“ yeah yeah if you want to sit or whatever just move that shit.” jack waves a hand at their oversized duffel bag settled on the other bench of the booth, bag half unzipped to reveal a few textbooks, loose papers, and the black toe of a hockey skate. “ —cafe real estate is precious during these trying times, i know.”
"oh fuck, you’re a life saver.” plopping down on the bench, he sort of half-shoved at the bag only managing a few meager inches before he gave up and pulled out his laptop from his bag. “you’re a fool to have given up this prime property so easily, but i’ll repay your generosity by not asking if you have a whole body in this bag because jesus it’s heavy as hell.”
( froy gutierrez | cismale | he/him ) wow, gotta love bennett miranda. because they’re so generous, i trust them, but i’m not so sure, since they can be kind of quixotic. catch them blasting surprise party by hoodie allen. i hear they’re the social chair of beta kappa epsilon. the twenty year old sophomore is studying film and pre-law and i think they go by the icarian. be sure to get to know them.
↳ THE BASICS
bennett miranda, 20, BKE
he’s probably bisexual because ya girl is trash but he’s only properly dated women.
his father is the breadwinner in the family and is constantly pushing their family to appear better, to be better. he has a younger sister whom he wishes he saw more often but he also doesn’t make the effort so... his loss.
↳ THE PAST / PERSONALITY
bennett’s life has been a constant balancing act - mediating between what his father wants for him and what he wants to do. a lot of his childhood was spent doing baseball and soccer and scouts etc., just a never-ending list of things to keep him busy, to tucker him out, and to instill disciplines that his father thought here important.
he was a major momma’s boy until he turned 5 and he was blessed with a little sister but his mother became busy grooming his sister to be a proper little lady and ben was sort of... politely nudged into the arms of a nanny.
looking back she was no older than he is now ( a college student ) who must have been a family friend who carted him from one lesson to another, to school and then practice and then home, but she wove tales of the supernatural, about aliens and mythical beasts and he was instantly hooked
his love for cryptids grew and he would often stay up all night reading about them and comparing his own theories against other people’s online and other completely nerdy shit like that. his father hated hearing about it so he turned to the internet to geek out and follow theories and maps of where bigfoot might be and all the lastest ufo sightings
in high school he mainly focused on sports because that’s what his dad wanted but now that he’s “on his own” he’s still doing pre-law for his old man but he’s investing in film for himself. he’s torn between documentaries and making movies so he’s overwhelmed his school load to dabble in both.
as soon as he got out of parent’s house and into college he’s become fully vested in his youtube channel though its mostly skits and vlog-type videos of him and whoever he can manage to agree to go exploring abandoned warehouses and the like
personality wise he doesn’t like to be the center of attention, he loves being behind the camera. if they’ve met before he’s inevitably asked if they believed in aliens. the only people he can’t fuck with is people who don’t because... that’s just ridiculous ffs.
he most likely got recruited for BKE because of his family’s income bracket and how generally loose he is with cash. though his father had high expectations he never had a want that wasn’t met, he’s god awful with money and budgeting and if anyone ever asked him for money he’d probably just give it to them.
he really only has a plan for right now in this moment and doesn’t bother to stress about the things he can’t control. on a scale of 1 to 5 he is a solid 6 on the chill scale. he’s up for anything because?? what’s the worst that could happen? he’ll die? tragic.
but besides that he’s still a quiet type of dorky. he loves aliens and space. he smokes and thinks about stuff like: what if all of this was all a fucking simulation? and all that useless stuff that’s fun and scary to talk about.
