Title: FROST, CORDELL
cordell frost - July 8, 2007 03:08 AM (GMT)
CORDELL Matthew FROST
[out of character]
Name;; MC
Age;; Sixteen
Activity;; I'll be here - if I'm not here just IM me and kick me until I get on.
Other;; my AIM name is thrillerjoints09. i like random IMs XD
[this is a seasonal affair]
Nickname;; Sometimes his family calls him 'Dell, but for the most part, he goes by Cordell
Gender;; Male
Orientation;; Straight as far as he thinks.
Age;; Fifteen
Birthdate;; November 20th
Occupation;; Sophomore
[watch those jaws drop]
Eye Colour;; Blue
Hair Colour;; Black
Height;; 5'8"
Weight;; One hundred and thirty two pounds
Body Type;; Lean and skinny
Tattoos or Piercings;; Snakebite piercings
Scars;; As far as permanently disfiguring scars go, Cordell has none but he has accumulated minor scars over the year that have faded quickly.
Most Notable Feature;; It's probably his eyes, as they are a very bright blue - and his height, because he's quite tall for fifteen, and still growing.
Appearance;;
- If you could get Cordell to yourself in a room for the whole day and he was forced to describe his appearance, he'd tell you that he's not at all an attractive person. He doesn't loath how he looks, but he's always been self-conscious, and having girls squee about him is something that confuses him quite a bit. So, that being said, we'll take it from the top. First things first - looking at him might just make your heart beat faster, but he'd hope not since he doesn't want to be responsible if you have a heart attack. Many girls have told him he's very physically attractive, but in his eyes, he feels like an overgrown giant. At fifteen, he stands at about five foot eight in his bare feet, and in his sneakers, it adds about an inch. As his father is only five foot eleven and just a tad bit older then he is - it sometimes makes Cordell feel a bit overgrown. He doesn't even have the benefit of having muscles or anything remotely along those lines. Yes, Cordell is tall but he's quite lean for his height, so in all actuality while he's healthy, he often looks a bit too thin to other people. He'd rather not be worried about - but he seems to inspire it anyways, and his body doesn't much help matters. His clothing style is based merely on what he feels comfortable in, although this often changes daily as he's rather self-concious. However, it's a given that the boy will usually be found in tee-shirts and jeans, both usually somewhat tight just because he thinks girls should know what they're getting into if they try to have a relationship with him. And wow, just the thought of that made him go pale, which isn't really too much of a different from his normal skin color. He's always been a bit of a pale guy even though he is outside quite a bit - but then better pale and healthy then tan and to have skin cancer.
'Dell doesn't much like his body as you can see, but as far as it goes when it comes to physical features, he isn't perhaps as demeaning about himself. It sounds almost very cliche to say it, but he does like his eyes, kind of - and yes, they kind of show his emotions very easily. Then again, since he doesn't talk often, that's kind of a helpful thing. The main thing he likes about his eyes is the color - even if girls tend to comment on his eye color to the point where they make him nervous, he just likes how blue they are. With his pale skin and dark hair, Cordell has received many compliments along the lines of how much his eyes pop out. He'd rather his eyes didn't literally pop out, but they are a nice color. And yes, even he can admit it is a striking combination when it comes to his hair which is well...black. He wasn’t born with black hair – actually his hair was blonde for a good part of his life until he dyed it when he was about thirteen or so. His hair is cut much like his father's in the sense of the word 'emo,' in that it is long and cut so that his bangs are slanted in a way that they can easily cover one of his eyes, if not both. He has a somewhat emo looking appearance, according to those few people at his school who feel the need to put everyone in a little box. The one thing that really makes him stand out among his fellow sophomores is his snake bite piercings - two piercings on either sides of his lower lip although he does not always wear them. This isn't part of his appearance, but it's curious to note that with how he appears to loath himself, it is not a problem to put him in front of a camera. You would think one who disliked himself so much would refuse pictures, but he seems to thrive off pictures.
