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Name: Alan Johnson
Nicknames/stage names/ street names: People keep trying to call him Al but he really just prefers Alan
Age: 30. Born May 9, 1920
Personality (A general synopsis): Alan is kind of complicated, but then again who isn't? He's fairly reserved but not unfriendly, and he's a bit of a self-loathing gay man. He is straight-passing in both looks and attitude, and it's only on his lowest days that he considers pursuing male companionship and otherwise mostly just sticks to himself. The war changed him but not as badly as some, and his attitude overall is a fairly positive, if lonely, one. He's protective of people he cares about and likes to feel like he can look out for folks. There's nothing he hates more than feeling useless. He drinks more than he probably should, but it dulls the ache of his leg injury and his loneliness, and sometimes it gives him enough courage to pursue the company of a man for the night, but not enough courage to stick around in the morning. He doesn't have any great aspirations, mostly focusing on making it through one day at a time. His coworkers and customers all like him because he's fairly easygoing and doesn't cause trouble.
Appearance: Alan has short, dark brown hair and honey-coloured eyes, and a light smattering of freckles that has garnered some compliments in the past. He keeps himself clean-shaven, one of a few habits from his army days. His skin is fairly tanned and his hands are rough from manual labour. He is pretty fit, but not as much as he used to be. He has a fairly gruesome scar on his right leg and a very noticeable limp when he walks. He refuses to use a cane.
Height: 5'10
Weight: 160
Professional Occupation: Car Mechanic
Bio: Alan was a bit shy as a kid and he got roughed up a few times as a result, so then he overcompensated in later school years by being overly cocky and outgoing. He got a bit of a reputation for stringing girls along and dropping them as soon as they responded to his advances, but it was actually during this period of his life that he realized he was gay. He was NOT happy with this realization, and he tried to deny it and started properly seeing a girl in his class, Mary, and they got married shortly after they graduated. He was deeply unhappy, but his family loved his wife and he had no inclination to out himself as gay and so resigned himself to a fairly bland and loveless marriage - he liked the girl well enough that the thought of spending the rest of his life with her wasn't as bad as the thought of what would happen if he outed himself to his family. Perhaps luckily for him, in a way, he was drafted before the two of them had any children and so off to war he went.
It was during the war that he developed feelings for one of his squadmates, Peter, something he tried to pass off as simply being close to someone due to shared life-threatening situations and the trust that builds from that, but eventually he couldn't deny it any longer and he approached the other man about it. This was not a good idea. While Peter didn't report him, it drove a wedge between them that couldn't be overcome. Eventually, Peter asked to be transferred to a different troop, and through the grapevine a year later Alan heard that he had been killed in the line of duty.
It was the spring of '45, 4 years after being drafted and as it turns out only months before the end of the war, that Alan got into a close combat exchange with an enemy soldier. After a brief scuffle during which he sustained fairly serious but recoverable injuries that he almost took a shot to the chest but was able to knock the gun down, taking it to the leg instead. He killed the enemy soldier, and his face still haunts him. He was able to be seen by a medic before he bled out, but the injury put him out of commission - he was discharged and gifted a permanent limp as a reminder of his time served.
Things were tense between him and Mary when he returned and eventually she came clean with him - while he was away she had grown to love a different man, a man who clearly loved her back in ways that Alan himself never had. Frankly, Alan was relieved, but he put up a good show of feeling affronted. The two of them separated and Mary went off with her new man, and his family were all very sympathetic. They still believe him to be mourning her infidelity, which is quite alright with him, as it keeps them off his back about when he's going to actually settle down and have a family himself. As it is, he's not quite enjoying the solitude but he feels it's easier to be alone than to face rejection and loss he had with Peter.
He got a job as a car mechanic and it pays well enough to get by and nobody at the shop cares that he has a limp. The horns scare the shit out of him every time, and he still struggles some days with melancholy and loneliness, but he refuses to let it get him. In the years since the war he's known of a few of his companions who have gone to dark places, and one who even took his own life, and he is adamant that he will not let that happen to him. He's been more or less successful.
Quotes: "I'll take care of it."
"Let me fix that."
"No need to make a big thing about it."
"At least one."
"I prefer Alan."
(Am I doing this right? Are they like, character quotes or famous people quotes that fit the character? lmao)
Playlist: The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening
Live and Die - The Avett Brothers
The Call - Regina Spektor
My Eyes (Penny's verses mostly, but sometimes Horrible's verses) - Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
(Are these supposed to be songs that represent the character, or songs the character would listen to? I treated it like the former, but if it's really the latter I can totally change it!)
Please let me know if things are ok or need to be changed! I found a picture that would work for him but I don't know how to add it, haha.
