Chase... (No posting)

[monty]

Welcome!

Hi! My form for 183 has been moved here simply because it was starting to precede the character limit on CS posts and it's so much easier for me to code this in little sections. Please do not post on here! Thank you. (:
For this form; please make sure you are viewing on a desktop with the zoom on 100%, otherwise the formatting will be very messed up and may not be legible.
Also, have you noticed none of the art in the form is credited? No worries! The very last post has full credit of all the art pieces that were made for me as well as the plumerians owned by everyone else. (:

Inspiration for the form?

For my form I wanted to do something original... Rather
than explaining the character out in third person I wanted
to actually have this character type out, word for word, as
if he were making a form for himself. I also felt
like it would be a more entertaining read since the form itself
is kind of long. This character took a lot of thought and it
turns out it's a lot harder to stay in character than I thought.
I've probably read each section five times at least.

[monty]

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I guess I better tell you about myself... I am Chase.
That is it. That should be all you need to know about
me... but maybe I could clue you in?
My name is Chase and I'm an 18 year old Plumerian,
as you most likely could tell by my feathers. My way of
making a living is simple; It's secret, closed off
to prying eyes.
All you really need to know about me is that I go
undercover a lot. I'm a master of disguise, people
view me as their friend and trust me with their secrets.
I'm pansexual and I have a strange love of cosplaying
in my free time.

Change "love" to obsession. Cosplaying has quickly
become my life away from work. Granted, I'm not
good enough to actually do anything with my
cosplays besides wear them around comic cons and
hopefully get a few pictures, I still obsess over it.

Uh... Other than that people call me a nerd a lot?
I always get a lot of people telling me I'm too
blunt or too rude, that's actually how I got fired
from a job once. I tend not to get along with
too many people, they're close-minded morons.

[monty]

I don't believe I should have to sit here
and label out my personality traits word by word.
I'd hope to think you're smart enough to comprehend
on your own what I'm like.
Do I look like I have the time for that? I am a very
busy person, I hardly have the time to sit down
and explain this to you here. You should have
enough intellect to sit here and decide for yourself
the kind of person I am. Rude, pushy, imptatient,
loyal. You get the point. I've been described as a guard dog.
I'm protective of those I love. Who wouldn't be?

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[monty]

Actually... I do find a lot of significance of the
heart shaped patterns on my fur. Most view it
as feminine feature but I view it otherwise. It
helps in my undercover jobs. When you think
of hearts you think of loving, so when I go
undercover my suspects feel more relaxed and
willing to feed me the information I require. I
guess I was born with them for ironic reasons...
Either way, I like them, they're a nice feature.
They're apart of me, as cheesy as that sounds.
It's like... if you had a lisp or a hearing disorder.
That's a part of you too. You don't just ignore that,
you acknowledge that you have it/one. That's how
I feel about the hearts in my design. To be perfectly
honest; I love them.

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As a kid I was teased constantly
every day because of the heart shaped
dots on my design. Not even my
friends had enough decency to add
on some misogynistic comment about
how the hearts were "too girly for me".
The only time that affected me was in
middle school when I was at that age
where I was impressionable and
cared about what people thought about
me. In grade school, I just kind of
laughed it off with my friends,
assuming they were only joking. In
high school, I had no concern for
what others thought of me and I knew
they were just being misogynistic
idiots. Middle school was rough
though. I used to carry my books
and binders over the hearts and I
wore my glasses so it would cover
the heart on my face. It got a
lot better in 8th grade. That
was when everyone was just
starting to mature.

[monty]

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I didn't grow up as proud as I am now. When I
was growing up, everyone close to me thought
I was going to be an engineer or a rocket scientist.
I was a huge nerd growing up. In fact, one of my
favorite things to do was to read, play around with
the limited technology that we had at the time, and
cosplay. It certainly didn't help that I had these huge
square glasses. Growing up, I was teased a lot about
being a "nerd" and how it was "less cool". I was
especially teased, in my later years, for being pansexual
because of the lack of acceptance. A lot of people say
the past shapes you and I think that fits for me.
Now, I am at a high paying job, that not many people know
about, not even me. So, I get to goof off too. By law,
my superiors are not allowed to legally tell me my job
description. So there's no rules for me!