[birds in my ears and a devil on my shoulder]
Loves;;
- - Music
- His guitar
- Delilah
- His father (and pretty much the rest of his family)
- Early mornings when nobody else is awake
- Taking pictures
- Cameras
- Chocolate
- People who don't try to get him to talk
- Girls who don't compliment and or flirt with him (which is pretty much only Delilah)
- School
- Jelly beans
- Watching other people (but not in a creepy way.)
- Writing
- Getting piercings
- Carrots
- Lasagna
- Being by himself.
- The season spring
- - Talking
- Girls who compliment and or try to flirt with him
- People who try to get him to speak up in class
- Science classes
- His family (but only sometimes)
- Delilah's boyfriends
- The 'Mar' sound he makes at them when they come over
- The fact Delilah's getting married
- Delilah's fiance
- Administrative staff at school
- Oranges
- The word ‘emo’ or ‘scene’
- Autumn
- - People will discover he’s actually the guy who sings Hey There Delilah
- Delilah discovering he sings that song.
- For his brothers
- Being around a lot of people
- Girls in general (except Delilah, she doesn’t count.)
- - Barely ever talks, if that can be considered a habit.
- Will get up and leave a room if he feels uncomfortable, which is a lot, and doesn’t usually come back…and since he dislikes being around a lot of people, he leaves rooms often.
- It’s rather easy to write Cordell Frost as being another nearly autistic kid, and that’s what most people assume, being that he is possibly the quietest and shiest boy you will ever meet. Seriously – even his own father thinks he might be slightly autistic if that gives you any hint at all. But really, Cordell functions perfectly normally except for a few quirks in his personality, but then, don’t we all? It’s important to know that his personality is pretty much based off the fact that he is the baby of the Frost family, and thusly, if he seems a bit young or a bit innocent, it’s all because as the baby of the family, everyone felt the need to shelter him a bit. We’ll start from the most obvious personality trait of course – his need to be so quiet. This is something that sort of developed from living in a house with so many people, because he didn’t always get a chance to make himself heard. When he did get a chance to speak up, it often felt to him like nobody was listening except for his father, and even then, Jack couldn’t listen to each and every one of his kids as much as he would have liked. Therefore, his silence was something that just happened out of necessity. He’s never really felt the need to start speaking more, as he tends to think that his actions speak louder then words. The few times he opens his mouth on a regular basis is to ‘mar’ at Lilah’s boyfriends, and even then, that is not exactly words. Cordell will speak even rarer, and so far, most of his conversation has been to Delilah or his father. Occasionally it comes out with his brothers, but even still, not really. He can’t help but keep to the idea that he will just get overlooked if he speaks, so better that he not speak in the first place. Moving on – he’d rather you not start psychoanalyzing his reasons for not speaking.
The fifteen year old is quite naïve – that is to say, he still views the world in a very childlike manner. It’s not to say that he’s totally unaware of the bad things that happen in the world, but it’s that he often expects them to resolve themselves in a childlike manner. He is not the best person to go to if you want advice about the world – even if you got him to speak, he would probably say something about how jolly ranchers make everything better. Although he lives in a family that gets their fair share of resentment from the town, he still tends to blindly view the town as being a little confused when it comes to the Frost family. For example – he understands that there is homophobia in the town, and he’s seen it directed at his oldest brother Todd, but he still doesn’t understand why anybody could hate someone if they just so happen to prefer kissing their own sex to the opposite sex. When it comes to other matters too – like war, or hate, or abuse – he still tends to ask why, why, why. Although he may be naïve, it doesn’t seem to keep girls away from him, which is kind of a pity, but perhaps his childlike attitude at times might work. He’s perfectly content just lying in bed with Delilah and not taking it further. He likes fooling around by himself, the few times that it’s been documented, people have never appeared to be too surprised. It’s just that he likes the simplest things in life, and he likes to try and enjoy life as he’s still young. Who cares if he’s slightly naïve?
