Post by Laurent Vanderbilt on Apr 22, 2024 19:45:35 GMT
LAURENT H. VANDERBILT iii
NAME laurent henry vanderbilt the third | AGE twenty-one years old |
OCCUPATION breeder | HOMETOWN redshore town, shula |
GENDER/SEXUALITY cis man + bisexual | PLAYED BY nic |
PERSONALITY
POSITIVE TRAITS: • robust imagination • well educated • appreciates tradition • social butterfly • passionate about hobbies Ren is a bit of everything. He's educated, athletic, and enjoys speculative fiction deeply. Being such a well rounded individual, he's pretty easy to get along with and tends to make friends easily. | NEGATIVE TRAITS: • dramatic • arrogant • snobbish • unable to tolerate being excluded • embarrassed of nerdiness Due to his width of knowledge, it is difficult for Ren to recognize his limits in this. Additionally, he has a very strict idea of how he ought to appear to others and loathes to show a side of himself he didn't intend to. |
LIKES • equestrian sports • dark chocolate • traveling and expensive holidays • parties • larping and cosplaying | DISLIKES: • ghosts and dragons • meat on the bone • slow internet • lecture classes • people knowing it's him beneath the costumes |
POKEMON
Full randomized starter, please!
Full randomized starter, please!
APPEARANCE
Ren doesn’t tolerate visible branding on his clothes. He wears nice things—very nice things. The most he’ll tolerate for a logo might be an accent on a bag or tastefully embossed jewelry. Logomania is not his style and in general, his style tends to be understated, near monochromatic looks. Unless he’s in costume for a LARP or cosplay. In that case, he’s showing off exactly how much of a patron of the arts he is.
All of this makes his inexplicable choice to bleach the under half of his hair all the more baffling. His hair is naturally a very dark brown. It’s a few shades lighter than his eyes. On the note of his hair, it’s kept in locs. He’s been growing his for years and is quite proud of them. For formal occasions, it’s all pulled back from his face in a neat, low ponytail.
Standing at five feet and ten inches tall, Ren is built like… Well, what he is: a spoiled heir with more time and money than stress or need. His skin is glass-clear and his physique is mostly for vanity. Except for his skill in equestrian sports and maybe some fancy footwork for choreography, there’s no practical strength.
He has a solid jaw and a flattish nose. His eyes are a little droopy, but they’re large and expressive all the same. His brows are thick and dark.
… Oh, yeah. There’s a tattoo referencing the Timegate Traveler movies on his chest, especially the second film Pokemon Planet. Other than that, he has no piercings or other tattoos.
All of this makes his inexplicable choice to bleach the under half of his hair all the more baffling. His hair is naturally a very dark brown. It’s a few shades lighter than his eyes. On the note of his hair, it’s kept in locs. He’s been growing his for years and is quite proud of them. For formal occasions, it’s all pulled back from his face in a neat, low ponytail.
Standing at five feet and ten inches tall, Ren is built like… Well, what he is: a spoiled heir with more time and money than stress or need. His skin is glass-clear and his physique is mostly for vanity. Except for his skill in equestrian sports and maybe some fancy footwork for choreography, there’s no practical strength.
He has a solid jaw and a flattish nose. His eyes are a little droopy, but they’re large and expressive all the same. His brows are thick and dark.
… Oh, yeah. There’s a tattoo referencing the Timegate Traveler movies on his chest, especially the second film Pokemon Planet. Other than that, he has no piercings or other tattoos.
HISTORY
Laurent H. Vanderbilt II controlled the mighty Vanderbilt dynasty. This dynasty was a collection of companies focused in the cultivation of apricorn trees, the distribution of apricorns and their productions, and the development of non-standard pokeballs. He took for himself a wife: Mojisola of the Ihejirika family, known for their connections to the battle items industry.
Now, for another story, this might be the time to discuss the evils of monopoly and nepotism. For this story, it leads us to another topic: the birth of Ren.
From the moment he entered the world, Ren was set up for luxury and leisure. Though his father was often busy with his many business affairs and his mother pursued her own interests as an influential socialite, he was hardly neglected. His family made as much time for him as they could and he was well attended to by staff.
The only bad aspect he recalls of his childhood is that the mansion he grew up in was positively haunted. There was evidence all his childhood. Claw marks on curtains and walls, things moved from where they’d been last left, and the worried, hushed whispers of adults when they thought he was out of earshot.