It didn't take long for my brains to
land me a scholarship at a local University.
Once I was there, I wanted bigger.
I needed more education. I wanted to go
into law, but my scholarship only got me so
far. So I had to stick with going into a local
police academy, and they were very lucky
to have me, the master of disguises.
...
Dang, I'm not that good at lying. Truth be told,
I was awful at the University. I constantly
broke the rules, unintentionally or intentionally.
To say the least, I wasn't a very good student.
College for me was "fun" . I loved all the parties and
such, my friends and I would go out everyday... Until my grades
sucked so bad that I was kicked out. OK, fine, yes I was
expelled from a university with professors that couldn't
tell their left from their right. ( This is a judgement free
zone so if you're going to give me a condescending look
because of it the door is to your left.) I was also trying
so hard to prove that I wasn't this "nerd" that everyone
called me, I was actually someone cool. Guess what kids,
turns out being a nerd is 10 x cooler than the stereotypical
cool kid. I wish I knew that last year.

So because of that, I was forced to research and
train for a local police academy, one that barely
let me in. Thanks to the "no nonsense" attitude
of everyone there, I was able to stay focused and
actually study and train, which lead to me being
the lucky one, snagged out of a batch of 100 and
picked to work for a secret government agency
and given this super sweet job. Of course that
forced me to move to New York but hey, I was
down with it.

Snagging a position such as mine was kind of
an easy task, as mentioned before. I can't leak too much information
about it, it's purely classified information. Let's just say...
I work for an "agency" and I go undercover a lot. I'm the master
of disguises, that's all you need to know. I'd like to think if anyone
ever tries to deny that I can have them behind bars with my words alone.
.... Just kidding. I wish though. The only thing I know for sure that
I can reveal about my job is that I control something... I'm the
big boss for a secret project that is helpful to the public yet they don't
know anything about it. In all honesty, I have absolutely no idea
what my job entails. I never received a job description or anything
and mostly I just have people sitting around asking for my opinions
on certain "things" or telling me to hit buttons or to move papers.
To be honest, I just feel like a poster dog for some big scheme
that's probably going to come back to bite me in the butt later.
Hey, all I know is that it doesn't require a lot of work and I get
paid lots of money. It feels like the good life to me.

So, growing up I had the kind of parents
that thought that "FOOD. WATER. SHELTER.
YOU GOOD." was a way of parenting so to say
the least. They treated me similar to the way
you treat a dog. You expect them to do what
they say, get mad when they (SURPRISE
SURPRISE) have a mind of their own and then
you decide to coddle them on your own terms,
not even considering the fact that they may
still be mad at you for scolding them. Yep,
that was basically the way I was brought up.
My parents were the type that'd treat you
like you were five years old and you'd break
if the wind so much as brushed between your
fur, and they acted all surprised and offended
if I ever said anything that would go against
their "all knowing" wisdom. I will give them
credit though, they did whip up one cool
dude *coughcough* me *coughcough*
Now, I don't completely resent my madre
and padre. In fact, I still visit them every
two months. Honestly, it's a thing now.
We have it planned out, the first Tuesday
every other month. I'd be lying if I said
I didn't look forward to it every once in
awhile, even if my mom nags about my
hobbies of dressing up and playing video
games.

[monty]

Yes... I still have a bit of a dorky side left over.
I am a huge cosplayer. My favorite characters
to cosplay are; Loki from the Avengers (who
doesn't consider cosplaying Loki at some point?),
Levi from Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan
and Celes from Dangan Ronpa.
Why not cosplay my favorite characters from my
favorite animes/shows/movies? I have many more
that I would love to attempt but due to a lack of time,
most are unfinished and never to be finished. Cosplaying
has been a hobby of mine since my parents brought me to
comic con in 2001. I saw someone dressed as some of my
favorite characters from back then and I've been hooked
ever since. The ability to pose as someone else really intrigued me.

