Post by CARMINE WHELKER on Feb 26, 2011 19:14:10 GMT -5
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[cs=3][atrb=style, width: 500px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px, bTable][atrb=style,background: #8d8974; border: 1px solid #372d22a; padding: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; -moz-box-shadow: -1px 1px 1px #888; -webkit-box-shadow: -1px 1px 1px #888] WHELKER, CARMINE, E. FULL NAME; Carmine Ermete Whelker ALIAS; In publications, Carmine uses the pen name C. Ermete Whelker. (He thinks Carmine is too feminine of a name for the public to associate him by.) AGE; twenty-five GENDER; male ORIENTATION; bisexual, prefers men. HOMETOWN; New York City BIRTH DATE; September 22nd GENETICS EYES; naturally violet-blue HAIR; naturally dark brown, dyed lime green. WEIGHT; 139 lbs. HEIGHT; 5'6" VOICE; Chris Patton (the male character's voice in this video) FACE CLAIM; loveless ; kio kaido ; carmine whelker DESCRIPTION; A.k.a. the kind of skinny, awkward body that the jocks used to prey on in high school. If it wasn't for his thinness, which somehow translated into decent sprinting ability, he would be far more traumatized with memories of bullying. Carmine has a long torso with thin, almost lanky arms and legs. He radiates boyish qualities such as a childlike eyes, a roundness to his face, and his choppy, long hair. All of these features make for a less-than-celebrated figure of masculinity for his Italian-American family. He doesn't even look Italian; he received most of the genes governing his looks from his American (English-Danish) mother. He looks like an exact masculine version of his mother, in fact. To top it off, Carmine dyed his hair green, pierced each of his ears seven times, and sports a couple of tattoos. His largest, two koi fish circling each other, representing ying and yang, stretches his upper back, and was bought right after he turned eighteen. The other tattoo coming from his more rebellious years is an open tome with the words "Tabula Rasa..." written, located on his lower right arm. Carmine's typical wardrobe consists of bright, interesting colors: orange-reds, powder blues, lime greens, golds, coffee browns, and pale yellow. He often wears turtlenecks, scholar jackets, jeans, capris, and dress shirts, and usually his clothing comes from vintage stores. As for shoes, he goes with loafers at home or out on a quick errand, and wears the ever-popular checkerboard Vans elsewhere (shuddup, he wore those before they became a trend). PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION LIKES; writing, reading, simplicity, honesty, Poptarts, sweaters, scarves, black coffee, Alice In Wonderland, Prokofiev, The Rolling Stones, theater, discovery, insects, black-and-white film (especially Casablanca), psychology, snow DISLIKES; posh people, being called a "hipster", mystery, lies, marriage and divorce, birds, PDA, babies, exercising, vegetables, teen pop music, flamboyance, aristocrats, indie music. STRENGTHS; fast when he puts his mind to it; mindful of deadlines; thoughtful. WEAKNESSES; allergy to birds; not very strong or athletic; overly prideful and defensive of his writing. QUIRKS; avoids hospitals, even if he's sick; incredibly intrigued by genus children; very easily startles, often resulting in spilled coffee. FEARS; marriage; a girlfriend/boyfriend who wants a child; breaking a false story and losing his journalism reputation (like in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo); abandonment. GOALS; earn a spot as journalist for the New York Times; break an amazing story on SHIFT and/or the genus children. PERSONALITY; If one sentence could describe Carmine, it would be: curiosity killed the cat - or will soon, anyway. Even from a young age, Carmine could never keep his nose out of everybody's business. He simply wants to know; mysteriousness irritates him to know end, and he often says as much to people who are very private. In short, he hates complications in the form of secrets, lies, and ambiguity. He's one of those people who wishes for constant truth: why can't just everybody be born honest? He understands the need to withdraw from exposure but hates that fact still. In a way, his thoughts are hypocritical: he's only as honest as the average person, maybe more straightforward, and he detests the idea of revealing his past to somebody. Still, he doesn't care; he knows all about his own life, it's just the lives of others that he wants to turn into a great newspaper story. He's so prying, in fact, that he often makes others nervous. It doesn't help that he carries a notepad and pen around and sometimes whips it out to jot down something suspicious. Coupled with his extravagant, brightly-colored appearance, he frequently puts people off - unintentionally, mind. Over the years, Carmine has had to make an effort to reveal his more down-to-earth interests to people in order to get them to talk. It's true: despite his love for books and escaping to some imaginary realm, he likes the simple things like coffee and Classical music, snow and "As Time Goes By" from Casablanca. His most complicated interest lies in psychology, which, as expected, he enjoys for its ability to unravel the motivations of others to him. In his personal life, Carmine's experienced a lot of emotionally-pressing matters, and he never really learned how to deal with them correctly. Instead, only now is he beginning to close the doors on past instances of bullying and issues of