What sealed the matter was his father’s insistence that the horrible thing lurking in the home would soon be delivered somewhere else that it could be tamed.
This drove Ren to develop a secret fascination with the occult… And, those who drove it back. Every story of knights slaying dragons or heroes banishing evil became a promise from the story to him that his house, too, could be cleansed of the wretchedness within it. The fascination began as a secret due to Ren’s worry that thinking too much of the evil that lurked in his home during the terrifying nights would lure it to him; it ended in yet more privacy due to his peer’s teasing.
At some point, the haunting of the house ceased. Ren’s interest in the supernatural did not. He made friends online with similar interests. They got him into games similar to his stories and one thing led to another which ended him developing quite the reputation in fandom circles. Game masters paid handsomely to run campaigns on his schedule, artists well-supplied to make the illustrations and wearables he desired, and even online friends flown out to meet him for conventions.
Ren was a very spoiled teenager. And, he grew into a very spoiled man. When he graduated high school, he attended university for business. He had the family affairs to keep up with! Though, he took gap semesters a plenty. He’d picked up equestrianism to supplement his nerdier hobbies and had joined a polo team to help justify to his father the expense of a pokemon fit for riding.
(Best not let his father know he dreams of being a period piece actor rather than a strict businessman.)
In the midst of all of that, things occurred in Shula. Gijinka became publicly known. They become the object of some small obsession for him. They were almost straight out of the fantasies he’d dreamed of all his life. The pity was, for some reason, Ren’s father was determined not to have the man come home from his studying abroad this time.
Nevermind that he was finally close to graduating or that his father was always complaining about how Ren hardly wanted to do anything except party and play sports. For some reason, the man did not want Ren returning to Shula to get involved in the community.
But, what could the harm be? Ren just wants to make a few gijinka friends; it’ll be like gaining unusual party members in his video games. His father’ll forgive him for going against his wishes. … Right?
Now, for another story, this might be the time to discuss the evils of monopoly and nepotism. For this story, it leads us to another topic: the birth of Ren.
From the moment he entered the world, Ren was set up for luxury and leisure. Though his father was often busy with his many business affairs and his mother pursued her own interests as an influential socialite, he was hardly neglected. His family made as much time for him as they could and he was well attended to by staff.
The only bad aspect he recalls of his childhood is that the mansion he grew up in was positively haunted. There was evidence all his childhood. Claw marks on curtains and walls, things moved from where they’d been last left, and the worried, hushed whispers of adults when they thought he was out of earshot.
What sealed the matter was his father’s insistence that the horrible thing lurking in the home would soon be delivered somewhere else that it could be tamed.
This drove Ren to develop a secret fascination with the occult… And, those who drove it back. Every story of knights slaying dragons or heroes banishing evil became a promise from the story to him that his house, too, could be cleansed of the wretchedness within it. The fascination began as a secret due to Ren’s worry that thinking too much of the evil that lurked in his home during the terrifying nights would lure it to him; it ended in yet more privacy due to his peer’s teasing.
At some point, the haunting of the house ceased. Ren’s interest in the supernatural did not. He made friends online with similar interests. They got him into games similar to his stories and one thing led to another which ended him developing quite the reputation in fandom circles. Game masters paid handsomely to run campaigns on his schedule, artists well-supplied to make the illustrations and wearables he desired, and even online friends flown out to meet him for conventions.
Ren was a very spoiled teenager. And, he grew into a very spoiled man. When he graduated high school, he attended university for business. He had the family affairs to keep up with! Though, he took gap semesters a plenty. He’d picked up equestrianism to supplement his nerdier hobbies and had joined a polo team to help justify to his father the expense of a pokemon fit for riding.
(Best not let his father know he dreams of being a period piece actor rather than a strict businessman.)
In the midst of all of that, things occurred in Shula. Gijinka became publicly known. They become the object of some small obsession for him. They were almost straight out of the fantasies he’d dreamed of all his life. The pity was, for some reason, Ren’s father was determined not to have the man come home from his studying abroad this time.
Nevermind that he was finally close to graduating or that his father was always complaining about how Ren hardly wanted to do anything except party and play sports. For some reason, the man did not want Ren returning to Shula to get involved in the community.
But, what could the harm be? Ren just wants to make a few gijinka friends; it’ll be like gaining unusual party members in his video games. His father’ll forgive him for going against his wishes. … Right?
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