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Randy was born the 3rd oldest out of four. He developed very slowly, however, and his first word was "table." He was at the zoo. Pointing at a tiger. Promptly, everyone freaked out, which got him more excited, and he called everything on that trip to the zoo a table. He didn't even know what table meant. He learnt Yarsivian first, not English. The only reason he said table on that zoo trip was because he heard someone else say it, and he simply repeated them. But, oh well. That's his first word. He spoke with a heavy lisp, one that made his words indecipherable. Nowadays, after years and years of speech therapy, he never "fixed" his lisp, but it did improve. It's still heavy, but at least you can understand what he's saying.

When he was 4-7, he moved to America with his family, as his father had started a new business involving invasive species of fish and needed to go on a prolonged business trip. Since his father didn't want to leave his family, they came along. However, this proved to be a learning experience for the whole family, as it sucked being foreigners. After moving back, his father never took them on another business trip instead. They instead wanted their children to stay at home in one place, so they wouldn't be discombobulated. Still, his very first memory he has is from when he was in America. A little girl shared her ice cream with him after her mother's urging, and he tried to say thank you. He didn't know how to say it in English, so he said it in Yarsivian. But she didn't understand that at all, since she was a seven year old living in Detroit. She replied in gibberish, they bonded over the fact they didn't understand each other, and both hung out eating the ice cream.

When his family moved back to Yarsivec, they resolved to get a dog, and Randy was the lucky fellow to name it. It was a beagle/bassett hound mix. He named it Shooie, because he thought the white marking on his paws looked like socks. He still didn't understand English yet.

Randy grew up in a very small, one story house, which was full of pictures of family, and knicknacks. This carried onto his current house he has now with Starla. Knicknacks. Knicknacks everywhere. Also, the Flowerdews were not with much money at all. Most of Randy's possessions were hand-me-downs from Ron and Tom. For all of his life there, he shared his bedroom with someone. Until Timmy was old enough, Randy shared with Ron, and then he shared with Timmy. Randy's room was a hand-me-down from when Ron and Tom shared a room, but then they got the bigger bedroom and Randy and Timmy were left with his old room. It was a pale, mint green. He wanted to paint it blue, but he never did. until 5th grade, he kept drawings that he drew with his family every week up on the walls. It was a thing his family did when they were little, where everyone would draw one good thing that happened that week. Also, he kept posters of his various idols, like soccer players and racecar drivers and Kevin Bacon throughout his time until he moved out.

Prior to meeting Jack, he was relatively friendless. He thought that he had friends, of course, but when it came down to it, everyone usually avoided him. Jack and he were in the same third grade class, but rarely interacted, largely because Jack as well avoided him. His slow, stupid nature, and his indecipherable speech deterred other children away, and even caused teasing and bullying. Usually, the teacher skipped over him when the class had to be called on and read aloud. When they had to have reading partners, the teacher decided that he needed more help than the rest of the kids, and told him that she would be the one who would be his reading partner. This hurt his feelings badly, and made him feel worse and more of a failure. He felt very stupid and ridiculous. Even now, he reads very slowly.

One day, he decided to be brave and ask Jack if he could swing with him, as he hoped he could be friends. Jack didn't understand his speech, and continued to not understand until Randy became so embarrassed and frustrated that he punched Jack in the face. This prompted Jack to punch Randy, and so on and so forth. They got into one of the wildest, bloodiest fights the teachers ever had from third graders, and with that came a huge punishment. With the calling of parents for conferences and discussions, they resolved to make it so that Randy and Jack would have to spend all of their school recess days together, inside recess in isolation from the other kids. At first, they didn't get along at all. Jack would finish homework, occasionally glaring, and both would sit in silence. Well... almost silence. What Randy wanted, more than anything, was to be better and faster at reading, so he would read. Except, of course, he was loudly whispering the words under his breath. He doesn't exactly know how to whisper discreetly. And Randy talking under his breath got under Jack's skin. So, he made the offer of reading with Randy during their time in punishment, and that meant the start of their friendship. At least, the beginning of Jack not ignoring him.

Despite Jack showing his disdain for him, Randy was fully convinced that Jack actually liked him. He was absolutely ecstatic that someone, for the very first time, saw past his problems, and actually liked him for him. However, that wasn't the case. Randy still invited Jack over anyway. And when Randy's mom, and Jack's mom spoke, they found out they lived in the same neighborhood. When Jack came over, he found out on the wall of Randy's drawings a drawing of him and Randy. It turned out that for his one good thing for the week, Randy had drawn them becoming friends. He ended up giving the drawing to Jack right then and there.

