CASSELL, piotr

[PIOTR CASSELL]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style,width: 460px; padding: 10px; background-color: #e1e1e1; border-top: 10px #343C49 solid; border-bottom: 10px #343C49 solid;] CASSELL PIOTR DOCTOR this character is played by kyode PERSONAL INFORMATION NICKNAME: piotr is a short enough name most don't bother to call him anything else, however he has picked up the nickname peter seeing as how not everyone can pronounce his name properly. AGE: no one knows his age. it's not something he likes to share, and he tends to disappear around his birthday. twenty-six years old, he seems to advertise himself as being in his early twenties rather than admitting to having passed that a year or so ago. GENDER: quite obviously male, while he is slenderly built his appearance is more masculine than feminine. SEXUALITY: a quiet bisexual, he isn't the type to make advances, so his sexuality can only be guessed at. while he does make suggestive jokes from time to time, he doesn't like to make obvious who or what he finds attractive. PLAYBY: gilbert nightray of pandora hearts PERSONALITY INFORMATION POSITIVE: though he had trouble with negativity when he was younger, he's grown to be quite optimistic. the type of person who always sees the glass as half full, catches the silver lines of the darkest clouds, and sees the bright side in situations, he always manages to keep his thoughts positive. despite the fact he's always upbeat and hopeful, he manages to keep realistic about things. he knows what he's capable of and is well aware of the chance of failure. he knows that everyone dies and he knows that things don't always go well. he's down to earth enough to be honest when things look grim, he just refuses to let the harshness of reality phase him. laid back and relaxed, piotr is incredibly nonchalant. though he's always respectful, there's something extremely casual about the way he conducts himself. he's always in a calm mood no matter what the situation, and troubles roll all too easily off his back. he just doesn't become weighed down by the anxieties of life. as much a troll as he can be, he tends to come across as a very real person. he's friendly and warm without being superficial or fake about it. he honestly wants to help people and see them happy, and it shows. piotr is a genuine person, and it doesn't take long to see that. having always been charitable, lazy as he is he doesn't seem to have trouble going out of his way to help with others work. he enjoys the warm, fuzzy feeling he gets from donating his time and energy to others' passions and pursuits, and really isn't out looking for any praise or favors in return. NEGATIVE: piotr is, quite simply, careless. he isn't cautious about anything he does and tends to dive headfirst into things without thinking twice about it. he can be lazy about his work and, despite his generosity and kindness, doesn't allow for himself to be bothered when bad things happen. to himself or to others. piotr is a purposefully unpredictable person. he very much likes surprising others, and not always in positive ways. he's always doing something new, and he can be more than a little difficult to keep up with. his unpredictability often spills into his work. it can be hard to tell when or if he's actually going to get something done or be on time. he likes poking at others. not so much making fun of them or belittling them, but just doing little annoying things to get under their skin. jumping up from behind people to scare them, suddenly making a loud noise during a tense or quiet moment, teasing people in general. his forced, feigned ignorance has makes him sometimes seem rather shallow. he prefers to just overlook everything bad so he can keep his positive mood, most of the time. he tries to take things at face value for as long as possible to avoid having to be discouraged. sometimes he takes it a bit too far though in pushing his decidedly ignorantly blissful view on others. people who make an effort to know him will easily see he is a man of contrasts. he's as open as he is closed, as realistic as he is lost in a land of fantasy, and as loving as he is self-absorbed. well aware of this, he's become distant as a sort of protection. not only in an attempt to feel more accepted, but due to his own fear of people truly growing to like him. LIKES: he's not going to apologize. he needs cigarettes, and he's going to have them. if someone is going to pitch a fit, he's fine with going outside, but no one is going to be convincing him to give up his filthy habit. his secondary vice would, obviously, be drinking. while he loves beer, scotch, and whiskey above all else, alcohol in general really appeals to him. he drinks quite a bit and has been known to chug to the point he gets a bit tipsy, however he does have the manners to stop drinking to the point he throws up. eavesdropping is a terrible habit, but piotr really enjoys just quietly keeping to himself and listening to others conversations. while he isn't the kind of person to go gossiping others' business, his insatiable thirst for knowledge has him curious of everyone in town. he