SPECIES: Human
CLASS: Stranger
RESONANCE: 0%
FRACTURE: 5%
‧ ✦ BIO ✦ ‧
NAME: Hayden Striker
ALIAS: HERMES
AGE: 27
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Vaguely Queer (grey-aro/demi)
HEIGHT: 5'8" | 173 cm
OCCUPATION: Online "Journalist"
CURRENT LOCATION: Dusktown
ORIGIN: New York, NY USA
‧ ✦ Abilities ✦ ‧
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FINALE -[ LOCKED ]
A bit of a cocky idiot, Hayden does have a heart of gold stuck beneath that incredibly jarring personality. Well, at least from his point of view. Passionate to the ends of the earth, Hayden lives his life on the edge without even realizing it most of the time. Audacious and competetive, Hayden is the type to take anything, positive or negative, and take that about ten steps too far, often accidentally risking his life and career on a single spare remark. Willing to do anything to further his own cause - at the very least Hayden could be considered an incredibly ambitious bastard, and an incredibly deluded idiot.
‧ ✦ Personality ✦ ‧
AMBITIOUS + COMPETITIVE + QUICK-WITTED +
AUDACIOUS + PASSIONATE +
GULLIBLE - COCKY - NIHILISTIC -
MORAL - UNBALANCED -
The type of guy to think on his feet while being wrapped up inside his own mind, Hayden is remarkably quick-witted despite his permanently tired visage. His mindset of the world he experiences and lives in is wildly inaccurate most of the time - his gullible thought process sucks in conspiracy theories and knocks them around until they just barely sense with his already incredibly nihilistic viewpoint on the world. Hayden isn't exactly the type to be empathetic when he considers that his future on the line (which, it always is), he comes off as terribly amoral, and admittedly a bit unbalanced when he launches into a tirade on his theories and concerns.
‧ ✦ Details ✦ ‧
✦ LIKES ✦
Amphibians and Reptiles - "They're just so... great. Untainted."Energy Drinks - "Redbowl or riot."Rainy Weather - "I refuse to go out without an umbrella, but rain sounds nice."Researching - "Expanding your knowledge base is the key to living truly free.
✦ DISLIKES ✦
Bright Lights - "God, please put the dimmers on."Cleaning - "Why can't flies just... move to the next apartment."Early Mornings - "Please, spare me."Voice Calls - "Just message me, I don't have the time for this."
✦ STRENGTHS ✦
Endless EnergyTerrifyingly LuckyAlways Truthful
✦ WEAKNESSES ✦
Gratingly IdioticToo Easily DistractedUnqualified for Basically Anything
‧ ✦ HISTORY ✦ ‧
TL;DR
Big city boy, Hayden, is 'abandoned' by his parents in their own spare loft, and spent his free time as a neet to make a pseudo-career in conspiracy journalism. After Starfelle's sky burned, Hayden visited the city for his next scoop and well. Yeah.
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Grown up in a regular old, high class upscale New York family, Hayden lived in the lap of luxury for the entirety of his young life, spoiled rotten and incredibly disillusioned about it. A bit of a hell-raiser, the Striker's remain thankful to this day that he was an only child. After turning 18, Hayden fled the nest as quick as he could. If by fled, you also include living in your parent's summer loft... with only occasional visits...
For the next near-decade of his life, Hayden proceeded to do nothing but mildly disappoint his Wall Street family. Flunking out of community college while trying for a communications degree, working part-time as a personal assistant for a total time of four hours - one might say, Hayden was never really interested in the traditional path to success. During this long drought between life accomplishments, with even his mother's weekly visits starting to dwindle, Hayden started getting to work on his true passion. Journalism.
With a loud, screaming need to prove himself right and everyone else wrong, Hayden dove headfirst into the darker, more conspiracy ridden half of the internet. Originally out of pure curiosity, he quickly drowned himself in the community, the thought process, the pure nihilistic pessimism that permeated the space... And he embraced it. Not long after - originally created for record keeping purposes - Hayden started his own blog. Enthusiasm marking him as a unique entity in the scene, Hayden had managed to gain a rather small, but dedicated, cult following by the time he had turned 24.
Unfortunately for him, this was also just as Starfelle had fallen into it's never-ending night. It was the biggest scoop he'd ever had the chance to land in his life, and he was incredibly close! This was no visit to Giza, he wouldn't be plastering posters in Vatican City. Just taking a short taxi ride! Quickly after announcing to his blog that he would be taking a very interesting trip and something wild and new would come soon enough, Hayden entered the fog-filled city - fully packed and ready for a week-long trip. However, things did not go as ideally as he would have hoped.
Stuck inside of the constraints of Starfelle, Hayden is eternally on the hunt for clues and explanations, searching desperately for a way to solve this entire situation. Not for the people of this town, however. Hayden knows he's just barely on the edge of the discovery that will turn his whole life upside down, and himself into a celebrity. Finally.
‧ ✦ INVENTORY ✦ ‧
1. One (1) Bearded Dragon: "Chunkmeister"
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PinterestHe doesn't self care nearly as much as he should - his hair hasn't been brushed for about as long as his beard hasn't been shaved.Hayden thanks himself every day for having the smarts to not leave his baby, Chunkmeister, behind when he left for New York. He's vowed since to never hire a sitter for her again.
‧ ✦ Trivia ✦ ‧
Hayden still posts to his blog on a fairly regular basis. He has yet to fully realize how encrypted his posts are, and has also somehow managed to pique the interest of a few in the ARG community.He thrives in comfortable fashion. Everything he wears, Hayden chose because he thinks it'd feel nice on him.Wears a face mask whenever he's in public, or anywhere with a window open. He one hundred percent thinks it's dangerous to breath in the fog.Chunkmeister is actually a girl beardie! Hayden didn't know how to sex a lizard when he got her, and only found out the truth far too late.
DISCORD ID: 🌈ERROR404🌈
RP PREFERENCES:
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DEATH CONSENT: Yeas!
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