✧ NAME: P.J. Bogden
✧ AGE: 35
✧ GENDER: Male
✧ LOCATION: Marigny
✧ TIME IN NOLA: Since birth
✧ OCCUPATION: Tour Guide
Semper alacer. Semper alacer. Semper alacer.
It’s a widely known fact that most people, at one point or another, believe that they’d been raised in an unconventional way. PJ Bogden would’ve argued the opposite. He’d been raised in a conventional fashion in a most unconventional place. Though, to him, New Orleans would always be home.
The only son of hotel managers, Rita & Fletcher Bogden, PJ grew up in a humble home, but was regularly treated to long days spent at the French Quarter landmark. In truth, Rita ran the Hotel Monteleone whilst his father was an event coordinator & amateur barman. Raised by two equally enthusiastic & enlightened individuals, it was no surprise that PJ held lofty aspirations when it came to higher learning. By the summer of his senior year, PJ had been accepted to the history program at Columbia. Pride outweighed his parents’ reluctance to see their boy leave the Crescent City. That day, however, never came. The details of the Bogden’s deaths were never clandestine. They’d been struck by a drunk driver. That was it. There was nothing more to say on the subject.
Understandably shaken by his parents passing, PJ forewent leaving the city. After four years, he received his degree from Tulane still very much the same boy he’d always been. Always enthusiastic. He politely refused to be downtrodden by the tragic page of his own past, & instead had made a singular deal with himself after: he would never drink. & while that lofty promise lasted him through most of college, he eventually stepped off the wagon. Though, he can surely say it did help in his freshman & sophomore years that he was never the one to show up to baseball practice hungover or looking particularly pathetic after a night on Bourbon Street; even an optimistic individual occasionally needed a drink after looking at the degree in history one had hanging on their wall.
Little could be said of what exactly PJ did with his formal education. History had always been his first love, but teaching - not so much. He forewent that route & instead became an overly knowledgeable bartender. Better at it than he could remember his father ever being, PJ’s sarcasm & goodwill meshed well with the rowdy clientele, made up of predominantly tourists, which frequented The Old Absinthe House. A major draw for PJ, however, had been the access to free & frankly, to die for, seafood.
Eventually outgrowing the place, he left only after someone tipped him off on an idea that had never even occurred to him: he’d make a great guide of the city. Throwing resumes at companies around town, PJ had his pick & settled on one that allowed him a few options. Largely a fan of doing the haunted history tours, for the pure hilarity, as well as the historic walks, PJ appears to have found his calling. A little booze, a little history & a lot of charm goes a long way. The other three days of the week, PJ simply soaks up the city. His routine strolls around the city can be quaint but are wholly necessary to his own peace of mind. He loves his city & the history it has & all the people that are experiencing it with him more than he can describe in words. He is beyond content.
Through & through, PJ is a happy-go-lucky sort of man. He’s smart, but not superior. Observant, enthusiastic & friendly, PJ is likely to be popular wherever he goes. He’s an excellent conversationalist & loves to share, & even more so, he loves to listen. Chalk-full of potential, Bogden is simply a fun guy to be around. He’s got a great sense of humor & undoubtedly doesn’t have a true bad bone in his body. This tends to make PJ quite impulsive. He’s quick to trust & therefore can get hurt quite easily. He is, however, gifted at hiding his anxieties with humor. He carries an undercurrent of guilt with him at all times for giving into regular libations. Occasionally, he stays up wondering if he deserves to be so happy when he’s lost so much, but usually can get out from underneath these drearier feelings by distracting himself with the noise of the city.
P.J’s faceclaim is Ryan Reynolds and is portrayed by Warner.
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