James Highchurch

[Catche Jagger]

Name: James Highchurch
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
Hobbies and Interests: Tennis, golf, EDM, DJing, libertarianism

Appearance: James is lean of build and about average height, standing at 5’9” and weighing 149 lbs. He is relatively fit, sporting a fair bit of lean muscle from regular athletic activity. He sports a head of well-kempt dark blonde hair of moderate length, not growing bast his ears. His eyes are hazel in color, with flecks of green. His skin is fair, reflecting his Anglo-American descent.

James dresses in a preppy style, frequently wearing brightly colored button up and polo shirts, and places a fair bit of emphasis on the upkeep of his physical appearance. On the day of casting, James was wearing a light blue polo shirt, white khaki shorts, a pair of boat shoes, a brown braided belt, and a pair of sunglasses.

Biography: James Highchurch is the only child of Andrew and Claire Highchurch. Andrew is a successful financial analyst, consultant, and investor who has spent much of his life based out of Florida and is the current owner and head executive of Highchurch Consulting LLC. Claire, an accomplished lawyer in her own right, is in fact his third wife and almost twenty years younger. Indeed, James is Andrew’s fourth child, having three older siblings from Andrew’s first marriage that Andrew had won total custody over following the divorce. The second marriage was a bitter and relatively brief affair which resulted in little but resentment among all members of the family involved.

Claire avoided marriage and family life until shortly after entering her thirties in order to focus on her professional career, when she met Andrew, an older man of means who she found to be charming in his own way. After their marriage and the birth of their first child, she might put work on the back-burner in order to focus on raising James, only to find that while she did still love James, she was unsatisfied in the role of a housewife and soon took more and more time at her job.

With both of his parents frequently busy, a great deal of James’s childhood was spent in the care of a series of nannies until an age where his sister Ella, the youngest of Andrew’s first set of children, was made resident babysitter to the boy as Andrew believed it would teach the girl to have a greater sense of responsibility.

Of his half-siblings, Ella would become the one James would grow closest to in spite of her being about ten years his senior, and it was her that originally got him into music, though her tastes skewed toward varieties of pop punk, which James would eventually drift away from. His oldest sister, Paige, moved to Arizona with her fiance when James was eleven and has maintained only very sporadic communications with the family since, much to Andrew’s chagrin. On the other hand, James has grown to perceive his brother Stephen as overly sycophantic toward their father, attempting to present himself as some sort of successor in success, even going to school for finance and taking a job at their father’s firm.

Still, James has grown into an awkward middle ground position among the family. Though he likes Ella far more than his other family members, the path she has taken later in life, mismanaging money and stuck in a seemingly revolving door of toxic boyfriends, has left her a bit hard for him to admire. At the same time, though he deeply admires his father’s business sense and success in life, James himself has virtually no interest in matters of pure finance and rejects the notion of becoming like Stephen.

Instead of finance, James has found himself increasingly drawn into a fascination with music, a passion that he was introduced to by Ella back when he was in middle school, listening to her favorite tracks together and talking about them. Exploring this interest online, James found himself getting into the craft of track remixes and eventually started to try his hand at creating his own.

As James has improved in his abilities in this arena, he has begun to favor the style of EDM more and has been trying his hand at DJing, taking what few opportunities he can get in that field at this point in his life.

James does engage in some athletic activities, though mainly sticks to those which he grew up taking part in with his father, brother, and other family members and friends, namely tennis and golf. Neither sport is something that James considers to be an essential part of his life, but values the exercise and does genuinely enjoy the competition.

In school, James’s performance ranges from good to adequate, with most of his grades falling within the B or C range. He is quite socially active, though, with a charisma seemingly inherited from his mother that has allowed him to make friends easily. He has also gained a bit of a reputation as a flirt, taking a bit of pride in his abilities to charm members of the opposite sex.

Though not much of a political mind, James has picked up a lot of libertarian ideas from his father and has grown fond of his idea of the ideology, often throwing out bits of like minded political wisdom he has heard elsewhere in relevant contexts, such as arguments with more liberally-minded classmates.

James does not frequently watch SOTF himself, just not finding the show particularly entertaining or interesting, though he does often look up information on the show online in order to keep up in conversations about it. He does not have any objections to the shows existence, though. In a viewpoint also inherited from his father, James believes that the success of SOTF validates its worth to people, that if it were somehow wrong people would just stop watching.

Advantages: James is quite physically fit from regular physical activity in sports, providing him good stamina and speed. He is also rather skilled socially, being relatively charismatic and generally well-liked by his wide social circle.
Disadvantages: James is not a particularly independent thinker, frequently caving to social pressure when push comes to shove and frequently allowing his outlook to be shaped by others. Additionally, his flirtatious and cool attitude will not have endeared him to those who don’t already consider him a friend. Having grown up in a life of limited physical strife, James is also unlikely to handle matters of physical danger well.

[Namira]

Hi Catche.

James has a decent foundation, but we need to build up on it before approval.

Right now we just need a bit more detail in general.


What are his facial features like? We lack any at the moment.

Can you clarify a bit how old James' siblings are in relation to him? The information comes in piece by piece much later than the initial set up of him having three half siblings.

After their marriage and the birth of their first child, she might put work on the back-burner in order to focus on raising James, only to find that while she did still love James, she was unsatisfied in the role of a housewife and soon took more and more time at her job.

The front half of this doesn't make sense: 'she might put work on the back-burner' should probably be something else?

How old was James when Ella took over looking after him? When did James start to feel poorly about Stephen? Did Stephen treat him poorly in turn, or does Stephen try to connect? Does he not care at all about James?

If he admires his dad's success, why isn't he into the idea of finance as a career?

The front half of the profile could use more bulk in terms of how James became socialised and settled into school. I don't have much of an impression of what's making him into the person he is today: it's a bit like he popped into being as a teenager, personality wise, late in the profile. Tell me more about what he was like growing up; this is especially important because his popularity is one of his advantages, which lacks much groundwork until his charisma comes up later on.

There's no information about whether he got into Mangrove on scholarship or paid tuition, or about his position in the grade rankings.

I'd like more detail on his tennis and golf hobbies: we just know that he does them. What kind of level does he play to? How much of a bonding experience are these sports between him and his family? If he doesn't like Stephen, does that create friction?

What's James' attitude towards his flirtations? Is he trying to get girlfriends? Does he just like the attention? I'd like a bit more of the 'why' as well as the how.

Though not much of a political mind, James has picked up a lot of libertarian ideas from his father and has grown fond of his idea of the ideology, often throwing out bits of like minded political wisdom he has heard elsewhere in relevant contexts, such as arguments with more liberally-minded classmates.

James' interest seems a little surface level. If this is the case, does he ever get caught out? Or is he more involved than that?

He does not have any objections to the shows existence,

*show's

James is not a particularly independent thinker, frequently caving to social pressure when push comes to shove and frequently allowing his outlook to be shaped by others.

This is an interesting facet but it doesn't come up in the profile: Can you incorporate it more into the biography section?


Let me know when you've made edits and I can take another look.

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