Atticus

Born into a life of wealth, AJ is what many would call incredibly fortunate. From a young age, even menial tasks were drafted off to others. His father worked as the only dentistry in their small town, raking him in a large cash flow as he privatised his business. Being the only option, money kept at a steady flow as people had no choice but to go there. His mother worked as a real estate agent as well as flipping high market value items on selling sites over the internet; bringing up the prices to near exorbiant amounts and taking large sums from unsuspecting people online. Not only this, but her parents both worked in the medical field, with her father being a cardiologist. This alone gave her a large boost in starting funds, combined with her and her husband's substantial income. Their first daughter, Claudia was born and for a long while, was their only pride and joy. She too got to live in the absolute lap of luxury, never having to so much as tie her own laces. After her came Atticus, Rosalind and Maximilian respectively.

And thusly for Atticus, life was fairly uneventful in his eyes. As years passed by, it became apparent that money, work and social standing was the biggest factor surrounding the Chase family's life. For some, this was merely another passing deal however; as AJ grew up, he came to desperately hate the feel of people scrutinising and nitpicking everything about them. He was well aware of course, that the people in the town weren't their biggest fans. After all, the knowledge of their massively hiked up prices were common knowledge. Not only this, but Atticus felt as though each and every failure in anything would bring even worse noteriority to his family name. Of course, as much as he held disdain for the cards he had, he couldn't realistically complain. He was, absolutely, living in the heighest tier of luxury. A person to drive him to and from places, people that cooked for him when needed, complaining seemed like an injustice to everybody worse off that him. This overwhelming inability to discuss why he disliked the public eye contributing towards his later view on the world.

When Atticus' teenage years began, he noticed a change in his older sister Claudia. She began going out longer, spending far more time away from home and coming back and wreck. When she was at home, she was consistently arguing down the phone, in a bad mood and the likes. And although their parents openly voiced their dislike of Claudia's newfound ways, Atticus couldn't help but notice something. Claudia had far more friends than he. She seemed to have more fun in life, do more interesting things. That shred of normalcy that she showed could exist motivated him in some ways to begin to act out. Following in her footsteps, Atticus began to tiptoe the line between what was considered right and wrong in his home. Firstly, by merely dropping his name. 'Atticus' had far too many negative connotations attributed to it. Instead, he opted to go by 'AJ' a combination of the first letters from his first and middle names. He began to dress in a way that was very different from the other people in his family. No more perfectly ironed button downs, instead his look began scruffy and messy.

Continually, he began to push the boundaries more and more the older he got. Dying his light blonde hair a bright blue was the final break out from the rule abiding 'Atticus', to the uncaring 'AJ'. His actions began to grow in how problematic they could be considered, going from staying out an hour later than expected; to returning home obviously high. His school work began to plummet too. A's dropped to D's and F's, mostly because he enjoyed being the 'disappointment'. It gave some thrill in what he otherwise considered an incredibly menial life.

Now, in order to appease his parents somewhat, he opts to use one day of the week to do as they wish. Sundays, in which he will go with them to church. Other than this, the 'wild child' as he is considered is his everyday act. The favourite child role has very openly now been given to his younger sister Rosalind, merely the most abiding child of the four.

AJ tries extremely hard to distance himself from his family and his overtly privileged self by making him as 'different' as possible. He takes the concept of being rebellious incredibly seriously, trying his best to stray away from the wishes of his civilised and formal family, no matter if he wants to be or not. Whether that's staying out until 5 in the morning drinking, coming into class high; whatever it takes to prove he is nothing like his prestigious family. That seems to be the reason he hates going by his real name, Atticus, opting instead to go by AJ. This creates a stark contrast between the self that he presents on a daily basis, and the actions he is forced to partake in when spending time with his family. A massive difference is seen, for example, in his clothing; going from his large, baggy and dark clothing, to specially made suits when living up to his parent's expectations. This desire to be so drastically different from what his family opt to present causes him to engage in things that he wouldn't typically do at his own accord. For example, prior; smoking was an action that he considered mundane and redundant. However, he took it up when he realised what a bad look it would give to the general public watching in.

Due to having a flat affect as a result of his overlying mental conditions, he can come across as extremely heartless and uncaring. Expression of emotion doesn't come naturally to him, and he finds it incredibly difficult to explain at times. This doesn't mean he is unable to feel emotions, just that his face and body often don't match up with what he is trying to convey. His profile instead always seems somewhat blank and cold. Coupled with his large physique, he can come across as incredibly intimidating, despite really not being too much of athreat. His tone of speaking is also incredibly one note, monotone. This can be to his detriment as oftentimes, things he says are taken the wrong way. Sincere comments can be portrayed as being cynical and condescending, due to the lack of tonal shift between one phrase to the other. In order to combat this, AJ doesn't speak much unless he is inclined to for a reason. He will rarely start conversation and can take some time to actively engage in talks, in fear of what he says being miscontrued.

If anything is able to be said about him though, his mental prowess should be of key note. His problem stems from a lack of desire to apply himself as some may say. This stems largely from a background of everything being handed to him on a platter. He has had no reason to overcome his laziness, which has caused him to often be uncooporative in demeanour. Despite his lack of communication, he solves logical problems incredibly quickly, however simply does not divulge the information he figures out. Even when he has solved a difficult situation, he will typically withhold his knowledge until the very last moment of desperation; mostly due to simply not being bothered to explain his reasonings or concepts. On account of the flat affect, when he does opt to give up what he knows, the lack of expression and stony means of speaking, he risks sounding like a smartass each time.

That said, he can be incredibly proactive when the time calls for it. He gets into a mindset of focus very easily, and it hard to break out of that when he is thinkins hard, which can be both a good and bad thing dependant on what is happening around him.

AJ claims that he is completely untalented with no interesting skills. However, one faily random ability he possesses is the speed in which he can complete a rubiks cube, a feat he shows off constantly to the marvel of others.

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