Chad Klitou

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Name: Chad Klitou
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Film making, art, watching low-budget horror movies, going to metal concerts

Appearance: Chad stands at an average height of 5'8 and is underweight for an eighteen-year old at 134 pounds. Because of how scraggly and thin he is, it is quite easy to count all six of his ribs through his shirt. People often say that it looks like a strong gust of wind would knock him to the ground. They also say that he looks like a stoner, especially because of the greasy-black hair that falls just past his shoulders and the smell of marijuana that lingers around him. Because of his shaggy hair hiding his face, very few know that his eyes are actually a light hazel. He had severe acne at one point in his teenage years, but many different ointments and antibiotics now only leave him with mild scars. Luckily, the scars are difficult to see because of his bronzed, tan skin that he inherited from his Greek father. His face structure is almost identical to that of his mother with a round face and a stone jaw, and they share the fact they both needed braces in their childhood. His teeth mainly been fixed, but there is a small but noticeable gap between the two front ones on top. He attempted to grow a beard once, but he ended up doing a poor job shaving one day and ended up with only mild stubble. This has also left him with thick sideburns.

Biography: Chad is the first and only son of Eliza Lombardi and Agatone Klitou. His parents met in their twenties when they crossed paths in New York City. At the time, Eliza was trying to keep her head above water in art school while Agatone was a recent Greek immigrant who had come to the country in a desire to study human anatomy and become a surgeon. Meeting at a local art museum after going on a tour together, they bonded quickly and dated for a year before Agatone finally proposed to her. Shortly after their honeymoon to Italy, Eliza became pregnant with their child.

Chad Klitou was born on May 2nd, 1990 in Claire-Donovan's Hospital. He was known by friends and family as a baby for always having a reason to smile. At a very early age, he showed signs of inheriting his mother's talent in art. He was never far from a large box of Crayolas, always ready to scribble whatever idea came to his mind. By the age of five, he was already an impressive artist who shocked his peers in kindergarten by how realistic his drawings were. Although he wasn't very social among his classmates, he wasn't necessarily unpopular. Everyone just seemed to accept him as, "that quiet kid over there". Instead of playing soccer or hopscotch at recess like the other students, he preferred simply walking around the playground or sitting on the bench and doodling in his sketch pad. Half of it was because he was horribly unathletic and couldn't kick a soccer ball to save his life, but the other half was because he just didn't see the need to play. Things seemed so much peaceful to him just sitting on the bench when the weather was nice and watching the clouds.

Upon his entrance into fourth grade, the one obsession that would define who he was came into the picture: horror movies. The obsession came around on a late summer day at his fourteen-year old cousin Ricky's house. Sitting in his basement, they'd been flipping through the television guide when they realized that there was a marathon of slasher flicks on one of the pay-per-view channels. Ricky had told Chad with a smile not to tell his parents what he was about to show him. Then his cousin had ordered the channel and that was it. Chad watched as chainsaw-wielding maniacs tore teenagers apart with blood splattering everywhere. Although the ten-year old boy had watched the movies with horrified eyes, he also realized that he'd never been more entertained in his life. There seemed to be a fascinating nature in them that he'd never seen anywhere else. The obsession took over. At the age of only eight, Chad became a proud horror junkie with a DVD cabinet to rival anyone in the entire state.

When he arrived in middle school, life got better for the Klitou family. His father finally achieved his dream of becoming a surgeon and was able to put more bread on the table. On the other hand, things turned rather bad socially. With more of his classmates concerned about being popular, shy and secluded Chad found himself withdrawn from the social scene. Although he struggled to talk, he just didn't find it easy to have a converse with other people. He smiled a lot, but it didn't seem to do much other than get people to smile back. He joined the school's art club in an effort to make friends, but eventually quit when he realized that he just couldn't get himself to relate to anyone but himself.

The summer between seventh and eighth grade was a rough transition. Chad's cousin Ricky died in a drunk driving accident in July, almost tearing the entire family apart. With nowhere else to turn to other than art and horror movies, Chad saw drugs as the only escape. He became a heavy marijuana user, getting the pot secretly from the family's cleaning lady. Seeing him clearly as a drug addict when he arrived back in school, his classmates distanced from him even more. Quiet before, Chad now became completely silent, only talking in school when the teacher asked him a question. His grades, which before had been almost perfect, dropped to Ds in a matter of months. His peers became almost frightened of him. One of them must have reported him, because the guidance counselor eventually saw that he was an addict and ended up taking him in for a drug test that turned up positive. His parents collected him from school and took him home, sitting him down and giving him a tearful epiphany about how he was ruining his life. Finally seeing the truth, Chad made a vow to finally straighten his life out. Although he told them that he would, he secretly knew that he wouldn't give up pot.

Upon his arrival in high school with a desire to fix his life, Chad had trouble fitting in because of his shyness. He felt that hanging out with any labeled clique of people would make people stereotype him. Wanting to be as far away from the social ladder as possible, he tried to go unnoticed and spent most of his time painting after school and filming bizarre movies with his camcorder. Most of his homemade films consisted of different shots of fruits sitting on counters or videotaping squirrels in his backyard. Despite the mixed reaction he got for his art, Chad aspired to be an independent filmmaker when he got older. He always had a sense of safety behind a video camera, feeling like a passing observer to everything he saw filming in front of him.

The only time when he really broke out of his shell was when he attended concerts. Always a fan of almost every genre of music he listened to, his favorite was the hard metal that made his ear drums feel like they were about to burst. He frequently went into mosh pits at the concerts, only stopping when the music ceased or his head started bleeding. His love for music went to the point where he half-heartedly tried to form a band, but his reputation as a loner resulted in almost no other auditions whatsoever. This led to another reason for people to gossip about him to no end. Still, trying to remain an optimist, he smiled whenever he got the chance and tried as hard as he could to tell himself that he was happy.

Advantages: Despite being rather antisocial, Chad can be very good at reasoning with other people when the time comes and chooses his words very carefully. Usually he is able to talk himself out of tight spots. Also, his father, along with being a surgeon, taught a first-aid class at the local YMCA where Chad occasionally stopped by to help out. Because of this, he has some medical expertise.

Disadvantages: Chad suffers from a negative body image because of how underweight he is and isn't very athletic. Not carrying a very high opinion of himself, he often finds it hard to find to feel motivated to get something done. Despite his obsession with horror movies and violence, he has never fired a gun in his life and only has half of an idea of how one works.