Post by Elias Weber on Oct 25, 2019 23:58:37 GMT -5
The Basics
Name: Elias Reid Weber
Nicknames: Lies (thanks, Cass)
Age: 15
Pronouns: he/him
Orientation: gay
Desired Rank/Job: Student
Powers: Tactile adhesiveness - Ability to stick to any surface and cancel out friction, including the ability to climb walls. Side effects can include fatigue, excessive sweating, and itchiness.
Play By: Aidan Alexander
The Details
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue-grey
Height: 5'5
Any Piercings? No
Any Tattoos? No
Any Scars? nope
General Appearance:
The first things most people notice about Elias are his wide sea colored eyes, how extremely blonde his hair is, and his lack of height. He hates his lack of height, but remains hopeful that he won't take after his dad and remain tiny forever. Please, growth spurt, come on. He's also had at least one female friend tell him they were jealous of his lips, which he still finds a kind of weird comment. They're just lips as far as he's concerned. He's on the skinny side, which is probably thanks to how much jumping around he does during the day and the fact that he lives off cinnamon rolls and coffee rather than full meals.
His clothing choices are simple and casual: band t-shirts, hoodies or denim jackets (stuck full of pins and patches), slim fit jeans, and either his extremely beat up ancient converse sneakers or his bright blue doc martens, which were hella expensive but so, so worth it. He rarely deviates from this wardrobe unless costumes are involved. However, costumes can include "and then my friends and I decided that the best thing to do for no reason that we should make modern casual outfits for our roles in the musical, or for care bears, or literally whatever" and he'll go all out.
He might be short, but he's impossible to miss because he's all over the place. He has zero issues with sitting on the laps of his friends, or draping himself over the other theatre kids, or jumping and climbing on anything on which he can get a handhold. He doesn't sit well, finding correct sitting posture awkward and uncomfortable; he really needs his feet off the floor. When walking he has a bounce in his step if not outright grooving to whatever music he's listening to (even if it's only in his head). He tends towards wide, toothy smiles when present in the physical world or else pensive expressions while he runs off into daydream world and leaves the real one behind.
He wears contacts and glasses about evenly, depending largely on how much sleep he got the night before. If he stayed up too late he's only going to succeed in poking himself in the eyeball, in which case attempting contacts isn't worth the trouble. But glasses and rain are the worst combination, and so that will motivate him to poke himself a bunch trying to avoid foggy glasses all day long.
Because he lived in the metro Atlanta area he believes he has no accent. This is not, strictly speaking, true. The word y’all might never cross his lips and he doesn’t drawl his words the way his more rural brethren do but for those with an ear for accents there are tells. His pronunciation of “lawyer” with an “ah” sound is one such tell, as is pronouncing “just” as “jest”.
Personality:
Elias is in no danger of ever being popular. He's too earnest, too oblivious, too enthusiastic when caught up in something that catches his attention. He's prone to bouncing about from brilliant idea to brilliant idea, and every. single. one of them is "the best idea ever." Every new song that becomes the one he has to run into the ground is "the best song in the WORLD." And he really means this at the time, but his attention will inevitably shift to something new. Something shiny. For many interests he'll shift back around, but some of them will remain in the past forever, best once upon a time.
He’s prone to magical thinking and optimistic confidence based on only loosely related “clues”. The fact that he’s consistently proven wrong has yet to sway him from certainty when he “just has a feeling”. This isn't to say that he's completely delusional; he's aware of his spaciness and his unrelenting optimism in the face of reality. Or at least, he's aware enough to make self-deprecating jokes. In the moment, when he's exhibiting those traits, he manages to forget that he's supposed to be working on them.
He's sweet and well meaning and naive. He's a terrible judge of character, because he takes other people at face value and is willing to excuse a lot of poor behavior. This can sometimes be a good thing, in that he's fairly forgiving of the more prickly and angry kids who obviously need a friend. But this can also go poorly for him, because he wants to believe the best of people.
With friends he's loyal, enthusiastic, and probably going to pester you about what Hogwarts house you belong to and if you prefer glitch pop or indietronica while not prying at all into your personal life. He'll know exactly which fandom ship you'll go to war over, your favorite band, your favorite cookie, and absolutely nothing about your personal trauma. He might not even know that you have siblings, let alone their names. But in return you have to put up with endless music recommendations, meme texts at 3am when you should both be asleep, IDEAS that may result in getting stared at, and playing Just Dance on the Wii.
