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NAME: Atlas Page Simms
AGE: Twenty-Seven
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cismale, He/Him
FACE CLAIM: Charlie Rowe
EYE COLOR: Brown
HAIR COLOR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'11"
DATE OF BIRTH: February 28th, 1995
ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces
LEVEL OF EDUCATION: High School Equivalency
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Agnostic
OCCUPATION: Songwriter/Guitarist
HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, New York, USA
NEIGHBORHOOD: The Drive
CHARACTER HISTORY (TW: DRUG ADDICTION/USE, BIPOLAR DISORDER, OVERDOSE, NSFW OVERALL)
PAST
Atlas was born to a hippie mother who's own parents attended Woodstock. His mother, an avid drug user and free love advocate had no idea who Atlas' father and never bothered to find out. She raised her son with hippie mindset and stressed the importance of being truly free. In addition to being a nontraditional mother, she would actively take drugs in front of her young son, telling him that once he was older he could do it as well. In her mind, she was the best mother she could be, but child protective services had different opinions of her mothering. Atlas was often taken from his mother, put into foster care and sent to live with foster families. Over and over, he'd tell the courts he'd rather be with his mother. This continuously happened through the years until finally he decided that he would emancipate himself at fourteen, so that he could choose to be with his mother without the government interfering in his life.
Despite his ostentatious mother, Atlas was a drawn in child, always being in touch with his softer, emotional side. His most precious memory is his mother bringing him home a ukulele for him to learn how to play music with and still to this day, his initial songs are written on that same ukulele, which he found out his mother had stolen for him. From a young age, Atlas has a propensity for music and songwriting and decided this was how he wanted to spend his future. His mother did all she could to facilitate his talent, letting him skip school for more creative ventures.
When he was sixteen, he had met some older guys from the neighborhood in a band and they recruited him as their new guitarist. When their band had been asked to open up for a larger band on tour they all jumped on the opportunity and Atlas dropped out of school to go on tour, his mother supporting his decision to go. Atlas felt like he was living the dream: no school, on tour doing what he loved without any supervision. While on tour, he met Vann and Halen Blackwell: two kids the same age as him, their father a roadie for the band. The three partied together as they grew up together in their teens and Vann became a good friends, hanging out, smoking while him and Halen and him did that and more.
There was something else between Halen and him, while there was hate between the two, there was a lot more. As two teenagers, they fought, they fucked (Atlas even lost his virginity to her), and they did drugs together. They were as dysfunctional as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, only as teens. Their relationship was as dichotomous as they come: they loved each other, they hated each other, they acted like they were dating, they acted like they were mortal enemies. The two pretended they didn't need each other, but inevitably they would end up back together. Each of them knew how much the other wanted to be wanted and they used that against each other, breaking things off and coming back together. One night of the tour, the pair joined one of the bigger bands in their tour bus and when Atlas and Halen were offered a speedball of heroin and cocaine, they said yes. The two didn't know that they would end up ODing. Atlas woke up in the hospital, without Halen and confused. Most of them who had taken those drugs that night ended up dead or with severe mental deficiencies, and luckily, Atlas managed to come out unscathed.
Word got around that a kid under eighteen had OD and the tour was immediately shut down. Atlas blamed himself of course, but what he came to find out was that his own bands name was actually being discussed and by some miracle, they were able to get booked for other events and tours. Unfortunately for Atlas, he wouldn't see Halen again until he was twenty one. It was like the two had never parted and fell back into their old pattern, as they always did. However, when Vann and Halen decided to try be actual adults and go to school, he lost his tour friends and Atlas was alone once. Their fates were still intertwined and the two would reunite once more when Atlas played a show in Vancouver, where the twins were going to school and that night was the last time the two saw each other.
PRESENT
His life continued on tour and in record studios and he made a name for himself in the classic rock genre, winning countless awards and growing to new heights of fame, but it didn't stop the loneliness from creeping into his life. So the bad habits from his youth continued: the excessive drug and alcohol use, the anonymous public sex he would have with fans and the no fucks given attitude, all with a secret explanation he refused to acknowledge: bipolar disorder that was recently diagnosed, a condition he refuses to treat with anything other than illicit drugs. He still took cared for his mother, who was still an addict, and now he called himself one as well. Even if his professional career was on the uphill climb, his personal life was effected negatively: the heavy drug use had caused permanent damage to his ears, causing partial hearing loss. Eventually, it impacted his music.
He's been going mad with the sounds of the mainstream drivel he called his most recent albums and wanted to get back to his original sounds and songwriting. He told his bandmates he wanted to leave their record label and start fresh and whoever wanted to come could, but he was done. Finishing up the rest of his contract he was free and through another musician, he bonded and decided to join his band head to a more reclusive location to record his next album in Vancouver, Canada to record at Corner Brook recording studio, owned by someone he used to tour with.
