LUCAS, braeden nathaniel

[braeden nathaniel lucas]

{ braeden nathaniel lucas }

YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING GOIN' FOR YOU SO I'LL GO FOR YOU WITH EVERYTHING I'VE GOT

FULL NAME . uh, braeden nathaniel lucas--my first name is pronounced bray-den. i've heard weird pronunciations. it's a mouthful, i know. when my mom used to middle name me when i was little (you know, you get in trouble and your parents say your first and middle name?), she'd sometimes give up halfway through.
NICKNAMES . brae, mostly. some people call me by my last name. i answer to just about anything.
AGE . twenty-four
BIRTHDAY . may 19th
OCCUPATION . i'm the public relations executive for a little label called live a little records. you might have heard of us--probably because of me and my amazing team.
CURRENT RESIDENCE . new york city!
BAND & LABEL ASSOCIATED WITH . live a little records, and uh...i guess all of them?
SEXUALITY . bisexual. i like the boys, i like the girls. i just like people in general, but i'm NOT pansexual. that's just creepy.
FACE CLAIM . i've had girls running after me thinking i'm ryan ross. it's seriously creepy
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES . i have tattoos on each of my wrists, and one on the back of each arm. there are photos here and here since they're kinda hard to describe. no piercings, though. i guess my style is distinguishing? i dress interestingly. but no like huge facial scarring or anything.

LIKES .
music, meeting new people, vests, liquid eyeliner (hey, if it works, it works), orange crush soda, keenan and kel, the academy is..., playing guitar, singing, drawing, dragons, trees that have lost all their leaves (they look freaking awesome), skateboarding, experimenting with style, john huges movies, carrots, skateboarding, relaxing with my little sister, hanging out with my mom, the yankees, going dancing, making mix tapes, making up words, my job, video games, pull and peel twizzlers, reese's peanut butter cups, ....make that any type of candy, actually..., texting, twitter, old-school nickelodeon, redheads, brunettes, fingerless gloves, hats, scarves, apple juice (but only in juice box form),
DISLIKES .
being called hyper, people using the word 'fag' or 'gay' in a derogatory way, bullies, people who think i'm immature because i have a lot of energy, being told to sit still, arguments, porn (it's WEIRD, okay?!), wind-up toys, soda, pc's, having no internet/phone service, being hot, glow sticks, hard drugs, alcoholics, guys whose pants hang off their asses, guys hitting on my sister, ducks, care bears (i watched them once while stoned...it was BAD), cougars (the animal, not the older women-younger guy thing), rob lowe, clowns, being closed in places--i have to have windows open no matter where i am, and planes are HELL, non-mechanical pencils, felt-tipped pens, disorganizationl, irresponsibility, being lied to,

FEARS .
dying in a plane crash, not being old enough for my job (i'm scared stiff one day they'll realize i'm JUST out of college), sharks, being alone, right-wing political activists
HABITS/QUIRKS .
i flip my hair out of my eyes a lot, i always have candy with me, i only eat peanut butter and jelly if the jelly is strawberry, i apply ketchup to each french fry individually, i tap my fingers when i'm thinking, i'm a casual toucher, i hug everyone
STRENGTHS .
i'm very good with people--how do you think i got my job?, street smart more than book smart, i listen well, i understand the industry i'm in from both sides of a recording booth, i'm patient, i legit care about the people i work with and for
WEAKNESSES .
i get annoyed easily, i hate when people are unorganized but sometimes am myself, i have no tolerance for lateness, i get really into what i'm doing sometimes and fog off from the people around me, i'm a bit overprotective of my sister, i literally cannot live without a cell phone.

GOALS .
to become head of public relations, make sure my sister stays out of trouble in the big, bad city, find my soulmate before i hit thirty.
SECRETS .
-i don't know who my dad is
-the look i have is something that started as a shield in high school to ward off people who teased me, because i figured the weirder i looked the less they'd want to do with me. it worked, but then i began liking the style, so i kept it. i don't tell people where it came from.
-i secretly think the red sox are an awesome baseball team

FAVORITE BAND . gotta say, i really like lucas santel's new sound, but we're a bit bitter about that over here, still. tbr is pretty fabulous, though.
THEME SONG . after the last midntown show, the academy is...

