Post by garrett paul carlyle on Nov 9, 2012 21:09:57 GMT -7
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://www.textureaday.com/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/wood-0004-600.jpg); width: 437px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30;] GARRETT PAUL CARLYLE  BRANDYEON | NINETEEN | WESTERN CANADA | 7 YEARS THE BASIC INFORMATION FULL NAME garrett paul carlyle NICKNAMES none GENDER male AGE & BIRTH 27, December 14 SEXUALITY straight OCCUPATION lawyer PLAYED BY ian somerhalder THE PERSONALITY PROUD Of any of the deadliest sins the one he carries the most is his pride. He hates being wrong and hates having to accept hand outs. He feels that if anyone should give hand outs its himself, and he doesn't need anyone to help him. His pride is also something that keeps him sensible, well dressed, and always in good manners. Of course, this is something that he will present to other people, while the darker side of his pride is something he keeps to himself and the few people that sneaked up and see this side. GAMBLING ISSUE In the past he has been confronted on his tendencies to bet and gamble. Gambling has been an extension of his reckless behavior where he'll act out and place numbers before thinking about them. There's something about the adrenaline of the guessing games that keeps him into it. If it isn't gambling, he'll dabble into alcohol a bit for comfort. He has a tendency to flip from one to the other, occasionally coping with both at the same time. It's a sinful balance that he feels is better for him because then it becomes easier to deal with his emotions. CHARMING If there was any word to describe Garrett, it would be charming. Everything that he says, when he wants it to, sounds as sweet as sugar. To those that don't completely know his inner workings, they think that he is a sweet and sincere fellow. That's not to say he really isn't, he just has a bad track record. Often he'll use this tactic in order to get the little things tat he wants. COMPULSIVE The majority of the time he reacts on basic instinct, or on the first thing he feels is necessary. Typically he is the last person to think before he acts and needs to be help back or else he'll jump into whatever radical situation he desires. Because of this, in the past, he has been referred to as careless when in reality he has a tendency to care too much and act out recklessly. People also say that he acts out of selfishness, which in parts are true. He will selfishly do something if he feels like it's better for other people in the end, but often people don't agree that the results would be the same as he sets out to have them. INTENSE After getting to know the outer layer of Garrett's seemingly charming personality, you realize that he has a lot of intensity hidden under his skin. A lot of typical emotions are often strengthened. When he loves someone he'll end up loving them too much, when he protects someone he goes off the deep end to make sure that they are safe. This works in both positive and negative sense. If he dislikes someone he will more than happily show his loathing of them. He'll go out of his way to make an example of how much he doesn't like someone, or else he will do the same for someone he does like. Because of this he is both used to rejection from people as well as the few that run to him. He is so intensely in tune with his emotions that it's impossible not to know if he hates you, thinks kindly of you, doesn't think of you at all, or is falling in love with you. FAMILY TIES & HISTORY MOTHER charlotte carylye | 39 | step-mother FATHER donavan carlyle | 48 | father SIBLINGS kelly carlyle | 23 | step-brother OTHER candice | unknown age | dog HOMETOWN royal, nova scotia STORY Garrett has lived in Royal his entire life, although that isn't to say he hasn't seen the world. Although his residence has remained in Royal, the majority of the time he has been off in other countries "finding himself." Many of the days he spent in other countries weren't nearly as eventful as one might think them to be. Three of the years were spent in Spain, where he would frequently fly back and forth, from there to Royal. It was safe to say he had a few romantic relationships but there was nothing that ever kept him in place. If anything it made him run even more. After those three years, he returned to Royal for six months to be at his father's second wedding. During those years he hopped around his father had found a new love. Garrett was never one to even consider his birth mother his own. She disappeared when he was six years old, no note, no nothing, as far as Garrett has ever been told. Because of this it is something that Garrett believes never even happened in his life. It's a blacked out memory right down to the core where he doesn't even take the time to remember his mother's name. So, in the few times he had met his new family as he flew back and forth from Spain to Royal he had already decided that it'd be a step up from the family he never had. At the same time, he wasn't all too thrilled to find out that he had a new brother that he'd have to take care of. Over the six months that he was there with his family in Royal, preparing for the wedding as well as attending the actual wedding Garrett found that he was more competitive than he thought recently. Being away for such a long time he realized that his father became closer with Garrett's new brother. He was able to be proud of his brother playing football, containing good grades, and even having a steady girlfriend. All that success while his brother was still in high school was painful because Garrett felt as if he didn't succeed nearly as much while he was schooling in Canada. He was supposed to stay in Royal the rest of the time to attend W. Beckett University, but instead decided to move back to Europe, this time to France. He had told people he had enough of Spain and was ready to experience things elsewhere. When his father asked why he didn't want to stay in Royal, Garrett simply said he needed more time to do traveling elsewhere. And after that, Garrett disappeared for another two years, although he didn't spend the entire time in France like he said he would. When he went to Europe he made a promise to himself that he wouldn't consistently fly back and forth from there to Royal. If his father really wanted to see him, he'd have to come to Europe and see him rather than asking Garrett to spend all of his money flying across the Atlantic. He lived in France briefly working at a job center where he would direct people to their careers if needed be. It was ironic since he wasn't one to even have a career of his own. He didn't stay there for too long, but traveled to several different countries, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and even made his rounds back to Spain for a little bit. He preferred keeping things fresh, staying on the move. He would never admit it, but he was scared of being a little too comfortable in each of the places. While he did so there was one thing that was consistent, and that was his constant study of law. Traveling to so many different countries he couldn't help but keep up on the multiple laws that were different from one to the next. It was interesting, as well as something he had to do if he lived in each country off of a visa. Once his visa was about to expire, he really only had one choice left of where he was going to go. That choice was Royal. In 2008 he finally moved back to Royal, although he did not move in with his father and their family. He found a place on his own and took a few courses from Kirkland Academy to help him with his future law career. At the time W. Beckett wasn't completely constructed. Only parts of it where and the specific departments that Garrett needed, he couldn't go to for another two years. Kirkland taught him the basic things he needed to know before he switched over to Beckett in 2010 where he got his bachelors. He found with his quiet nature that he has mostly kept to himself rather than socializing with people. It's easier to study when he didn't have any friends to make complications. That isn't to say he didn't fall off the deep end a few times, spend late nights gambling large amounts of money, getting wasted by himself, often until he ended up calling his step brother in a strange rage. That was when Kelly would find him, take him in and stop him from doing anything too drastic... or at least more drastic than the measures had already been made. Because of the constant phone calls that Garrett has made to his step brother, it's safe to say that no matter how competitive he might feel over him, he still does care. At least when he called Kelly he still was around unlike the mother that Garrett never got to know. It's a strange, psychological thing for Garrett. Rarely, he'll talk to his father, but it has been easier for him to bond with this brother because they have a closer relation of age. Garrett is currently still living in Royal and intends to study further, but for now he is comforted with the fact that he can be a practiced Lawyer. Although the paper work is in his favor, he has been having troubles getting connections with any firms that need a lawyer. For now he is working as a small town one, doing paper work for the more "successful" lawyers, and he'll fall into the shadows after hours to brood. HANGING ON THE EDGE OF HEAVEN |
