nightingale "gale"
Nightingale "Gale" Jones male || demisexual 26 years old || 5'6" African-American || Nathan Stewart-Jarrett married to cryogenic's Gobi cryogenic's Addisyn is their adopted kid breeding slots || 3/3 |
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
why everything is the same as it was
theme song;; The End of the World by The Carpenters
personality;;
Nightingale works very hard to seem normal. As could only be expected some days he fails; he gets weird around storms, and he spends his winters complaining blithely of his aching hand and back, but he tries to keep a good attitude and sends out pretty party invitations every summer on the dot. He keeps a copious amount of friends but none of them are particularly close to him; Gale lives alone in the middle of the woods, and he likes it that way. He's incredibly private, and doesn't share secrets without a reason behind it. For that reason he's a very good secret-keeper, as you can expect anything you tell him he will never tell another soul. Gale is exceedingly inventive and can build something out of nothing, although he's a little odd about technology and he prefers to work with older tools. He has never developed any affection for chainsaws, no matter what his friends say about how much faster his work would go. He shies from loud sounds and thunder. He watches fire like he expects it to be magic.
He gets caught up in his own thoughts sometimes, especially when he's working, but he's good about compartmentalizing his thoughts and feelings when he's in the company of family or friends. His parents are worried enough for him, so Gale keeps his head down and his eyes focused. It would break their hearts to find out what he'd been through so he keeps the trauma of the other world to himself. He's let everyone assume what they will about where he's been for three years, and said only that he couldn't remember when the police had asked. It's what he says whenever someone asks him personally, but mostly they just gossip about it. He doesn't mind. He likes to lay out in the sun on nice days and look up at the clouds, but Gale also likes to sketch blueprints for new inventions and make sculptures out of old wood. He's particularly skilled with the math that allows him to take smaller games and turn them into something far bigger, and this skill he uses every year for his famed summer parties with friends and neighbors.
personality;;
Nightingale works very hard to seem normal. As could only be expected some days he fails; he gets weird around storms, and he spends his winters complaining blithely of his aching hand and back, but he tries to keep a good attitude and sends out pretty party invitations every summer on the dot. He keeps a copious amount of friends but none of them are particularly close to him; Gale lives alone in the middle of the woods, and he likes it that way. He's incredibly private, and doesn't share secrets without a reason behind it. For that reason he's a very good secret-keeper, as you can expect anything you tell him he will never tell another soul. Gale is exceedingly inventive and can build something out of nothing, although he's a little odd about technology and he prefers to work with older tools. He has never developed any affection for chainsaws, no matter what his friends say about how much faster his work would go. He shies from loud sounds and thunder. He watches fire like he expects it to be magic.
He gets caught up in his own thoughts sometimes, especially when he's working, but he's good about compartmentalizing his thoughts and feelings when he's in the company of family or friends. His parents are worried enough for him, so Gale keeps his head down and his eyes focused. It would break their hearts to find out what he'd been through so he keeps the trauma of the other world to himself. He's let everyone assume what they will about where he's been for three years, and said only that he couldn't remember when the police had asked. It's what he says whenever someone asks him personally, but mostly they just gossip about it. He doesn't mind. He likes to lay out in the sun on nice days and look up at the clouds, but Gale also likes to sketch blueprints for new inventions and make sculptures out of old wood. He's particularly skilled with the math that allows him to take smaller games and turn them into something far bigger, and this skill he uses every year for his famed summer parties with friends and neighbors.
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
how life goes on the way it does
occupation;;
a lumberjack (kind of); dabbles in invention Gale likes to keep busy, and he likes to live close to the woods, so his occupations came sort of naturally to him. He's always fiddling with something despite the obvious favoritism he pays to his left hand, and he found early on that building was soothing to him. He specializes in crafting enormous game sets and is currently working on a chess board that he expects will take him a couple of years to finish, but he also makes furniture to sell online. He's best at chairs, specifically rocking chairs, but he's versatile and is able to craft a whole slew of other items as well. Occasionally he sells the past giant game sets he's made but only if he's offered a significant amount of money (he's got emotional ties to each and every set he makes). He's skilled at making weird wooden inventions as well, da Vinci style. He's working on a flying bird, but he only tinkers with it. pets;; Gale rescued a dog from a local shelter and named her Aspen. She's some kind of shepherd mutt, pale in colors like the wood she is named after, and very sweet. She's sensitive to Gale's moods and works to calm him down when he's in hysterics over a nightmare or memory. She's very well-trained but she's also just naturally obedient, and prefers to be at Gale's side than anywhere else. She tends to sit at his feet when he's whittling, her head beneath the chair so she doesn't sneeze on the shavings. |
trivia;;
-he's not overly fond of technology and still owns a corded phone -he knows how to fight with a sword, although this isn't a skill he advertises to many people -Gale sleeps with an enormous sword tucked beside him in bed -he's very close to Aspen, who he considers kind of his own therapy dog -he hand-crafts furniture for his clients, and puts months of work into each piece -has little concern for money; if he's paying the bills he's happy -he spends an inordinate amount of time in the woods staring wistfully among the trees -he gets really out of it sometimes and spaces in the middle of conversation occasionally -he doesn't make friends easily because of this -he owns literally nothing fancy; if he has to attend something pretty he has to buy something just for it -he tends towards jeans and flannel. he has embraced the lumberjack aesthetic -he's usually uncomfortable around kids because he never knows how to act |
art credit [from left to right] : Medd, Owl Trowel, SilverCrescentMoon, KatLóve.
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