gel pens, vision boards, manifesting goals, dreaming of something bigger, avoiding family reunions, black coffee, never sleeping, listening to podcasts, crossword puzzles, organized workplace, lost in work, the sound of typing, wearing sunglasses to hide a hangover, a string of one-night stands, pulling around a weight of guilt.
NAME: Wyatt Crystal Bateman
PREFERRED NAME/NICKNAME(S): Wy
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Male + He/Him
AGE: Thirty-five
BIRTHDAY: December 20, 1988
RESIDENTIAL AREA: Springate Crossings
GANG AFFILIATION: Not Affiliated
OCCUPATION: Criminal Lawyer at Decker & Associates
LENGTH OF TIME IN TONOPAH: Native, but attended Harvard Law in Cambridge, Massachusetts (31 years)
MUSINGS | CONNECTIONS | PINTEREST
basics.
HOMETOWN: Tonopah Valley, Las Vegas
FORMERLY RESIDED IN: Cambridge Massachusetts
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual/Hetroromantic
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Fuckboy
POSITIVE TRAITS: trait, trait, trait
NEGATIVE TRAITS: trait, trait, trait
family.
MOTHER: Sarah Bateman
FATHER: Frank Bateman
SIBLINGS: Four Brothers, to be named.
OTHER: tbd
biography.
Wyatt Bateman was born on December 20th, 1988. He was considered a Christmas miracle because his parents Sarah and Frank weren’t planning on having anymore children after their fourth. Frank had a vasectomy, thinking they were done, but Wyatt was conceived and instead of being angry, he and his wife considered it fate. He must be a really important soul to get passed the odds which were one in a thousand. Frank and Sarah made a bet with each other that their fifth and final child would be a girl since they already had four boys. They agreed God might’ve wanted to give Sarah a little girl who was less rowdy than her mischievous boys to play dress up with and buy cute girl stuff for. They decided to keep the gender a surprise until birth and surprise surprise, the baby wasn’t going to be named Crystal. As the doctor delivered a healthy boy the two laughed and named him after Sarah’s favorite uncle who passed away when she was sixteen. To be funny, Sarah made Wyatt’s middle name Crystal and then blamed it on the pain medication when Frank expressed his disapproval.
For the next five years everything would be perfect. They were a warm and loving family but then tragedy struck when Frank got injured at his job as a firefighter. He was only supposed to be out of work for a couple of months but he got addicted to his pain meds and developed a drinking problem which altered his personality from Jekyll to Hyde. They were fighting off and on for months and then years went by without Frank returning to work. It wasn’t much longer after that when Sarah filed for a divorce and custody of their children.
Instead of staying soft and playful, Sarah and Frank’s children became bitter and rough, committing crimes around town and bullying the neighborhood kids. They were infamously known as the Bateman Bastards and the Bastard Five. Whenever they were in sight it was best to run the other way.
After the oldest got arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest, the second and third oldest followed suit and got arrested for armed robbery and grand theft auto. Sarah couldn’t handle them anymore and gave custody back to her husband after he proved he was sober and clean. Wyatt was thirteen and his brother was fifteen. The other three remained in jail and juvie while Frank cracked down on Wyatt and his brother. Frank wanted his sons to be more successful than him. He urged them to study constantly and put their education above friends, sports, and girls. Frank hoped they would reach a level of success instead of winding up in jail or at the bottom of a lake.
Frank would get his wish when Wyatt entered criminal law and his brother med school. It was too late for his other three sons who were raised in the system, constantly in and out of jail and rehab.
As a well-respected and tough criminal lawyer, Wyatt is especially hard on people who remind him of his wayward siblings. There’s a lot of resentment for the way his family fell a part. He feels like a curse; like after he was born everything fell apart. He learned about his father’s vasectomy and how he wasn’t planned. Maybe his birth was a domino effect? The thing to mess everything up. After all, he was met with disappointment after disappointment. Oh, another baby? Oh, its actually not a girl… Oh, now dad is off the rails and mom wants a divorce. It was a toxic way of thinking but how could you not at the very least consider these things? As the youngest and the most insecure, Wyatt has a lot to prove and will do so in the court of law.
headcanons.
There’s still a part of Wyatt that has held onto his older brother’s influence. He’s tasted the forbidden fruit and indulged in enough shady business to know that he loves the rush of letting go and being wild and free. There’s times when he’ll loosen his tie and live on the edge when he thinks no one is watching.
Knowing his mother couldn’t handle him and his brothers and decided to give them up has left him with abandonment issues. It’s hard for him to maintain friendships and relationships. He’ll go out for drinks with co-workers but never let them all the way in and he’ll sleep with girls and go on dates but never save their numbers.
