Arthur Summers (588 views)

Arthur Wren Summers

Artie (Susan), Arty (Maxine), Uncle Artie/Arthur (Adelaide), Jackass (Chardonnay), Art. He himself isn’t fond of nicknames and just goes by Arthur. Online he’s got an alias, Alex, and the only reason he used that name is because when he was 11 and got involved with the internet, he was told never to put his real name online and it just stuck because he still talks to his internet friends.

Arthur’s 18, and his birthday is February 6th.

Business

He’s a business major, with a minor in acting. His grades are usually high, rarely lower than 3.0, and he’s working to improve that number in his later years.

Male

Pansexual

He works part-time at the local theater, which is run by Mr. Jason Carmichael. The theater is pretty popular among those interested in attending, because Mr. Carmichael puts a lot of care into running his business. Arthur’s boss had expressed interest in hiring him full time after he graduates and potentially working with him in the future when he found out Arthur was working towards a business degree.

Arthur’s probably best known for being the little brother of Susan Summers, one of the more popular (and easy) teachers from the High School. His temper made him plenty of enemies and so he tends to have more of them than he does friends. He’s very dedicated in his field of study, though, and among the business students, his reputation is significantly better than it is outside of those courses. At the last dance he won homecoming king (somehow) with Mallory Abbot as his queen, but the gossip about that quickly faded because he and Mal never really talked again after that.

When he was in High School Amy started the rumor about he and Chardonnay. They first met in the forest and got on each other’s nerves, especially when they were lost together. Then they were locked in a gym closet until morning and Amy caught them. After that she spread rumors they were hooking up. The rumors died down until recently, when Amy got a video of the two of them making out at a party. Now, a significant part of his reputation is Chardonnay, even though they aren’t anything to one another except a mistake.

He’s closest to his fellow business students though no one in his classes is someone who he’d really talk to outside of classwork related things.

His boss, Mr. Jason Carmichael, can also be considered somewhat of a friend, though their relationship is that of an employee and their superior. When he was first hired Arthur respected Mr. Carmichael because he ran the entire business himself, and they got along right away. With the way that Mr. Carmichael treats him, sometimes it’s as though he sees Arthur as a son. So their relationship isn’t strictly business, but it was founded on that.

Arthur’s suitemate, Chad, gets on his nerves because Chad’s a pretty boy player who always brings girls to the suite, and sleeps with them, loudly, inconveniencing the entire suite. It’s something that Arthur is unfortunately used to by now, but hates nevertheless. Chad likes to tease him often too and that just makes it worse. Chad’s friends (Keegan, Shyanne, the ‘popular’ crowd, ect.) all get on his nerves too though Arthur rarely speaks to them.

Among Chad’s long list of sexual partners, there’s a few who stand out and one of them is Maxine. She’s very loud and very promiscuous and likes to tease Arthur with angers him – with her constantly hitting on him he usually gets so flustered he can’t rebuttal her taunts and Chad always encourages it. Of the three suitemates, Arthur’s the most outspoken about his dislike for Chad bringing girls over, and so whenever Maxine happens to be there in the morning he always confronts her. Arthur thinks she’s just some fun-loving bitch who likes to make other people miserable (and sexually harass them by forcing them to touch her boobs) and can’t wait for the day Chad dumps her ass. In a similar position is Lola, another flirtation buddy of Chad’s and a friend of Maxine’s, and since she’s acquainted with both of them he already dislikes her.

Arthur and Chardonnay have been rivals for years, ever since they were juniors in High School and forced to go into the woods for a project, subsequently getting lost. After that they got locked in the gym closet all night and Amy spread rumors about them, rumors that worsened by their freshman year when they would up making out at a party. Chardonnay has always gotten on Arthur’s nerves because she reminds him of the assholes who used to bully him and call Susan a slut when he was a kid – the people who never had to work for anything, the people who just took their parents money and used it for their advantage. Her unwavering confidence drives him crazy, too, and that’s something about her that he envies though he’d never admit that out loud. He hates to see human sides to her, and intelligent sides to her, because it goes against the image of her he has in his head as just some airheaded bitch who relies on her daddy’s money for everything. Loathe as he is to admit it, it both impresses and fascinates him when she defies the beliefs he has of her... even though he’s not happy to be wrong.

