Post by Kenzie on Jul 5, 2016 0:26:09 GMT -5
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Name ||
Lennox Alyn Richardson
Nicknames/Aliases ||
Lennox, Len, Knox.
Age ||
36. His birthday is July 14th.
Job ||
He has two jobs. His first job is part-time at the Mechanics shop, his second job is as a bartender at the sketchy bar. Of the two jobs, his second one barely gives him any hours and he rarely gets good tips because he’s not a hot girl, which is why he got the second job which pays much better.
Gender ||
Male
Sexuality ||
Pansexual
Health Issues ||
He’s got severe depression and self-harms; that’s why he owns so much foundation so that he can hide the scars when he goes to work. Often he wears long sleeves, but he likes the makeup just in case. He also has bipolar disorder and bounces between periods of high where he feels like he can do anything and take many risks and lows where he can’t sleep or eat and feels the intense urge to self-harm. He’s on/off his medication and sometimes he’ll sell his medicine for a quick buck instead of actually take it himself.
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Reputation ||
Lennox is not known for being involved with the good crowd. Ever since he was young he was involved with the problematic folks and that was no different when he moved to Salem. He’s been addicted to drugs (most specifically weed) since he was a teenager and actively smokes and distributes the plant. He’ll sell it to kids who are underage if they pay him enough and he knows he can get away of it. Some people go to him for pot, which he grows in his apartment. He’s a dealer and loves to drink. The way he looks at it, he doesn’t care if he’s ‘corrupting’ kids. If kids come to him wanting meth or pot or alcohol, he figures they’re already corrupted and he’s just doing them a favor. They’re the ones who looked for him in the first place.
Friends ||
Fletcher Willoughby, they work at the same Mechanic’s shop and are roommates.
Enemies/Rivals
While he doesn’t consider him an enemy, Lennox knows that Chad dislikes him and as a result, he usually avoids him. In fact, Chad doesn’t even know Lennox is in Salem and he plans to keep it that way.
Relationship Status ||
Complicated... very complicated.
Home ||
Lennox lives in a two-bedroom apartment with Fletcher Willoughby, and splits the rent with him. He moved in a few months ago and is just getting settled. It works out pretty well, because he can carpool with Fletcher to work. As well as that, Lennox can also get high/stoned/throw parties with Fletcher whenever he wants. It’s not the best place and it’s very cheap, and the landlord is never around, but that works out in Lennox and Fletcher’s favor. His bedroom is the smaller one, and he grows pot in his room. His room is filthy and covered in dirt and perpetually smells like weed.
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Height/Weight/Body Type ||
5’10”, he’s not stocky and is pretty thin. He’s strong but not as strong as he once was. His body does not take well to the drugs he constantly inserts into it and he is past his prime. While he isn’t necessarily bad looking, he is sketchy looking, and many people immediately label him a crackhead.
Hair color/style ||
Dirty blond, only washed for his job at the bar.
Eye color/makeup preferences ||
Brown, he actually wears foundation quite often to his waiting job to cover bruises, bags, and scars on his body that he doesn’t want customers to see.
Clothing Style ||
Lennox often just wears whatever he finds at the thrift store or on discount at wal-mart. Typically he wears plaid and is fond of the color red. He likes to wear baggy sweatshirts and long-sleeved shirts to hide the scars.
Notable Traits ||
Often he gets told he looked jaded or tired, due to the thick bags under his eyes and the wrinkles on his skin and face. He rarely looks alert and often looks drowsy or high.
Ethnicity ||
Caucasian
Playby ||
Jesse C. Boyd
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Likes ||
Smoking, drinking, pills, soda (specifically cherry coke), reading (he’s actually very well-read and owns several books), iced coffee, holidays, skipping responsibility when eh can help it,
Dislikes ||
himself, TV ads, guilt, thinking too much (hence why he’s often high or drunk), being responsible, driving, kids, being fake/having to put on an act, his pills (often he blames them for his mood swings when in fact if he regularly took them, they would help him), being talked to like he’s a child
Nervous Habits ||
Chewing on his cheek
Hobbies ||
Reading; he’ll read anything he can get his hands on.
