Grant Eastman

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Name: Grant Maxwell Eastman
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
School: John Endecott Memorial Academy
Hobbies and Interests: Lacrosse, working out, football, baseball, sports analytics, memes, student council

Appearance: At 6’2 and 205lbs, Grant is an imposing figure. Thanks to a rigorous workout regimen as well as lacrosse practice, he has an athletic and muscular build that trends towards stocky. He has a broad and well-developed chest and shoulders and his legs are muscular as well, if not to the same extent as his upper body. Facially, he possesses angular features, including a long Roman nose and a strong jawline. Due to a collision during practice in sophomore year, his nose is slightly crooked. His eyebrows are of average thickness, although they have a natural downward slant to them. Grant also has deep-set dark green eyes. His mouth is relatively wide, and his smile often looks like a sneer. Caucasian and of Irish-American descent, Grant’s skin is pale, tanning only slightly during the summer months.

In terms of his hair, Grant tends to keep his dark brown hair cropped quite short. When he feels like making an effort, he uses gel to make it spikier looking. He keeps his face clean-shaven for convenience, and also because he has noticed the men in his family tend to grow facial hair patchily if at all. His skin is relatively clean, although he will have occasional bouts of acne. This is more due to Grant avoiding oily foods out of concern for his health rather than any particular skincare regimen.

Clothing-wise, Grant puts a lot of effort into looking like he didn’t put in a lot of effort, with him typically wearing a form-fitting t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, although he’ll often wear a button-down or his letterman jacket over. He’ll occasionally wear boots if he feels the situation calls for them. In terms of accessories, he is never not wearing his Apple Watch, and often wears cloth bracelets.

On the day of the abduction, Grant was wearing a slate blue button-up puffer vest over an army green hooded flannel shirt jacket, blue jeans, and brown Timberland Originals boots. He was wearing a black Henley as an undershirt. Grant was also wearing an Apple Watch on his right wrist and some cloth bracelets on his left. He is left-handed.

Biography: Born on November 1, 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts, Grant is the second of two sons born to Lori and Joseph Eastman. His older brother Greg is two years older. At the time of his birth, Joseph was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. While not a standout player, Joseph was known to have a keen mind for the game, and had begun talks with the Red Sox front office to work as a scout after his retirement. At the time of Grant’s birth, Lori was a stay-at-home mother.

Joseph had always wanted two sons, and was especially keen on getting both of them into sports from an early age. The way to do this properly, was by having his sons in something of a friendly rivalry in terms of their sporting goals, both to get them invested in the competitive aspect as well as become closer. To his pleasure, this worked out quite well: both Greg and Grant took quite well to baseball, and often enjoyed playing catch with one another in the yard. However, where Greg was amiable, Grant was often brash, getting quite upset if he happened to lose.

Entering elementary school, Grant’s athletic ability meant that he quickly made friends with classmates with similar interests, but he already showed a tendency to ignore classmates he didn’t have anything in common with, or even start arguments within group projects. Although he was fiercely loyal to the friends he did make, he tended to be quite polarizing among those he wasn’t close to. While never engaging in behavior poor enough to get him into actual trouble, these concerns were brought up to his parents. Joseph waved it off as being behavior typical of a young child, despite Lori’s concerns. Still, as Grant seemed to be doing well academically and still had many friends, they decided not to push too hard on the matter.

In an effort to hopefully curb these tendencies, Grant was pushed into pursuing baseball more extensively, joining a Little League team under the watchful eye of his father. The camaraderie of the team environment helped Grant to quickly bond with his teammates, although if anything his competitive nature was encouraged by the environment. Although Joseph was unsure of whether he wanted his sons to pursue professional sports, he saw this aspect of Grant as one that he also possessed and took no issue with it. In fact, he took some pride in seeing that his son had some of the same competitive fire that he possessed, believing Greg had shown less of that.

The aggressive mentality Joseph taught Grant had always meant he was involved in more than a few conflicts growing up, but it came to a head in middle school. Confident in his social position and eager to demonstrate that fact, Grant became something of a bully, unafraid to get physical with those he thought he needed to prove a point to. Namely, the less conventionally popular kids, or those with more obscure interests. For a while, most were too intimidated by Grant to do much of anything, until 8th grade, when he got sloppy and threw a punch at a classmate. Sent to the principal’s office for the first time in his life, Grant was met with a harsh reaction from his parents.

Feeling that they had perhaps babied Grant too much, Lori and Joseph announced to their son that they would be sending him to John Endecott for high school rather than a private institution, in the hopes that this would serve as a wake-up call of sorts. For the most part, Grant took this in stride, up until he discovered that John Endecott did not have a baseball or a football team. Already knowing he was in hot water with his parents, however, he strove to find a different team to join. While he initially looked at the basketball team, a cursory look through their playing record disabused Grant of that idea very quickly. Instead, he decided to take a chance and pursue lacrosse. To this day, Grant regularly makes fun of the basketball team’s lack of success, earning him ire from those on the team.

Although he only started playing lacrosse because it was one of the only decent sports teams at John Endecott, Grant was a quick study of the sport, putting his speed and physicality to good use as a defensive player. He is one of the strongest players on the team and enjoys pitching in with ideas on strategy and tactics. Still, Grant’s harsh methods are controversial among the team, with him believing that younger players must pay their dues upon entering the team. This is part of why he declined to go after the captainship – while Grant believes he would do a better job than the current captain, he was also relatively sure he wouldn’t win in a vote, and as such saw no need to put that theory to the test, not when he still carries clout within the team without the need of an official position.

Grant also curries some influence within the school as a member of student government, which he has been a member of since Sophomore year. Always intrigued by the idea of having decision-making power, he saw joining student government as a great way to pad his extracurriculars as well as take a more official leadership position at school. Running for Treasurer unopposed, he has relished his role on the council, and often lords his position over others.