Nicknames/stage names/ street names: People keep trying to call him Al but he really just prefers Alan
Age: 30. Born May 9, 1920
Personality (A general synopsis): Alan is kind of complicated, but then again who isn't? He's fairly reserved but not unfriendly, and he's a bit of a self-loathing gay man. He is straight-passing in both looks and attitude, and it's only on his lowest days that he considers pursuing male companionship and otherwise mostly just sticks to himself. The war changed him but not as badly as some, and his attitude overall is a fairly positive, if lonely, one. He's protective of people he cares about and likes to feel like he can look out for folks. There's nothing he hates more than feeling useless. He drinks more than he probably should, but it dulls the ache of his leg injury and his loneliness, and sometimes it gives him enough courage to pursue the company of a man for the night, but not enough courage to stick around in the morning. He doesn't have any great aspirations, mostly focusing on making it through one day at a time. His coworkers and customers all like him because he's fairly easygoing and doesn't cause trouble.
Appearance: Alan has short, dark brown hair and honey-coloured eyes, and a light smattering of freckles that has garnered some compliments in the past. He keeps himself clean-shaven, one of a few habits from his army days. His skin is fairly tanned and his hands are rough from manual labour. He is pretty fit, but not as much as he used to be. He has a fairly gruesome scar on his right leg and a very noticeable limp when he walks. He refuses to use a cane.
Height: 5'10
Weight: 160
Professional Occupation: Car Mechanic
Bio: Alan was a bit shy as a kid and he got roughed up a few times as a result, so then he overcompensated in later school years by being overly cocky and outgoing. He got a bit of a reputation for stringing girls along and dropping them as soon as they responded to his advances, but it was actually during this period of his life that he realized he was gay. He was NOT happy with this realization, and he tried to deny it and started properly seeing a girl in his class, Mary, and they got married shortly after they graduated. He was deeply unhappy, but his family loved his wife and he had no inclination to out himself as gay and so resigned himself to a fairly bland and loveless marriage - he liked the girl well enough that the thought of spending the rest of his life with her wasn't as bad as the thought of what would happen if he outed himself to his family. Perhaps luckily for him, in a way, he was drafted before the two of them had any children and so off to war he went.
It was during the war that he developed feelings for one of his squadmates, Peter, something he tried to pass off as simply being close to someone due to shared life-threatening situations and the trust that builds from that, but eventually he couldn't deny it any longer and he approached the other man about it. This was not a good idea. While Peter didn't report him, it drove a wedge between them that couldn't be overcome. Eventually, Peter asked to be transferred to a different troop, and through the grapevine a year later Alan heard that he had been killed in the line of duty.
It was the spring of '45, 4 years after being drafted and as it turns out only months before the end of the war, that Alan got into a close combat exchange with an enemy soldier. After a brief scuffle during which he sustained fairly serious but recoverable injuries that he almost took a shot to the chest but was able to knock the gun down, taking it to the leg instead. He killed the enemy soldier, and his face still haunts him. He was able to be seen by a medic before he bled out, but the injury put him out of commission - he was discharged and gifted a permanent limp as a reminder of his time served.
Things were tense between him and Mary when he returned and eventually she came clean with him - while he was away she had grown to love a different man, a man who clearly loved her back in ways that Alan himself never had. Frankly, Alan was relieved, but he put up a good show of feeling affronted. The two of them separated and Mary went off with her new man, and his family were all very sympathetic. They still believe him to be mourning her infidelity, which is quite alright with him, as it keeps them off his back about when he's going to actually settle down and have a family himself. As it is, he's not quite enjoying the solitude but he feels it's easier to be alone than to face rejection and loss he had with Peter.
He got a job as a car mechanic and it pays well enough to get by and nobody at the shop cares that he has a limp. The horns scare the shit out of him every time, and he still struggles some days with melancholy and loneliness, but he refuses to let it get him. In the years since the war he's known of a few of his companions who have gone to dark places, and one who even took his own life, and he is adamant that he will not let that happen to him. He's been more or less successful.
Quotes: "I'll take care of it."
"Let me fix that."
"No need to make a big thing about it."
"At least one."
"I prefer Alan."
(Am I doing this right? Are they like, character quotes or famous people quotes that fit the character? lmao)
Playlist: The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening
Live and Die - The Avett Brothers
The Call - Regina Spektor
My Eyes (Penny's verses mostly, but sometimes Horrible's verses) - Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
(Are these supposed to be songs that represent the character, or songs the character would listen to? I treated it like the former, but if it's really the latter I can totally change it!)
Please let me know if things are ok or need to be changed! I found a picture that would work for him but I don't know how to add it, haha.
