Rudy Leyton

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Name: Rudy Leyton
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Athletics, drama, debating, chess.

Appearance: Rudy is a redhead, complete with brown eyes and somewhat thick eyebrows, as well as a longer nose than average. His atheletic skills and training have chiseled his body to a somewhat muscular build. He stands at roughly 6'7' in height, and 176 pounds in weight.

He often wears a brown jacket complete with a pair of long, dark orange pants and a pair of sneakers.

Biography: Rudy is the son of a corrupt corporate executive, and has followed his example – a person outwardly good but corrupt on the inside. His mother is a better person than his father but her influence in his life is limited. He has long lived as an urban kid, becoming streetwise, and, good at getting out of trouble. Rudy to say the least, is a jerk. Over the years he's managed to get better at not only causing trouble, but preventing blame from being placed on him, through various methods including setting the whole thing up to incriminate another and bribery or blackmail or allying himself with other jerks. He knows how to start alliances and he also knows how to take full advantage of them. As for his mischief, he's rather varied as well, not choosing favourites in that regard. He's had quite a few girlfriends over the years as well. But even then Rudy has standards, he likes causing mischief but he regards crimes such as rape to be way below him and even "unforgivable".

By the time he had came to high school he had managed to refine his art of troublemaking and escaping from blame to a tee. And he only got better from there, and his thrill of causing trouble increased as his attempts became more daring, often manipulating others to do the dirty work for him. And yet he has managed to retain a solid reputation, discrediting his detractors and establishing a solid foundation of popularity within the school, helping his manipulations - his methods vary a lot, often methods based on the situation and people involved, whether it be bribery, blackmail, careful persuasion or outright lying. But his favourite is setting things up beforehand so someone else can take the fall, either an innocent bystander, or anyone working with him.

However, it was only recently that his mother passed away. Much to Rudy's surprise, his father mourned her death, acknowledging that he honestly loved her. Rudy, having previous tossed away the concept of that sort of "love" in his mind (as in, the intimate sort of love between two people), began to re-evaluate his line of thinking in this concept.

In short, Rudy is a jerk with a affable facade. To strangers, he seems like a nice guy, but he will set up those who get involved in his trouble-making schemes, and these days, to get the blame on him is unlikely - the guy doesn't plan for everything, but he makes his plans VERY flexible, enough to change on the fly when something unexpected occurs. It helps that he does drama and plays chess too. However, thanks to the above event, his ideals are conflicted at times, almost wondering what the hell he's been doing with his life. But morally, even this jackass has standards. But even this guy is not immune to hubris, and sometimes can get very egotistic at times, and can even be one hell of a showoff (and not in the "good" way).

Advantages: A person who is good at manipulating others, charismatic and good at manipulating the facts to suit his ends or outright lying if need be. He is good at formulating plans which involve others performing the dirty work for him, and making sure said plans are changable if someone unexpected occurs. He is also good at fleeing a battle, unless his persuer is someone from the track team (unless said person was much worse than him) as well.

Disadvantages: His fighting skills are not by any means remarkable, often for him it is a far better idea to simply run - not out of cowardice, but rather the "better safe than sorry" mentality. His ego might also get the better of him somewhere along the line, and others might be able to take advantage of his moral confliction, by accident or otherwise.