CARTER, ransom iris

[ransom]

ransom iris carter.
seventeen ,, federal way ,, a starboard story/vox ,, asexual? maybe straight ,, terrified ,, jessie lush
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""uhhh.. hello everyone! my name is ransom, i was born on june sixteenth and i am the seventeen year old lead singer for a starboard story but i can also play guitar, and i've survived a lot more than people give me credit for.

most of my whole life, people have told me i was a bit of a space case. i tend to look around and forget to listen to people, and when people are talking to me or something, i don't usually understand. i ask lots of clarifying questions, and i'm never really paying attention. i usually always have this blank stare on my face, everyone is always wondering what's going on up there. generally, my mind wanders all day every day. the only person that can ever keep me on topic would be del, my sister. she prompts me and all that jazz, otherwise i would be completely lost. i would probably lose my head if it wasn't attached so well.

(now, most people assume that because ransom tends to be pretty lazy and spacey, that she's stupid. but she's not. i she just pretends to be, so that people don't get quite so upset with her when she makes a mistake. she's been doing this since she was so young, she doesn't even realize she's doing it anymore. she liked it better that way, though, because then people underestimate her and her abilities to get someone to fuck them up and understand what they're saying.)

i believe just about everything i'm told. i remember times when people do that just to mess with me. i know it doesn't look like i'm capable of remembering much, but i really do. along with this gullible thing, i'm extremely easily persuaded. if it wasn't for my siblings and the guys, i probably wouldn't be half as safe as i am. i follow people and do what other people tell me to do. i always have, though. unless i'm upset. then i'm probably one of the most stubborn people you've ever met, but that's only on the rare occasion i'm upset. it doesn't happen often, so i won't go into detail about that. because that's useless information.

believe it or not, i'm really loving. i'm kind of like a suction cup to people, if you understand what i mean. i have really bad separation anxiety because of my childhood and being torn apart from my sister for so long when i was younger. she and i are like super glued together. we play together, eat together. our bunks are the closest in the whole bus. she stands up for me and i give it my best at trying to stand up for her. granted, i'm not the best fighter, considering i can't come up with good comebacks quickly, so she usually does the most protecting. it doesn't matter, right? the thought that counts? i would give anything to keep my sister safe, even if it meant giving up my own life.

most people blame it on my spaciness, but i tend to be really accident prone. i'm always tripping and stumbling because i get easily distracted. i don't usually pay a whole bunch of attention as to where i'm going. most people would guess i was blind if they didn't know better. i'm followed by trails of mess and destruction. i swear it's not my fault, though! i don't mean to, it's accidents. i trip over everything, even my own two feet. my balance is always sort of off because i'm slightly deaf in one ear, but shh. nobody knows that. nobody needs to know that.

i'm extremely overprotected by my brothers, sister, and the other guys. it's crazy, but i love it, almost. unless i'm trying to do something. then it's annoying. but other than that, i love everyone being over protective of me, because it stops me from doing stupid things and making stupid decisions, not to mention it's awfully hard to hurt me when i have everyone surrounding me all the time. i like that. my sister and i are attached at the hip, and she's always been the stronger between us two. that's completely fine with me, though. i'm just the little quiet one in the background that nobody messes with. who wouldn't enjoy that?

now enough about my personality; i'm a pretty boring person. i guess i'll talk about what made me that way.

i was born on the sixteenth of june to two...surprisingly loving parents. at least, they were back then. i have one older brother, and if it seems like he's really over protective of me, that's because he is. most everyone i know is. anyways, i was born five minutes after my older twin sister, deliverance, but i call her del. she and i have been attached at the hip. we were inseparable even as babies. if we were separated for too long, we'd both start wailing, or at least that was what mom said. that, and we always matched. and when i say always, i mean always. and when i say matched, i mean that we had the same outfits in different colors.

as we grew older, our inseparableness got worse and worse. sure, we could go a day or so, but pretty soon del would start becoming a problem child and i would get anxiety. it's pretty simple if you think about it. it caused a lot of trouble between our parents because they didn't want to be stranded with us alone, so they were constantly pushed closer together than they wanted to be, which was starting to take a toll on their marriage, but we didn't see that.. we never really got a chance to. but seriously, we would never be caught without each other. del would kick people's butt's when they were mean to me, and i would give an honest attempt at kicking the butt's of people who picked on her. but frankly, del has always been the stronger, smarter one of us.

we were around four when our parents got a divorce, not that we really understood what was happening. i mean, we were four. i'm seventeen and i still don't quite understand what happened. anyways, our parents virtually ended up on opposite sides of the country. they split us up like we were food or something. my mom got deliverance, and i got stuck with dad. then they passed our brother off every other year. it was probably worse for him. but anyways, he would always share stories about him and del. i got really dependent on him, considering dad was barely ever home. those years he was there, he practically raised me. he taught me how to cook the little things. when i was around ten, he spent the whole year teaching me how to play the guitar.

around the age of thirteen, i learned that my father was in a secret drug deal. great, right? that's why he was never home, he was always out dealing and doing drugs. mm, anyways.. i had to put up with him for about a year or so, because he started losing and they replaced him easily. so, he was spending more time at home. even better. turns out, he was an abusive drunkard, not that it really mattered what he was. so yeah, i pretty much had to drop school for a year and forget everything besides cleaning, cooking, and playing guitar. that's what i did, too. and thank god it didn't last a long time.

around our twelfth birthday, my dad was busted for the drugs and for child abuse, but mom didn't press charges against him. i don't blame her, he was in enough trouble already. but, i got to move back with del and my brother. which was nice. nobody ever told them what dad did, but i don't mind. they worry about me too much already, they don't need to worry anymore. i'm not like, traumatized by it or anything. i just deal with it and stuff. it doesn't eat me up inside or anything. i just wish i could tell them. but i know i have to keep it to myself.

not long after i had to start going to group counseling and stuff and i met this other kid who had a problem similar to mine and we just hit it off. we even went to the same school and had a lot of the same classes. we were best friends and we started doing this club after school, guitar club. we met these other guys and they were interested in making a band with us because they had heard we were looking to start it. one of them tracked down one of their friends which played the drums and the rest is history.

now, if you don't mind. i have tasks i need to accomplish. (:""

^{hey, so i'm alyssa. i've been roleplaying for a long time now. as well as this character, i also play blah. you can reach me by pm is fine if you need me for anything. i found PERFECT DYSFUNCTION by myself and i'm pretty glad i did. here's an example of mah skillz. (:}

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