#hermosasintro

[underwxxd-blog]

hello bitches it me ur local bag of literal garbage ( nev ) !! um i’m rly annoying and talk about stephen king a lot so i guess that’s p much what u have to look forward to lmao so here’s this other bag of garbage, my very angsty son, for whom u will find  info below the CUT 🔪 ( tws for major drug use, drug addiction, death, grief, shitty parenting, neglect, abandonment?? kind of idk better safe than sorry )

( thomas doherty - joshua underwood has been living in hermosa beach for four years. he is twenty-four years old and is filling their time as a game developer. he is known as being quick-witted, but also facetious )

so bear with me bc i’m still Fleshing This Out!! his mom and dad are from just outside of st louis, missouri. his mom came from a pretty wealthy family and she was just like tryna be ~rebellious in her young adult years by dating josh’s dad (who came from a super trashy family and had a Bad Boy Rep) but then when she was 19 and he was 22 she got pregnant (with josh) and her fam was like lol get rid of that baby or ur gone !! but they were “““madly in love””” and she was on her rebellious shit so they literally eloped to the city (st louis) and got an apartment together and had josh. ofc this ended up being rly miserable bc she was used to living the rich life and now her family had disowned her, and suddenly she was starting to realize this dude she had a kid with was kind of a deadbeat party boy with no interest in having a family, not to mention she started realizing like?? i don’t actually want a kid this is a lot of work?? so like josh’s childhood years were a lot of him having to learn to take care of himself and not having anyone to depend on most of the time. and that’s not to say they didn’t both care abt him on some level bc there were definitely times they paid attention to him and gave him a birthday party or two but for the most part he was on his own

fast forward 5 years and finally josh’s dad, now in his late 20s and getting antsy, peaces the fuck out to los angeles to live his best party boy life. baby josh is very upset bc even tho his dad doesnt pay a lot of attention to him he like idolizes him. josh’s mom is saltier than EVER about having to take care of a kid but she doesn’t wanna go to LA and her parents won’t have anything to do with her or her illegitimate child so the NEXT 5 years are a lot of moving around from shitty apartment to shitty apartment and job to job by themselves. his dad would now and then send weird postcards and stuff from cali so he had like a vague idea of the fact that his dad was living his own life somewhere that looked super wild, and when he was 11 years old he managed to send a letter back asking if he could come live with him. his dad contacts his mom, there’s a bunch of fighting, but in the end josh did indeed get to go live with his dad in los angeles, mostly bc his mom just didn’t give a fuck anymore and was lowkey like...u know what fine take him i can have my life back

obviously his dad does not know how to be a dad !!! he kind of thought of josh as his little like.....sidekick like he just thought having this 11 year old kid around was hilarious. so josh went to LA and was living with his dad and his dad’s friends in a relatively nice apartment but like it’s always filled with people doing drugs and having sex and it’s just. not child friendly at all. so that’s how josh was introduced to weed at the ripe young age of 11!!! from there on out he was like a big time weed and cigarette smoker, was very early having sex and trying other drugs, and by the time he graduated high school he was already hardcore doing coke

so josh like kind of wanted to go to college bc he knew he was rly into programming and game design, but he was way too far up his own ass to get his shit together for that !! so his first year after high school instead of getting on a good path for his future he decided living his best life would include moving into an apartment with his cokehead best friend. it was around that time that josh met his first boyfriend. he was already totally aware he was bi, had slept with boys in high school, but this was the first time he rly fell in love with a guy. he was like..........head! over! heels! for this boy. josh met him at a club and he was like sort of soft and relatively innocent until they started dating and josh got him smoking weed and then snorting coke

this next part is very triggering so please read with caution !! when he was 21, josh tried heroin for the first time. for about 4 months it gradually got really bad, his life started spiraling, and his bf was like....becoming unable to deal with it, especially bc while josh was getting worse his bf was kind of trying to move in the opposite direction and get off the coke and get his life back together. there was a lot of fighting, but his bf kept not actually making the move to end things bc he loved josh and was just like hoping something would turn around. one night, however, in a moment of weakness, he let josh talk him into trying heroin with him. it was kind of a “i promise i’ll get clean if u try it with me this one time” thing. being in and out of consciousness and not really aware of what was going on, he didn’t notice that his bf was overdosing and he ended up dying simply bc the heroin was too much for his body and he stopped breathing. josh didn’t notice until the morning when he woke up, and obviously that was by far the most traumatic thing that’s ever happened to him and 3 years later he’s still majorly fucked up by it

he has some pretty clear track marks on the inside of his right arm, but josh is entirely clean from the heroin now. he’ll do coke on occasion if he’s feeling like shit and maybe in a bad mood, but in general he’s extremely extremely weird abt drugs. he won’t stop anyone else from doing them and he DEFINITELY won’t talk about what happened or why he’s weird about it, but yeah mostly he just smokes a shit ton of weed these days

