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Full Name • • 》 Harvey Jay Bennett
Nicknames • • 》 Harv, Harvey Jay ( Samantha), Don ( Gamuza and some people in Lamia), Guero ( Chavas and some people in Lamia) Mr. Bennett, Proffesor Bennet
Nationality • • 》 Mixed European Ancestry/ Anglo-Saxon.
Age • • 》 24
Gender • • 》 Male
Sexuality • • 》 Panromantic Demisexual
Eye Color • • 》 Green
Hair Color • • 》 Blonde
Notable Markings • • 》 Piercing in one ear. A large scar running up his leg, thin scar under his hair down his temple, scars on his elbow and lower back.
Height • • 》 6'1''
Weight • • 》 130 lbs
Health • • 》 Overstressed Relatively healthy
Current Residence • • 》 Evren Region
Birthday • • 》Sept 26
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Good Traits
tab • • 》 Engaging
tab • • 》 Independent
tab • • 》 Knowledgeable.
Bad Traits
tab • • 》 Can hold on to and dwell in the past
tab • • 》 Has a hard time forming bonds. Can be closed off and standoffish.
tab • • 》 Harvey is used to handling things himself, which can make it hard to admit when he does needs help or ask for and take advice from other adults.
Strengths
tab • • 》He knows how to act professional and check things at the door.
tab • • 》He's been in advanced classes since high school and is very knowledgeable in his field.
tab • • 》 He has a lot of patience for children and knows how to get to their level and talk to them without coming off as patronizing.
Weaknesses
tab • • 》 Harvey is used to handling things himself, which can make it hard to admit when he does needs help or ask for and take advice from other adults. It also makes him slow to listen
tab • • 》 He still resents his family and despite letting go of his anger still doesn’t want to talk to them Due to his age he keeps his guard up around other teachers because he doesn't want them to see him as a kid. This results in him not letting people in and gives him a hard time making friends with his colleagues.
tab • • 》 Since he put his ambitions first and never really settling anywhere, he doesn’t coop well and becomes bored and restless when he’s stuck in the same place for too long.
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Likes • • 》 Playing pool, his motorcycle, going out, scientific journals, genetics, seeing new places, meeting new people
Dislikes • • 》 People telling him what to do(especially if they're pushy about it), Having no one to talk to, Paperwork(the bane of every teacher and researcher), When Samantha nags him.
Accomplishments • • 》 published in a few scientific journals for studies he's done in pokefauna, graduated sume c** laude from Unova university, here
Biography
tab • • 》 Harvey was born the second child to Nicholas and Adelle Bennett (nee Trafton). The younger of two brothers, he was a reckless child who would have gotten tagged with middle child syndrome despite having no younger siblings. His home life was less than ideal, his mother had issues including a drug habit which made her extremely irrational. Often times Adelle would throw screaming fits and throw things around the house leading to screaming matches between her and her husband whenever he intervened. She finally got taken away due to substance abuse and causing enough disturbances, leaving him with his father and older brother.
While his father was well intentioned he was often immature and worked long hours in construction to keep his kids fed and well, this led to Harvey and his brother learning to fend for themselves in most things. Growing up as latchkey kids, no one checked their homework or set their curfew. Both boys grew up dictating their own rules and making their own decisions without much, if any parental supervision. At the very least they could say it was -kinda-peaceful.
This wasn’t to last however, not even a year later their dad remarried, something Harvey still considers a rushed decision, if not an outright mistake. Things got more hectic around the house. Harvey's step-mother did not get along with Harvey and his brother. The boys were used to doing things their way, and she took that personally. Harvey in particular would often butt heads with her, not liking at all that someone he had just met was trying to butt herself into his life. This would often lead to her fighting with his dad and his dad fighting with Harvey. While his brother kept calm and focused on his studies and his new-found girlfriend (often escaping to her place to get away from the madness at home.) Harvey took to biking, sometimes out of town. He also more often than not took to acting and lashing out. He'd curse out his dad's wife, get in fights and got sent home with an officer Jenny on more than one occasion.
Things eventually took a turn for the worse in Harvey's 12th year. After a particularly nasty fight which ended in Harvey trying to run away and getting taken home by an officer Jenny, Harvey’s now pregnant step-mother convinced her husband to send Harvey away. He was sent to live with his mother who was out of rehab and living in Canalave City with a live in boyfriend. Said boyfriend, a nameless trainer Harvey doesn’t even bother to remember eventually left the mother and son for a shot at living his dream as a trainer and challenging the gyms.