My cosplay for the character Loki took me so long to perfect....
Heck, I'm still working on it. Each piece of armor was crafted
individually by hand. Precise measurements were taken as well,
it was a big or deal getting it all to fit into place. I wouldn't be
able to count the amount of prototypes were discarded because
of incorrect measurements. Overall though, the cosplay is,
by my definition, high quality. I'm contemplating competing with it.

This was quite possibly the only cosplay that didn't feel like a
chore and that didn't cause me pull half of my fur out in frustration.
It took me a grand total of a week to finish the sewing up and get
everything fitted properly. However, I'm not going to lie, I constantly
get tangled up on the straps on the legs. I'm still looking for the perfect
wig for this cosplay, though. So far all of them have been ridiculously priced.
Honestly though, do I look like the type of guy to waste 50$ on a wig? ...
If you said no then your judgment is off because that's exactly what I did,
and let me tell you it was at such a low quality that I threw it away.

I know what you're going to ask, everyone always does at conventions.
"Isn't it weird to dress up like a girl?" I'll give you the same response
that I give everyone else. What is wrong with being feminine?
You always see girls dressing up as male characters and nobody bugs them.
It's accepted and it seems normal, but apparently the transphobia kicks
in when a guy wants to walk around in a pretty dress and a wig.
If I thought the Loki cosplay was hard, that was NOTHING compared to
my cosplay for Celestia Ludenberg. I can't even begin to explain how
many times I accidentally sewed my paws because of the drowsiness of
staying up late to work on it. The wig also took a solid month to style.
It did end up to be my best cosplay.

[monty]

Akatora is a Plumie I mostly try avoid...
And he avoids me as well. Mostly because my job
entails that I should capture him. Based off of
the fact that we've been friends for a while as kids,
and only that, do I allow him to slip. Come to think
of it, ever since I grew to a position of power I haven't
been able to see Akatora. That's fine by me, he mostly
causes trouble. Although there is a small side of me
that misses his snarky comments... I can still live
without them though, I guess. I still can't help but
think to the funny time I got him to play video games though.
NO THERE IS LITERALLY NO OTHER REASON THAT
I TRY TO AVOID HIM NOPE NOT AT ALL. it's not
like I like the stupid idiot or anything... nope
not at all. Because mohawks aren't cool as heck.

MY MAIN BRUH. Just kidding, me and
Botolf have a somewhat stable relationship to
say the least. He's mostly just my map hook up
because the persons in charge of my crew's
navigation seem to have their heads half way up
their butts. Luckily for us, Botolf has this nice little
job at a shop with lots of useful maps and you can find
him on deliveries. Unfortunately, getting them rushed
is another story. He has a very tight schedule with
his job, as cool and down-to-Earth as he is, he's
not willing to risk his job just to get us a map.
I do have some paranoia whenever I ask for a map,
paranoia that maybe he can't stand me. Maybe it's
because when we first met I ran into him and he
completely dropped all of his deliveries.
At that time all my left over anxieties from my
teenage years kicked in and I thought he hated me.
Then again, I guess he wouldn't be delivering maps
to help me if he had some grudge against me...
Either way, I think we're pretty chill, and secretly
he thinks I'm funny... possibly.