Two weeks later, Jack invited Randy over to his own house. Randy, once again, was elated. When he walked in, he could see that Samantha baked cookies, and he could see that compared to his house, Jack's house was so, so big. It had two stories! So big. At first, he was scared of Samantha, due to her being a law-enforcer, but he quickly got over his fear. That day was the day he met Gerroson for the very first time, and he was one of the first people Gerroson encountered... that didn't judge him at first glance. When Randy met Gerroson, he saw him as a lonely kid who needed a friend, and he felt bad for him. He hugged him, and mentally resolved to be a friend no matter what. To always be kind towards him, because he knew Gerroson didn't deserve the way he was being treated.

As the months passed, Jack and Randy would usually read together, but it soon developed into ordinary conversation. Randy would ignore his mother's warnings about Jack, and continued being joyous. But Jack was not as kind as Randy was.

Killian, who was the most well-liked in their classroom, had always found Randy to be very annoying, so she told Jack that in order to be her friend, he had to dump Randy. Jack complied, because he found Killian much cuter than he found Randy. He told Randy that he was probably never his friend after all, which caused Randy to start crying. At this, Randy told Jack a secret that he was never allowed to tell Jack ever; that his family, sans Randy himself, all believed Jack was nothing more than a selfish, mean boy. He told Jack that now, he understood what they said held true. Another fist fight promptly followed, and they drifted apart.

The fight between the two gave Randy notoriety, and he began to be bullied even worse than before, especially by others older than him. Slowly, Jack started to defend him more and more, and he began to work harder at being a good friend. It still didn't stop the teasing, or the joking. His self-confidence dropped even further, and he began to stutter out of nervousness. In some sort of cruel irony, his lack of confidence caused his lisp to worsen ten-fold.

After all of this happening, he eventually became so overwrought with embarrassment and anxiety that by the end of the summer of third grade, he festered his words into a mere silence. He was too fearful to speak, and was silent for all of fourth and fifth grade. He only spoke around his closest friends, and family, and due to how drastic his speech problems had become, he had begun to take more intensive speech therapy.

At a point in fourth grade, he was taken to be checked for testing of any mental issues, where he was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. His parents opted out of medication, and just tried to ignore what they said. Growing up, this always made Randy feel even worse. With him being such a problematic child for the family, he felt like no one was ever really proud of him for what he did accomplish. Even though it wasn't very much.

Randy always despised being in speech therapy. He felt like a moronic fool, an idiot. He didn't want to have to miss class time, and he fretted not being like the kids who spoke perfectly fine, and would look down at himself because of that.

By 6th grade, he met Henry, during English Language. Their friendship was largely of Henry faking care, but Randy cared for him very much. He'd ignore Jack's profuse denials that Henry was a good guy, and trusted him. By high school, Henry had managed to manipulate Randy, who would excuse signs of Henry's apathy towards him time and time again, into hanging around the friends he would get high with. There, Henry would oftentimes would tease him. Randy, being so easy-going, having very heavy-lidded eyes, and a tendency to use vernacular primarily from the 60's-70's, was seen as someone who was probably stoned anyway. Even if he wasn't at all. No one would be surprised to see Randy around stoners, much less to see him buying drugs or whatever the case was. Their friendly relationship grew into something abusive. He would use him as a cash flow, and ultimately would force Randy to give him money and steal from his family's belongings to sell. He would force Randy to smoke, to do whatever his bidding was, and forced Randy to go to drug dealers and buy drugs for him. If he refused, Henry often would have him be beaten by someone from the circle. Over the course of it all, Henry's plan to push any notice of his activities onto his friend had worked, and Randy's reputation as a druggie was ultimately concreted.

Meanwhile, in freshman year Randy had asked for Jack to come with him to a festival, and Jack ran off to see if he really could go with Randy's family. Hours seemingly passed, and Randy's mother near gave up until suddenly, they heard very rapid knocking on their door. It was Jack, speckled with blots of blood. Randy wasn't able to hear what Jack was saying beyond his mother and father blocking the door, and they, and his two older brothers left, telling Randy to stay put. They would not go to any festival tonight, a much more pressing matter had occured. And Randy was left with Timmy to wonder what possibly happened?

So, Randy snuck out of the house, leaving Timmy by himself, and set for Jack's house to find out, out of sheer anxiety and nervousness from the lack of information. Was Jack hurt? Has someone finally taken Gerroson away? Was Jack hurt, where did those dots of blood come from? Was someone dying?