His mother for her part had developed depression and against everyone’s advice continued to date. With a long line of less than desirable suitors constantly in his home, and a mother who acted like she was a lovestruck teenager half the time and an old miserable woman the other half, Harvey often felt like the grown up in the household, filing out food stamp forms sorting through the mail and buying groceries when his mom forgot. Other times however he was just a scared kid, hiding out in the docks until he could go home without having to fear screams, meltdowns, and sometimes downright abuse from his mother or the many men that came through their lives. More often than not he was tempted to jump on a boat and never look back, he actually tried to once and the screaming match that followed once he was caught and his mother found out left him with a smack to the face and the realization that if he wanted out, he needed to be smart about it. The only benefit he could think of was that life at his mom's held even less rules than living with his dad.
School was the only thing that went somewhat okay, Harvey discovered that making friends was a science. Charisma and good timing would win people over and once he had the formula he became rather social. He wasn't close to any of them but the kids he hung out with made life bearable and allowed him to forget about the hell that was home. He spent most of his time with them, and when one of those friends offered to take him to sandgem on a trip with his folks Harvey found that friends also meant opportunities and that opportunities could take him places outside of Canalave. Actually going to school was a drag for him and he'd much rather spend his time doing things he enjoyed like hanging out with friends and exploring the outskirts of the city but he saw it as a necessary evil. He loved the freedom that came with biking on his own and having no one to answer to and the desire to travel and never have to come home only grew. He was constantly googling ways out of town and kept a map on his wall. At his most desperate moments, he considered joining the military, becoming a trainer (much as he hated them) becoming a ranger, anything to get out as soon as possible. He hated the idea of spending time on something he didn't care about, and so each of this options was discarded for something that would require less commitment and more gratifying results.
Entering high school he saw a chance to leave the city. With some research Harvey found out there was a way to graduate early by taking the core classes that the school required from graduates. He loved the idea of leaving school early, as opposed to wasting four years in general education and more to the point, staying four more years with his mother. Meeting with a counselor, research in hand Harvey asked what the fastest track out of school was. The answer was either a GED or accelerated classes. Harvey figured with a high school diploma, he could at least work part time in a pokemart somewhere and would have more opportunities for a trade school should he wish for one, so he picked the second choice.
When he was in his junior year, his mother's depresion got progresevely worse. Harvey was forced to miss massive amounts of school and eventually was forced to drop out. He opted to enroll in an online school to make up the remainder of his credits since he was mostly done anyways. Due to taking accelerated classes his freshman and sophomore years as well as AP classes, he graduated high school early, and enrolled at a college in Solaceon a few months shy of his 16th birthday applying for financial aid and a couple of scholarships to take care of books and tuition. It was during this year that things at his mother's got progresevely worse. a few weeks after he graduated Harvey found himself in a living situation he just couldn't handle. After his mother's current boyfriend threw a vase at his head and threathened to beat him next time he saw him, Harvey got on his bike, took his pet chimchar, a bag, and a knife with him(for protection) and took off without a backwards glance. He had to be in Solaceon by next fall he figured, why not get an early start? (not to mention keep himself umbeaten)
WIth high school done and an entire summer before starting college classes, he made good on what he wanted and driftred through Sinnoh during the summer drafting a route that would eventually lead him to Solaceon. He worked at corner stores, and odd jobs when he needed to. He loved seeing the sights and meeting people and made the decicion that he would continue to do so as much as he was permitted to. He considered blowing off college and continuing to drift but an alarmingly light wallet and the idea of ending up on a dead end job motivated him to follow through with his plan. He obtained a cheap albeit slighly shady place to stay via craigslist and headed to Solaceon to start his classes.
ArrIving in Solaceon Harvey found himself living with a shady room mate that made him glad he had a knife on him and going to the local college for a degree in business. He took mostly online and lecture classes, wanting -and needing- free time. As usual he looked for the easiest way to accomplish his goal and opted for session 2 and 4 classes which were more intensive but left him with more free time since they only met once a week and lasted three months. Business didn't entice him but he knew if he picked the right career he'd have free time even after he was out of college and the ability to travel which was why he picked it. He picked up a job at the daycare to save up money and took roadtrips from time to time, usually during the free week between terms but sometimes while taking all-online or easy classes. At some point in his 2 year stay in Solaceon, his bike was damaged and he invested on a motorcycle one of his friends was selling. This made the trips go by faster, even though the daycare lady got onto him for blowing off his last four paychecks, not to mention driving without a helmet.
