Erik Braid
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- Created
- 2 years, 12 days ago
- Creator
- dolliedoodle
- Favorites
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Profile
- His job
- Audio Books
- Storytelling
- Writing in his journal
- Green Tea
- Gazing at sunsets
- Sparring
- Being around people
- Changing subjects too frequently
- His nightmares
- Talking about his scars
- Being showered in too many compliments
- Being disturbed during work
- Being lonely
- Erik is the oldest of four siblings.
- He used to be a graduated military elite soldier before working for the police.
- Diagnosed with PTSD two years after his military graduation.
- Smoking is his coping mechanism for his panic attacks - aware that it is unhealthy.
- When he is nervous, he gets a little clumbsy and accidentally breaks things.
- All the responsibility he holds made him more exhausted and physically tired since he was 25.
He is a responsible man, who doesn't like to get on people's bad side, but rather calmly solve the issues. Erik is a sweet and gentle soul, who can rarely get mad at any person he encounters outside of his workplace. Although due to his appearance, he is often intimidating towards others, which does make him feel a little lonely from time to time. He can be seen as some kind of "guard", since he takes his job very serious and would do anything for justice and honor, but at the same time, doesn't want to hurt the people, that he's close to - neither with words or his fists. At his work place, he would get praised for his leadership and cooperation, but he doesn't really like to consider them, since he rather wants his collegues to be proud of themselves. On very stressful days, he can't focus on himself and he becomes a little reckless with his natural strength, causing him to accidentally breaking something. He even gets upset when he accidentally rips his shirt due to how big his arms are, which his wife Julia never has a problem with and is always ready to stitch them back together. With his siblings, he is the kind of strict and serious older brother figure, who wants nothing but safety for his siblings, but he doesn't really know, how to express his fears and struggles to them. With Julia, he becomes very protective, because personality and naive nature strives his will to keep her protected. He sees cigarettes and sometimes alcohol as a form of stress releave, when he is at his limits. Because of his past experiences and stress, he keeps a journal, where he writes in it, every day, about how he feels and what he thinks. When he became a father, he started to become more calmer and less strict to his children, but rather teaches them how to properly handle situations and how to defend themselves.
Erik is the first born in the family, which makes him the eldest. He grew up as a quiet and yet polite little boy. For a few years, his life was starting to become a little lonely, since he really only spend most of his time either alone or with his parents. He wished to his parents to get a sibling, because he wanted to learn how to be responsible and how to be supportive towards people his age and younger, if a newcomer came into the family. At the age of 5, in 1990, his younger brother Eligah was born. And ever since, he became more energetic. As an older brother, he really wanted a lot of things with Eligah, but most of the time, it didn't interest Eligah not even the slightest, which really made him worry, as to why he didn't want to play with him but would rather read children's books. Over time, the two still got along, just Eligah wanted quiet times, when Erik wanted to play racing cars with him. When he was 8, in 1992 Emma was born. It was a loud hell in their house, when Emma did literally anything. She mostly cried in order to get the boys in trouble. Every time, Erik would come back from school, Emma had done something and blamed it on him, but overtime, that behaviour wasn't working anymore. At school, Erik was one of the normal behaving kids with good grades, with a few friends he made, example being Taro. What he didn't like at school is, when he was constantly followed by little girls, who either admired him or found out, that he was the son of Bruce Napulio. 1994, when he was 11, Elena was born. He thought, that we would get another loud little sister, but instead Elena was really quiet as well and was mostly around him, because she saw him as an admiration. With that, he did his entire best to keep her safe, same with her other siblings. Until, at the age of 17, he decided to join the military for 2 years. During those years, he has been wounded very harshly, even when he was determinded to give his very best. The scars on his body still remained, even when he came back. After that experience, he still wanted to finish his education, and went to college. Like in primary school, girls were following him.. Instead, they were more interested in getting laid with him than actually starting a relationship. One of them was only interested in his wealth. Since those girls weren't interested in his love, they abused him to get things their way, when Erik was at his most vulnerable state. Before he went to college, at the age of 24, his parents gave him the fully responsibility over the house with a few million euro for everyone in the family, so they both could move to France and continue their businesses there. Him, being overwhelmed with this responsability, having a part-time job at that time and now being in absolute charge of his three younger siblings, he's grown to have constant stress. Even in college, with all what happened, still extremely overwhelmed him. He was really unsure on who to talk to at this point, since he saw his responsabilities as his most important objective. In the end, he tried to start a relationship with Chloe, who really only used him for his money and