Name: Dominic Goodwin Age: 35 Gender/Pronouns: Cis Male / He/Him Occupation: High School Math Teacher and Basketball Coach Relationship Status: Married Traits: nurturing, loyal, gentle, passive, repressed, burned out Nicknames: Dom, Goody-two-shoes
Dominic Goodwin was born as the result of an ill-fated union between studio exec Marcus Goodwin and his soap-star wife, Evelyn Laurent-Goodwin. It wouldn’t be entirely fair to classify his existence as a “mistake,” though his birth was certainly unplanned. Evelyn had always been entirely opposed to the idea of getting pregnant, what with her career relying on her good looks, but once she was knocked up, it was too late to do anything about it. She bore the brutality of pregnancy and, in her opinion, she never really recovered from it.
By the time Dom turned six, his parents’ marriage was on their last leg and as a last ditch effort to save it, they adopted a daughter, Deniz. Adopted, because Evelyn swore her body wouldn’t survive another pregnancy. Dominic, for his part, was delighted by his new little sister, but his father… not so much. The new baby barely bought their marriage another six months before the divorce was filed and Marcus Goodwin was shacking up with a newer, younger woman.
Dom’s mother, ever dramatic and emotionally unstable, did not take well to the separation and Dom found himself often picking up the slack, especially when it came to Deniz. Evelyn intentionally kept the children from their father out of spite — not that he tried very hard for visitation anyway. Her behavior on set and off became erratic and unmanageable, and within two years not even being a fan-favorite could save her. The production decided to fire her and unceremoniously killed her character off.
Evelyn found a way to land on her feet, though, in the form of a new, wealthy (and significantly older) husband who had decided to retire in Iron River. And so when Dominic was 9 years old, he, his mother, and his little sister moved to Georgia and left the world of Hollywood behind. Though if Dom had hoped his mother being out of the luke-warm spotlight would make her more stable, he was sorely disappointed. If anything, being an out-of-work, rich housewife only gave her more time to focus on her insecurities. As such, Dom often had to act as a parent not only to Deniz, but to his mother as well.
His stepfather died when he was 15, and though he left the family a sizable inheritance, his mother continued to spent money indiscriminately, and it didn’t take long to deplete their savings.
Dom decided to go to college nearby so that he could keep an eye on his mom and Deniz, and while there, he fell in love with his eventual-wife, Cat. After graduation, they got married and moved back to Iron River, where Dom started working as a high school math teacher and eventually became the basketball coach as well.
The couple now has an almost 7 year old son, Sebastian, but their marriage has become incredibly rocky. Thanks to Cat’s job as a geologist for an oil company, she is constantly traveling and Dom operates largely as a single father. His mother is also a source of incredible strain in his relationship.
