Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The following are responses to a prompt about character development. In each response from the men in H-Unit, a character is sketched.


Character Development

A-Beth, 28 years old, 5’2 120 lbs., (birthplace) England, (favorite food) Hawaii poi
poi, (favorite music) opera, (allergies/disabilities) shit and dirt, (pet peeves) pudos

(Vices) Goes to the bar and drinks beer with long-haired hippies, one of which is her
boyfriend who listens to punk rock.

They live at the camp spot down by the dump. Their neighbors are squirrels, rats,
dogs, and people who come down and give them tickets. They have some friends
who are convicts. They have a house built from liquor store cardboard and plastics.
She dresses from the Goodwill box.

Her dad’s in prison from drunk driving, and lives in California. Her mom is in jail
too from shoplifting cigarettes. They caught her red-handed. The other family is
unknown.
She doesn’t like her family. She liked her grandparents who raised her in England,
but they died, and now she is a cashier at an auto store. She likes new wave punk,
and having a bad hair day.

Her boyfriend sells dope, and gets in trouble for selling to the wrong people
(undercover informants). He is still out, but England PD is out to get him. His name
is Rob.

They have a two year old Rottweiler named Bones. “Bomboo” Bones has a sister
named Jackie.

They’ve spent a lot of time in the courts, but in the Bronx where there are
connections for good times, and there is good punk.
She studies witchcraft. She’s a good person to be around when happy, but she has
mood swings and chases the highs.
Their weakness is jealousy. She would die to have it her way.

- Anonymous (H-unit)


Thibedeax LeBaron, 30 years old (looks 45), 5’8’’, (birthplace) Queens, (hobbies)
slinging cocaine, (favorite kind of music) jazz, addict, dislikes panhandlers – he says,
“Get a job!”
(Vices) Snorting cocaine

He lives on the lower east side in a studio apartment high rise. He services tenants
with bags of coke.
His mother lives in Queens, worries, lives on small social security income, and has
gout and giant varicose veins. His dad disappeared when Thibeduax was eleven. He
was a heavy drinker and violent. Good riddance.

His family has a long line of alcoholics. He gets his mom groceries weekly.
He is single.
He likes to date local street level sex workers, paying in cash and/or cocaine.
He has pet rats. Catch and kill.
Once Thibideax went to upstate New York and saw Niagara Falls. He occasionally
hits the amusement park on Staten Island.

He is not easily bothered by life – generous to women in his life. Good work ethic.
His weaknesses are sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He would fight or die for a good
high.

-Anonymous (H unit)

J-5, 506 years old, 300 lbs. 7’2’’, (birthplace) Cybertronics Technology Lab, Berkeley
CA circa 2012, (favorite food) High Octane motor oil, (hobbies) downloading
programs, (favorite music) electronic, no allergies or disabilities, dislikes loading
(Vices) Wasting electricity

Lives in the Trypodal X-71 spacecruiser in the nebula galaxy.
His family members are factory-designed hospitalitgrobots with a specialization in
data management and microwaving food.

-Anonymous (H unit)


Jarah, 14 years old, 110 lbs., (birthplace) Kenya, (favorite food) French fries,
(hobbies) running, (favorite kind of music) Reggae, allergic to pollen, dislikes
mean people
(Vices) Biting finger nails

Jarah lives in Kenya with mom and lots of brothers and sisters inside a small
house. The neighbors are kind people.
There is a loving mother and a supportive, hard working father. Jarah gets along
with parents, but argues with brothers and sisters.
Jarah is single. Jarah has a dog. They are best friends and the dog’s name is Buck.
Jarah hasn’t lived or traveled anywhere else.
Jarah is independent. Jarah is too prideful, and would fight or die for family.

-Anonymous (H unit)

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