Post by leo colombo on Jul 30, 2012 22:24:47 GMT -5
[/justify]LEO COLOMBO
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
| B A S I C S |
Name Meredith Jay Wilson
Nicknames He goes almost exclusively by the pen-name he developed early in his career, Leo Colombo.
PB Charlie Hunnam
Age Twenty-six
Sex Male
Year Graduate Student
Major Studio Art and Theater
Minor N/A
Occupation Freelance journalist, retired journalist/photographer for National Geographic
Hometown Middle-of-nowhere, Kansas| P E R S O N A L I T Y |
Leo is the lost puppy. Having travelled so much throughout his life, he has lost the meaning of “home” and spends more time trying to fit anything else. As a journalist, he looks at the world entirely through a wormhole and observes it more than he actually experiences it. As such, he is a little detached. It’s really no surprise to anyone that Leo is an Aires because he demonstrates the initiating, fiery, and highly active disposition. His hunger for adventure makes him an interesting person to be around as he is willing to try anything once. And when he says anything—he really means anything. Traveling abroad, he has experienced more things than most people could even dream of. From repelling inside the Merapi Volcano to eating live scorpions to spending the night in King Tut’s tomb, Leo always has a story to tell and is always the first to tell it. Although he doesn’t have many close friends due to his near constant nomadic ways, the extroverted, action oriented personality he poses allows him to meet new people all of the time. He is in a perpetually good mood and seems to be able to accomplish anything he puts his mind to, partly due to his high self-confidence.
Negatively, Leo is the kind to take on a selfish energy. Although his egotistical nature is not on purpose, he has been known to get too wrapped up in his own affairs from time to time. His speech is often self-centered and he finds himself talking about himself more than he talks about anything else. But if anyone tries to point out any of his flaws, he can be highly defensive and try to put blame on someone or something else. He acts too quickly and leaps in to situations head-first without proper preparation, which has harmed him in the past. But for what he lacks in emotional restraint, tranquility, and compassion he offsets with boundless energy and enthusiasm. He is a nomad, and adventurer, and explorer at heart and devotes his entire life to paving the way for others. Although he is always the knowledgeable leader amongst his peer group, his blunt, roguish behaviour and lack of pragmatism while dealing with people make his group of friends very limited. Those who can take Leo’s personality at face value can come to find that he is fiercely loyal, helpful, and has an amusing sense of humour that is both enlightening and charming.
It’s no wonder, between his charm and self-assurance that Leo has had, and will probably always have, many lovers. As a lover of fun and thrilling activities and as the master of his own fate, Leo has decided that he will never settle down with one person as it would interfere with his life too much. Although he can be a quixotic, invigorating lover, he often finds himself growing bored and will move on to a partner every few months. Just like an infant, he is only aware of himself and his own needs, which allows him to quickly change out dates without remorse. His nomadic living style has left him with very few material belongings and he has been known to disappear from time to time, sometimes for months at a time, when he picks up a freelance photojournalism job or just feels the compulsive need to get out of town.
Leo is shrewd and can never lie, not even to save his life. He is exactly as he appears and he doesn’t hide or try and illusion people in to believing he is someone he is not. His honesty is aggressive, sometimes hurtful, even though it is not his intentions. Qualities like subtlety, diplomacy, and modesty just don’t get along with him. Although he has many faults and may be, at first, off-putting to someone who doesn’t know him, Leo is one of the warmest and generous people one could ever want to meet and is liberal with money and things. Although he can be quick to anger in a minute, the anger seldom lasts. As such, he never nurses a grudge and believes deeply in forgive and forget. He hides his own hurt and rejection behind a mask of energy. To him, people are either black or white without any shades of grey and he will think strongly of someone or be entirely indifferent to them. To people he’s fond of, he will do nearly anything to please them.
