Oscar Fatu

[Namira]

Name: Oscar Fatu
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Place of Residence: Salelologa, Samoa
Language/s: Samoan, English
Hobbies and Interests: Surfing, Rugby Union, Kilikiti (Samoan Cricket)

Appearance: Oscar is 5'9" tall and a lean 145 lbs, possessing a decent physique without much fat. His skin is light brown. Oscar's hair is dark and heavily textured: he usually wears it back in a short, puffy ponytail. His eyes are brown. He has a pale scar just above his left eye that bisects his eyebrow, from an injury received in sports. Oscar has a thin face with well-defined cheekbones, chin, and jaw, and a wide, short nose. When abducted, Oscar was wearing his school uniform, a dark grey lavalava and loose white shirt. He had, however, already swapped his shoes for sandals.

Biography: Oscar is the eldest of three sons to Melani and Emma Fatu, and was born in Apia, Samoa. The family moved to Salelologa when Oscar was two years old, in order to be closer to both sets of relatives. Oscar's siblings, Brian and Kona, are five and seven years his junior. Melani works as a bus driver, while Emma looks after the kids at home.

His childhood was spent mostly with his mother, but Oscar grew up in close proximity to his paternal aunts and several cousins. The family often set the children, Oscar among them, to playing touch rugby as a means of keeping them occupied, and he developed an early enthusiasm for the sport. Oscar was delighted when each of his younger siblings were born, and has always tried to play the cool older brother to them both, trying to set a good example but also be worldly and wise.

Oscar enjoyed school once he entered the education system, although he didn't particularly excel at any subject. He mostly liked to be there for the chance to meet new people and make more friends. Still, in spite of his preference for socialising over his lessons, Oscar was quiet and attentive during teaching, and minimally disruptive to teachers. His parents and older relatives had always instilled in him a respect for his elders, and to him, this also extended to showing respect to the teachers by being a good student. Oscar's school taught English language, and he gradually grew conversant over time.

Oscar had an allergy scare at nine years old, when he accidentally ate nuts and started to go into anaphylactic shock. Fortunately, an epipen was on hand to prevent the problem from escalating, but Oscar was left scared by the experience. He quickly became hyper vigilant of everything he ate and other allergens, frustrating his parents by claiming he was allergic to any food he disliked or tasted in any way strange. Although Oscar's parents managed to divert him from this pickiness with his meals within a few months by refusing to indulge him, he remains very wary of unfamiliar food and maintains a bit of a hypochondriac streak with any kind of rash, spots, sore throat, etc., catastrophising until it is clear he is not imminently dying. He carries an epipen at all times.

Oscar fell off from playing rugby at around eleven, as the games were starting to develop more physically instead of just touch. He found that he wasn't very strong as well as being quite light, and did not like throwing himself into harm's way to tackle others. He still liked to watch the sport especially on the television, but preferred to participate in touch only, as he was increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of sustaining injuries: after being coaxed into it by his cousins one summer and getting cut by a knee to the face, he swore off contact rugby for good. Oscar also started to play more cricket with others, which he found filled the urge for a team-oriented game without having physical contact, as well as being a particularly sociable experience. Oscar still plays pick up Kilikiti whenever he gets the opportunity.

Surfing is Oscar's biggest hobby. He'd always enjoyed swimming and the ocean, even as a young boy, and would go out paddleboarding with his dad from the age of five. At twelve, he was introduced to surfing by way of an older cousin from off island, Ray, and he fell in love instantly. Oscar adores getting out on the ocean and then riding waves back inland, and spends a lot of time carefully checking the weather and going out to beaches to see if there's any good surf. He was gifted an old board by Ray for his fifteenth birthday, and he treasures it immensely. Oscar tries to go out surfing at least once a week, and even if there aren't any good waves, he will usually paddle his board around, just enjoying spending time in the water.

Oscar has a good relationship with his family, getting along with both parents even as he grew up and grew more into himself. His brothers generally look up to him, although sometimes he can clash with Brian, who finds him overbearing. Oscar also has a decent number of friends from school and casual sports games. Oscar has performed reasonably well in school and is projected to finish out with solid grades: he is looking to utilise his swimming and surfing experience and enthusiasm somehow for a career, but so far is turning up blank on what that may involve.

Advantages: Oscar is a great swimmer and in good physical condition with high fitness levels. He is friendly and open and generally gets along with most people, even strangers.
Disadvantages: Oscar has low pain tolerance and is very averse to doing anything that might get him hurt. He overreacts to minor injuries, and could potentially panic as a result. He also has a severe nut allergy, to the point of an adverse reaction being potentially lethal.

[Brackie]

Hi Namira! I'll be critiquing your profile this fine day, so lets get to it:

Oscar is pretty much all good to go barring one requested change:

- I just need a tiny little bit of elaboration on the paragraph talking about Oscar's schooling. You mention he used school as an opportunity to meet new people, and he had a preference for socializing over lessons, but that he was also quiet and attentive during teaching. I just need a little bit of connective tissue between these two points, basically - was there any specific incident that led him to realize class wasn't the time to socialize, or was it something he just picked up? Anything is fine, just a mention is all I need.

Let me know when you've made this change and I'll give him another look!

[Namira]

Amended to clarify that it's around respecting his elders!

[Brackie]

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