"Razor" Diggory (REVISED!)

[razor]

Name: Chester Melvin "Razor" Diggory (real name known only to four people, everyone else knows him as Razor Diggory)

Nicknames: Razor, Diggs, Diggory
((Sidenote: He obtained the nickname "Razor" because when he met Riza, he was talking to her, but couldn't say his 'z's and had a crazy accent. He tried to say the word 'razor' and it came out 'raejscher'. By the time Riza figured out what he said, she called him "Razor" mainly to mock him, but it eventually stuck.))

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Clique: Nomad

Clique Status: He's mainly a loner, so just a regular member

Picture: ((mind you, he doesn't wear these clothes, obviously))


Play by: Chad Michael Murray

Appearance: Razor stands at six feet, two inches and weighs a good 230 pounds. However, every last ounce of that weight is muscle. His angular face is accented by a sharp nose and rarely smiling lips. Over the past few years, he's been given very little to smile about. For someone who spends so much time outdoors, he is rather fair complexioned. His eyes are deepset and slightly slanted; a bright cerulean color pigments his irises. As for his hair, it's blonde and cut somewhat short, but long enough to just out in naturally unruly spikes.
His towering stature renders him intimidating, yet his well-toned physique is often considered desirable at the same time, by the ladies of course. He has conditioned his body to be a fighting machine to protect himself (and hopefully the ones he cares about in the future). His shoulders and chest are riddled with tattoos, and his legs are riddled with scars (though no one knows that, since he always wears pants) as well as an "X"-shaped scar on the left side of his chest from when he tried to kill himself.
His left ear is pierced three times, and he is usually wearing three identical silver, bar-shaped earrings that dangle about two inches below his earlobe. Razor isn't one for exciting clothing, nor does he have the funds for it. The only money he has at all anymore is what he earned as a mercenary, and he has to use it extremely frugally. Clothes are a necessity; nice clothes are a luxury. He doesn't have a lot in his wardrobe, save for a few dull pairs of poor-man's breeches of either faded black, faded blue, or grey, only one pair of black leather boots, and a few old ruffle shirts and one button-down, all either in a light beige, faded black, or aged white. For winter weather, he has one faded black cloak, but it's enough because he is rather fond of the cold.

Personality: When he was younger, he was fairly normal and generally a happy guy, but due to instances in his past (see character history), his personality has severely gone downhill. He's seemingly bipolar. At times, he has no temper at all, but it's mainly because he doesn't care. However, if he does care, you're in for it. If you say or do just the exact right thing to make him mad enough, he'll beat you to a bloody pulp, if not kill you all together. He's lost much of his self restraint, so he doesn't realize what he's doing, and he knows how to fight, so don't give him that chance: He doesn't lose easily.
Aside from his "episodes" as he calls them, he generally doesn't say much, doesn't smile, seems quite cold and apathetic about most things. However, if you get to know him, you'll realize that his dark demeanor is not so much from hate (though that is a part of it), it is from pain, and his attempts to swallow it.
He doesn't come up to people, and generally people don't approach him either. He's been a loner for the past few years of his life and doesn't handle strangers well. He's only comfortable around the three people he grew up with, and he hasn't seen them since he ran away. He's had his opportunities to meet others, but doesn't feel he deserves any happiness because of what he's done. His constant guilt and regret has made him despise himself and prevent him from trusting anyone besides his three friends.
It's not entirely impossible to gain his good graces or even his friendship, but don't ever expect him to trust you; and don't think that you can always trust him either. He's very skeptical and very cynical, and if he doesn't want to go through with something, he won't.

