eric noel parker

[katy2]

-- ERIC NOEL PARKER !

-- NAME: Eric Noel Parker
-- NICKNAMES: Not many, unless you count something like ‘Bastard’, ‘asshole’, ‘douchebag’, or ‘jerk’. You know… something along those lines.
-- AGE & BIRTHDAY: Twenty-seven; Novement twenty-first.
-- BIRTH PLACE: Whitefish, Montana
-- ORIENTATION: Straight
-- OCCUPATION & SCHOOL GRADE: High school math teacher
-- PLAYED BY: Andrew Cooper

-- PERSONALITY !

-- HELPFUL: Even when he was young, Eric has had a desire to protect people and things. He was the kid that would bring home injured animals and ask to keep them as pets. It could also be said, however, that he obsesses about this. He'll neglect himself if it means that someone else is going to profit from it. He'll ignore his own needs simply because he has to make sure that everyone else is okay. Drawing a line between when it's okay and when it's not has never been a strong point for him.

-- FOCUSED: This really can be interpreted as either strength or weakness, given the time. Most of the time, its good; he gets things done. He's not a 'job half done' kind of person. When he starts something, he's going to finish it and he'll do it to the best of his ability. However, this can also be bad in the fact that he's not always aware of the fact that this is what he's doing. He'll get really devoted to finishing something and start neglecting other areas of his life; whether it's his actual health or relationships with others. He's worked on it in the past, but this is one of the few things that he's never actually followed through on. Despite attempts to limit himself more, he's still just as focused and goal-driven as before.

-- PEOPLE PLEASER: Simply put, Eric is a people pleaser. He likes it when people are happy and even more so when those people are his friends. If he can do anything to help them, you better believe that he will. Whether it’s offering a shoulder to cry on or he needs to go mess some people up, he'll do it. It might be the gentleman inside of him or an over-active sense of dedication to his friends… Or he just might like to beat people up, we might not ever know for sure. And, despite denying it, Eric could easily be described as whipped. Although he grew up with the Southern Gentleman mentality, he has taken it a bit farther. Something to the effect that he likes to do everything he's told regardless of the pros and cons that may or may not be involved.

-- LOYAL: Loyalty in a relationship is a big deal for Eric. He's only been in a few committed relationships in his life, and one of his ex-girlfriends cheated on him. Since then, he's been a bit touchy about anyone he's with getting too friendly with other people. He's not about to go confront anyone about it unless he feels it's serious, but he's watchful and careful when it comes down to it. And he's not afraid of decking someone… not in the slightest.

-- PASSONATE: Eric is a passionate guy. He's not for this 'moderate love' business. When he's in a relationship with someone, it's about them and it's about them most of the time. Although the longest relationship he's had lasted two years and he didn't burn himself out, who knows what he'd end up acting like after getting married or something. As much as he does love to love people, especially his girl, things like that have a tendency to fade away or get burned out, especially so when you begin to feel as though the relationship isn’t right. Eric simply has a hard time saying no or walking away.

-- TACTLESS: Bluntly put, Eric is a guy. Eric does not realize that subtle hints exist. If it needs to happen it needs to be said clearly and firmly or he will not understand. In fact, you could even majorly hint at it and he'll still not realize that's what you're pointing at. It's a simple fact that he's doomed to continue living in. You can fix wrong thinking, you can't fix stupid. The poor guy is just destined to be confused when it comes to the female mind, a place of confusion, emotions, and a whole lot of unneeded words.

-- LOVES: his Harley Softail, his beat up truck (the hickmobile), not having to talk, using asl, chinese food, using chopsticks, dressing nice, his job, drinking coffee, being alive.
-- HATES: getting his hearing aid wet, homosexual men, stale coffee, the smell of liquor, his current relationship, all of the schooling he had to do, babysitting for rugrats when alone, hospitals, his scars, and snow.

-- HISTORY !

The average family has 2.5 children. The Parker’s? They had eight. Needless to say, they are making up for those in the world that are not having children. Born in Northern Montana, Eric Noel Parker came as the youngest child to the already full ranching family. Jonathan and Sarah Parker had the ideal marriage—from the outside. The stress and strain of running, caring for, and providing for a family of ten put quite a bit of weight on Jonathan’s shoulders—something that bled over into every aspect of his life. While the younger children believed that life was perfect, the oldest knew that they weren’t exactly living in Wonderland. When Eric was several months old, the family also began to realize that his hearing was not up at normal levels. Sarah, having hearing loss of her own, as well as in the second oldest and the second youngest, it was not anything new to the family. But still—hearing aids are expensive and more work was needed for taking care of everyone. When Eric was four, the tension became too much for Jonathan and he left without a word.

Having left a family of nine behind, with eight children—seven of which were under the age of sixteen, it was certainly a lot of Sarah to handle. The older boys, specifically the eldest, Jacob, stepped up almost instantly and helped to take over the work on the ranch. While the elder ones did know that a break down was coming at some point, the younger ones were still confused about why dad wasn’t home and helping with the cattle. Eric, being the youngest, was likely one of the ones to adapt the best to this. To him, Jacob was the male role model in his life. Instead of having one dad, he had five. It wasn’t until he was fifteen that life actually hit him square in the jaw. By this time, the Parker family learned how to keep themselves going on their own, without an actual father around. They ran a cattle ranch, had their horses, and even sold some vegetables and fruits at a farmer’s market now and then. No one expected Sarah to collapse one day in a seizure. She’d told no one about the frequent headaches and hadn’t noticed the hearing loss as her hearing had never really been that good. While the signs were there, she refused to acknowledge them because she had a family to look out for.

With one child already married and basically running the ranch on his own, one at medical school, and another in Washington for college, the event brought them all back to the hospital in Montana without a moment’s hesitation. It was found that the seizure was caused by a cancerous brain tumor; one that needed to be removed immediately. The next few weeks and months proved rough on the whole family; not just the ones that were still at home. Being one of the only two boys left at home, Eric took everything with his mother relatively roughly. Being the youngest and one that shared deafness with her, he had always been close to his mother. A typical ‘momma’s boy’, so to speak. But everything was getting better, right? Life went on, Sarah made a recovery, and the family kept pushing on like they always did.

It was shortly after the incident that he went to college to become a math teacher, having always been good in the subject. His mother, developing arthritis later in life and finding that she needed more support than she could offer herself—despite her stubborn nature—decided to move to Massachusetts to join her sister at her home for a few months when Eric was twenty-seven. Everyone expected it to be a short stay; just a visit to see family and maybe have some time to rest and recuperate without all the stresses of the ranch and the children getting in the way. No one really expected her to stay there. Three weeks turned into two months and two months turned into four. Fresh out of college, Eric went to join his mother in Massachusetts to offer any extra help and found a job at the local high school teaching math. Shortly after moving, he found himself a girlfriend and things seemed fairly serious. Now, she’s looking for a ring and he’s not quite ready. To complicate matters, his mother just recently passes unexpectedly and he’s been feeling the stress of taking care of her belongings, work, and the home life.

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-- OOC !

-- NAME OR ALIAS: Katy
-- AGE: Ancient.
-- THREE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU: Stalks Ashley. … YAH!
-- HOW YOU FOUND US: Your momma

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