Sunni is just cool. That's all I can really say
about her. Heck, she helped me save my turtle,
Michelangelo. I mean, sometimes we have
problems forming a conversation because
we both want to talk, but other than that
we generally agree on most things. For
example; we both hate oppression.
Submitting to authority is a little difficult
for the both of us. And by a little
difficult I mean that there was a time
where I thought I was going to get
us arrested. (That time may or may
not have been when we saved my beloved Mikey)

Genesis is that kind of odd friend
who's just like me yet I have no idea
why we're even friends. For starters,
he just pops in my house and takes
my food whenever he wants. I avoid
him whenever he's in a bad mood
but he's a good friend to have whenever
someone's against me because he's
witty, like I like to think I am, and
there may or may not be times where
he makes better points than me.
Sometimes it's embarrassing to walk
around with him because he literally
will start making small flirtatious
gestures towards cute girls. It's
just embarrassing because other guys
sometimes look at us like we're tools
and I'm just like "I'm not doing this"

My cosplaying buddy. We are very
alike... It's actually kind of scary.
We both love superhero movies, we
both like cosplaying and we're defined
as nerds typically. Although, I'm a
little more blunt and honest than him,
we don't have a lot else that's so different
about us. We both have more... feminine
markings. When I'm upset, I always feel
better sitting down with my friend and
watching some indie superhero movie
on Netflix. The only thing I will
say about him that I don't like is he
doesn't really differentiate between
Marvel and DC Comics. Which is a major
barrier for me because Marvel is
1,000,300,320 x better than DC Comics.

Do I have to do this? Are you
seriously asking me about Alazne?
Oh my gosh, do you have a death
wish? I'm ashamed that she's even
apart of this form. So, sometimes
she visits my town (I'm not allowed
to say where I live, because of my
job), and she always seems to visit
when there's a convention. She is
so picky about every little part of
everyone's cosplay. Seriously,
every. Little. Piece. She will
strut around in the rags she calls
fashion and say "those are off color"
or "you have a seam sticking up".
I just... we don't like each other
to say the least.

Bluebelle, or Blu, as she likes to be
called, is my only online friend that
I can actually talk to without feeling
like there's a possibility that they're
secretly a 43 year old man behind the
computer screen. (Maybe it's because
we've skype called before and I've
actually saw her through a camera.)
Well, even though we don't have a lot
in common, she's still an awesome
person to talk to. She helps me take
care of Mikey a lot because she studies
marine sciences. She's also very
good at listening and I vent to her
about all the stupid things that go
wrong in my life.
I also like to show my cosplays to
her or whenever I make anything
that's remotely artistic. She always
likes to see them apparently.
Either way, she's a pretty cool friend.

[monty]

Yes... I am one of the few proud, male feminists.
I'm pansexual, I've been with a few female partners
and I've seen how society affects them. I don't feel
like they should have to be lesser than me, so I
fight for them, just as I'd hope the opposite gender
would for me if it was the other way around.

So, I'm sure there are some of you who don't know
what a feminist is. To be short and not get into
too many details, a feminist is someone who
promotes and supports female equality and
rights. Such as downplaying the awful yet popular
idea that someone who wears short shorts or a tank
top is "looking for attention" - to be kid friendly.

I've been a feminist for quite a few years now,
and I've had my fair share of critiques and
insults because of it. That's never stopped
me though. I think my worst experience was
when I went to a protest with a friend of mine
and I was verbally attacked by a group of women
who thought I was trying to mock them by
showing up as a male. It went on for a few
minutes and I won't lie and say that I didn't
cry just a little bit.

As much as I wish I could say
that I didn't let that little
incident deter me, it kind of
left a scar on my mentality.
Because of that, I haven't gone
one anymore feminist strikes.
I feel like it's for the best
though. Unless I'm female,
genderfluid, or trans, not
many people view me as
different from most other
oppressive males at first glance.

[monty]

Arguably and regrettably my favorite movie growing up,
and now, is the Goofy Movie. Yes, yes, it's incredibly
childish for a grown Plumerian to still attach to such
ridiculous and crude humor. I think my favorite thing
about it is the fact that most of the jokes I didn't get
until I was older. It baffles me the things they could
get away with back then as opposed to now.

