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Extremely detailed character sheet for Randall
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Character Chart
Character’s full name: Randall Gaspar Purpura
Reason or meaning of name: My characters tend to name themselves. When I first designed Randall the name just kinda echoed in my head.
Character’s nickname: I call him Rand. NEVER RANDY. dont do that please.
Reason for nickname: Randall is a long name lmao
Birth date: 12/13/73
Physical appearance
Age:  23
How old does he/she appear: i think Randall looks a lot younger and could probably be mistaken for 17-19. he definitely gets carded whenever buying anything adult.
Weight: 95-100 pounds
Height: 5′3″
Body build: Emaciated but with wide hip bones
Shape of face: rounded heart shape?
Eye color: brown
Glasses or contacts: he needs to wear glasses, but can’t find them.
Skin tone: pale yellowish tan with lots of freckles
Distinguishing marks: freckles, rope burn scars on neck, wrists and ankles, deep scars all over body. he has a tattoo in the middle of his back of an eye
Predominant features: biiiiig nose and shark teeth
Hair color: black with a purple sheen (mostly because of grease)
Type of hair: super curly and fluffy if clean, straight with slight curls when dirty
Hairstyle: usually shoulder length and choppy, but sometimes cuts it shorter or grows it longer.
Voice: i always wanted him to sound like Danny Elfman, but I do his voice acting.
Overall attractiveness: not very. I’d give him a 4 outta 10 maybe? higher if you like weird looking guys
Physical disabilities: ulcers, anemia, jaundice, chipped teeth, scoliosis, a mild muscle twitch and migraines
Usual fashion of dress: over sized sweaters (usually striped), black skinny cut jeans, black converse, knee high socks.
Favorite outfit: blue striped sweater, acid washed grey/black jeans, black low top converse, periwinkle knee high socks.
Jewelry or accessories: he sometimes wears a black necklace with an eye that matches his tattoo design and he wears a small black hoop earring in his right ear.
Personality
Good personality traits: He’s rather smart and clever, he gives pretty good advice, hes very loyal and will go out of his way to do whatever he can for friends.
Bad personality traits: He has anger issues, night terrors, delusions, gets VERY possessive of people he likes, can get violent, has violent alters he can’t control.
Mood character is most often in: if on meds hes usually in a dissociative calm state. off his meds hes quite irritable unless he’s smoking.
Sense of humor: he’ll tell corny jokes or puns sometimes, but has a hard time picking up when others joke with him.
Character’s greatest joy in life: eating pizza while watching a romcom and listening to his favorite music.
Character’s greatest fear: being yelled at
Why? bad childhood
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? uuuuh? i guess going off his meds didnt go great coupled with a new friend and having a crush on someone.
Character is most at ease when: listening to his headphones and writing
Most ill at ease when: people are yelling at him or he has a lot to do in a day
Enraged when: woken up badly, when he thinks the people around him hate him or are ignoring him
Depressed or sad when: being ignored or nothings on tv
Priorities: just getting through life
Life philosophy: reincarnation might be real and he hopes itll be better next time
If granted one wish, it would be: not being ill and finding love
Why? it causes most of his turmoil and its really hard for him and he just wants to be loved like he never was
Character’s soft spot: people being nice to him, being asked about his hyper fixations (hes usually too shy at first to talk much, but if he trusts you and you get him going he doesnt shut up)
Is this soft spot obvious to others? YES
Greatest strength: he has a lot of surprising physical strength (it wouldnt look like it), he has a pretty strong will too all things considered
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: his own mind, overthinking, moths (the guy)
Biggest regret: he missed his chance with someone he was really close to before he went to the hospital (Leon)
Minor regret: burning his pizza in fall of 1992
Biggest accomplishment: he used to write and actually wrote some small short stories that were published in magazines
Minor accomplishment: not burning his pizza in the winter of 1993
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: he was removed from school a lot growing up til he was expelled and “homeschooled” (it was just him reading all the curriculum himself).
Why? because its embarrassing to him
Character’s darkest secret: he keeps clothing and (if theyre killed) body parts of people hes infatuated with
Does anyone else know? mya does now
Past
Hometown: LA, California
Type of childhood: very badly neglected and abused
Pets: he had a cat as a child, but they died in an unfortunate accident and it really affected him. his plushie cat was name after her.
First memory: his mom yelling at him
Most important childhood memory: getting his plushie cat
Why: it was his number one comfort item. he still has it but shes really old and worn so he keeps it under his pillow or in his dresser
Childhood hero: he didnt have one
Dream job: when he was little wanted to be a vet, then when he got older he wanted to be an artist, now he wants to be a writer
Education: in and out of elementary, half of middle school and then self homeschooled on his own.
