ZACCHAEUS, christopher orion

[topher]

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``TOPHER ORION ZACCHAEUS !

SING A SONG THE OLD MAN HATES
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»BIRTH NAME• christopher orion zacchaeus
»NAME• topher
»AGE• seventeen
»PLAYBY• conrad leadley
»GRADE• sophomore
»BORN ON• august 7
»MEMBERGROUP• adjustment disorder (mild personality disorder)

COVER UP WITH MAKEUP
in the mirror

»RACE• greek
»HEIGHT• 6'5"
»SCALE• 215lb
»EYES• navy
»HAIR• shaggy, light brown
»DISTINGUISHING FEATURES• scars, he has a lot of scars
»TATTOO'S• ---
»CLOTHES•
Simple, Topher dresses very simple. Jeans and a t-shirt are usually enough to satisfy. Dressing up is a foreign concept to him he doesn't really understand why he has to wear nice clothes when they aren't comfortable. He usually just wears whatever is most comfortable to him.

I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING
a big smile on my face

»STRENGTHS•
games (all sorts)
endurance
patience
»WEAKNESSES•
emotions
reading
school
people
»LOVES•
coffee
caffeine
crowds
his brothers
openness
watermelon sourpatch kids
outdoors
»HATES•
sleep
being alone
basements
questions
his parents
adults
small spaces
cars
apples
enclosed places
»SECRET(S)• his past
»QUIRKS/HABITS• he has a set of notecards with him at all times, can sit outside in the same spot for hours
»PERSONALITY•
As a kid Topher was a rambunctious out of control wild child. He would always push the rules with a wicked, yet irresistible grin. There was no way to bring this boy down, he always had that devilish smile that suggested he was up to no good. He was the embodiment of childhood fun and energy. So you would think that a guy that started off as such a high energy, out of control thing that he would be that way now. Well some things don’t go the way that you expect.

During his captivity Topher started off as that same wild kid, always trying to escape, but slowly they broke him. Over the years he learned that smiling wasn’t good, tears were worse, and any kind of back talk was incomprehensible. It took a long time though to break his strong will, unfortunately though they had that time to destroy the cheerful kid and turn him into an emotionless shell of what he used to be. Maybe if he wasn’t taken away then he would be the rebel that went against the rules like his parents had predicted. However the things that happened to Topher would change anybody into what he is.

Lucky for Topher he was one of the rare cases that got freed. However he wasn’t the same. He didn’t understand emotions, his or anybody else’s. He chose to ignore his own and other peoples were just baffling. He came across as cold and indifferent. Slowly he adapted to reality, but he was… off. He would take a while to figure out what to say to people because he didn’t know what would cause his mother to cry or his father to storm into his room. The changes were small after some therapy, he learned to grasp some emotions that he felt, but they just confused him more. To other people he comes off as a cold and frightening person, but nobody really knows what truly goes on with Topher.

I TOOK THE CHEMICALS
we used to make our chemistry

»MOTHER• Maria Ithaca Zacchaeus, 40, stay at home mom
»FATHER• Greg Athen Zacchaeus, 42, lawyer
»SIBLINGS•
Lex Avel Zacchaeus, 19, student
Jude Pavlos Zacchaeus, 8, just a kid
»BITTERSWEET HISTORY•
Seventeen years ago the wild child Topher was born to Maria and Greg Zacchaeus. Before Topher was born after Lex was two years earlier. Lex was the calm child. When Topher was running around drawing on walls and breaking toys Lex would sit there coloring in his coloring book or contently playing with his toys. Maria and Greg were happy though with their two boys with Maria staying at home to take care of them and Greg off at work keeping the family secure financially. When the boys were young Maria and Greg were certain that nothing could bring their family down, but they were wrong.

One day when Topher was eight years old and Lex was 10 the two boys were at the park with their parents. Lex sat at the top of the play set reading a book while Topher ran around jumping from swings to a slide to the monkey bars to the mini rock wall. His parents kept their eyes on him while he ran around, but they looked away for a second and Topher was gone. The parents ran around the park calling out Topher’s name and searched, even the calm Lex was starting to get worried with his little brother no where in sight and his parents running around frantic looking for him.

While his parents searched Topher was in the arms of a tall man with his face pressed against the man’s chest so his screams were muffled. The man runs into a large windowless van with a woman in the driver’s seat who then drives away as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. They bound and gagged Topher as they drove for what seemed like years to the confused eight year old. Finally the van comes to a stop after travelling along a bumpy road. The man pulls him out of the van and carries him down the stairs. Since his eyes were covered Topher didn’t see that the man was pulling back a book shelf with a passage that led to a room behind it.