Leo is forever mentally strong and will always be one of the pioneers. He lives in the present and is a realist, but believes in miracles all the same. He chases success, in any form, and is never waiting for things to fall in his lap. He’s ambitious, levelheaded, and good minded and wishes to leave behind a positive impact on the world. He does not accept defeat and failure can never keep him down.
Talents & Skills:
. Photography and journalism. So talented, in fact, that he was hired for five years as a journalist and photographer for National Geographic. He traveled, with a small team, to some of the most remote, undocumented places in the world to explore them for science.
. His particularly amusing dry sense of humour about the world.
. Excessively adventurous-- as much as it is a fault, it is a strength. His escapades have lead him all across the world and to almost one hundred countries. Even in his new home in Orange Island, there is always something to be explored.
. Is known for taking naps anywhere at any opportunity.
Weaknesses:
. Leo is distant almost to a fault. Because he grew up traveling, he never established a "home base" and had views everything in life like he is watching it on TV or recording it on a camera.
. Excessively adventurous-- a trait that has gotten him in to some trouble in the past (particularly for trespassing).
. He never knows what day of the week it is.
. Has been known to be a bit selfish from time to time.
Likes:
. International travel
. Eating strange, foreign delicacies. After all, the definition of food is known to vary from country to country.
. Photography and journalism.
. Interpretive dancing.
. Hiking. He's an avid hiker who's climbed both Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Aconcagua, among others.
. Exploring old caves and mines.
. Shopping at foreign flea markets (turban hats, anyone?)
. Hat collecting
. Lucky Charms
. Circle Jerks
. Colourful swear words
. Flying
. Driving strange vehicles (particularly dune buggies)
. Guitar hero
Dislikes:
. His receding hairline (even if everyone else is trying to convince him that his hairline isn't receding)
. Hat collecting
. Driving strange vehicles that don't work properly
. When he accidentally laughs at inappropriate times
. Larva
. David Bowie
. Tree nuts
. Boats because everytime he gets on a fucking boat-- the engine stops, it sinks, it floods, a dinosaur comes up…
. Oh God, and his horrible, horrible real name
| H I S T O R Y |
When Missy Wilson heard the doctor say that she had just given birth to a health baby boy, she was floored and upset. Not only had all of the ultrasound technicians assured her that it looked like she was carrying a little girl, but the room that she and her husband, Roger, had decorated was pink, the clothes were pink, the cradle was pink, and they already had picked out a name for their little girl to be: Meredith Anne. So, when the baby boy was born, it was easy to see the disappointment on Missy’s face. Determined to not let the fact that it was a boy in her arms, Missy made the executive decision to keep all of the pink items and name her child after her initial inclination: Meredith. After some arguments, Roger managed to convince his slightly perturbed wife to not keep the middle name Anne and go, instead, for Meredith Jay. Aside from the fact that he grew up in a pink bedroom until he was seven (at which time he finally managed to convince both parents that he desperately needed to repaint and redecorate his room in army theme), Meredith grew up a fairly typical, easy existence as an only child. He lived in a rural community in middle-of-know where Kansas, also called Baxter Springs, and was as creative as any young child would be. He found, from an early age, that he followed his father’s passion for journalism. At a young age, Meredith started spending his weekends at his father’s office. His father, who was a journalist for the local newspaper, would take his son on outings all across town to cover the local news. At the age of ten, Roger had bought Meredith his own Polaroid camera, so, he too could take photos when they went to various events.
