Post by kovu on Jan 10, 2010 11:29:35 GMT 10
kurt alexander hunter
sarcastic, competitive, people pleaser.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Kurtis Alexander Hunter
Nickname(s): Kurt
Disney Character: Kovu
Age: 15
Birthdate: July 7, 1994
Birthplace: Bristol, England
Orientation: Straight
Member group: Reluctant hero
Education: Kurt attends school at Central Park High School; his grades are actually pretty well off. He doesn’t try very hard for the grades he gets; school’s always been easy for him.
Occupation: Only the best waiter at Frank's Steakhouse down the street.
Kurt inherited his father’s scruffy look, which could either be to his benefit or to his misfortune - actually, it’s just Kurt’s assumption that he looks like his father – his Dad was never really around much, besides the very rare visits he made, but even then they were very short and quick. There weren’t many photographs of him around the house, either, so Kurt could only draw conclusions considering he didn’t resemble like his mother or either of his siblings, Vitani or Luke, very much. Kurt’s a little on the pale side when it comes to skin tones, not that he cares very much, of course. His skin tone makes his messy brown hair seem even darker than it actually is. Try as he might, Kurt’s features certainly aren’t as fierce as his mother’s or siblings’ are, and he likes to dismiss the fact that his appearance falls on the softer side.
And though Kurt doesn’t really care what he looks like all that much, this is probably the thing about his appearance that frustrates him the most: this softness about him, the way that his demeanor isn’t as frightening or intimidating as the rest of his family’s is. He can twist his facial features every which way to try and mirror the scowls and sneers his mother, sister and brother make, but he seems to fail almost every time. If it was one thing Kurt actually envied about Vitani, it was how she presented herself and could pull off those scornful looks just as well, if not better, than their mother. Kurt wants to be intimidating. He wants to be fierce and feared, and while his tall height might help make up for a little of this, it doesn’t exactly help everything. It might take a lot of effort for him to pull it off – but if anyone asks, Kurt is intimidating. Really he’s all talk and no walk (his soft blue eyes give him away), but it looks better if he can pull off being the child of a fierce, strong woman and the younger brother of a fiery sister.
As previously mentioned, Kurt’s not incredibly big on appearance. He’s not going to spend hours on end trying to make himself look good, and he’s not going to sit in front of a mirror and try on fifteen different outfits before going out for the night. He’ll end up wearing whatever he finds in his closet first; although he does enjoy wearing clothes that make him look ‘tough’. Kurt tends to go for the whole looking tough thing, and most of it’s because of how he was raised. Plus in order to pull off the whole intimidating bit, you have to look the part, right? So while he pulls out whatever he finds first in his closet, this isn’t to say he wears the same three shirts over and over again or goes without: Kurt never had a problem with being supplied for by his mother, and he’s certainly never been without. He’s got quite a wardrobe, but it’s not like he actually cares as to what he looks like.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Best Feature: “My mother tells me everything about me is great. So then why doubt what she says? Isn’t her word law or something anyway?”
Worst Feature: “My eyes, definitely. I’ve got these ‘pretty boy’ eyes that give away absolutely everything, and it sucks. How am I supposed to come off as intimidating when I’ve got these eyes that make me look soft? It just doesn’t work out, and it makes everything a helluva lot harder.”
Something Memorable: “Probably my scar. It’s not as blatantly in-your-face obvious as it used to be, but it’s still there, right above my left eyebrow, and unfortunately, visible. And if it’s not that, then it’s my tattoos, definitely. People also ask about the accent a lot, that’s quite annoying, really.”
Sarcastic.
Rarely does Kurt ever mean what he actually says. He doesn’t have any tolerance or patience for those who aren’t as smart as he is or for those who can’t match his intellect and it should only be assumed that stupid questions will not be tolerated by him. He actually gets quite a kick out of mocking others and finds their frustration slightly funny due to his twisted sense of humor. His favorite types of people are the gullible kind that are likely to soak up his every word like a sponge and believe whatever lie falls off his tongue (though he also favors these people because he adores the attention), in which case his sarcasm is extreme. However, when it comes to his mother and other elders in his life, he tries to keep this trait on the ‘down low’, because in that scenario it probably wouldn’t be approved of.
