Post by Administrator on Sept 25, 2010 19:07:36 GMT -4
Character’s Name: Rex Forrest
Celebrity Claim: David Tennant
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Category: Human
Character History: While still attending Forks High School, Rex impregnated his Quiluete girlfriend, Sarah Pine. She fully intended to put the baby up for adoption, but he managed to talk her into letting him raise their son. After Sarah signed away her parental rights, she and her family left La Push to live with relatives in Georgia to escape the minor scandal that her pregnancy caused. With his parents help watching Emmett, Rex was able to graduate from high school.
Following his high school graduation, Rex and his year-old son moved to La Push so that Emmett could grow up amongst his mother’s people. Even though Sarah had abandoned them, Rex felt that it was still important for his son to know where he had come from.
For much of Emmett’s childhood, he was away working whatever jobs he could, putting every spare cent he could towards saving up to open a deli. But, despite working himself ragged, he still managed to be a very loving and devoted father.
When he discovered his son’s burgeoning interest in theatre, he made the time to drive Emmett to Port Angeles three times a week for various lessons, and paid for them with money he had been saving towards the deli, which Emmett doesn’t know.
Just before Emmett began junior high, Rex was finally able to open the deli he had always dreamed of opening. To date, The Forest Deli is a moderately successful business.
Character Appearance: At 6’1”, he is moderately tall for a human. He has a tall, lanky build which, in addition to his brown eyes, he passed on to his son, Emmett. Due to their similar height and builds, Rex’s mother refers to both of them as “Beanpole”, who also believes that people who work around food as much as they do ought to have more meat on their bones.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
A very good father
Shrewd business
Easy-going
Weaknesses
Lingering distrust of women
His good opinion, once lost, is lost forever
His son
Personality: Rex is generally an all-around nice guy who loves his son very much. So, the quickest way to piss him off is to mess with his son.
Case in point - - Leah Clearwater, his son’s best friend. Naturally, he had heard of her family before. But, meeting her because she gave his son a black eye did not endear her to him. To this day, he still dislikes her, believes her to be a bad influence on his son, and finds her abrasive nature to be the reason why Emmett doesn’t have more friends.
He’s been single since Sarah left, through no fault of his own. He simply hasn’t had the time to date while being a single parent, working too many hours, and running a business. Close to 40, he’s starting to feel lonely, but is wary of another woman abandoning him like Sarah did.
How is your character related to the story?: He doesn’t have that much of an effect really. Rex is there to be there for his son and to run another business in La Push. Also, BECAUSE WE NEED MORE HUMAN CHARACTERS DANGIT!
Sample of your RP-ing skills: Rex sighed in resignation. The meat slicer was jammed again. Why did this only happen when he was using it? The damned thing always worked fine when Emmett used it, and Rex was the one who had taught him how to operate the blasted machine! But, no, one out of every five times he was trying to slice something, the stupid contraption would get stuck. He had been running the deli for over ten years; this sort of thing shouldn’t keep happening.
The bell on the back door chimed, causing Rex to smile: Emmett was home. “You enjoy your day off?” he asked as his son washed his hands in the sink.
“It was pretty good,” Emmett replied. “Leah and I caught a movie in Port Angeles. And I see you’ve managed to jam the meat slicer again, Dad.”
“That’s not fair,” Rex retorted defensively, moving aside so that his son could undo the damage. “I had nothing to do with it…It just happens to me a lot.”
He let Emmett work in silence, but Rex’s mind was far from quiet. He just didn’t understand why a good kid like Emmett would hang around with a hellcat like Leah. Honestly, she punched his poor little boy in the face the very first time they met!
Rex sighed. He had to stop thinking about Emmett like that. His son was a grown man now, and even taller than he was. But, he couldn’t help it. Every time he looked at Emmett, he saw him not as he was at the moment, but as he was in the past. For example, at that very moment, he saw Emmett at 11 years old, learning how to work the meat slicer under careful supervision.
“Done, Dad,” Emmett replied, wiping his hands on a towel.
“Look, Dad! I did it!” 11 year old Emmett shouted gleefully, darting out of the way so that Rex could see the small pile of neatly sliced pastrami.
“Hello? Earth to Dad?” Emmett sighed bemusedly, waving his hands to get his father’s attention.
“W-what?”
“If you’re going to space out like that all the time, I think we ought to schedule you an MRI appointment at the hospital. You’re losing your mind, old man,” he teased.
“Quiet you,” Rex reprimanded in an equally teasing tone. It was for the best that Emmett had snapped him out of that little trip down memory lane. It wouldn’t do to start going all misty-eyed from the nostalgia. “I’ll thank you to remember that when I was your age, I was running around after a five year old hellion and still had the energy to work two jobs. Sometimes three."
