Gravefall : Paul Wong

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less sad more dad :----)

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Name: Paul Wong

Age: 31 / Dec 9

Height: 5’8” (years at a computer office job has given him a perpetual slouch, he curves down to around 5’7” instead)

Job and Income: Full time business analyst in a large business corporation/24 hour daycare volunteer ; medium/high income

Affiliation: Misfortune

Abilities:

01 - Shatter stone: can break anything composed of stone

02 - Sand manipulation: can control sand

03 - Restoration: can return an inanimate object to it’s previous state

Tattoo position: Over his heart

Personality:

Polite | Patient | Dutiful | Protective | Anxious | Selfish | Attentive | Obsessive | Gentle | Determined | Responsible | Caring

A family-oriented, dutiful son and member of society, Paul is an inherently caring individual who struggles with his social anxiety and appearing as a normal, functioning person. He tries his best and makes great effort to ruffle as few feathers as he can. All of his social interactions are laced with fear and doubt but he has had years to figure out ways that he can still maintain a competent persona. It’s a very delicate balance which he maintains; but it also does include bouts of selfishness in which he must place himself first in order to prevent crippling panic attacks.

His many years of English and etiquette classes as well as his experience in various customer service jobs and his current job has drilled into him the capability of being polite and restrained at All Times. He would prefer to not speak to anyone at all but has learned that it is a necessary part of life. He tires himself out by picking up the nighttime and weekend daycare shifts - surviving on quick fast food options and many, many power naps. He’s a combination of overworked, malnourished and unhealthy but this is the only way he’s found helps to keep his anxiety at a minimum and live a semblance of what he thinks should be a normal life.

Having to take care of multiple young children means that Paul is quite attentive to his surroundings; he relies on sight most of the time since the rest of his senses have never been that great to begin with. All of the carefully built walls and polite, restrained facades he builds up at work in order to appear as normal as possible melts away when he’s taking care of others, but namely children. He can be quite protective if the situation calls for it, but otherwise he prefers to avoid conflict if at all possible. He has gotten used to his repetitive and tireless days. After all, he’s had a whole decade to come to terms that his whole life would be.. This. There's nothing to fight for, anyways.

--- Enter Gravefall ---

As Paul has gotten to know his team and a few other members of Gravefall, he’s found that they have filled the gaping hole of emptiness he didn’t even realize existed. He’s still surprised and touched by any amount of kindness that is reciprocated and so responds in the only way he knows; unfaltering care and devotion (that borders on obsessiveness). Just as volunteering with the daycare helped him calm his rampant anxiety over the years, taking care of others (and moreso the entirety of Misfortune) means he can usually tamp down his anxiety to something manageable nowadays. He still needs off days to himself in order to re-charge, but he’s settled into his new family filled with the determination to protect them by any possible means.

If this is the drive he’s been missing for a decade of his life, he will gladly make the most of it.

Background:

  Born to a highly traditional and strict family in Malaysia, Paul grew up with the weight of many expectations and regulations. He went through life quietly and obediently, never really questioning what he had to do and thus never having to worry about his own decisions as they were all made for him. His family groomed him into a model student and child; focusing on business classes and learning English in order to send him to ‘the land of opportunity’ at the apparent boom of the job market. When he turned 20, he bid farewell to everything he had known and moved into a tiny box apartment in Argent that he would call home for the next ten years.  

  Because of the poor relations between Asia and the United States, Paul found himself faced with harsh judgement and discrimination. He hopped around various small convenience store jobs to pay for his bills for a good few months, struggling to keep afloat when he no longer had the emotional support from his family but still had the crushing feeling of expectation laid upon him. He not only wanted to keep his word but worked tirelessly in order to return everything his family had done for him and provide for them as best he could. He was lucky enough to find a job in a large business company a few years before the war and although it wasn’t a very glamorous job, it paid well and he didn’t have to worry about jumping from job to job in the tumultuous state of America.  

  Ten years later and Paul keeps himself busy with the same 9-5 office job but has found a kind of escape in volunteering at the 24 hour daycare nearby. He mainly works there on weekends and evenings - basically any period of time that he possibly could outside of his day job. There was a huge influx of orphans and kids after the war and he had happened to pass by the small, tucked away building; drawn to the colourful, crayon-drawn posters. Not only does he get to take care of the children and spend time with them, he found that it kept his anxiety at bay and eased the loneliness that ate away at him.

Extra:

• Prefers silence and being busy. When he’s idle, his anxiety flares up badly.

• He restrained nervous ticks (staring at someone’s lips instead of their eyes, clasping his hands) but they’re all very carefully chosen to make sure he doesn’t move too much, doesn’t seem out of place or different.

• Has difficulty meeting people’s eyes while holding conversations.

• Has a slight stutter along with a faint Chinese accent. His hands shake when he’s under a lot of stress. Being in a corporate workplace forced him to maintain as normal of a demeanor as he can.

• Has a very strict schedule that he keeps. Hates surprises or sudden changes in his schedule

• Has a strong sense of responsibility towards people younger than him/children/people he considers family.

• His sleep schedule was already far and few between to begin with but his body has grown accustomed to waking up with the majority of Misfortune in the evening.

• When he meets other people who he can’t immediately slot into (protect young one) spot, he treats them with extreme politeness and restraint. A habit that was drilled into him after more than a decade worth of a white collar job and polite facades.

• The sweater is less formal than he is used to wearing for his everyday job but he found it in his wardrobe and after trying it on, found that it was calming and warm.

• His ring is a family heirloom xD

Paul (c) Me