Post by Emerson Gillies Ashford on Apr 16, 2018 12:19:57 GMT
ANCIENT SCANDALS OF CHERRY GROVE
EMERSON GILLIES ASHFORD
age TWENTY-SEVEN | gender MALE | GRADE N/A |
BIRTHDATE 12/26 | SEXUALITY STRAIGHT | Profession ARTIST |
PERSONALITY,
Emerson is a very laid back kind of guy. Artistically inclined, he has always had a unique perspective on everything. He's always looked on the brighter side of life, he's very positive and always manages to smile. He is the guy who always puts others before himself. He’s extremely passionate, compassionate, and empathetic. He’s definitely what you’d consider cultured, having a great appreciation for art and music, as well as history. He has a charming smile and personality to go along with it, he's persuasive and confident and people find him very easy to trust. But like any other person, he has demons that he conceals with that charming smile and personality. He’s trying to cope with the loss of his parents as well as knowing he’ll die young, just like his mother.
HISTORY,
Emerson was born into a happy home, with loving and caring parents. He was encouraged to pursue the things he loved and pushed to be the best kind of person he could ever be. And his parents would have told you that they were proud of every little thing their boy did. From a very early age, Emerson showed a burning passion for art and he was particularly skilled by the time he reached school
Denise, Emerson's mother, always encouraged him to pursue his love for art, and that's what he did. Emerson developed this fascination with every piece of art that he saw, his mother would buy him books on artists that he loved and she'd tell him all about the greats. And they'd talk about him becoming one of them. They'd visit the local art gallery and they both knew that, one day, his pieces would be hanging on their walls. Not because the Ashfords' paid for it, but because his pure and raw talent was something that would be recognized. He had the strongest bond with his mother. Until she started to get sick.
Emerson's life changed dramatically when she got ill. His art got darker and darker, until his teachers began to worry about his mental health. Watching his mother deteriorate at the rate that she was deteriorating, it killed him. His mother was his best friend and his role model, the person he wanted to make proud, never mind his father. The illness, Huntington's Disease, took away her ability to do anything. They couldn't sketch together, they couldn't go to the gallery together. And ultimately, it caused her to die before her time. To make it ultimately worse, she may have passed the disease onto her son.
Although he was advised to get himself tested, Emerson refused. He didn't want to live his life with a death sentence hanging over his head. So, he didn't get the test. However, he was advised to see a therapist and he did. He was quickly diagnosed with manic depression. He accepted the diagnosis, took the pills, did the therapy, worked on his art. His girlfriend, at the time, did everything she could to help and it did help.
But as university came around, shortly after his mother's death, Emerson was prepared for it. He’d always maintained that he wouldn’t have a child, he’d never subject a child to the agony and torture he went through, and goes through, knowing that they or someone they love won’t live a full life because of an illness with no cure. Little did he know, his girlfriend, Jules, was pregnant with his child. She didn't tell him, she wanted him to pursue his career as an artist and her parents made her give the baby up for adoption.
His father died the year after his Freshman year at university. He was hit by a car running a red light, killed him instantly. He had left Cherry Grove to study somewhere the Ashford name wasn’t on some building. Emerson is now on his own, back in his hometown, having inherited his father’s wealth when he died, that he put into the Cherry Grove Local Art Gallery and Exhibition of Cherry Grove History. He's continuing to live the life his parents wanted for him, doing everything they had done before their untimely demise. Unfortunately, however, Emerson is walking around with a medical ticking time bomb. His mother had unwillingly passed the HD gene onto her son and now, Emerson is beginning to show signs of the disease.
Denise, Emerson's mother, always encouraged him to pursue his love for art, and that's what he did. Emerson developed this fascination with every piece of art that he saw, his mother would buy him books on artists that he loved and she'd tell him all about the greats. And they'd talk about him becoming one of them. They'd visit the local art gallery and they both knew that, one day, his pieces would be hanging on their walls. Not because the Ashfords' paid for it, but because his pure and raw talent was something that would be recognized. He had the strongest bond with his mother. Until she started to get sick.
Emerson's life changed dramatically when she got ill. His art got darker and darker, until his teachers began to worry about his mental health. Watching his mother deteriorate at the rate that she was deteriorating, it killed him. His mother was his best friend and his role model, the person he wanted to make proud, never mind his father. The illness, Huntington's Disease, took away her ability to do anything. They couldn't sketch together, they couldn't go to the gallery together. And ultimately, it caused her to die before her time. To make it ultimately worse, she may have passed the disease onto her son.
Although he was advised to get himself tested, Emerson refused. He didn't want to live his life with a death sentence hanging over his head. So, he didn't get the test. However, he was advised to see a therapist and he did. He was quickly diagnosed with manic depression. He accepted the diagnosis, took the pills, did the therapy, worked on his art. His girlfriend, at the time, did everything she could to help and it did help.
But as university came around, shortly after his mother's death, Emerson was prepared for it. He’d always maintained that he wouldn’t have a child, he’d never subject a child to the agony and torture he went through, and goes through, knowing that they or someone they love won’t live a full life because of an illness with no cure. Little did he know, his girlfriend, Jules, was pregnant with his child. She didn't tell him, she wanted him to pursue his career as an artist and her parents made her give the baby up for adoption.
His father died the year after his Freshman year at university. He was hit by a car running a red light, killed him instantly. He had left Cherry Grove to study somewhere the Ashford name wasn’t on some building. Emerson is now on his own, back in his hometown, having inherited his father’s wealth when he died, that he put into the Cherry Grove Local Art Gallery and Exhibition of Cherry Grove History. He's continuing to live the life his parents wanted for him, doing everything they had done before their untimely demise. Unfortunately, however, Emerson is walking around with a medical ticking time bomb. His mother had unwillingly passed the HD gene onto her son and now, Emerson is beginning to show signs of the disease.
FACE CLAIM
EMERSON GILLIES ASHFORD :: ANDY BIERSACK
CHERRY GROVE, © PARKER
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