┏ Name: Wyatt Johnson ┓
Nickname: Mr. Johnson
Age: Thirty-Eight
Gender: Male
━━━━━
Sexuality: Homosexual
┗ Former Occupation: High-School Teacher ┛
━━━━━
Personality:
Wyatt considers himself a simple man. Teaching is something that gives him purpose, helping shape the future by educating the younger generation is something he's always taken pride in. That said there's far more to the job than simply that. There are many problems that those students face and Wyatt does his best to be there for them. It helps that he can be perceptive and catch things that others might overlook, he's learned to watch for signs of problems outside of school. Wyatt believes in second chances for just about anyone and will help them onto that path. This all being said he's the type to care far more for others than himself and occasionally neglects his own well-being through distraction or prioritizing others. In this he can be seen as reckless but it's more obliviousness than anything.
Being outspoken is nothing new to Wyatt and he will stubbornly try and interpret the way he see's things or explain his opinion. When met with hostility he doesn't exactly back down but loses his steam quickly, falling back into a more neutral state of passively holding one's ground. There's a fear of making things worse by reacting the wrong way that tends to override any sense of being right or wrong in a situation. Not to mention he's always been known to be more of lover than a fighter. While he'll gladly defend those who need it with a protective fierceness, he's by no means effective in the matter and is more bark than bite. Still, that doesn't stop him from doing so. As good as Wyatt is at helping his students, he's a rather hinderance on himself in really putting forth the effort. This leads to those few being the only people to really understand him and the way he ticks.
━━━━━
History:
Wyatt grew up in Grand Haven Michigan in the US in a rather average household. He's an only child who took to sports in high-school, specifically Baseball. He was a well rounded student and athlete, though he'd still been considered a jock in those days. By the time college rolled around and Wyatt had to really consider what he wanted to do he opted to follow in his mothers footsteps by getting his bachelor's degree in education. His first few years of teaching were in the US. When Wyatt was twenty-six he'd been dating one of his fellow teacher's for about a year, and for Wyatt it was getting serious and he was falling for the other man. To the point that he'd even set up a proposal in the coming months. But before that could happen both the student body and faculty found out about their relationship, and what was once private became public. And while some of the students teased, there wasn't any particular hate thrown their direction. The most they'd had to do was having a meeting with the administration about it and face a few sneers here and there. Still, it wasn't something Paul was interested in having and had broken it off with Wyatt within a week of it going public. This devastated Wyatt who voiced that he wanted to fight for the relationship but Paul had seemingly lost interest leaving him to question if their relationship had ever had a shot at being anything more.
Like with any good life crisis, in the aftermath Wyatt wanted a change of scenery. Thus he moved to Virginia and continued his life and job there, diving headlong into work and even taking on the role of coaching the school's Baseball team. Two years after the move Wyatt noticed one of his students acting out abruptly, beforehand the teen had given few problems. Not long after he uncovered the fact that abuse was involved, though before the authorities could be contacted the student's father managed to attack him publicly. The story sort of blew up in the small town, the father going to prison for multiple reasons and his son being placed safely with family in New York. Wyatt came out of it with some bruises and stitches but considers that worth the result. After this he found that he'd seemingly found the respect of many of those in town. Maybe it was just that his name and face were on the news, who knew. Either way he was met with more greetings in passing than before, the impact really made him feel at home there until the world went to hell.
Wyatt was one of those lucky enough to fall in with a group that had defendable walls near the beginning and spent half of this apocalypse behind them. But they didn't hold out and once again the man found himself on his own for a time before coming across another small group that were looking to survive together.
━━━━━