Topher was dropped on the bed where the man held him down as the woman untied the ropes around his ankles and wrists then took the blindfold away from his eyes and pulled the gag out of his mouth. The minute the gag was gone Topher screamed, but as soon as the piercing shriek left his mouth the man hit him so hard that he passed out. When Topher woke up he was alone in a small room that only had a single bed with a boring quilt laid across it. The rest of the room was empty.

Cautiously Topher sat up from his bed and the minute he did the door to the room opened and in stepped the man and woman. The man said his name was Vick and the woman was Edna. They were supposed to be his new parents now, but Topher didn’t believe them and told them so. This caused Vick to hit Topher until he finally cried out that he believed them. This soon became a pattern, Topher was defiant and he would be punished. During his first year of imprisonment it was just beatings or belt whips to the back, but as Topher got older his punishments started to vary from burns to the arm to ice cold baths.

When Topher reached the age of eleven he has been with Edna and Vick for three years and his spirit has long since been broken. The oppositions stop but when he stopped talking when he cried or glared or anything like that he got punished. Soon Topher learned that emotions weren’t good and he learned to shut them off completely. However when he was eleven Vick decided he needed to teach Topher how to be a man. He would touch and rape Topher whenever he felt the need to “make Topher a man.” Edna wasn’t absent during these lessons either and occasionally joined but left the teaching to Vick.

For another two years Topher lived in this hell until the day when he heard some strange voices from above. They were deep voices, but not the deep voice of Vick that Topher knew. Somewhere in the back of his mind it registered that for the first time in 7 years Vick and Edna had company in the house. There had to be a bit of the old Topher left because after a few minutes of listening to the voices above Topher decided to do something that he hadn’t done in close to 4 years, he screamed. It took them a while but the police that were going around town looking for a missing elderly man that had wondered away because of dementia had found Topher.

It was sheer luck that they were police officers. When they pulled back the book case and walked back to the room to see a skinny, scarred, and dirty boy looking back at them with empty eyes they knew what they had just stumbled upon. The officers approached him and brought him upstairs where he saw several more officers were arresting Edna and Vick. The whole time Topher was blank, the cops asked him his name and he didn’t answer, they asked more questions but he didn’t answer. Eventually they took him down to the station, got him cleaned up, and tried to figure out who this mystery boy was.

Eventually they were able to coax the words out of Topher’s mouth, but it took days. Finally they discovered he was Christopher Zacchaeus, the boy that was kidnapped seven years ago. His parents were shocked to hear that their son was in fact alive, but so happy that his mother was sobbing with joy and his father even had tears in his eyes. Apparently a year after Topher disappeared, his mother got pregnant with another boy. Lex was at home watching the boy his mother told him, but Topher just looked at her. It took a long time after Topher was brought home for him to even speak to his family and the first person he talked to was Lex.

After a year of being at home and getting some help Topher was talking with his family, but he didn’t seem to understand emotions and normal scenarios. His mother would frequently burst into tears when Topher said something, maybe she wasn’t used to her son. Topher’s father kept working, maybe too much, because he didn’t like being around his shell of a son. The only people that actually could be around Topher were Lex and Jude. Lex was patient and often told Topher when he was being out of line or what he did wrong. Jude didn’t care what Topher ever said he was just happy to have somebody that would sit with him when he played and listened to his stories.

At the age of sixteen Topher was finally going to school with other people because even though he was still void of emotions he had now been taught how to act around people. People were freaked out by Topher but he didn’t feel anything about it. Eventually he started to understand emotions a bit. They were odd things, Topher didn’t like them and he vaguely remembers them from before his kidnapping. However the increasingly small knowledge Topher learned about other people’s feelings and his own Topher couldn’t take it and that’s when the cutting started.

Oddly it was comforting to him, but when his parents discovered him one day sitting in his room fascinated by his own blood they couldn’t take it anymore. They knew that their son needed more help than they could imagine so they sent him away. Now Topher’s been at the school for a few months and he’s made little progress.

A LITTLE LESS SIXTEEN CANDLES
a little more touch me

»CELLPHONE• blackberry pearl
»LAPTOP• macbook pro
»CAR• ---
»iPOD• ---
»LOVER• ---
»EX• ---
»SEXUALITY• homosexual
»CRUSH• ---
»FLIRT• ---
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