Post by MATT CROSS on Aug 2, 2010 17:12:48 GMT -5
♫ - - - MATT CROSS
“ you will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe
it kicks like a sleep twitch ”
NAME: DR MATTHEW PETER CROSS, PHD. A single glance is all it takes to see that Matt's family have distinctly Christian roots, and in fact his maternal grandfather was a pastor before emigrating to America. He is fairly open about his distaste for his full name and the connotations of it, being a staunch atheist himself.[/b]: Since his late teens he has called himself MATT, an attempt to get rid of the formality involved. He goes by DR CROSS in professional situations, citing the amount of sheer fucking work involved in a biochemistry PhD and his refusal to let people forget that. Those calling him 'Mr' are asking to be yelled at. And his yelling invariably involves creative, baroque cursing and inventive threats.
[/ul]AGE: THIRTY-THREE years old, good genes somewhat balancing his terrible lifestyle and leaving him looking maybe a few years younger than his actual age.
GENDER: MALE. Very much so. He abhors the concept of 'feminine men'.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: HOMOSEXUAL. Matt verges slightly on heterophobic, finding scantily-clad women nauseating. He's very much of the Straight Gay school of thought, describing gay men acting in a camp or effeminate manner as being 'counterproductive'.
RACE: Human
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POSITIVE PERSONALITY:
[/ul]NEGATIVE PERSONALITY:
- MUSIC: He's postively passionate about it, in fact. Matt doesn't play an instrument himself and refuses to sing if anyone could possibly hear him do so, but he's something of an enthusiast when it comes to electronica and post-punk, particularly the pioneering work of the eighties. He readily admits that his absolute favourite music is by the Smiths, and despite being American has a rather disproportionate collection of music by British artists. And if he happens to have it playing loudly when his next class come in, that's their problem.
- PUZZLES AND CODES: He has something of an innate aptitude for numbers and cryptography, and given his relentless need to have something to think about they're often his fallback for periods with no class to teach or grading to do. He particularly does sudoku, able to complete a full-difficulty puzzle in a matter of minutes.
- LAB WORK: It's about the only thing he can fully immerse himself in, the only thing that can fully occupy every single thought process he's having. Of course his methods are somewhat unconventional, given that he documents his procedures via digital audio recorder to keep from having to bother with the distraction of a notebook and thus rather loudly dictates every move he makes to compile a lab report later - but if that bothers people, then they clearly shouldn't be in the lab in the first place.
FEARS:
- FALLING ILL: He's terrified of incapacitation, frankly, of his body slowly giving out on him. His hedonism might hasten the day that he finally does fall seriously ill, but the way Matt sees it not living life the way he wants to is wasting it, which is even worse.
- DEEP WATER: Perhaps a little strange for someone raised right by the Pacific, but even a Seattle upbringing has done nothing for Matt's fear of large bodies of water - anything bigger than a bathtub, really, or deeper than six feet. It stems from something of an accident when he was younger, and while he can swim even being by the edge of a water source can make him somewhat panicky.
- BEING ALONE: Perhaps he's doing nothing to prevent it, massive jackass that he is, but he genuinely hates being by himself and will actively seek out crowds to be part of to escape the crushing sort of helplessness he feels when isolated for very long.
AMBITIONS:
POWER TITLE: N/A
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FACE CLAIM:
AXIS POWERS HETALIA
- [i]SWEDEN[/i] — matt crossYOUR NAME: etoile yes it's me again i'm so sorry
EXPERIENCE: 6-10 years
HOW YOU FOUND US: do i count as an existing member?
CONTACT INFORMATION: hybridnightfox@hotmail.com
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