Oscar Carlyle (Paddington)

Name: Oscar Carlyle

Nickname: Paddi, or Paddington. – Because of his heavy English accent. Named after Paddington bear.

Socio-economic Status: He lives in a family that's kind well off middle class.

Age/date of birth: 17, 13th July

Place of birth: Bristol, England

Where he lives: In Chicago with his family. In a good, safe neighbourhood.

Family:

Mother and Father- Oscar’s mother and father are both teachers. His father a music teacher and his mother an English teacher. They’re really supportive of their son, and they’re a very close, yet open minded parents who love their children to bits.

Siblings- He has two brothers; Rowan and Alex, both several years younger than him. Rowan at twelve, Alex at nine years old. His brothers are a little jealous of Oscar, see his history for more information.

Appearance:

Hair – Quite long, unruly dark brown hair. It’s thick, but not the type of hair to go fluffy or oily. It always looks unbrushed and wild, even straight after he’s brushed it. He parts his fringe to the side a little, so that it doesn’t fall over his eyes.

Eyes - Really, really light blue in colour, but slightly green around the pupils. Long eye lashes, with quite heavy dark eye brows. They’re quite large and compelling. Kind, intelligent eyes. When he smiles, his eyes dance.

Face - He has a really long and kind of skinny looking face, with a chin that dimples very slightly and a nose that’s a little out of shape from being broken once when he was a child. Thin light pink lips. He has a few small sun spots, one on either cheek.

Build - He’s thin. He always has been thin, but mainly because he was always sick, and he will always be thin. He has quite a small build, but he has fairly wide shoulders and he looks and is quite nimble and flexible.

Height - Around 5’8, give or take a few inches.

Other - He has a naturally olive complexion that doesn’t really burn in the sun. No piercings at all. His finger’s hard with calluses from playing the guitar. He has a massive scar running up his chest, from a lung transplant. A scar that he wears proudly.

Clothing:He lives in jeans and just casual t-shirts, of different brands. Some times he’ll wear a shirt with a long sleeved top underneath or if it’s cold, a t-shirt with a long sleeve top underneath it. Normal, casual jackets of different styles, that zip up the middle. A pair of Adidas casual shoes, or skate shoes. Just casual in style, he pretty much wears what he’s comfortable in.

Personality: Oscar just loves life, he embraces every last minute of it. Living a life that has been full of ups and downs and being constantly ill, poked, proded and emotionally attacked, has made him almost unbreakable. There is nothing that can happen to him now that will break his spirit or his soul, short of loosing a parent. He has this remarkable spirit, a kind of lightness of heart, and it tends to rub off on people. When he smiles his face lights up, his eyes dance and no matter what happens he always has a smile for people. He acts kind of grown up for his age, no partying or rebellious behaviour. When he sings, his soul and his passion for life and all that it entails, comes out in his voice.

He is an easy person to get to know, and people tend to warm to him really quickly and he warms to people really quickly. He trusts easily, and he gives second and third chances, because that’s what life is about, because he has gotten second and third chances in life. He’s the type of person who devotes every day, every second to friendship and to those that are important to him. If some one that he is close to needs him, all that they have to do is pick up a phone and he will be there for them as soon as humanly possible. People talk to him, they come to him for help, for support, for encouragement, for some one to lighten their mood or, simply, for a hug and a one of his smiles.

He makes no show of hiding, or trying to disguise his emotions, what he is feeling is clearly displayed for all to see, in his body language and on his face, especially his eyes. His music is his therapy, or he treats it as such. He writes song lyrics and he writes the music based upon what he is feeling at the time. He has a wonderful voice and he loves to sing, to play and to perform for others. To use his music to make others happy, to make others smile and also to get out what he is feeling.

While he is musically bright, he is not the best student in his classes. He is behind, and although he did some home schooling, it wasn’t his focus, survival was, so, he missed a lot of material that other children his age were studying. It takes him a while to grasp the concepts, in every subject except English and music, which he excels at. School work, honestly, frustrates him, but his determination and his drive ensures that he passes, but not with the most prestigious grades.

Strengths: He loves life and lives every moment of it, he tends to inspire others to want to do the same. He’s almost emotionally unbreakable, uses his music as therapy and to portray his emotions, musically gifted. A remarkable spirit and a determination to survive, his devotion to his friends.

Weaknesses:His physical smallness, his thinness, his willingness to trust so easily can get him into trouble and can lead to him being hurt by others. He’s not the best or the brightest at school, his school work occasionally over whelms and frustrates him, he’s missed a lot of his child hood and was forced to grow up really quickly making him seem older than what he is.

History: Oscar was born in England and up until the age of five, lived a normal happy child hood, except for the fact that he got several chest and lung infections and always seemed to have some sort of a cold or illness and his physical growth was slow compared to most kids. When he was five, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was constantly in and out of hospital for most of his childhood, hooked up to breathing and oxygen machines,he had several rounds of chemo and radiation therapy. It was also, the age that he picked up his first guitar, and began plucking away at the strings.

His parents were told that for Oscar, they should be concerned with quality or life and not quantity, because his survival past the age of ten was unlikey. At the age of twelve, his parents decided to move their family to America, to give Oscar a more “friendly” climate for his illness, and also because America was a large state, with a lot of hospitals and a lot of skilled doctors. Oscar did survive and he was placed on the organ donor list, as time wore on, he began spending more time in, that out, of hospital, as his lungs began to fail. It was here that he met Jak and became really good friends with him. They became the entertainers in the hospital, Oscar on his guitar and Jak on silly pranks, to make people laugh and forget they were ill. In time, had to be home schooled, and his prognosis looked rather grim.

Eventually, after several close calls and several disappointments, they found a donor and a few months ago, Oscar underwent a lung transplant, his body didn’t reject it, but he will be closely monitored, with constant doctor’s check up’s and medication to keep him healthy. But he’s enjoying his second chance at life.

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