Positive Traits ||
Hard working, fast-paced, always busy, genuine
Negative Traits ||
Dependent, finicky, prefers the easy way out, volatile/violent, short tempered, aggressive, forgetful, bad tester, unreliable,
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Family ||
Margot Richardson – Mother – Deceased || Lennox’s mother was a kind woman who he remembers most fondly through the sugar cookies she would bake. In the kitchen, Lennox would help her and that was one place he didn’t feel so useless. But he can also still remember the look of horror on her face when he brandished a knife at Geoffrey. One of his biggest regrets is not knowing she died and not being able to go to her funeral.
Michael Richardson – Father – Deceased || Lennox never was good enough for his father. He never abused him or raised a hand to him, but Lennox knew he was never good enough for him. While he was provided with all of the same opportunities as Geoffrey was, Lennox never prospered. He was dumber than his brother, more volatile than his brother, and more moody than his brother. Constantly he would be compared to his brother and that led to Lennox’s low self-esteem and hidden distain for his brother.
Geoffrey Richardson – Brother – 40 – Billionaire Software Designer || Though Lennox was always jealous of Geoffrey, he never actually hated him. He wanted to be Geoffrey, and when he realized he couldn’t, he lost his temper, which resulted in him slashing him in the arm when he was 17. Despite the fact that Lennox tried to apologize Geoffrey wasn’t having it – and didn’t believe in the legitimacy of his brother’s mental illness – and Lennox knows Geoffrey just believes Lennox hates him.
Chad Richardson – Nephew – 19 – Student || While he’s never met Chad, Lennox knows what he looks like. He’s seen pictures.
Michael Richardson – Father – Deceased || Lennox never was good enough for his father. He never abused him or raised a hand to him, but Lennox knew he was never good enough for him. While he was provided with all of the same opportunities as Geoffrey was, Lennox never prospered. He was dumber than his brother, more volatile than his brother, and more moody than his brother. Constantly he would be compared to his brother and that led to Lennox’s low self-esteem and hidden distain for his brother.
Geoffrey Richardson – Brother – 40 – Billionaire Software Designer || Though Lennox was always jealous of Geoffrey, he never actually hated him. He wanted to be Geoffrey, and when he realized he couldn’t, he lost his temper, which resulted in him slashing him in the arm when he was 17. Despite the fact that Lennox tried to apologize Geoffrey wasn’t having it – and didn’t believe in the legitimacy of his brother’s mental illness – and Lennox knows Geoffrey just believes Lennox hates him.
Chad Richardson – Nephew – 19 – Student || While he’s never met Chad, Lennox knows what he looks like. He’s seen pictures.
Hometown ||
Los Angeles, though Lennox has moved many times in his life and doesn’t refer to any place as his ‘home’, just places he’s lived.
Vehicle/Transportation ||
He relies on Fletcher for rides to and from work, and walks to the bar he works at. He doesn’t drive, he refuses to.
Backstory ||
Lennox was the second son of the Richardsons and as a baby, they were very excited for him. Unlike his brother, Lennox had inherited his mother’s dark brown eyes and giggily personality. But as he grew older, Lennox found himself falling behind his brother. The differences between the two kept growing. Geoffrey was the golden child, a genius and a playboy, always surrounded by friends and girls. Lennox tried to fit in but Geoffrey didn’t want to babysit his brother all the time, and Margot and Michael grew wary of their youngest. Though he was given the same education as his brother, he did horrible in school. Money was wasted on tutors who could do nothing to help Lennox retain the knowledge he needed to pass his tests. As he grew older, Lennox realized something was off about him. This caused him to lose hope in himself and his future.
While Geoffrey was successful, Lennox found it easier to rebel. He started to hate anyone who tried to tutor him and often snapped at them – even making one poor classmate of his cry – finding it easier to blame all these people for his failed attempts at getting an education than himself. As he snapped at his tutors he found it easier to blame others. He started to act out and get violent with his brother, their roughhousing quickly turning into physical fights, ones that Lennox won. He got involved with the wrong crowd as a teenager. His parents tried to intervene and said they loved him despite the fact he was different than his brother – that he didn’t need to act out – but Lennox assumed they were just lying and secretly hated him. When he was 17, Lennox skipped school every day to instead join a cult group, one that accepted him no matter how ‘dumb’ he was. His parents didn’t know, and assumed he went to school, until they got a call from the principal inquiring about where he’d been.
