Vesa Turunen

Name: Vesa Turunen Gender: Male Age: 16 Grade: 11th School: Franklyn Homeroom: Mr. Dolph Hobbies and Interests: Hockey, music (specifically metal), playing guitar, mountain biking

Appearance: Vesa Turunen is one of the bigger kids in his school; at 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, he looks down on most of his classmates with somewhat light brown eyes. He has a scar located under his right eye about two inches in length, which is one of two noticeable features. The other is his long blonde hair that comes down past his shoulders to the top of his back, which is something that he is especially proud of. His build can be described as muscular, though he does not overdo it to the extent of a bodybuilder (or some of the guys on the football team). For clothes, he usually wears t-shirts of his favorite heavy metal bands, button-down casual shirts or hockey jerseys of his favorite NHL players, loose-fitting blue jeans and casual dress boots (ala Doc Martens).

Biography: Vesa's story begins in his native Finland, having spent his entire life living in a suburb near Helsinki. The middle of three children born to a middle-class family, he showed promise as he was a straight-A student and had a mastery of three other languages (German, Russian and Swedish) as well as English and his native Finnish. In being accepted into the foreign exchange program before he was supposed to enter the 11th grade, he beat out more than 5,000 other students for one of twenty-five positions...and in being one of the top ten, he was chosen to go to a pre-selected area in America. He is currently living with a family of Finnish descent in New Jersey, which is the reason he is attending Franklyn High.

But as soon as he arrived in the States, things began to go downhill for Vesa. He went into a severe depression, often having feelings of homesickness and openly desired to his adoptive family to return back to Finland. The only things he has to cope with it are the two things he loves the most: playing hockey and heavy metal. Vesa was the captain of Team Finland in the junior world championships held in Vancouver and surprised everyone by making it to the championship game. The Finns lost in a shootout to the hosts from Canada...to which Vesa took personally because he was the last man to shoot and his attempt hit the crossbar and bounced away. The shame in missing that shot and a chance at bringing glory to his homeland lingered and was also a contributing factor in his depression. After the junior worlds, another surprise befell Vesa as the Minnesota Wild made him their first-round draft pick, citing the dominating performance and enormous potential he had while beating back critics of the move.

Vesa had plans to start a band with a couple of his friends back in Finland as he was an aspiring guitarist who worshipped the premier metal bands of Europe. But his favorite by far were the native sons of Stratovarius; he wanted so badly to be the next Timo Tolkki that he practiced whenever he had finished his studies and hockey practice, often well into the night. He still plays and would like to try and form a band with anyone he meets at FHS and is musically inclined. Overall, Vesa is just like any other teenager struggling to make the transition to adulthood; he has his good days and his bad days. But his case is different...with everything he ever knew back in Finland and the potential for superstardom looming in the distance, the added pressure might be too much for him to handle.

Advantages: Obviously, Vesa's size and strength is a valuable asset, though he is also fearless and shows relatively little vulnerability to pain. Vesa also has superior endurance and eyesight, and is also an excellent marksman(as a result of partaking in biathlons in Finland with his family).

Disadvantages: Vesa can be hard to understand sometimes as English is not his first language and he speaks with a prominent accent. The fearlessness that is one of his biggest assets can also be his downfall as he sometimes thinks with his heart (and/or his balls) before his head and gets himself into serious trouble.

Number: Male Student No. 23

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Designated Weapon: Diver's Knife Conclusions: B23 is certainly a big guy. Perhaps he'll be able to throw his weight around in the SOTF ACT. He doesn't have to worry about the pressures of stardom anymore, though, because now he's got the opportunity to become famous in the ACT!

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