Haunted Dreamer
Super-Earth
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2013
To say he was a perfectionist was a mild bid of an understatement when one took the time to examine this man's life. In his late thirties he was the picture of professionalism, and as he stood in the mirror examining his clothing for the day he had every measure of dignity one could attribute to the male specimen. Six feet in height, his dark black hair kept short and greying at the temples, his glasses simple and elegant only emphasizing the beauty of his hazel eyes, a close kept salt and pepper beard, and the sensual soft nature of his lips...a slight scar at the top from his misspent youth. His business attire hearkened back to an era where men did not dress casually in the work place and as he adjusted his tie it became quite noticeable where a ring once had been upon his finger.
The curve of the paler flesh was the only true remembrance of a wife passed some five years ago, leaving him with a daughter budding into her early twenties. He had been a young father at the age of eighteen, and had gone about the job of being one with the same air he had in all things, perfection. He had excelled in his studies in college while working two jobs to support his family, and his daughter and wife had been everything a man might have hoped for until the former died from health complications he would rather not reminisce over. The latter, his beautiful May, had chosen to go her own way in life when she left home some two years later. It had upset him deeply at the time, but like always he internalized his emotions.
It would never do to reveal how deeply he loved her and how deeply upset he was that she was gone.
However, that was soon to end, for this man was not dressing for business but instead to pick his young daughter up from the airport. He dressed this way perhaps as a form of armor, as a means of ensuring he was defended against any verbal barbs. A good exterior was a good defense against a world and when you and your child did not see eye to eye...a parent's best defense was to never reveal what their child did hurt. They would see what they would see, and perhaps over these last few years...May might have changed. One could hope.
The curve of the paler flesh was the only true remembrance of a wife passed some five years ago, leaving him with a daughter budding into her early twenties. He had been a young father at the age of eighteen, and had gone about the job of being one with the same air he had in all things, perfection. He had excelled in his studies in college while working two jobs to support his family, and his daughter and wife had been everything a man might have hoped for until the former died from health complications he would rather not reminisce over. The latter, his beautiful May, had chosen to go her own way in life when she left home some two years later. It had upset him deeply at the time, but like always he internalized his emotions.
It would never do to reveal how deeply he loved her and how deeply upset he was that she was gone.
However, that was soon to end, for this man was not dressing for business but instead to pick his young daughter up from the airport. He dressed this way perhaps as a form of armor, as a means of ensuring he was defended against any verbal barbs. A good exterior was a good defense against a world and when you and your child did not see eye to eye...a parent's best defense was to never reveal what their child did hurt. They would see what they would see, and perhaps over these last few years...May might have changed. One could hope.