#ben fabray

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WHAT YOU SEE

full name: Benjamin “BEN” Aiden Fabray.

face claim: Liam Hemsworth.

age: (twenty-six) 26.

birthday: November 5th, 1990.

birth order: Second.

hometown: Lima, Ohio.

gender identity: Male.

pronouns: He/him/his

orientation: Heteroromantic/Heterosexual.

occupation: Bartender.

WHERE THEY’VE BEEN

TW: Weed, Smoking.

HOW HE WAS RAISED: Pretentious, manipulative, and arrogant. Benjamin was raised by what was looked at as the picture perfect family. His mother was a stay at home mom while his father worked at a Too Big to Failcompany. His father did very well and compensated by not being there often by giving his children a lot of presents. The thing is, Benjamin wasn’t always a loner. Ben had always been asked to strive for perfection and boy did he love to achieve it. He loved the thrill of seeing people attentive and nervous while he spoke. His idea of normal was going out of his way to make someone’s life miserable because he enjoyed it. Those who knew him, knew better than to even acknowledge his presence in fear of getting barked at by Ben. He wasn’t the type of person you wanted to have as a friend, and therefore had to basically bribe others to be his friends. He was the person who knew everyone’s deepest secrets, or at least attempted to figure them out. He was a monster, an uptight and careless monster.

THE REVELATION: There came a point in his life in which he was just tired of his scheming ways, which occurred in the beginning of his senior year. He just wanted to be left alone. His parents wanted to send him to school for pre-law, wanting him to become a big shot lawyer His life was all planned, he had his whole life set out at the young age seventeen. Hell, it was basically set in stone since he was in Kindergarten. While his parents put him up on a pedestal, he wasn’t quite as smart as they thought he was. Benjamin was average and although he worked hard for his first three years of high school, that all stopped when he became a senior. He could not find a reason to work hard. In fact, he found it all pretty idiotic.

MAKING THE CHANGE: He could not fathom why he listened to his parents for the first seventeen years of his life, why he let himself become their puppet. That was all going to change though. He ditched his pressed clothes for a much more rugged look, expressing how he felt on the inside. Or at least that’s what he told people. He changed his desired major from Pre-law to Philosophy since he’s way more into “going with the flow” now. Instead of applying to any Ivy Leagues, he applied to colleges that he wanted to go to. He wanted to get as far away from his parents as he could. Ben ended up staying in Lima and enrolled as a philosophy major. It was there in college that he smoked his first blunt and enjoyed it immensely and continues to do so presently. Throughout college, he was considered a loner. It was not as if people were afraid of him or he was afraid of them, he’d just rather have been left alone.

WHERE HE IS NOW: At the time of graduation, where he should have been heading to law school right after, Ben instead volunteered abroad as a basketball coach in Ghana for a year. And then a year became two, and then another one as well. Coming back with no job lined up for him, and fresh off a conversation with his parents about how he would not be allowed to rely on them for money, Ben began to search for a stable job. Fortunately, he was hired at a landscaping company, as part of the yard team just to make sure he was making an income. Ben hated working for them and began to take bartending classes, before eventually getting hired to bartend. It is where he’s been ever since. Still, he feels as if something is missing: that he isn’t doing anything important enough with his life.

WHERE THEY’RE GOING

PLOTTING

SPEAKING TO HIS PARENTS: He hasn’t had a great relationship since he stopped staying underneath their wings. It’d be interesting to have him sit down and actually talk to them about everything and about how he’s feeling. If they’re even listening.

GOOD INFLUENCERS: The problem is he hasn’t had very good idols in his life. Meeting people who could change that for him may change his perspective on everything. He’s honestly a scared little boy beneath everything.

HITTING A LOW SPOT: It’d be interesting to have Ben hit the lowest he’s ever been. Whether it’s just doing nothing with his life that causes him to spiral or what, it could be interesting to see him just spiral and not in a good way.

CONNECTIONS

THE BAD INFLUENCE: Someone who saw Benjamin at his worst, and liked him at his worst. Ben dropped them as a friend after he started to change, but every time they see each other, Ben has a hard time staying on the track of not being vicious. It’s hard for him to resist temptation sometimes.

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: These two dated throughout college, and at one point, proposal was on his mind. But Ben needed to get out and didn’t tell this person that he was going out of the country for a year. The pair haven’t really spoken since he got back. He wants to talk to them but isn’t quite sure how.

THE BEST FRIEND: These two just hit it off one day and Ben knows that these two will always be platonic soulmates. He’s so thankful for them in his life and this person is the one person that he’s able to open up to.

THEIR GOALS

Ben wants to just figure out what his purpose in life is. What is he supposed to be doing and how can he do it?

THE PLAYER

name: Rebel

pronouns: she/her

age: 18+

timezone: EST