Post by Nate Lucas Benetton on Apr 14, 2018 0:28:16 GMT
ANCIENT SCANDALS IN CHERRY GROVE
NATHANIEL LUCAS BENETTON
age EIGHTEEN | gender MALE | GRADE TWELFTH |
BIRTHDATE 07/21 | SEXUALITY STRAIGHT | Profession STUDENT |
PERSONALITY,
Nate is a witty young man, with a great passion for life. He’s insanely talented and creative. However, he can be a little argumentative. He’s very hot headed, a little reckless, and doesn’t take a lot of things seriously. He’s not what you’d call classically stupid, but he’s not a genius, either. He has average intelligence. He tends to be a little immature, but he’ll go through periods of being extremely distant and detached from everything around him. He’s not an open book and you can bet he’s not very trusting, either. But he’s a cool guy, when it comes to it, he’s as chilled out as anyone else. But just don’t get on his bad side or ask him where he went last summer...
HISTORY,
From a very young age, all Nate has ever cared about was music. He was obsessed with listening to the radio and old tape recordings that his mother had. He would sing in the shower, he would sing while brushing his teeth, he would sing in class and even sing in the supermarket. Music was his life. The only things Nate ever asked for as a child were musical instruments, such as the guitar he got at five and taught himself how to play.
Nate’s father left him and his mother when he was only a little boy, but since, Nate depended on her for everything. He always said that when he was older, he’d like to meet his father again and give him a piece of his mind. As he got older, that became a little more colorful. It was just the two of them from the age of three onward.
Nate’s mother, Cassie, wasn’t wealthy, to say the least. She worked herself to the bone to provide for herself and her son, with very little help from her family or her ex’s family. She did everything she could to make sure that Nate grew up to be a respectful young man and, despite his issues with anger, he grew up to be just that. However, something was brewing inside of Nate that his mother could not have seen coming.
It started when he was fifteen. He began to show signs of withdrawing from social interactions and he seemed to be deeply depressed. He was suspicious of everything and everyone, and became more hostile. He started showing no emotions, he had this blank stare at all times. And the worst one of them all was his inability to sleep at night. Cassie would find him awake at all hours in the morning, but as soon as the sun started to rise, he’d be out like a light and it was almost impossible to wake up him. He started to get forgetful, because he wasn’t sleeping properly, which also, in turn, prevented him from being able to focus on anything. Even playing his guitar. When the strange phrases started, Cassie knew she had to do something.
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia the summer that he turned sixteen. He was medicated. He saw a psychiatrist and everything was fine. Or as fine as it could be for being sixteen with a mental illness like schizophrenia.
Nate wasn’t really the same after his diagnosis. He saw how it affected his mother’s finances, having to get prescription after prescription, having to see doctor after doctor. So, he decided to get a job, to pay for his own medical care, or to at least contribute. He got a job in the local music shop. But the year following was very tough. Nate kept up with his medication, however, his illness got worse. He started getting these strange delusions, he saw things and heard things that weren’t there. Soon, he started to withdraw again, he started to lock himself in his room and he stopped taking his medication, entirely, because his delusions told him that it was just poisoning him and making him worse.
Nate had a complete mental break, he snapped. He doesn’t remember what happened, but when his mother was out of the house, Nate set the house on fire and stood outside, watching as it burned up. The delusions were in there, he was trying to kill them. However, he wound up being sectioned and spent the summer of his seventeenth birthday in a psychiatric clinic where he was treated and rehabilitated.
He got out a month into the new school year and he even got his job back, but he was a different person entirely. Nate spent all of his free time making music, writing it and performing it. He just wants to have his old life back. And in his mind, as screwed up as it is, keeping on with his music will get him his old life back.
Nate’s father left him and his mother when he was only a little boy, but since, Nate depended on her for everything. He always said that when he was older, he’d like to meet his father again and give him a piece of his mind. As he got older, that became a little more colorful. It was just the two of them from the age of three onward.
Nate’s mother, Cassie, wasn’t wealthy, to say the least. She worked herself to the bone to provide for herself and her son, with very little help from her family or her ex’s family. She did everything she could to make sure that Nate grew up to be a respectful young man and, despite his issues with anger, he grew up to be just that. However, something was brewing inside of Nate that his mother could not have seen coming.
It started when he was fifteen. He began to show signs of withdrawing from social interactions and he seemed to be deeply depressed. He was suspicious of everything and everyone, and became more hostile. He started showing no emotions, he had this blank stare at all times. And the worst one of them all was his inability to sleep at night. Cassie would find him awake at all hours in the morning, but as soon as the sun started to rise, he’d be out like a light and it was almost impossible to wake up him. He started to get forgetful, because he wasn’t sleeping properly, which also, in turn, prevented him from being able to focus on anything. Even playing his guitar. When the strange phrases started, Cassie knew she had to do something.
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia the summer that he turned sixteen. He was medicated. He saw a psychiatrist and everything was fine. Or as fine as it could be for being sixteen with a mental illness like schizophrenia.
Nate wasn’t really the same after his diagnosis. He saw how it affected his mother’s finances, having to get prescription after prescription, having to see doctor after doctor. So, he decided to get a job, to pay for his own medical care, or to at least contribute. He got a job in the local music shop. But the year following was very tough. Nate kept up with his medication, however, his illness got worse. He started getting these strange delusions, he saw things and heard things that weren’t there. Soon, he started to withdraw again, he started to lock himself in his room and he stopped taking his medication, entirely, because his delusions told him that it was just poisoning him and making him worse.
Nate had a complete mental break, he snapped. He doesn’t remember what happened, but when his mother was out of the house, Nate set the house on fire and stood outside, watching as it burned up. The delusions were in there, he was trying to kill them. However, he wound up being sectioned and spent the summer of his seventeenth birthday in a psychiatric clinic where he was treated and rehabilitated.
He got out a month into the new school year and he even got his job back, but he was a different person entirely. Nate spent all of his free time making music, writing it and performing it. He just wants to have his old life back. And in his mind, as screwed up as it is, keeping on with his music will get him his old life back.
FACE CLAIM
NATHANIEL LUCAS BENETTON :: LUKE HEMMINGS
CHERRY GROVE, © PARKER
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