes, though, is that for shy folks it can be nerve wracking. He’s a fan of presentations and having students work in groups he assigns for them. There’s a lot of opinion prompts and a lot of open discussion in his class. Honestly, the way Wren handles his classroom is more like how a college professor would handle the classroom – he expects a level of maturity and respect that he, shocking enough to his peers, typically gets from his students. Wren prefers to teach juniors and seniors, though he does instruct younger classes too. He just thinks those classes are more like babysitting than actually teaching!
Friends || Oscar Wallace is Wren’s best friend since college – the two met initially in a business class, only to meet again at a club afterwards. Wren’s college experience mainly involves adventures with Oscar, from sharing a dorm room together to going out to pubs to check the scene after. They’ve kept a close bond since college and while Wren can’t say he doesn’t have as many friends as he did in college now, he’s glad to say he still has Oscar.
Through Oscar, Wren met his older sister Marcia Whitaker, whose daughter he always wound up playing with when she’d come over to visit her brother in school. While friendly with Marcia, Wren was never particularly close to her because at that point they were both at different stages of their lives. When he graduated and stayed in the greater Salem area, it was through Marcia that he was told about the opening at Salem High and likely through her good word that he got the position. Since becoming coworkers, Wren became better friends with Marcia and often looked after Celeste when Marcia was busy; until the age when Celeste didn’t need to be looked after anymore! In regards to Celeste, Wren considers her almost like a niece: he watched her grow up and he enjoys looking out for her and being there for her if she needs a hand with anything. Likewise, he will often pawn Jack off on her when he has to go grocery shopping by leaving her in the record shop with Celeste and Oscar.
Enemies/Rivals || In college he had a few people he disliked; likewise, he has people he dislikes, but no enemies... as of yet.
Relationship Status || Single. Wren’s had a fair share of relationships, but at the moment his focus is on raising Jack. Though he wouldn’t mind a relationship or seeing his options, he doesn’t want to risk Jack getting attached to someone only for him to break up with them after.
Clubs and Organizations || Wren moderates Salem High’s debate club and he, along with a few dedicated students who wanted the club, are the reason the club was formed in the first place. Wren is also often seen helping the GSA at Salem, though he is not the adviser since he already is the adviser for the debate team. Still, his face is a regular one to see during meetings
Appearance
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Height/Weight/Body Type || 5’11”
Hair color/style || Kept short and trimmed, it’s dark brown. His facial hair is typically trimmed, though he personally enjoys to rock a little stubble and hair on his chin. He feels as though that takes away from how much of a baby face he has.
Eye color/makeup preferences || His eyes are often described as a soft brown, and he rarely wears makeup, though he likes to think he’d be willing to be a model if any of the women in his life every wanted to try.
Clothing Style || Wren is always dressed formally for work: suits, ties, button downs, and slacks. He generally enjoys looking well put together when he goes out. He will wear sweatpants only to bed, and when relaxing he is usually in tee shirts and jeans. He doesn’t like going in public looking a mess! He always uses a distinct cologne too, one that’s called ‘moonlight walk’ on the bottle but smells like a campfire setting to him. He really likes oddly pattered tops and button downs.
Notable Traits || He’s always had a bit of a baby face, which is why he usually grows out facial hair to combat it. He also has a tendency to raise one eyebrow a lot.
Ethnicity || German-Swiss-African
Playby || Trevor Noah
Personality
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Likes || Slinkies; Chocolate Milk; Politics; Protests; Debates; Teaching; Children; Stand-up Comedy; His daughter; Clubs; Students; Going up the down escalator (and vice versa); Weird photoshoots (almost all of his family portraits with his daughter are very odd); Tea (both hot and iced); Flavored coffee; America; Memes;
Dislikes || Drugs (specifically heroin); Being too serious; Getting in trouble at work; Not knowing where Jacqueline is; Driving in front of cops; Bitter/unflavored Coffee; Neon signs; Flickering lights; Horror films/games
Nervous Habits || He likes to put a pencil behind his ear when nervous.
Hobbies || Writing political posts on his blog;
Positive Traits || Genius; Educated; Smart; Political; Feminist; Good sense of humor; Ambitious; Outgoing; Social; Creative; Family oriented; Goofy; Honest; Patrotic;
Negative Traits || Nosy; Biased; Stubborn; Always late; Blunt; Easily bored; Unfocused;
History
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Family ||
Noxolo Ironsi – Mother – 59 – Seamstress || Wren and his mother get along quite well; he’s often going to the house not just to do chores his father asks to be done but to also see his mother. His mother is very family oriented and often teased Wren, asking ‘when she was going to get any grandchildren’, which was part of the reason he decided to adopt a daughter. Noxolo was shocked by the news but took to it well, looking at Jaqueline as her granddaughter. She now often jokes when she will get a daughter-in-law, and Wren has made it clear he has no plans to spontaneously adopt a wife for her.
Kenneth Lebronski – Father – 55 – Plumber || Wren’s relationship with his father is fairly good; he often does chores for his father rather than emotional things. One thin of note to him as a kid was the fact his father never took his mother’s surname, nor his mother his father’s, yet he was only given his mothers. When asked about it, his father said he had a less than idea relationship with his own family.
Jaqueline Ironsi – Daughter – 5 1/2 – Child || Jaqueline, AKA Jack, is Wren’s daughter. Though she technically has no blood relation to Wren, he doesn’t care and still considers her his world. He has not told her she’s not biologically his and doesn’t look forward to telling her the truth someday. Jack is a very tomboyish girl and likes music and running the best. She is often left at Oscar’s shop in the babysitting care of her father’s best friend and Celeste. She’s a very big eater and when they go out to eat often eats two or three kids’ meals. She’s got skin a shade lighter than Wren’s, and her eyes are a duller brown, and she has long straight brown hair. Most people don’t think they’re not related when looking at them, but they also don’t look that much alike so her being adopted is not doubted. In regards to gender and sexuality Wren tries his best not to force anything on Jack and allows her to express herself however she sees fit - -and will argue with anyone who tells him that he’s somehow doing his daughter a disservice by letting her dress as she wants.
