Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-3058106-20141126220542

Gender: Male

Birthday: April 30, 1998

Face claim: Trevor Jackson

Family/Housemates: Lynus Archer (deceased father), Lionel and Riley Archer (grandparents), Shaylene, Laurence, and Vanessa Archer (older half siblings), and Justice Archer (younger sister)

Address: 1578 Kingsley Avenue, Miduna Beach

Personality: Lance is a laid-back and chill guy. He usually doesn't really care much about anything so long as he can just relax, but still have some type of fun. People usually tell him that he's lazy, but he'll usually respond that lazy is his middle name. Still, he is very extroverted and able to make friends whenever he feels like it, which isn't too often because he's lazy. Even though he is usually relaxed, he hates seeing messes and always tries to clean them. He hates when his section in the band room is all messed up, so he usually spends his time keeping it clean. He is also very straightforward and honest, never really seeing the point of lying. He often says things that are rude, but if it's the truth, then who cares? Not him, that's for sure.

History: Lance Archer grew up in a large home as the eldest child of his father's second wife. His father had been married before and had three children with her. They divorced after their third child and Lance's father kept the children. A few years later, he remarried a young woman named Emilee and they had two children together. Lance was not even two years old when his mother divorced his father and left the home for good, never sending work back to talk to her children. Lance doesn't even remember anything about her. He only knows about her from the stories from his family and the pictures he's seen of her. It doesn't really bother Lance that he doesn't know his mother since why would he want to know a woman who obviously didn't care for her family?

Still, the large family lived a happy little life in Barfield. They lived in a neighborhood downtown that usually had a high crime rate, and Lance's father always talked about how when he got enough money, they would move out somewhere else where it was safer. The five kids were also all pretty close to each other and it was definitely a tight-knit family. However, when Lance was nine years old, his father was diagnosed with cancer. During the treatments his father had to go through, he and his siblings went to live with their grandparents in Miduna Beach. He finished the school year up at Barfield Elementary, but the next year he transferred to MBES.

When Lance began attending Miduna Beach High in seventh grade, he decided to join the school's band and learn to play an instrument. He started playing the trombone since he thought it looked cool. In tenth grade, he switched instruments and started playing the tuba instead, since, again, he thought it looked cool. He has always been glad that he joined band since it has been his favorite thing to keep his mind off life outside of school. He always wanted a distraction from his father's cancer and what was going on there. He wanted something else to keep him entertained and happy.

The day after Lance's sixteenth birthday, his family received word that his father only had a few more months to live before the cancer would finally take him away. All throughout the fall of his junior year, Lance tried to keep busy doing whatever he could to try and ignore what was happening. He still visited his father everyday, but it was painful to see his father in such a state. It all ended on November 18, 2014, though when his father died. Even now, Lance doesn't talk about it at school or around his friends. He's gotten messages and cards and kind words from his classmates and friends, and he acts kindly towards them, but those who are closest to him know not to mention it, as much as they want to.

Describe your character in a word: Laid Back

How your character would describe him or herself in a word: Chillaxed 