PERSONALITY .

well. i don't really know that i'm anything special. if anything, i'm a pretty laid-back guy, which contrasts my intensely overactive persona, but it's true. i just have a lot of energy, you know? so i move around a lot, i talk a lot, i gesture with pens and papers and cell phones and whatever else might be within grabbing distance at the time. but for the most part i'm pretty laid-back. i take my job seriously, and the things i love seriously, and i think that's what really counts, right? i have a bit of a protective streak over my baby sister (okay, she's nineteen, so not really a baby), but that's because it'smy job, right? and she's kind of a bit of a spaz, so i keep watch over her. but for the most part i'm normal, i guess. i like video games, i hate the fucking care bears (they are creepy. i'm not delusional), and i am, surprisingly, living the dream.

what, you want more from me!? geesh, greedy greedy. just kidding. well, mostly. no, for real, i am. i'm a sarcastic person. it's how we were raised, partly, but also it's just what i needed to have to survive in high school. i was picked on a lot for being too skinny and too small and too pretty, and when i got into the indie rock scene, i got teased even more. so i had to develop kind of a thick skin, i guess, and be quick-witted to be able to bean back insults at the insulters. so i quickly became cynical and sarcastic, but with my sister it's a less cynical type of humor. you know, the, 'wow, i can't believe you're SOOOO intelligent' type of things, with accompanying eye rolls and whatnot. i tend to ramble, as well. i just have all these ideas going on in my head, and so i kinda need to hear them said out loud to make sure they make sense, i guess. i was tested for add, but i don't have it. i'm just energetic. i sometimes say things that make it sound like i'm full of myself, but i'm always kidding around. i just do that. i only really say serious things when i'm in serious work situations, because, well, big meetings call for seriousness. i know the difference between when i can and can't joke around, and who to do it with and who not to. uh, what else....i'm addicted to candy. no, really. i'm shocked i don't have more cavities. i love candy in any form--except caramel. i don't like caramely things. i'm all about people being individuals, so i try to keep people guessing.

i really like expressing myself through what i wear and how i look. i'll admit it, i occasionally rock the guyliner, but i think that keeping people guessing is important, especially in THIS business, so i just kinda go through life. i'll wear t-shirts and jeans with scarves one day and come in the next with vests and eyeliner and skinny jeans. you just never know with me, which is kind of on purpose, but also just because i grew up in a household that was full of artistic people, and so i was encouraged to be as crazy as i wanted. i blame my mom for my candy addiction, by the way. she was always giving us sweets. my mom is probably the most bombin person ever. i can act kind of childish sometimes (hello, abrupt subject change), i know this about myself. but, i mean, i've been in this business since i was like...eighteen, you know? i suddenly had to grow up really fast, and i think i'm stuck in that awkward phase of still becoming an adult. i was recruited out of high school to help with pr things as an intern, and then i kinda was really good at talking to people and fixing messes while being smooth about it, and so then within the next three years, i was an executive. i mean...it all happened crazy fast. so i still act like a kid sometimes, but usually around friends, not around the bigwigs. but my office? totally a kid's. i have a fucking candy stash on a bookshelf, okay? there's a pinball machine. but i believe that work can't happen unless you're in a place you can also have fun, so that's what my office is. i sing a lot, too, it helps me think? and i usually have my guitar with me. music helps me focus, you know? it always has. so i always have a guitar or whatever with me, and i sing a lot to myself. or sometimes louder than that. whoops.

also, since i'm the same age as most of the people on the label, or thereabouts, i get along with everyone pretty well, from the bands and whatnot. i like knowing what's happening, if people are planning on going out and getting drunk and photographed and if i need to put a spin on that or not, you know? i like knowing what the people i represent are doing, and i like them as people. i am literally doing what i love, and i don't think i really would ever want to do anything else.

FATHER . bio-dad unknown, but step-father is frank bridges, 40, architect
MOTHER . ashley lucas-bridges, thirty-eight, potter/sculptor/painter
SIBLINGS . ---- lucas, nineteen, dance major at nyu
OTHER . buffy and willow, his pet rats
HOMETOWN . greenwich village, but i was born in brooklyn.

