Post by embergryphon on May 25, 2009 19:16:44 GMT -5
Oh hey before we go any further:
I kind of assumed that the whole Yeerk Invasion thinger was An Unspecified Number of Years ago, but if it was more recent just... I dunno, whack me with a two-by-four and I'll switch it around. 83
Name: Keith Michaels
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Appearance: At about 6'1", Keith is a pretty tall, broad guy. He plays a lot of sports, especially basketball and rugby, and so he's in good shape. He's pretty much one's quintessential jock, appearance-wise, and takes some care to maintain that look. He has a square chin and an easy, slightly lopsided smile, a straight nose and high cheekbones. His eyes are bluish gray and his hair is shoulder-length, red and somewhat curly. He has straight, white teeth. He looks tan pretty much year-round, and is always spattered with freckles, especially on his nose and cheeks. He tends to wear casual clothing pretty much all the time- the same pair of ratty sneakers, a pair of faded jeans and a t-shirt that he washed sometime this month.
Here! Have a photo of an actor that looks kind of like him. =3
Personality: Keith is a strongly "Type B" kind of personality- he's very laid-back, very relaxed, and very prone to laziness and self-servitude. He's borderline nihilistic in that most of what he does is pretty selfish, and he doesn't even really realize it. He just goes with the flow, and acts in the most appealing or fun-looking way that presents itself. While not a bad person- he certainly never goes out of his way to hurt anyone, and doesn't understand why anyone would- he just rarely thinks about other people before himself. He's not particularly introspective, and doesn't recognize these flawed aspects of his personality.
Keith works well with others and enjoys social interaction, although he usually takes a less organized approach to teamwork- he doesn't work well as a leader but sometimes might resent being told what to do. He has a strong sense of humor, however, and is generally very optimistic. He's pretty good at working with most personality types, and good at pretending to get along with people he doesn’t like at all. He's open-minded and willing to humor people.
His number one passion is music- Keith was a struggling musician before being taken by SPECTER. Although he prefers the classics and mellow, melodic music, he’s usually open to all of it and gravitates towards other musically-inclined or creative people. He also loves sports- although he's not a very competitive person and usually just plays for the fun of it- television, and comic books; he doesn't like reading, anything involving math, or puzzles. He was never really interested in science or animals until this whole SPECTER thing, but now he's thinking they might be pretty cool- although they’re hardly close to competing with his rugby or guitar. If there are any moral gray areas in this whole morphing animals, fighting crime lifestyle, they’ve never occurred to him.
Biography: The Yeerk Invasion didn't affect Keith too much- he figured out, after it was over, that he was right about his Geometry teacher being an evil brain-sucking alien from Hell, but that didn't really surprise anyone. Well, okay, it did- but after the initial shock of alien invasion had settled in, Keith was one of the lucky few who didn’t have his life torn down because of it. His family had been more-or-less spared- some uncle on his mother’s side and two cousins he’d never talked to were hit, but his immediate family and his close friends were all okay. All in all, life continued as normal in suburban Maryland, with Keith, his parents and his twin sister Alyssa. To everyone's shock, Keith managed to graduate High School immediately following Senior Year, and things were going well.
After being kicked out of his Liberal Arts college for barely scraping up a 1.4 GPA, however, Keith found himself trying to support himself as a solo singer/guitarist in Washington, DC. He could barely afford to keep himself in his studio apartment with his pet ferret Duce, but moving back in with his parents in Baltimore would mean giving up his half-baked dreams in favor of getting a Real Job with his father's auto-parts company, and so Keith tried to keep up with his rising rent and the soaring costs of Kool Aid and Ramen Noodles by playing in whatever clubs didn't have a better act booked that night.
He managed this pretty well for longer than one might expect, and Duce managed to develop a strong taste for Ramen, which made things a lot easier. However, a year and a half after being encouraged to leave school, life changed dramatically for Keith.
How they were recruited: Walking to the metro from Georgetown one night after playing for less-than-minimum-wage at a local Tex-Mex restaurant, Keith was snatched up in an alley and informed by two men in suits that he was going to publicly announce his own suicide to the people on the street, and then jump off Key Bridge. Keith, who had never had any intention to kill himself, was persuaded to do so only when one of the men aimed a gun at his head and suggested again that he tell everyone around that he was tired of living, and jump off the bridge.
