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GENERAL
Name: Elijah Bell
Age: 52 ; born June 23rd 1972
Gender/Pronouns: Cis Man, He/Him
Faceclaim: Khary Payton
BACKGROUND
Place of Birth: Riverdale, Georgia, US
Family: Darius Bell [father] ; Mary Bell [mother]
Previous Occupation: English Major [Dropout]
Biography:
Knowing peace is not a requirement for a life well led, right?
Being born in a southern suburb came with it's own challenges - most importantly, keeping up appearances. Darius and Mary Bell certainly worked hard to present themselves as hard-working, modern, church-going residents of suburbia. And the birth of their long awaited only son seemed to perfectly fit into the life they created.
The only thing that seemed to disturb the family idyll seemed to be Elijah's tendency to wander the moment he could walk. No order for him to stay put stop him from exploring, no instruction to come straight home after school prevented him from taking a detour. Elijah seemed to feel a natural joy at exploring, taking new opportunities without hesitation. With how well Elijah performed in school, certain things could be overlooked. His parents called him 'free-spirited', the nickname 'Wild child' was mostly affectionate coming from his relatives.
That was until one day, Elijah was brought home by the police. Elijah had been caught train-hopping, and taken into custody. Getting the charges dropped was hard enough - ereasing the stain it'd left on the family's reputation proved to be much harder. The worst seemed to be that Elijah never offered much an explanation of why, other than a shrug. That changed the lenient attitude his parents had towards his escapades - and aside from being going to school or planned meetings
Despite the incident, the fact that Elijah would end up in college seemed to be set from the beginning, the second one in his family to go. The choice of his English major, however, was not quite as well met by his parents. Even if it guaranteed him a full scholarship, his parents felt that such a major would be a waste of time, and made no attempt to hide it, though they didn't succeed in persuading their son, who seemed apathetic to their disapproval.
Elijah doesn't really talk about his time in college, aside from a few offhand remarks. He doesn't mention what exactly caused him to drop out after a year and in the middle of the night. The first message his parents got about their son dropping out was from Elijah himself, calling them from a gas station over in South Carolina. The shock sat deep, and their pleading and anger did not move their son.
From that point on, the amount of times Elijah returned to his home state on two hands. Instead opting to travel the US, then soon enough the rest of the world, he went about his new life of backpacking and hitchhiking, hardly staying in a place for longer than a couple of weeks.
And though it not could be called peace, Elijah seemed utterly, completely content. Moving around seemed to spark something, though he could not tell you why.
But one has to follow happiness right?



















