User talk:Fish/Damon's Beginning

Notes on Damon's Character

In order to keep Damon's character consistent throughout his story branches, I'm putting all my notes on his personality, friends, and family here. If you develop Damon or Seth in some way not covered by the notes below, be sure to add your own expansions to the character definitions. --Fish 15:42, 22 November 2007 (EST)

Damon

Damon is gay, but he is deeply closeted. He passes for straight by imitating the testosterone-driven behavior of his teammates, and he hides his relationship with Seth. In the real world he does not engage in any public displays of affection, is very private and secretive, protected by an outward veneer of charisma. Damon is a very charming man when he puts his mind to it, but few people ever get beyond that surface charm.

He's insecure about his sexuality, and paranoid that it will be revealed and ruin the life he has. He doesn't see that the life he actually has is narrow, frightened, confined, and built upon the potential he has as a baseball player — in a sense, his desire to achieve for the future has restricted his ability to fully enjoy the present.

Damon is a pitcher for the university's baseball team, and is right-handed.

Seth

You might see Seth as everything that Damon wishes he could be — irreverent, flirtatious, rule-breaking, rebellious, and open. Seth likes to shock people, likes to be prickly and overly sensitive if it makes others uncomfortable, and to be suave and comfortable when others are feeling out of sorts. He really enjoys pushing the buttons of society, because he sees himself as outside it, and unbound by its rules.

Seth is a guitarist for a local garage-punk band, and is left-handed.