People tend to think he’s so naïve that he will share secrets as soon as he finds out about them – but no, he’s only naïve enough to understand that if people are telling him, he better not tell or he might get it. In reality, he’s a bit more secretive then even Jack or Delilah know. There’s a good reason why his brothers come to him almost everytime they have something that they have to get out but yet can’t. It’s because Cordell will sit there attentively, and take in the secret, and keep it a secret. Where others might think to use that secret, or carry it on to the next person, he keeps it inside him. His silence works for him there because even if he wanted to tell someone’s secret, that fear that nobody would hear him holds him back. He understands that everybody has secrets – and that not too many people can keep a secret like he can. It’s why he tends to keep many of his personal stuff close to his chest, including that one about how he’s that guy on the radio singing Hey There Delilah. Oh yeah, that might be an important one to expand on. It’s something nobody would expect of this quiet fifteen year old, but he actually has a good singing voice when he bothers to use it. He doesn’t consider himself to be a musician, rather, just someone who’s rather good at piecing songs together on a guitar chord by chord. Most people know that he’s a guitarist, but nobody knows of his vocal abilities as he only brings them out when he’s really sure that nobody’s around. Therefore, he makes sure that he is the last person anybody would think to connect to the song on the radio. Of course with everybody talking about the song and the play it’s getting, he’s been a bit overwhelmed lately.
It seems odd that he would be both quiet and a musician – but it also seems odd that he would be self-conscious and yet willing to be photographed (even if it was only by himself.) Welcome to Cordell. He is the perfect example of a teenage boy – extremely hypocritical in many ways. He also has a few odd personality traits – we mentioned the silence yes, but that’s not really odd. It’s that he seems to be almost…afraid of girls. Well, he has good reason, but it’s still a bit of an odd personality trait for a boy of his age. Another odd personality trait is the fact that whenever he sleeps, he has to wiggle his way under somebody, usually Delilah as they tend to sleep in the same bed together. It’s not even a way of flirting, anybody in the household could figure that one out – it’s just what he has to do. He can’t sleep unless he burrows in under her, and then he’s out like a baby. Most teenage boys would use it as an excuse to feel up the girl, or something else, but with Cordell it’s truly innocent. And that’s probably another odd personality trait for his age, but it all comes together somehow. He’s had an interesting life as the baby of the Frost family, but he can’t always be the baby brother – it’s unclear when he’ll get old and jaded. Hopefully never.
[an old man gave me a tip]
Family;;
- Jack Frost [ father ; 32 ]
Ronnie Frost [ aunt ; 18 ]
Todd Frost [ oldest brother ; 18 ]
Sunny Jared Frost [ second oldest brother ; twin ; 17 ]
Rastis Frost [ third oldest brother ; twin ; 17 ]
Peter C.J. Frost [ fourth oldest brother ; 16 ]
- Delilah Pratt
- Evangeline Furrows
Frankie Malone
- Cordell Matthew Frost was born about fifteen years ago to Jack Frost and a mother he barely remembers now. However, Jack did not learn of his birth until he was about two years old – but that’s skipping ahead. Cordell was born on the cold morning of November 20th in a cold hospital room, and at first, he came out not crying. An omen of things to come, perhaps, but more or less to the doctors attending her, it was worrying. Most babies cried upon entry to the big bad world, but this boy just kept his mouth closed and regarded the world around him quietly. At least until they gave him a quick tap on the butt, only to see if he would cry. He did, obviously, as he’s alive and not in the hospital to this day. At birth, he had tiny little tufts of blonde hair and of course, trademark baby blue eyes. It wasn’t a bad two years with his mother, to be honest – she wasn’t a crazy mother or anything, so he lived just fine. He got his diapers changed, he got fed – all of the basics, but she had a hard time loving him. Cordell was a easy person to love, being that even as a baby, he leaned towards being quiet most of the time, but she just didn’t feel that motherly love that everybody assumed she naturally felt. His life started out on a normal enough pattern – he walked at the average age to start walking, and his first word was said around the time most other babies said their first word. By the way, if you’re wondering what his first word happened to be, it was ‘TV.’ Still, his mother felt unsatisfied, and being that he was partially Frost, she thought perhaps he should belong to Jack. Jack certainly had enough children to know what he was doing, and perhaps he could love Cordell better then she could. So it was at two years old, just a couple days after his birthday that she gave him to his father.
