Seth Dunn

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Name: Seth Dunn
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies and interests: Video games, professional wrestling, history, writing

Appearance: Seth stands at 5'11 and weighs about 182 Ibs. He is Caucasian, but is pale from a lack of sun. His light blue eyes have dark circles around them from being too much on the computer and a lack of sleep. He is slightly overweight from lack of exercise. His dark brown hair is kept short for convenience, with the bangs around the middle of his forehead and the sides cut. Has stubble alongside his chin and around the mouth. He uses a pair of square framed glasses due to being long sighted. Seth has a round face with a long nose in the middle beneath a pair of almond shaped eyes and above a large mouth with thin lips. He has a light and lispy voice despite his appearance.

On abduction day he was wearing his glasses alongside a blue and grey check shirt, a white t-shirt underneath, dark blue jeans and light green sneakers.

Biography: Seth was born to Roger and Lillian Dunn on March 28th, 2000. Roger met Lillian at a party a few years before the two started a relationship. The two met repeatedly over the years at various parties and shops in the area. At the time he was in a relationship with another woman, but broke it off around the time he pursued her. They married shortly after Seth was born. The first of three children with Jillian being born 2 years after Seth and James born 2 years after Jillian.

Seth gets along great with his family. He looks up to his father and finds him inspiring for his work as a computer technician at the hospital, meanwhile he looks up to his mother for dealing with her MS for years and working all the while, as such he tries to help out at home with chores such as cleaning and washing as well as taking their chihuahua named Tyson out for walks. He looks out for his siblings and tries to be more mature in their presence, although in recent years his relationship with James has turned cold with James usually disagreeing with Seth and the two fighting on the occasion, he gets along better with Jillian.

Seth's always been interested in video games. From the first time he picked up a controller at 5 it's been one of the interests he's kept up with the most over the years. Due to his attention span he found it difficult to keep his interest and focus on an interest as over time his attention would fade to something else, video games however he found a good way to keep his focus and attention on whatever he's playing. With video games he enjoys the sense of accomplishment it would give him especially if it's an RPG or strategy game. While he has a habit with of not completing games and switches up what he plays from week to week. He's still managed to keep his interest in it for so long, mostly from how video games have been a substitute for him when he was lacking friends. And even when he managed to make friends with people, he found video games an easy way to spend time having fun and easy to learn. He enjoys RPGs the most out of all the genres he plays and his favorite game in the genre is Suikoden 2.

It didn't take long for his parents to realise that Seth was different from other children. He seemed to learn things at a slower rate than them and had troubles dealing with others socially. He also struggled with spontaneity and changes. Finding it difficult to adapt and taking a longer time than others to do so. His parents found that they had to teach him how to behave when out with people and it would take a while for it to stick. He also seemed especially clumsy and lacking coordination. His father once remarking he was like an octopus on land. This became especially prominent once he started at elementary school, enough for them to call in a psychologist. Not long after he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at the age of 7 and it was a frequent source of frustration for him. He would often blame it as if it was the sole cause of his problems.

Due to this, Seth had problems with other students. Finding himself having an easier time identifying with people far older or younger than him than people of his own age. As he lacked the same interests as other boys or girls and had trouble keeping a conversation without turning it over to his own interests. Because of this they started avoiding him and he found himself lacking any close friends. Around his fifth year in elementary did he stop trying to gain friends and preferred to hole himself up in his room playing video games or watching flash movies on the internet using his father's home computer.

Seth had a trying time when it came to classwork. He often got distracted by other students antics or bored by the class and since his seat was by the window, would stare out and using his imagination, create worlds or stories in his head to humor himself. However, his teachers found that when he was invested in the class such as with history, he could be a great student who'd answer a lot of questions and would talk with the teacher one on one when it came to the subject. He found history an easy subject as it was static and as such easy to follow for him. He found himself naturally curious when it comes to history and loves to learn about various events and people. He would read up on history in his spare time and would go to great lengths to learn about various time periods he found interesting, in particular the second World War, an interest that was started by a viewing of Schindler's List. He enjoys history because it allows him to broaden his horizon on various cultures and ideologies as well as learn about places and countries he's never been to.

Middle school was an especially trying time for Seth. He had the same problems as he did in elementary school, with the added onset of puberty causing him to struggle with his self image due to a bad break out of spots on his back and bullying from classmates. He found himself holed up more and more in his room as time went on and had to speak with school psychiatrist on several occasions. His work in class deteriorated rapidly and he started speaking with people far less. His teachers took notice of this and through several conversations with his parents, managed to get him in smaller classes where he could work alone with a teacher to help him through. They also managed to quell the bullying he was suffering from and his time towards the end improved, even making a few friends that he kept in high school; because of this he's very loyal to those who's close to him.