History: Razor was born in a big city on the other side of the continent and raised there until the age of eight. His mother was handicapped by severe arthritis and his father lost his foot in a war, rendering him handicapped as well. Due to their inability to run a house, they had to move to a far away village with Razor's uncle Roy, his father's brother. Roy Diggory hates kids and views Razor as an ungrateful leech, verbally abusing him until he was 11. By then, Razor started shouting back, and the abuse became physically violent. Razor's mother would run errands on saturday nights with the other women of the town, his father would work at Roy's bar as a bartender. Roy's shift would end, he'd drink, come home, yell at Razor for something, then beat him. He only mutilated Razor's legs, so no one would easily notice and threatened to throw them all out on the street if he told anyone. For his parents' sake, he kept quiet for the next two years. At 13, his closest friend, Riza Diamante, figured it out and made sure that he was busy on saturday nights so that he was out of the house and safe from Roy. Roy never figured it out, just took it out on the furniture.
After this, Razor started to develop a crush on Riza, working out to lose weight and improve his physique (having been somewhat heavy-set) and impress her. At 14 he met Reno Matthews, an ex-gang member who's bad-boy attitude rubbed off on Razor (though Reno was really harmless). By age 15, he had fallen in love with Riza, though thought his feelings were unrequited, therefore didn't act on them.
Because of his new attitude attributes, Razor got into physical fights with his rival, Zachary Marshall, who's sole goal in life was to make Razor's hell. Zachary's wealth and acting abilities made everything look like Razor's fault, getting him on the law's bad side. A few days before his 18th birthday, he was indited and ran away because he knew Riza would get in trouble trying to bail him out.
Having been gone for nearly a year, Razor returned since the heat had most likely died down, only to find that Riza had moved away, angry that he hadn't even said goodbye to her, and in that time frame she had lost her brother to murder and her mother to illness. Razor stayed with his parents that night, planning to search for Riza the next morning, but his parents turned him into the law enforcement without warning. He had been framed for the murder of his uncle and was sent to jail, sentenced to death a few weeks later.
He went crazy with pain and despair, having his first episode. He lost all sense of awareness, mechanically breaking out a jail somehow in the middle of the night. He went home, and slit his parents' throats in their sleep, not realizing what he'd done until after they were dead. He had a fit, considering suicide until he found a note from his parents on the table. The note explained that Zachary killed Roy, framed Razor had forced his parents to turn him in or he would kill the baby.
Razor's mother had been three weeks pregnant.
At this point, he did attempt suicide, but failed. He then decided, that if he did kill himself, it would be letting Zachary win.
He ran away again, never going back, and has never been the same since. He wandered around as a mercenary for a while until stumbling upon the boarding school. He enrolled, hoping that he could lay low here for a while, but also try and fix his life so that he didn't continue to get worse.
That's where he left off...

Fears:

• Losing the few he cares about
  
• His arch-rival beating him at anything
  
• People discovering his past and using it against him
  
• That the girl he loves hates him for running away
  
• Spiders (doesn't like to let people know that one)
  

Likes:

• Riza Diamante
  
• The Ocean, ships
  
• Fighting
  
• Meditating
  
• Snow, ice, anything cold
  
• Storms
  

Dislikes:

• Girls who persistently flirt with him
  
• Zachary Marshall
  
• Judgemental people
  
• Large crowds
  
• His insomnia
  

Dreams: Since he was fifteen, Razor has always aspired to become the captain of a ship. However, so long as he's on the sea, he's somewhat content, due to the vast freedom it gives him, or at least makes him feel like he has.
Aside from that, his other dream is to somehow win Riza's forgiveness, and eventually her heart, but he's convinced that it won't happen no matter what he does.

Anything you'd like to add? People have accused him of being clinically insane, even though he isn't genuinely crazy. However, hearing it so much has caused him to start believing it and also pushing him toward insanity. He's not psycho, just very unstable.

Also, I've never played Razor in this time-frame in his life, so I'm really excited. In my other site where I pulled him from I only played him at age 20, when he found Riza again. So it'll be interesting for me to role-play his darker days.

[Poe]

I really love your characters, and it is all well written, but I'm going to ask for a little more... detail. I know it seems impossible, or just plain stupid, or... I dunno. xD I'm obviously not you.

I can't accept you until you write one more paragraph for appearance and personality.

For both of your characters.

Don't eat me.

[razor]

Edited!

[Poe]

Yay for editnesssss! xDDDD

I like him.
Plus.
he's hot. xD
<3
Yay for role playing
(totally have a rp with me!)