Competitive.
Kurt has to win. Everything. And if he doesn’t, this is shortly followed up by a frustrated tantrum, snippy comebacks, and excuses. Winning to Kurt is like breathing to everyone else: it simply has to happen. For this reason, Kurt never really cared for team sports (why partake in a team sport when winning relies on the entire team?), but he never took any notice to solo performance sports, either. Winning means approval, and approval means praise, and sadly, praise and acceptance is really the focus of this kid’s life. His mother told him that he was going to be great and that he was just going to be like a man he had never met, and so naturally he feels the need to meet that expectation bar and win everything and be the best at everything so that he might hear his mother talk about him as much as she does Clyde.
People Pleaser.
This one is sort of obvious; Kurt will bend over backwards to ensure that people (namely his mother) are happy. Again, Kurt seeks out acceptance and approval, and he realizes that being who everyone wants him to be and doing what everyone wants him to do not only makes everyone else happy, but also earns him the praise he so incredibly desires. More often than not, Kurt is trying to please his mother more so than anything else. He will make sure that she knows of everything he does right, and he will ask what else she wants him to do, and he likes to just make sure that she’s happy in general, even if it means that he’s going crazy in the process. The end justifies the means (for the most part, anyway), and everyone’s happy once a need has been fulfilled and Kurt has been approved of.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Likes:
- Praise (especially from his mother)
- Proving himself
- Belonging/the feeling of acceptance
- His cigarettes
- Tattoos; he thinks they add to his ‘toughness’
- Winning/competing (but only when he wins)
- Meeting expectations
- His mother
- Himself
- Proving others wrong / being right
Dislikes:
- Not winning
- ‘Games’
- Being ‘outcast’
- His mother
- Letting people (especially his mother) down
- Being wrong
- Rich people (though he’s never been without, that’s not to say his family is sitting on stacks of money)
- Bright, happy, sunshine-y people
- His father (though Kurt was the favored one)
- Sissies
Positive Traits:
Brave.
Kurt is definitely not afraid to go out on a limb and try something that no one in their right mind would do. He’s not exactly fearless, but there’s no doubt that he’s brave.
He likes to test his limits and find out the extent of his abilities, though he tests the waters slowly and step-by-step. He’s not one to do anything incredibly drastic, although things that most people would not do without question he’d at least consider before passing down. However, he does enjoy the praise he receives when he does do something that others weren’t brave enough to do (especially if that praise is coming from his mother, then his ego is certainly bound to swell up to ten times its normal size). So you know that task that you would think that no one would dare attempt? Suggest the idea to Kurt and see what he thinks of it; actually, it’s probably a better idea not to put the idea in his head, because chances are, you’ll never hear the end of it when it completes the task.
Tough.
Though his appearance isn’t always the best when it comes to putting on a show, Kurt can certainly put on a show and not be afraid to get up in your face about it. He’s not afraid to pick a fight because he knows that he can fight; and he likes to think that he will win, no matter who his opponent or what their size. This is partially due to his arrogant side and the fact he holds himself above all others; and he doesn’t always realize that who he’s picking a fight with isn’t always the best idea. However, this can benefit him in the way that he isn’t afraid to stand up for himself and he definitely knows what he wants (for the most part; it’s getting there that’s difficult.) This is his way of proving himself to others, and if he’s underestimated, it’s common nature for him to want to defend himself and challenge whatever was said about him or to him.
Hard Worker.
Kurt does try at what he does; and if it weren’t for the fact that he only does it for praise, it would make him more of a respectable person. This side of Kurt is a little more restricted, though, due to the fact that he only really tries his hardest at something when he knows that there’s something in store for him. It’s sort of an if/then statement: If Kurt is going to receive praise for doing this or that, then he will do his best at this or that. This is part of the reason why he actually does well in school; given, he could just sit in class and slack off (as might be expected given his appearance), but he doesn’t, because he knows that in doing well, he receives his mother’s praise and approval. It’s a win-win situation, for the most part, and in general, when Kurt does something, he puts 100% of his effort into it because otherwise, he probably
a) wouldn’t win,
b) be the best, or
c) get any praise from it, which would therefore mean that doing it had no point.