When his parents confronted him about it, Lennox got angry again, especially when they were trying to take him away from his ‘family’. Geoffrey got angry at that and yelled at Lennox and Lennox yelled back – but the yelling quickly escalated and when Geoffrey said something that really pissed Lennox off, Lennox pulled out his knife and brandished it at Geoffrey and his parents, and lunged for Geoffrey in the same instant. His parents called the police and he was arrested, and disowned him all in the same instant. While in rehabilitation, Lennox was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The only ones who were there for him were his cult family – Felix and Rosalie, his two closest friends, in particular. Felix and Rosalie, already roommates, let Lennox crash on their couch. He was supposed to go to school but just dropped out, instead getting a job as a bagger at the grocery store. He took his medicine every day and for a few years, he was good, despite everything. He tried to contact his family but found his number blocked. He tried to go to the house and his brother screamed that he had a restraining order on him. So that was it. Lennox stopped trying to contact his family and instead lived with Felix and Rosalie.
He got involved in heavier drugs and started to grow pot and sell it on the side, making a good profit that way. Felix and Rosalie lived in a nice apartment that often got trashed when the three of them threw parties. It was at one of these parties that Lennox lost his virginity – and ironically, it was with Felix. Felix never wanted an exclusive thing and so for a while, Lennox and Felix became friends-with-benefits, with Lennox often sleeping in Felix’s room rather than the couch. Felix started to convince Lennox that he didn’t need his medicine and took it for himself, using the drugs to get that sense of high he couldn’t get from anything else. As Lennox stopped taking his medicine, he began to convince himself he didn’t need it, despite the mood swings and depressive slumps that started to bother him from then on. After a few months without his medicine, Lennox got more temperamental and got into a fight with Rosalie and Felix that left him alone without anywhere to live, and the cult had long since disbanded and moved away. For a while he was homeless until he got a crappy apartment. He traveled and went to a different city, got a new job as a cashier in the mechanic’s place there, and got a tiny one bedroom apartment. He made a few friends through selling his medicine and pot, but nothing like what he had with Felix and Rosalie.
One evening on break, Lennox went to the local McDonalds to get a burger and behind the counter was one of the most beautiful women he’d ever met. He hadn’t really felt a desire for anyone since Felix, yet here he was. He expected that to be the last encounter but she slipped him her number and he called her – the two wound up talking and flirting until they became friends and eventually started dating. Bethany was the first woman Lennox had ever been with. They wound up getting a small apartment together, and for a few months everything was great. They had occasional fights, but always seemed to make up, often in the form of sex or getting high together.
When Lennox was about 31, a year into the relationship, he tried to call his brother again. His brother picked up the phone, shockingly enough, and told him that their parents had both died. Their mother died a few years ago when Lennox was 26, and their father had died the previous year. The news was shocking to Lennox and he wasn’t invited to their funerals. He tried to ask if he could know where their graves were but Geoffrey rejected the offer. He said he didn’t want Lennox anywhere near him or his son and Lennox was shocked he had a nephew – but Geoffrey said that he wasn’t any nephew of Lennox’s and hung up on him. Then Lennox started paying attention to the news. He found out Geoffrey was a billionaire, and saw his brother proudly on TV with his arm around a miniature version of him, down even to the brilliant blue eyes that Geoffrey had always shared with their father. His temper snapped and Lennox broke the TV, resulting in a fight with Bethany that night, a fight that left both of them screaming and throwing objects at one another, until the cops showed up to break the fight up. That fight resulted in Lennox leaving to sleep on a bench, until he thought about losing the only person he had at the moment and bought flowers and begged for Bethany to take him back.
After that he grew distant from all his friends – except Bethany – and clung to her, fighting often with her but at the same time begging her not to go and claiming that he would be lost or dead if she left him. They continued to date for 4 years, until Lennox was 35. Towards the end of their relationship, they discovered something – Bethany was pregnant.
Despite the complicated circumstances surrounded their relationship, Lennox wanted to try for the kid. He started taking his medicine again, and being kinder to Bethany. By the time she was 6 months along, they were almost ready with a nursery and everything. But money was tight and for a quick buck, Lennox sold some of his pills to the highest bidder. One night when Bethany came home late, Lennox snapped at her and demanded to know who she’d been with. Despite her claims he didn’t believe her and she stormed out – or went to – when she fell down the stairs and handed on her stomach. Something was wrong with the baby and Lennox called 9-1-1, but it was too late. They got to the hospital to find Bethany had lost the baby. After that the fights got worse and both of them blamed each other for what happened. Lennox decided he couldn’t do this anymore, packed a backpack with clothes and his drugs, and left. He took a MTA bus wherever, and ignored phone calls he got from work.
