NAME: March Hare
AGE: 20
STUDENT TEACHES: English Literature
FACE CLAIM: Matt Smith
STATUS: Taken
March Hare has always been odd, with an odd sense of humour, odd sense of style and an odd personality. As a child, March’s parents just thought he was different with his spectacular knowledge and interest in words and books – locking himself in his room, his childhood spent reading books aimed at children twice his age. Usually a child with this intellect would be shy and quiet, which made March’s parents click that their son wasn’t quite right. March’s mouth just wouldn’t stop going, rambling on and on until he had to intervene with physical harm to himself – slapping, punching himself - March’s parents couldn’t watch this happen to their son so March was diagnosed with a mental disorder at the age of 7 and scheduled to compulsory psychotherapy to help ease the intensity of his condition.
Through his teenage life, March’s insanity and intellect alienated him from his peers – his mouth spewing his thoughts, offending everyone he spoke to without meaning to. His only friends were his books and his brother as he grew up; he never stayed in a school for quite long enough to make any real friends before being transferred due to bullying. Without his life being difficult enough, March dropped out of college when his mother died – his mental condition worsened, blaming himself.
March spent months moping around in his home, too afraid to go to college, too afraid to do anything – his confidence sliding and his insanity growing. March’s father and brother didn’t know how to coax him back out of his shell, but his Psychiatrist did. A programme aimed for troubled young people called Disney Study Abroad. They were unsure, sending their bully-prone son on a ship around the world on his own might not be a good idea. But March loved the idea, foreign lands with beautiful cultures – just like a book. Pushing the idea of being singled out because of his abnormality to the back of his mind, March signed up for the study abroad program willing to learn to teach about the books that his life revolves around and meeting people who may be in a similar boat to him, metaphorically and literally…
Friendly - if you’re not judgemental or scared away by March’s forward approach in conversation, March is a perfectly pleasant human being who would do anything to keep a friendship alive. His spontaneous ideas surely would anyway – teaparties, games, utter craziness. If you’re lucky enough to get close enough to March, he’d be a friend for life through thick and thin.
Awkward - his Tourettes that cause his uncontrollable tongue has been with March for the entirety of his life, it’s no wonder he is nervous whenever he is approached by a stranger or a possible future friend – his mouth and mind usually corrupt all chances of a friendship so his nervous persona was bound to arise from the pure randomness of his brain and tongue.
Insecure - March hates himself because others hate him just for being himself. March wishes he didn’t have any of his conditions, wishes he was just a regular person. What he doesn’t realise is that not everyone is a regular person in life and wouldn’t know how a regular person would act.
