Caleb Clingan

Caleb Clingan is an unaffiliated character found in Thirlcrest Academy.
==Appearance==
Caleb dons jet black hair that sweeps over the right side of his head. Around campus, he can be seen sporting an unbuttoned white dress shirt and rolled sleeves. Whenever off-campus, he typically wears a casual hoodie and a Philadelphia 76ers Allen Iverson jersey, along with basketball shorts and tennis shoes. 
==Characteristics==
Caleb is very talkative and interrogative. He wishes to learn more about the world and people around him, and Caleb believes the most effective way is to talk to those he surrounds himself with. Caleb is humble and accepting of new ideas. Two things that form the base of his beliefs off of are rationality and reasoning. Caleb could be described as erratic or eccentric, too.
==Character Background==
Born into the wealthy Pennsylvanian political dynasty of the Clingans, Caleb Clingan found himself as another blip in his family’s story. The boy’s family could trace their lineage to the American Revolution, and the Clingans were evidently a very old, established family in the area. The Clingan dynasty consisted of politicians, jurists, and local leaders. Caleb himself was an eleventh generation American.
Caleb heavily enjoyed his parents’ wealth, both of whom had accumulated it throughout the years through their law practice, Clingan & Clingan. They had both met and fell in love while attending undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), which Caleb’s grandparents, their parents, and so forth, had attended, and which was an institution the Clingans regularly donated large sums of money to. Caleb, therefore, had a great deal of expectations when he was born.
The boy did very little to live up to those expectations. He enjoyed playing basketball and hanging out with friends from school, not going to political rallies or fancy dinners. He was disinterested in pursuing law or politics, despite his many available connections to both. As he grew up, Caleb found himself increasingly distant from his family and more hostile towards those around him.
Caleb enrolled in the Benjamin Franklin School of Fine Arts (BFS) in 2006 at the beginning of his freshman year of high school. BFS was a notoriously difficult private school in Philadelphia that frequently sent students to the Ivy League, particularly UPenn, its largest feeder school. The young teenager found the courses there tough. His parents invested in a tutor and college counselor for him, but very little could be done. Caleb passed freshman and sophomore year with B’s and C’s, far below what his academic input was meant to generate.
Towards the end of sophomore year, Caleb found himself looped into a small gang of pranksters he played basketball with after school, called the Central Philadelphia Rascals. At first, he did not participate in their pranks, just wanting to hoop at the park with them. Eventually, they convinced him to join them and vandalize buildings and tunnels. They even convinced him to skip class to prank one of their teachers at the low income high school most of the Rascals attended.
One day, the group had corralled at the top of the stairs one morning and jumped out all at once to scare the teacher. However, the teacher was so startled that he fell down the stairs, breaking his back and left arm. In the end, Caleb was caught and placed under arrest for his involvement. He was sent to juvenile hall for a while, which tarnished the Clingan reputation. 
Caleb’s parents, though they still loved him, thought he needed a change of scenery. So, they applied for him to join Thirlcrest Academy’s class of 2010, located in Maine. They could obviously pay for the tuition, and dropped him off for his junior year. At the academy, he navigates an unfamiliar world all the while trying to figure out his identity and allegiances.
==Relationships==
===Bradley Clingan | Father===
Caleb’s hero, Bradley and Caleb maintain a good relationship in spite of Caleb’s antics. They regularly enjoyed playing sports together, and Caleb considers himself lucky for having a father that is able to provide for him and more.
===Alice Clingan (née Roberts) | Mother===
The lovely woman Caleb calls his mother, Alice loves her son to death. She is more strict towards him, but she says it’s for his wellbeing and health. Caleb is grateful that his mother is as smart as she is beautiful, considering she passed the Pennsylvania bar exam on her first try, and his father had to take it twice.
===Stephanie Gutierrez | Girlfriend===
The unknown and mysterious yet beautiful lady Caleb calls his girlfriend, he stays in contact with her even after transferring to the academy. Not much is known about Stephanie besides her Mexican heritage and the love letters Caleb receives nearly weekly.