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[PTabbedContent][PTab=ONE] NAME Ares Leopold Eskelson NICKNAME(S) N/A AGE & DOB Twenty-one & July 5th GENDER Male ORIENTATION Pansexual HOMETOWN Seattle, Washington CURRENT CITY Venice, California EDUCATION UCLA - English Major OCCUPATION Surf Instructor STATUS In a relationship HEIGHT 6'2" WEIGHT 172 lbs EYE COLOR Blue HAIR COLOR Blonde PIERCINGS Ears TATTOOS None SCARS He only has a handful of scars, most of which are small, barely noticeable marks here and there on his legs or arms from when he was a child. There happens to be one three inch long, nearly flesh-toned scar along the back of his calf from an unfortunate fall from a tree, but the rest of his scars are so small and insignificant that their cause has been forgotten. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES In general, Ares is just an average, white, twenty-something year old. The only thing that sets him apart from the others is the long hair and the full beard. Some might add his blue-green eyes to the mix. FATHER Clyde Eskelson, owner of Clyde by the Sea MOTHER Minerva Eskelson ( née Gardner ), deceased STEP-MOTHER Edith Eskelson ( née Albright ), florist SISTER Athena Eskelson, pre-Med student STEP-SISTER Vera Albright, waittress GRANDMOTHER Sophia Gardner, baker obvz PETS Hector, Betta Fish SIGNIFICANT OTHER Natalia Novak, model OTHER N/A IMPORTANT MILESTONES ... JULY 1994. Ares Leopold Eskelson is born one hour and twenty-three minutes before his sister, Athena Elisabeth Eskelson after their mother spent approximately eighteen hours in labor. As one might expect, Minerva's water had broken in the midst of an Independence Day barbecue. She gave birth naturally, but demanded painkillers as soon as the babies were taken to be checked over. MARCH 1998. Unbeknownst to the toddler, his mother received the tragic call, dragging her into a doctors appointment to be informed that she would have to undergo treatment for leukemia. This blow would come as a shock to the entire family, those who whole-heartedly believed that the organic, healthy lifestyle she had led for the better part of her life should have prevented this tragedy. SEPTEMBER 2001. While the country was mourning the loss of thousands of lives and the beginning of a war with seemingly no end, a small family were mourning the loss of a mother who had inevitably succumbed to her disease. Ares and his sister were only seven and a single father grieving for his childhood sweetheart left a broken home. Sophia moves in the same month to help raise her grandchildren in place of the daughter she lost. JUNE 2006. After years of struggling to come to terms with the loss of his wife, Clyde begins dating a new woman, marrying her in the early months of 2006. In June, as soon as his children ended the school year, the family moved to California to merge their families. The twins at twelve met their new sister, Vera, a rambunctious eight year old.  NOVEMBER 2008. A naive fourteen year old smokes his first cigarette, leading him down a trek far from the 'astronaut' future his younger self had dreamed of. It was this very winter that introduced him to marijuana and sex. His fathers business was booming, giving him the perfect excuse to lay out on the beach with his friends and ditch classes when their eyes were too red to show.  MAY 2012. Graduation came and went. Athena got into the school of her dreams, pursuing an ideal future. Ares didn't apply for anywhere and was a surprise to even graduate on time. As soon as he crossed the stage, he was gone, not bothering to partake in the festivities his classmates had planned for the evening. Why go to a party when he had a bonfire on the beach with a small group of go-nowhere's?   JUNE 2014 Going to school part-time was no longer acceptable for the already easy-going family. He was forced to declare a major ( one he picked out of a hat ) and work for his father's surf shack, helping those in need learn the sport. It was an easy job, one that let him continue the lazy lifestyle he had built around himself. Despite demands by his family, this is the path he continues on.  LESSER KNOWN FACTS ... 