Unawakened Elliot Wren

Name Elliot Rowan Wren

Position Unawakened

Rank Unawakened

Basic Info
Personality
History

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Human
Age		28

Physical Appearance

Height		5'8"
Weight		155 lbs
Hair Color		Blonde
Eye Color		Blue
Physical Description		Elliot is not a large person but prison gave him a lot of time to bulk up and muscle out. He has the medium-pale complexion of somebody naturally light who tans easily but doesn’t spend enough time outside to get the benefits of such. Spending your time in a cell can do that to you. He wears whatever he is given to wear, though back when he was free he had he boring fashion choices of either a polo or graphic T, with whatever jeans or pants were clean at the moment. He has pale blonde hair, which is kept just a bit shorter than his shoulders. He is usually clean shaven. Elliot’s eyes are a blue ranging on gray. His eyes are almost always kindly. Elliot is one of those men who doesn’t leave a single, strong first impression. To some people, he might look like hired muscle, a classic ex-con. Seen in his preferred attire and with his pale skin, he might just look like a nerd. And seen in his worst, most unkempt state he might look like a hopeless drunk. It’s really a flip of he coin for how others might perceive him on any given day, but he doesn’t mind. He’s not here to make a reputation.

Family

Spouse		None
Children		Rhea Herald (8), Piper Herald (8)
Father		Harrier Wren (58, carpenter)
Mother		Natasha Wren (deceased, 30 at time of death)
Brother(s)		Amos Wren (half-brother, 19, currently in armed forces) Irving Wren (half-brother, 14, high school student) Warwick Wren (half-brother, 13, high school student who skipped a grade)
Sister(s)		Tracie Wren (half-sister, 22, vet student) Becka Wren (half-sister, 20, farm worker - lives with parents to help support family) Rosemary Wren (half-sister, 19, recently graduated taking a gap year road trip)
Other Family		Abigail Herald (ex-girlfriend, 28, project manager of an art software company) Ivy Violet-Wren (stepmother; 49, cashier)

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Elliot is a conflicted person. He is scared of himself, scared of responsibility, scared of letting people down. Fear is the motivating factor in his life. He wants to be a good person. He truly does. But he also doesn’t want people to rely on him. He doesn’t want to make promises he can’t keep. Because of that, Elliot tries to portray himself as a friendly, maybe slightly airheaded, and slightly useless man. He finds inconsequential ways to try and help people: baking them breakfast, making them little gifts, trying to cheer them up, listening to them rant. He is surprisingly self aware about mental health.
Strengths & Weaknesses		+Computers, programming, technology +Intelligence +Athleticism and self-defense (thanks, prison) +Baking skills +Good at hugs -Self doubt -Questionable morals -Quick to anger -Maybe some recovering alcoholism -Fear of dogs
Ambitions		To get out of prison & not screw up his life for a second time. The bar is quite low.
Hobbies & Interests		Computers, robotics, sci-fi, math, kids cartoons, psychology
Languages		English, a bit of Russian from high school. He knows curses from quite a few languages but isn’t the kind of guy to use them in casual conversation.

Personal History

Elliot grew up in an average neighborhood. His mother died when he was young – but not old enough to remember her, so this wasn’t some tragic loss to his childhood – and he was raised by his father and stepmother (both of whom he loved dearly). They were busy parents, though, and he didn’t much like his half-siblings, so the kid spent most of his days through joining every afterschool club he found find so as to stay away from the crowded house. Math club, science club, robotics club, computer club. He was good at them, but not great. He was mostly there to make friends. And he did make friends: foremost among them was Abigail Herald. Star of the math team. Star of the track team. Daughter to the founder of a popular line of kid’s toy. Abigail and Elliot were inseparable; they were everybody’s favorite couple by the time they started college together.

Things started going downhill when, at 20, they had an unplanned set of twins. Still, they could make this work out. Elliot dropped out of college to take care of them, as Abigail’s family was helping them out financially. Still, Elliot loved his daughters: Piper and Rhea were the light of his life. It wasn’t until Abigail got her dogs that things really started to sour.

Elliot never liked dogs. At first it was just one dog, a german shepherd. Then a second one. Left home with the kids, it was his responsibility to deal with the dogs and he grew to hate them with a passion. This put a wedge in their relationship, and that relationship ended when Abigail discovered Elliot in an affair with one of their old friends from high school, a guy named Jean. Abigail ended up with most of the custody of the kids but the two decided they could still try to be friends (after Elliot convinced her that the only reason they were growing apart was that he was gay, which was not entirely true. He was bi, and it was mostly the dogs.)

Elliot didn’t do so great in life once he was separated from Abigail. He wasn’t really in another relationship. He got a job at an electronics store during the day, and the spent the nights either playing video games or drinking. He lived by himself and hated himself. The only good part of this man’s life was when he could go see his daughters – this time was when he cultivated the ever so cheerful side of himself that would be the Elliot people grew to know after joining the factions.

But then there’s always one really bad day.

Elliot was trying to prove he was responsible. And he offered to look over the kids and Abigail’s house one weekend while she and her new boyfriend were out of town for one of his brother’s weddings. Elliot liked being around Piper and Rhea. He didn’t like being around the dogs – Abigail had since gotten a third dog, a shepherd puppy.

Now Elliot was having a bad day. He had gotten fired the week before. And when he saw the eight month shepherd snap at his daughter, he was done. Before he even thought about what he was doing, he kicked it. It might have been playing. It probably was. But after that, it wasn’t. It fought back, and by then Elliot was mad and scared of what he had done. There was no turning back. All the years of anger and all the blame about what happened funneled out into him there and he beat the dog to death in front of his kids. Now Elliot didn’t want to see himself as a bad guy, but it was hard not to right then. He was acting out of fear. He sent his daughters into their room, started drinking, and lashed out at the other two dogs as well.

Elliot knew there would be consequences. But he was terrified of them. He was scared of never seeing his kids again, and he wasn’t thinking straight, so he loaded his daughters up in the car and drove them a few states over. He didn’t want to face Abigail, and he didn’t want to face what he had done.

The police found him within the day – only hours since Abigail returned home. His trial was a quick one and he was sentenced to a long time in prison for animal abuse, child endangerment, drunk driving and kidnapping.

Elliot never saw his kids again. He would consider any means out of prison as a second chance at life, wanting to become the cheerful, wholesome man that his daughters (used to) see him as, all while avoiding any sort of responsibility and commitment to the best of his ability. He doesn’t want to think of himself as a bad guy, but there are some things that he is fully aware aren’t meant to be forgiven and if he isn’t able to make that up to Rhea and Piper he might as well try and make it up to everybody else.