District 8
Homosexual
21 Years Old
Relationship:
Single
Occupation:
Dyer
HG Status:
Over Reaping Age
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Apr 20, 2020 12:42:14 GMT -7
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Post by Asher Reynolds on Oct 14, 2017 8:02:29 GMT -7
Asher Jace Reynolds
NICKNAMES: Asher, Ash AGE: 21 GENDER: Male RESIDENCE: District 8 OCCUPATION: Dyer GAME INFO: N/A PLAY-BY: Connor Jessup PLAYER ALIAS: Rebecca
Personality Asher is a risk-taker and thrill seeker. He's not afraid of who he is, and the best advice he can give to anyone is not to deny themselves of what they want. He's accepting of most flaws, but that doesn't mean he'll be your best friend if you're a horrible person. He's intelligent, often has a way with words, and is used to taking care of himself.
History Parents: Daemon Reynolds and Vanessa Marnie Siblings (half): Maisie, 27, and Connor, 30
Asher is the product of Daemon Reynold's desire to trade in for the newer, prettier model. Vanessa was only 15 when she was employed as the newest laundress in Daemon's shop, 16 when she gave in to his passes at her, and 17 when she became pregnant with Asher. Daemon, who already had a wife and two kids, decided it was as good a time as any to restart this whole family thing. He left the mother of his two children - Maisie, then 8, and Connor, then 11 - and brought Vanessa and the new baby to live with him.
Growing up, Asher's family life was constantly filled with ups and downs. Daemon and Vanessa constantly fought and made up. Daemon and his first wife, Erika, originally did nothing but fight, but eventually found a sort of civil medium. He ended up spending a decent amount of time with Maisie, his half-sister, as their father was mostly of the mind that kids should be seen and not heard. Maisie treated him a bit like her pet. She would drag Asher around with her everywhere, dress him up, make him do ridiculous things, and tell him to stop being a wimp. She was a fiery and inventive child, and as they got older, it became more clear that the things she was doing to him were more out of love than hate. Yes, he was a bit like her pet - but she never let him settle for anything less than he was. If he was too afraid to do something, she'd tell him to suck it up. If he was lonely, she would tell him it was his own fault. And when neither of them had anything to do, it was Maisie who first showed him some of District 8's many opportunities.
At 18, Maisie moved out of her mother's house and started working full time at a bar. Asher still saw her often, but now at 10, he was left mostly to take on the world himself. He might have been nervous, but you wouldn't have known it to look at him. He tried a little bit of everything, moving between and around the groups of kids at school. War was starting, but if anything, that only gave Asher more possibilities. He played pranks with a few other kids on unsuspecting teachers. He broke into factories at night to get drunk. He snuck his friends in to Maisie's bar - with her help - as they tried to chat up people twice their age. He'd occasionally go toward the fighting to see if he could duck between and around the chaos as if it were a game. He took dares and broke rules. He was well-liked and decently popular.
Girls seemed fascinated with him, and at 13, he had his first real girlfriend. She didn't last long, and what followed after her were a series of short-lived relationships. None of them ever felt quite right to Asher, and though he was a pretty decent flirter, he found he more enjoyed time just hanging with his guy friends. At 15, he'd decided to go all the way with Willow Ro... only, when she'd taken her clothes of in front of him, shyly, he found he just... couldn't do it. He didn't want to. When he was 16, he was at a party thrown by an older friend when, perhaps after some amount of alcohol, he found himself kissing Benjamin Mauve in a bathroom - and that changed everything.
Although nothing changed to most people, Ben and Asher started an intense and volatile relationship. At school, they barely spoke, but outside of class, they spent almost all of their time together - alone. Asher was sure that he was falling in love with Ben, and he confided in Maisie everything about Ben and the fact that he knew - for sure - that he was gay. Ben and Asher fought constantly about the fact that Ben didn't even want them to be seen together in public. His parents would hate it, his friends would alienate him, and no one would understand. Asher got more and more fed up with it until one day, he just reached out to take Ben's hand at school. Ben jerked his hand away and gave Asher a look of disgust - one Asher could see though, but which nonetheless pissed him off. He started yelling about how he should be able to hold his boyfriend's hand and how it shouldn't matter who saw. Ben played the whole thing off as if he had no idea what Asher was talking about and when Asher stepped toward Ben, Ben pushed him back. What Ben said next stung almost worse than anything else: "I'm enlisting tomorrow, you creep, so stay the hell away from me."
So ended the year-long relationship of Asher and Ben, as well as any reserve Asher had on being who he was. He wasn't afraid to tell anyone he was gay, and never held himself back from anything he wanted to do. Some people accepted it, some didn't, and the one's who didn't Asher figured he was better off without. He found work in a factory, dropping out of school to support himself in the wake of his parents severing all ties with him, and stayed on full time as a dyer. He proved to have some decent talent, a hard worker, and could talk his way into almost anything, so when he applied for a transfer to the Dyer factory, it was accepted.
It was at the Dyer factory that Asher fell in love with the boss' son. Cerulean was Ben's opposite in almost every way, and for Asher, that was perfect. He fell headlong into a relationship with the boy and never looked back, although staying together in this world might end up being harder than he could have imagined.
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