    hello guys!! iâm anya and i havenât been part of a group rp in a while even though they are my favs. iâve been eyeing this roleplay for a while now because i adooreee older fcs and characters so yâall won me over with â25+ only charactersâ honestly my heart started singing. anyway, i play @gavinirwin & @kitseystrauss. i can be a lil awkward, please forgive me, but i promise iâm super excited about plotting kitsey & gavin with all over you!!! Fair warning: I ramble a lot. â¨Â
â â ( charlie hunnam ) have you seen gavin irwin in the big apple? i think they're thirty-four years old and live over in brooklyn. theyâve been living in new york for thirteen years and word is they work as a cook. he is known as the phoenix .Â
LONG STORY SHORT: Gavin had a rough childhood, and was definitely not someone your parents would want you to hang out with when he was younger. He had a massive attitude problem and serious unresolved issues, but once he was determined to get over them he never looked back and heâs a pretty chill dude these days.
He has two siblings, an older brother who died when he was around 17, and a half-sister who is roughly 8 years his junior (his half-sister is part of the reason why he has learnt that you canât save everyone and go back to the same people over again and consistently make the same mistakes hoping for a different outcome).
Up until his early twenties he really was someone with a broad circle of acquaintances and a very small circle or friends all of which were people (himself included) that youâd want to street clear of. He was never a genuinely bad person, itâs just that the environment in which he was raised, especially in his teens, gave him a very wrong idea of how a person, especially a boy from his social class, should go about in the world and conditioned him to act in a certain way. Even if he did help around the house a lot (as did some of his other male friends because thereâs no money for sitters or maids) he was raised (not by his family in particular but the community as a whole) with a very stereotypical notion of what boys are supposed to act like. I donât think he ever thought too much of it, if it was right or wrong or just plain backyards thinking, it was just his reality.Â
He went through three decisive moments which essentially shaped his life. The first one was his motherâs death, he was around 8 and he processed it the way a young boy raised in the environment he was raised in would, plus he had a slightly older brother and it was easy to just follow his footsteps. Close as they were, their bonding was often over the wrong things or in the wrong way, and while they were already close as young children after their motherâs death they became even closer and that was also the time they started taking the art of being troublemakers to another level.
The second one was not going to college. He made it there, and on a scholarship (and he was a year younger than most of his peers and all because he got into high school a year earlier), but pretty much blew that and just walked away back home. It was an incredibly stupid thing for him to do and he did it for a variety of reasons the majority of which were excuses and/or based on inner fears (of inadequacy, not being able to fit in, etc etc). For a while, particularly while he was trying to get his shit together, this was a part of his past that deeply disturbed him and he beat himself up about it constantly but eventually he reached the conclusion that stupid as his actions were they got him where he is, so he sort of feels like it just had to happen.
The third one was his brotherâs death. He died in a bar fight, or more accurately after it, and Gavin was there and he was involved. His brotherâs passing really made him go off the deep end - extremely bad decisions were made during that time and a couple of those landed him in juvie. Even though thatâs obviously not a good thing to have on your CV, or to just share with anyone letâs be honest, it truly the only time in his life where he seriously acted out, crashed, and then was able to evaluate himself, and angry as he was when he initially got there, being surrounded by people who had done worse things than him only made him realize that their situations and futures werenât things he wanted for himself - they werenât things he wanted to conform himself to. After a couple initial fights, he did really well while he was inside, and he was genuinely determined to nurture that new of way thinking he had discovered while he was doing his time.Â
Easier said (or thought) than done, however. He didnât have any money of his own when he got out, nor did he have proper support, and on top of all of the things he had left on hold prior to going to juvie his half-sister also started getting herself into serious trouble. Itâs not easy to get out of the place in which he was raised, either youâre lucky or risk it all or the circumstances just arenât in your favor and no one is really rooting for you. He had some street debts to pay (both his and his brotherâs), he had actual bills to help paying⌠it just wasnât a good situation.Â
So he got a job and spent years just trying to do what he had to do to get people off his back (and it was around during this period that he started cooking at one of his jobs in a shitty joint). When he was 22 he nearly landed himself in jail because of his half-sister - at that point she was really young, she didnât have a record and he didnât want her to mess up her life so early on and potentially in such a permanent manner. Luckily he got away with community service (and his service included working with food). His half-sister apologized to him a lot, and she was thankful, but she didnât really do anything to change her behavior. This whole affair was essentially his final drop; he was absolutely done with that whole environment and his situation, and he realised that he needed to go elsewhere, do or try something else, because if he stayed as much as he wanted to turn his life around it wasnât going to happen.
The forth moment was moving his native Philadelphia to New York. He lives with a coworker now but at first he stayed with an old acquaintance who used to be extremely close to his brother (and by extremely close I mean, more than friends extremely close) and who was still up to his old tricks but he was very welcoming and didnât bother Gavin in the least. Plus they had opposite schedules which Gavin found perfect because for most of the time he felt like the place was his alone (which was extremely important because it gave him time and space to develop and better himself as an individual).
He works at an okay restaurant as a cook - not famous in the least but pretty decent and has a lot of traffic.
Listen.......................... the world has kind of ended for Gavin many times and thatâs part of the reason why he has such a lax âwell, thatâs life, roll with itâ attitude. Heâs just a guy living his life not thinking too much about things or worrying about the future.Â
PS: low-key really want a âwe had a crappy blind date and ended up just having sex and itâs been about a month and i just got a text from u and wait what youâre pregnant??â plot for him
tbh thatâs really it ??? niko is just a sad, Trash boy tbh. if youâd like to plot with me pls hmu !!thanks for reading !