At first, Jack Frost was frustrated and yelled after her that he couldn’t take care of everybody. For the record, he had eight children in his care, and yes, Cordell just so happened to be the youngest of them all. Fun, huh? It was a little difficult for the two year old to adjust from having a mother who seemed to always be there yet holding back to a father who wasn’t always able to be there but when was there was almost overwhelming in how much he loved his kids. Even if he was a drug addict and occasionally had meltdowns around the kids, Cordell remembers very little of his life back then concretely. He remembers feeling afraid sometimes – which he attributes to seeing Jack freak out sometimes, but for the most part, happiness rules most of that age before he has concrete memory. The boy was thrown into a gang of eight kids who all tended to band together, and he actually kind of liked it. There was always something to do – in fact, sometimes it was too hard to find time to be by yourself more then anybody else what with Jack’s ideas of throwing water balloons at the garden and turning garbage runs into adventures. Like any other kid, he ran around with everybody else and tended to get into trouble along with everybody else. It wasn’t until he started getting a little bit older that he started feeling like…the baby, and he really was, but he felt like the baby of the family who tended to get ignored a lot. Even at six years old, Cordell was very self-conscious of his position in the family and started getting a little quieter. He was still very much attached to his family, but more so when it came to Jack and Delilah. He spent the majority of his time whenever possible with at least one of them – if only because they were the only people that seemed to understand that he didn’t want to have to speak.
Although he quickly turned into the dependable one for Delilah, he didn’t have Delilah back to cling on. Well – that sounds a little mean, but as children, Delilah was always the one who needed him far more then he needed her but he needed her a lot. She was the one girl he could understand – the one that always made sense. Even in elementary school, girls seemed to flock around him and make odd noises he was told was ‘squee’ing over him if only because he wasn’t like every other boy that chased the girls around the playground and made fun of them. He was a nice boy, a label that still plagues him to this day. A gentleman, if you will, although he disliked that term. The attention caused him to shrink back into his shell and for a while, he would only speak to Delilah just before they went to sleep before he promptly burrowed under her. Obviously this caused a problem for his school as he refused to answer questions or speak up in class, and so Jack was called in. They soon discovered of course that there wasn’t anything wrong with him, he was just being silent because he could be silent and not because of anything like autism or anything along those lines. Teachers soon learned to accept the quiet boy sitting in their classes, and learned not to make a big deal out of it if he happened to offer an answer. Many in the community however began to view this as people favoring him because Jack Frost said to, but he was really just that quiet.
Entering middle school somewhat marked the beginning of puberty for him, as the unwanted attention about him started to grow more. In sixth grade, he was that one boy not joining in with the mock farting or joining in on the various other schemes they all seemed to come up with. He was merely just his quiet self, and he was just there – although as he started growing, he soon started to become even more noticeable. This fairly terrified the eleven year old – wouldn’t you be terrified too? It was around this time that he started playing the guitar as he found it a good way to hide from all those girls in the school who kept coming up and talking to him. Of course, he told his family and Delilah, but for the most part, he kept his newly found music skills to himself. In seventh grade, he dyed his previously blonde hair to black and imitated his father by cutting and maintaining it in the emo style he favored. This was actually his way of trying to get people to stop viewing him as a gentleman, but he couldn’t change his personality that much. In the following year, he got lip piercings out of an impulse and has almost regretted it as it just seemed to give girls another excuse to make fun of him, but by reinventing his appearance, he was really just doing what any other teenager would. Although most of his family worried for him when he entered high school, he adjusted….well – most people had heard of him and his silence, so he was permitted to make a fairly simple adjustment although he still ran across those people who believed in the idea that everybody should participate. Of course, he still runs across those people, but he’s learned to just nod and walk away. As for his friendship with Delilah, they’re still best friends – obviously closer then he is to anybody else, but even she doesn’t know that that new song on the radio was written for her. Nor does Jack, but hey, sometimes Cordell has to keep a secret. It’s been an interesting life he’s led obviously, but he wouldn’t give it up for anything. He knows enough about what goes on in the world to realize that not many people have it as good as he does – however, he would give much of it up to have other summers beyond this one. As a fifteen year old boy and with the new rule – Cordell knows he’ll be heading off to war after this summer, something that’s hard for him to grasp, but it doesn’t matter if he grasps it or not: he’s going off, and leaving Delilah behind to Frankie.