Single. Though he does have a bit of a crush on his teacher, Dr. Coxx, but that’s only because he finds the guy really attractive for some reason. A huge damper on this, though, is that Susan totally admitted to him that she finds him attractive, too, and he’s openly hit on Susan before. So just because he appreciates the guy’s aesthetics when he’s sitting in class doesn’t mean he really likes to see him outside of it.

He’s constantly paired up with Chardonnay, and that pisses him off to no end. She’s not his type at all, he insists, and though he begrudgingly has to admit to himself that he finds her attractive, he’s too off put by her personality and the matchmaking will of Amy to ever consider it. Plus, he’s pretty sure they’d kill each other before ever loving one another.

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5’5”. He’s pretty small in stature but he’s stronger than he looks. While he was never trained in fighting or really a big contender in bar fights, he did grow up as a victim of bullying and he didn’t take it sitting down. When he gets violent, he tends to just lash out with little concern for his body’s state. He also tends to forget to eat a lot, which keeps him skinny despite the fact that most of the meals he winds up eating are microwavable, cheap, and questionable in quality.

Arthur’s hair is black and short. He usually combs it in the morning but sometimes he forgets – he only really puts forth a lot of effort into making it look neat when he has a business presentation that day. He doesn’t like to grow out facial hair, either, so he usually shaves every morning. Occasionally, he’ll slack off and let it grow for about a week before he starts to feel scruffy.

Dark blue. They look bluer when he wears blue, and closer to black when he wears dark clothes.

’Hipster’ fashion. He’s very fond of plaid, and owns a pair of fake glasses that he likes to wear as an accessory. Often when he’s nervous or wants to hide his face he’ll wear the glasses to hide behind.

He’s short compared to most guys his age, and his ears are pierced. His eyebrows are also pretty thick, and his expression’s almost always a ‘resting bitch face’. He flushes very easily, and when he’s embarrassed his ears and cheeks go bright red.

Brazilian-American

Vini Uehara

Anime/manga, media/movies, plaid, blogging, playing stupid matching games on his phone, singing (though he’s very shy about his voice), business presentations (he tends to know what he’s doing, and likes to come across as confident), video games, smoking, mathematics, glasses, old pop music (The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, ect, he was raised on that), driving, kids, vocaloids,

Being hit on/flirted with, overhearing sexual situations (happens a lot, thanks to Chad), being forced together with Chardonnay, pickles, writing (he’s never been a good writer), performing in plays, fancy devices (he’s still getting used to his iPhone), MACs (he’s a PC guy), being short, country music, surprises,

Arthur’s addicted to cigarettes and, though he’s cut back significantly when Susan found out, he can’t quit even though he says he can quit any time he wants to. He also has a habit of rubbing the back of his neck and forgetting how words work when he’s nervous. He tends to hide behind his face-obscuring ‘hipster glasses’.

If he’s stressed out, Arthur tends to smoke a lot more than he usually does (typically he only smokes one cigarette a day). He also tends to budget when under intense stress. Having a handle and grasp on his finances helps to make him feel better, as does the solidarity of solving a math equation.

Playing video games,

Intelligent, protective, loyal, stubborn, opinionated, honest/blunt, perfectionist, hard worker, dedicated, family oriented, empathetic, sweet/kindhearted (underneath the grumpiness), generous, frugal, ambitious, reliable/trustworthy,

Overprotective, hotheaded, aggressive, confrontational, judgmental, workaholic, stingy, grumpy, prudish (depending on the situation, though), bashful/shy, low self-esteem, awkward, cheap, easily flustered/embarrassed

Binghamton, New York.

Arthur and Susan both drive a 2002 Volkswagen that has seen better days. Arthur likes to drive so he’s the one who uses the car most often even though it’s legally in Susan’s name. He takes the car to and from work, and also usually drives for Susan when she needs to go long distances.

