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[The story of Quimby Walter Storm as told by Quimby Walter Storm]
⟨I'd rather want everything and have nothing, than have everything and want nothing. Because at least when you want something your life has a meaning: it's worthwhile. From the moment you think you have everything, you have to search for meaning in other things.⟩
- Vik Muniz
- Vik Muniz
"My name is Quimby Walter Storm, adopted son of Tiberius and Ryker. I remember vividly when they agreed to take me out of the orphanage and into their warm embrace. I could drown in my contentedness and no longer concern myself with the evils that surrounded me. It was then that my life changed for good. I could no longer relate myself to the boy I used to be - I got a fresh new start. I took the opportunity with a new strength, holding it carefully in my gentle paws like a gift.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
- Walter Anderson
I was born into a happy family that was ecstatic to raise their little boy throughout his entire life. They loved me as every parent should, but only for a brief period of time. After a while, they got sick of me not heeding their commands, even after I grew and started to understand language. They asked me questions and tried to make conversation, but they didn't know that I'm hard of hearing. They thought that they could just wait it out; maybe I was just a late bloomer. My sight was what did it. I have perfect 20/20 vision, but alas nothing can be exactly perfect. I have photophobia, which is extreme sensitivity to light. Now that I live with my adoptive fathers, all of the lights in the house can be dimmed so that I can deal with the brightness. Such a luxury didn't exist in my old home. I would constantly complain and whimper about how the light hurt my eyes, but this paired with my lack of hearing made my parents instantly assume that I had some serious issues. Rather than trying to fix anything, I was taken to the orphanage right away. They refused to take care of anything but the healthiest, most perfect son, and I didn't fit the picture. I spent most of my childhood there. It wasn't a bad orphanage, but compared to a real family, it was the worst thing in the world. I wasn't the best kid, having frequent tantrums and all. Really, it was just the only way I knew to get back at my old parents. I was so mad that someone would abandon me for such trivial and harmless reasons. Of course, this made most families uninterested in adopting me, and so I remained in the orphanage for three years, until I turned six. Then, the most beautiful thing happened. I was adopted.
Ｉ＇ｖｅ ｌｅａｒｎｅｄ ｔｈａｔ ｔｏ ｂｅ ｗｉｔｈ ｔｈｏｓｅ Ｉ ｌｉｋｅ ｉｓ ｅｎｏｕｇｈ．
－ Ｗａｌｔ Ｗｈｉｔｍａｎ
－ Ｗａｌｔ Ｗｈｉｔｍａｎ
What Quimby thinks of his dads wrote:Tiberius "Father"
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tiberius is so cool! He is so quirky, and I love him for that. We like to hang out and talk about anything and everything. I feel intelligent when I'm around him, and his constant praise adds to this happy feeling. I can be myself around Father, but I can also learn a lot about him. He has the best stories! I think that his fascination with fantasy is a little weird, but of course there's nothing about him that I wouldn't change. He's been there for me ever since he adopted me with Daddy, and for that I am eternally grateful.Ryker "Daddy"
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
-Mother Teresa
Ah, Daddy! He's definitely nothing like his husband, but I like the balance. I play a lot of games with Daddy, mostly board games and hide and seek. He's also my comfort, so whenever I'm having problems I talk to him. He's usually across from me at the dinner table so I can talk to him a lot, and boy is the conversation interesting! Daddy makes a lot of funny stuff and always makes a point to tell me how much he loves me. I love him just as much as he loves me, which is saying a lot. Whenever I'm with Daddy, I feel safe.
What Quimby thinks of his brother wrote:Taegan "Ol' Pal"
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not only is Taegan my brother, but he is also my best friend. I think I understand him a lot more than other people, so I consider myself an optimal friend for him. Although he is two years older than me, I act more like a traditional big brother figure. I tease him, I protect him undyingly, and I hug him frequently against his will. We're kind of an unstoppable force, him and I, and I enjoy having adventures with my bro. We're two peas in a pod, and we're practically inseparable. I get very distressed if I don't know exactly where Taegan is at any given time.
"None knows the weight of another's burden. "
- George Herbert
More on my Conditions
Iғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ, ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ɪᴛ. Iғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ɪᴛ, ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴛᴛɪᴛᴜᴅᴇ.
- Mᴀʏᴀ Aɴɢᴇʟᴏᴜ
❏ Photophobia is very painful for me; I never go outside without sunglasses, and often I beg Daddy and Father to let me wear them inside, too.
❏ Truthfully, there are times when I wish I was blind. It would be a lot easier for me, though it would be a shame to ruin my eyes when so many blind people would sacrifice anything to be able to see.
❏ I can only hear about half of the pitches in my left ear. If you have a very high or very low-pitched voice, you're outta luck talking to me. The majority of what I hear is middle-range pitches.
❏ My right ear isn't as bad, but certainly still distorted.
❏ Music is very weird to me. I know music is so insanely important to so many people, but I'll never get the same experience as they do.
❏ I spent a lot of my life disliking who I was and wishing that I could change myself somehow. I just knew that if I wasn't me, my parents wouldn't have given me up. After that, I came to realize that I'm not the one with the problems; it was my parent's fault for not being able to love me, faults and all.
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
- Hubert H. Humphrey
My Personality
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
-Voltaire
It is hard for me to describe myself, since I have trouble acknowledging my positive traits and coming to terms with my negative ones. To me, I am simply the best person I can be,; To others, I am so much more, or perhaps so much less. Therefore, the following passage will not be written by me:
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
-Voltaire
It is hard for me to describe myself, since I have trouble acknowledging my positive traits and coming to terms with my negative ones. To me, I am simply the best person I can be,; To others, I am so much more, or perhaps so much less. Therefore, the following passage will not be written by me:
Collective thoughts on Quimby wrote:Quimby is a great kid. Though most people judge him on first impressions and don't get to know him well, anyone that does take the time to know him will never forget him. He's sweet, respectful, joyful, talented, and just quiet enough. He's totally the type of person to put a stranger's life over his own, though he also values his own life to the highest extent. Quimby is a simple bean, but as Leonardo de Vinci once said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". On the dark side, he also tends to have sensitive emotions and is quick to let his nerves consume his life. His largest downfall is his doubt; the poor soul will never understand what he could do if he decided to take a risk every once and a while. Quimby has plenty of potential, but whether he will decide to use that or not in the future is still subject to discussion.
Final Thoughts and Credits
Thank you for the opportunity to try out for this beautiful bean! <3 I hope you fell in love with Quimby as much as I did. Big shout out to Todd. and discombobulated for letting me use their kiddos in my form and for helping out! The art in the form was made by me (Master of Nothing), the page divider was found on Google, the original song linked at the beginning was made by Die Ärzte, and the piano cover was created by crackisone at myspace.com.
Thank you for the opportunity to try out for this beautiful bean! <3 I hope you fell in love with Quimby as much as I did. Big shout out to Todd. and discombobulated for letting me use their kiddos in my form and for helping out! The art in the form was made by me (Master of Nothing), the page divider was found on Google, the original song linked at the beginning was made by Die Ärzte, and the piano cover was created by crackisone at myspace.com.
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☹ Take time to meet the man who hides in the corner, for it is not he who cowers away from his duties, but he who needs the guidence he was never given in the past.☺
- me
- me
