Post by mac on Oct 2, 2016 19:02:15 GMT
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Basics
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Name || Lennox Alyn Richardson
Nicknames/Aliases || Lennox, Len, Lenny. Most of his nicknames come from his roommate, Fletch.
Age || 37. His birthday is July 14th.
Zodiac || Cancer
Alma Mater || He never graduated, he dropped out of school at 17 at the beginning of his senior year.
Gender || Male
Sexuality || Bisexual, he guesses. It’s probably something closer to pansexual where gender rarely makes a difference in who gets his attention, but all he knows is he likes both men and women. His sex drive is pretty low due to past trauma, but when he does want someone, he wants them, generally, quite desperately.
Health Issues? || He’s got severe depression and self-harms; that’s why he owns so much foundation so that he can hide the scars when he goes to work. Often he wears long sleeves, but he likes the makeup just in case. He also has bipolar disorder and bounces between periods of high where he feels like he can do anything and take many risks and lows where he can’t sleep or eat and feels the intense urge to self-harm. He’s on/off his medication and sometimes he’ll sell his medicine for a quick buck instead of actually take it himself.
School/Social Life
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Job || Lennox works at the shady bar in town part-time. He never makes tips and he hates the job. He also works, more regularly, at the mechanics shop in town.
Reputation || Lennox is not known for being involved with the good crowd. Ever since he was young he was involved with the problematic folks and that was no different when he moved to Salem. He’s been addicted to drugs (most specifically weed) since he was a teenager and actively smokes and distributes the plant. He’ll sell it to kids who are underage if they pay him enough and he knows he can get away of it. Some people go to him for pot, which he grows in his apartment. He’s a dealer and loves to drink. The way he looks at it, he doesn’t care if he’s ‘corrupting’ kids. If kids come to him wanting meth or pot or alcohol, he figures they’re already corrupted and he’s just doing them a favor. They’re the ones who looked for him in the first place.
Relationship Status || It’s complicated.
Clubs and Organizations || None.
Relationships Bank
Bethany Abbot – Bethany was his first serious relationship. They lived together for a few years, but things were incredibly toxic. When they lost their baby, they split up and haven’t spoken since. Bethany is also the mother of Mallory Abbott, but Lennox is not her father – she was born before Bethany met Lennox and he was not even told about her existence.
Chad Richardson - His nephew. Lennox is well aware Chad hates him, and so Lennox avoids him.
Fletcher Willoughby - His roommate, cohort in crime, and coworker. Despite the fact they are so similar Lennox feels as though Fletcher is like what he could have been at his age, if he was better looking and smarter. He also may find him attractive when he’s under the influence of something or other. He doesn’t really want to let on to Fletcher he has this attraction.
Mallory Abbot - Lennox has not met her yet, but she is Bethany’s older daughter and the love interest of his nephew.
Maxine Rossi – A fellow bartender at the bar he works at. Lennox hardly speaks to her aside from work related things but is well aware she’s quite the whore.
Peter Parker – Some weird kid who Lennox keeps seeing watching him. Lennox is not sure if the kid has a problem with him, or if he wants to buy some weed.
Wendy Lambert - A frequent patron at the bar he works at, Lennox finds her annoying.
Appearance
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Height/Weight/Body Type || 5’10”, he’s not stocky and is pretty thin. He’s strong but not as strong as he once was. His body does not take well to the drugs he constantly inserts into it and he is past his prime. While he isn’t necessarily bad looking, he is sketchy looking, and many people immediately label him a crackhead.
Hair color/style || Dirty blond, always oily and messy.
Eye color/makeup preferences || Brown eyes, and he rarely wears makeup aside from some concealer he uses to make his eyes look a little less sunken in when he goes to work.
Clothing Style || Whatever he finds on his floor that doesn’t stink. Usually, clothes he finds at the thrift store. He’s not very picky; the cheaper the better.
Notable Traits || While many people would consider him attractive via his Richardson genes, Lennox doesn’t find himself or label himself attractive at all. Because of his lack of confidence, he takes little care of himself and always looks like a hot mess – minus the hot, double the mess.
Ethnicity || Caucasian
Playby || Jesse C. Boyd
Personality
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Likes || Smoking; Drinking; Getting High; Munchie food; Cherry flavored things; Cherry coke; Iced coffee; Holidays; Skipping his responsibilities;
Dislikes || Driving; Thinking too much (hence why he’s almost always under some kind of influence); Being spoken to like a child; Kids; His pills; TV ads; Guilt; McDonalds; Lana Del Rey;
Nervous Habits || Shifting uncomfortably (especially if he’s sitting); Chewing his lips/peeling the skin on his fingers.
Hobbies || Reading; Lennox loves to read and can always be found by the library in Salem. He will read anything he can get his hands on and reads at quite a high proficiency (he just never tested well at all in school).