I remember watching it when it was still relevant to
watch movies on a VCR. Man, those were the days.
I'd hate to sound like a grandpa, or one of those
people who sits on their rocking chair all day
screaming "curse you rotten kids and your gadgets!"
but honestly, kids these days will never experience
the joy of trying to shove film back into a VHS tape
as a last ditch effort to get your favorite movie to
play once you've ruined it. Kids these days, right?

You'd never guess I'm a fan of punk rock music. I seem
like the stern type; what is a grumpy plumerian like myself
doing listening to music that wasn't made for people like me?
It was an accidental find, to say the least. I was on a
family road trip, a strange radio station was on, and in the
midst of it all the eerie plunking sounds of the piano were
playing. "I've lost the part again," the radio started playing,
"Tell your friends to sharpen their teeth." I was older at this
time so there really was no excuse for me to screech like a
child to turn the song up. I immediately clawed through my
bag for some way to record the song down. Thankfully, my
iPod was within paw's reach.

I know what you're thinking and no.
My favorite animal is NOT an
Australian Shepherd and I'm so sick
of everyone asking. Just because I
look like an Australian Shepherd,
doesn't mean that I have to worship
the breed. Sure, they're cute, but
turtles are so much better. Yeah.
I like turtles. Make it a meme for all
I care. Turtles are too adorable not
to love. Wouldn't you like to hide in
a shell when you're scared or
for it to be socially acceptable to hide in
your shell when you're scared?

You know what, I'm going to have
a bunch of people lecturing me
about the importance of eating
healthy food and how disgusting
fast food is, but I've gotten to that
point where I don't care. This is
my life and I'll eat it if I want to.
It's not like I eat them every
day but my favorite food is
Chicken McNuggets from
Mcdonalds... don't laugh. I
know you're probably mistaking
favorite for "eats it every day"
so I'll go ahead and say here that
the least amount of time that's
gone between me eating them
is two weeks. I also exercise and
attempt to eat healthy apart
from wheneber I eat those.
Letting yourself cheat on a
diet once or twice is completely
acceptable. Sometimes people
just need them, OK?
These chicken nuggets are my
comfort food. Whenever my
anxieties get really bad, I
drive up to McDonalds, get a
box of 6, and sit down in front
of my TV for an Avengers marathon,
with maybe a little bit of
The Goofy Movie in between.

My favorite holiday isn't something "normal"
like Christmas or Easter... Mine is the Day of Silence.
It's a day of protest for the LGBT victims. It's
celebrated every April, but the date changes
every year. One time, I got kicked out of
my class and suspended from school for
two days because I refused to talk.

[monty]

No, you're not really going to make me answer this,
are you? Ugh... fine. I may or may not have wasted my
first cosplay on the Slenderman... I was young and
impressionable OK? This was before that whole
"Slenderman" stabbing too so... I was a dumb kid
at the time, around 14 or 15 years old and I... didn't
know better to say the least. Now before you say
"what's so wrong about that cosplay?" I haven't actually
explained how it was made. I knew NOTHING about
crafting costumes at the time. I can't believe I'm saying
it but... rather than getting a morph suit for the face,
I just stuck a large sock over my head and poked out
little eyeholes and a place to breathe. It looked so
pathetic... I'm ashamed that I started off my cosplaying
journey so poorly. My "tuxedo" was really just a shirt
that looked like a tuxedo and the tentacles I applied
were really just socks pinned on to the shirt stuffed with
paper towel.
That's not the mort embarrassing part though.
The most embarrassing part was when I wore it out to
a local comic con. The first thing cosplayer saw
there was a plumerian with a Slenderman cosplay that
far out shined mine. So many people were asking for
their picture while only a group of sarcastic teenagers
took a picture of mine as a joke to spread around Facebook.
The worst part was when I accidentally tripped the
super cool cosplayer and they completely fell over me
and we ended up in a giant pile of Slender. I was
tormented. OK no, change the title of this section
to "most traumatic life event ever that nobody could
ever top because it is bloody scary. Tripping
cool people and having them stare at you for the rest
of the day is traumatizing
when you have a sock over your head.