He's a good student in a lot of ways - he always does his homework and he consistently makes As in most of his subjects. But he sometimes finds it difficult to pay attention in class, and remembering to bring all the correct materials to each class is often a struggle. That he lives on campus is actually hugely helpful here, because it's easier to run back to the dorm and be a little late for class than to call his dad tearfully and hope whatever could be brought to the front desk before he needed it. That said despite his antics outside of class he's actually not disruptive during class; he's able to contain himself. There might be a lot of drumming his pen and tapping his toes but when there are students trying to set things on fire in the classroom and deliberately being obnoxious a little fidgeting is easy to forgive.
His biggest weakness is adult disappointment. He can't stand that Look adults give when they think your behavior was undesirable. Whether his parents or teachers, he finds this extremely anxiety inducing. That he's prone to crushes on teachers absolutely does not help this in the least; if a teacher he's crushing on gives him that Look he starts fantasizing about running away into the woods to be a hermit. Not that he would ever act upon that fantasy, but he doesn't have a better manner of coping here.
He's a performer at heart, and while he'll act, sing and dance separately he prefers them in combination. He has a much deeper voice than most people expect when they first see him, and thus sings bass part in the school choir although he has a decent enough range he can sing some tenor parts just...not first tenor. Ever. Not without killing his throat. He's usually only in support roles rather than the lead, but that's okay by him - he would even take ensemble so long as he's on the stage.
Your Vices
Likes:
+ Theatre (watching, participating, geeking out)
+ Fandom participation (fanfic, meta, shipping)
+ Memes
+ Books (YA, fantasy and classics mostly)
+ Most people
Dislikes:
- That Dumbledore/Grindelwald isn't actually on screen in the Fantastic Beasts movies
- Books that don't say what the plot is anywhere on the dust jacket
- Getting into a book/series/whatever with NO FANDOM
- Being told that the music genres he discusses aren't REAL
- How boring most bass parts are
Strengths:
+ Performing (singing, dancing, acting)
+ Fandom jargon
+ Off the wall ideas
+ Knows 3535789735 different bands in just about every genre
+ High energy
+ Earnest
Weaknesses:
-Impulse control
-Easy to distract, unless he's fixating in which case he'll never let it go
-Excitable
-Absorbed fanfiction tropes as being accurate to real life
-Disapproval from authority figures
-Endless string of unrequited crushes
-loud
Family Ties
Father: Harrison Weber (39 - software engineer)
Mother: Cynthia Weber (41 - OBGYN)
Siblings: Cassandra Weber (16, powered) Audrey Weber (14, powered)
Spouse/Partner: None
Any Other Important People:
Arthur and Phyllis (powered) Weber (grandparents)
Harold and Laura Lindmann (grandparents - both powered)
Sheila and Derek Funk (both powered)- aunt and uncle, Chloe and Dylan Funk (cousins aged 12 - powered and 10)
Kimberly and Aaron (powered) Lindmann - aunt and uncle
History
Elias grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta. To be more precise, he grew up in the wealthy enclave of Sandy Springs. The income inequality was stark, with numerous private schools and a total of two public high schools, both of which were Charters rather than fully the responsibility of the city. Elias occupied that rare space in the middle, his parents not quite wealthy enough to send three kids through the private school system but staggeringly wealthy compared to roughly two thirds of the kids who attended public school with him. This is something he's tangentially aware of, although politics aren't his interest the way they are his older sister. It isn't that he doesn't care at all - he does, especially given how they effect him - but he prefers to spend his energy on things that make him happy.
There are metahumans on both sides of the family, although it skipped both of his parents. His mother's older brother and younger sister both attended Hammel, as did both her parents, while his paternal grandmother is a Hammel alumni. Because of this it was very little surprise when each and every one of the Weber siblings manifested in quick succession. Cassandra manifested at 13, and had only been there for three months when Elias was sent after her. And then Audrey joined them almost a year to the day after Cass had moved. Pilot Ridge is vastly different from Sandy Springs, but not necessarily in a bad way. There were far less Trump signs in Pilot Ridge than in their neighborhood when they went home on break. There's also a smaller Jewish population, but it's not non-existent. The biggest adjustment was that personal life and school life don't have as much separation, but that's actually okay because that means it's easier to spend time with friends - no more having to ask their parents if you can see them in the evenings when they're right down the hall, or in another dorm.
The Webers are Jewish, although lax about observance. They tend towards High Holy Days and then not a lot else despite being very proud of their heritage. Despite this Elias is quick to inform people that he's in theatre because he's Jewish, not because he's gay, please get your stereotypes right. In fact, granddad Arthur was also a theatre kid in his youth, and he's encouraged Elias from preschool onward. Of course it's important to drive an hour to watch your five year old grandchild go the wrong direction across the stage while dressed as a tree. And, now, Arthur drags Phyllis with him across states to come to Hammel's spring performances every. year. Because retirement means he can do this. He'll shuffle all his other obligations around in order to make it. The rest of the family, too, take trips up to Vermont to visit - it isn't only the kids returning home for school breaks. Summer 2019 there was a whole family reunion up in the Vermont mountains to celebrate Chloe's manifestation, a sort of send off for her as she joined her older cousins.