Celebrity Claim: David Tennant
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Category: Human
Character History: While still attending Forks High School, Rex impregnated his Quiluete girlfriend, Sarah Pine. She fully intended to put the baby up for adoption, but he managed to talk her into letting him raise their son. After Sarah signed away her parental rights, she and her family left La Push to live with relatives in Georgia to escape the minor scandal that her pregnancy caused. With his parents help watching Emmett, Rex was able to graduate from high school.
Following his high school graduation, Rex and his year-old son moved to La Push so that Emmett could grow up amongst his mother’s people. Even though Sarah had abandoned them, Rex felt that it was still important for his son to know where he had come from.
For much of Emmett’s childhood, he was away working whatever jobs he could, putting every spare cent he could towards saving up to open a deli. But, despite working himself ragged, he still managed to be a very loving and devoted father.
When he discovered his son’s burgeoning interest in theatre, he made the time to drive Emmett to Port Angeles three times a week for various lessons, and paid for them with money he had been saving towards the deli, which Emmett doesn’t know.
Just before Emmett began junior high, Rex was finally able to open the deli he had always dreamed of opening. To date, The Forest Deli is a moderately successful business.
Character Appearance: At 6’1”, he is moderately tall for a human. He has a tall, lanky build which, in addition to his brown eyes, he passed on to his son, Emmett. Due to their similar height and builds, Rex’s mother refers to both of them as “Beanpole”, who also believes that people who work around food as much as they do ought to have more meat on their bones.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
A very good father
Shrewd business
Easy-going
Weaknesses
Lingering distrust of women
His good opinion, once lost, is lost forever
His son
Personality: Rex is generally an all-around nice guy who loves his son very much. So, the quickest way to piss him off is to mess with his son.
Case in point - - Leah Clearwater, his son’s best friend. Naturally, he had heard of her family before. But, meeting her because she gave his son a black eye did not endear her to him. To this day, he still dislikes her, believes her to be a bad influence on his son, and finds her abrasive nature to be the reason why Emmett doesn’t have more friends.
He’s been single since Sarah left, through no fault of his own. He simply hasn’t had the time to date while being a single parent, working too many hours, and running a business. Close to 40, he’s starting to feel lonely, but is wary of another woman abandoning him like Sarah did.
How is your character related to the story?: He doesn’t have that much of an effect really. Rex is there to be there for his son and to run another business in La Push. Also, BECAUSE WE NEED MORE HUMAN CHARACTERS DANGIT!
Sample of your RP-ing skills: Rex sighed in resignation. The meat slicer was jammed again. Why did this only happen when he was using it? The damned thing always worked fine when Emmett used it, and Rex was the one who had taught him how to operate the blasted machine! But, no, one out of every five times he was trying to slice something, the stupid contraption would get stuck. He had been running the deli for over ten years; this sort of thing shouldn’t keep happening.
The bell on the back door chimed, causing Rex to smile: Emmett was home. “You enjoy your day off?” he asked as his son washed his hands in the sink.
“It was pretty good,” Emmett replied. “Leah and I caught a movie in Port Angeles. And I see you’ve managed to jam the meat slicer again, Dad.”
“That’s not fair,” Rex retorted defensively, moving aside so that his son could undo the damage. “I had nothing to do with it…It just happens to me a lot.”
He let Emmett work in silence, but Rex’s mind was far from quiet. He just didn’t understand why a good kid like Emmett would hang around with a hellcat like Leah. Honestly, she punched his poor little boy in the face the very first time they met!
Rex sighed. He had to stop thinking about Emmett like that. His son was a grown man now, and even taller than he was. But, he couldn’t help it. Every time he looked at Emmett, he saw him not as he was at the moment, but as he was in the past. For example, at that very moment, he saw Emmett at 11 years old, learning how to work the meat slicer under careful supervision.
“Done, Dad,” Emmett replied, wiping his hands on a towel.
“Look, Dad! I did it!” 11 year old Emmett shouted gleefully, darting out of the way so that Rex could see the small pile of neatly sliced pastrami.
“Hello? Earth to Dad?” Emmett sighed bemusedly, waving his hands to get his father’s attention.
“W-what?”
“If you’re going to space out like that all the time, I think we ought to schedule you an MRI appointment at the hospital. You’re losing your mind, old man,” he teased.
“Quiet you,” Rex reprimanded in an equally teasing tone. It was for the best that Emmett had snapped him out of that little trip down memory lane. It wouldn’t do to start going all misty-eyed from the nostalgia. “I’ll thank you to remember that when I was your age, I was running around after a five year old hellion and still had the energy to work two jobs. Sometimes three."