was the agressive bully of everyone else. When Erik tried to call his awful girlfriend out, she left him and scratched his right eye open. After an examination at the hospital, he could've lost his vision, if the cut was deeper, but he was lucky enough to still have his eye. From this day forward, he wasn't able to trust anyone but his family ever since. Years passed, when he got his education, he applied for a job at the police office. Throughout his later years at his job, he was promoted as the new chief, after his boss went in pension, which gives him full control and even more responsability for his co-workers and head-detectives. During a trip to the market, his youngest sister Elena asks him to get her some flower seeds, where at the shop, she met a woman named Julia. Since they wanted the same tulip seeds - which was the last remaining box , Julia immediately went to apologize to him and insisting on him to take the box instead of her. Erik did end up getting them due his sister Elena needing them for her gardening and because of Julia's persistence. She then invited him to go get some coffee to which he agreed though a bit hesitant. Both of them managed to get along quite well and Julia opened up rather quickly despite her being quite shy. But the two did have a good time and enjoyed each other's company. Due to Erik's untrustworthy and toxic past relationships, he was unsure weather to trust Julia or not. Although she didn't gave up as her first impression on him was indeed that he seemed "sweet" despite his intimidating appearance. It took a very long time for them to actually form some form of friendship, however once they did, Julia started to notice Erik is suffering from trauma due of her own Pedagogics intuitions. Eventually, Julia started being a Phychologist of Erik, him eventually coming to trust her and shared the dark memories of his past during his military years and his past relationship. She helped him with everything she could for him to distract himself from the negative thoughts, and always being there for him to listen to his concerns. Erik appreciated her help greatly and listened to most of her advices.
"My little brother Eligah? Ah yes. He is not the man with many words, but you never know what's under the shell just by first glace. In fact, he writes more than he talks. He can write pages among pages of literature in one sitting, it is impressive. His creative writing his astonishing, you can feel the emotions through these texts. His finished works go by a different alias in fear of too much public attention. I am praying for him to one day get out of his shell and show his dearing pride for his beloved masterpieces. I know how passionate he gets with his novels, he deserves to have his talent acknowledged."
"My sister Emma was quite the troublemaker during childhood, our parents often assumed Eligah and I were picking on her. Heh, the ways of growing up with a sister. I'm glad she grew out of that radical side of hers. Our mother was spoiling her a lot growing up, but she learned all about fashion and designs through visiting our mother's home workplace. When she was a lot older, Emma made herself pretty for every occasion. It felt like an exaggeration, but I didn't want to ruin her joy. What I noticed is that she loves to talk. Not just about fashion or how her day went, but in general. My other siblings look annoyed of it, personally I don't mind. I like listening to anything my siblings tell me. I'm honestly proud of what Emma has accomplished. I was worried about how she turned out during her modelling career. She is way more happy being the one creating and designing clothing instead of wearing them herself. Nowadays she makes clothes for all of us. She is so kind and generous, it's very admirable of her."
"My youngest sister is a unique individuel in our family. As a child, she used to be quiet, kind of like Eligah. She took a lot of factors from our parents to heart. Suddenly when she started going to school, Elena was feeling all sorts of emotions all at once, no one knew how to handle it. However, she always told me how many friends she had made, I felt really happy for her. But then.. she started locking herself up her room a lot more.. We were so worried for her health, but she wasn't talking to us for months. We were aware of her.. interests in guys, but considering she met one guy once and she came home covered in hand marks and bruises. It was traumatic to witness. When she told us what was going on, we all promised each other to be more open about our problems. By the time Elena recovered, she wanted to hang out with each of us individually. I got to understand her so much better when I was having conversations with her under four eyes."
"My wife? Heh, funny story on how we met. My sister wanted me to get her some flower seeds for the garden she was growing at our terrace. I had to run an errand given by Emma as well, so might as well do both. At the flower shop, I managed to find the last bag of tulip seeds but unexpectly another person was reaching for them as well. It was a young woman with pretty long hair, almost as long as Emma's hair. She apologized for something she didn't need to apologize for. For a delicate young woman like her, I'd never expect her to be this apologetic. She did insist on me having the seeds, but what really surprised me is.. she wasn't intimidated by my apperance, like at all. She was so friendly as well and really open for conversation. We had a small chitchat over some tea after it and got to know each other more. I learned that Julia used to work as a psychiastris, which is really impressive coming from someone like her. As we grew closer, she helped me overcome of my panic attacks, she knew how to handle him pretty well. I'm sure that no one would've ever thought that this delicate flower will become my wife one day, heh. ♡"