Assuming that he had a better chance at surviving the fall than surviving a bullet to the brain, Keith shakily walked out onto the bridge. He couldn’t force himself to speak, but one of the men followed him, yelling and pretending to be trying to stop him, although he was still holding the handgun under his jacket. His faked heroics managed to get the attention the two men seemed to want, and soon a crowd of people were watching Keith balancing on the edge of the bridge, shouting for him to be smart and come down. It took Keith five minutes to manage to force his legs to propel him over the side into the empty air.
He was caught, half-way down, by a net of narrow wires, too thin to be visible in the dark. The witnesses didn’t see anything except his body turning in midair- and then continuing to fall as the wires snapped under his weight. They slowed him down enough that the impact against the water didn’t kill him, although it hurt, it was cold, and it knocked him out.
When he woke up, he was in his apartment again, and the two men standing over him explained that he had been selected for SPECTER- to be an Animorph and protect the world. It took them several hours to convince Keith that they were serious- and real- and they only really succeeded in that because the fall from Key Bridge had managed to snap one of Keith’s legs and one of his arms, fracture three vertebrae and his pelvis, and give him a concussion and a collection of nasty bruises, and the morphine in his bloodstream wasn’t powerful enough to protect him any longer from the agonizing pain his body was in. He was told that the morphing power would heal his injuries- which was why, the recruiters explained, they had been willing to be so cavalier in handing those injuries out- and so he greedily accepted it, not really thinking about the consequences. The recruiters managed to hunt down Keith’s ferret, Duce (hiding under Keith’s bed), whom he quickly acquired and morphed, healing himself, as well as sealing the unspoken deal between himself and SPECTER. To the outside world, he was already dead.
Preferred Job: Ooh, anything in the Circus would be fun. x3 Although poor Keith probably couldn’t handle the responsibility of doing anything too… glorious. ^^() Maybe just a popcorn-boy who sneaks behind the scenes every now and then.
First morph: A black and white ferret; Keith’s pet Duce.
See Keith’s Recruitment Story. ^_^
And here's a picture.
God ferrets are cute. >=
I kind of assumed that the whole Yeerk Invasion thinger was An Unspecified Number of Years ago, but if it was more recent just... I dunno, whack me with a two-by-four and I'll switch it around. 83
Name: Keith Michaels
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Appearance: At about 6'1", Keith is a pretty tall, broad guy. He plays a lot of sports, especially basketball and rugby, and so he's in good shape. He's pretty much one's quintessential jock, appearance-wise, and takes some care to maintain that look. He has a square chin and an easy, slightly lopsided smile, a straight nose and high cheekbones. His eyes are bluish gray and his hair is shoulder-length, red and somewhat curly. He has straight, white teeth. He looks tan pretty much year-round, and is always spattered with freckles, especially on his nose and cheeks. He tends to wear casual clothing pretty much all the time- the same pair of ratty sneakers, a pair of faded jeans and a t-shirt that he washed sometime this month.
Here! Have a photo of an actor that looks kind of like him. =3
Personality: Keith is a strongly "Type B" kind of personality- he's very laid-back, very relaxed, and very prone to laziness and self-servitude. He's borderline nihilistic in that most of what he does is pretty selfish, and he doesn't even really realize it. He just goes with the flow, and acts in the most appealing or fun-looking way that presents itself. While not a bad person- he certainly never goes out of his way to hurt anyone, and doesn't understand why anyone would- he just rarely thinks about other people before himself. He's not particularly introspective, and doesn't recognize these flawed aspects of his personality.
Keith works well with others and enjoys social interaction, although he usually takes a less organized approach to teamwork- he doesn't work well as a leader but sometimes might resent being told what to do. He has a strong sense of humor, however, and is generally very optimistic. He's pretty good at working with most personality types, and good at pretending to get along with people he doesn’t like at all. He's open-minded and willing to humor people.