Arthur was barely a toddler when his parents died, leaving him in the care of his 18 year old sister. She was faced with a difficult choice – give Arthur up to the foster system, or attempt to raise him herself. They had no aunts or uncles who could raise a baby, so it was up to her. Not willing to lose the only family she still had, Susan decided to raise Arthur herself. Out of sympathy, the landlord allowed the siblings to stay for half the rent their parents were paying. But, unfortunately, a year later they got kicked out because the landlord couldn’t afford to keep housing them. Susan took this surprisingly well and moved herself and her brother to a cheaper apartment in Binghamton. It was cheap, and only had one bedroom, but it worked.

So Arthur grew up in a very slummy neighborhood. The school he went to was nice, though, and a lot of rich kids attended it. He was always small for his age and got picked on a lot. Most of his bullies were snobby brats. The teasing grew worse when, as Arthur got older, he realized his sister was letting him use the only bed in the apartment and couldn’t afford to clothe him in new things all the time. Arthur wound up wearing the same sweatshirt and jeans to school most of the time and the bullying got worse. He grew antisocial after that, and started to get violent. He picked fights and got sent to the principal’s office often, and soon they had to call Susan. She was infuriated to hear that, but Arthur never told her he was being picked on. He always won the fights, anyway, so he lied to her and said he just liked to pick fights. However Susan lectured him something fierce afterwards and, not wanting to make more trouble for his sister, he stopped fighting. The bullying got worse but he just took it. In the long term, the bullying is what led to his low self-esteem. They’d make fun of him for never being good enough and he felt like that was a projection of Susan – he was dragging her down, if he was never born, she wouldn’t have to spend her money on food for him and clothes. He stopped eating when Susan didn’t force him to, to save money by keeping food in the house. Susan was naïve enough not to question his daily meal intake.

When Arthur hit middle school Susan got a better job as a secretary, and she tried to spend all of their money right away. However he was more conscious of money than her (ironic, given his age) and had to talk her out of buying things they really didn’t need. The bullies were just as bad as they were in elementary school in middle, maybe even worse, but he numbed himself out to it. It wasn’t until his classmates brought up how his mother must have been some gutter-slut that he snapped and got violent again, stronger than before, getting in trouble again. After that he got lectured by Susan again but that didn’t stop him from picking fights with his classmates, most of whom were scared of him by that point. Whatever. He started to grit his teeth when his teachers threatened suspension for bad behavior, though, and he took the verbal abuse, not wanting to cause trouble for his sister.

He was 13 when Susan started dating again. That was the only time he ever wasted money – but he wasted only the money of the men Susan brought to meet him. He never liked any of them and was sure that they were all just using Susan and wanted someone to fool around with until a richer girl came along, and he knew how people-oriented and sweet Susan was, so she was a prime victim. Arthur was downright awful to the first two and spent them dry until Susan told him off, after that he became much more passive aggressive towards her boyfriends, wasting their money, sending them dark looks, ignoring their attempts at friendly conversation. Eventually Susan just stopped introducing Arthur to her boyfriends (though he was under the impression she’d stopped dating). He developed an overprotective brother complex.

Susan learned he’d never warm up to any man she introduced so she stopped, and decided only to introduce him to someone she became extremely serious about.

He was 14 when he first started smoking – getting the cigarettes from his neighbor, who was 18 and a horrible influence. But while Susan was out at work she’d asked him to help watch her brother after he got home from school and, well, his ‘watching’ really left something to be desired. He went to the guy’s apartment every day and smoked there. Because Susan knew that their neighbor smoked, she didn’t suspect anything when she smelled smoke on her brother. He kept this hidden from Susan easily – too easily, almost – and his neighbor really didn’t care one way or another.

Arthur got his first job at 15, as a bagger for a grocery store. It wasn’t much but it added money to the household and Susan was able to finish her online teaching degree that year, too. She started to look around for jobs, but didn’t find anything until she discovered Metric. It was very far away, all the way in California, but the headmaster really liked her resume and was interested in hiring her. She had a problem, though – her brother had to come with her. She extended the idea to him and he submitted an application for acting. Though he had little interest in the field he faked it so that Susan would take the job. Then they packed up their things and flew to California, where Susan began to teach and Arthur enrolled in the school as a student. She got an apartment off campus and, despite his protests against it, Arthur was given a dorm at the high school.