Charismatic by nature, Harvey managed to endear himself to the couple at the daycare while in Solaceon. They often let him eat dinner with them and eventually let him stay with them. It was there that he first took an interest in breeding and asked the couple who worked there for some information on it. He also asked people who dropped their pokemon general questions about the subject and got to learn quite a bit about it. After he had looked up enough information he became fascinated by it and decided he could be happy pursuing it as a career. Looking up different programs, he talked to the college counselor and took the nessesary classes to pursue a carreer path in breeding and genetics.
By age 18 he had finished his Associates and was starting his Bachelor's. Harvey decided to aim for a respectable college in Kanto, applying at a college in Saffron, due to the University there having an Accelerated Bachelor’s program. The daycare couple, who had grown fond of him arranged for him to work with the daycare couple in Kanto. He stayed in Canalave for a few weeks checking if his mother was still alive, before shipping out from Hoenn's port city on a boat headed straight for Kanto's port. WIth Broski on his shoulder, Harvey made his way to Saffron.
He attended college on campus but tried to take as many classes online as possible since by now, classrooms felt weird to him (although he couldn't completely escape them and wound up taking at least 40% of them on campus). It was in Saffron that he developed his liking for the game corner which had been upgraded to having darts and a pool table which he frequented whenever he could with other kids from the college. He loved the city and how it never seemed to sleep, how different it was from Canalave and even Solaceon. He particularly loved driving his bike around the city, even if for as short as 10-15 minute drives and found that they helped clear his head. He did this a lot particularly during exams, papers, and dates.
It was also around this time that he began to slowly change, he was still a teenager and still wasn't crazy about his parents ( he was still angry at them both and his step-mother still wasn't his favorite) but now that he was happy he was able to not let the past control him as much and didn't act out as much. He barely noticed, too busy earning his degree and getting to know the city. He continued to try to take occasional roadtrips usually to Celadon or Cerulean but only managed a few before he had to give them up three months into the program as his degree started really picking up. Ever recourceful and always on the lookout for new oportunities (not to mention slightly manic from staying in one place too long) he did manage to arrange a few trips with the college (study abroad oportunities, zoology and breeding conferences, workshops, and the like which were offered to students in the college and counted towards their credits) Unless his classes were involved however, his bike never went farther than the next town over until he was done with his degree.
During his first Spring Break in Saffron Harvey took a roadtrip to Fuchsia city with some kids from his college. It was there that he met his best friend, a part of the Joy family who was studying medicine in the local community college. After the worst of his classes were over Harvey was itching to get on his bike again and see new sights. Influenced in part by his new friendship he found and applied for a paid internship in the Fuchsia city pokemon zoo 6 months shy of finishing his degree and stayed there during the remainder of his Bachelor's, working part time at a poke-mart to make ends meet. Due to the accelerated program Harvey’s bachelor’s took two years to gain and at 20 years old Harvey Jay Bennet had a B.A.S in pokemon Zoology. He remained working at the zoo for the remainder of the summer, going on the ocasional ride on his days off, before the need to challenge himself and change his scenery got to him.
Harvey decided to pursue a Masters in genetics and breeding and attended a University in Unova that fall looking for scholarships and shortcuts to help himself along. While there he found out about Academies and the opportunities they offered. His interest was peaked and he decided to double major, earning his teacher credentials in 3 years (the longest he's stayed in a city) before focusing again on his Masters. Shortly after, he was told by his teacher about Ordell academy and the benefits and oprortunitues that it would grant him ( Tenure for one, and as an adjunct teacher he would only have one class which would give him free time as well as no summer classes, not to mention getting to know the city.) Never one to turn away from opportunities and always up for a change of scenery(and region) Harvey applied
It was around this time that his father called him, someone Harvey had not heard from in more than 10 years.
The call was long and included apologies on both sides, no longer the angry kid he used to be Harvey was slightly, only slightly more willing to listen. The process that had started in Saffron and had only progressed since then had allowed him to at least understand his father a bit better. He still wasn't crazy about the guy but when he asked him to look after his half-brother, explaining that his wandering was worrying, he told his father to enroll Marcus in Ordell saying this would benefit him and keep him from wandering too much. He also, after being told some sensitive information, begrudgingly promised to keep an eye on the kid. A promise he's not too sure on keeping since he's not very close to the boy and is still fairly distant from him and his family in general. He is very excited to have this opportunity and is eager to learn what teaching will mean for him. While genetics is still his passion, and he plans to continue to study it and eventually finish his Master's, this is an adventure for him and he can't wait to see where it takes him.
