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Sigmund Emerson; "I need a nice, warm meal..."
Topic Started: Jun 10 2011, 01:13 AM (111 Views)
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Name: Sigmund Emerson
Age: 25

Appearance: Emerson is a fairly average looking man. He stands around 5’7”, weighing near 159 lbs, but usually seems to appear smaller. His skin is light, and working indoors all day did not help his complexion. Emerson has meticulously clean, medium-brown hair that is neatly slicked back. It is going a tiny bit gray way too early, and he has small, dark bags under his eyes. Emerson's eyes are a medium shade of brown, and covered by a well-worn pair of spectacles that are taped together at the sides (he’s too cheap to buy contacts or get laser eye surgery). He seems shifty and hunched over most of the time, and has rather soft features.

Emerson normally wears a nice white shirt, black tie, khakis, and black spit-shaded shoes. All of his clothing is very neat, but obviously faded over time. When he does not have work, Emerson simply removes the tie from his outfit.

Bio: Sigmund Emerson was born on a December night to Jonathan and Margaret Emerson, a young couple who married after they found out Margaret was pregnant. Jonathan worked at a car factory and Margaret was a cashier at a local grocery store, but they both had a hard time making ends meet raising Sigmund and their other son, Erik, born four years later. Sigmund grew up quickly, and learned to cook meals for his little brother when their parents were working. He kept everything he owned as tidy as possible, so that it wouldn’t appear as tattered or hand-me-down as it was.

When Sigmund was 12, Margaret Emerson died in a traffic accident. A year later, Jonathan married another woman named Rachel. This affected Sigmund and Erik in different ways. Sigmund channeled his anger into school work and writing, and Erik, only 8, lashed out at his brother and new mother. Two years later, Jonathan and Rachel had a pair of twins, Lillian and Keith. Jonathan had grown distant after his first wife’s death, even starting to drink often, and Rachel, resenting marrying a man who seemed so reserved, became detached from her children. Once again, Sigmund needed learn to change Lillian and Keith’s diapers and reprimand Erik when he got into fights at school.

Sigmund’s teachers all told him that he would be able to go to college for a very low amount of money if he did well in school, so he did well in school. Meanwhile, despite his best efforts, Erik began to hang around to “wrong crowd”, in Sigmund’s eyes. Sigmund went to a college close enough that he could still watch over his siblings, even though it wasn’t the best one he could have gotten into. Around this time, most people began calling Sigmund “Emerson”. He now honestly finds it weird if anyone other than his siblings calls him by his first name anymore.

Emerson managed to get a good job —for his age and skill level—at Willford & Gumbs, but he still has money and family problems. Jonathan began to spend more money on himself, Rachel began to draw more and more into her own world, and Erik dropped out of school before he graduated and began using drugs. Emerson puts away a large chuck of his paychecks for Lillian and Keith’s clothing, meals, and birthday gifts as well as Erik’s rehab. He’s tightened his own belt, and spends as little money as he can on himself, hoping to be able to help Lillian and Keith go to college or follow their own dreams and assist Erik in building his own life.

He is a quiet young man, seemingly very nervous. Emerson doesn’t watch television, read books, or really do much that is not work related. He has a hard time holding long conversations, but is not completely socially inept. He’s frugal to an almost absurd degree, and generally lives off of left-over Chinese and cold pizza. Although his metabolism keeps him at a fairly average weight, he’s a little out of shape. He believes himself to be stuck in his job now, and generally can come off as overly self-deprecating.
Edited by Overlord Taga, Jun 10 2011, 01:25 AM.
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