As Meredith grew older, happiness meant living in Baxter Springs in his parent’s middle-class suburban home with his only problem ever having been those smart-asses in school who made fun of his name (and they stopped after Meredith punched one of the bullies and gave him a bloody nose). He continued going to high school and, as a freshman, got offered a position as an intern at the newspaper company his father worked in. Every week, he’d go to school and on weekends, he got to go to the press and learn how to use the printing press, talk with other journalists on how to write articles, and even got to start writing his own part of the newspaper: the horoscopes. The smashing success of the horoscopes and the humour, silliness, and downright absurdity that Meredith wrote them with made his parents begin to realize that Meredith may actually have a career in journalism. For the first time, his parents weren’t concerned that he wasn’t like other boys: he didn’t play sports, he didn’t like to get in trouble, he didn’t (at least at the time) have much interest in girls or drinking, but he did write and he wrote well. It was only natural that, upon graduating highschool and sixteen, that Meredith go to school. His parents, who once conditioned him to go to school for business or mathematics or science or something practical, were not wary, but trying to be supportive of his choice to attend the University of New York for a double major in photojournalism and field journalism.
Early on, Meredith changed his name from Meredith Jay Wilson and started going exclusively by Leo Colombo, but Leo experienced limited success in college and struggled to make ends meet by working part time as a server at a local restaurant called Fancy Hat, while attending night classes to complete his degree. He had gotten several jobs at local newspapers, but was fired from four of them for “not being creative enough,” but he never seemed to have a miss in his step. It wasn’t until he was twenty-one, several months after graduating with his Bachelors’ degrees that Leo got his first major break and that was due to the death of his father. When his father passes away due to a surprising brain aneurism and, in his will, requests that his ashes be released in the family’s ancient homeland in Scotland, Leo’s problems quickly grow much larger than deciding whether he will eat ramen or macaroni and cheese for dinner. Along a three month backpacking voyage Leo decided to take in the land that is cold, strange, mysterious and bleak, Leo, when not releasing his father’s ashes across the Scottish skyline, busies himself with writing a photojournal blog about his trip in Scotland. The blog, which exposes his range of emotions that are both exciting and terrifying with a dash of humour, grew to be wildly popular amongst travelling enthusiasts.
So popular, in fact, that National Geographic sent an agent to meet with Leo while he was still in Scotland. Two weeks before he was supposed to come home from his trip, he had landed himself a job as a Photojournalist for the international magazines. At only twenty-one, Leo spent the next five years living, studying, and exploring just under one-hundred countries, getting to see places on the globe that were so remote and untouched that they had never been filmed before. Leo was so in love with his job, spending eleven of the twelve months a year not in the United States, that it was impossible for anyone to imagine him retiring. However, seven months after his fifth year as a National Geographic journalist, Leo had been in Bhutan and, while exploring some two-hundred miles from the closest village, he was attacked and bitten seven times in the left ankle and leg by a Pit Viper, and accident which nearly killed him. Spending three months in and out of the hospital with various illnesses, fevers, and nerve damage due to the position, Leo left his position at National Geographic and moved away from New York in favor of a warmer climate in Florida. Retired at twenty-six with more money and experience than he knew what to do with, Leo decided to return to school in pursuit of a master’s degree in studio art and theater. Although he still picks up freelance jobs across the globe from time to time, Leo has admitted that he had no intentions of ever returning to full-time journalism and, instead, would like to someday move to a remote village in the Amazon and own a banana farm.| E X T R A S |
. Leo is known to disappear for months at a time without notice if he picks up a freelance journalism job. Don't worry, he'll be back eventually. Probably.
. When he gets older, he wants to move to a remote village in the Amazon rainforest to buy and operate a Banana farm. He has never given a reason why.
. He doesn't have pets because he travels several months out of the year, but he prefers dogs to cats.
. He doesn't have any "real" tattoos, but he does have a tribal tattoo given to him by a tribal chief in Sub-Saharan Africa. The chief used a blade to cut three two-inch vertical lines across his spine. This tattoo is supposed to ward off evil and give good health.
. Oh, and snake bite scars make excellent "conversational pieces" at clubs. Women love them.
. Leo collects hats from around the world. Currently, he has 532.
| S K I L L S |
That's ok.| P L A Y E R |
Name Viva
Age 20
Gender Female
How you found us XD
Who else do you play? Chai, Orion, Ari, Alistar, Rafi
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