Eli Patrick Wesley

[ELI WESLEY]

ELI PATRICK WESLEY

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Play by: John Krasinski
Race/Species: Geomancer
D.O.B.: April 20, 1983
Age they appear: 30
Actual age: 30

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Features: Eli has a lot of big facial features. His nose has a bulbous tip, but it matches his long face. His cheeks puff out when he smiles with his small, thick-lipped mouth. He has large green eyes framed by golden brown hair. All in all, he has a young, boyish appearance and a sort of hangdog look.
Sexual Preference [Optional]: Bisexual but heavily leaning towards homosexual
Ethnicity: Irish/Scottish/Polish
Marks/Tattoos/Visible Scars: A long, jagged scar down the calf and shin of his right leg where it was mangled in a car accident.

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Flaws/Weaknesses: Eli is very self-conscious and shy. He’s pretty awkward, but not in an uncomfortable way. Often he’s too nervous and passive to voice his own opinion on matters, which often leads to him getting dragged into things he doesn’t want to do. He also has a tendency to get very anxious and fret over small things.

Skills/Strengths:

Likes: Please list at least five things your character likes. You can add more if you like.

• Reading and writing
  
• Open spaces
  
• Cooking
  
• Pizza
  
• Being on the water
  
• Quiet conversation
  

Dislikes: Again, list at least five things your character dislikes. You can add more if you like.

• Crowds and tight spaces
  
• Being drunk or on drugs
  
• Orange flavored foods
  
• Being in complete darkness
  
• Confrontation
  
• Causing pain
  

Other Information: Anything else you'd like to add please do so here.

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History: Eli grew up in a big family. He’s the third of five children—four boys and a girl. His brother Kyle is three years older, his brother Luke a year and a half older, his brother Adam two years younger and his sister Mary, the only daughter, is three years younger. Being the middle of five children, Eli was usually overshadowed by his siblings. Kyle and Luke were both rambunctious, though Luke tried to involve Eli in their games as much as he could. Luke usually looked out for him, but found it hard to relate to the introverted Eli. Nevertheless, they were close. When Adam came around, he followed Kyle around like a shadow, mimicking his personality as best as he could. Eli played with them, but he was never as close to Kyle and Adam as he was to Luke, his sympathetic and slightly less energetic older brother. It wasn’t until Mary came around that he felt particularly close to one of his siblings. Ever since he can remember, he’s looked after Mary. She was a sweet, quiet child, very much like him, and she latched onto him as quickly as Adam had latched onto Kyle. Eli showed her the ropes and finally had someone to play with who liked roughhousing as little as he did. When she was old enough, he even helped her learn how to read. As they grew together, he taught her ways to play with her magical abilities, and he built his own skill in teaching her. All of the children were close, but Eli and Mary had a special bond with one another, a bond their parents encouraged. They had tried and tried until they got a girl and they were happy to see she was so close to one of her brothers. Even better, they were happy to see they had very little taste for violence. Both Terry and Laura Wesley were Quakers and therefore sworn to non-violence and a peaceful, honest living, and they were determined to raise their children the same way. It flowed well with their inherent bond to nature.

In school, all of the children did well, but especially Luke, Eli and Mary. They were in programs for gifted children, which perhaps encouraged Eli’s introverted behavior. He was painfully shy and preferred books to forcing himself to mingle with other kids. As a result, he had very few friends while growing up. His teachers and his parents worried about his antisocial behavior, a stark contrast to all of his siblings, even Mary, and they were afraid he would always be on the outside of his peer group. And through most of his childhood he was. But the friends he did make he showed absolute loyalty to. In the first year of middle school he met Daniel who became the best friend he ever had outside of his sister. They were into a lot of the same things, but Daniel was more outgoing than he was. No, Daniel wasn’t terribly popular, but he pulled him out of his shell in ways others couldn’t. Soon Eli found himself part of a small but tightly knit group of friends. It was a huge relief to his parents and his siblings that Eli wasn’t the “weird” kid anymore. Even better, Eli had someone outside of his family who he could share his secret ability with; he knew Daniel would never tell anyone else. Daniel stayed true to that trust, though when they were alone he always wanted to see Eli show him his magic.