But he didn't think that he'd see the medical team, his family, his best friend, his brother crowding the bloody aftermath of his best friend's mother. Someone that was always kind to him, someone that was like a second-mother to him, he didn't think that he'd see Samantha's bloody corpse crumpled on the grass. The image of Samantha's body will always be branded onto his mind, from afar. He realized why his mother and Ron refused to tell him what was going on-- a 14 year old should never see a corpse like that. 

That event was one of the reasons that he started to have very pacifistic viewpoints. 

Eventually, it was found that Gerroson couldn't be found as Jack's new guardian, so Gerroson contacted Randy's parents and asked them to be the legal guardians. It was to prevent Jack from being moved to the orphanage and becoming a child of state-- a very dangerous thing. His parents, who were against the idea at first, accepted the offer. So, that means that Jack lived with Randy. The new room Randy was going to get after his older brother moved out went to Timmy instead, and Randy shared his room with Jack. 

Jack's personality degrading would stress Randy out very much, who tended to be one of the only people he could tell Jack was lying. In a way, it wasn't too much of a surprise that Randy didn't believe Jack when he said that Henry broke his locket-- his feelings on Jack's honesty were very conflicted.

In tenth grade year, Randy eventually had blown up on Jack out of irritation, and they decided to duke it out in the most creative way they could. The Prank War. The loser had to dye their hair of the other's choosing. Many things were done. Randy was pantsed so many times. Jack got scared into running into a tree in his boxers into a hoard of girls. It was torture for everyone else to endure. They both ended up losing, and Carl got to chose who's hair color got who. Randy got blue, and Jack pink. It was the time of Carl's life. 

In eleventh grade, Jack and Randy got Mr. Herendez as a teacher. Mr. Herendez already knew of Jack from Gerroson, so he could easily see through any dillusioned lie Jack may have tried to impose on him. Unfortunately for Jack, Mr. Herendez wound up exposing to the entire class he was mostly a very fake boy, and resolved to call Jack Lizard Boy. After word spread around, everyone knew about just how much Jack lied about himself, which put a lot of people off. 

Henry also decided to shatter Randy's will by hinting to the school Randy should be taking the next drug test. For reasons, of course. That way, since Randy already had gotten the high from the weed brownie, he'd definitely fail and lose any chance of college, and be kicked out of theatre, track, and cross country. When Henry told him this would happen, Randy lost his ever loving mind and went on a full panic mode. This worked.

Fun Facts

When he found out that Jack's mom was a law enforcer, young Randy wasn't sure whether it was a good idea to continue being friends with Jack. After his great aunt had a bad night of drinking, a law enforcer had accidentally killed her. Due to Randy's age at the time, no one told him that the details of the accident, leading for Randy to believe that all law enforcers were bad.

Randy teds to overeat when he's stressed or upset, despite his claims that he doesn't.

He has a widow's peak.

Randy has rosacea, but he doesn't know the name of the condition specifically. Only you and I know.

He was one of the top ten runners in track and cross country at his high school. Now he knows how he's supposed to run, but is poor and much slower at it due to being so out of shape.

Randy's phone, like much of the technology in Yarsivec, is outdated. He has a flip phone.

Due to his rosacea, when he is embarrassed or blushing in general, his entire face will become much more redder than would be normal.

His self confidence is of a very used and abandoned shoe.

In all of his years in high school, he weighed mostly around 130 pounds or less.

Randy has an anxiety disorder, he's always had it. Even now. Sometimes Starla wakes up in the middle of the night, only to see him in the corner of the bedroom panicking and crying. She'll never know why, because he refuses to talk about it.

Randy has carpal tunnel due to years of improperly playing the piano. Not that he was any good at the piano, anyway. The only thing that he remembers how to play is the theme to Footloose.

Randy's vision is poor, and he needs glasses.

His favorite childhood show was Scooby Doo.

He is bilingual, and is fluent in both Yarsivian, and English.

Randy has a ridiculous sweet tooth, and has a very strange obsession with starbursts.

He's a big advocate for peace and antiwar statements.

He has a ton of lava lamps, hippie knicknacks and movie posters everywhere.

After he started to make an effort to help Henry through his drug addiction, his panic attacks got significantly worse.

Randy gets more tired and out of breath way faster than he had before,

Randy isn't a virgin, and that's probably Starla's fault.

He's incredibly insecure about his body, and doesn't let people see him without clothes on anymore. Not even Starla. He looks a lot heavier than he does wearing a shirt.

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