1. Despite the ignorant front and the lack of direction, Ares is an extremely intelligent man. He spent most of high school on the verge of expulsion and/or being held back due to his extremely poor attendance, but managed to pull through with at least a C in all of his classes. He only failed one class and he would swear to the ends of the Earth it was because the teacher hated him. Nevertheless, numerous parent-teacher conferences amounted to the teacher exasperatedly explaining to his parents: "Ares has all the potential in the world with no ambition." Not one to talk himself up ( unless jokingly ), he tends to let people assume he may very well be dumb. 2. While the rest of his family is vegan and he was, for a time, as well, he gave up the practice when he was nineteen. It was during a munchie splurge that he sought out a simple McDonald's chicken nuggets and decided there was no other reason to be vegan other than what he had been brought up to believe in. He didn't actually care about any of the same animal rights that his family believed in. However, when he visits them, he pretends he's completely on board with eating like a rabbit. 3. As a child, Ares aspired to being an astronaut. His room was covered in maps and books about the universe, his obsession carrying on well into his middle school years. At one point, his parents even painted his bedroom to have glow in the dark starts and planets across the walls and ceiling. Watching a movie like Guardians of the Galaxy brought back the little kid obsession -- secretly, that is. 4. He has absolutely no shame in his taste in movies or television. He's watched anything from Mean Girls to Transformers to Gossip Girl. Some of the above were due to binge watching with friends, family, or girlfriends, but he'll never turn down a movie for some sort of pseudo-manly reason. He's even had a few binge watches of some of the cheesier shows all on his own accord.  5. While he has dated exclusively females, Ares has never been one to shy away from the notion that he might be something other than heterosexual. As far as he's concerned, he's willing to give anyone and everyone a chance at romance with him. It's not something he gets into with people because he doesn't find it necessary, but it isn't something he hides, either. In fact, he has had sexual encounters with two different men in his life.  [/PTab={background-color:#87888f;font-family:'fjalla one';padding:10px;min-height:300px;}] [PTab=TWO] " You'd think that for two people born the same day, only minutes apart, that we'd be as close as could be, inseparable until our last breaths, but in our household, it couldn't be further from the truth. We were close up until we were about... thirteen. Somewhere around the time we went from pre-teens playing Pokemon ( don't tell him I said that! ) in the backyard, pretending our dogs were our Pokemon and their tennis balls were the Pokeballs... to something else. We started high school with a pact: Don't separate, make sure the other never looks like a total loner, havin' to eat their lunch in the bathroom to avoid the lunchroom drama. Guess if fell apart pretty quick. By winter break, we were practically strangers. I don't know what went wrong. I don't know how we went from being two halves of the same coin to being so, so different. We never recovered from it, either. As we got older, we just drifted further apart. I wanted to be a cheerleader, I got perfect grades, I has aspirations to go to Harvard, I wanted the picture perfect teenage experience, right down to the sweetheart and sneaking out at night -- he wanted something else. He wanted to sit around and get high and do whatever it was the boys on the beach did at five o'clock in the morning, whatever kept him from getting to any of his morning classes on time. I thought when he actually managed to get into college with semi-decent grades, that maybe he wasn't a total screw up. Apparently college is just extended high school for him. So while I get a degree in medicine, he's getting a degree in pot leaves and the perfect swell. Sometimes I think moving to California was the worst possible thing to ever happen to us. " ATHENA ESKELSON, SISTER      " I made big, big, big, huge, gigantic mistakes with Ares. I went through this... phase in high school. My mom tried to blame him, she used to get so mad and pick fights with Clyde all the time, but it was never him, it had nothing to do with him, it was all me and my stupid, stupid, stupid choices. See, when his family moved in with my family, I was super pissed, but then I wasn't pissed. As much. I was a kid, alright? A stupid kid. I had a crush and I was such a bitch to him. Oh, god. When I got to high school I was so fucking stoked because I finally got to hang out with him! Even if it was only for a year... Better than nothing, right? So this crush lasted like five years. How embarrassing, right? God. Like I can't even believe younger me right now. He's my step-brother, how creepy