There's also exactly zero cishet people in his immediate family, which in a way kind of thrills him. It's nice not to be alone. Both parents are bisexual, which was one reason they bonded (if not the only, or most important, reason). Their mother still keeps in touch with her college girlfriend, in fact. Cassandra is lesbian, and Audrey is genderfluid although as they haven't gone in for the more expected androgynous look people misgender them occasionally. This is quickly rectified if either of their older siblings are present, though. The older two Webers are going to defend their baby sibling's identity fiercely. Coming out to his family was essentially painless, one of those things that really was just a matter of talking about cute guys instead of girls, and his family accepted this without it becoming a big deal. And then Cass mentioned her girlfriend, and then Audrey asked not to be referred to as she, and that was that. School has been a little more difficult in this regard only because the student body comes from all over the United States. But as overall the culture is open enough that there are out and proud teachers and other out and proud students the kids who have a problem with this are shut down pretty quickly most of the time.
He's not entirely sure what he wants to do upon graduation; he truly can't envision a life outside of performing, but community theatre would scratch that itch just as well as busing tables in Manhattan while fighting for any sliver of a role. He's considered drama teacher as a path, but he's still young enough that he's taking a wait and see attitude on that. He might attempt to scrabble his way into ensemble and background roles professionally before he gives up on that dream entirely.
There are metahumans on both sides of the family, although it skipped both of his parents. His mother's older brother and younger sister both attended Hammel, as did both her parents, while his paternal grandmother is a Hammel alumni. Because of this it was very little surprise when each and every one of the Weber siblings manifested in quick succession. Cassandra manifested at 13, and had only been there for three months when Elias was sent after her. And then Audrey joined them almost a year to the day after Cass had moved. Pilot Ridge is vastly different from Sandy Springs, but not necessarily in a bad way. There were far less Trump signs in Pilot Ridge than in their neighborhood when they went home on break. There's also a smaller Jewish population, but it's not non-existent. The biggest adjustment was that personal life and school life don't have as much separation, but that's actually okay because that means it's easier to spend time with friends - no more having to ask their parents if you can see them in the evenings when they're right down the hall, or in another dorm.
The Webers are Jewish, although lax about observance. They tend towards High Holy Days and then not a lot else despite being very proud of their heritage. Despite this Elias is quick to inform people that he's in theatre because he's Jewish, not because he's gay, please get your stereotypes right. In fact, granddad Arthur was also a theatre kid in his youth, and he's encouraged Elias from preschool onward. Of course it's important to drive an hour to watch your five year old grandchild go the wrong direction across the stage while dressed as a tree. And, now, Arthur drags Phyllis with him across states to come to Hammel's spring performances every. year. Because retirement means he can do this. He'll shuffle all his other obligations around in order to make it. The rest of the family, too, take trips up to Vermont to visit - it isn't only the kids returning home for school breaks. Summer 2019 there was a whole family reunion up in the Vermont mountains to celebrate Chloe's manifestation, a sort of send off for her as she joined her older cousins.
There's also exactly zero cishet people in his immediate family, which in a way kind of thrills him. It's nice not to be alone. Both parents are bisexual, which was one reason they bonded (if not the only, or most important, reason). Their mother still keeps in touch with her college girlfriend, in fact. Cassandra is lesbian, and Audrey is genderfluid although as they haven't gone in for the more expected androgynous look people misgender them occasionally. This is quickly rectified if either of their older siblings are present, though. The older two Webers are going to defend their baby sibling's identity fiercely. Coming out to his family was essentially painless, one of those things that really was just a matter of talking about cute guys instead of girls, and his family accepted this without it becoming a big deal. And then Cass mentioned her girlfriend, and then Audrey asked not to be referred to as she, and that was that. School has been a little more difficult in this regard only because the student body comes from all over the United States. But as overall the culture is open enough that there are out and proud teachers and other out and proud students the kids who have a problem with this are shut down pretty quickly most of the time.
He's not entirely sure what he wants to do upon graduation; he truly can't envision a life outside of performing, but community theatre would scratch that itch just as well as busing tables in Manhattan while fighting for any sliver of a role. He's considered drama teacher as a path, but he's still young enough that he's taking a wait and see attitude on that. He might attempt to scrabble his way into ensemble and background roles professionally before he gives up on that dream entirely.
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