name! brandon smith kingsley
age! nineteen years
birthday! june 5th
hometown! ontario, canada
sexuality! unsure
appearance! brandon’s skin is pale, slightly olive-toned, and rough in most places. he stands around 6’0” and weighs 130 pounds. his dark hair has been cut short along the sides, dyed blonde in the middle and spiked up into a mohawk. his eyes are a dark, expressive green. he has multiple piercings: snakebites, labret, his right eyebrow, right cartilage and daith, left earlobe, and hipbone surface piercings. his only tattoo is a barcode on the back of his neck with the word “FREEDØM” underneath.
likes!
weird piercings,
spray paint (graffiti),
comfy jackets,
giving gifts,
joking around,
band posters,
flavored cigarettes,
black coffee,
starry nights,
helping others,
fishing docks,
bold colors,
random facts,
thunder storms.
dislikes!
sour candy,
southern accents,
carelessness,
most girls,
whiny people,
reading/writing,
his teeth,
feeling inferior,
being misjudged,
birds and spiders,
puppet shows,
liars and fakers.
fears! although brandon certainly comes off as more of the type to put fear in other people’s hearts, the punk rocker is actually scared of quite a few things. firstly, he’s terrified of birds. he can’t stand spiders or most other insects, dolls, and death. he doesn’t really like to talk about or explain the reasons behind his fears, but most of them are irrational.
habits! he moves his hands around when he talks and he has a habit of touching others—not inappropriately; usually just on the hand or shoulder. he chews his nails obsessively, too.
strengths! he’s very open-minded, he knows how to accept change (albeit reluctantly), and he’s always trying to help others.
weaknesses! he tends to shy away from most of his peers, he takes a lot of things personally, and he doesn’t know how to ask for help for himself.
goals! learn to speak fluent hungarian, go to see a green day concert eventually. he wants to rule the world as well, but he’s accepted that that won’t happen anytime soon.
secret(s)! he’s lost a lot of faith in his family since his brother left—he thinks of most of them as failures, people who think too much of themselves or their desires and don’t really consider the consequences of their actions. the only one of his relatives that he can even really stand is faye, and even she gets on his nerves sometimes with the way she acts. he also knows where his father is, but refuses to share this information with anybody.
personality! brandon usually comes off as the quiet, dangerous type; he seems scary with how he looks on the outside, but he’s actually a real big softie. he wouldn’t hurt a fly, let alone someone of his own species. he’s actually really nice and sort of the cuddly teddy bear type. he likes to show off and joke around with his friends. he doesn’t like people making fun of him unless he can tell they don’t say shit to hurt him, and he usually takes a lot of things personally. first impressions mean a lot to him, but he doesn’t judge people until after he gets to know them.
family!
mother: erika kingsley – café owner, 45. in brandon’s words, his mother would be a hell of a lot better off if she’d gone on to be a therapist than whatever she went to college for that obviously failed. erika kingsley is a very sensible, understanding woman; she’s open-minded and outspoken, she doesn’t judge others, and she likes to help whenever she can, however she can. she watched her eldest son, mikael, throw his life away and vowed to make sure that the rest of her children did not do the same. lately she’s been trying to get a better job, something that pays more money so that she might be able to provide for her family. it hasn’t been going very well.
father: morton kingsley – barber, 56. his father left shortly after faye was born, and brandon hasn’t heard of him since. he was never really close to him to begin with, doesn’t know a whole lot about him, but what he does know is that his father is almost an exact opposite of his mother.
siblings: mikael kingsley – high school dropout, 23. he works at a music store and the local walmart, barely makes enough money to pay the rent for his apartment. he has a girlfriend of two years and a kid he doesn’t know about because said girlfriend put him up for adoption shortly after his birth. he’s generally a very stressful person; he smokes marijuana frequently and can often be seen hanging out behind convenience stores with empty bottles of alcohol around him. brandon doesn’t see his older brother a whole lot lately, but he’s always trying to help him sort out his problems. he and his brother, in general, are very much alike in the sense that they seem tough when they’re really not.
faye kingsley – disoriented, 15. she suffers from panic attacks and asthma and doesn’t get along well with others around her age. faye is the quiet type, the kid you’d see sitting in the back of the classroom with her head down, reading a book that she had sitting in her lap. she has a bad habit of ignoring everything around her; she can’t stand confrontation and she doesn’t really know how to go about socializing with others. her best friend is the internet, and the only member of her family that she ever really opens up to is brandon.
- pics (c) maRrk