When he reached high school, he had a good name because of his older brothers. Both were smart and athletic. Kyle was the star quarterback on the football team and Luke was a rising star on the soccer team. Eli had never been very athletic, but at the urging of his parents and Daniel, he joined the crew team. It was love at first stroke. He found he was a natural on the water. With the early morning regattas and the constant training, he found himself ingratiated into a new group of friends. Daniel helped get him comfortable with this new group of guys and Eli was eternally grateful for it. Both boys got more toned as the months of conditioning wore on, but he didn’t see himself as getting attractive. In fact, he didn’t think much about his looks at all. When girls began talking to him and following him, giggling and being particularly smiley, he didn’t think much of it other than maybe they thought he was nice. Daniel knew what it was all about, though, and to Eli’s surprise, he didn’t seem to like it very much. Was Daniel jealous of the attention he got from girls? He didn’t think Daniel was all that interested in girls…It turned out, Daniel wasn’t interested in girls; he was interested in Eli. He had been for years, but had tried desperately to be straight like all of the other boys they knew. When Eli accepted an offer from a girl named Kelly to go to the homecoming dance in sophomore year, his parents were ecstatic—Daniel was furious. Eli had a nice time, but he wasn’t sure what to do with himself in this kind of situation and he nearly peed himself when Kelly tried to kiss him. Since when had girls become so scary? He was relieved to come home and find Daniel waiting in his car outside of Eli’s parents’ house. Daniel followed him into the backyard, sullen and sulky. Eli told him how Kelly tried to kiss him but hesitated at the look of pure fury on Daniel’s face. When he asked what was wrong, Daniel all but exploded. He said Kelly was taking advantage of him, trying to bump up her status with one of the best-looking guys in school. Eli hardly thought he was good-looking, but Daniel continued railing on until his true feelings for Eli slipped out of his mouth. For the first time, Eli felt butterflies in his stomach that didn’t want to make him vomit. His best friend was in love with him…his male best friend. It was confusing and shocking and he had no idea what to say. He knew it wasn’t “normal” to be attracted to men, but he didn’t stop Daniel as he advanced on him. His cheeks flushed and his stomach clenched when Daniel pressed his lips to his, but he didn’t jump away like he had with Kelly. Instead his eyes slid closed and he placed his hands on Daniel’s waist as Daniel pulled him close. Throughout high school, Daniel and Eli maintained a secret relationship. It wasn’t that he didn’t find girls attractive, because he did, but all of them paled in comparison to Daniel. The two had been together for so long, and now they were as close as two people could be. His first sexual experiences were with Daniel. Luke and Mary knew about his relationship with Daniel while it was going on, but they kept his secret for him. They both accepted his relationship with another boy, though it took a little longer for Luke to accept than Mary. None of them said anything to Kyle or Adam, afraid they might tell his parents. Eli wasn’t ready to tell them yet.

Then tragedy struck. Celebrating their high school graduation on June 18th, the boys stole beers from Daniel’s house and drank six each on the bluffs beside the bay they had won so many races in. Megsy was the perfect place for them to drink without getting caught. They were drunk and stumbling and even though Eli said it was a bad idea to drive home, Daniel insisted that they couldn’t stay out all night. With his lowered inhibitions, Daniel raced down the winding roads, much to Eli’s delight. He felt so free and ready for the world of college and independence from his big family. Neither of them was paying attention to the sharp turn in the road ahead. It wasn’t until they were spinning out of control towards a thick, formidable tree that they really processed what was happening. The next thing Eli knew, his head was slumped against the passenger side window, pain shooting through his entire body. When he tried to move, he screamed at the pain that shot through his leg. He looked to Daniel beside him, but what he saw haunts him to this day. Only one of Daniel’s bright blue eyes was focused on him. The other was too badly mangled from where his skull had slammed against the windshield, now in a million pieces from the impact of the tree. He knew in an instant that the love of his life was dead. When the firefighters arrived to cut him out of the car, alerted to the accident by an older couple that had happened to be driving on that road, they found him sobbing and clutching desperately to Daniel’s shoulder. It took two men to restrain his arms as they pulled him from the heap of scrap metal that the car had become. By the time his family arrived at the hospital, he was numb from sheer emotional agony and drugs. When his mother began to cry and stroke his cheek, saying she was so sorry for Daniel’s death, he very calmly confessed to his relationship with his best friend…his lover…his soul mate. By the time he was done explaining, he was sobbing and the shock wore off his parents and brothers long enough that they began to cry as well. None in his family cried as much as Mary and she became his saving grace during the difficult months that followed. It took many reconstructive surgeries and much physical therapy for his right leg to feel normal again after it was crushed almost past the point of no return in the accident. Thankfully his family was there for him through it all and supported his decision to continue to college where his brother could keep an eye on him and help him through the rest of his therapy. It was a rough start to college, however.

Without Daniel, Eli became as reticent as ever. When he fell so low in his first semester of college that he actually considered ending his life to be with Daniel again, he decided to seek counseling. Through his intense therapy sessions with the grief counselor on campus, Mark, he began to heal emotionally as his body healed too. He decided to become a grief counselor himself, never wanting another person to fall as low as he did over the loss of a loved one. It took a few months to accept that Daniel would want him to live, but several more years to get over the guilt of surviving the accident his lover died in. But he found the more he talked to Mark about it, the more he healed. He ultimately did very well in college and became an assistant in the counseling center for his work study. He went straight on to obtain his Master’s in Clinical Psychology and he didn’t stop until he had all the certification he needed to practice grief counseling himself. When he returned to let Mark know how far he’d come, he learned that Mark was leaving Greenwolfe University to open his own practice. Mark encouraged him to apply for the position and take over where Mark was leaving and Eli happily seized the chance.

Eli has dated both men and women since Daniel passed, but all of his relationships have ended up in amicable splits and lasting friendships. His closest friends are a girl he dated for a month when she came back to the area, Abigail James, and her best friend, a flaming homosexual named Lafayette Reynolds. Both are Geomancers like himself and able to draw him a little more outside of his shell. Nothing has happened with Lafayette, though the man constantly hits on Eli. It makes Eli uncomfortable in some ways, but he knows it’s all in good fun. Much like Daniel before them, they have introduced him to more friends and started to expand his social network. Eli still keeps to himself most of the time and prefers his own company to a crowd, but he has begun making a comfortable if not quiet life for himself. It’s a life that Daniel could be proud of.

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ABOUT YOU:

Name you go by: BAA

Other Characters you play: Bunches and bunches

How long have you been RPing: Long enough

How did you find us? Moderator