BENSON, carter beau

[carter beau benson]

Character Name: Carter Beau Benson
Nickname(s): Beau
Gender: Male
Age: Twenty
Sexuality: Straight
Grade: Freshman
College: Central
Other: N/A
Major: Engineering
Weight: 155
Height: 5'11
Appearance:

Carter is a soldier and he looks like it. He's tall but not too tall, and under his clothes he's all muscle. As a child he was a picky eater and the habit followed him through adulthood, which meant he never quite had the opportunity to gain weight. His chocolate brown eyes match his dark brown hair and he looks like a classic, stand-up guy. If you get a bit closer though, you may be able to see one of his two tattoos peeking up through his collar. On his neck he has a king's crown and on his left shoulder blade he has a tribal symbol from Iraq, both holding special meanings that he may never share.

Carters' style isn't much to talk about. He'll normally be seen wearing jeans, boots, and some sort of sleeve whether it's a sweater or nice shirt. He doesn't like to expose his arms due to scars that would surely provoke questions and with the simple answer of "War" given, it would only provoke more questions of one of the many topics he refuses to talk about.

Though it's a rare sight, Carter's smile could light up a room. He doesn't show it much because not many things make him smile. Normally a smirk will cross his lips but never an actual smile. Although, if you know how to hit his sweet spots, he won't stop smiling. The thing is he doesn't have many things that make him genuinely happy so it may be a very long time before he flashes his purly whites.

Personality:

Understandably, Carter is a pretty guarded person. Normally, he'll keep to himself unless someone strikes up a conversation. He won't feel any need to try and befriend you or hit on your girlfriend. For the most part, he just takes up space. He's not shy or anti-social, he just doesn't have an interest to talk to anyone since he knows he won't get close with them. The reason he keeps his distance from people is for their own good, there's nothing more to it.

Though he tries not to involve people in his life, there are always a few that sneak past his brick wall. When this happens, Carter loses his invincibility and sees himself as vulnerable and weak. He knows he's the only one that can keep himself safe and when he lets others in, he feels he's let himself down and there's no one else to depend on. This forces him to push people away for his own sanity, and they always end up hurt in the process.

Despite his hard exterior, Carter doesn't want to hurt people. He's a very sympathetic person, though he doesn't show it. He's a very sweet boy on the inside and though he won't trust you with his problems, he's a very loyal person to talk to. He offers good advice on almost any subject and wouldn't dare tell someone anyone else's secrets.

History:

Carter had a pretty hard past, to put it nicely. Both his parents were born and raised in a small town in Michigan, yet came from very different walks of life. His mother came from a very religious family and his father was raised by a single, ever-so-present yet absent mother, causing him to be raised with no morals. In a fit of rage at her parents, Carter's eighteen year old mother rebelled one night and ended up with much more than she bargained for; a baby. In attempt to soften the blow for her parents, she convinced Carter's father to marry her before the baby was born. They weren't in love, not at all. They hardly even liked each other.

Things went smoothly when Carter was a baby. Him and his parents lived in a small apartment where it always smelled like apple cinnamon. His father worked during the day and his mother homeschooled him. He was a happy child and things started out easy for him. He couldn't see how uncomfortable his parents had become around each other.

During the summer of sixth grade, it was become painfully obvious how bitter his parents were. They had gone from indifferent feelings toward each other to full blown hatred and even Carter could see it. They began to fight late into the night and he was soon aware that his life was about to get rough.

It took about a month from when the fights started for his father to get violent. It began with threats, then pushes, to full-force punches to the face. His mother, lying on the floor crying, would always send him to his room in fear of him seeing her. He would obey but sneak around the corner to see anyway, always watching expressionless. It wasn't as if he didn't care about his mother, but a small part of him also resented her for letting things get out of hand like this.

In sixth grade his mother began sending him to public school. She had slipped into a depression and was no longer able to teach him. He didn't make many friends but he didn't really want to. He did his work, ate the lunch he packed for himself, did more work, then went home and it was good enough for him.

The abuse didn't stop and in ninth grade, Carter decided it was enough. One night he stood up for his mother, only to also get hit in the face. He wasn't surprised, but it stung his pride all the same. It was a warzone in his house, two against one, and he was losing. It had become a regular process to watch his mother get beaten and to get hit once or twice himself, and it hardly fazed him anymore.

On Carter's eighteenth birthday, he decided he needed to get out of the house even if his mother couldn't. She was too far gone, in too far deep, and he knew he couldn't help her anymore. That day, he signed up for the military. A month later, he was called into action and sent to Iraq for a year. Being sent to war was a relief for the boy because, the way he saw it, at least he'd be at war for a good cause instead of no reason in his house. Overseas, he was exposed to things he wouldn't have even been able to imagine but he left the memories there and returned home, seemingly unchanged.

A few months in his deathly Michigan apartment was all he could take before he decided to move out and away from his parents. A part of him wanted to go to Iraq again just to get away, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to handle a national war for a second time. He found a small loft for rent above an old woman's garage, but was unsatisfied. He began trying to fill the void with women and booze but it didn't work. He knew nothing but space would work. So Carter did the most drastic thing he could and moved as far away that the country would let him, straight into California. He got a job, enrolled in the local college to try and further his education, and got an apartment, hoping the state will be good to him.

Sample Rp:

oh, you know. dougie&sophia.

Celeb:

Josh Hartnett

Out Of Character:

it's nikkie, bitch!

[( shannon )]

accepted you reject (;