{ALASDAIR DEWITT cue the violins | |||
| THE BASICS! FULL NAME: Alasdair James Malcolm DeWitt NICKNAMES: Allie AGE & DOB: 36 / June 6 RANK: Seven of Hearts PB: Joseph Gordon Levitt | ||
APPEARANCE! somewhere only we can find Alasdair stands at just a smidge above 5'10" with a lean dancer's build honed from years of tap dance and a variety of martial arts; his hair is dark brown with a tendency to wave, and his eyes are almost the same shade of brown. At thirty-six he still tends to look much younger than he is, thanks to his dimpled grin and generally boyish looks. Allie favors a slightly polished casual look, and usually pairs slim jeans with with refined t-shirts and either vests or blazers, a look he dresses up a little with similarly cut pants and suits for his day job as an English teacher. For most of his life he's had 20/20 vision, but in the last few years he's taken to wearing black-rimmed glasses for reading and computer work - and occasionally forgets he has them on. | |||
PERSONALITY! people change on a whim Alasdair is in some ways a classic Heart; he's warm, friendly and sympathetic, always willing to lend a helping hand, and extraordinarily patient - traits that have made him the favorite teacher of many a Deck teenager. He's highly intelligent and highly creative, and on occasion he's been known to fade off into his own world with little notice, as if an errant thought has caught his attention and had to be followed to it's conclusion. There has always been more to Alasdair than just that, however. He grew up the closest friend of a girl who was meant to be Queen of Hearts and instead became Queen of Spades - and as such, the sharp edges are just beneath the surface with this Heart. His sense of humor has a distinctly sardonic edge, and any person who doesn't look beyond the niceness will find themselves unpleasantly surprised. Alasdair is both an artist and a fighter, skilled in a variety of hand-to-hand styles, knife-fighting, and swords. He's chosen, over the years, not to show the second part of himself as freely. The Hearts as a Suit tend to be uncertain among those who are clearly capable of violence. They have, regardless, always needed a few Cards with those skills to stay around. | |||
BIOGRAPHY! let's not waste one more second Born the oldest of four children and the only boy, Alasdair is the son of Dougal and Catherine Hamilton DeWitt, both from Heart families that have been in the Deck close to three hundred years. The DeWitts, in particular, have a traditionally scientific bent, and Dougal is something of a mad inventor who has filled the family apartments with doodads of questionable usefulness for years on end. Catherine DeWitt, on the other hand, is a highly practical woman who has for years been the Head of Communications for the Hearts. The three DeWitt girls, Madeleine, Beatrix, and Amelia, were almost exactly like her: practical, forthright, loving, but somewhat no-nonsense. Alasdair, in contrast, was a wild card as a teenager and into his early twenties; he never completely fit the mold. He was kind and could be sweet, and he was a talented writer and storyteller who used to distract his sisters and Judith with tales as they were all growing up. At the same time, Alasdair's temper can run hot, and he was the only Heart their age who could keep up with Athena in sparring. His parents, and particularly his mother, didn't know how to deal with Alasdair, and Catherine was wont to refer to him as their wolf - something she'd not been prepared to deal with, coming from a family or practical and calm sorts. It was a blessing then, that Georgios Kattalakis and Maggie St. John could see the writing on the wall when it came to Alasdair. He trained with Athena, but also with them - and once Athena left for the Spades, training with the two older sharp Hearts kept him from tearing apart in his effort to be who his family wanted. Even with that balance, Alasdair went through several rough years when he struggled to identify who he was supposed to be. All the while, Alasdair continued to write, and when that wasn't as successful as he would have liked, he took a job in the Town School, first as an apprentice teacher and then as a fully qualified literature instructor. He moved first to a small apartment in Town in the wake of a painful breakup with Evangeline Huntly, practically papering the walls with rejection letters from publishing houses. When a story finally hit, it wasn't the kind he'd always envisioned writing. Instead of a literary masterpiece, Alasdair hit the big time with a potboiler of a murder mystery based loosely (loosely) on the disappearance of one of the Diamond Kings. All in all, it was best to keep his authorship on the down low, and so while Alasdair is now legitimately the hugely successful writer he always dreamed of being...only a select few know. He's gotten used to that secret. Challenges: Age 15: Enters Hearts as a Two. Challenges Kristal Otis (3♥) to prose recitation, wins with his performance of "The Gift of the Magi" by O Henry. Countered in verse recitation, wins with his performance of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Age 17: Challenges Claus Mendelsohn (4♥) to an original verse composition contest. Wins with his poem "The Raincloud's March," which was also published in the Daily Trump. Uncountered. Age 17: Challenged by Aleksei Solokov (3♥) to swordfighting. Successfully defends his rank. Age 19: Challenges Conor Muir (5♥) to original storytelling. Wins with his story about how kisses were invented. Countered in fencing; wins counter. Age 22: Challenges Gwydion Llewelyn (6♥) to kickboxing. Wins in four rounds. Counter-challenged in archery; wins in three rounds. Age 30: Challenges Niall McDaniel (7♥) to 200 M butterfly race. Wins, and is countered in chess. Wins counter. | |||
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