MYERS, Johnny

[.Rissa.]

.Johnny Myers.

Full Name: Johnny Nicholas Myers
Nick Names: None
Student or Staff: Staff
House (if student): Brown Ribbon Apartments
Age: 39
Ethnicity: Caucasion/Irish
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight

Physical Description: Johnny isn't muscular, but he isn't overweight. He has a fairly average build and stands roughly at 6'2". He weighs around 200 pounds, but doesn't look like it. Johnny has average white skin color, he doesn't tan, probably the Irish in him. He has very curly blonde hair, and light blue eyes. He is always clean shaven, never even has a five-o-clock shadow.

Johnny's style isn't exactly the latest trend. He is a writer, a dreamer. He is normally seen wearing dress shoes with a square toe. Occasionally he will change to sneakers. He either wears tan slacks, or relaxed fitting jeans, and black socks. He likes wearing sweaters, and will generally have one on over his collared polo shirt. One thing he is never without, is his watch around his wrist. Well, he takes it off when sleeping... and in the shower, but that's it. He doesn't wear any kind of jewelry, or have any tattoos or piercings.

Personality: Johnny is very quiet, of course, if you knew his story, you would know why. Though he has his days of being in public and conversing, his biggest fear is making a fool of himself. He is afraid of doing something so stupid that everyone will just stop and stare at him. He can't learn to let go and just live freely.

Johnny is very insecure about himself, but is very polite. If he notices you, he will open the door for a woman, be courteous, and heaven forbid if a curse word ever left his lips. He is by far a dreamer, and often wishes his dreams were reality. He writes down his thoughts and often turns them into poems or short stories. He is a very artistic thinker, and often misjudges how things will really turn out. Johhny doesn't have a temper, he gets embarrassed or upset, before he would ever get mad.

History: Johnny was born to an average family in 1972. He had an older brother named Ray, and a younger sister named Lila. His parents were both in the medical field. In their hometown of Brass, Nebraska, there wasn't a whole lot of activity. Johnny lived a normal childhood, owning a dog and two cats. His brother went off into the military after getting out of high school. He sadly, never returned home. By that time, Johnny was a junior. His parents kept pressing him on what to do with his life. Ray had been the special child. All of the college money had been saved up for him to become a doctor. Johnny was horrible at math, and didn't like science. His father was very dissapointed in him, especially when the family name now rested on his shoulders.

Johnny loved English class, and history. When the teachers would talk about battle scenes, the young teenager could picture himself on a old steed, shots and smoke flying in the air, tattered clothing draping from his shoulders. In English, writing was easy. He always got A's on his work. In fact, as a sophmore, he had a short story published in a magazine colomn that his teacher sent in, as his parents wouldn't do it. Johnny was so proud. His senior year, he finally decided what he wanted to do, and told his parents he wanted to go to acting school, and become a screenplay writer. They were furious. Why waste money on that?! The boy heard his father yell. It was that same year, that Johnny came down with Scarlet Fever. He barely survived, but his hearing would be damaged forever.

The boy graduated high school, and went to work at the newspaper office. He did some journal work, and had his name in the paper often. But it seemed every year, his hearing got worse. There was nothing anybody could do. But his life remained normal... until eight years ago. Johnny woke up one morning, to silence. He could no longer faintly hear the radio, and the birds no longer sang. He was completely deaf. He ran outside and quickly went to cross the street to see his neighboor, and he never heard the engine or the horn of a car. The vehicle belonged to his father. Johnny wasn't hurt badly, only scraped and bruised. He quickly stood to his feet, seeing his father scrambled out with a red face. The man yelled, cursed his son, asking him what kind of idiot he was. All Johnny could do was read his lips. Dad, he said. His heart raced with fear and he couldn't even hear himself, I can't hear you. His father cursed him, yelling What are you?! Deaf?! Yes. He was.

Johnny became a disgrace when people found out. They started treating him like he was mentally challenged, like he was a toddler. The young man became enraged and left the town, wanting a new life. He had found several girlfriends, and they wouldn't have known he was deaf, until he told them, and they always left. The man was tired of life, the only ones who didn't care, were animals. Johnny found a stray dog on the streets and took him in. He loves the canine more than any human on earth at the moment. Perhaps that would change if someone would give him the chance. He really could be normal, he was normal. People seemed to think being deaf was a disease.

Johnny was running out of options, going from town to town, always seeming to over due his stay. He was in Kentucky when he heard of a riding school that had several positions open. The man had liked horses, he just never had the chance to be around them. Surely there was something he could do here.
Misc.: Johnny is completly deaf, but reads lips very well and can talk normally
Face Claim/Playby: Gene Wilder

.Marmaduke.

Registered Name: N/A
Name: Duke
Age: around four
Species: Canine
Breed: Hound Mix
Registry: N/A
Personality: Marmaduke is a very hyper dog. He can be very possesive at times, especially with his toys. He loves Johnny to death, and if away too long, will get depressed and start to chew on things. He is rather weary of strangers, and takes a bit to warm up to them. He is a lap dog, and loves attention and petting on the head. He has never bitten anyone, only growled.

History: Duke was born to an accidental litter of pups. The mother was dumped on the street where her puppies followed her around aimlessly. They wondered to a an old farm house where a farmer fed them scraps. One night, coyotes raided the place and killed off two pups. The farmer knew the others would soon fall to that fate, so he took them to the pound. Here, Duke and his remaining siblings were put up for adoption. The dog was adopted right away.

One day, the family went on vacation for a while, and when they got back, Duke was gone. He had dug out of the yard, after tearing up the hose and a lot of other things. He became skittish of people tucking his tail and running. He lived out of grabage cans for two years, before Johhny found him. For some reason, Duke too a liking to the man, and allowed him to catch him. They have been together ever since.