FULL NAME: Colin James Truman FACECLAIM: Fionn Whitehead GENDER: Cis man PRONOUNS: He/him AGE + BIRTHDAY: 27 + August 24, 1996 LENGTH OF TIME IN FAIRFORD: ~1.5 years HOUSING: A townhouse Downtown OCCUPATION: Remote software developer for a large tech company
MORE STATS.
Nickname(s): Col Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Religion: None Nationality: American Ethnicity: White Hometown: Eureka, California Education: BS and Master's in Computer Science from SFSU
Height: 6'2 Tattoos: Tba (Right bicep and left shin) Piercings: Both lobes but not usually wearing anything in them Scars: Tba
Mother: Joyce Truman (Deceased) Father: Shane Truman (Deceased) Siblings: None Pet(s): None
PERSONALITY.
Pos. Traits: Analytical, intelligent, persistent, focused, logical, erudite Neg. Traits: Pretentious, aloof, judgmental, uncreative Likes: Old PC games, long drives, the beach, seafood, smoking weed, metal and 80s music, live music, dive bars, gouging electronics to look at the insides Dislikes: Most mainstream/top 40 pop, most social media, vegan substitutions for meat, people who call instead of texting for no reason, most stand-up comedy Fears: That his parents weren't even good people, growing old alone, getting old in general, regret, unfulfilled potential
TL;DR.
Grew up in Eureka, California, and lost his parents at just under five years old, after which he went to live with his maternal grandparents one neighborhood over. Was a quiet but still relatively social kid in school, got good grades but not as good as they could have been if he'd focused more instead of smoking weed and going to concerts. Went to SFSU after high school for his undergrad and then also got his Master's in Computer Science there before moving back in with his grandparents and landing a high-paying remote software dev job with a company based out of Seattle. Moved to Fairford to be a little closer to the company and because he wanted to get out of Eureka. Semi-quiet metal head tech boy who can can't produce art to save his life but can fix your computer in twenty minutes.
CURRENT CONNECTIONS.
Dumbass stoners with @mackmontgomery
Fwb with @phoebebaker
Unlikely friendship with @thaddcarter
Dark-sided friendship with @tysonchapmans
Unofficial IT for @aylinerdogan's restaurant
HEADCANONS.
Always stoned but he's so high functioning you wouldn't know it if he doesn't want you to
Crazy fluent with computers and most technology, he's everyone's go-to for troubleshooting and he can even do it over text usually
Type of person you think hates you at first but he's just got resting unimpressed face and is a little judgy but he's not at all mean or unpleasant if you actually talk to him
Unless he actually doesn't like somebody, in which case he's the first one to say something. He's got zero problem with confrontation
Prefers a smaller number of close friends to a large number of acquaintances and can be hard to get close to as he gets older because he isn't necessarily looking for new friends
Will get really excited about a new person he genuinely vibes with though
Really into music and a little pretentious about it but won't necessarily shit on what you're listening to unless you ask HGFKJHDS he's a metal head but he's also super into 80s post punk alt rock bands like Bauhaus and listens to (mostly indie) pop but is picky about it. Forever in love with Lana though
Despite being kind of aloof and not the easiest person in the world to get close to, he's a pretty sociable person. He can carry conversations easily when he wants to and has not even a touch of social anxiety so striking up conversations with strangers is a no-brainer
Has a horrible fear that his parents weren't actually good people. His maternal grandma's always been weird about talking about his dad and he's convinced it's because she didn't like him
Fucked around in high school too much and still got good grades but not as good as they could have been. He was one of those kids that frustrated teachers because he'd do well on tests and only sporadically turn in homework
His personal essay was what pushed him over the edge in his application to SFSU because otherwise he wouldn't have gotten in on his grades or extracurriculars alone
He's a great writer and has always wanted to write a book but can't get himself to actually do it and is loathe to let anyone help him or read his stuff
BIOGRAPHY.
**trigger warnings for accidental homicide, suicide, death of parents
His therapists have always told him how much repressed trauma he carries with him, but Colin doesn’t remember finding his father’s dead body in the backyard one summer morning when he was four years old, and he’s grateful for that. Pills and alcohol, he’d discovered much later, though he doesn’t know what kind and he’s grateful for that too.
Colin was born to Shane and Joyce Truman in the middle of a late August heatwave that brought Eureka’s temperature into the nineties, and with the exception of his dad’s constant battle with alcoholism, life was pretty good in the beginning. Most of Colin’s memories of those days are from the beach, with one very distinct memory of visiting the Redwoods for the first time and listening to his mom tell him about how some of the trees had been around since even before Jesus, which to Colin sounded like they were there at the beginning of time.
About a month before Colin turned five, his dad came home one morning, drunk off his ass after a night out, and hit his mom with the car while she was gardening out front. She died in the hospital a few hours later, with a stunned Colin, still in his pajamas, watching from a few feet away and his grandparents sobbing on one side of her, his dad nearly catatonic on the other. A few weeks later, on a morning two days before the court date, Colin found his dad dead in a lawn chair out in the backyard.
He went to live with his maternal grandparents, whose house was one neighborhood away but may as well have been in a different universe, as far as Colin was concerned. A place where he’d once spent fun nights with his grandparents was now his permanent home, and even though he loved them, it could never be the same.
The most terrible thing of all was that life went on, and by the time he was starting high school Colin had spent twice as long without his parents as he had with them.
He was relatively quiet but always unexpectedly charming when he felt like it, and from the time he was in grammar school all the way through his years getting first his bachelor's degree and then his Master's in computer science at SFSU, Colin kept most of the same close friends, picking up new ones here and there along the way.
Almost immediately after finishing his Master's and returning home to his grandparents' house in Eureka he landed a remote job doing software development for a large tech company based out of Seattle, and within months of settling into the job and getting comfortable with the high salary, he decided to uproot himself and try starting his own life somewhere new that wouldn't bog him down with half-formed memories.
Washington, up near the Canadian border, was somehow perfect. Not quite Seattle, but close enough in a tranquil beach town, and Fairford was an easy pick because it reminded him of Eureka if a little more touristy and populated. He's been here about a year and a half, living well but going through the motions of life and wondering what the hell he's still missing.
WANTED CONNECTIONS.
A few besties
Weed smoking buddies
Computer nerd friends and/or people he's always helping with tech stuff
Someone who tries to teach him guitar or piano or smth!!!
Music lover friends
Someone who's like a direct opposite of him (really emotional and creative and passionate) and can challenge him a little
An ex from FF in the last year and a half
Anyone who thinks he's a pretentious twat
Other pretentious twats to discuss pretentious things with
Neighbors downtown
Hookups/fwb/etc
