Reuben Walters

Name: Reuben Elijah Walters

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Grade: Senior

School: George Hunter High School

Hobbies and Interests: Tabletop gaming, TV and movies, video games, cheerleading (wears the mascot costume)

Appearance: Reuben stands at 6'3" and weighs 160 pounds. He's skinny and pale due to his lack of physical activity, and though he eats healthily and isn't emaciated, he does have barely noticeable muscle mass, giving him a lanky, awkward appearance. He is Caucasian and has a pointed chin, a long thin nose, and shoulder-length black hair, parted in the middle to keep it out of his face. He has greenish blue eyes which appear large against his thin face and wears corrective lenses for his nearsightedness, keeping a pair of green wire-framed glasses in the front zipper pocket of his black laptop bag which he keeps with him at all times. As he has a tendency to get lost in his own thoughts, his eyes are often half-closed, with his thin lips pursed together and his forehead furrowed.

Reuben's choice of clothing is untucked t-shirts and blue jeans that are never long enough to reach his ankles, leaving his white socks visible at all times. His shirts are typically in muted colors of gray, black, and brown, featuring characters and icons from movies, TV shows, or video games. When he went on the school trip, he was wearing a black shirt with a Legend of Zelda logo on the back and the Wind Waker version of the series' main protagonist on the front. He was also wearing dark blue Wrangler jeans and black sneakers.

Biography: Reuben Walters was born to Nathaniel and Karen Walters, both of them Caucasian and of Western European descent. Nathaniel, unemployed and acting as a stay-at-home father, is easy-going and casual in his relationship with Reuben, allowing him to do whatever he likes as long as he isn't involved in anything illegal or deleterious to his GPA. They share common interests in horror, science fiction and fantasy media and often watch movies or play video games together. Karen, a financial consultant for a local investment savings firm, is stricter with her son and tries to push him to succeed. She often expresses disapproval with his performance in school, believing him to be more capable, and has attempted to restrict access to entertainment in the past in return for better grades, much to Reuben and Nathaniel's chagrin.

For her sake, and to avoid getting her angry, he has given a strong effort in his studies, consistently performing B-level work in his mathematics and foreign language courses and A-level work in his social studies and writing courses. His weakest subject is anything hands-on such as art class, shop class or chemistry due to his lack of grace and manual dexterity, but he still barely manages to keep a passing grade in those courses. His strongest class is anything relating to his interests, such as literature and film studies.

As a child, Reuben was exposed to various forms of media at a very early age. His father was and still is an avid gamer and lover of movies, and as a result, he encouraged his son to join in as a way for the two of them to bond. Reuben was hooked right from the get-go, and in particular, he loved the dialogue and character building in these stories, to the point where he began to attempt writing his own. He found that nothing he wrote was good enough though, nothing came out sounding right, and so he would find himself constantly discarding his drafts over the years. To date, he has never written anything longer than five pages in length, and even then, he would go back and delete it from his computer when he re-read it a few weeks later.

In school, Reuben was socially awkward and did not attempt to do anything that would stand out. This was not entirely successful. He was skinny, quiet, clumsy, and wore glasses in elementary, only switching to contacts in middle school, and this made him an easy target for bullies, a trait that has continued up until the modern day. He would eat alone at lunch, reading fantasy or science fiction novels at first, then switching to watching Netflix shows when he got his laptop. In middle school, in the early part of his writing phase, he began watching people at other tables, trying to find inspiration from their conversations and mannerisms. In high school, he would join a tabletop gaming club with some of his peers, analyzing character development through interactions with other people's characters and seeing how they logically flowed from one another. In person though, he was incapable of starting a conversation without stammering or double guessing himself, and he would rarely be the one to initiate said conversations.

One area where he has found confidence is in criticism and analysis. Having consumed so much entertainment over his entire life, he has an opinion on many forms of media, and is quick to offer it to anyone who listens. With his experience has come a bit of arrogance on the subject, and he has difficulty reconciling someone else's opinion with his own. This has led to some loud confrontations in the past where he's grown frustrated in a debate over aspects of popular culture and shouted at his peers, calling them wrong and misinformed. Aside from those occasional episodes, he has otherwise been kind and polite, even apologetic if he's in someone else's way.

Physically-speaking, Reuben has made little effort to improve himself, preferring to simply stop trying in gym and endure whatever humiliation that entails. His parents tried to get him to perform some physical activity when he was younger, signing him up for karate classes and forcing him to join a swim team. He was untalented at either of those, and his peers laughed at him when he tried, so eventually, he actively resisted going to classes, and his parents eventually gave up on them. This trend continued into high school, until one day, shortly after his growth spurt, he was approached by the cheerleading squad. They needed someone who could fit into the costume for the school's mascot: Hunter the Horned Owl, and he happened to be around when they went looking. Hesitant at first because of his history of ridicule, he suddenly realized that this was a perfect roleplaying exercise, and he eagerly agreed. Two days out of the week would be reserved for practice and drills, which on top of his tabletop club ended up giving him a lot to do besides lazing around all day.

As he approaches graduation, Reuben has no ambitions about his future schooling. Despite his mother pushing him to consider a career path, all he wants to do is be entertained, and he believes that there will be plenty of time after graduation to find something that interests him. He has expressed a desire to start his own blog and has even put together the framework for it on Tumblr, but it has been open for two months and he has not written a post for it yet. He is hesitant to expose himself to criticism online, even anonymously, and believes that he can start at any time, whenever he's in the right mood.

Advantages: Reuben has a creative mind suited to coming up with ideas on the fly. He has some friendly contacts with the cheerleading squad and the tabletop club which he could use to his advantage, and he knows how to keep a low profile.

Disadvantages: Reuben is also weak and clumsy. He is uncharismatic and is easily flustered when he disagrees on something, which is unlikely to gain him a lot of allies. In addition, he is easily discouraged and has difficulty committing to things. Should he lose his glasses, his nearsightedness may also be an issue.

Designated Number: Male student No. 041

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Designated Weapon: Kimberly Nguyen’s KABAR combat knife

Conclusion: Congratulations B041, your lack of commitment has really left you worse off now. Maybe try and fix that, or don't. Not like I give a shit. - Josie Knight

'The above biography is as written by Blastinus. No edits or alterations to the author's original work have been made.'

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