Elias Walker

Personality
Elias at first glance appears to be a rather relaxed individual. Following countless hours of therapy, and family bonding, Elias has learned to keep his aggression in check for the most part. He's generally friendly with first impressions, and sees no need to be over the top with anything, as long as he or his friends are okay as well. He enjoys being the listener in conversations for the most part, and hearing about other people, rather than speaking on his own past, which still haunts him to this day. Due to this, he appears quiet, and even a recluse sometimes, though he's not an introvert. If a conversation interests him, Elias tends to lose restraint, and express his interest and knowledge on a subject. As far as first impressions go, he's often a fan with women due to his British accent, and wide knowledge on language and tradition (much due to him bouncing from house to house). He definitely finds it hard to pick up signs, and flirtation, and has never been the charmer-- even since his apparent "glow-up" following childhood.

Though he consciously tries to sheathe it, Elias is a roller-coaster ride underneath his fair skin, and green/hazel eyes. With the constant abuse of his childhood, Elias has grown very defensive, and despises being the accused, one of a long list of things that can tick off his short temper. He does have a screw loose when upset, and if driven to that point, Elias has no restraint. His aggression goes through the roof, and whether it's with his bare hands, or a nearby block of wood, he will beat your ass. Due to this, he's been to the office of Silver Oak Academy countless times for school fights, though his adoptive father tends to clean up after him. That, and the fact that the school definitely needs him to win State.

Biography
Elias Walker was born on March 14, in the city of Manchester to a single mother who's boyfriend had recently been incarcerated. To this day, Elias is unaware of who his parents truly are. Born to a drug trafficker, and his mistress, Elias' criminal parents were never fit to raise a baby, and at his birth, he was left on the road for dead. If his parents had actually taken care of him though, he likely wouldn't have survived there either. It was only luck on the roadside that he was found by a stranger, and handed in to the authorities. For the first couple years of his life, Elias was raised in a local orphanage by nuns, and ever surrounded by the word of God. He had faith instilled into him at a young age, something he'd need much of in the long tenure that was... well, his life.

Elias watched from a young, to his pre-teen years, as the orphanage underwent countless changes. He lost his closest friends, people he'd considered brothers and sisters to adoption, but he himself was always left behind. Whether it was his heterochromic eyes, the jinx of being left-handed, or his pale skin as a child, Elias pondered what could've been so wrong with him for a majority of his childhood. The nuns he grew up with were strict, and abusive with the children. Days passed by, with Elias wishing, and promising himself that he'd grow the courage to fight back when next he was ever back-handed, and thrown across the room like a rag doll. But that day never came, and every time he was slapped, hit, spat at, or insulted, he curled up into a ball and cried.

Once aged ten, Elias was deemed to old to be adopted, with chances of him being adopted obviously slim after so many years. He was enrolled into the foster program, a system built more to benefit the families than the children themselves. From house to house, he was treated as a slave, rather than a child in need of a home. He ate scraps, and leftovers, and did the most chores throughout the families. Sometimes he couldn't tell what was worse, the orphanage, or the new families. School-wise, Elias had never had a chance to focus, and settle down on his work. Being alone only gave him isolated time with his thoughts, and emotions, and not for homework. He found himself crying himself to sleep night in, and night out.

It wasn't until he'd aged around thirteen or fourteen that Elias picked himself up. Once a small, pale, and scrawny child, Elias now towered his mates and lads. With testosterone pumping through him during puberty, he learned to stand up for himself. Rather than take the abuse, he gave it right back to whatever foster parents he may have had, of which definitely accelerated the frequency of which he bounced from home to home. He didn't care though, as long as he'd had a chance to assert himself. But it was in his last home that he learned what a family was. Not from his foster family, but rather his school coach.

Elias was an athletic prodigy at a young age, and had the body and physique to be successful in a variety of activities. He began spending more and more time after school for practice, and games, and quickly enough, his sports family became his real family. Likewise, the relationship Elias had with his coach strengthened greatly. What was solely a mentor to him at one point, had offered to adopt Elias on a sole clause.... See, Elias was an expressive young man as a child. Acting out at school, and throughout games was the only form of control the young man had in his life, and his coach saw this. And so, rather than berate him, his middle school coach reached out to adopt Elias, of which the young boy accepted. In months time, he was under the roof of the only real father figure he'd ever had, and suddenly had two new siblings, and a mother now (his coach's family).

Elias integrated well with the family, and his coach's youngest daughter was immediately fond off him. Following him to the gym, and around the house as long as she could. His "older brother" hadn't initially been too open to the idea at first, but soon the two developed an unbreakable bond. And with his new parents showering him with love he hadn't felt in the entirety of his life, Elias felt the need for new beginnings. As his middle school career came to an end, Elias received countless offers from preparatory sports academies, of which included Silver Oak Academy. His adoptive father had connections in the school, and new some old friends on the campus he was still in contact with, and so it was settled, he'd be attending Silver Oak.

Thus far in his high school career, Elias has excelled on the basketball court, in spite of riding the bench for the majority of his freshman season. His sophomore year, he was selected for the State's First Team, and has goals to be a McDonald's All-American this junior year... As long as he keeps his anger in check.