hello!
hi everyone!! sorry for the delay in this intro, i went out of town the morning after queue and only got back home tuesday morning! i am actually not new β this is carly, aka @bejoomi and @benayoung coming at you live with a shiny and new nuisance! i think austin will be a fun addition that'll round out the vibes of my wannabe trio and i'm excited to see what shenanigans he gets up to π please like this post if you'd like to plot and i'll message you soon! in the meantime, you know the drill: i'll talk about him and leave some plot ideas under the cut. (here's his about page if you'd like to know more about him, too.)
ABOUT AUSTIN
austin is born in london, england in 2001
he has both an older and younger sister. his older sister is brilliant and his younger sister is pretty much the ultimate problem child
austin is kind of in the middle, but definitely problem-child leaning
after his little sister's birth, their mom ended up having a lot of postpartum mental health problems, including psychosis
his little sister also ended up having childhood cancer. she beat it, thankfully! but between that and their mom's declining mental health it was really hard on their family
his mom never really recovered and is currently living with austin's grandparents (her parents) in london. she's sort of stable currently, but still in and out of mental health treatment facilities. she's now diagnosed with schizophrenia
austin's dad works and drinks too much to cope and his grandparents do what they can to help but they're understandably very overwhelmed
so austin's older sister ended up stepping up and did a lot of caring for austin and their baby sister. everyone say thank u angie
austin loves his sisters!! even tho his dad always pressured him and his little sister to be more like their older sister, who ended up going to med school abroad
austin is a rebel at heart and mostly refused to be more like his sister out of spite. he kinda settled on wanting to be a musician just because he knew it would really piss his dad off. and because he liked music of course....
eventually their family was too overwhelmed by their mom's mental health and little sister's behavioral problems that they shipped little sister to a boarding school for troubled girls in south korea
austin was furious abt this and just fought with his grandparents and dad constantly like how could you guys do this to annie!!
unsurprisingly she was treated terribly there
so then austin left london and went to korea as soon as he was old enough and had enough money to scrape by (when he was 19) and rescued his little sister from hell school
they've lived together in a relatively small apartment ever since!
austin works three jobs to support them. he's an employee at a joint video game/comic book store, guy that holds the sign for a local sandwich shop, and guitar teacher
he's also in a rock band called daft skunk where he plays guitar
despite being pretty busy he's rarely visibly stressed out. he's either super chill or pissed off LMAO
otherwise he's pretty friendly and outgoing most of the time! he's a bit confusing because sometimes he seems really cool and other times he seems like a total loser. who is austin really. we'll find out...
he also has a youtube channel where he posts faceless guitar covers, mashups, and remixes under the name LOSTOUT (it's a play on his name...do you see the vision...)
little known fact is that he's actually a good dancer! he took dance lessons for a while as a kid in london but bailed once he started getting a crush on a guy in his class LMAOOO he was like alright i don't wanna deal with this see ya. and it worked
PLOT IDEAS
fellow members of daft skunk. the band lore is pretty open and up for discussion!
people he knows from the band scene, either daft skunk fans or people in other bands or just people that always end up at the venues they play at on accident somehow
regulars at the video game/comic shop austin honestly does not know as much about games and comic books as someone with that job should but he's good at making shit up so he gets by. feel free to call him on it he is stubborn and will probably do whatever it takes to avoid admitting he doesn't know what he's talking about. he will always commit to the bit
in that same vein, maybe someone austin completely lied to about the storyline of a game to get them to buy it and because he didn't know how to answer their questions about it. are they pissed. did they like the game anyway and think his lies were funny. who knows
plots related to austin's infrequently utilized dancing abilities
fans of LOSTOUT's youtube channel. austin isn't faceless because he wants to protect his identity or anything, moreso to just be able to focus on the music and not making it a whole production. who has time for that!! so he will happily be like oh yeah that's me. would you like me to play the gnarly x wonderwall mashup to prove it i have my guitar on me i can go rn
people he's teaching how to play guitar! even if you're his friend he will probably make you pay for him to teach u man has a little gremlin sister to support. "ok because i like you first lesson's free but after that.....we need to work out a payment plan..."
he also teaches lessons to kids at a music school on weekends so maybe your muse's little sibling goes and your muse picks them up one day and they meet austin and are like damn why is little bro's guitar instructor kinda hot tho...alternatively wow little bro's guitar instructor looks like a loser
hookups...austin is a simple bisexual man and is really not picky honestly
he has a very hard time developing and coping with romantic feelings but i do believe he is capable of it and that would be fun to explore!!
he also probably has an ex or two that he sort of dated but probably didn't really have feelings for so i don't imagine they lasted That long. austin is a dick but not enough to pretend to be more interested in someone than he is
he is unfortunately a great candidate for a situationship so that's an option. he is the emotionally unavailable one that won't commit i fear
he's annoying and gets mad pretty fast so i would love people for him to fight with <3
anything really i'm ultimately more of a brainstormer!
i'll stop here i'm tired thank uuuu
