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OC profiles: the Lawson family

From the now-defunct semi-interactive comic/creative writing projects, “Hunger, Nevada”, “Far From Any Road”, and “Saudade”.

The plot of these three stories cover topics and conflicts such as learning to relate to those around you, breaking toxic cycles, smalltown stagnation and the isolation of close-knit communities, and metaphorical (sometimes literal) body horror monsters that slowly poison towns and families. I wrote these stories from the ages of 14 to 21, and they're all very much a reflection of myself and my perspectives/outlook at those times. I still go back and revisit certain areas, but can't see myself rewriting them in full any time soon. I feel like that would be a disservice to my past self - I used these to sort out and explore my own feelings and hangups, and they served their purpose, but I still draw and talk about the boys more often than I expected I would when I drew my first doodle of Ellis and Lawrence in 8th grade detention. This post is just an infodump about the family of the main characters. I'm not getting into plot details just yet. Though it is worth noting, this was at the height of my Silent Hill hyperfixation, and Ellis and Lawrence began life as the protags of my imaginary Silent Hill fangame for which I made an entire gamefaqs walkthrough because I did not know how to write or draw too well. That doesn't really matter too much now, I just think it's fun.

The Lawson family consists of Francis (or Frank) and Amalia Lawson, and their two sons, Ellis and Lawrence.

Frank is a large man, about 6’3 with green eyes, short auburn hair, and a beard. His skin is somewhat pale but has a minor farmer’s tan from working outdoors, and there’s a spatter of freckles across his entire face. He sometimes wears rectangular half-frame glasses and uses a walking stick.

Amalia is about 5’4 and stocky, with dark brown, almost black hair cut in the patented Mom Bob(tm) with bangs and dark eyes. Her face is somewhat oblong with round, soft features and her skin is a warm mid-to-light brown.

Ellis ranges in age from 17 to 26 across plots. His facial structure favors his father. He’s about 5’10, has very light brown skin, freckles on his face, arms, chest and shoulders, dark eyes and auburn hair. As a teenager, his hair reaches to about his jaw with an off-center part, and he keeps it short and parted on the side as he gets older. He usually at least attempts to comb his hair back but half of it just falls back in front of his face anyway. Sometimes sports various non-serious injuries such as scratches and bruises. He’s rough-and-tumble.

As a teen, most of his outfits consist of torn up jeans, skater shoes, and a plethora of graphic or band tees. Sometimes an old flannel stolen from dad, or black canvas jacket. As an adult, he wears mostly intact but faded black work pants, black or brown work boots, a plain T-shirt and often an unbuttoned overshirt with either short sleeves or the sleeves rolled up.

Lawrence also ranges in age across stories, from 9 to 17. His facial structure favors his mother. He has pale skin, freckles across his cheeks and the bridge of his nose, green eyes, and auburn hair in a short, choppy buzzcut that he later grows out to reach past his shoulders as he gets into his teens. As a child, he’s very short and scrappy, and then becomes gangly and awkward as a teenager.

As a child, his wardrobe is typically all childish graphic tees and cargo shorts or jeans, all picked out by his parents. As he gets older, he becomes introverted and shy, always covering himself up in an absurd number of layers – he's often seen wearing a short-sleeved shirt with long sleeves underneath, either a flannel or sweater, and a massively oversized forest green jacket with a red fleece collar. He usually sticks to plain, slightly baggy jeans and sneakers.

Frank and Amalia married in their mid to late 20’s and moved to Frank’s hometown of Ansley, [state redacted].

Frank works in a hardware store and as a repairman. Some years ago, Frank suffered a spinal injury, resulting in chronic pain and his use of a walking stick. He still works at the hardware store and takes repair jobs, though he’s unable to work as often or for as long as he used to.

Ellis drops out of high school in the second quarter of 11th grade to work full-time at the hardware store and begins picking up smaller repair jobs around town. Lawrence, being much younger, is not employed but occasionally does smaller tasks such as sweeping up or organizing shelves after closing hours, or tagging along with his brother or dad on repair jobs to help where he can.

Amalia works at a packing and shipping facility in the city. She works overnight, six days a week with Mondays off. She’s usually home about an hour before her sons have to get up for school. Amalia’s pack a day smoking habit and Frank’s temper are the subjects of most conflicts, but they never progress past passive aggressive remarks or heated discussions. The family occasionally relies on financial help from a man named Mike, whose family has been friends with Frank’s for several years, to make ends meet. He’s often the reason that their heat and water stay on.

The Lawsons are a practicing family of Amicists. They regularly attend service at The First Church of the Shoal United in the next town over. More on Amicism at a later date.

Ellis has a lot of pent up resentment toward authority figures and “grown-ups” in general, even into his own adulthood, due to Backstory Reasons I won’t get into here.

James, Marie, Robin, and Brian are Ellis’ friends from high school. They mostly sit around smoking pot and watching bad movies, sneak out to drink at the park after curfew, and attempt to skate in vacant parking lots.

James was held back in middle school and is one or two years older than the rest of the group. Most parents in town still call him Jimmy and think he’s a very nice boy. If asked to describe him, his long line of ex-girlfriends would say “he’s so nice, but GOD he’s so dumb.” Marie was closer to Robin and James than she was to Ellis, so they didn’t hang out outside of the group at all. She thought Ellis was kinda weird, but not a “bad weird” so she never mentioned it or complained. Robin is that sort of midwestern emo girl in everyone’s math class who’s an artist, but all she draws is semi realistic eyes with elaborate eyeliner in her English notes. She regularly gets into arguments with Ellis and James on what genre different bands count as. Brian is the obvious stoner friend who would be kinda chill to hang out with if he weren’t so loud and annoying about how his parents totally don’t even care and just like, totally let him do whatever he wants.