Positive Traits || Hard worker; Fast-paced; Straightforward; Modest;
Negative Traits || Dependent; Finicky; Prefers the easy way; Aggressive; Short-tempered; Forgetful; Unreliable; Untrustworthy; Self-deprecating;
History
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Family ||
Margot Richardson – Mother – Deceased || Lennox’s mother was a kind woman who he remembers most fondly through the sugar cookies she would bake. In the kitchen, Lennox would help her and that was one place he didn’t feel so useless. But he can also still remember the look of horror on her face when he brandished a knife at Geoffrey. One of his biggest regrets is not knowing she died and not being able to go to her funeral.
Michael Richardson – Father – Deceased || Lennox never was good enough for his father. He never abused him or raised a hand to him, but Lennox knew he was never good enough for him. While he was provided with all of the same opportunities as Geoffrey was, Lennox never prospered. He was dumber than his brother, more volatile than his brother, and more moody than his brother. Constantly he would be compared to his brother and that led to Lennox’s low self-esteem and hidden distain for his brother.
Geoffrey Richardson – Older Brother – Billionaire Software Designer – 41 || Though Lennox was always jealous of Geoffrey, he never actually hated him. He wanted to be Geoffrey, and when he realized he couldn’t, he lost his temper, which resulted in him slashing him in the arm when he was 17. Despite the fact that Lennox tried to apologize Geoffrey wasn’t having it – and didn’t believe in the legitimacy of his brother’s mental illness – and Lennox knows Geoffrey just believes Lennox hates him.
Chad Richardson – Nephew – Student – 20 || While he’s never met Chad, Lennox knows what he looks like. He’s seen pictures.
Hometown || Los Angeles, CA, though Lennox has moved so many times in his life he doesn’t refer to any place as his ‘home’, just places he’s lived.
Vehicle/Transportation || He relies on Fletcher for rides to and from work, and walks to the bar he works at. He doesn’t drive, he refuses to.
Current Living Arrangement || Lennox lives in a two-bedroom apartment with Fletcher Willoughby, and splits the rent with him. He moved in a few months ago and is just getting settled. It works out pretty well, because he can carpool with Fletcher to work. As well as that, Lennox can also get high/stoned/throw parties with Fletcher whenever he wants. It’s not the best place and it’s very cheap, and the landlord is never around, but that works out in Lennox and Fletcher’s favor. His bedroom is the smaller one, and he grows pot in his room. His room is filthy and covered in dirt and perpetually smells like weed.
Backstory || Lennox was the second son of the Richardsons and as a baby, they were very excited for him. Unlike his brother, Lennox had inherited his mother’s dark brown eyes and giggily personality. But as he grew older, Lennox found himself falling behind his brother. The differences between the two kept growing. Geoffrey was the golden child, a genius and a playboy, always surrounded by friends and girls. Lennox tried to fit in but Geoffrey didn’t want to babysit his brother all the time, and Margot and Michael grew wary of their youngest. Though he was given the same education as his brother, he did horrible in school. Money was wasted on tutors who could do nothing to help Lennox retain the knowledge he needed to pass his tests. As he grew older, Lennox realized something was off about him. This caused him to lose hope in himself and his future.
While Geoffrey was successful, Lennox found it easier to rebel. He started to hate anyone who tried to tutor him and often snapped at them – even making one poor classmate of his cry – finding it easier to blame all these people for his failed attempts at getting an education than himself. As he snapped at his tutors he found it easier to blame others. He started to act out and get violent with his brother, their roughhousing quickly turning into physical fights, ones that Lennox won. He got involved with the wrong crowd as a teenager. His parents tried to intervene and said they loved him despite the fact he was different than his brother – that he didn’t need to act out – but Lennox assumed they were just lying and secretly hated him. When he was 17, Lennox skipped school every day to instead join a cult group, one that accepted him no matter how ‘dumb’ he was. His parents didn’t know, and assumed he went to school, until they got a call from the principal inquiring about where he’d been.
When his parents confronted him about it, Lennox got angry again, especially when they were trying to take him away from his ‘family’. Geoffrey got angry at that and yelled at Lennox and Lennox yelled back – but the yelling quickly escalated and when Geoffrey said something that really pissed Lennox off, Lennox pulled out his knife and brandished it at Geoffrey and his parents, and lunged for Geoffrey in the same instant. His parents called the police and he was arrested, and disowned him all in the same instant. While in rehabilitation, Lennox was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The only ones who were there for him were his cult family – Felix and Rosalie, his two closest friends, in particular. Felix and Rosalie, already roommates, let Lennox crash on their couch. He was supposed to go to school but just dropped out, instead getting a job as a bagger at the grocery store. He took his medicine every day and for a few years, he was good, despite everything. He tried to contact his family but found his number blocked. He tried to go to the house and his brother screamed that he had a restraining order on him. So that was it. Lennox stopped trying to contact his family and instead lived with Felix and Rosalie.