of me, right? We didn't grow up together, I used to say, as if that made it okay. Ugh. So one day I decide -- I'm gonna get all dolled up and lay one on him. Totally seduce him. This was only two years ago, so like, I'm still not over the embarrassment of that night. It was just the two of his in our parents house and I'm in this really hot outfit with my make-up all done up and I get all up in his space and he just doesn't care. Or notice. Or something. He's not very perceptive, is he? So I try to kiss him. Which was about as effective as kissing a monk. He takes me by the shoulders and ever-so-gently pushes me back a few steps, the kindest smile on his face and says "Honey, you don't wanna do that," which sounds condescending, but the way he says it... I think I was in love for a sec! Then he goes on: "I ain't into you like that -- which is a good thing or else you'd be all sorts of fucked over right now. See, I use girls like you and you're worth more than that." Like, seriously? I got it. I was a kid in his eyes, but he was so kind and he never told my mom or mentioned it again. I was the only one that acted awkward, he never treated me any different. As if I wasn't horrible.  " VERA ALBRIGHT, STEP-SISTER      " I don't think there's anything I could say about him that hasn't been said a hundred times. Ares is -- and was! -- one of those hot, quiet guys. The kind of boys that you knew your parents would hate the second they laid eyes on him because he didn't cut his hair, his clothes were always ruffled, and he could barely formulate sentences that made any real impact. You ask him how his day was and he'd respond with 'fine,' and expect that to be a good enough response. He never got that that was supposed to be an opener to tell someone about their day. Like really tell them about how school was, if there was anything interesting going on in his life, if anyone did anything funny, how he was feeling, something! Of! Substance! And you know what made it worse than anything? He has substance. I've read his essays, I've seen his tests, he's smart as hell. When we first met, it was because he was sitting by himself in the quad reading Jane Austen. What sixteen year old boy does that? It might've been during class, which gave the whole thing a touch of scandal, but the whole thing, even now, totally confuses me. How could a guy that cares so little about his education, put so much effort into reading stuff most students dreaded looking at? He's probably read more of the 'Top 100 Classics' list than most college grads and it's disgusting. His sister was always the one busting her butt -- I remember reading one of his papers once and assuming she wrote it for him, 'cause she's this super genius type girl, and nope! It was in his handwriting, it was all done by him, and it wasn't even... God, he was so smart and so dumb. He was as good of a boyfriend as one might be, I guess, but he showed the same tact in relationships as he did in school. He was down to hop in bed, he was down to catch a beer, but he didn't really do all the romantic things. All potential, no action. " CLARA JAMES, HS GIRLFRIEND      " We used to be really good friends. Started hanging out when we were... thirteen? Somethin' like that... Y'know, I can't even remember when we started hangin' out, the days kinda start to blur together, y'know? Yeah so... We kinda ran in the same groups, had the same friends, we even dated two of the same girls. I think we both lost our virginity to the same girl, even. Luna... Luna something. Something that was real fuckin' funny at the time because we had a nickname for her. Luna Lovegood --- wait, no, that's a book character. Whatever her name was, she was hot and she had this thing where she was obsessed with being with virgins. Girls, boys, whatever. She was kind of a freak and if I didn't know her type so well, I'd be sketched out, real freaked that I'd have gotten an STD. Actually, nah, at that age, I just wanted a good fuck. She gave it to me, to him, to anyone. Anyway, back to him -- we were friends 'til he got all handsy on me. We were both high, we both got a bit -- it was fucked up. We were fucked up. We stopped talking after that. We don't talk about it, we didn't then and won't ever... because we don't talk. It's just fucked up, alright?  " OSCAR QUINONES, EX-BFF      [/PTab={background-color:#87888f;font-family:'fjalla one';padding:10px;min-height:300px;}] [/PTabbedContent={background-color:#87888f; color:#a29e9e; width:400px;border:0px;font-size:9px;}]

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