Eventually, the bus stopped in Salem, California. Lennox got a job as a bartender in town and rented a small apartment. But he couldn’t afford it with the hours he got and was going to be evicted within two months of living there. He found another job, at the mechanics, and made more hours and money there. At the mechanics he met Fletcher Willoughby, who, when he mentioned his lack of apartment, offered him a place to stay. Lennox moved in and pays half the rent, and now lives in the small bedroom of Fletcher’s apartment. He grows pot in his bedroom and deals drugs on the side. He’s going to quit his job as a bartender soon, he’s just too lazy to do so. After the fallout with Bethany, Lennox stopped taking his drugs again, instead selling them on the side to get more spending money to buy what can get him high.
He knows that his nephew attends Metric Academy, but doesn’t talk to him. Chad knows of him, knows what he looks like, and knows to avoid him. Chad doesn’t know where he is though and Lennox wants it to stay that way – he doesn’t want to see Geoffrey or Chad ever again. Despite the sadness he still feels over his breakup with Bethany, he’s relatively happy where he is, living with Fletcher and working at the mechanics.
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Notes ||
- His dislike of kids isn’t necessarily because he finds them annoying or dislikes them genuinely. It’s moreso that he’s scared of kids – they’re so innocent and small he feels like he’ll break them or corrupt them if around them for too long. Babies are also a painful reminder of the baby he lost a few years ago.
- Lennox has always loved to read. He often spends time at the public library when he’s not working or doing anything else, just picking up random books and reading them. Sometimes he keeps reading, sometimes he stops. Lennox loves series the best and has read everything from autobiographies of boring old men to vampire fiction. Lennox loves to read but does horribly on tests and memorization quizzes. He’s also not one to write – he can write, but he hates to do so and just feels like his words can never measure up to the fiction he loves. Sometimes when high, Lennox will have fun trying to read and watching the words swirl on the page.
- His ex, Bethany, is Mal’s mother. No, he’s not Mal’s father. Their relationship started as a whirlwind, happy-ever-after romance that started after they hit it off at their first date in the bar. They moved in together rather quickly and were happy... for a period of a few months. Then their relationship became strained. Lennox was never stable mentally, and because of his irregular pattern of taking his medication, his periods of depression often resulted in anger which he took out on Bethany. The two often got in fights that ended in broken glasses and throwing things at one another, and shoving things at one another. Lennox often blamed Bethany for things he shouldn’t have blamed her for – he started to grow possessive of her and demanded to always know who she was around and who she was with. While they fought often, when they hit low points in each other’s lives, they were somehow still there for each other. Lennox will still attest that he loves Bethany, and loved her even during their relationship. However, when things were bad, they were bad. He relied on her too much and clung to her like a drug.
Their relationship was on-off positive for years. By the time they’d been dating for about 4 years, Bethany found out she was pregnant. Despite their rocky relationship, Lennox was excited for a baby. They tried to work it out but one night they got into a massive fight instigated by him and his jealousy, and that resulted in Bethany turning around to yell at him just as she was descending the stairs. She fell and as a result, lost the baby. After that they got into a massive fight and blamed one another for the loss of the baby. To Lennox, it was Bethany’s fault because she didn’t have to leave to go down the stairs, and she shouldn’t have been with that other guy he got jealous over in the first place. Lennox stormed out of the apartment one day shortly after, with only the clothes on his back and his drugs in his backpack. He ran off to another city, and deleted Bethany’s number from his phone. He hasn’t seen her since and initially, he never wanted to.
Now that it’s been a few years since they broke up, Lennox has been able to see how shitty he was to her and regrets it. He wonders, often, if she’s still alive or if she’s got a new boyfriend. He misses her, and the good times they had, but deep down knows it’s for the best their relationship came to an end. Still, Lennox often will mope about his failed relationship and regrets, and in those low periods, he’ll often try to forget about Bethany and their unborn child with drugs and alcohol.- Playlist:
- Colors – Living in Fiction
- Diary of Jane – Breaking Benjamin
- Wasteland – Living in Fiction
- Lucy – Skillet
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Green Day
- Paint it, Black – Ciara
- Poison – Asking Alexandria
- The Bird and the Worm – The Used
- Golden – Fall Out Boy- The song lyrics are from Colors by Living in Fiction (Originally by Halsey).
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