Post by daniellaytonreid on Mar 12, 2010 8:22:25 GMT -5
DANIEL LAYTON REID
Name: Daniel Layton Reid
Nicknames: Dan, Danny, Layton
Age: 22
Date of Birth: August 8, 1988
Grade: Senior
Orientation: Bisexual
Nationality: American
Home Town: New York ...goes between New York and L.A.
Degree: Film
- Minor: film production[/ul]
Play by: Jonathan Rhys Myers[/blockquote][/blockquote]
--- COLD & CRUEL
Dan is honestly colder than your average scumbucket. He almost never raises his voice and when he's angry it's a very icy type of fury. Emotions, to him, are things that come and go as he pleases and he does his best to keep them strictly under his control. There is little fire or burning passion to be found in his cool blue eyes and he keeps a level head. He compartmentalizes situations, analyzes them, and consequently, detaches and distances himself. He does not treat people warmly or with any strong amount of fondness, even his own family. He has little to no consideration for the feelings of others and rarely shows interest in getting to know someone unless it's for his own amusement.When his younger brother first called him 'big brother' he laughed so hard that he made himself and the little boy cry...for completely different reasons. He will purposefully treat people badly because he enjoys seeing them unhappy. Breaking hearts is like cable tv.
--- CANDID
If you ask him he will willingly tell you that is he is not a good man. He admits openly that he has a strong abandonment complex and mommy complex which has warped his view of women and how he treats them. He openly admits to enjoying lying to people or acting a role that will end up just deceiving or hurting someone else. The way Dan has been raised has changed his view on how things work in the world. Lies, slander, and publicized pain are just methods of publicity. Hate and love mean little to him and he's developed such a thick skin in regards to both emotions that his entire world falls into a gray area. Though Dan enjoys lying, he will not try to cover a lie if he's called on it. But if a person never asks him if he's being honest and they get hurt because of it...well, that's their problem.
--- OBLIGATION
Cold and cruel Dan may be, but if he says he will do something...he'll do it. His sense of obligation can be a little overwhelming and very inappropriate at times. Even if he makes a promise in gross error or impulsive recklessness, he will follow through with it no matter how uncomfortable it makes him or the other party. Despite how distantly he treats his family, he always sends birthday and Christmas gifts to his younger siblings and flowers on Mother's day. He has not missed a visit to New York since his parents split up. He does not do this out of some sense of guilt, but out of what little moral standards he has left in him.
---ISOLATED
Dan cannot stand absolute silence and craves the sound of the living around him. He needs voices in order to fall asleep, in order to be relaxed. He needs people to be around him even if he doesn't want to be around people. He often feels amused by the irony and he might even laugh about it if it didn't cause him so much trouble. But just because he required human contact does not mean that he requires nice human contact. A discussion about cheese and a violent argument produce the same soothing effect in his mind so more often than not he chooses not to be so pleasant. Although some people find his behavior intriguing, alluring even, it's rare that someone will put up for him for long periods of time. He drives away the very people he needs to feel comfortable.
LIKES: dimly lit areas, watching movies, writing, reading, coffee, hour long showers, jello, music, parties, a challenge, expensive chocolates, lying, pyschologists, doing laundry, the grocery store, getting presents, aquariums and parks
DISLIKES: cuddly pets, 'innocence', most women, complete and total silence, bigots, annoying accents, being bored, playing 'nice', unecessary or 'emotional' physical contact, public transportation, public bathrooms, drive-through fast food, society, himself (some of the time at least), quitters, country music, deep and emotional attachments
Hollywood is where small town boys and girls go to make it big, to become stars...and it just so happens that both Daniel's parents were stars. Cheryl Angel, when she began getting popular in her mid-twenties, married visionary director Derek Reid after her role in his film won her an Oscar. The only news bigger than the celebrity marriage was Cheryl's pregnancy with her first and only son with Derek. From the moment he was born, Daniel Layton Reid was plunged into Hollywood headfirst. The photographs his parents had taken from him were sold to the highest bidding magazines for their covers...there were interviews, speculations, lots of glowing comments from his parents...he lived quite the charmed life. He had everything he could ever want as a child aside from friends apart from his nanny and his mother's oily looking agent. Like most celebrity marriages, the glamor couple lasted only for a few years before falling apart. Cheryl Angel, along with another generous swell in her career, divorced Derek Reid and agreed to joint custody of their six year old son. She was engaged to a popular hockey player a year later.
The media circus surrounding the divorce did not leave the six year old Daniel unscathed. His father, bitter at his slowly declining career, used his son shamelessly for publicity, for sympathy, and for months Daniel could not leave the house without being mobbed with cameras. The chaos died down a couple of years later when his mother was married again to her beefy beau. For a few years Derek Reid struggled in Los Angeles to revive his failing career with a series of indie films and a few sitcoms. His relationship with his son was an odd one...he did not understand how to be a father and therefore treated Dan as an adult. Between his misguided father and his starlet mother, Dan grew up split between two homes that weren't homes for him at all.
By the time Daniel was eleven his mother had divorced her hocky hubby and married a musician -- the only marriage in her life that would last more than 7 years. It was around this time that Dan's mother tried to get her son interested in acting. With her pull in the industry it was easy to get her son into a few minor cameo roles on children's shows. While it was clear that acting was not his passion, Daniel certainly had inherited his mother's talent for it. He was doing small commercials on and off throughout junior high while his mother got pregnant again. By the time he was in high school he'd done several guest roles on a number of crime and medical dramas as well as teen dramas. Though he could have easily chosen to audition for bigger roles, for a more serious start on his career, he curiously dropped out of the acting world and attended a private high school for the truly snobby and elite in New York. Summers he spent with his father and he spent the rest of his time at the boarding school, occasionally visiting his mother and her new family.
High school showed Dan just how different he truly was from the rest of his peers. While he was not interested in the spotlight, he found that he could not function correctly outside the Hollywood society. 'Normal' did not apply to him or his life and he could not, try as he might, to adapt to a more 'normal' life. Not wanting to try acting again, he explored other options. Directing, producing...and finally writing. Unknown to the people around him aside from a few teachers, Daniel became incredibly interested in script writing. He was ready to chase after his interest when he was ready to graduate when his mother expressed her ardent wish for her son to graduate from the same school she had: Emerson.
No one was more surprised than her when her son sent her his acceptance letter to the college, packed his bags, and headed to Philidelphia. It was like heading into the desert with only a gallon of water. People who hate him can snarl and spit and say he only got in because of his mother, but a person would have to be blind not to recognize that Daniel Reid is a very, very talented actor. The emotions he rails against in every day life burst forth when he's acting, well honed tools to the craft. Now in his senior year he shows great promise for his acting career, but his electives in the creative writing major have been steadily increasing. It seems only the creative writing teachers have noticed...everyone else is waiting for the major breakout role of Daniel Reid as soon as he's done with school.
Why Emerson?
Why Emerson? Why come to some silly school away from his natural habitats of New York and L.A.? At the risk of sounding completely lame, his mother wanted him to come. As Emerson was her alma mater, she often expressed the strong desire to have her 'darling boy' follow in her footsteps and go to the same school. Obligation to his mother and thoughtless words he'd said as a mere child to her was what influenced his decision to attend the school. It was never a question of whether or not he would get in, but whether or not he cared enough to attend the school. To this day, nobody is really sure how he feels about attending Emerson or how he truly feels about his major.
See THATCHER ACE JONES, purdy please.
[/size][/center][/justify]Hi, I'm ANG and I'm TWENTY YEARS old. I'm SQUISHY. This is my SECOND application. I found Failure's Not Flattering from RPG DIRECTORY.
