Crawson Madlock

Quincy Madlock, known across campus as Crawson, is a character in Thirlcrest Academy played by southarry. He is the Security division Manager of the Social Club and was formerly one of the headliners of Todd's Gang.
== Appearance ==
Crawson is a tall and bullish boy, powerfully built and lean from years of following his brother Evan into violent gangs, as well as the frequent beatings Evan would dish out to him. Always the lesser of the two, Crawson has recently come out of his shell as Evan's shadow and has taken on his own style, with dozens of tattoos lining his body and piercings enhancing his features. His hair is a dark ginger that's cut into a choppy mullet, the sides shaved into a skin fade. As a member of the Social Club, Crawson dons the black Woodworking Club vest over a white tank top that he styles with baggy ripped jeans and black combat boots.
One of Crawson's most distinctive features is his forked tongue which is the result of an intentional body modification called a tongue bifurcation. He often uses it, as well as his sharp canine teeth, to freak out or intimidate students on campus.
== Characteristics ==
Crawson Madlock is a violent, intimidating bull of a boy. He is abrasive and aggressive against most people he does not know, but has repeatedly shown himself to have a flirtatious attitude towards girls that borders on being presuming. Despite the bleak first impression of a sociopathic womaniser, Crawson is overly defensive of his friends - particularly those he has come close to in the Social Club. This stems from his paranoia that his past with Todd Egan and his infamous older brother, Evan, will fall back on his new friends some day in a form of karma.
Crawson is a brutal fighter, happily using anything around him as a weapon and often going overboard in the punishment he doles out to students that end up opposing him.
Born in a rough borough of London, Crawson has a thick lower-class English accent and uses the street slang of his home city in his day-to-day speech.
== Character Background ==
Crawson and his brother, Evan, grew up in the gritty council estates of East London, a place where survival often meant navigating through the waters of break-neck poverty. Their upbringing was far from conventional; their mother struggled to make ends meet, relying on benefits to support her large brood of children. Their father, a scorned figure in the local criminal underworld, was plagued by his addiction to drugs, which frequently put the family in danger.
Growing up, the two took an indifferent stance towards education, often failing exams and ending up suspended or expelled from various schools. Despite their bond as brothers, their relationship was fraught with tension. Evan was often the instigator, luring Crawson into skipping school and engaging in petty fights that landed the pair of them in equal amounts of trouble.
Their academic performance suffered as a result of their tumultuous home life, and they were soon relieved from the confines of formal education at a tender age. With newfound freedom and idle time, Crawson followed his older brother's lead and delved deeper into the underbelly of East London, becoming entangled in the world of drug trafficking. Through cunning and audacity, they managed to carve out a small fortune for themselves, trading in substances that promised both wealth and danger.
However, ill-gotten gains come at a steep price. When authorities discovered their truancy, their mother lost her benefits, and their father's drug money dwindled. In fits of rage and desperation, their father turned his violent tendencies towards his eldest, subjecting Evan to merciless beatings as punishment for things they were never involved in. Evan, at the cusp of adolescence, took out his own sufferings on his smaller younger brother, Crawson - often beating him just as harshly as their father beat Evan.
With their lives spiraling out of control in the streets of East London, a glimmer of hope arrived in the form of distant American relatives from the East Coast. Recognizing that no one in England could provide the guidance they needed, the brothers were whisked away to more tranquil neighbourhoods in Maine, across the Atlantic.
In this new environment, Evan and Crawson sought to bury their past and escape the shadows that haunted them. They found solace in high school football, a sport that offered an outlet for their pent-up aggression. As they honed their athletic skills on the field, they hoped to quench the violent tendencies that had once consumed them. The pair of them became Vikings, members of Vanguard High's football team - a school that often rivalled Thirlcrest Academy in state tournaments.
Even amidst their attempts at redemption, old habits died hard. Evan, in particular, struggled to shake off the demons of his past. As he bounced between part-time flings and government allowances, tensions simmered between the brothers until they reached a boiling point. In an explosive episode, Evan made a drastic decision, moving out to live in a trailer park with an older woman, leaving Crawson behind to fend for himself.
Crawson sunk into a ring of drug-abusers in this time, learning how to use a tattoo gun that he often turned on himself and altering his body by bifurcating his tongue. Whilst the pair of them no longer lived together, Crawson still assisted Evan with whatever he needed; whether that was fights in the schoolyard or a wad of cash ill-gained.
At Vanguard High, the brothers faced yet another setback when the football team suffered mass defections following a humiliating defeat against the Thirlcrest Knights in the final of the 2008 season. With the team in disarray, Evan was captain of the Vikings, seen as the football team became near-defunct.
Evan, however, could still not put down the ruthless anger that defined him and his younger brother. During a training, his football coach sent a particularly nasty string of scolding insults Evan's way after a poor run. Evan, in response, charged the coach and knocked him to the floor - only the interference of the rest of the football team stopped Evan from assaulting the man. Crawson, in his blind love for his brother, threw himself in the fray and attacked two of the footballers who were restraining Evan. The pair of them fled the scene and hid out in the forest for hours, before the local sheriff's department picked them up. The consequences were swift and severe, resulting in their expulsion from Vanguard High and a forced transfer to Thirlcrest, a school where the brothers would once again confront the ghosts of their past.
Now in one of the toughest schools of America, Evan brought Crawson under his wing once again - leading him to a violent gang led by Todd Egan. For months, the pair of them worked for Todd, with Evan serving as his second and Crawson as one of their lieutenants. During this time, frequent fights with the Peacekeepers earned Crawson a name for himself across campus - when he bit out a chunk of Daniel Park's neck in particular.
Eventually, tensions between Crawson and his older brother came to a blowing point once more - Crawson quit Todd's gang after a brief fight with the pair of them, and went back to his roots of drug trafficking. By joining the Social Club, Crawson seeks to earn himself enough money to make something of himself, whilst ridding himself of the over-the-top violence of his past.
== Relationships ==
TBA
== Trivia ==
* Crawson is a tattoo artist. Much of his ink is self-done.
* Crawson was once one of the ugliest boys on campus.
== Gallery ==
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