honestly knows a lot more than he lets on. a well-read, street smart college graduate with a knack for tuning in to the feelings of others around him, he actually prefers playing dumb to acting as if he knows what's going on. he simply likes the reactions he gets better. nothing makes him happier than smiling faces, corny as that may be. smiles just seem to brighten his day and make all his negative thoughts disappear. he smiles quite often himself in hopes of improving others' moods. grilled vegetables are quite possibly his favorite food on the planet. having become a bit of a health nut in certain respects over the years, he adopted better eating habits and really fell in love with them. piotr adores peppermint candies. one of the few sweets he can handle without feeling like he's going to pass out, they calm his stomach rather than hurt it, which, for some reason, he finds fascinating. as he's grown older he's acquired a taste for the bitterness of coffee. while he doesn't much like sweetened coffee or ice coffee, he very much enjoys a big mug of hot black coffee every morning. it wakes him up and gets him going. he couldn't function without it. with a love for the unexpected, piotr loves surprises, random gifts, unexpected parties, and unplanned escapades. while he can at times be content to just lounge around and enjoy life at a slow pace, he needs to shake things up once in a while. he likes wide open spaces and gorgeous views, traveling and being surrounded by nature, or even just walking through town. he's just much more comfortable being outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine. DISLIKES: paperwork has to be his most hated thing on the planet. he'll purposefully lose it or leave it outside to be blown away in the wind or rained on just so he doesn't have to deal with it. he's quite the procrastinator. for some reason, he's never been able to handle sweets too well. his stomach aches, he gets sleepy, and becomes loopy to the point people sometimes assume he's drunk. he usually avoids sugary desserts, but on rare occasions he finds his sweet tooth just won't let him rest. there isn't much to do when there's a hurricane or a thunderstorm. violent, stormy weather usually has him wasting his day on the couch rereading books. which, while he normally wouldn't mind that, when you know you can't go out somehow you want to that much more. he finds himself being scolded more than he expects, honestly. at his age he'd expect he was done with it, but his sometimes foolish actions tend to get him reprimanded by others. he'll smile and brush it off or wave it off with a dramatic sigh, but it saddens him considerably more than he lets show. being such a laid back guy, he isn't a fan of any fighting or bickering. he's not about to jump into an argument to plead anyone's case, and even when he'd being drilled he tends to just stand quietly and wait for it to end. he's just never been too good with conflict. piotr has become an expert in dodging personal questions. innocent, friendly questions such as "how have you been?" and "what have you been up to?" are weaseled around and avoided and his open-ended replies to questions about his past and childhood are either tiptoed over or flipped around. it never really shows, but dishonesty has always been a trait in people that has managed to get under his skin. while exaggerations can be easily overlooked, even little white lies are viewed with great distaste. he doesn't like to hear any bad news. preferring to live in blissful ignorance for as long as possible, he'd rather find out something has gone wrong himself or just avoid learning about it altogether. "pete," "petey," "pio." any attempts to shorten his already simple name will result either in a tired sigh or a short bout of feigned deafness. piotr has never been much a fan of nicknames, as those who have tried tacking them onto him have quickly learned. adventure is exciting. doing something new, stumbling over a surprise, being shocked with new sights or information. change, however, is always accepted grudgingly. if at all. change seems to be one of the few things he will actually show any bitterness toward. OTHER INFORMATION HISTORY: piotre was born a sickly child, his twin brother pascal dying only days after being brought home. though he never met his brother, he was well aware growing up that he had indeed had one. the stubborn child he was, he managed to pull through his poor health as a baby as he grew, being able to attend public school at the age of eleven. having been shut away from other children so long though, he was terribly naive and the object of a considerable amount of bullying. it wasn't until he discovered his own sense of humor and teased his bullies back that he was accepted by his peers. slowly he was managing to adjust to having a more normal life, his mother doing her best to help him along as his father had been called away to work. unfortunately, only a few years after he had settled into his changed life his weak immune system allowed for another illness to take hold of him, and he was pulled back out of school. confined to a hospital for months