Post by Midori Cipriano on Jul 26, 2012 5:23:18 GMT -5
| [atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 460px; background-image: url(http://i44.tinypic.com/34fb0ns.jpg);-moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border: 4px ridge #7a9aa9, bTable][tr][cs=2] tobias jasper stanley. twentyfive. universitystudent. jackson rathbone. | |
[rs=2] | the first description of toby is that he's a rather awkward human being. ruggedly good looking with beautiful eyes and a killer smile, but disastrously shy around girls. he doesn't get his appeal, he doesn't understand that girls are attracted to him, and he doesn't know that he could, in fact, very easily get a date, if he were to just pluck up his courage and ask a girl out. which leads us to the next point: toby is an absolute gentleman. he cannot comprehend why someone would cheat on someone else, or sleep with someone they don't know, or have "just" sex. he's only ever had two girlfriends, and they've both been fairly serious, proper relationships, cultivated after years of friendship and trust, enjoyed for a decent while (the first for one year, the second for fifteen months), broken off amicably and with full understanding on both sides, and still good friends after. toby grew up in an orderly household. he had three years in which he was the only child, and therefore received the brunt of the orderly household, fixed bed times, meal times, routines, the whole shindig. he never resented it - he preferred it, actually, but maybe it's only because that was all he knew when he was younger. when zanna was born, their orderly life was disrupted, more frequently as zanna grew up and rebelled against the routines. he was told it was wrong to hit a girl, so he bore through zanna's childish bullying with long-suffering patience. he was the 'ideal' child between the two of them, and approval of his parents was what always drove him in his studies and chosen career. he understood that his parents had less time for him as two more children were added into the family, but he did feel distanced from his family, never really taking to sam, who seemed to instantly be zanna's favourite, nor to faye, because the age gap was too big between them and toby was afraid she'd turn out like zanna. he was glad when he was sent to hogwarts, glad to be away from his siblings, glad to finally start living his life, feeling as though his siblings were starting to crowd around and suffocate him. he was sorted into ravenclaw, seemingly the only boy in their dorm room with a fear of breaking the rules. the boys in his dorm would turn out to be the closest friends he'd have his entire life. he did very well in his subjects, fueled by the need to please his parents and bring some (positive) attention back to him. his strength was in history of magic, but his favourite classes were transfiguration and charms. in his fifth year, he was awarded prefectship, something which he proudly went home with. his relationship with his family distanced every year that passed, until he felt like he was a stranger in his own home. he gladly moved out of the house upon graduating, moving into a flat shared by two of his closest friends from his dorm. he dithered about for a while, taking a one-year apprenticeship at st mungo's, then tried an internship at the ministry before backing out after a year. he's now just finished studying education, thinking of maybe pursuing a teaching career in either hogwarts or at a muggle institution. he's a social drinker who has never been wasted, and a social smoker who hates the stuff. he's never tried drugs, but has been introduced to "life" by his dorm mates. it's not that he's weak and easily bullied into these things; it's just that he's actually curious as to what they are (what alcohol tastes like, what smoking is), and, well, yes, peer pressure does have something to do with it. his friends aren't evil or anything, though, they mean good and just want him to have fun and experience things before he's too old to. he trusts them because he knows they won't hurt him, won't go too far with him. and besides, it's fun having fun with them - fun isn't something he experiences much at home. he's been out to parties with his friends (always the equivalent of the designated driver), drunk with them, but the one thing he'll never do is have casual sex like they do. he has been set up only twice - once on a blind date in his fifth year in a bid to encourage him to get a girlfriend; and the other at a benefit when he was twenty-three (two years ago) with a rather beautiful blonde, and he'd been awkward and she'd been awkward, but he'd rather liked her. (he has no idea, and neither do his friends (who paid for the girl to accompany him), that the girl, giselle murray, was in fact only twelve years old at that time. his friends aren't that cruel, and toby isn't that desperate.) as of right now, he's just finished his four-year education course, he's still living with the same two arseholes he's been living with for the last fourteen years, is sort of waiting rather than looking for a relationship, and his relationship with his family is still rather distanced. it's not that he hates them, he's just grew up away from them. in his opinion, he's done enough for his parents by making them at least happy that he's completed his education with high marks and that he's chosen a suitable career. other than that, he doesn't really care. ever since the boys in his dorm room became his best friends (around third year), he's begun to refer to himself as tj (or, as spelled by his dorm mates, "teejay"), with only his family calling him toby because he really doesn't care much for it. at least tj ("teejay", his friends would insist) sounds more mysterious than toby, which sounds a bit childish to him. icon credit to lillianporter of caution |
nanii. eighteen. one+half. aest. |
