Lance Adams
From Survival Of The Fittest
Name: Lance Adams
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Grade: 9th
School: Hobbsborough
Extra Curricular Activities: NRA, Anime Club, Comedy Club, Gymnastics Club, sometimes attends Bible Study with Kasumi
Description: Lance has a thin, sharp face that would be attractive if he actually took care of it on a regular basis. He’s fortunate enough to avoid having contracted acne, but besides a daily shower and shave, he tends to forgo the normal maintenance routine. His hair is dark brown and cut so that cowlicks curve up slightly at the bottom of his head. His eyes are a dull shade of blue, as well as being shadowed by thick, nearly-black eyebrows. His build is a slender six feet, with small, ropy muscles and little body fat. He typically dresses in whatever clothes happen to be in his drawer when he gets up, usually jeans, generic-brand white sneakers, and a blank red t-shirt.
Lance is the kind of person who would rather be a friend than a foe; he doesn’t openly seek hostility with anyone, and tries to win people over with good humor and cheer. He does, however, know when certain jackasses are irredeemable, in which case he simply reminds himself and his friends just how stupid the jackasses really look. He is stoic and fatalistic, accepting that bad things happen in life, but who’s to say they can’t happen in his favor?
Clique: Neutral. He tends to get along with anyone who isn’t openly hostile or arrogant.
Relationships: Kasumi White: Moderate friendship
Other: Lance was the product of a patriotic American family, and raised to stand on his own two feet, without any assistance from the government or anyone else who would boss him around. In order to ensure his safety in their heavily armed home, they trained him to use guns and knives from an early age, and even gave him his own Bowie knife for his eighth birthday. He developed an interest in music and manga, and would frequently sneak a peek at media that he was deemed too young to see.
He met Kasumi White and her sister Megumi through convenience of location and classrooms when he was attending middle school. She was the sweet, down-home girl that he was sure by now only existed in manga stories. Within weeks, the two hit it together as if they were siblings themselves. With Megumi’s tomboyish attitude rounding them out, they became an inseperable trio, or so they thought.
When Lance was twelve, he was touring Kasumi’s father’s office building when it collapsed, trapping him in a small room for two weeks. The only other person in there who even knew where he was was dead, his head having been bashed in by a piece of debris. But Lance still had his Bowie knife…
When they found him, he was overjoyed to see them, as well as having lost several pounds of weight, but they noticed that both his clothes and his knife had blood on them, and that the corpse’s leg was missing a bit of flesh.
After a few sessions of counseling, Lance came to grips with the fact that he had been forced to commit cannibalism. He began to admit that the world was indeed a fucked up and nasty place, but he still believed in certain sanctuaries that would keep people sane. He had his manga and music, and Kasumi soon took up religion, after escaping from an accident that took her sister’s life.
Lance and Kasumi have stuck together even as they enter high school. Some joke that they make an interesting couple, but there’s no truth to those rumors… yet.
