PAUL LAHOTE

[PAUL LAHOTE]

PAUL ALEJO LAHOTE

PAUL	CANON
16	SHIFTER

GENERAL

GENDER: male
PRONOUNS: he | him
SPECIES: shifter
PACK OR CLAN: quileute
PHYSICAL AGE: 16
BIOLOGICAL AGE: 16
CURRENT HOME LOCATION: la push, washington
OCCUPATION: student
FACE CLAIM: alex meraz

personality

LIKES
- eating (he's hungry all the time)
- hanging with pack members (even though he hates them a lot of the time)
- his heritage (he's proud of it)
- cliff diving, swimming, playing soccer (he's very active)
- cool weather (he's always too hot)
- roughhousing (he likes to show off his strength)
- having the last word (he's very stubborn and headstrong)
- ditching school (he doesn't need to know algebra)
- BILLY BLACK (the only adult he truly trusts)

DISLIKES
- admitting he's wrong (because he never is)
- being trapped at his age (it really sucks being a teenager)
- vampires (in general, he blames them for his problems)
- patrol (as much as he'd love to rip a vampire's limbs off, he likes sleep)
- being forced to follow Alpha's orders (sometimes for his own good)
- his father (they have a strained relationship)
- admitting he needs help (because he doesn't)
- having to share his thoughts with everyone (it's an invasion of privacy)

background

Paul had always lived in Washington and he had always been exposed to the forest. It wasn't until he was eight years old that his parents divorced, causing his father to move them to La Push. He was pretty popular and made friends quickly, though due to his being a bully, he wasn't liked by everyone. He was the leader of his group of friends and looked up to, even when it wasn't such a good idea to follow his example. He frequently got into trouble in school and around the reservation, doing stupid stuff like starting fights. His father didn't pay much attention to what Paul did, so he didn't get a lot of discipline.

Unfortunately discipline for a shifter is involuntary. He had heard the stories, but he never took them seriously. He had gotten home from school one day to find his father passed out on the couch, surrounded by vodka bottles, with a small fire forming at the tip of the lit cigarette hanging from the man's unconscious hand. This pissed him off, and was enough to set off his temper. Paul ran outside, his face red and sweaty. He felt something happening, but he couldn't figure out what it was. All he knew was that he was mad. Running from his house, he punched a tree with all his might, shockingly damaging the tree more than his hand. In the next moment, he was staggering to keep his balance, on four feet, with the world around him spinning.

Voices were everywhere. Paul's paws flew to his ears in attempt to keep out the noise in his head. He thought he was going crazy. The voices, the noise, the smells. There were scents.. everywhere. Everything was sharper. Soon, the voices weren't in his head anymore. They were real, and he could see the people they belonged to. Sam Uley and Jared Cameron stood before him, staring at him like he was some freak on display.

Paul never knew Sam at all, and he barely knew Jared. The kid was in classes with Paul, but they had never had a real conversation, as they hung out with completely different crowds. For this reason it was extremely uncomfortable, at first, to become mentally linked to those two. They were strangers, basically, and Paul could keep nothing from them. It took him a while to get used to that. He never really gained control over his temper, and struggles with it to a large degree.

Today Paul trusts his pack despite often butting heads with them. He also confides in Billy a lot, still lacking a role model in his own father. Particularly with the problems beginning to stir up involving gryanite, he is actually pretty concerned and unsure of what to do so he doesn't plan on leaving the reservation anytime soon. 

THE WRITER

TIME ZONE: EST
AGE: 26
PRONOUNS: she | her(s)

PLAYED BY: JEM | CONTACT: JEM#1276

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