Post by Max on May 18, 2010 23:59:50 GMT
Name: Gareth James Richardson
Gender: Male
Age: 22 (Birthday: 10/9)
Status: Alpha Unit
DNA: Florida Panther, Golden eagle
Experiment number: AU #015
Height: 6’1
Appearance: Gareth has a strange sense of ruggedness about him, but at the same time looks formal. His hair is normally messy in style, having a fringe that stops just past his eyebrows. The sides cover his ears and the back reaches just before the start of his neck. He has a light dusting of hair growing on his chin, adding to the nearly formal but not really look he carries of so well. His hair is dark brown in colour, assenting to his pale skin.
Gareth’s eyes are extremely dark gray, but have small flecks of blue spreading from the centre. Because of this, the eyes almost look metallic at times. He is actually quite muscled, but he very rarely shows it. He is more of the kind of person to avoid showing his upper body at any time due to the large scar that spread from the top of his left shoulder down to the middle of his back. He also has a smaller one along the right side of his rib cage.
The clothing he normally wears is a pair of black trousers, and a white dress shirt. He also normally wears a black jacket over the top of this, and has a black tie hanging loosely from around his neck. He is probably too formal for his line of work, the whole taking down experiments and basic hard labour, but it’s the sort of clothing he prefers. Formal upbringing and all that.
Build: Gareth has a slightly muscled build, but really doesn’t look it. He has the lean sort of muscle.
Personality: Gareth is probably considered a loner by nature, never really enjoying the company of others. He would much rather spend his life just sat listening to his music than with a large group of people. He will have friends, but he very rarely spends time with them unless needed. Hence the reason he’s not considered the most efficient member of the AU when he’s working with others. By himself, however, he shows his true skills.
Gareth is against violence when it is unneeded, or when he’s not forced into it. When he does, however, he seems incredibly agile due to his cat DNA, but he’s always reluctant to harm them if possible. Hence the reason he’s not normally sent on capturing missions and such, he’s more for recon. He enjoys spending his time out amongst nature, loving the fact that they have moved him to the Island group. He’s quite a clever sod, always looking at the world from a fairly logical point of view, so always trying to learn more.
Gareth is quite a brave person in all honesty, never really fearing anything other than the unknown. Things he doesn’t understand. He does, however, also have a slight fear of reptiles in general. He’s never sure where this fear stemmed from, probably just one of the random fears people tend to have, like those of spiders and such. He panics and normally ends up running away if a reptile is near him, which is really rather embarrassing.
History/Past: Gareth is the youngest in his family, both of his parents looking after him and his elder brother. He grew up with a fairly normal life, never mixing with the wrong people, and keeping his head down and watching his back. He enjoyed his schooling, never worrying about bullying and such. He was overall just a normal kid during the junior school years.
Senior school came around and he still didn’t have many problems, still enjoying it and working hard in order to get the grades he wanted for his lessons, planning on heading to college after finishing school. His family wasn’t necessarily well off, but they did put aside money for further education with both their children, meaning it was all good with what he did have planned. Unfortunately, life doesn’t always follow after the path you set out for yourself.
Trouble struck when he finished school, his brother being in a car accident, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and had him in hospital for months after the accident. Gareth spent a lot of his time by his brothers bed, helping him with anything he needed. He and his brother had always been close, so the accident had scared him. Pretty soon, Gareth was at a point where he was going to have to move away from his family so he could go to the university he wanted.
He was 20 by this point, and felt like his life had been good, shame it was about to plummet rather rabidly. This was due to USASI taking an interest in him as a test subject for the injection process. After one of his late night classes he had been walking back to his apartment when a car had pulled up beside him. He had paid little attention to it and just kept walking, perhaps speeding up slightly. Before he could react he had been grabbed and bundled into the back. He was confused and scared, but over the next year or so, he was trained. They didn’t change him from the person he was, instead working that into what they needed. He was used for reconnaissance after being given his bird DNA, and then the panther DNA came after this when he was also started training in order to defend himself. He had been in an English branch of USASI during this time, but by the time he was 22 he had been sent to the island in order to help them there. And so we begin his adventures now.
Other: None
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Played by: Max, who else would it be?