it took a good 6 months for him to go thru rehab and start getting his shit together, and by the time he was 22 he was finally in school and slowly but surely getting his life on track for like the first time ever. he purposely doesn’t talk to his dad most of the time, but sometimes his dad gets in contact with him so when that happens he might be in a Bad Mood for a bit

so now that his background is over with.........josh is an extremely EXTREMELY dry sarcastic person. the guilt over his bf has made him wayyyyyyyy worse, like his sense of humor is so so much darker than it was before that happened, but he’s honestly just a rly sarcastic person to begin with. he has some softness inside especially for people he rly cares abt, but you will not catch josh being sentimental or taking literally anything seriously unless you’ve managed to seriously worm your way into his heart

he’s finishing up school and for now he works as tech support in the school’s tech lab and also has a lil fake ass company with some friends and they’re developing a game on their own that they’re actually rly excited about and proud of

i think that’s IT FOR NOW if u made it this far i commend ur effort and attention span. im gna list some plots n stuff below and hit me uP for some angst bc ya girl is here for the drama

CONNECTION IDEAS

somebody (or multiple people) from his past! either from literally back in st louis when they were little kids, or people he went to high school with in LA. could be someone who didn’t like josh bc he was wild n kind of an asshole in high school, could be someone he was friends with and did a bunch of drugs with him back then. maybe they stopped being friends at some point, maybe they were lowkey there for josh thru hard stuff.....anything is possible

his ex best friend! the person he moved into an apartment with after high school and who probably started getting into coke n everything bc of josh in the first place. he cut this person off when his bf died to try and get his life together, so this person would ideally still be a wild child and it would be super awkward btwn them

josh definitely still sleeps around on the dl, so give me hookups, one night stands, fwb, toxic stuff, unrequited crushes that go either way, flirtationships, literally anything. the boy is hella bi

gamer friends???? his like closest group of people he’s always chilling with, smoking weed, playing video games, watching 90s cartoons. he’s 100% that person, he LIVES for old cartoons and just.....weird stuff in general, his interests are very niche and weird

um enemies pls?? people who are just NOT about his bart simpson vibe and have no time for it. maybe someone who challenges him a lot, is always getting on his nerves and calling his bullshit

ALSO bring me his other game company friends!! maybe 1 or 2 people who do graphic/game design and programming

[ethcoas-blog]

hello muffins !! hello hello !! i am literally so excited for this you have NO IDEA !! i’m steph, go by she/her pronouns, and am in the central timezone !! this is ethan, he’s ..... okay he’s one of my babies but we all have our children that we can’t stand alright ?? he’s a rich kid that's lived in cali his whole life and has never been told no in his life. that’s it. that’s him. i've been dying to play him in a good roleplay so pleaseeeee give me this, he's my muse. i will eventually have a detailed bio on his page but for now under the read more you will find the basics about him !! if you want to plot, please like this & i’ll message you. or, you know, message me first that’s cool too. i’m a sucker for chem but i do have a bit of wanted connections, though i'm all for setting past connections and just rolling with it from then !! i can’t wait to plot and write with you all ! ( discord is also og powerpuff girl#5485 if you wanna plot there )

shawn mendes - ethan rocha has been living in hermosa beach for twenty years. he is twenty-one years old and is filling their time as a junior studying mathematics. he is known as being gregarious but also pompous.

first off, this here is a pinterest board of ethan. i'm a bit.. addicted to pinning things for my muses so that will constantly be having stuff added to it. & you can kinda get a feel for his personality there too ?? ( and i'll def be adding sections for connections you can bet on it )

background

was born in orange county ( really think life of seth cohen on the o.c. but... definitely not seth cohen ). in newport beach, california, to be specific. ethan's mother, monica, is a successful architect and took over her father's business when he retired. his father, don, is a lawyer, he moved out to newport beach after he met his mother on a vacation in england. truth is, these two are completely in love. his father was a lowlife that was backpacking around the world for a good two years before he met his mother, who was a fun loving girl that had a plan set out for her but honestly ?? she always tried to venture off to see how far she could go before her father pulled her back in. then his father met his mother at some bar in england and, from there, it's history.

it didn't take long for them to get settled together and married, mostly because the baby was showing and her father was not about to have a daughter be a mother without a husband ( old school, right? ) but they were down with it, of course. it landed them a pretty good settling with their jobs, ethan's grandfather having all the hookups for them both. landed them with a nice house, and landed them with each other - they were still so helplessly in love like they were school aged, nothing about this could go wrong. six months later, little ethan came along and everything's been perfect.