It was around this time he found his interest in professional wrestling after getting Smackdown vs Raw as a birthday gift from his parents. He found the larger than life characters interesting and the physicality of it all appealing. He started looking up old matches on Youtube, slowly working his way from there to watching Wrestlemania live with his parents. While they don't see the appeal of it, especially Roger, they both see that it's something he's invested in and therefore support him in his interest. He's also a member of a wrestling forum where he mostly posts gifs and pictures to share with friends.

It was also around this time he found his interest in anime through watching movies like Akira and Ghost in the Shell and anime series like Gunbuster and One Piece. Finding them after watching abridged series online and finding the japanese animation more appealing than the western cartoon animation that he used to watch as a child. He found the status quo style plots and the overly silly humor of a lot of cartoons put him off and prefers the ongoing story style and seriousness of different anime. While he concedes to recent cartoons going with that style as well such as Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, he finds it difficult to sit down and watch.

It was in high school that Seth joined the anime club for the purpose of meeting and talking with others about it after struggling to do so when he was in middle school. At first Seth would go from club to club, unable to choose and rapidly shifting his interests from week to week as his attention span made it difficult for most to keep him interested for longer than that. It got to the point his parents put their foot down and forced him to pick something and stick with it.

In private Seth started writing on the internet, as a means of expressing himself creatively and he finds it easier to use his imagination with the possibilities of writing as whenever he isn't doing something he tends to idly imagine new plot ideas for his characters and new worlds. He found himself preferring science fiction as a genre in writing and enjoys reading books in said genre. He enjoys how they can take allegories or metaphors to real life events in some form as a message to the reader. For his own writing however, he goes for a slice of life genre of writing as he likes writing different people and taking their mindset and how they would deal with day to day life. He also feels he has to get better at writing contemporary stories before he writes a science fiction story. He's put together a draft of a short story for himself that he hopes to show his parents once high school is over and hopes to one day write his own book.

Seth has difficulties dealing with people who don't understand something. If he's in study group or in a class and someone doesn't get something in the subject, he gets irritated, especially if it's someone he dislikes. Because of this he struggles with group work and has trouble hiding his annoyance regarding this, which has made him a few enemies.

In school Seth mostly gets average grades, though he excels in classes such as history while struggling with mathematics, finding its various forms confusing and hard to memorize. He prefers classes that are more static in their approach to teaching and found it more difficult in classes such as music and arts.

In school Seth mostly sticks with his friends talking about whatever interest he has on his mind that week, along with video games, anime and wrestling. When it comes to dealing with disagreements, Seth can have a loose tongue on him and say things he doesn't necessarily mean, especially when he's frustrated or irritated.

For the future Seth hopes to continue with his writing, aiming to start writing for video games. To do that he's discussed with his parents that he wants to take a writing course in college and has applied to a few. They support his endeavors.

Advantages: Seth's love for his family will be a strong motivation for him to survive. He has close friends that he is loyal to and could team up with.
Disadvantages: Seth is overweight and lacks cardio, so he tires easily. He has little patience for those he dislikes or finds less intelligent, which can make it hard for him to avoid conflict.

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Hey Ohm! Before Seth can be given a full critique, please make sure that his profile exactly matches the template. Specifically, you need to make sure that all your section headers are bolded. Thanks!

[Ohm]

Done so.

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Hey Ohm! You're off to a solid start here, but Seth is temporarily DENIED pending a bit of expansion throughout the profile.

Is the outfit Seth was wearing during the abduction typical of how he dresses?

When was Lillian diagnosed with MS? What does she do for a living? Does her illness have a major effect on the family besides motivating Seth to help out more, or is it mostly under control?

Is there any particular reason why Seth and James have stopped getting along in the past few years, or did they simply grow apart? What do they fight about?

Since anime seems to be a significant interest of Seth's, it should be added to his hobbies list.

Since it's the end of senior year, Seth should have heard back from the colleges he applied to and know if he was admitted, though he could still be deciding where to enroll if he got into more than one.

Seth's advantages and disadvantages need some reworking and expansion within the profile. Being motivated by love for his family isn't really an advantage over others, since you'd assume that a lot of his classmates also have families that they want to return to. His strong friendships can count, but that should be expanded upon a bit in order to be a plausible advantage. Seth's lack of fitness isn't really brought up in the profile and should be.

Ideally, I'd like to see at least one more thing as an advantage for Seth. I'm also curious about some other things that may count as disadvantages: are there things stemming from his Asperger's that may work against him? Since he wears glasses, how is his eyesight, exactly? Would it be an issue if he were to lose his glasses on the island?

Spelling/grammar stuff:

They married shortly after Seth was born. The first of three children with Jillian being born 2 years after Seth and James born 2 years after Jillian.

There are a few sentences broken up into fragments like this throughout the profile. Find a way to connect them or reword so that they make full sentences.

finding the Japanese animation more appealing than the western cartoon animation

That's what I've got on a first look. Post in here once you've made those edits, and I'll look at Seth again!

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