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Enter boarding school in sunny Malibu, California. This, my friends, is why the place was called Paradise Cove in the first place!
Setting
Location: Malibu, CA Month: September Year: 2007 Days: Sat 15/09 - Fri 21/09
Weather: Hot hot hot Events: Start of Year Celebration: Japanese Garden Party!
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Group: Headmaster
Posts: 3
Member No.: 21
Joined: 7-August 07
[ > Member Information < ] Name/Alias: Cori Age: 19 Gender: Male Contact Info: KashTheKwik@gmail.com Experience: Nine years. How You Found Us: Recommended to a friend. Code?: -<3-
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Character Full Name: Digger Graves Character Nicknames: Digs, Graves. Character Age and Grade: Forty and long since out of school. Character Date of Birth: December 13th Character Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Financial Status: Moderately wealthy. Just the sort that never considers flaunting it. Member Title: Mephistopheles In A Tie
[ > Character Appearance < ] Character Hair: Dark brunette, blonde streaks Character Eyes: Blue Character Height: 6’1” Character Weight: 180 lbs. Character Build: Well built man, the type the gym has done well with. Celebrity Model Claim: Daniel Craig
Summary: Headmaster Graves is said to have had the look of a businessman from the seventh level of hell since he was a teenager. His facial features are rugged and his nose and chin look like the type of thing you could cut stone on. His eyes are an ill sapphire, piercing and derisive. He has a hard brow, creasing like every normal man yet it seems as though any and every way he looks gives the appearance of unmoving rock.
His body under those suits belie years of working out as a hobby, his arms a pair of sinewy pistons that are well defined enough to break a few necks. Going past the shoulders one sees a Spartan in his final years of service to the army, little knobs of muscle in places that would be deemed attractive one would guess. He has a particular bracelet he usually wears on his left wrist, which holds a charm in the shape of a heart, obviously a locket. The clasp appears broken and the locket is empty.
[ > Character Personality < ] Character Likes: -Strong liquor -Women -Younger Women -Philosophy -Grecian Literature -Italian Literature -TRUE English Literature -French Food -German Food -Italian Food -Old Gangster Flicks -Jazz Music -Medieval Weaponry -Communism -Homosexual Men [Less Competition] -Cigars
Character Dislikes: -Laziness -High Society -Family Values (Believes them as a lie) -Animals -Non-Alcoholic Beer? -Republicans -Democrats
Character Fears/Phobias: -To Be Eventually Found For Murders -To Be Eventually Found For ‘Other Crimes’ -Aging -Being homeless -Being jobless -Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings
Character Habits/Quirks: -Flirtatious -Nervous Twitch -Angry Twitch
Summary: A strange case of mind, Graves has a bit of a paradox going about. He enjoys many things that are connected to high society, especially in the lofty tastes of food, but he hates those who flaunt their wealth. Perhaps he sees every last one of them as people who need to be taken down by a peg or three, thus giving him the want of supervising the children of those who flaunt.
Likewise, a man who would never wish to be homeless, or jobless must love his position in life, so why would he ever look down upon those of high social status, who could really fear the same thing as himself. It is possible that he more then likely feels a staunchness in the position he is in. Content with sitting in the middle, where there are all those who want no more money, right in between the rich who want to be richer and the rich who desperately wish to get rid of it all.
His lust for women, especially for younger women comes from a love of control. In the time he had killed during his days as a young man, he had total control of the situation in his mind. In his heart of hearts, he believed that he had utter control of the situation, and he had his hand on everything. He believes its the same with younger women. They always seem to fall to him, to give themselves to him. In his view, younger women (and even men, for colleagues of his who merely want to be mistresses) are inexperienced, wanting to feel the rough touch of the older generation. Who is Digger to deny them that experience... Whether they want accept it, or not.
Though he does his best at hiding his personal demons, Digger has his skeletons hanging on him at all times. Ever since the murdered he'd committed, he has waited nearly day and night to finally be struck in vengeance for it, full expectancy of karma to pay him back a thousand-fold.
