Chadd Crossen

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Name: Chadd Crossen
Gender: Male
Age: 18
School: Colehurst Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Street Racing, Automobiles, Mechanics, Classic Rock

Appearance: Chadd is an average looking person. He has dark brown hair, cut into a flat top. He's 5'10" and 163 Pounds. Most of his weight is muscle, from working on cars for six years of his life, but not overly so. He appears slightly stocky, even. His typical attire is some form of button down work shirt, with a pair of jeans, most with some form of oil stain somewhere. He wears work boots everywhere he goes. His facial features are relatively average, with his only distinguishing facial feature being his eyes, which are a grayish blue, almost appearing to be silver in the right light.

Biography: Chadd was born to well off parents. His mother, Crystal, works for the state of California, and his father, James, owns a private, flourishing trailer repair and bodywork business. As a small child, his first toy was one of those miniature electric 'cars', and through the first few years of his life, it was all he needed.

He was placed into private school right off the bat, and his education was put first and foremost by his parents. As he trudged through his first six years of schooling, he seemed to get average grades. He never put that much effort into school, and his grades showed it, usually resulting in B's, or C's. His parents assumed that this was some form of psychological problem, and promptly brought him to a therapist. Within two to three sessions, the therapist concluded that Chadd was a perfectly normal 9 year old boy.

About halfway through middle school, Chadd began to become restless. He had began noticing that he was heavily interested in racing, and cars in general by the time he was 12, an interest not shared by any of his peers in private school. He began to mention this to his parents, and after quite a bit of poking and prodding, his parents finally broke down, and allowed him to try Public School.

He entered public school at age 13, in the 8th grade. Almost immediately, there was a noticeable spike in his grades, based on the 'easier' curriculum. He quickly fell in with a group of friends who shared his interest, most of them were Juniors and Seniors who already had cars, and could drive. During these years, he also gained an interest for Biology, this being the only A+ he received in his entire schooling. Something about how physical and concrete the science seemed grabbed his interest based on the exacts of it; it felt somewhat similar in nature to the one way to working that cars did as well. By no means did it become his passion, however it was one little extra light in his day. By the time he reached the 9th grade, he had pretty much decided that his first choice of career was to be an Automobile Technician, with his backup being a Biologist simply due to it's ease and real world application. Unfortunately for him, these two tracks were so far apart, that they required four completely separate years of schooling, forcing him into picking just one. It was also around this time that he began to work for his father's business, and here he began to learn about the inner workings of general mechanics.

He got his Driver's liscence in the summer between the 10th and 11th grade. The entire time he was being taught how to drive, everything in him screamed at him to test the limits of not only the car, but himself. But every time he stepped out of line, even a little, his mother was sitting right beside him to pull him back into place. He passed his driving test with flying colors, and quickly began showing up to "Practice" with some of the as of then, Seniors on the back roads. Each day it was a different location, and he really got to see what he could do, push himself to the limits. Every Tuesday after school, he hopped in his hand me down car, drove up to whatever location they specified, and then they raced. He never participated in any of the races for money, but he always did it for fun. At some point during these races, his radio picked up an old classic rock station which he found to calm him, and help him focus while racing. This was the first race he actually won.

Late in the 11th grade, during one of the practice races he was participating in, his car's front tire hit a pot hole, and flipped the car. Chadd was pretty badly injured in the crash, but not killed. He took the rest of the year off from his schooling to recover from his injuries. During his six week stay in the hospital, he met Janet Claymont due to a happenstance mistake in room, and they began going out right after his recovery. The two quickly became inseparable.

His 11th grade repeat year has been difficult, although he has managed to do well by taking time away from his practice races to focus on studying. He went through physical therapy for the first semester of his repeated junior year, quickly recovering to the point where he could somewhat function by the time his midterms rolled around. He does however suffer some minor stiffness every now and then in his knee where it became jammed into the dashboard of his car, but he is on an anti-inflammatory to use when it pops up.

Advantages: He's good with mechanical and electronic systems. Also is relatively fearless due to his brush with near death. He's very dexterous as well, and has good reaction time from his time as a racer. He also draws strength from Janet, and if the two are together, odds are he will remain stable.
Disadvantages: He lives off of adrenaline, and may do something stupid to sate this need. He also has little to no knowledge of geography or nature, which may make survival in a wilderness situation difficult. His use of an Anti-Inflammatory to subside pain and stiffness can become a problem. He is also way too dependent on Janet for a game of this nature, and as such, if something were to happen to her, odds are he would lose his grip on sanity.

Original Profile: B011 - Crossen, Chadd