Colin Grayson

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Full Name: Colin Francis Grayson
Nick Names: Col, if you want to become dead. Also, never call him Francis. Goes by Grayson a lot.
Student or Staff: Student, Red Ribbon House, Groom Part Time
Age: 17
Ethnicity: American, Caucasian
Gender: Male
Physical Description: Colin has an intelligent, almost dorky look to him. He's medium height, maybe a bit small, standing at 5' 8" not including his rather unruly hair. That hair... it's slightly curly, springy, and never seems to want to stay down for any amount of time. Usually it's hidden under his riding helmet... but helmet hair is even worse! A few curly-cues hang down against his broad, pale forehead, cut short well above his slightly thick eyebrows. His eyes are large and a strange storm-gray shade, usually classified as blue because of a slight tint to them. Usually, tired circles rim them, and when he reads he wears glasses, although most of the time he can see alright. His face is lean, but he has a rather set line to his jaw, and his neck is extraordinarily long and thin, quite strange, really. The rest of his body, shoulders down, is scrawny and lithe.

He has an intelligent air, but seems to think that he is somehow above the rest of humanity and that they need to get out of his way. Colin is almost snobbish in this way, although really it's just to make up for the fact that he basically has nothing. He's not particularly strong or fast, and in fact most people wouldn't hazard a guess that he is an equestrian. He looks more like a violinist with his hostile reserve and his long fingers. His posture is impeccable, he always stands as stiff as a board. Though his appearance has a slightly boyish air to it, he seems to disregard this altogether, and his vocabulary is, quite literally, huge. When he talks, some people genuinely don't understand him, particularly since he is so socially inept. Colin always dresses a bit oddly, with collared button-downs and dark jeans in the summer. He tends to looks impeccable, never truly slipping into the casual.

Personality: Colin is really an incredibly intelligent individual, one of those astronomical I.Q.s who really can't get along in a world inhabited by people. He has an amazing memory, can solve almost any math problem off the top of his head, and has, as aforementioned, a vocabulary of gargantuan proportions. However, he really has no social skills at all, so he hides behind a mask of snobbery and impetuousness. He is bitterly sardonic, quick-tongued and far too rash in saying what he really wants to. Colin is quick to criticize those around him, usually in a way that he considers is joking. He's always just outside the line of social acceptability, just a little bit awkward, a little bit strange. He says things to other people that usually wouldn't come out in normal conversation... And he's not shy, at all.

Colin's fairly creative, at least he's pretty musical. He plays the cello, an amateur, but fairly decent at it. Music just isn't his calling, though. He loves trivia... One could call him a spermologist, if that didn't sound so dang awkward. He's not exactly out-of-the box, though. The one thing that he's really passionate is horses and jumping - he loves riding hunters, and seems to have very little interest in branching out. There's a mathematical complexity to a hunter course that he finds entirely fascinating, that he clings to and loves to analyze. He's extremely insecure about himself and his finances, however, although he hides it. He hides everything he really feels, actually, dismissing feelings themselves as fine folly, not to be added to the calculation of life. And therein lies his true failing - he can't see the human element of things.

Background: Colin was born into a completely poor family, his father had walked out on his mother years before he was born. his mother was extremely lethargic and depressed, heart-broken, and she never worked or paid the bills on time or ate right, so Colin was born scrawny and unhealthy from the get-go. However, he clung to life with the tenacity of a tick, learning to fend for himself from an early age, and very, very gradually his mother became more alive. She began to work, and life improved a little bit as Colin went to school. School was a refuge to him, a home more than his actual home ever was, and he soaked up everything like a sponge. However, he never had any real friends. He lives in an affluent part of town, and everyone was more wealthy than he was. Plus, his mother was so strapped for cash that he hardly knew when he was going to eat next.

One day, however, his life changed. A teacher noticed how thin and worried he looked, and how he never got all of his homework done even though he was plainly intelligent. He had been getting in trouble, mouthing off and putting on airs to hide his insecurity and inferiority to those around him. This teacher, Ms. Brinley, happened to be an instructor at a nearby stable, and at some point she suggested to Colin that he could come work as a groom for a little bit of pocket money. Desperate, Colin leapt at the opportunity, and so it was that he was introduced to horses. Ms. Brinley gave him free lessons in hunter/jumpers, and he truly fell in love with the sport. His life was on the up-and-up, really, and after a while she convinced him to go out for a scholarship to Blue Ridge. He got in on the condition that he would have to groom to pay his tuition, and the rest is history.

Face Claim/Playby: Anton Yelchin

[.Rissa.]

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