Religion: agnostic
Finances: very very poor
Present
Current location: [REDACTED FOR FUTURE GAMES]
Currently living with: he lived alone til he died
Pets: n/a
Religion: agnostic
Occupation: n/a
Finances: n/a
Family
Mother: Paloma Purpura
Relationship with her: very bad. She was extremely abusive to him in physical and mental ways. Randall was an accident and she blamed him for “ruining her life”. She was a severe alcoholic and would leave him home alone for days at a time sometimes. She had schizophrenia and would take out delusions on him. Moths waited til she was passed out and set the house on fire, using cigarettes to make it appear as an accident.
Father: Byun Ji-hwan
Relationship with him: He died while Paloma was 7 months pregnant with him. He got in a car accident. Paloma loved him a lot and his death made her spiral into a depression, most likely being a big factor in Randall being born premature and with many health problems.
Siblings: he’s an only child.
Spouse: He was in love with his neighbor and only friend, Leon, but he moved away and he never told him how he felt.
He was also briefly involved with his boss, Mort, at the pizzeria. He stalked him and was obsessed with him, but lost touch after he went to the hospital.
He had a crush on his neighbor, Tom, who Moths murdered and kept in his bathtub til mya stopped him.
Other important family members: He has an aunt and uncle on his mothers side who adopted him when his house burned down. They were mentally abusive to him and would have to tie him to his bed when he had night terrors cause he would hurt himself and others otherwise. thats why he has rope burn scars on his wrists and ankles.
Favorites
Color: Red and Blue
Least favorite color: yellow
Music: he listens to a lot of different genres, anything floaty and dreamy or kind of weird. his favorite band is radiohead, he also loves oingo boingo and the talking heads.
Food: pizza. pizza anything, he loves all pizza stuff. he hates burgers though.
Literature: horror novels
Form of entertainment: he likes to watch infomercials on TV
Mode of transportation: he has a purple Ford Escort. he keeps losing the keys so he tends to walk everywhere. does NOT ride the bus if he can help it
Most prized possession: His plushie cat, Shadow.
Habits
Hobbies: watching tv or doodling/writing
Plays a musical instrument? he cant play any instrument, but he likes to sing
Plays a sport? no one would play sports with him as a kid and he doesnt have the stamina, but he enjoys watching winter sports.
How he/she would spend a rainy day: He’d open the window so he can listen to the rain and just relax or write
Spending habits: he barely has enough money to get by as it is, but he likes to buy gas station pizza or candy when he can. sometimes he’ll treat himself if hes really depressed and by some silly little toy or something
Smokes: started smoking at 14, chain smoked until he worked and was irritable alot because the breaks werent enough and then he quit after staying in the hospital. Moths still smokes and Randall will have one if he gets really stressed.
Drinks: Used to drink when he was 16, doesnt like how it makes him feel. Triggers memories of his mom.
Other drugs: experimented with lots of drugs as a teen. tried pills, speed and weed. Stopped doing drugs after 2 years., never did them to excess, just to deal with PSTD.
What does he/she do too much of? drinks a lot of soda and caffeinated beverages.
What does he/she do too little of? eating anything. he tends to forget or is just not up for it.
Extremely skilled at: is actually a really good shot with a gun, surprisingly even without his glasses. hes also really good at rhythm type things
Extremely unskilled at: anything involving other people
Nervous tics: chews on his shirt, picks at his nails or bites his nails, covers his face with his sleeves
Usual body posture: slouches, puts his hands up to his chest with his sleeves covering them. tends to walk fast when in public to get home as fast as possible. (virgin walk)
Mannerisms: shy, twitchy, sweaty, has a stutter when nervous. tends not to be able to make eye contact and looks down or away mostly
Traits
Optimist or pessimist? very pessimistic
Introvert or extrovert? EXTREME introvert
Daredevil or cautious?  cautious (moths is a daredevil with no impulse control)
Logical or emotional? tries to be logical usually, but ends up becoming emotional
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? it really depends on what. his self care is messy, but his living space is usually kept pretty clean and minimalist, except for maybe some food wrappers but he picks them up weekly.
Prefers working or relaxing? likes relaxing, but working gets his mind off things.
Confident or unsure of himself/herself? very very unsure of himself
Animal lover? yes, loves all animal esp bugs, rabbits and rats or any creature hated by most people (he relates)
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: hes very self loathing and takes what happened to him personally, feeling like he did something to deserve. that carried on to adulthood and now when something bad happens on accident he thinks he must have done something to deserve it. he finds himself very unattractive and has a hard time looking in the mirror. hates everything about himself.
One word the character would use to describe self:  bad
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? he doesnt think he has any
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? shyness
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? eyes
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? scars
How does the character think others perceive him/her: he thinks people see him as a gross person, someone you wouldnt want to go near. and smelly.
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: everything
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: scary and would rather be alone, but wants love and friends
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? absolutely
Person character most hates: his mother, his aunt and uncle and tom
Best friend(s): mya and leon
Love interest(s): leon and sort of tom (it wasnt really reciprocated so hes dead)
Person character goes to for advice: mya
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: himself
Person character feels shy or awkward around: everyone
Person character openly admires: mya (he likes how outgoing and nice she is)
Person character secretly admires:  mya
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: leon
After story starts: mya
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