Name: Rhett Matthews Age: 31 Birthday: June 15th Zodiac: Gemini Occupation: Employee at Water Fairy Studios Hometown: Cambridge, England Current Location: Tonopah Falls, Nevada Sexuality: Pansexual Relationship status: Single
(TW: drug use, drug abuse suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts) I will italicize those parts -Rhett Matthews was born on June 15th, 1991. He was the the oldest of 7. He had two sisters and 4 brothers. -His parents had to spend most of their time working to pay the bills, so Rhett devoted much of his time to watching over his siblings growing up. -When he wasnāt doing that, he spent all his other time learning how to play music, drawing and painting. Rhett was a very artistically gifted boy. He was far beyond his years when it came to playing music, as well as drawing. -Over his youth, Rhett learned how to play the guitar, piano, bass guitar, cello, violin, trumpet and the drums. -His parents always encouraged Rhett to pursue whatever he wanted so he put all his effort into music and painting. Rhett began to write his own songs and painting whenever he could when he was around twelve years old and never looked back. -When Rhett was twenty years old, he said goodbye to Cambridge and moved to New York City, knowing that his best chance to get on a label was to move to America. And what better place was there than New York? -For about a year, he worked odd jobs around the city, saving up every single penny he could so he could rent a recording studio. It was hard, but he managed it and got himself a studio for 3 hours. In those three hours, Rhett put his heart and soul in a demo that he truly believed was going to take him places. -Rhett sent the single out to label, after label, after label and for two years, he hadnāt heard a single response from any of them. He was starting to get discouraged and was starting to think that his dream was dead. But Rhett continued to play at local clubs, just wanting to play music. -Slowly, but surely, responses started to trickle in about his demo and every single response he got, was a denial. None of the labels thought he was a good fit. -Rhett fell into a depression. He wasnāt able to get himself out of bed. Every day it was harder to want to want to be there. Rhett truly thought that he was meant to play music and he was meant to be a rockstarā¦and without that, he was nothing. Rhett couldnāt dare to think about it. -He attempted to end his life by hanging himself but fortunately for Rhett, his roommate at the time came home and caught him just in time. -For weeks, he still didnāt budge from his bed. He just wallowed. He had a few friends from his local music scene visit him and one in particular knew that Rhett was struggling and offered him a hit of cocaine to try and ease the pain. Having nothing to lose, Rhett obliged and that was his first introduction to drugs. -From there, he quickly spiraled into addiction. He started with cocaine, then moved to smoking crack and once that lost its luster, Rhett found heroin. He has been using it ever since. -About six months ago, Rhett decided that music clearly wasn't working out for him and he wanted to pursue his over love, art. New York wasn't all that known for it's painters, from what he knew. So he decided to move across the country with nothing but a couple hundred dollars, some clothes and his guitars. Living in Vegas was far too expensive, so he found a small place outside of it called Tonopah Falls. There, Rhett was finally able to start living his life again, getting random small jobs around town just to make some cash so he could support his lifestyle. -With nowhere to go, Rhett lived on the streets for a short time before he found himself living at a homeless shelter. He spent a few months there before he found an ad in the newspaper about an old woman needing a hands-on roommate to take care of her home. Much to his surprise, the ad hadnāt been filled and the old woman, named Rosa, agreed to let Rhett live with her without pay as long as he did all the manual labor of taking care of the home. She was just too old to do it herself anymore. -To this day, he is still living with Rosa, keeping his drug addiction hidden from literally everyone in his life, and still trying to make an artist of any kind. Rhett wasn't picky at this point.
Headcanons: -All of his siblings have R names. Two twin boys, Randall and Ricky. And then boy and girl twins, Ryan and Riley. And then two sisters, Robin and Reagan. -Rhett's favorite instruments to play are guitar and piano (and singing). His least favorite is the trumpet (and the triangle and shakers, but he barely counts those because everyone can play those). -He isn't very great at swimming. He often looks like he's flopping around, trying to find his way to shore again. -His favorite food is tomato soup and a grilled cheese. -Aside from painting, his next favorite art medium is charcoal. -Rhett has several tattoos all over his body and his nose pierced. He used to have his nipples pierced back in the day, but he let them close up.