abandonment. He's always been a pretty nervous child, but his experiences stick with him in the form of an energetic anxiety and jumpiness. Instead of shrinking away from what makes him nervous, he barrels straight into it, hoping that by getting through it, he might leave his nervousness behind. Sometimes it works, but he often goes into those things with the wrong attitude, hoping for a quick fix. Strangely enough, in others areas of his life, Carmine exhibits patience and thoroughness, but it's when he's scared that he loses his grip, his orderliness. Otherwise, Carmine is generally a content person satisfied with his current life, though sometimes he reveals a very cynical streak. If one wanted to know whether he's a glass half-full or half-empty guy, he's probably more half-empty. He admits that he holds a pessimistic view on life, but he tries not to let it get in the way of living. Instead, he prefers to relax and not let the problems surrounding him get to him. CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINE CURRENT RESIDENCE; rented "Seashell" cottage within Wispy Copse Park in the second district. Pierce bums off of him in exchange for information for Carmine's genus/Shift stories. CURRENT OCCUPATION; journalist for the town's most popular newspaper, The Local. HISTORY; Carmine's father, Mr. Lavaggi, was born in Italy and moved to New York City for a new, very high-paying job. About one year later, he met Ms. Whelker at her book-binding business, and she soon became Mrs. Lavaggi. For a time, they debated having children, unsure if they could handle raising a child with Mr. Lavaggi's fickle and busy work schedule. In the end, they could not resist the pull of having their own little boy or girl, and thus Carmine was born. The family lived in a moderate-sized apartment in upper New York City and went to the park as often as they could. The problem was, Mr. Lavaggi was incredibly secretive in his personal life, even to the rest of his family. Mrs. Lavaggi seemed to turn a blind eye to his constant absence because she didn't want to get hurt. Carmine, on the other hand, noticed his father's mysteriousness, and asked questions about him over and over, demanding to see him. "Where is he, mom?" "Where does he work?" "How come he's never here?" Much to his frustration and sadness, his mother always declined to answer, instead saying, "Your father is a very busy man, sugar." When Carmine asked his father directly, he would only look down upon his son gravely, as if it pained him not to answer but did not pain him enough. When Carmine was six (and a half), his mother and father gathered together with their son in the living room. His father stood behind the couch, behind a barrier, from Carmine. His mother was the one to break the news to him that they were getting a divorce. Once Carmine learned what a divorce was, he felt devastated. He didn't know who to love and who to be with. After several months, the divorce settled, and Carmine was officially under his mother's care. The two reverted their last names to Whelker and continued to live in their apartment, minus one father figure. Every time Carmine encountered a secret, he instantly wanted to know it. Otherwise, the people holding the secret or the subject of the secret would vanish from his life. He worried constantly about people who were distant and private despising him in their hearts. But despite events otherwise, his childhood wasn't all too bad: Mrs. Whelker struggled as a single mother, yes, but she loved Carmine dearly, and Carmine was and will always be a momma's boy. At first, Mrs. Whelker started to do poorly economically, and then her book-binding business soared when she became partners with the local university. Plus, Carmine was surrounded by books and soon became an avid reader. Throughout middle school and high school, because of both Carmine's nosy and nervous personality, he ended up being subjected to a lot of bullying. Somehow, he survived by obsessing over the school's newspaper and gaining a few literary friends. It wasn't until he attended the university here on the west coast that things began to even out for him. Getting away from the city of childhood helped to distance him from some bad memories, and in college he met people similar to him in personality. He never thought much about romance, but in college he got in several relationships. After graduation and several small journalism jobs, he stumbled upon a job for editing for The Local, situated in the town where Shift supposedly set up base. At 24, Carmine accepted the position and moved once again, this time only two-hours time from the university to a small town. At his point, his entire life's focus changed. While working on the paper, he often dabbled into SHIFT and the genus children in small articles every now and then, but slowly, these human-animal experiments began to fascinate him. What eventually moved Carmine into focusing his journalism career on the subject was finding one Pierce Arisitdes bumming in his cabin. At first, Carmine reacted with irritation and fear to the man secretly using his extra bed, but then he caught Pierce shifting into his animal one day, and his negative outlook turned into an opportunistic one. Carmine let his stranger stay in his cabin in exchange for information for his articles. At times, Carmine could tell he annoyed Pierce with his prying nature, but somehow, over the course of a year, they have been become friends. Don't ask how or why. |