Also a staunch drinker, the years of imbibing alcohol and smoking cigars seemed to have given him a twitch when obviously upset, and angered. He has a strange concept of government and being a well read man, he believes that Communism was the best government around. It’s quite obvious that his affirmed love for women connects to his flirtatious side and furthermore, his friendliness towards homosexual men.
Summary: Born to a doctor and a seismologist in Pittsburgh, Digger was given his name from his father, whose own father was a miner. Digger, whether because of his name or family’s history, became a miner at an early age. Seeing as how the mine could always use a strong back for what needed to be done, Digger Graves was a welcome asset. What kept him from this life forever and eventually becoming a headmaster for a well-to-do boarding school was a particular night where he was piss drunk.
Cedric Jean was always the first for everything, in Digger’s opinion. Cedric had it all and for no reason. At the very moment, both young men were being considered for a very lofty scholarship towards Yale. Though Graves had a higher G.P.A., was a Power Forward for the basketball team, a starter for the Debate Team, a half-back for Football, and an Alto for the School’s Chorus, he could not compete with Cedric’s family and their numerous connections throughout the town and well in other states.
Hateful of Cedric, Graves donned a mask and waited outside of one of Cedric’s favorite haunts. A chloroform nap and a push into the river later, it was soon released to the city that Cedric had committed suicide, and all signs pointed to an abusive father, a mother who was never there for him, and a hateful younger sister who never had a good relationship with her older brother.
Digger took the scholarship with ease, his competition out of the way (also making sure to shag Cedric’s younger sister a few times for good measure). He did find out however that Cedric’s sister soon became pregnant, and that stood as a serious derailment of his plans, especially if it was found out that he was the father.
So he simply set up the rest of the Jean family, and it appeared as Cedric’s father had merely gone off the deep end, raped his own daughter, killed her, killed his wife, then hung himself. Digger was really just lucky that everyone hated the Jean family as much as him, or else the police might have actually put some effort into finding out who had murdered the family. Though to this day, it is wondered where the locket that Mr. Jean gave Mrs. Jean is…
None the less, Digger moved towards his teaching education in Yale, leaving a mother and father he had grown tired of anyway. He put money into stocks, making very good guesses that put him into a moderate wealthiness. After graduating from Yale, he took a position in an unnamed high school as an assistant principal for a few years, saved his money, took a trip or two to Europe. At this point, he was living the life of Riley, till he heard of a particular boarding school in need of a principal…
Other Medical Conditions:
-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Any Additional Info: N/A
Roleplay Sample:
Slowly Headmaster Graves paced back and forth in his office, wearing a pinstripe suit of black and ivory, a silk red tie whipping off it’s inert place of the center of his chest.
“Listen to me you melodious pervert. I do not care what your problem is, what I need from you is to realize that just for a moment, just for a moment, that no one does care. If you only realized for a moment that your deficiencies in life outweigh the little good you might have possibly done in your abused existence… You would commit suicide right…”
He paused.
“Now.”
The phone clicked as the person on the other line hung up and he smiled. Digger took out a cigar and lit it with a gold lighter from his pocket, taking a long puff. He dropped his cell phone.
Hii! Welcome to the board, we all adore you now. You have no idea how much I’ve been wanting a Headmaster Graves <3. Last time we played this plot, he was old and played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, teehee. This should put a definitely cool twist on it =)
Anyway, I shall crit your application, if it needs it… hang on whilst I finish re-reading it =)
Digger Graves, I love that, hehe
Personality: Could you just do me a favour and add a teensy bit more about his fears and his adoration of “younger women”?
Honestly, that’s all I see that I would add on,and wouldn’t change anything. I adore your writing style and the history is a little overall vague, but that’s a good thing in the case of this particular character.
Okay, I'll change it to Digger Graves... um, I also started a thread in the Principal's office if you'll check it out [some plot stuff, I'll pm you the password to the Plot Discussion forum]