Post by Quill on Jun 14, 2017 20:48:40 GMT
\\Taliesin Kay Murdoc\\
General
Name: Taliesin Kay Murdoc
Nicknames: Tala
Age: 20
Birthday: May 8
Gender: Cisgender Male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Class: College Sophomore at Metric
Major: Business (Pre-Med)
Minor: Photography
GPA: 3.85
Friends: TBA
Enemies: TBA
Relationship Status: Single
Crush: TBA
Appearance
Hair: Taliesin prefers to keep his blonde hair long, usually just past his shoulders. It's usually messy but swept back away from his face.
Eyes: Tala's eyes are a mix of blue and green. One color can sometimes be seen more than the other depending on what he's wearing.
Height: 5'8"
Style: Tala tends to wake up late, due to many late nights studying, and usually just throws on the first thing he finds. He likes to keep it more casual with just a t-shirt, jeans, and the occasional hoodie.
Piercings: None
Tattoos: A paw print over his heart and the initials MTY on his wrist in cursive
Scars: Tala is usually covered in claw marks from his cats, Jem and Leodegrance, but his only notable scar is on his left palm from trying to cut carrots one night.
Personality
Likes:
-If it wasn't obvious, Tala is definitely a cat person.
-Photography, if he wasn't going into the medical field Tala would have wanted to be a photojournalist
-Arthurian legend, Tala got his love for Arthurian legends from his parents
-The Beach, he almost always goes to his mother's cottage near the beach over the weekends
-Helping others, Tala has a habit of being the 'mom friend'
-Romance novels, he started reading his mother's as a child and has been hooked ever since
Dislikes:
-Inequality, Tala is a firm believer in equal rights
-His glasses, Tala prefers to wear contacts or just nothing, he hates the way glasses look on him
-The dark, Tala's never been able to handle complete darkness and usually sleeps with his lamp on
-People touching his things, he even goes so far as to lock up things that are important to him
-Pictures of himself, Tala will avoid cameras at all costs and there are very few pictures of him as a child
-Texting, he prefers phone calls and tends to get annoyed at text messages
-Politics, he's never sure why he gets so involved in conversations about politics since they always just make him angry
Personality: Tala's reputation as the 'mom friend' usually precedes him. Anytime he sees someone in trouble he's there in an instant, usually telling them off for whatever it was they did in the first place while patching things up. Most people who've heard of him already know this about him, and he's become one of the people to go to when someone is having problems. Tala's nonjudgmental personality makes him a good listener, and he's always willing to make time for others. Unfortunately, this means he doesn't always take time for himself. Tala experiences intense bursts of emotion, and typically ends up forced to step back a moment to deal with his own feelings. These intense emotions he experiences make it extremely easy for him to fall in love, and he'll do so in an instant. The relationships usually don't last too long once the other person realizes how much time Tala spends on other people and his schoolwork, leaving very little time for dates or anything else. Tala is very outspoken about the importance of equality, and will discuss it with anyone willing to listen.
History
Family Members:
-Hector Simon Murdoc; 52: Hector is Taliesin's father and an author. Hector always told Tala and his sister stories whenever they asked, folding up his glasses and leaning back in his chair while they sat near his feet on the floor. However, he was the one who made the final decision to send Tala away to boarding school, so Tala prefers to ignore Hector.
-Celia Rose Murdoc; 50: Celia is Tala's mother and a museum curator. She was always very fond of Arthurian legend, and keeps a collection of books in the room they utilize as a library. She's not very good at cooking, and usually orders takeout and puts it on plates. For a while, she fooled everyone into thinking she was actually cooking every meal. She used to take the kids to the museum when they were young so they wouldn't disturb their father while he was working.
-Nimue Guinevere Murdoc; 18: Nimue is Tala's sister who goes to Salem High School. Tala and Nimue were always very close and are extremely protective of one another. They still meet up frequently for lunch at their favorite places.
Backstory:
A sudden storm had forced Celia and Hector into the same coffee shop one Saturday afternoon. Hector, a social recluse and author, sat awkwardly at a table as a rain-soaked Celia slid into the seat next to him. From there, a mostly one sided conversation was had before numbers were exchanged. For Hector, it was a complete shock, but the two of them steadily began a relationship. Two years after their wedding, Taliesin was born, and two years after that, his sister Nimue was born. Everything was happy for a while, with Hector and Celia homeschooling Tala and Nimue so they could go on whatever adventures they wanted to. However, nothing lasts forever, and Hector and Celia's marriage began falling apart. Tala was eleven and Nimue was nine when the two of them began hiding in Tala's bedroom to get away from the near constant fighting. Finally, one day, Hector broke and left in the middle of the night. None of them heard from him until he came back a week later with divorce papers.
The divorce was hard on both Tala and Nimue, and Tala began trying to play mediator between his parents, often resorting to screaming at them both whenever they started fighting. Tala's emotions started getting more and more intense, to the point where his parents weren't sure what to do with him. It was Hector's idea to send him away to boarding school, and it became the one thing Hector and Celia were able to agree upon. Tala was packed up and sent away to a school in Nevada that Tala always complained felt more like a prison. Despite Tala's complaints, he did get good grades and became good friends with the nurse, who let him hang out in her office whenever he wanted to. He learned quite a bit from her.
Desperate to get away, Tala applied for Metric, and was surprised to find that he got in. His mother agreed to take in Gareth, the cat he'd been hiding in his dorm room in Nevada, while he stayed in the dorms at Metric. He began to rebuild his relationship with Nimue and his mother, but he never could quite forgive his father for coming up with he idea to send him away. While at Metric, he met his first boyfriend, a boy a year older than him named Marcus. The two became inseparable through graduation, and Tala was excited to join Marcus at Metric's college. One night, Tala woke up to a phone call that changed his life. The day before the first day of his freshman year of college, Tala was informed that Marcus had been the victim of a mugging gone wrong. The man hadn't meant to kill anyone, but Marcus wasn't cooperating, and he panicked. Tala was heartbroken, and almost dropped out of Metric. Nimue talked some sense into him, telling him that Marcus would have wanted him to continue. Tala still can't talk about Marcus without bursting into tears.
Other:
-After Tala's first cat Gareth died, Tala adopted two strays that he had to leave with his mother, Jem and Leodegrance. He visits them whenever he can.
-Tala spends most of his time volunteering, especially at animal shelters
Songs:
Faceclaim: Nicola Wincenc
