WOODS, daniel peter

[DANIEL PETER WOODS]

oh yeah, i'll tell you something, i think you'll understand

when i say that something ; i wanna hold your hand

full name: daniel peter woods
nickname: dan, d, woods
age: twenty-two
gender: male
sexuality: bi-curious (in development)
birthday: january eleventh, nineteen eighty-nine
grade: college, junior
face claim: elijah wood

and when i touch you i feel happy, inside
it's such a feeling that my love, i can't hide

personality: The sea has a weird impression on Daniel. He grew up by the wild sea around the shores of northern England (before he moved to the US). It has always been a place that would calm him down and where he felt at home. He could hear the waters hit the shores from his bedroom and he always fell asleep to that sound. His fascination of the sea is probably something he has inherited from his mother who likes to sail. He loves to take a walk on the shores and find different shells and stones he collects. And of course, when summer comes, he often swims out to find amber. He has never been afraid of the big sea, though he respects it as every smart person would. Every time he goes to a different place, he often brings back something from the sea nearby that place, so the boy has now a collection of shells and interesting stones and ambers from different places in Europe he and his mum has travelled to. Though of course. Not all places had sea and beaches, so he often found the nearest waters to be around. It is not a rare thing to find Daniel sitting on a rock a bit away from the town and dip his feet in the cold water of the sea. He is sure that he has been sitting there way more times than he has been at school – simply because the dark waters make him relax and think.

There is one thing he can never live without, and that is swimming. Being a boy who has grown up in a small fishing town in England, there wasn’t much to do as a kid. But that was not only the reason why he loves to swim so much. The sharp rocks and big cliffs around his home are very dangerous and slippery for the children, so most of them are excellent swimmers, just in case they fall into the water. It is a rare thing to find a child that cannot swim from that town. The swimming has the same effect on him as the sea. It calms him down and it was often that the boy under the surface in his bathtub and lied like that for a while. It clears his thoughts, he says, and helps him think. He always goes out swimming if he wants to think over a big problem or plan something. He is often out by the beach and swims around there – almost till winter comes. Daniel does not care about how cold the waters are and just a quick dip helps him.

Daniel is usually a quiet boy who listens to people, though in his head he is often finding different replies to those people who are talking without even saying it. It is not a rare thing to find a smirk on his lips while he listens to a person who he thinks is stupid. He usually does not say it out loud, but there is a whole long monologue in his head where he finds all the reasons why he is right to think like that of this particular person. When it finally gets too much for him, he replies and it often leads to a long discussion where the boy would rather die than give in. He is a person who always wants to be right and he is always trying to twist the topic so it would be beneficial for him – no matter whether he is right or not. He simply does not want to admit his mistakes. This makes him good at discussions and he rarely gets angry and gives up. He does not have a fiery temper like other people and actually manages to stay calm through the whole situation. He sees it as a weakness to start yelling and if the discussion leads nowhere, he rather stops talking and walks away.

Daniel is not a very talkative person and he is not fond of meaningless small talk. That irritating awkward silence often comes in his company and it is up to the other person to break it. Daniel spends a lot of time inside his head and it is therefore a rare thing for him to suddenly walk up to a random person and strike up a conversation about the weather or something else he finds meaningless. It is again up to the other person to start since he would not show any interest in wanting to talk to someone unless the person talks to him first. He is a boy who likes to work on his own with his own small projects and he is not fond of group work where everyone’s opinion is needed. However, he is quite alright when he is among a few friends who are interested in getting to know another person. Then he can just stay in the back and let the friends talk. But don’t misunderstand him – it is not like Daniel is completely unapproachable. He is quite friendly once you break the silence and find a subject that actually interests him. He might seem arrogant because of his quiet attitude and his facial expressions that show exactly what he is thinking of the person (especially when a person is wrong about something), but despite of that, he can be quite friendly.


So when it comes to the end, Daniel has something to spend his time on while he is alone. Because we have to face it, he cannot just sit around like a zombie all of the time – and no matter how dreamy it sounds, then Daniel is not a boy who would do that because that it simply not productive. He enjoys studying a lot and is way over the phase where school bores him. He enjoys learning new things and reading about organisms and the sea – of course it is because he has chosen to study marine biology, but it is also because he simply loves to get to know new things. He is a boy who adores books – especially old books – which the local library is filled with and he usually studies in the evening – when the sun is setting or when it is completely dark, until then, he likes to spend his time outside – sometimes he even brings a book, but in the winter, it is simply too cold to sit down still and read. Though when summer time comes to Oregon it is not a rare thing to find him lying under the shadow of a big tree in the park with his books and papers spread out in front of him (wearing glasses). As mentioned before, he is a thinker… And he works best in fresh air, so when it is not raining and when it is not too cold, then he would take his homework outside. It also happens that he reads more than he was supposed to for the next lesson, just because he is bored.

Once you get him talking, he is not hard to be friends with. He is a good listener and he gives good advices when you ask for them – or sometimes when you don’t which can be quite irritating. But you will never feel that he opens up for you and for once tells you about his feelings and problems. He tends to shut them out and leave it to himself. He is a very closed person when it comes to talking about his feelings and things that will make him look weak (in his opinion). However on the opposite site, he does not see it as a weakness to say how you feel and what you are thinking (unless it is something completely illogical). That little thought of weakness is something he has for himself and he has honestly no idea why he is like that and hides his feelings. At the end, he is very easy to tears and often cries over the smallest thing (when people are not watching of course). It usually happens very quietly at night or when he is completely sure that he is alone. He can get quite emotional over a movie or something.