[selfish as selfish comes]
Secret Phrase;; REMOVED.
Member Title;; sitting waiting wishing . }
Sample RP;;
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| He'd been hearing for a while now several whispers about what Gabrielle Brown chose to do during her weeekends. And no, not the days where she hit the parties and broke hearts, but the nights where she couldn't be found at the parties. But honestly, Yonkers wasn't that big, and it was a gossip sieve, so she had to know that someone would come and visit her eventually. Of course, it was almost midnight, so she probably wasn't expecting anybody to drop by the pub, but then, Sasha liked to do the unexpected now that it came to Ellie. He called her Gabrielle out loud, he did his best to annoy her whenever possible, and he disliked it when people spread rumors about her. Call him a gentlemen, but rumors annoyed him, and besides, he had already taken the usual route with Ellie. They'd slept together, she'd left him in the bed, and he'd woken up the next morning with the party host laughing at him. To Ellie, he was another notch in her bedpost, but he made himself count. Nowadays, Sasha was almost always around her, smirking as he found yet another way to get her riled up. She looked cute when she was riled up, after all. Well, she generally was cute, but there was something about her when she was annoyed. Yes, he realized that perhaps he wasn't the most sane when it came to her, but at least he could remember things when he was around her. Of course, it was all mainly ways to annoy her, but credit should be given to him, because normally, nobody could get emotions from Ellie. She was cold, and most people knew it, but he liked it when she snapped and yelled at him. 'Cause, come on, who'd want to wonder if they had sex with a robot? Getting emotions from her was just Sasha's way of verifying that she was real - you know, that she wasn't some unearthly angel sent to earth to tease them all. She wasn't really an angel, though, more like a fallen angel, although her music was heavenly enough. And really, Sasha was only sitting in Thomas O'Malley's to listen to her. He'd managed to make his drinks stretch out the hours that she had been playing, only really staring at her hands moving over the piano. That was how he was still on his second drink at midnight, just watching her play. He had always been a sucker for the piano, and although he played horribly, he just loved how it sounded when someone experienced was playing. Clearly Ellie was someone experienced, from the sounds she was drawing out of the rundown piano. He made a mental note in his head to include piano based music on the mix CD in the works for her. Only, well, he'd probably not give it to her, because she'd take it completly the wrong way and probably burn it, and do who knows what to his social standings. Sasha didn't really care that much, but he was still social enough to know that he didn't want his ranking knocked down. As the man sitting next to him sent a drink to the "sexy pianist," his eyes narrowed ever so slightly. So a man older then him could send Ellie a drink, but it was a sixteen year old that slid off the stool and walked to the piano, leaning against it. The vibrations made him jump slightly, but he kept his cool and looked at Ellie. "Hello Gabrielle. Surprise seeing you here." The man back at the bar was probably glaring at him by now, but would most likely be laughing when Ellie kicked him out on his ass. |
[[histories = not my forte, sorry. it’s also been a while since i’ve had a chance to rp properly, so if my sample is not up to speed, i totes understand]]
jack frost - July 8, 2007 03:51 AM (GMT)
AMAZING.
I love you for taking Cordell, and getting him so well. xD
You're so ACCEPTED, that- well. You're really accepted.
I LOVED IT.