Blackwood

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Bio

Gareth was born in the swampy south in a forgotten backwater community no one has ever heard of. He attended elementary in a single room schoolhouse with a class of thirty children at various grade levels until the 8th grade when his momma moved to Nexus to put him through High School. He had little motivation for mainstream school, however. Try though they might, the teachers couldn't keep Gareth's interest like his elementary teacher did. Public school just isn't hands-on enough to keep someone like Gareth focused. Consequently, he failed out of High School at the age of nineteen having not even gotten past the 9th grade. Don't be fooled, though. Gareth is no idiot despite his lack of a formal education. He has plenty of more practical knowledge in the ways of the world.

When Gareth turned 19, his momma kicked him out with whatever he could carry. Instead of getting a job and renting an apartment like most normal people, Gareth went into the wilderness and built his own hut right on the river, complete with electricity, an outhouse, and a dock for his fanboat. All the furniture in his house is salvaged and refurbished. His home is decorated with rusty abandoned license plates and scrapped street signs. Shanty as it is, he's quite comfortable in his beat up little home. Sure the roof leaks every now and then, but that's nothing some globs of tar won't fix.

Gareth catches most of his own food right out of the river. He has a mini-fridge for cold beverages and an outdoor freezer for whatever meat he doesn't eat right away. He earns a small income by selling hand-crafted nicknacks to tourist shops in the area, and from homemade booze. He learned how to make moonshine from people in his home town down south when he was just nine. However, he can't make it in large quantities, so he usually only sells small portions of it to friends. This helps him stay under the radar from the authorities, since, technically you're not legally allowed to be making moonshine with the intent to sell it without proper licenses. Whenever the local sheriff asks about it, Gareth can say he's just making it for himself, and the quantities are small enough that the sheriff will accept this explanation. However, Gareth's real dream is to join the Marines like his grandpa who saw action in Vietnam. Unfortunately, without a High School diploma or a GED, Gareth cannot enlist.

Despite the failures and hardship in his life, somehow Gareth still manages to keep a big grin on his face most days. His cheery behavior tends to brighten up most people. This earned him many friends back in his home town and during High School too. However, he's lost touch with most of those friends and now he's starting over again. Of course, any would-be friends ought to be careful around this fat gator guy. Not all of that chub on his belly came from eating river critters, after all. A few vandals have found their new home as padding on his gut... plus a few buddies who were too tasty for their own good. Usually though he at least tries to ask permission before eating one of his pals. He finds that sometimes they actually enjoy the idea--so long as he lets them out. He won't even consider something like this until he knows and trusts the person, and more importantly, they also trust him not to turn them into gator lard.

Out-of-Character

Gareth Blackwood is an active work in progress whose backstory will develop as people roleplay with him. Please be advised, he is not a hyper-sexualized character. I wish to focus on story more than sex. Vore is of course involved in both of these anyway. If you want into his pants though, you'll need to develop a connection ICly with him.