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ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ
Barclay is a misunderstood soul who is trying to live his own life. He likes to keep to himself, not wanting to stand out and bother people. This has had the unintended side of him being a bit out of touch socially with others and people making their own opinions about, none of which are really good. He doesn't have that much confidence in himself and his own abilities, which is a part of the reason why he doesn't like to stand out as he feels that he doesn't have anything good to add to anything.
Though despite how he feels about himself, he is an extraordinary kind boy, able to judge people based on their merit instead of what labels they have on them socially. But ironically not many people know about this side of due to the labels they stick onto him, making him quite the loner, not that he minds. There's also a slight naivety about him that allows him to see past all these labels, which has also given him a label of an idiot, which he's not.
ᴛʀᴀɪᴛs
Empathy Barclay has a large amount of empathy for other people and will go out of his way to help those he thinks need a bit of kindness in their lives.
Memory Barclay has an excellent memory, able to recall things from when he was four, remember tiny details about people he's met, and he's even memorized the features of over one thousand different insects.
Strength It may not look like it due to the baggy clothes he wears but Barclay is built like a truck and definitely hits like one too.
Impulsive Usually when a thought to do something enters into Barclay's head, he does it almost immediately. This has gotten him in trouble multiple times and has done a lot of things to keep his impulses in check.
Anxiety Despite his mentioned empathy, Barclay is very afraid of standing out, wanting everyone to keep their eyes on someone else. He has froze a lot of times in public due to fear just taking over.
Quiet Barclay rarely speaks up without someone speaking to him first. This might lead to people thinking he's being rude by not talking to them and just doing his own thing, making it appear that he's just ignoring them.
ʙᴀᴄᴋɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ
Barclay comes from a family of young pregnancies, with his grandparents having his mother at eighteen and his mother having him at nineteen. His grandmother passed away from a heart condition before he was born and his father is no where in sight, leaving his grandfather and mother to raise him. Since that, he had a normal childhood just like any other boy. Unfortunately, when he was ten his family was struck with another with Barclay's mother suddenly committed suicide, leaving both Barclay and his grandfather to live on with each other.
ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ
Has a bad habit of staring at people.
Really likes insects
There's definitely some deep-seated issues associated with his mother.
sᴄᴇɴᴀʀɪᴏ
Another day, another rehearsal done. You sighed as your fellow club members started to mingle, a number of them complimenting on your own performance and memorization of the lines. Of course you were good, you were one of the top actors/actresses in the club, why wouldn't you be able to do this? Who else would be able to nail this part? Certainly not your fellow club members, that's for sure.
Suddenly, as you were looking around backstage, you felt a gaze on you. You were quite aware of how people looked at you, you were used to it being an actor/actress. So immediately this feeling was recognized by you and you turned up towards the source, seeing a boy up in the platform that allowed people to move the stage lights. The boy up there was just staring at you with narrowed eyes, making you feel very creeped out. But then, another member of the club had went up to him, grabbing his attention away from you as you let out a sigh of relief.
Guess they'd let anyone onto the backstage crew, you reasoned, hoping to never see that weirdo again. Trying to get your mind off other things, you thought about what you needed to work on in order to make this performance another heavy hitter for the academy (not the awards the literal academy you go to). Your lines were already memorized but that doesn't mean you couldn't practice your voice, and the dance choreography could use some work. With those flaws pointed you decided to stay after everyone left to practice on your own.
With that in mind you told the director your plan, with him agreeing to let you stay with the condition that you lock everything up after you're through. He also told you one of the backstage crew were going to clean, but you weren't paying attention, thinking more about the freedom you had. After you got the approval and you thought everyone had left you went to the locker room and quickly changed out the gym clothes everyone had to wear into a more casual fit.
You walked out towards the backstage, ready to nail down everything until you saw him...
That creepy boy sweeping the floor of the backstage. He apparently didn't see you yet, but you saw him.
What do you do next?
ʀᴇǫᴜɪʀᴇᴍᴇɴᴛs
Be very confident in yourself as an actor
Have it set in your mind that Barclay was being creepy
Have a boyfriend/girlfriend (optional dramatic choice)
Be popular
(Just a last minute thing, the setting takes place at a academy with dorms and such)
