Jamie Delacroix
LONELY FISH FANCIER
LONELY FISH FANCIER
- Jamie loves fish. For a kid his age he's got a crazy collection, an entire wall lined with well-kept tanks full of brightly colored finny friends of all shapes and sizes. Jamie's fish are very close to his heart and he cares for them to an almost obsessive level; in fact, his fish are damn near his only friends. Small, physically and emotionally fragile, and soft spoken, Jamie was an easy target for bullies throughout his childhood. Even in high school, he's found it hard to make friends due to a combination of fear, self-doubt, and the occasional bully renaissance. Still, all he truly wants is a close companion or two who can actually talk back.
WHEN WILL MY REFLECTION SHOW
- There's something not right about Jamie Delacroix. It's not wrong in an overtly negative way, but in a way that just feels off: solemn, forced... The emotional trauma of dealing with bullies and loneliness have made Jamie desperate to fit in and he's spent years conforming to societal norms to accomplish this, denying himself in the process.
Lately it's gotten a lot harder to handle. There are things he thinks and feels that he's positive aren't the issues your average eighteen-year-old boy deals with. Sometimes he's not even sure he is a boy, and that's something that makes absolutely no sense to him in his current state of mind. On top of that, he finds himself wanting the Jamie he sees in the mirror to be someone more vibrant, more colorful, more beautiful. Sometimes he wants to wear fun, feminine, frilly, clothes and accessories, things society has taught him are for girls, not boys.
Expressing himself in any fashion has become limited to what he believes others expect of him. Jamie wants to do, say, and experience so much, but he's honestly not ready to leap into or even accept it and it's slowly crushing him emotionally.
THE WATER'S FINE
- Anything water-based is the absolute perfect temperature whenever Jamie inevitably partakes. Showers are always soothingly warm or pleasantly cool in the summer, he never so much as shivers wading into the pool for the first time, and he never burns his mouth sipping his favorite teas; they're always warm and comforting, but cooled enough to safely drink.
ANYTHING ELSE?
- Jamie is eighteen, but probably gets mistaken for sixteen or so quite often. He's small, thin, and unassuming.
The water is his favorite place, hands down. If Jamie could live in the bath or at the pool, he would.
Or he would live at the pool if he didn't have a large birthmark hanging over his shoulder and trailing down his shoulder blade. It makes him very self-conscious and he hates to be seen without a shirt because of it.
Jamie's biggest impossible dream goal is to live on a private beach somewhere.
His smaller, more realistic dream goal is to add salt water tanks to his set up at some point.