Negative Traits:
Snarky.
Kurt is practically famous for his smart, curt remarks (ironic?). He has a bit of an attitude problem (though considering his family and how he was raised, it’s not much of a surprise), but he could be nice. If he really wanted to, that is, but the whole ‘being nice’ approach wouldn’t really fit in with his family and everyone else around him, now would it? He’s quite obvious about his snarkiness, too, and he can become quite unpleasant if he doesn’t get his attention. If you ignore him, it’s likely to make matters worse, and this is when you’ll truly see the ‘lion’ in him come out. He doesn’t really care if his attitude offends you or makes you upset; that’s just the kind of person he is. He’s not afraid to push your buttons to get the exact reaction he wants, and he’s going to make sure he gets the last word in the argument you’re having with him. Kurt could literally argue with someone all night – he doesn’t care why the argument started or what happened, but if he wins the argument and gets the last word, then that’s all he wants. Call him impossible, but that’s just how he is.
Arrogant.
When you’ve been praised for everything your entire life, it’s hard not to place yourself above everyone else. Kurt’s head is so big from all the praise he’s received over the years, most of the time it takes an effort to even get it through the door. It’s no secret within the Hunter family that Kurt was always ‘the chosen one’, and it certainly was never hidden from Kurt. Could you really blame him, though? He’s only ever heard how great and how wonderful he was, and he never really asked for the spotlight; it was just kind of thrust upon him. But who doesn’t like to hear how wonderful they are? Over the past fifteen years of his life, though, it’s simply turned him into a flat-out, arrogant, haughty person. His first impressions are rarely good ones due to this streak of pride. Kurt simply does it better: he plays better, he wins better, he breathes better. And he’s not afraid to let you know it. He’ll smother you in his pride and accomplishments if he really wants to; you could say he’s a more than a little on the boastful side. Kurt is the perfect example that you certainly don’t need to be rich and famous to be stuck-up and arrogant.
Impressionable.
The environment you live in and the way one is raised takes a major toll on how that person behaves. Kurt is the perfect example of this. He is the way he is due to who was around him growing up and how they acted, and he allowed himself to be molded and morphed into a praise-hungry, arrogant person. As previously stated, though, looking at his family, he fits right in and his personality isn’t much of a shocker. He’s so praise-hungry that he’s willing to change his personality just to get that acceptance he strives for; all he really, truly wants is to fit in. And he’s willing to do anything he has to in order to get to that point. Given, if he was raised in a different way by a different family, even, you’d have a very different young boy on your hands. Kurt changes his personality based off of where he’s at and who he’s with. It might be a little misleading, but it’s all part of Kurt’s need to feel accepted and wanted. Unfortunately, Kurt isn’t much of his own person, allowing those around him to determine his personality and what he does. His mother has led him into a life of focusing on nothing but being the best, so around her that’s who he is – but dig a little deeper and you’ll find that he’s just like any other fifteen year old boy, trying to fit in and have some fun.
Most intriguing quirk(s): Kurt is always tapping on something. Be it the table, his lap, or a pencil on the counter, when his hands aren’t occupied, they’re always tapping on something. Kurt has a hard time keeping his hands still, despite how hard he tries.
Greatest Ambition: He hasn’t really thought about it. Whatever makes the majority (namely his family) happiest is probably what he’ll end up doing.
Greatest Fear: Disappointing his family. That’s all there is to it, and if he disappoints his family, he finds himself a failure. This especially applies for his mother, seeing as it’s her praise that he thrives off of most.
Irina Hunter always showed a liking towards Kurt. Being the youngest of the family, Kurt wasn’t always so sure what it was that differentiated him from his two older siblings, Vitani and Luke, but it was something that certainly separated him from his siblings in his younger years.
His father, Clyde, was a movie director. He was in the business solely for fame and success, and wanted nothing more than to see his name in lights and have his movies at the top of the charts by the end of the week. But how was he going to find his success if he was stuck in Bristol with a wife and three children?
He wouldn’t, in his opinion.
