Lɪᴋᴇs:
Icaen has quite a liking for reptiles, though he’s not very fond of any other animals. He likes the colors black and white. Winter was his favorite season and during this time he likes to slide around on ice, but now he dreads it because it's harder to survive in. He prefers colder temperatures, despite the fact that he gets cold pretty easily. He has a tattered, blue, slightly transparent shawl that he keeps packed away in his jacket pocket, which he has to remind him of his mother, who used to own it. When he was able to watch TV, he used to love to watch Doctor Who and quite a few crime solving shows. Criminal Minds was one of his favorites and his favorite character is Spencer Reid. He liked to collect odd stones and kept them in a wooden box under his bed, but he doesn't do it anymore because it would just be a burden to carry. This doesn't stop him from still getting interested and looking at exotic rocks when he sees them. He likes climbing trees, though he doesn’t usually do it often unless he needs to. He’s actually very flexible, since he used to dance when he was younger (though he’ll never admit it, and he never took actual lessons), and can put his body in random contortions. He’s dabbled in acting, as well. He’s pretty good at it, though he didn’t feel like pursuing it very much. He enjoys playing chess and a few other board games. He loves learning new things and retains facts fairly easily. He has watched some anime, though not a whole lot. Some of his favorite bands were 3 Doors Down, Green Day, and Three Days Grace. He’s kind of a picky eater (not as much now since food is harder to find), but his favorite foods are beef and fish products. He’s a partisan to meat and things with large amounts of sugar than any other kinds of food.
Dɪsʟɪᴋᴇs:
Icaen is fiercely loyal and anyone who crosses someone close to him will become one of his enemies. He does not like cooking because he usually burns or messes up the food some other way. Acrobatics is also something he hates doing because he is not exactly the most coordinated, or athletically built. He hates being forced to do work and usually rebels against it unless he has a good reason not to. He absolutely hates spinach, avocado, olives, mustard, beets, and radishes above most other foods. He will not drink unsweetened ice tea. Brown is his least favorite color and he usually hates it unless it has a complimentary color with it. He does not like most pop and country music. He also gets scared in the pure darkness of a room (outdoors are okay). He has had a fear of darkness since before the apocalypse, though he pretends not to if anyone else is there.
Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ:
Icaen is usually apathetic most of the time when he doesn’t have any friends around, otherwise he’s fairly joyful and excited. He has well above average intelligence, just below genius, however he rarely shows it. He is very loyal to those very close to him and would risk his life for them. He is quite clever and can come up with witty remarks sometimes. He’s very adaptable to situations. He’s confident in himself most of the time and quite ambitious; he usually strives to reach very high goals in nearly anything he does. He tends to be analytical and observant and over think a lot of things. He’s passionate and devoted about anything he sets his mind to. Icaen tries to be independent, though he’s honestly not very good at it. He can also be a bit greedy and gluttonous since he’s had barely anything growing up and is not one who wants to share things, though he will relinquish (albeit reluctantly) it for someone close to him. He can also be a bit impulsive and indecisive at times. He’s also over sensitive, short-tempered, and moody quite often, but not so much to his friends and more to strangers. He’s fairly pessimistic. Most of the time he thinks things through, but when he’s mad, he can be pretty reckless. When he’s around strangers, is pretty cold towards most people and not very talkative. He can be pretty touchy, gruff, critical, crude, and defensive with people he doesn’t know. The only exception would be handsome males (unless he knows they’re straight), most of the time only when he’s single, where he gets very flustered and loses his coolness towards strangers. He gets embarrassed very easily around guys, which often shows in his expressions. He stutters quite often when he’s intimidated or embarrassed. As for friends, he tends to smile a lot more, and laugh on the occasion. He’s a lot warmer and there is a large difference in kindness, although he can still be kind of selfish. He calls his friends a lot of insults, though he's always joking and he makes sure that it's mutually known my laughing or smiling a little. Unless he’s talking to a male, he is pretty brave and not afraid of talking to people--he just usually doesn’t want to. He can be pretty sarcastic, over exaggerate sometimes, and has a dry sense of humor. He’s can be quite stubborn. He usually doesn’t open up very much about his history unless you get to know him, but even then it might be a bit of a challenge, though small details about himself he’ll readily share. In an argument, he usually has a pretty solid opinion and gets very defensive and passionate about his side, even if he realized that he may be wrong. He can hold a grudge for a few days, though he’ll eventually forgive the person if he knows them and, that is to say, they aren’t an enemy. When he’s angry, he will usually be that way for a while. Depending on what he feels like, he does one of two things: either stays completely silent and seethes with rage, or goes off on them like a bomb until he’s done. When he’s intimidated, as previously stated, he stutters a lot. He will be very nervous and lose focus on the conversation, which usually ends up with him digressing and eventually getting way off topic. He fidgets around a lot and tries to hide in his clothes or whatever he can find to ease the embarrassment. When he’s content, he’s pretty cheerful and might even smile and hum to himself on occasion, though he wouldn’t dare with anyone around. Otherwise, he’d just keep it to himself and feel pretty calm. He can be lazy and not feel like doing anything, which he usually goes to sleep for. When he’s feeling playful, he can get kind of excited like a child, which he will not show anyone unless they’re practically his best friend and/or lover. When he’s in pain, no matter the amount, he tries to tough it out and not let anyone know if possible. When he’s sick, he also doesn’t like being helped around a whole lot and having people do things for him, but they usually have to anyways. It makes him feel kinda useless. Icaen absolutely hates talking about his father and it’s rare when he does. Icaen can be kind of picky and will not always try something new without persuasion. One of his goals in life is to have a large amount of knowledge and he tries to intake as much as possible, though he can be kind of lazy and want to learn about something but he never actually does it.
Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ:
Icaen grew up in a very poor home in Oregon, US. Since they were at a lack of money, he could only go to public school, where he had paid lunches and only some field trips since their income was so low. He didn’t have a whole lot of friends and mostly kept to himself, and they never came over (his mother forbid visitors since their house was horrible) nor did he go over to their house. The house was fairly small, though it was falling apart. Utilities were constantly breaking down all the time and they had no AC or heat. Bugs were basically everywhere and the home was littered with a horde of garbage (furniture and other knick-knacks, but a whole lot of junk nonetheless), though he honestly didn’t mind it a whole lot. His mother was working off the salary of one person working multiple jobs, so he couldn’t really complain. She even tried to spend all her extra money on him, and he was able to get some extra things. He was even able to get a DS for his birthday one year, and accumulated some games for it, which he still has and it works fine. His father had quite a bit of money, but he had left them as soon as Icaen had been born. He has to pay child-support checks, but otherwise he’s basically out of Icaen’s life. His mother was very close to him and taught him a lot of the morals and virtues he has and raised him to be Christian. He wouldn’t care about religion otherwise. He resents his father for leaving his mother and honestly doesn’t care about him. He knew his mother loved him very much, but he was pretty sure his father didn’t even care he existed. Icaen didn’t care what Noah thought about him, anyways. He basically refused to call him his dad. When he was 12 years old, his mother died of cancer. He honestly hadn’t really been prepared for. It hurt him badly for months, where he cried nearly every day. She had basically been his best, and almost only friend, growing up. His uncle Benny, his mother’s brother, had gotten custody of him and so he moved across the country to New York. He never even interacted with his uncle during this time; he spent all of his time in his new room after moving in with him. He liked the new house, but it’ll never be home to him like the place he grew up was. He finally started to go out and around the house for more than just bathroom breaks, food, and going to and from school. He started talking and interacting with Benny and they formed a pretty close bond as well, though not as good as him and his mother were. He became overall happier that had a new friend, though he wouldn’t dare call him a replacement. Since he had switched schools when he moved, he also had no friends. It was at this point where he made two pretty close friends (closer than at his old school, at least), though he still only saw them at school. He worked a small shift for three hours a day, since he was 14, at a cafe where he worked his first ever job being a waiter. He’s been working there for only a few weeks. He liked the chill and relaxing atmosphere of the cafe, though he really only wanted the job for the money. Rude customers were always a handful to deal with. He had never thought about what else had wanted to work as. When he was young, he kind of wanted to be a bull rider or something. He wasn’t exactly sure that he wanted to do that as he got older. Being a detective always stood out to him as an interesting and exciting option; using his brain to come up with theories and catch criminals has always being something he loved and was good at observation; it would've been the perfect job for him if they still lived in society. The apocalypse started while he was asleep, but Benny was watching TV on the couch. Icaen isn't entirely sure what happened since he wasn't in the room, but he heard glass shattering and a shriek from his uncle. He immediately hid under the bed, not knowing what was going on. That was the most scared he'd been in his entire life. The culprit never entered his room, and he cautiously went out into the living room to find the windows on either side of the front door smashed, and his uncle on the floor, covered in his own blood. He knelt next to the body, tears watering in his eyes. That was the second time he had lost somebody he loved, but this one was by another human. Or so he thought. As he was crying next to the body, it suddenly sat up. Icaen cried out in a questioning tone to his uncle, whom should not have been able to sit up with the wounds he had sustained. It started growling and he frightfully backed up, screaming. He wasn’t sure what was happening and ran back into his room, locking the door. He called 911 on his cellphone, but nobody answered. This worried him: was it even possible for nobody to answer a 911 call? He stopped trying to get ahold of help on the phone when something, he presumed his uncle, started banging on his door. He grabbed Boa from his cage before crawling out of his window, onto the roof, and climbing down the trellis on the far side of the roof. The first place he ran was to the police station, but he didn’t make it; that was when he found out what was happening. A horde of zombies blocked his path and started going after him. He was frozen in place, and didn’t know what to do when a girl a little bit older than him came to his rescue. She killed off a few of them using just dull steak knife, which he found impressive. “Come with me!” she said to him after she killed the closest ones, grabbing his hand and running. They went to a house that was already abandoned, and that’s where she explained to him everything that was going on: the undead rising, and how her own family was killed as well. Icaen tried not to get attached to her, but failed, and they became good friends, but this story does not have a happy ending as you can tell. She was killed while getting supplies with Icaen, and he made sure that she didn’t turn like his uncle did. He made a resolve to continue being alone from then on, never getting attached to anybody ever again. He’s tried very hard to keep that promise, but he’s not sure how long it will last. He’s just a kid, and somebody older to help him would be good at have around. He just doesn’t want to go through any more pain.
Oᴛʜᴇʀ:
He has a male pet corn snake named Boa, whom he always keeps around his shoulder area. Icaen was Christian due to his mother, though he didn't actually believe or follow any of it. He’s used to be more agnostic, though still assumed the title of Christian in honor of his mother, but became an atheist after the apocalypse. He would very be willing to talk about how angry he would be if there was a god, and disproving him. He also played the french horn in band. He is left handed and does not know his blood type. He is somewhat depressed, still. He mentally beats himself up about the fact that he’s not good enough for his mother--not as kind or giving as she wanted, but he also can’t change it. He never told her he was gay, either, and he wonders if that was a disappointment. She was very kind, but she could get pretty angry sometimes too. He has bipolar II and can sometimes be kind of paranoid, though not enough to have paranoia, and a slight fear of darkness. He has a habit of eavesdropping on others’ conversations and may mumble to himself on occasion. He picks and parts his hair a lot when he’s bored and cracks his knuckles in two different finger joints. He has an odd habit of sometimes sniffing things.