a year after settling with ethan and their jobs, they moved up to hermosa beach to start a new life of their own ? they both didn't want to be drowned out by his mother's parents and, after settling a deal to open up more construction in hermosa beach and expanding their company, her father couldn't say no. the most important thing about this move, though, is that they moved right next to her best friend and his husband and their own little child. monica was adventerous, yes, but she always had her life after marriage planned out with her best friend.

ethan grew up ruthlessly. he was in and out of detention at school, the principal knew his name for all the wrong reasons, all the teachers knew him even if he never really showed up to class. from the moment he could walk, ethan has been up and at it nonstop. he's been blessed with a comfortable life, never having to be told no to certain things - something he definitely took advantage of growing up.

his mother babied him like no other, always making sure her little boy had the best and was treated the best no matter what. his father, on the other hand, was a different story. his father didn't have the best life growing up, letting down his own father himself too many times he already had it ingrained in him that ethan was going to as well. ethan didn't try to be offended by it, of course, but there was always a strain in his relationship with his father. ethan wanted to be better than what his father envisioned for him, which didn't take long for ethan to figure out how impossible that would be.

the one thing ethan was good at, knew he was good at, everyone else knew he was good at, something that ethan made sure people knew he was good at - baseball. his parents put him in a little league and training courses at the young age of three. t-ball, everything. his whole life had been baseball, switching from this team to that and making it an all year round sport. ethan adored it because he grew up with it, loved it because it got him attention, craved it because he eventually got to let out pent up anger out on a ball with a bat for a few hours. he might not have been the best at school, the best at much of anything, but baseball was his. and it always put a smile on his father's face at his games, so ethan kept pushing and pushing to be the best at it.

ethan has always been a funloving guy. chilled out for the most part, never took anything seriously. around sixteen years old was when ethan first realized what life really was, with the death of his best friend. they had a late game for their school, ethan driving them both home after the game cause they were going on a mini vacation together up to the beach the next morning. to this day, he wishes he had seen the other truck. it was clearly not his fault, seeing as the other vehicle was a drunk driver with no headlights on the pitch black road, but ethan had blamed himself repeatedly for waking up when cade didn't. after that moment, ethan definitely shut himself off from a lot of things. focused on baseball way too much, took his anger out easier than ever. sure, he still had a smile on his face half the time - but he always figured people were fools anyways, ones that couldn't tell what was going on unless it was slapped in their face.

once graduating high school was over, ethan stayed in california for college. he got a baseball scholarship to usc, joined a frat the moment he got there, learned how to drown himself in alcohol and drugs and girls, figured out just how much being rich would get you. picked a simple major to get him a four year ride in college, though he secretly hopes to get drafted to play baseball. if not, the next best thing is working for his grandfather's company.

definitely could be considered a two-faced guy, always putting on some type of show for everyone around him differently. he's lost, confused, angry - doesn't really know what he wants life to hold for him, doesn't want to even think about it really.

personality

most of his personality can be taken from his background, but i'll sum up most of it here. i will say that he's not completely developed, so things can definitely change throughout the roleplay. but, for now:

definitely a laidback guy. doesn't take much too seriously, definitely has a hard time committing to most things. not that he doesn't try to, he's just not one to - actually want to commit to much ? he's learned that life is all about moments and that future plans aren't worth making, because you never know what the future holds ? pretty messed up, but he just doesn't feel like he should commit to something that can be taken away from him in a heartbeat.

cocky son of a bitch, let me tell you. he knows he's good, you don't have to let him know ( please let him know he will love it tbh ). highkey jerk about things, too. i mean, he's a privledged rich boy who lives in cali and is in the biggest party frat at usc. how bad can that even get ? not really all in people's faces about it, but he does love to show off a ton.

really an actually funny guy. loves to have a good laugh sometimes. makes jokes for really serious occasions, mostly for himself more than everyone else. does not like to deal with hard shit, okay. if you start talking real to him, he's gonna try to crack a smile and something funny and bolt.

actually a tired boy, so sad. he's crushed deep inside but won't for the life of him tell anyone. blames himself for so much shit that he didn't even do, but at this point he doesn't even know what he's doing anymore. the lines become so blurred that he doesn't know the difference between what he's actually done and what he hasn't. hates himself, to be honest.

okay sort of a headcanon but i imagine him being one of the vine guys? if you know vine you know what i mean. but, basically used vine for everything. was one of the boys that were famous on that app just for being cute, tbh. didn't do anything with it after vine died, but he was there. still gets recognized sometimes, to his dismay.

will honestly talk to anyone. he's learned from his mother how to be a somewhat decent human being. won't straight up ignore someone. will probably talk about them afterwards, but won't ignore someone. he likes to talk to anyone who will listen and is somewhat of a people watcher. you can catch him sometimes sitting in a shop just watching people. secretly comparing himself to others but still, people are interesting to him. life is interesting to him.

basically: a total handful. i love to hate him and hate to love him.