BAINES, february

FEBRUARY DU BAINES

FEBS

NINETEEN ✚ MALE ✚ BISEXUAL ✚ 6'1'' ✚ 169LBS ✚ AUGUST 22ND ✚ UNIVERSITY STUDENT

if febs isn’t wearing a hoodie of any kind, or at least a jacket, then you know something is wrong. Fleece-lined in the winter, thin fabric in the summer, they’re always there, be it layered over with another jacket or worn plain. His style is hip, casual, and completely open to going either end of the spectrum. One day an unassuming university student, the next day a dramatic presence, layering a vest and long jacket over a thinner hoodie. He’s not a stranger to accessories either- face consuming sunglasses are as far as he goes, though. Modifying his outfit to fit his presence is perfect to his style, because with chocolate skin, opaque blue eyes, and almost annoyingly long black hair, hiding something or other makes everything so much better-the goal is effect after all. Febs stands no taller than the average guy, and still manages to peer over the heads of most girls. Things like build and visible weight is hidden under his loose clothes, but he’s averagely fit, from what one can see. Below the clothes is an even build, muscled in the arms, abdomen, and legs. Not especially so, because the focus is on endurance for him, and not strength in say, fighting.

You’d be hard pressed to find a better mix of organization and passion (in the most sensual of senses, of course) than what you can see in February Du Baines. A self-starter who is fit for his own kind of leadership, he’s on level ground with the other youths in his dance classes. So maybe he isn’t the most erudite of folks- charisma doesn’t drip from his words but from his looks and moves. Call it superficial that this is an art he’s perfecting down to the clothes and the looks he gives you, but you can’t say it doesn’t work. He loves expressing his feelings through actions, and not silly little words that don’t carry the same weight.

It’s easy for him to maintain a straight face, to be able control his outward impression so that he looks unassuming and boring- and he hates talking to complete strangers in real life, so that makes it even better. Tapping away on a computer and then seeing them in real life- they’re not strangers when you’ve met them already, yeah? To be specific, he’s not afraid of strangers and doesn’t have anything like stage fright. It’s just speaking with them. The unknown is both an intriguing and fearful thing to Febs, and he takes as much of a compromise as he can with his habits of joining flash mobs.

Febs generally peruses the street scene to find a cause to ally himself with, and while he'll seem pretty dedicated to it for a bit, he'll ultimately leave after a span of time even as short as a couple of days- sorta flaky, you see. If it's something involving dance, he'll get much more excited, and he desperately wishes to create a street dancing group or a dance flash mob. He's often considered joining the breakdancing scene to have a better chance at that.

✚ organized
✚ passionate
✚ self starter
✚ flexible
✚ controlled when he wants to be


✚ dance mobs
✚ old music players
✚ going to clubs & concerts
✚ retro sneakers and shoes
✚ any food involving noodles

✚ flaky
✚ superficial
✚ not erudite, blunt
✚ hates talking to strangers
✚ afraid of the unknown


✚ bland foods
✚ empty stores
✚ water
✚ smoke of any kind
✚ group discussions in classes

FAMILY ✚ rosemary baines (mother - 56), alis baines (father - 58) january baines (older brother - 23) march baines (younger brother - 15) april baines (younger sister - 15)

February, along with January, March, and April, are all the grandsons/daughters of immigrants on their mother’s side. Their grandparents moved to America in early to mid-19th century America, and they’ve stuck around since then. Febs’ has always been an average student- Bs and Cs in suitably average classes were, frankly, suitable for him. He never expected himself to rise to some lofty position in some lofty profession. Maybe, he occasionally thought, but never more than that, and never seriously.

Dance didn’t come to him by means of his family or school, but by a small flash mob on the street, grooving to a then-popular song. Imitation from admiration followed promptly, and it stuck. Or to use a pun, the dancing moved him. He was still a teenager, and a hapless one at that, so it took a while before anything like formal training took place. But it wasn’t too much of a bad thing, as by then he could keep himself moving for a decent amount of time thanks to countless tries on the DDR machine at the arcade. Him being a sophomore in college marks his fourth year in dance. He only practices an average by himself, in an apartment where the neighbors are more than likely to interrupt 30 minutes of dancing. Febs usually prowls the streets for an empty dance studio, or just borrows his former teacher’s.

He can’t swim. If he’s in a pool or ocean, he clings to pool noodles or some floatation device for dear life. He collects shoes, adores them. He's most fond of April in his family. Whenever he tries to talk to strangers, he gains a severe speech impediment, and it's difficult for him to get out what he wants to say. The length of time it takes for it to disappear depends on how comfortable February is with that person, being around them and such. He currently lives at Honeywood Apartments.

✚ OOC NAME affair
✚ CHARACTERS none!
✚ HOW DID YOU FIND US? I was here during the first opening run!

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