Even though none of his bullies were at Metric, Arthur saw them in everyone. They were all rich, spoiled, egotistical... he hated them without giving it much thought and whenever students badmouthed Susan or even gossiped about her, he snapped at them, almost getting physical a few times before Susan found out and gave Arthur another lecture. He tried to quiet down but his reputation had already formed, and he had more people who disliked him than people who did. He didn’t care very much about his acting classes, but he did well anyway to not lose his position in the school. Rumors spread about him and a classmate, Chardonnay, who he immediately butt heads with after they got lost in the woods during a project.

He got a part time job at the grocery store in Salem for a while, but hated it. He only got that job so that he could buy cigarettes again. Without his neighbor, he needed money to get them, and he wasn’t about to ask Susan. He was 16, almost 17 when he applied for a job at the local theater, and got in. Immediately he liked his boss, who was friendly and a self-made business owner. Hearing Mr. Carmichael’s stories gave Arthur ambition he didn’t have before, though he didn’t know what for at that time.

He was 16 and entering his junior year of High School when Adelaide was born. Though unhappy about it, Arthur helped his sister raise the baby. He was scared he’d be replaced by her, but over time Adelaide grew on him, too.

When he was 18, Susan discovered his smoking habit. When he was moving back to his sister’s apartment after he graduated High School, she was helping him and stumbled across a half-smoked package of cigarettes. She was livid and screamed at him, not caring that his housemates were there and could hear. It was the first serious fight that Susan and Arthur had had in a long time, and it ended with her bolting out of the house and him staying an extra night in the dorm, smoking the rest of his cigarettes due to stress (even though that was the reason the problem existed in the first place). He realized how finding out he smoked must have hurt Susan and went to her apartment the next day to apologize. He could tell she’d been crying all night, and she begged him to stop smoking and that was when he started to cut back – but he hasn’t quit, nor has he actually tried to. He doesn’t want Susan or Adelaide to see him smoking, but he doesn’t want to stop, he can’t stop. So he’s taken to hiding it from them and just never mentioning that he does it. He feels guilty about it, especially when Susan cringes every time she sees a smoker in public, but he just can’t force himself to quit. It’s actually a serious problem, but he refuses to acknowledge it.

The August before this academic year started, Arthur found himself involved in a hostage situation. That moment was terrifying for him and he got shot in the leg, resulting in a trip to the hospital and a limp for the first half of the semester. He still has the scar on his knee, and he still has nightmares about what happened every so often. He had a gun pressed to his head, he got shot in the leg, he saw Chad with a gun in his mouth and Chardonnay with a gun to her back. It’s impossible for him to forget and when he does have nightmares, he usually unwinds with a cigarette and a cup of hot chocolate.

He entered the college and declared his major as business. That ambition he felt when he talked to his boss was the desire to get into the business field. When he mentioned he was entering that field, his boss was impressed and said that if that was the case, then he might be willing to sell Arthur the theater someday. He’d extremely dedicated to his field and, even if the theater falls through, he knows he wants to own a business someday.

• Vini has tattoos, but Arthur doesn’t, so just ignore them in the pictures where you can see them. However he does have the piercings on his ears. Because I say so.
• Even though he tends to dislike most people, Arthur can’t really leave someone alone who needs help. No matter how much he hates a person, he’s very empathetic. When he sees people struggling in a serious situation, he’s reminded of his sister, about how she struggled for so much of her life, and how most of it was because he was so dependent on her as a kid. So even if it forces him to go out of his way, he’ll help the person out.
• Part of the reason that Arthur’s so paranoid about money and having money saved up is because of what happened with his parents. They didn’t have any money put away in case of emergency and so Susan had to scramble to make ends meet for a while. Arthur doesn’t like to be caught unprepared, especially about money, so making sure he knows his budget like the back of his hand gives him comfort.
• The song lyrics are from Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been by Relient K.