He got involved in heavier drugs and started to grow pot and sell it on the side, making a good profit that way. Felix and Rosalie lived in a nice apartment that often got trashed when the three of them threw parties. It was at one of these parties that Lennox lost his virginity – and ironically, it was with Felix. Felix never wanted an exclusive thing and so for a while, Lennox and Felix became friends-with-benefits, with Lennox often sleeping in Felix’s room rather than the couch. Felix started to convince Lennox that he didn’t need his medicine and took it for himself, using the drugs to get that sense of high he couldn’t get from anything else. As Lennox stopped taking his medicine, he began to convince himself he didn’t need it, despite the mood swings and depressive slumps that started to bother him from then on. After a few months without his medicine, Lennox got more temperamental and got into a fight with Rosalie and Felix that left him alone without anywhere to live, and the cult had long since disbanded and moved away. For a while he was homeless until he got a crappy apartment. He traveled and went to a different city, got a new job as a cashier in the mechanic’s place there, and got a tiny one bedroom apartment. He made a few friends through selling his medicine and pot, but nothing like what he had with Felix and Rosalie.
One evening on break, Lennox went to the local McDonalds to get a burger and behind the counter was one of the most beautiful women he’d ever met. He hadn’t really felt a desire for anyone since Felix, yet here he was. He expected that to be the last encounter but she slipped him her number and he called her – the two wound up talking and flirting until they became friends and eventually started dating. Bethany was the first woman Lennox had ever been with. They wound up getting a small apartment together, and for a few months everything was great. They had occasional fights, but always seemed to make up, often in the form of sex or getting high together.
When Lennox was about 31, a year into the relationship, he tried to call his brother again. His brother picked up the phone, shockingly enough, and told him that their parents had both died. Their mother died a few years ago when Lennox was 26, and their father had died the previous year. The news was shocking to Lennox and he wasn’t invited to their funerals. He tried to ask if he could know where their graves were but Geoffrey rejected the offer. He said he didn’t want Lennox anywhere near him or his son and Lennox was shocked he had a nephew – but Geoffrey said that he wasn’t any nephew of Lennox’s and hung up on him. Then Lennox started paying attention to the news. He found out Geoffrey was a billionaire, and saw his brother proudly on TV with his arm around a miniature version of him, down even to the brilliant blue eyes that Geoffrey had always shared with their father. His temper snapped and Lennox broke the TV, resulting in a fight with Bethany that night, a fight that left both of them screaming and throwing objects at one another, until the cops showed up to break the fight up. That fight resulted in Lennox leaving to sleep on a bench, until he thought about losing the only person he had at the moment and bought flowers and begged for Bethany to take him back.
After that he grew distant from all his friends – except Bethany – and clung to her, fighting often with her but at the same time begging her not to go and claiming that he would be lost or dead if she left him. They continued to date for 4 years, until Lennox was 35. Towards the end of their relationship, they discovered something – Bethany was pregnant.
Despite the complicated circumstances surrounded their relationship, Lennox wanted to try for the kid. He started taking his medicine again, and being kinder to Bethany. By the time she was 6 months along, they were almost ready with a nursery and everything. But money was tight and for a quick buck, Lennox sold some of his pills to the highest bidder. One night when Bethany came home late, Lennox snapped at her and demanded to know who she’d been with. Despite her claims he didn’t believe her and she stormed out – or went to – when she fell down the stairs and handed on her stomach. Something was wrong with the baby and Lennox called 9-1-1, but it was too late. They got to the hospital to find Bethany had lost the baby. After that the fights got worse and both of them blamed each other for what happened. Lennox decided he couldn’t do this anymore, packed a backpack with clothes and his drugs, and left. He took a MTA bus wherever, and ignored phone calls he got from work.
Eventually, the bus stopped in Salem, California. Lennox got a job as a bartender in town and rented a small apartment. But he couldn’t afford it with the hours he got and was going to be evicted within two months of living there. He found another job, at the mechanics, and made more hours and money there. At the mechanics he met Fletcher Willoughby, who, when he mentioned his lack of apartment, offered him a place to stay. Lennox moved in and pays half the rent, and now lives in the small bedroom of Fletcher’s apartment. He grows pot in his bedroom and deals drugs on the side. He’s going to quit his job as a bartender soon, he’s just too lazy to do so. After the fallout with Bethany, Lennox stopped taking his drugs again, instead selling them on the side to get more spending money to buy what can get him high.
He knows that his nephew attends Metric Academy, but doesn’t talk to him. Chad knows of him, knows what he looks like, and knows to avoid him. Chad doesn’t know where he is though and Lennox wants it to stay that way – he doesn’t want to see Geoffrey or Chad ever again. Despite the sadness he still feels over his breakup with Bethany, he’s relatively happy where he is, living with Fletcher and working at the mechanics.
Miscellaneous
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