While always an active person, it was at the beginning of high school that Grant took it upon himself to create a specific regimen and plan for working out, both for aesthetics and to improve his athletic performance. For Grant, working out is one of the times in the day where he doesn’t have to focus on anything else other than what he’s currently doing, and enjoys lifting weights and cardio as a way to destress. In conjunction with this, he tries to be relatively conscientious in terms of what he eats, and has been known to lecture the lacrosse team about the importance of eating right to supplement their work in the gym.

Being athletic and part of the popular crowd, Grant has received a fair amount of female attention. While he didn’t feel particularly strongly or much at all about the girls flirting with him, he responded to their advances as he felt it was what was expected of someone like himself. Through sophomore year in particular, Grant had a number of girlfriends and hookups, most of which quickly found him to be a cold partner, either cutting off contact suddenly or displaying a general lack of interest on dates. This quickly earned him a degree of notoriety, while Grant tried to piece together exactly why he had such a lack of interest.

It was only during the pandemic, when he was afforded more time for self-reflection, that Grant came to the realization that he was gay. While a bit shocked, Grant took this self-realization in stride, particularly as his family was fairly liberal in their views. Still, while he has accepted is sexuality, he is not out to anyone other than his family, feeling like that would be too much of a hassle to deal with in his senior year.

As a student, Grant excels, with a natural knack for numbers and reasoning bolstered by hours of studying. His competitive streak extends into the classroom, with him seeing academic excellence as another way of showing his superiority. For the most part, he tries to avoid having to be paired up with his less academically-inclined friends, feeling as though they will bring him down. With this focus in class, group projects and such are where Grant can be found to be at his most civil, although in practice this just means that his antagonistic comments are slightly toned down. If he does see an idea or an argument he agrees with, he will offer a curt positive comment, but not much more than that. His strengths are in more STEM-oriented classes, particularly math. Although he still performs well in more essay-based subjects, numerous teachers have commented on his paint-by-numbers approach to writing.

While he no longer plays baseball, Grant still keeps up with the MLB consistently, and is a proud Red Sox fan. Although the potential of pursuing a career as a player no longer exists, he has, since sophomore year, been invested in baseball analytics and statistics. This was inspired by him watching the film Moneyball with his father after he suggested that there were other ways he could remain involved with baseball. Although this has mainly remained a hobby, the field of analytics is one Grant wants to get more involved with in the future.

Besides baseball, Grant is a relatively big fan of football, spurred on by the success of players like Tom Brady and teams like the New England Patriots. His interest there, however, is far more casual in nature. While he enjoys watching games with friends to bond or discussing the topic lightly, he doesn’t go out of his way to track the comings and goings of the sport as he does with baseball.

Grant’s relationship with his family remains fairly solid, although he is by far closer with his father and mother than he is with his brother, particularly with Greg now a student at Tufts. Grant and Joseph still make sure to make time to watch games together and discuss their predictions on the state of the league often. Meanwhile, Lori still often babies Grant as the youngest child, and although Grant does feel a little smothered by it, he enjoys going with her out on trips, whether it be having to carry her bags while she shops or taking a day on the weekend to have a spa day. Meanwhile, Grant and Greg still get along relatively well, although Greg’s waning interest in baseball as he grew older meant that they have had increasingly less to speak about.

After graduation, Grant is planning on attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he plans on majoring in statistics, and hopefully being a walk-on player for the lacrosse team. He is somewhat excited to be going back home to North Carolina, and on perhaps redefining his social circle and being more open about his sexuality. After college, he hopes to get involved with the front office of a baseball franchise as an analyst.

Advantages: Thanks to his workout routines and participation in sport, Grant is both strong and swift. He is perceptive and intelligent, giving him more latitude in solving problems. He is used to and adept at intimidating others.
Disadvantages: Grant’s abrasiveness has alienated a decent portion of the student body, leaving him with an unfavorable reputation. While smart, he believes himself to be a great deal more clever than he actually is, leading to overconfidence. Confrontational, he often gets into conflict with others when not allowed to lead.

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Hey Sticks! Before Grant can be given a full critique, please make sure that his profile fully matches the template. You have some extra line breaks after the names of the Appearance and Biography sections, as well as between the seventh and eighth paragraphs of the biography. Thanks!

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Fixed it!

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Alright, hello again! Grant is DENIED pending a few minor tweaks and edits.

The way to do this properly, was by having his sons in something of a friendly rivalry in terms of their sporting goals, both to get them invested in the competitive aspect as well as become closer.

Clarify this sentence to make it more apparent that this is Joseph's idea on how to do things properly, rather than an objective statement. Also get rid of the comma after "properly".

I see the progression of Grant becoming more aggressive with others, but what exactly prompted him to move from ignoring people that he didn't have anything in common with to feeling that he needed to "prove a point" to kids outside his circle by bullying them? What does he get out of this (validation that he's bigger and stronger, an outlet for other frustrations, etc.)?

The last paragraph of Grant's biography mentions that he wants to go to school in North Carolina and is excited to "move back home," but at the beginning of the bio it's stated that he was born in Boston and he has seemingly lived there his whole life. One of those things ought to be changed to make everything line up.

Grant's interests in memes never comes up in his biography, so add that in or remove it from the hobbies & interests list.

Spelling/grammar:

This is part of why he declined to go after the captainship – while Grant believes he would do a better job than the current captain, he was also relatively sure he wouldn’t win in a vote, and as such saw no need to put that theory to the test, not when he still carries clout within the team without the need of an official position.

Change the dash here to a semi-colon.

The names of school years like "sophomore" do not need to be capitalized.

That's it for now, so post in here when you have made those edits, and I'll give Grant another go!

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