Post by Lottii on Feb 16, 2011 17:16:39 GMT
PLAYBY: Jack Whitehall
FULL NAME: Jack Vaden
NICKNAMES: Jack
AGE: 16 years
GENDER: Male
ETHNICITY: White British
STUDENT OR STAFF: Student.
HALL: Ashton
PERSONALITY: Jack is very protective of his twin sister, spending almost all of his time with her, guarding her and translating into sign language for her. He is very reluctant to let anybody else near her, even those he trusts. He finds it very difficult to put his trust in people, preferring to keep his sister completely safe by trusting no one.
However, Jack's own personality is actually rather confident. He can come across a touch too arrogant and standoffish, but that's really just a way he's found keeps people at a certain distance from him. When he gets talking with someone he likes though - which isn't a frequent occurrence he just can't shut up and will happily babble on about normal, teenage things. When you take away the wall he's built around himself for protection, you find a surprisingly well-adjusted young guy who has a good sense of humour and the ability to have a conversation with just about anybody.
His own intelligence in academics isn't great, but he's never really had a chance to show it as his attention in class is always on helping his sister. Jack does have a love for running though, the way he can just run himself to near exhaustion and not think about anything other than placing one foot in front of the other.
BACKGROUND: Jack was born with his twin sister Katie in a small town in the north of England. Katie was born deaf for an unknown reason, but it did not affect her brother. The first few years of their life were relatively normal. The twins were raised by a single mother - their dad having done a runner before they were born. However their mother was suffering from severe postnatal depression and was too frightened of having her babies taken away from her to seek help. When she started to become a danger to herself and others, it was finally noticed by a health visitor, and she was taken into hospital so she couldn't harm herself. The twins, who were toddlers by this time, went to live with their mother's father, a man who they had never met before and their mother hated.
A move to Wales was hard on the two young children, not helped by having to suddenly be taken away from the only adult they had ever really known and find themselves living with a grumpy old man who possessed no patience whatsoever. He raised the children harshly, having no time for either of them and not bothering to learn to communicate with Katie. This was when Jack started to become the major support for the girl, and Jack relied on her too. Jack tried to keep his sister out of trouble, translating any of the strict instructions they had to follow to keep the house and children perfectly in order. But their grandfather had been raised in a different era, and believed the only way to discipline bad behaviour was with a fist.
By the time the children were seven, they were expected to spend after school time and weekends working on the horse farm their grandfather owned. Katie fell in love with the animals, but Jack regarded them as another means of punishment. A young groom working on the farm taught and helped Katie ride over the next five years or so, and she was the only person the twins could class as a true friend. School was little different to the home situation, Jack ended up spending his time translating for Katie and therefore getting in trouble for falling behind, and Katie, not wanting Jack to cause trouble for her brother, would frequently refuse to do the work so that Jack could do his. Bullies adored their easy targets, and the children hated school as much as their home lives.
Now, at sixteen, the twins are leaving for the college, hoping to make a fresh start away from their strictly controlled childhood.
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