PERMANENT FILE
NAME: Risal, Skylar - 'Sky'
AGE: 27
GENDER: Male
SEXUALITY: Bi-curious
OCCUPATION: College Student; Bookstore Clerk
NATIONALITY: Italian
PERMANENT RESIDENCE: USA
FACE CLAIM: Akira - Togainu no Chi
PERSONALITY TRAITS
- Sky is very outgoing, quick to make new friends, especially in environments such as The World.
- He is intelligent; get past the bad grammar he has with English and he'll impress you.
- Sky is a strategist; he excels at thinking things through quickly.
-Despite his intelligence and his outgoing personality, he's got quite the self-esteem problem. [explained in Past Events]
- Sky's mind moves faster than his mouth or hands; within a few seconds of typing/saying something, unless he finishes what he's saying, he'll forget what he's talking about because his mind will have moved on already. This makes him quite the scatterbrain.
Sky currently lives with his grandfather, in a small, two-bedroom apartment in Pennsylvania; they share the rent, since neither of them alone can pay for it. Sky worked in a souvenir shop owned by a cousin of his until the store got closed down; now he works part-time in an antique bookstore as a simple clerk; he files books away on shelves, makes sure they're cataloged and acts as the cashier when a customer wishes to buy or sell a book. He goes to a community college on a foreign student scholarship.
He found out about The World from a friend of his in Italy, who had played a previous version of the game. Sky wanted to get back in contact with his friends from back home, so the first day it was released, the Italian got it.
He didn't play it right away...but he got there.
Skylar is a native Italian who moved to the USA with his grandfather when his parents got divorced; neither parent had wanted him, saying that 'taking care of him would've been a waste of time and money.' [Rough translation from Italian; slight editing to remove vulgarity.]
Even though he moved to the US when he was 14, he still doesn't know English very well, having a hard time grasping it. The language eluded him; he still spoke to his Grandfather in Italian, even though his Grandfather could speak fluent English.
All these bumps in the road, these 'inadequacies' that he saw in himself caused him to doubt his reason for being; at the age of 17, he packed up some stuff and went out to travel the country during the summer vacation at the school he went to at the time; he left money behind from his first job so his Grandfather could pay the rent. After a bit of 'soul-searching', Sky came back fresh, although still self-doubting himself.
Hence the immersion into MMO's. He could be something he wasn't...and that intrigued him.
Skylar