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Brad Riley

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Name: Brad Riley

Age/DOB: 24

Gender: Male

Sexuality: "Never thought about it"

Physical Description: First and foremost, Brad is fucking big. Just shy of 6' 8" tall, he works out for hours daily, and when he's not doing that or sleeping, he's doing intense physical labor. As a result, he's mostly muscle. Thanks to his freakish height, however, this doesn't come off as disproportionate, or freakishly muscled, but rather a very tall, very tight body. His appearance has been described in a nutshell as "Freakishly tall and furry Abercrombie model." His hair is a dirty brown, and under the right light, almost red. He shaves once in a while, though his jawline usually has at least some fuzz on it. His hair is usually medium length and shaggy.

His eyes are, in contrast to his brother's, a brilliant shade of sapphire blue. His hygiene isn't the best, but his teeth are nice and his nails usually clean. He wears beat up, comfortable clothes and sneakers most of the time, though not much fits him right. Because he shops mostly at bargain-bin stores, it's difficult to find cheap clothes from big-and-tall stores.

In terms of physical characteristics, Brad is abnormally blessed. He has nearly perfect skin, features to die for, and a body most men envy and most women want. Or, in some cases, the other way around.

He has four tattoos across his chest and arms.

Personality: However, everything Brad is gifted in in terms of appearance he lacks mentally. Brad never went to high school and didn't do well past fifth grade. Most of what he did learn up until then has been lost as the past eleven years of his life have been spent working tirelessly at jobs requiring literally no intelligent thought. He reads at a third grade level.

While not intelligent, Brad grew up living in an incredibly rough area in a city called Mobile (fictional) in North-Western Missouri. Living in a gang-ridden city like that he has learned to expertly act on his own, and possesses enough knowledge to survive on the street for the better part of a month.

His best characteristic, though, is his kind-hearted nature. Brad single-handedly raised his younger brother "Jimmy" (

rileythewolfman) when his abusive and negligent parents decided to have no part in it. In doing so, he never once questioned why or what fate cursed him. He simply accepted that it was his responsibility to make sure Jimmy have a good life, the life he hadn't gotten. When Jimmy informed him that "he thought he might possibly not be 100% only into girls" Brad didn't think twice before withdrawing his life savings and using it to pay for Jimmy's tuition at Goldfinch.

Ever a diligent brother, Brad can be aggressive and highly intimidating, though he has a much softer, loving side that yearns to be known.

History: Bradley Riley was born to Mary Stewart and Jacob Riley one particularly frosty December night in the Mobile City Hospital in Mobile, Missouri. And honestly, neither of them had any business reproducing in the first place.

Brad's mother was a die-hard coke head and alcoholic, his father her dealer. And throughout Brad's early life, he quickly learned a few lessons. First off, he'd learn never to interrupt his parents when they were fighting or crying or smoking or doing just about anything. Second, he learned to care for himself. The tiny one-bedroom apartment was constantly in a state of chaos.

Starting just after Brad first learned to walk, he became old enough to get smacked around by his mother and violently beaten by his father. So, needless to say, his childhood was not a happy one. Not, that is, until he got a surprise.

At the age of seven, the best thing to ever happen to Brad (in his own opinion) happened. His mother gave birth to a beautiful young baby boy named James. The baby was perfect to Brad. But to its parents, it was a nuisance. Brad found himself caring for Jimmy as he came to call his baby brother, day and night. When he would cry, Brad would be the only one who could calm him. And when he couldn't, Mr. Riley usually wound up throwing things. And then, at the age of nine, something totally unexpected happened. After a particularly violent beating one night, his father simply vanished with no explanation. Brad didn't question it. He simply kept on trucking.

School had never been the most important thing in Brad's life, but after that night, learning which had earlier come fairly easy to him, became more and more difficult. His outlook on life became largely centered around Jimmy. His mother became a force of havoc when Jacob disappeared, often going into tantrums or disappearing for days at a time. She would forget to or simply choose not to go into whatever temporary job she'd found, and bills often went straight into the trash until utilities simply got turned off and she became fierce with anger.

Eventually, Brad came to find her, late one night, working a corner a couple blocks from where they lived. She never saw him, but he knew what her life had turned into. As she came home less and less often and Jimmy was requiring more and more attention for his growing body and mind, Brad was quick to get any number of jobs that would pay him under the counter. Oftentimes he would find himself in morally questionable situations. But when presented with the option of taking the hard route or getting Jimmy what he needed, there seemed to only be one choice for him.

By the time eighth grade rolled around, their mother had vanished for good. Neither of them spoke of it, but Brad knew what he needed to do. Dropping out of school, Brad took up a number of ill-paying jobs and would often-times travel towards the center of the city to ask for change. This continued until he was old enough to get a real job. And that's when life started finally looking just a little brighter for him. Naturally strong, Brad quickly found his place as a laborer in warehouses down on the south-side, a bike-runner on the west side and often-times a handyman on the east side. No matter where he seemed to go, there seemed to be a use for such a guy as Brad. And he finally had money to put away into savings.

Six years later, that all stopped once again. One night, Jimmy came home late, his eyes red with tears and Brad was, as always, anxious to find out what the problem was. And after what had been hours of talking, Jimmy finally came out with "I'm not 100% sure I'm completely totally only into girls." Not his most eloquent, but he got the point across. In his concern, Brad traveled to the run down city library, with its one public computer. He looked up what to do. They had pills to change the way Jimmy felt, but those seemed inhumane. They had camps to send him to, but that seemed even worse. And then there was Goldfinch. As soon as he read about it, he enrolled Jimmy. So what if tuition was all he'd managed to save up over the last six years of hard work? It was for his brother.

Well, that was last year. Now Brad was presented with the dilema of Senior year tuition. Jimmy had done everything he was capable of and managed to get scholarships for 3/4 of the necessary tuition. But the rest was out of his reach. Well, one night at the warehouse, Brad overheard one of the workers discussing a college his nephew was attending and how he got money off tuition since the man's brother worked there. And for once, Brad put two and two together. He immediately applied online to Goldfinch Academy as a new addition to their security staff. One successful interview later, and Jimmy's tuition problems were neutralized, Brad's moved out of the hellhole he's lived in for the past twenty-four years, and a very new era is starting.

And Brad's thinking about having some fun now.

Student/Faculty: Faculty (Security Guard)

List of Clubs: Detention Supervisor (On Tuesdays & Thursdays)(It's a club for some people!)

PB: Chris Evans

IC AIM: rileythewolfman (they're both rileys. and really, they're both wolfmen.)

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