Divorce papers were signed and not long after, Clyde took off for Los Angles, US, to accomplish the dream he couldn’t seem to make work at home.
Kurt led a fairly normal youth: he went to school, learned how to ride a bike, had friends, and was simply a normal child. But Irina had something else in store for him, something she wanted for Kurt, but in a way, also for herself. Irina wanted to let Clyde know just what it was he had left behind, and she was going to use Kurt to do it. From there on out, Kurt wasn’t much of a normal, carefree child anymore: he was told by his mother what he should and shouldn’t do, and that was what he listened to. He was more of a serious child and took his mother’s words as laws engraved in stone. Granted, Kurt is very close with his mother, but also knows very little about her, something that Vitani and Luke never seemed to understand.
Kurt was and still is Irina’s project, and it all began when Clyde left. She simply had to prove she was worthy to him somehow, and what better way than Kurt?
Every now and then, Clyde would come to ‘visit’ his children, though they weren’t so much ‘visits’ as they were conveniences. They were always rather short and brief, and Clyde never really had much of anything to say to any of his three children or ex-wife.
But it was obvious that in his visits, Clyde also seemed to take a fondness to Kurt. His daughter had been a bright child, but Clyde had a mindset of a sexist person, and considering Luke certainly wasn’t a very bright person...Kurt got the stamp of approval from his father.
Irina took delight in this fact, and was suddenly even more determined to prove herself to Clyde. Kurt’s successes were her fuel: “Clyde, did you see how great Kurt did? Isn’t Kurt great? Isn’t he?”, and likewise, Irina’s praise became Kurt’s fuel to continue being great and the best. Unfortunately for Vitani and Luke, however, their successes and accomplishments were often disregarded and swept under the rug. From there on out, the Hunter family was somehow divided into teams, it seemed: Irina and Kurt, Vitani and Luke. Irina was so obsessed with Kurt’s success that she began to bring Vitani and Luke into it, often giving them small tasks to complete in order to assure Kurt’s success. And Vitani and Luke followed her instructions every time, both desperate to have their own successes recognized and to get some sort of acknowledgement from Irina, even if they knew that acknowledgement would never come.
When he was thirteen years old, something unexpected happened. Kurt’s grades dropped, and he had slowly became defiant of his mother, tired of living up to her expectations and only doing what she wanted him to do. This was marked as his ‘rebel phase’; the time when he picked up the cigarettes and went out for his first few tattoos.
Irina did not approve.
As a matter of fact, when her thirteen year old son came home drunk, with tattoos on his skin and a carton of cigarettes in his hand, she was thoroughly outraged. This was when Irina was certainly not proud of Kurt in any way, shape, or form, simply because she knew that Clyde would not approve either.
Irina swiped him across the face and gave him the silent treatment for close to a week and a half, and though the whole purpose of the rebellion act was to break free of her clutches, it didn’t take long before Kurt slowly crawled back to her. Because let’s face it, when you’ve lived a life of doing nothing but pleasing your mother for the past thirteen years of your life, when she’s not there, you’re purposeless.
Unfortunately for Irina, Kurt had no intention of dropping the cigarettes or putting a halt to his growing collection of tattoos. After all, having older friends in the art industry certainly had its advantages.
Things slowly went back to normal between Irina and her youngest son, and the only thing that Kurt now has to remind him of the entire incident is the scar above his left eyebrow, faint but most definitely still there. Otherwise, the ‘rebellion’ is not mentioned in the Hunter household. At all.
Two years later, Kurt is now fifteen and back to doing his mother’s wishes in turn for her praise. Earlier in the year, Vitani took off for New York City with her scholarship to an arts school for photography; Irina was impressed with this act by her daughter for once in her life, and let Vitani go.
However, this pride in her daughter didn’t last long, little to Vitani’s knowledge.
Irina sooner than later sent Kurt off to New York City to the Collegiate School for Boys for his freshman year of high school, not to have him be outdone by his older sister. Kurt is currently residing with his aunt who lives in the city. He never really knew his aunt, considering she lived in the States and was never really close with Irina, so the situation is obviously awkward, but Kurt doesn’t complain. As a matter of fact, he got his aunt to pull him out of Collegiate and put him into the regular public high school at Central Park East High School, where he can admit to being much happier.
