corbin tyler monroe

[CORBIN TYLER MONROE]

CORBIN TYLER MONROE

Name: Corbin Tyler Monroe
Nicknames: Corbs, Corby
Age: 20
Date of Birth: September 1st, 1990
Grade: College Sophomore
Program: Academic
Orientation: Heterosexual
Nationality: American
Home Town: Little Rock, Arkansas
Play by: Mark Salling

--- SELF KEPT There are many different kinds of people gracing the campus of Emerson College, people who are bubbly and bright and open about who they are and where they came from and who are willing to befriend and accept you outright. But at the same time there are people who aren’t quite as pronounced, people who blend into the crowds and duck their eyes away when conversations about life or feeling come into play. There are people who have built walls for the sole purpose of keeping others out, even if there is no particular reason to. Corbin Monroe is one of those people. He is a background dweller, the guy to the far, back, right lost in the Gaussian blur of life. Corbin likes to keep to himself, and while he figures it is out of habit, it’s also probably because he just isn’t comfortable with sharing. One might as well call him guarded.

--- PLAYFUL Despite having a thick brick wall put up in front of him there is a playful side to Corbin that shows it’s face whenever he gets to know people or just finds himself liking them. He has a penchant for hugging at random and likes to play stupid little games. It’s his way of bonding. Most of his playfulness stems from his interaction with his little sister, of whom he loves dearly but doesn’t get to see very often. It isn’t hard for Corbin to replace Mallory with people his own age and let them in on his sillyness but only once he’s established a comfortable relationship with them. Otherwise, to any outsider, he’s just another normal guy living in the normal world.

--- DETERMINED Determination might be the wrong word. What Corbin feels about getting his degree and succeeding is quite possibly an obsession. He is quite smitten with the idea of becoming the first Monroe since his great grandfather Edgar to graduate from college. In fact, Corbin was only a sophomore when he started looking at which colleges to attend and had many fall backs if his top choices fell through. Hell, even Emerson was a fall back but not every kid is Harvard and Yale material. Obsession often births pipe dreams. But despite his rather studious nature, Corbin is also determined to be many other things. Responsible, for one, as he does not wish to end up in the same situation his parents got themselves into. Also he is quite determined to not be the bad guy, to not be the guy everyone regrets knowing.

LIKES: Breakfast cereal, jelly beans, big headphones, acoustic guitars, 80s music, road trips, the Midwest, down home cooking, Dr. Pepper, boxers, fart jokes.
DISLIKES: People who think certain ways just because their families do, news anchors, country music, bats, news anchors, whiney girls, guys who act like jerks because they have some sort of maturity complex, that everyone things a certain tool has a certain purpose when really you could use it for any job in which it would work, easy girls, black nail polish on anyone other than rock stars.

Corbin Monroe’s story is the same as almost every other person his age and those younger than him who were born and raised in Arkansas. His parents were only dating, only sixteen, when he was conceived and they were married by seventeen and neither one of them finished high school. And of course, Eric and Molly Monroe (one of whom was formerly an Adams), weren’t really situated to be wed and have a newborn. But that’s how it went. Corbin was a nuisance the first five years of his life and it wasn’t even his fault. So what? He’d heard the same childhood story a dozen times growing up. It was just a fact of life. And just like in most of those other stories, his parents divorced. Molly remarried two years after the divorce to a man named Miles Locke, with whom she had a daughter, named Mallory, later in life, when Corbin was in high school, and Corbin was raised between two households.

Of course, the divorce didn’t happen until Corbin was seven and prior to that he lived a normal childhood, played in the dirt, swam in creeks with his cousins and sang along to the radio with his father. It was a childhood a lot of people didn’t get to have, even if it was eventually split and divided between two homes. Much didn’t change after the divorce either except his parents were happier, unless they were in a room together. It never really bothered the young boy that his parents weren’t together, there was no sob story there. In fact, he quite liked it. When he was with his mother she taught him all the things he would need to know to become a great man, apparently all the things his father didn’t know, like how to cook and how to dance and even not to put his elbows on the dinner table. When he was with his father he learned different things. Like it was okay to lick your fingers if they were coated in barbeque sauce and a fart not used is a laugh lost and that KISS was better than Journey but Journey was better than Styx. He lived mostly with his dad, as that was the address he called home, but the time spent between his different homes was quite even. It wasn’t as though Corbin had an absent parent, or that he no longer had a mother because he lived with his single dad. His parents just didn’t like each other.

But despite all the things they taught him, both of his parents were rather surprised at his love and ability when it came to music. He picked up a guitar early and by the time he was thirteen he could figure out how to play almost any song that came on the radio by ear. It was a hobby, the only hobby he ever had, and a passion all in one. Another thing they never could have expected was his intelligence and determination to do well in school. Something his grandfather blamed on his parents sending him to school a year later than the other kids, with the excuse that Corbin had something to prove. They learned sometime in his junior year of high school that he had been applying for grants and different colleges and only found out about Emerson when the acceptance letter accidentally went to his mother’s house instead of his grandparent’s house where he had been having all his mail sent.

Needless to say, Corbin surprised them more than they ever thought he would. And that he was going to go to school in Pennsylvania away from them stunned them too. But he was going to, and did, do it.

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