HISTORY .

well, what is there to say about me? i guess i'll start at the beginning. my mom had me when she was seventeen, and still in high school, and at the time she wasn't sure what to do with me. so apparently i lived with my grandparents for the first few years of my life, with my mom, while she finished high school. my grandma tells me mom didn't really know what to do with me for the first few months, but the more time that went on, the more she began to realize i was what she wanted out of life, so she kicked her, reportedly, no-good boyfriend to the curb and decided to take me and go to art school. we moved to the village when i was about a year and a half old, and we've lived in the same loft ever since. my grandparents helped her pay for it (they're loaded, apparently my granddad invented some awesome piece of technology way back when that helped create the modern computer motherboard? yeah, my granddad's a geek). so we lived in the village, and when i was about three she met frank, who took classes at her school because he was majoring in architecture and you need to draw for that, who knew? so they began dating, and then when i was four, she got pregnant...again. but frank was madly in love with her and i was kinda in love with him because he bought me my first skateboard and would teach me by rolling me up and down the sidewalks while mom sketched us from the porch, and so he asked her to marry him. and she said yes. so, we became three pretty quickly, and then four when my sis came along later that year.

things were pretty peachy, i guess, whole growing up. my sister and i are five years apart, yeah, but we've always been close. by the time we were in grade school, our whole loft was full of crappy artwork we'd made, and frank was making plans to purchase the one next door and knock the walls down and make renovations so that my mom could have an in-home studio, and we'd all have more room--which happened when i was around eight. so i guess techincally we live in two lofts, but it's just one big floor that connects. it's pretty sweet, actually. when i was nine, i got my first guitar, and i loved it. frank helped me learn how to play it, and i took lessons as well. i would play the little easy songs, and my sister would flip out. that was when she really started dancing, when she was like four and would run around like a banshee to whatever rendition of 'she's comin' round the mountain' i was playing at the time. but we collaborated on things, once i started figuring out you could WRITE music once you knew chords. i didn't start writing till i was thirteen, but she'd always dance, no matter what i was playing.

my mom and frank always encouraged us to be individuals, and told us they'd love us no matter what. we grew vegetables on the kitchen windowsill and went to farmer's markets and were, i guess, modern day hippies. my family is very peace and love oriented. when i was thirteen, right around when i began writing music, i kissed a boy for the first time...and then kissed a girl as well, just to see if it felt the same, and when i figured out i liked both, i freaked out a little bit. i told my sister and she just shrugged, in all her eight year old wisdom, and said "so? mom's friend harry kisses his boyfriend all the time". i feel like that's when i realized that maybe our lives were different than other people's, because my mother was so accepting. so i told her, and frank, and they were a bit surprised, but didn't shun me or anything. i guess i was lucky, in that aspect.

but then i went to my first year of high school--i had gotten into an arts high school, but wanted to try public school for a year, first. that was a bad idea. i was teased for dressing the way i did, for my hair, for my overall look, and was ganged up on by the football team a few times before i finally began fighting back. that's when i began boxing, just to be able to protect myself. it was not a good year, and the more it went on, the crazier i dressed and looked, because i think i was DARING them to pick on me. at the end of that year, though, i definitely went to the arts school. which was where i got involved with more music, and met a few people's parents who worked at LALR, some of the high-up bigwigs. i was a charming kid, always getting friends out of trouble, finding ways to talk myself into having longer time for homework, and someone somewhere was impressed, and asked if i wanted an internship for a year before i went to college. so i said yes, and quickly realized that, not only was i getting to be around musically inclined people all the time, which was fucking awesome, but i also loved doing PR work. so i stayed on, and took basic classes from hunter community college, business and stuff like that that i'd need for the job, and i became publicity agent for a few smaller people, and then suddenly kept moving up....and then i ended up where i am now.

which is fantastic, actually. i live in an apartment about ten minutes from where i work, i constantly get to be around people and things i love, and my sister, who is a dance major and a sophomore in college, shares the apartment with me. it's a pretty big win-win, i'd think. the only regret i really have is that i grew up really fast. i feel like i never experienced high school or college authentically. i've never had a real relationship, although there have been girls and guys here and there, but nothing serious. i'm kind of afraid that, because i've dedicated myself to my career so young, i'll be alone forever. which i don't want to happen.

OOC NAME . erynn
AGE . 23
CONTACTS . pm me =]
OTHER CHARACTERS . none

ANYTHING ELSE . actually...i was wondering if it would be possible for him to be twenty-four? i'm filling a plot/character request with him as well, but rose would like her lovely boy for sydney to be syd's age =]
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