Dropping out of high school to work a fulltime job, having no interest in college, minimal relationship experience, and staying in such a small and rural town leads to Ellis becoming socially isolated and unable to fully relate with people his own age. He slowly falls out of touch with his friends and people he knew from school, preferring surface level interactions with older coworkers, relatives and friends of the family.

Lawrence, as a result of his older brother’s attempt at parenting while Frank and Amalia are working, learns to be untrusting and uncooperative as well. He picks up a smoking habit by age 14, often stealing them from Ellis or from their mom's purse when she’s home, and sneaks out of his and Ellis’ shared bedroom through the window at night.

Lawrence is a nice kid, but struggles to make friends. Throughout all of middle school and into high school, he only manages to befriend two others named Catherine and Donnie.

Donnie is Brian’s little brother. He and Lawrence aren’t actually friends, but they tend to tag along when Ellis and Brian hang out at each other’s houses. Catherine has known Lawrence since they were in third grade, but they never hung out until they got put in the same advanced math class in middle school.

As he gets older, Lawrence begins to neglect his few friendships and social life in favor of fiction; most notably stories and unfiction focusing on the occult and supernatural, as well as a video game series called Sprout Friends, a puzzle game involving farming and anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables. If he isn’t hiding out on the rooftop of the house at night, he’s locked in the bedroom playing one of multiple Sprout Friends titles, or hunting for strange occurrences around town during the night.

Fun fact: Ellis' middle name is Layne, and Lawrence's middle name is Elijah. I thought it would be cute if their middle names had the same first letters as each other's firsts.

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usolu · 6 years

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Your top 10 fave OP charas? And why?

thanks for this awesome question! it made me think a lot! so here’s the deal… i could only come up with seven characters on the spot. i would need much more time to think of the last three to complete all ten so for now, have my top five so i can get this ask out! after i’m done picking i’ll add the rest ;;

usopp, the straw hats’s amazingly talented sniper - he’s the love of my life. my one and only. there are just a bountiful amount of reasons as to why usopp’s my number one fav in all of one piece and i probably can’t do his character justice in a few sentences but let’s see. for starters, i love how usopp knows that he’s not as strong as everyone else, not as confident not as blind to fear but he still puts his life on the line and does what he can to save his friends and others. i admire that bravery and courageousness, really i do. i also greatly appreciate usopp’s vulnerabilty; his raw emotions of fear and personal struggles with self esteem makes his character have all the more depth and relatabilty. usopp has a lot of setbacks but he’s trying his hardest to keep up with everyone else. now here are just some little ~ usopp things ~ that i love; how supportive, passionate, sympathetic, smart, funny, nerdy and social he is! honestly? i can go on all day about this handsome boy but those are the basics

luffy, the straw hat’s wonderful and silly captain - what i love most about luffy is how deeply he treasures his friends and how the friendship they share with one another keeps him motivated, strengthens his will to fight and fuels his personal goal to be king of the pirates. how luffy thrives off his crew is so lovely and inspiring to see. you could experience that clear as day in ‘baron omatsuri and the secret island’ - a great movie btw. there are so many other things i love about luffy too! such as his views on what makes a good person, what is right and what is wrong, what being a hero truly means and how he handles forgiveness. i could seriously learn something from him about that

nami, the straw hat’s intelligent and beautiful navigator - my fav girl! what i loved about nami at first was how spunky her personality was! when she was fist introduced her character stuck with me right away. another thing i love about nami is how much she truly loves and appreciates women - in reference to this post. that aspect of her is very comforting in a way? i don’t know… it’s hard to further explain but it makes me feel good and happy. her relationships with women/girls throughout one piece are such a delight. also she’s super smart, holds her own and is extremely compassionate (she really shined in punk hazard, bless). overall nami is great and i would die for her

chopper, the straw hats’s and the worlds greatest doctor - the baby of the crew, lil choppy!! when seeing chopper’s first appearance in one piece i knew that i would get attached. it was just one of those things. what i love most about chopper is how seriously he takes his profession. just like nami, he has real compassion for people and like usopp, he feels true sympathy for others. that and chopper’s knowledge makes him a brilliant doctor. he shined in punk hazard along with nami. both of them were great in that arc. also, i simply love how cute he is LOL. a little reindeer doctor who loves cotton candy? uh yes? adorable…

robin, the straw hat’s intelligent and gorgeous archaeologist - i. love. robin. my second favorite girl! the moment where i totally fell in love with robin was during enies lobby the best arc when she screamed, “i want to live!” i cried… and cried… and cried… her backstory is so tragic but how she managed to overcome her inner demons and enjoy life moved me in a personal way. other little things i love about robin is her morbid humor, smugness, motherly nature (robin for best mom) and her respect and passion for history. she has one of my favorite character developments

well there you go!! - for now - hehe! of course these are just some of the reasons as to why they’re in my top five favs! there are plenty others, i promise you that! thanks again for the question!

#Anonymous #one piece #usopp #luffy #nami #chopper #robin #long post /

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