I'm Not There Yet (Closed)

[The Melancholy Spirit]

Katatonia - The Longest Year

Above is a link to the song the title is taken from. I plan to hook it into play sometime with a quote from my character. Those of you who are involved, you most likely know all the backstory and what is going on... so I won't waste time with that. Just put up the character sheet. Thank you.

[The Melancholy Spirit]

Name:
Maurizio LaBrie

Age:
Twenty-two

Gender:
Male

Biography:
Born the elder of two brothers into the LaBrie family, Maurizio spent most of his live in Woodville, Maine. While in his later years, beginning in the early teens, he came into a loathing of being labeled as such members of his family, and even many in the community, would call him ‘gifted’. These apparent gifts came in the form of his natural affinity for music and writing. Some of the older, die hard conservatism in the community (which as a whole is a traditionally conservative one) have blamed this constant attention on his appearance, seeing it as his way to escape and distance himself from everyone; to get them to leave him alone. These same people have also accused this of the start of his struggles with cynicism, depression, and a lack of self-confidence as he was treated as ‘different’ from most others. Maurizio himself scoffs as such notions, however, claiming ’It is just who I am…’

As he grew up and started to reach his later teenage years he became even more reclusive from the community. Some started labeling him as a freak even. There were few by this time who really knew anything about him, and none of them at a fault of their own. Among these was Natalie, a girl the same age as Thomas. One night, a few months before he graduated, Maurizio ran into Natalie on the road. After talking to her for a while he found out she had just runaway from home, due to complications with her family. Already having a plan to leave after he graduated, though no one else knew, he later took Natalie back to his home and suggested to his parents that she move in with them and stay in his room while he would stay in the old double-decker bus in the back yard.

Often Maurizio labeled himself as a free spirit, and would admit to being a deadbeat with none of the ambitions other kids had. He didn’t have goals for college or a good paying job. He once spoke to the high school counselor of how he would prefer to leave everything behind and become a vagabond than to be stuck in the drudgery of the contemporary “American Dream” lifestyle. The only other people he ever expressed this two were his brother, Natalie, and the only true friend he had; Amelia. She, however, did have ambitions for such a life and left a week after graduation. After a week filled with the worse depression he could remember being in, Maurizio took a small bag of clothing and personal belongings, as well as one his bass guitars, and left early in the morning leaving separate notes behind for his parents, Thomas, and Natalie.

Maurizio didn’t have any form of technology really, aside from a few MP3 players filled with the mass amount of music from various genres he couldn’t live without. No phone, no laptop; nothing. He lost contact with his family, due to the fact he was either never in one place for too long or never left a return address on the twice-monthly letters he would send to them, always one for each person. After four years he finally showed up back in Woodville without any advance notice. Thomas was now eighteen and only a few weeks from graduation himself. Inside Maurizio had grown lonely, something he had never expected to happen. He had been in several bands during the years and had his share of companions. But they weren’t the same. He missed Thomas and Natalie. What he didn’t miss however was the lifestyle. The night of their graduation, while at the party everyone from the single high school was at, Maurizio spoke to Thomas about wanting to take the bus to continue living the vagabond life. This time, however, he wanted them to come along.

[Guest]

Name:
Natalie Marie "Kitten" Evans

Age:
Nineteen

Gender:
Female

Biography:
Natalie Marie grew up down the road from the LaBrie brothers. Since she and Thomas were the same age, they attended school together and became friends when they had a class together one year. About three years back, her parents told her she was adopted and out of pure anger, Kitten had packed up her things and left home. It was Muzi who had found her crying on the side of the road. Knowing she was a friend of Thomas's, he took her home and convinced his parents to let her stay. She has been living with them ever since. Everyone knows she has a thing for Thomas, its very, very obvious...of course, there have been people who think she might like Maurizio as well. As far as Natalie has mentioned, she doesn't have feelings for either of the brothers. They are all "too close for that kinda crap".

[Sighlent]

Name:
Alice Michelle Sinclair

Age:
Twenty

Gender:
Female

Biography:
Money had never been a particularly easy thing to come by in the Sinclair family, but then again with a father who gambled it away in casinos and a mother who was best friends with the bottom of a bottle of alcohol, it was no wonder. However, having been born and raised in Las Vegas money, among other things, was easy enough to come by in order to support Alice through school. Given she'd always had to do things for herself, even despite the fact that her father and mother both worked, but when you've lived for so long with no one but yourself you don't have to worry about regretting something you never had.

The only person who had ever seemed to care about Alice was her cousin, Natalie. It had never mattered that the girl was a year younger than Alice, or the fact that she'd been put up for adoption at birth, when it came to the bond between the two girls it wasn't a suprise that they had always been mistaken as sisters. Although, thanks to working all the time as a bartender in one of the more seedy establishments that make up the Vegas strip, she hasn't seen Natalie in about two years now, however Alice does still keep in touch.

[Gunneh]

Name: Thomas Erik LaBrie

Age: Nineteen

Gender: Male

Biography:
Being the youngest of the LaBrie brothers gave Thomas the option of being spoonfed a very nice taste of Easy Street, which he spurned from a very young age because of his high regards for his older brother, Maurizio. Thomas preferred to work for the things he got rather than have his parents pay for everything, which led to him taking on several different part time jobs as a teen.

Having just graduated from the local high school, Thomas is very unsure about what he wants to do with his life as of now, though he is very open to the idea of going into the music industry with Natalie and the once-a-trio-now-a-duo group of Autumnbringer.

[The Melancholy Spirit]

The Longest Year - A prelude to the present, following Maurizio. Optional read, if you don't want to, don't. If you do, do.

Spoiler:

[Attie]

Name:
Francesca "Seska" Bailey

Age:
Twenty-one

Gender:
Female

Biography:
Seska went to school at the same time Maurizio did, and although they'd never once spoken to each other in their life, and she was a grade beneath him, she knew of him, to say at the very least. And she knew of his gorgeous younger brother, as well, seeing the two together more often than she saw the older brother with anyone else. It always happened at one of those moments when she saw him walk by and began to wonder to herself what their lives must be like, and how they acted outside of such an educational environment, something that she doubted anyone else cared to know.

Since her own graduation, Seska had the idea to run away from home, not in the sense that she should leave her parents, but more in the sense that she would approach them, tell them that she needed to see the world through the eyes of someone who's life hadn't been planned out for them, and that she'd return when she was ready. She finally told them this on her twenty-first birthday, after she talked herself in to going on with her plans. Naturally, they were concerned for her well-being, but admired her new approach on life, giving her their consent so long as she promised to call once a month.

Seska had a car at one point, as it was her means of travel. Too bad it broke down somewhere along the road in Bangor. It was a piece of crap, anyway.

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