Post by karter on Mar 14, 2013 22:40:27 GMT -5
Name: Henri Dorian Urswick
Pen name: Alphonse Murphy
Age: 17
Birthday: April 21st
Ethnicity: He is American by birth. His father in an English immigrant.
Family: Finlay Nye Urswick (father, 45), Alejandra Urswick (mother, 40)
Class: Senior
Favorite classes: Choir and English
Orientation: Bisexual
Likes: Writing, early-mid 2000s rock (Good Charlotte, Sum 41, bowling for soup, Smash mouth, Weezer), thinking of new characters and plots, veggieburgers, cats, visual imagery
Dislikes: Pop crap from the 2010s, Meat, people copying him, negative critique
Pets: A female kitten named Chita
Phobia: Kleptophobia. Kleptophobia really describes two phobias: One is the fear of stealing, while the other is the fear of being stolen from. His really goes with the second one, the fear of being stolen from.
Appearance: Henri is six feet tall and weighs around one hundred and sixty pounds. His hair is brown and goes down to neck and is in a shaggy cut. His eyes are blue green. He needs to wear either glasses or contacts and switches off between the two of them, one day wearing glasses with black frames or his contacts.
For clothing, he is often found at school jeans and a button down shirt, really formal. Out of school though, he usually wears Pajama pants with an old t-shirt around the house. When he does manage to go out of the house though, he usually wears a white button down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a tie, and a pair of jeans. He has a small piercing his right ear: A golden loop. He doesn't wear any make up with the exception of a concealer if he has a scratch or blemish on his face during an important event.
Personality: Henri is the type of person who constantly pays attention to his surroundings, his feelings, and feelings of others. He is slightly introverted but with the few friends he does have, he almost always can tell when there is a problem with them. He tends to express himself in writing a lot, writing more gory, negative stories filled with death when he's depressed and positive stories with happy endings when he's excited and happy. Most of his full length novels have a combination of both types of scenes in them.
Henri is also extremely critical of himself and critiques himself harshly. He also tends to flip out when he sees a negative critique when he writes a short story since he is already hard on himself. He tends to pour more of himself into short stories rather then his novels which is why he can be hurt by negative critique on them. From an event when he was younger he tends to be scared someone is going to steal from him.
Also, Henri has a habit of using fake swears. He tends to use Dangit and Fudge! A lot rather then real swearing.
History: Henri was born on April 21st in Cleveland Oklahoma to a newly-wed couple. Henri's father owned a small diner in the city where his mother worked. His family made barely enough money to keep the keep the place running but they always persisted through it.
Of the few events Henri can remember as a child it was one time in the fourth grade for two reasons. It caused him to enjoy creative writing for the first time and it was the first time something he wrote was stolen. He had to write a story about smokey the bear and the reward was ten dollars and your picture in the small trophy cage in the front office. To a nine year old, this was a great honor. He had the story ready a few days before and he kept it in his desk, only to be stolen by a little boy at the seat next to him. He looked at the paper and stole it without Henri's notice the next day. When the story was due, Henri was still sick and the other little boy turned in his in. Two days after his original absence he found who the winner was and read the story... he was started cry his eyes out.
He ended up continuing to write though as he grew older, having found something he loved. He kept writing although when turned fifteen, he rarely had any long periods to write anymore. He was working as a part time waiter at his parents dinner and had to worry about school. He devoted his weekends to writing and a few weeks before he turned he had a full novel done. It took him a few weeks and looking around but on the eve of his sixteenth birthday, he found that someone would publish his novel and it was done.
A few months later, he decided that he was tired of his sleepy little town in Oklahoma and applied to Metric Arts, where he was accepted right away.
Other: Henri sometimes gets so into his writing that he forgets to eat and only really gets up to go to the bathroom at times. Because of this, his weight is slightly lower than it should be.