Ben Odell (Bill Skarsgard) was born on October 3rd, 1993, and work as a musician/waiter. They use He/Him pronouns and live in the Fenway-Kenmore Apartment Complex, but they originate from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
tw: drugs, alcohol, violence, (near) overdose
Benjamin Odell, better known as just Ben, has always had trouble following him. Ever since he was a little boy he try to eat his toys, or paint the walls with finger paints. His parents had a hard time keeping up with him, and his two other siblings. Most would say his family was pretty normal, they went to church on sundays, had a family dinner every night, the kids went to public schools, and the parents worked 9 to 5 jobs. Around his fourteenth birthday Benjamin decided he would be called just Ben, and started to act out.
Ben would start fights with his classmates just because he could, and would bum cigarettes off his older friends. As the rest of his family arrived home from church, he would be coming home from whatever party he went to on Saturday night. This was his idea of a good life.
As a freshman in high school, Ben started to befriend some of his older classmates, and he started to notice women. One girl in particular always caught his attention. Her name was Heather. She had deep blue eyes, red hair, and a passion for music. In order to get her attention Ben joined his school’s band. He signed up to play percussion because it seemed cool. He was really bad at first, but soon he would get the hang of it. After beating some drums for a few months, music became something he was very passionate about, getting his crush’s attention was also an extra perk.
Once he gained enough confidence he asked Heather out, and she agreed to a date. The first date was successful, and in a few months the two became an inseparable pair. It was a classic good girl goes for the bad guy situation. She would watch him get into fist fights, and he would clean up when he was invited to dinner with her family.
As freshman year ended, and summer started Ben found a lot of free time on his hands. Ideally, he wanted to spend time with his girlfriend Heather, but her family decided to send her to band camp for the summer. Ben spent most of that summer with his friends.
During a hot July night he was invited to party thrown by a couple of upperclassmen. Before this Ben only smoked a few cigarettes a day, but now he was exposed to booze and an assortment of drugs. He had a couple of beers and a few hits from a joint, and stayed away from some of the harder drugs his friends were doing. As he went to more of these parties he became more adventurous.
When Heather returned home from band camp, they spent the entire week together, and started bringing her to his summer parties. By the end of the night he would be completely inebriated from whatever he chose to do that night, and Heather would have to make sure he got home in one piece. Once school started again, the parties seemed to simmer down, and started to focus on his music again.
Ben and Heather were a strong couple for all of high school, until the end of senior year. Heather was going to college, and Ben was not. Heather broke things off, the week before she left. Ben wasn’t expecting the redhead to break up with him, it hit him like a truck. The fall after graduation was hard, he started drinking more, and hooked up with whomever he could. Ben was starting to fall off the edge, and was simply waiting for the last thing to push him over.
Sometime that fall one of Ben’s friends from high school invited him to a college party, the same college Heather was attending, reluctantly Ben agreed to go, he knew Heather didn’t enjoy parties, however college changed her. When he arrived she was there with a few friends, she was tipsy and bouncing around greeting every familiar face. He wasn’t sure he would be able to handle talking to her again, so he hid outside in the cold, with a beer and a pack of cigarettes. When he went inside for another beer he saw Heather and made brief eye contact with her. She came over and started to yell at him for coming, and all he could do was stand there paralyzed as he took the heat, and if that wasn’t enough, after her rant she ran over to her new boyfriend and began to make out with him. Infuriated and a little tipsy he threw a few a few fists at her new boyfriend. Ben didn’t get anything out of the fight except for a bloody nose, and a black eye.
Ben grabbed his beer and returned outside, this was the only place at the party where he could be alone, and sob. After going through a entire pack of cigarettes, he drank to the point of blacking out. Ben never went back to that college every again.
When Ben was 20 his older sister, Courtney, was engaged to her long term boyfriend. Ben was happy to see her be with someone she loved, but he always felt off about her fiance. One day when they were visiting, they had the house to themselves. Ben walked into one of their fights, they were both yelling at full volume, and didn’t notice Ben coming home. He didn’t think much of the fight until he heard a thud, and his sister screaming. Thanks to his quick thinking, Ben found his younger brother’s baseball bat and started hitting the older man with it until he eventually left. Ben dropped the bat, apologized, and left the house for a few days. He rented a motel room. He got his hands on whatever drugs he could find and nearly overdosed. The only thing he remembers that night was calling Heather. She drove from her university to bring him to the emergency room, and skipped her classes to be with him that day. He was able to leave the hospital within a few days. Right after that he went on another bender.
Ben’s early twenties were filled with booze, drugs, and sex. He slept with women and men, but never formed any actual relationships with them, he couldn’t after Heather, even years after they broke up. When he wasn’t drunk or high, he spent his time focusing on his music. He was able to write a few pieces by himself, but he knew he wouldn’t be able to do it stuck at home, so he moved out of his home with money he had saved up from his assortment of part time jobs and moved to Boston.
Now, Ben hasn’t kicked any of his bad habits, and he still thinks of Heather from time to time, but for now his focus is on music. He lives in his apartment with one cat he rescued, when he was able to gather the finances for one.
Ben Odell is penned by Katie
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