Age: 22
Gender: Male
Field of Study: Visual Arts
Physical Description: Art is 5'10" (180 cm) high and weighs 167 lbs (76 kilograms). His black hair is trimmed to about one inch, while he spots a beard around his rounded jawline. He has small brown eyes that are rather close to each other. Overall his face is flat and slim.
Art works out daily and is therefore reasonably muscular. He has a lion tattooed on his back.
For the trip, he wore a grey parka over a white shirt and thick jeans. He also wore a black fedora and combat boots.
Background:
- Arthur Miles was born on January 3rd, 2000 in a hospital in Seattle. He is the first child of Zoe and Howell Miles. The pair would go on to have two more children, Sophia and Veronica, with about two years apart from each one.
- Howell is a member of the House of Representatives as well as a republican. He is known for being an outspoken advocate for the gun lobby. Zoe is a rather timid stay-at-home-mum. Due to being dependent on her husband both emotionally and financially, she goes along with anything he does. The family is very well off.
- Art was the clear favorite of his parents, getting the most attention and gifts. Any mistakes or bad things he made would be ignored or excused while his two sisters were often berated for being anything below perfect. Taking note of this, Art grew up thinking himself superior to most people around him, especially women.
- From early on, Art was a very observant child, quickly picking up on what actions and words would make the people around him react the way he wanted to. Art managed to make several friends throughout elementary and middle school thanks to this ability, often by lying and putting on a facade of politeness. All of his actions were calculated. He tended to surround himself with classmates who were more followers, allowing him to feel like a leader. Entering high school, he would drop contact with all of his friends from other schools since he saw no more use in them. However, this resulted in a few arguments over social media, which he could quell with a cover story of having depression. When graduating from high school, Art had learned from his mistakes and chose to keep up contact with his closest peers at least for a few months, allowing the friendships to slowly fade in a more natural way.
- Art quickly showed a talent for painting in elementary school. His father ensured that Art got special lessons and equipment for digital drawing when entering middle school. Art's drawing were always a cut above the works from his peers and Art even won a few prizes during middle and high school. He mostly paints landscapes and scenery, often inspired by real places he has visited. Howell, who is a fan of art and also owner of a not completely legally aquired art collection, approves of his son's interest.
- Once Howell deemed him old enough, he would occasionally take his son to his hunting trips during the weekends. Art learned how to hunt wild animals and how to use hunting rifles and smaller guns at a young age. The very first time Art got to shoot at a deer caught in a trap, he slightly missed, heavily wounding it instead of dealing a killing blow. Seeing the deer wince in pain made him hesitant. His father used this as an opportunity to teach his son a lesson of the importance of finishing what one started and forced Art to shoot the deer from point-blank range. After getting over this rather disturbing day, Art started to enjoy this trips a lot. For his fifteenth birthday, his family went on vacation to Africa, where Art got to shoot a heavily sedated lion during an illegal hunt. Even nowadays, where he no longer accompanies his father on hunting trips due to living elsewhere, Art is a frequent visitor of a shooting range in Tacoma, owning his own guns. He mostly uses AR-15 derivatives because they were the first weapons Howell taught him to wield.
- Art takes good care of his fitness and works out daily. He started doing so when he realized that his BMI got dangerously high in the second year of high school, which stressed him considerably since it didn't line up with his high self-esteem. While first doing it out of necessity, Art slowly began to enjoy his daily routine and has kept it up ever since.
- Despite his father's profession, Art has little interest in politics, believing both sides to be led by stupid people. He also is uninterested in any political topic that doesn't directly affect him. During elections, he votes for republicans, but more out of solidarity for his father.
- In high school, Art would once again surround himself with classmates that were easy to manipulate and would follow his lead. In addition to that, he started dating. Similar to his father, he targeted girls that were shy, introvert or for some other reason unlikely to fight back against him. Every single one of his relationships has been highly abusive, with Art at first playing the perfect gentleman before slowly moving the boundaries. He would also gaslight his girlfriends into thinking that any trouble was their fault. Once he got bored, he would dump them, reasoning that they didn't live up to his standards.
- After finishing high school, Art planned to make a living doing art commissions, believing that he was too good for an ordinary job. However, due to always believing his art to be almost perfect, Art had never pout much effort into improving his work. As a result, his skills had stagnated and were not good enough for him to actually make a living out of them. While he stayed afloat for a few years thanks to him still living with his parents and receiving allowance from them, eventually Howell decided that Art needed to stand on his own feet. He told his son to either take his artistic works more seriously or look for a job. Art decided to attend the University of Cascadia to take an Art Major to show that he intended to improve, even if he didn't believe that such a thing was necessary.
- At the university, Art has kept up his habits of pretending to be a nice person, favoring shallow followers over genuine friends and having abusive relationships, although his spiels have been less successful than during his school days due to the people around him being older and wiser. This caused some trouble for him, but with a bit of crisis management and a change in tactics he avoided the general public catching onto him. He makes sure to avoid those who seem harder to fool and often hangs around younger students, sporadically switching from one social circle to the next to avoid people getting to know him too well while still leaving an impression.
- Not too long ago, he used his connections and a few sockpuppet accounts to start a campaign of cyber-bullying against his newest ex because she broke up with him before he could. As a result, she had to leave the university. A few of his former victims had their suspicions about Art being responsible, but the successful bullying intimidated them into silence.
- He takes his studies seriously, since his father cutting off his allowance is one of the few things he is scared of. In general, the fact that Art is financially dependent on his father is something that bugs him to no end and talking about finances is a topic he tends to avoid. Otherwise, he is unconcerned about his art career, believing his rise to fame to be only a matter of time.
- Most of the students at U of C see Art as a nice but reserved guy who has no luck in love. In truth, Art fulfills almost all criteria for a narcissistic personality disorder.
- Art applied for the trip to gain some easy credit and also to look for some interesting places to draw.
Skills and Interests: Hunting, digital art, working out
Assets: Art is decently experienced in using hunting rifles and smaller firearms. He is egocentric and self-driven, meaning he would easily put his own survival over others and is unlikely to need help to handle most situations.
Limitations: His narcissism has already made him some enemies during his time at the university. He is used to getting his way and unused to situations that are out of his control. Art sees himself as naturally superior, making it harder to ask or accept help from those he looks down on. He also tends to overestimate his own abilities and to blame others for his own shortcomings.