Hometown || Brookside, CA. It’s a town not too far away from Salem, about a half hour drive.
Current Residence || Wren lives in a two bedroom apartment in Salem with his daughter, Jaqueline.
Vehicle/Transportation || A 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt.
Backstory || Wren was born in south Africa to his mother and a man who was visiting the country for a few years. While they were in a relationship it was kept a secret – the very existence of Wren, a mix of his white father and black mother, was a crime where he grew up. Wren grew up having to lie about his heritage and conceal who he was, until he was five and his father got enough money to get the three of them to America, specifically, Brookside. In Brookside, Wren felt a significant change, and no longer received the same amount of stares as he had in Africa. However, he quickly learned that wasn’t true: in America, people were more likely to take the gossip behind their backs, to stare only when he wasn’t looking, and to assume things that weren’t true. His mother barely knew English, and he learned both her native tongue (Afrikaans) and English from the time he was a child until he entered school. In school he became a target; being both biracial and having an accent, he stuck out like a sore thumb. It was frustrating, but Wren’s family was extremely supportive. Not to mention, they were proud of who they were, and Wren felt that pride immensely.
In school Wren was always a witty child, a quick learner, and a performer. His charisma and brain made him a favorite among his teachers and by the time he reached High School, he was no longer a target for bullying and instead, his peers found him interesting. He didn’t seem to have a care for impressing or disappointing people – as far as he was concerned, he was alive for his own benefit and no one else’s. Come college time, Wren had many options to choose from. Eventually he chose a school and traveled there, moved in, and had to think: what did he want to do with his life?
One passion he found in school was politics. He found it unjust the way he’d been treated as a child, and the way his family had been forced to his their relationship. He joined the debate team and the GSA, and participated in any political office he could. Deciding to broaden his pallet, Wren joined the music club in his freshman year as well. In that club he met his future best friend and roommate, Oscar Wallace. The two both had business courses, and opted to become roommates the next year. When Wren was a sophomore in college, he was named Vice President of the SGA (student-government association), the club he was most involved with and dedicated to. He slowly trickled out of his other clubs and really focused on two: SGA and the debate team. He got a part-time job to earn spending money for himself.
While he sounded all well-put together and academically sound, Wren didn’t keep a completely bookish reputation. Being in college allowed him to experience new things – drinking, drugs, sex, making dumb decisions – and he participated in all of it, going to numerous parties over the course of his four years. While a by-the-book student in class, Wren was a party animal outside school. He never let this on to his parents though, he didn’t make to hide the knowledge he knew how to have fun from his friends.
Numerous occasions after they became roommates, Wren wound up being introduced to Oscar’s older sister, Marcia, and her daughter. One of the first instances they came over young Celeste wandered off while Marcia was distracted and Wren wound up stopping her from getting lost, instead playing with her. After explaining that he wasn’t some creep and that he was Oscar’s best friend and roommate, Marcia and Celeste coming over and him watching Celeste became a regular thing. Throughout college, Wren had many friends, but most all separated from him after graduation. His most serious girlfriend to that point, Sylvia, broke up with him because she didn’t want something more serious that a casual thing and he did. Besides, she lived far away – what was the point of long distance, anyway?
Even after he graduated, Wren stayed friends with Oscar and Marcia. After returning from his internship in Washington D.C., Wren decided to get a job in Salem to have an excuse to come back and see his friend. Unfortunately, the job he got was as a waiter and it was awful. He looked into a new job and, when he got the job working front desk, he packed up and moved out of his parents’ place and into his own apartment in Salem. He became a frequent around Oscar’s shop, coming in often when he wasn’t at work.
It was on one of these occasions that Marcia let him know about an opening at the school she taught at. In college, Wren had debated between teaching and politics, and at the moment he had been leaning towards politics. However he decided to take a chance and apply. To his delight, he was accepted for the next school year. Flabbergasted, he decided this must be his calling – he got on a plan with insurance and benefits and moved into a much nicer apartment shortly after. After that, his mother began to become quite the nag – especially about giving her a grandchild already.
At work, Wren struggled to fit in. He had to find a teaching style that resonated with students. His first year was rough and he didn’t feel he was doing well. However, his second year, he decided, fuck it, and did something more unique. It had instant results and he became more of himself in the classroom. It was easy to get along with the students and they quickly began to like him. By the beginning of his third year teaching, he was happier than ever: and made the rashest decision of his life: he adopted a daughter.
Finally secure, and constantly annoyed by his mother’s teasing, he had decided he wanted a child at some point. He’d always loved kids, especially watching young Celeste, who was a teenager now. While Wren wasn’t in a serious relationship, he didn’t feel like he needed a girlfriend or wife. He adopted Jaqueline when she was only a few months old; her parents had both been young and unwilling to raise a child. Wren told his mother and she was completely shocked – but glad to have a granddaughter, eventually. Jaqueline was young enough to not realize she had been adopted, and while she never knew who her mother was, it never seemed to bother her much.
Now, Wren still works at Salem High. Through becoming coworkers, he and Marcia became much closer friends than they were when he was simply her brother’s best friend. Wren has been in trouble a few times for getting too political in the classroom, but has faced no serious discipline yet. He often wonders if he truly should go into politics, and give up teaching. He’s just not sure by this point. He does, however, maintain a blog which he updates daily with his political writings and views. And he would love to write a book someday, likely an analysis of politics to use in academic journals and papers.
Miscellaneous
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OOC Notes:
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