His number one passion is music- Keith was a struggling musician before being taken by SPECTER. Although he prefers the classics and mellow, melodic music, he’s usually open to all of it and gravitates towards other musically-inclined or creative people. He also loves sports- although he's not a very competitive person and usually just plays for the fun of it- television, and comic books; he doesn't like reading, anything involving math, or puzzles. He was never really interested in science or animals until this whole SPECTER thing, but now he's thinking they might be pretty cool- although they’re hardly close to competing with his rugby or guitar. If there are any moral gray areas in this whole morphing animals, fighting crime lifestyle, they’ve never occurred to him.
Biography: The Yeerk Invasion didn't affect Keith too much- he figured out, after it was over, that he was right about his Geometry teacher being an evil brain-sucking alien from Hell, but that didn't really surprise anyone. Well, okay, it did- but after the initial shock of alien invasion had settled in, Keith was one of the lucky few who didn’t have his life torn down because of it. His family had been more-or-less spared- some uncle on his mother’s side and two cousins he’d never talked to were hit, but his immediate family and his close friends were all okay. All in all, life continued as normal in suburban Maryland, with Keith, his parents and his twin sister Alyssa. To everyone's shock, Keith managed to graduate High School immediately following Senior Year, and things were going well.
After being kicked out of his Liberal Arts college for barely scraping up a 1.4 GPA, however, Keith found himself trying to support himself as a solo singer/guitarist in Washington, DC. He could barely afford to keep himself in his studio apartment with his pet ferret Duce, but moving back in with his parents in Baltimore would mean giving up his half-baked dreams in favor of getting a Real Job with his father's auto-parts company, and so Keith tried to keep up with his rising rent and the soaring costs of Kool Aid and Ramen Noodles by playing in whatever clubs didn't have a better act booked that night.
He managed this pretty well for longer than one might expect, and Duce managed to develop a strong taste for Ramen, which made things a lot easier. However, a year and a half after being encouraged to leave school, life changed dramatically for Keith.
How they were recruited: Walking to the metro from Georgetown one night after playing for less-than-minimum-wage at a local Tex-Mex restaurant, Keith was snatched up in an alley and informed by two men in suits that he was going to publicly announce his own suicide to the people on the street, and then jump off Key Bridge. Keith, who had never had any intention to kill himself, was persuaded to do so only when one of the men aimed a gun at his head and suggested again that he tell everyone around that he was tired of living, and jump off the bridge.
Assuming that he had a better chance at surviving the fall than surviving a bullet to the brain, Keith shakily walked out onto the bridge. He couldn’t force himself to speak, but one of the men followed him, yelling and pretending to be trying to stop him, although he was still holding the handgun under his jacket. His faked heroics managed to get the attention the two men seemed to want, and soon a crowd of people were watching Keith balancing on the edge of the bridge, shouting for him to be smart and come down. It took Keith five minutes to manage to force his legs to propel him over the side into the empty air.
He was caught, half-way down, by a net of narrow wires, too thin to be visible in the dark. The witnesses didn’t see anything except his body turning in midair- and then continuing to fall as the wires snapped under his weight. They slowed him down enough that the impact against the water didn’t kill him, although it hurt, it was cold, and it knocked him out.
When he woke up, he was in his apartment again, and the two men standing over him explained that he had been selected for SPECTER- to be an Animorph and protect the world. It took them several hours to convince Keith that they were serious- and real- and they only really succeeded in that because the fall from Key Bridge had managed to snap one of Keith’s legs and one of his arms, fracture three vertebrae and his pelvis, and give him a concussion and a collection of nasty bruises, and the morphine in his bloodstream wasn’t powerful enough to protect him any longer from the agonizing pain his body was in. He was told that the morphing power would heal his injuries- which was why, the recruiters explained, they had been willing to be so cavalier in handing those injuries out- and so he greedily accepted it, not really thinking about the consequences. The recruiters managed to hunt down Keith’s ferret, Duce (hiding under Keith’s bed), whom he quickly acquired and morphed, healing himself, as well as sealing the unspoken deal between himself and SPECTER. To the outside world, he was already dead.
Preferred Job: Ooh, anything in the Circus would be fun. x3 Although poor Keith probably couldn’t handle the responsibility of doing anything too… glorious. ^^() Maybe just a popcorn-boy who sneaks behind the scenes every now and then.
First morph: A black and white ferret; Keith’s pet Duce.
See Keith’s Recruitment Story. ^_^
And here's a picture.
God ferrets are cute. >=