he mostly had the staff to keep him busy. letters were the only communication he had with his father. he was friendly with the workers, managing to make friends with the more kindly of the hospital staff until he was free to leave. yet again he found himself having to adjust, as by now he'd graduated into middle school. after only a few months there he was fighting an illness again, however this time it proved serious enough to require surgery. while the operation was a success, his frail body was exhausted from the entire ordeal and he was brought back into homeschooling to be able to properly keep up with his studies. his father returned from work and was there to help him, proving to be incredibly encouraging to him. he stayed in homeschooling until his highschool years rolled around. he still felt a bit ill, but he refused to let it show. after watching the other students a few months he suddenly seemed to break out of his shell, adopting a positive personality and gaining his own personal clique of friends. he was well known as a joker and prankster among his fellow students, however his teachers tended to view him as a slacker. while he rarely ever turned in homework, he never had any trouble on his tests. he paid close attention despite his obvious bordem in class and picked up on things easily. it wasn't until his senior year he kicked it in gear, determined to be accepted into a decent college. his doctors as well as his parents were surprised with how well he was doing. managing to continue into college wasn't something they were expecting to see, as their still quite sickly little boy wasn't believed to make it to twenty. he surpassed all their expectations, developing a passion for medicine as he was dead set on improving the lives of others with what time he had left. by the time he graduated though, word had spread of his reason for becoming a doctor. rather embarrassed, and considerably irritated, that so many knew he was sick he decided to leave his hometown and settle elsewhere. somewhere people could just see him as your average "lazy" doctor. FEARS: death is a very real threat to piotr, and he's terrified of it. he wasn't expected to make it to his current age, so he worries every day if he's going to be seeing tomorrow. it's become a constant, repeating thought in his mind that he's just going to drop dead somewhere. it's why he tries to live life to its fullest. commitment is just as scary. feeling as if he could fall at any moment, he doesn't want to promise himself to someone only to have them wake up the next day with the person they loved dead. he has trouble making close friends and is wary of the idea of true romance, preferring to keep everything casual so that in the event of his death no one will be hurt. completely unrelated to his other fears, he's actually afraid of one of his duties of being town doctor. the idea of delivering babies is horrifying to him. not only because he has to see a naked woman in such an, in his opinion, unappealing manner, but because there could be something wrong with the child. he doesn't know how he could live with himself if he delivered a baby with something wrong, even if it wasn't his fault. HOBBIES: a pastime he picked up during one of his barhopping adventures, piotr has become rather good at playing darts. it's relaxing for him while allowing for him to focus rather than space out and daydream. reading was all he could do while he was sick, and the hobby has really stuck with him through the years. while he does read the occasional fairytale, he tends to stick to medical journals to further his knowledge of the field. being one of his vices, drinking is a rather obvious hobby of his. he doesn't bother hiding his love for alcohol. he likes getting into drinking contests and lounging around in bars. surprisingly, he's keeps a cool head even while drunk. he really enjoys sitting back and observing the others around him. all of his people watching has made him rather good at picking up on subtle hints and mood shifts. being able to wonder about others' lives allows him to escape his own troubles for a short while. painfully stingy when it doesn't come to matters of appearance, he more enjoys going around and peeking at stores' wares rather than breaking out his wallet to buy anything specific. window shopping is one of his favorite things to do during more dreary weather. piotr is a very competitive person, but it's always in good fun. he enjoys being active, participating in sports, and just getting into anything that has a "winner." he always has fun, whether he wins or loses. as long as he's competing. most people rather dislike slowing down to dust the shelves, organize books, or make a little list of what needs stocked up on in the house, but piotr finds these menial chores rather enjoyable. he honestly vastly prefers them over doing actual work. piotr carries a camera everywhere he goes. he really likes taking pictures of things. people, places, events, random objects. he has an eye for it, and over the years has become quite good at photography. by rimy ♥ of btn!

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