Daniel is actually alright with girls. He does not care much for them unless they really show him interest and prove that they are worth spending his time on. He is not shy when he is around them, nor does he flirt much. Sure, there are some girls who are naturally attracted to his big blue eyes, his friendly face with sharp features and his gently bearded face. But all this is not a good enough reason for him to befriend them. Daniel is more careful with befriending girls than boys because he thinks that they only like him because of his looks and he is very critical with them – though oddly this guy is generally not considered as the hottest one. That is why he has actually never had any relationships. Sure, in a moment of weakness, he has kissed a girl – or even gone further than that, but he had never started anything up with her on longer terms. People might think that he is still waiting for his “princess”, but honestly he isn’t. Right now he is in a stage where he doesn’t care whether he gets a girlfriend or not. He just lives in the present and does not think about the future - when it comes to romance, he for once does not like to make plans. He is not a big romantic either. However when he really falls in love, he might change that attitude. He wants the girls to be creative and catch his interest by being extraordinary… And if that happens to be a fat girl, an ugly geeky girl or a poor girl in ragged clothes, then he would take her instead of the pretty ones. But the reason why he acts so distantly to relationships with female sex, is because that the boy is slowly realising that girls are not the only ones he is interested in.

yeah, you got that something i think you'll understand
when i say that something

history: Daniel has travelled a lot with his mum. He grew up in northern England and still speaks with an English accent even though he arrived to Oregon even before he attended high school. Daniel’s mother is a marine biologist who quickly got to money through hard work and a lot of fieldwork that consisted of travelling. She settled down once she found out that she was pregnant and moved in with the boy’s father. However they got divorced after two years and the woman moved to a private place with her little son and daughter who was two years younger than him. Being a marine biologist and very fond of the sea, the woman started sailing and soon it became a very beloved sport of hers. When the kids grew older she often took them to different places in Europe on their holidays.

However the woman first got really excited when she got a new job offer at the states. She had been out on an expedition and earned a good price, so she therefore moved to Oregon when Daniel was fourteen years old. Their new house was even bigger than the one they had before, and it even had a private lab for his mum – which he now uses as well, since he has the same major as his mum had. Daniel’s mother became a member in a yacht after her first investment in a boat like that. And met several men who were interested in become more than just friends with her. Daniel has therefore had several men in his life, however he had never called any of them father – and had not even considered one of them being his step-dad.

The boy graduated from High School with straight A’s and was the key-note speaker at the graduation. It was first in his senior years the boy became popular and he slowly went from being a nerd to just a normal guy like the rest. Now that he attended university, he is perhaps not as social as he once was, since he focuses on his studies, though luckily the boy did not get bullied like he did during his first years at High School. His mother’s success in the same field as him is driving his forward and strengthens his willpower, however the boy has studied so much that he has completely forgotten to look into himself and deal with some personal issues he has. Now that he is older, and his solitude, these issues are slowly starting to show.

i wanna hold your hand

name/ alias: el
age: twenty-two
experience: four years
how you found us: hogwarts magic
pass code: butterfly kisses

ROLE-PLAY EXAMPLE:

Jack had just opened the shop as the snow flakes started to slowly fall down from the sky and land on top of the dirty old snow that had lasted since Christmas. It was the week after New Years Eve and he was not in the mood of standing inside a shop all day and talk to customers. The man needed to get outside into the fresh air – especially now that the weather was a bit milder and not as frosty as it had been when he had stood outside Hogsmeade and watched fireworks with his friends and his sister. With a deep sigh and fingers running through his messy blond hair the man turned the sign from closed to open before feeding the animals. One special pink rabbit seemed to be a bit sick since it did not eat up and kept on choosing the softest vegetables. He should probably check its teeth after he had fed the rest of them. As he moved to the puppies, it was not hard to see that they were his favourites. The small dogs jumped up against the fenced area and barked with their light voice while wagging with their small pointy tails.

“Easy guys, easy.” He said as he stepped over the fence and gave them some food. A special little Labrador kept on biting his practical leather boots that looked more like the ones muggle soldiers wore than someone you could buy in a wizardry shop. His own dog – the only one of those he had which he dared to take with him to the shop walked inside with a lazy glance at him. It was a female golden retriever and she did not seem to care for any of the surrounding animals. Her big wagging tail was about to push a bowl down from a shelf before Jack quickly caught it in its fall.

With a small glance outside at the new fallen snow, the man opened the cage to the pink rabbit and gently took it up in his big arms. His hands wrapped around the soft fur and he carried it behind the desk and into the back room where he had proper light and even a healer table. The dog followed him as he walked inside and sat down next to the tall man as he placed the rabbit on the table. Lumi, which was the dog’s name was a young one. She was not older than one and a half year, but compared to his male huskies, she seemed like a lazy saint. She was calm and with a quite intelligent look in her eyes. That look was the same that stared up at him as he took care of the rabbits teeth. Jack was so busy with treating the bunny that he did not hear the bell ring – telling him that there were customers in the shop. It took several minutes before he was done and stepped inside the shop again. “Hello.” He said as he stopped on his way to the rabbit’s cage. In front of him was a gorgeous woman with shining blond hair and a beautiful face. A broad smile formed on his usually pursed lips and he tilted his head. “Can I help you? Are you looking for a specific animal?”