[M | OOC] Phobophobia [Midoripickle | Alter Ego]

[Alter Ego]

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IC

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Name: Hoover Tumble
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Sexuality: Gay
Fear: Gelatophobia -- the fear of being teased

Appearance:

Spoiler: Hoover 

Hoover stands at 5'10 with a lanky build, not really having much muscle and looks like he rarely eats. He wears colored contacts that make his eyes appear brown, but he tells no one about this. He styles his hair to look as plain as usual, as he does every aspect of his appearance.
Clothing: He wears a tee-shirt and jeans usually, though he makes sure to keep up-to-date on current trends in men's fashion.

Personality: The first word that comes to mind when one things of Hoover is "neurotic." Hoover has terrible anxiety, which leads him to constantly fiddling around with his hands and when he gets talking, he has a hard time stopping. Beyond his blathering, he tends to overthink nearly everything and once, twice, three times checks everything that he does to make sure that it's done perfectly. Otherwise, he is a very polite and considerate boy. However he can come across as two-faced as his personality often changes depending on the people who he is around. He does this in order to lessen his chances of being made fun of--after all, if he acts the same way as others, they can't tease him, right?

Likes: Fitting in | chocolate | maintaining his appearance | vegetables | horror movies
Dislikes: Being alone | standing still | reading | girls

Biography:

Spoiler: bio 

As a child, Hoover was an outgoing lovable boy who was adored by all adults. He loved to play with other children and had many friends. Every day was one spent in joy.

When he reached third grade, he met a girl named Josie Gladrun. Josie. Gladrun. Just the name was enough to send chills down Hoover's eight year-old spine. Everyone else in his class was wonderful, and he got along splendidly with all of them. . .except for Josie. No matter what he did, be it speaking, laughing, making jokes, or coloring, Josie would always be right next to him, taunting him and jeering at him.

She would tell him to shut up, his laugh was annoying, tell him his jokes weren't funny, and ruin his drawings by scribbling over them in black marker. He would politely tell her to stop, but she would only cackle and sneer at him.

When she refused to cease her constant bullying, he went to his parents, who went to his teacher. The teacher gave Josie a slap on the wrist and told her to behave before calling Josie's parents. Though Hoover was unaware of what her parents had said to Josie, he wasn't sure they did a very good job of telling her to leave him alone. The teasings got progressively worse as the days went by. Each day, he felt his self-esteem plummet lower and lower.

After Hoover finished third grade, he thought he was finally free of Josie. Over the summer, he slowly regained confidence in himself, and by the start of fourth grade, he felt like his old self again. But as soon as he set foot in those doors, fear struck his core:

Josie Gladrun.

Sitting in his desk.

As the years went by, Josie never truly left his life. If anything, she was always there, remaining a constant threat that continually made Hoover's life a living hell. Her abuse went from verbal to physical, and she even got a group of friends to join in with her. She started to trip him, slap his ass, and even make inappropriate gestures as she passed him in the halls.

Her bullying got so intense that Hoover found himself terrified to even show up at school out of fear of being made fun of. Hoover's parents would have to drag him out of the house and push him into the bus and force him to stay at school. Though once he reached his freshman year of high school, Josie had been expelled from the school and instead took to homeschooling. Despite her finally being out of his life, he found himself paranoid that someone would take her place and instead tease him for anything he did.

He felt he could no longer trust anyone, but the need to fit in became a desire he absolutely had to fulfill. In order to do this, he rewrote his personality completely, becoming an observer of the different cliques in his school and learning their ways so that he could imitate them perfectly. Eventually, his studying paid off; he bounced from group to group, rarely without anyone thinking lowly of him. However, the paranoia that someone would make fun of him always gnawed away at him until he could barely fall asleep, keeping himself awake at night as the all too real fear of reliving his nightmare with Josie Gladrun.

This fear got so intense that his parents tried to send him to therapy to no avail. So they looked to the famous Institute of Paranoia and enrolled him when they found out that the success rate of curing phobias was 97%. They shipped him off with high hopes.

Upon first arriving, he was excited and tried to make friends. But he learned that very quickly that would not work at I.P. The headmistress's idea of "curing phobias" was cruel, so cruel that it broke everyone within their first two years.

At the age of 16 he was sent to the infamous Institute of Paranoia. At the age of 17, he realized that he feared two things:

One: being made fun of.

Two: the Institute of Paranoia.

[Midori-Hime]

Name: Demetri Atwood
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Fear: Haphephobia - Being touched, especially by a member of the opposite sex.

Appearance:

Spoiler: Demetri 

Demetri is slightly taller than average at 6'1" and has a lean figure, though he's not particularly muscular, just fit. He doesn't trust other people touching his hair so he often attempts to cut it himself, meaning his hair is always a bit of a choppy mess.
Clothing: He doesn't care about maintaining a certain appearance or style. He simply tends to wear layers or things that are too big to cover as much of his skin as possible, in darker or subdued colors.

Personality: Demetri was always somewhat of a reclusive boy who liked to play by himself instead of being in groups of other kids. However, as his phobia developed, he locked himself away more often, hardly ever leaving his room. He's always been reluctant to get close to anyone, not only psychically but also emotionally. But despite his reserved and somewhat shy personalty, he is a kind soul and hates to see others suffer. On the outside he may seem off-putting and cold, but deep down he longs for companionship.
Likes: Being left alone, personal space, all kinds of music, reading.
Dislikes. Pushy people, women, being naked.

Biography:

Spoiler: It's kind of dark... Because I'm a sadist >< 

Demetri never really had a peaceful life. When he was just a child, his parents were constantly fighting and arguing, until one day his mother left. Without a word, she disappeared from his life without a trace. Though his father was bitter, often voicing the question of how a woman could just abandon her child like that, oddly Demetri seemed at peace with the fact. Demetri lived alone with his father for a few years and he found ways to entertain himself, playing alone out in the woods. He never heard from his mother again… Never a phone call, nor so much as a birthday card.

Then, when he was 11, his father remarried. Demetri liked Christine enough as a stepmother, though it took him a little while to warm up to the idea of having a motherly figure. Still, it didn't stop her from trying and eventually Demetri found himself getting closer to her. However, it was just after his 14th birthday that Christine's affections towards him were starting to become more than was appropriate for a mother and child. It was subtle at first and though it was starting to make him uncomfortable, he never said anything. And then one night, when his father was working late, Christine snuck into his room while he slept. Thats when things changed and his phobia truly began to manifest.

It started with him shying away from the other kids at school, especially girls, but soon he started lash out at anyone who got too close. Still, despite being suspended from school on multiple occasions, he was afraid to tell anyone, especially when his father seemed so happy. However, as his phobia of being touched got worse, he ended up attacking his stepmother one night, sending her to the hospital for minor injures. It was then that his father knew something was deeply wrong with his son and sent him to a therapist. It would be some time later that his father would learn just how bad things had become. His father left Christine immediately after and tried to get Demetri some help. Unfortunately it seemed it was just too much for his father to deal with and upon hearing about the Institute of Phobia, he thought it would be in both of their best interests to send him there. Little did they know just what sort of facility it was...

[Midori-Hime]

Woops, i posted in the wrong thread ><