For the first time in his life, Kurt is actually without his mother. Needless to say, he is completely confused as to what he’s supposed to do without her, although Irina does pay for a long-distance phone call twice a week to indirectly keep a watch out for him. Alone in the big city, there’s no telling as to what Kurt’s going to do, much less how he’s going to do it.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Best Memory:
Kurt doesn’t really have any one best memory; any time he gets praised is a good time (which is often), any time he wins something, any time he’s approved of or fits in. Though he will admit to himself, the one thing he doesn’t regret about the rebellion stage? The tattoos. He likes the idea of using his body as a canvas and way to express himself. Back at home, he had several older friends (most of his friends still are older) that were in the tattoo industry, which made it not so hard to sneak an ink or two on a place that was easily concealed.
Worst Memory:
Getting into his fight with Irina. It’s probably the biggest mistake of Kurt’s life, and without a doubt the one thing he could change if he could. If it wasn’t for the scar on his face, he could almost entirely forget about the act, although it’s a common reminder day-to-day that it did in fact happen. These days, Kurt denies its happening, thinking that maybe if he does so enough, he really will forget it ever did happen.
Top 3 life-changing moments:- Dad leaving: Kurt was never close with Clyde, but it was significant in his life due to the fact that he was the only male role model Kurt really had. Once Clyde left, all he had was his mother and two siblings, both of which didn’t care for him too much, which took Luke out of the question for someone for Kurt to depend on.
- The Rebellion: If you were to ask Kurt now, he would either deny it happened or tell you that he didn’t know what he was thinking at the time. In truth, this was probably the only time where Kurt actually had an independent thought in his head, but he chooses not to realize this. Apparently he’d rather be concerned with what his mother wants him to do than do something for himself.
- Leaving Mom: Kurt leaving Irina was the hardest thing he’s probably ever done. Without his mother, he’s kind of purposeless; they’re like a two-in-one package. You don’t have one without the other. When Kurt left, Irina didn’t show much emotion towards her youngest, other than telling him to continue to be great and that she’d be calling him regularly. Which, she does, but none-the-less, Kurt is still a little lost. Not that he’d ever admit to it, of course. New York City is big enough without having someone there to tell you what you’re supposed to do.
Family relationships:
Mother: Irina
Kurt is obviously very close with his mother; although he knows very little about her and to be all that honest, unless you’re Kurt, she’s not a very friendly lady. She’s actually more so on the brutal side; which is why Kurt is lucky to have gained favoritism in his mother’s eyes.
Father: Clyde
To be honest, Kurt cares nothing for his father. He doesn’t see him as all that great of a person, no matter what Irina says about how wonderful he is or was. All that Kurt really knows about him is that he’s a movie director in LA and that he left when Kurt was young. He is held in high respects through his father’s eyes, although it’s not a mutual sort of respect. Kurt still hasn’t forgiven him for leaving his mother.
Sister: Vitani
Kurt knows close to nothing of his sister and never had much interaction with her. He does look up to her in the aspect that she’s such a strong individual and is able to pull off the ‘toughness’ of the Hunter family, although other than that, Kurt doesn’t really have much to think about her.
Brother: Luke
Kurt’s relationship with Luke is similar, if not almost identical, to his relationship with Vitani. If it could even be called a relationship, really. There are a few scarce interactions between the two of them, but otherwise, it’s hard to tell that they even lived in the same house for fifteen years.
Aunt: Eileen
Kurt never even knew he had an aunt until Irina told him that he was moving to New York City in the States and going to a good boys school there. Needless to say, living with a woman he had never met before (and if he had, it was probably when he was very small), the situation is quite awkward, and it’s lucky for Kurt she’s so devoted to her work and is hardly home.
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[/size] [/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Kelsey.
Age: I’m not growing up so it doesn’t matter.
Role-playing experience: Four to five years.
How you found us: The great kings of the past up in the stars told me how to get here. (But really it was an ad. ;D)
Favorite Disney Movie: Peter Pan AND The Lion King.