Our Ste

Our Ste is a recurring player created character, portrayed by Alex O'Keeffe, in Budgens and Dragons.
== Show Bio ==
He's a 32 year old man, who basically wears the same grey jogging bottoms and Manchester United shirt from 25 years ago (handed down/stolen from his dad) but he actually knows nothing about football. He's only watched a few games around his mates' houses, but didn't really pay any attention. The number on the jersey is determined by a D20 roll, and is based off the 1998-1999 Manchester United line up.
He only does things because everyone else does them, but he's always too late to the fad. Mostly because he spends all his time on social media tagging his friends on irrelevant posts for attention. So everything he finds is already old hat. He thinks seasoning is "grass", and is the sort of bloke who wants a fry up when he's abroad (but he's never left his hometown once). He's not racist, though. He'd "rather be a foreigner than a northerner." (An actual quote Alex heard once)
Pro: Uses the power of the number on his jersey to gain an extra critical save.
Con: Has no ability to make decisions for his own, and will always side with the majority in decision making.
== Appearances ==
==== Episode 1 ====
* Our Ste's debut appearance was in Loop 1, in Episode 1. He rolled a 16, to determine the number on the jersey he was wearing. This gave him the power of Roy Keane, and this saved him from a car related death. He then notably shat himself before crawling to the other side. He tried to convince the group to go to the store in the alley, but caved into peer pressure and stuck to the original plan. He also gets hungry when he realised everyone else was getting hungry. He dies later from his injuries, no thanks to Felicity Huntington Budgens III. His corpse gets a tad bit mutilated by Ricky T Knees, and his jersey was destroyed by Sweet Potato. It was then fashioned into a bandana by Cameron De Hells in Our Ste's honour.
== Background Lore ==
Early Life: Our Ste, born Steven Stepney Stephens, lives an unremarkable life. He was born on 2nd April 1990, because his mother (Stephanie) saw that all her friends got married and pregnant, so she wanted to join in the gang. His natural slowness is an oddity. He wasn’t dropped on his head, or in recovery from an illness. He’s just a bit dense. People say he probably gets it from his mother. 
His father (Gregory) is an avid collector of t-shirts and jerseys. He collects all sorts from football, band, wrestling, movie, tv, and video game shirts. Ste took a liking to some of these shirts and depending on whatever his friends were talking about at the time, he would find one and wear it constantly just to fit in. His Aunt and Uncle on his father’s side (Our Jack and Our Vera) sometimes visited from up north. But only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. For some reason they were always followed by an ITV camera crew on every other day.
His immediate family have always lived in Faringdon. In fact, Our Ste has never travelled outside of his home-town. He doesn’t know why. It just felt like effort to him. Nobody ever really invited him anywhere anyway, and he doesn’t know why.
Growing up, Ste had a few friends at Faringdon Community College. Most notably, his best friend the Know It All Friend, Who Doesn’t Actually Know Anything and Just Makes Up Facts, Experiences, and Stats Because They Think They Are Cleverer Than You, who’s name always changed depending on how they were feeling that day. His other friends include; Drain Guy, Edgelord Eli, (and their twin Ellie), Opposite Dave, and Dustbin Joe. They were once friends with Falling Out Boy, but sadly tensions grew between him and the group, so they left him to his own devices. He was young and a menace.
Meeting Mother: When Ste left home at age 18 (because everyone he knew had moved out and got jobs, or went to Uni), he got a job at the local Budgens in Faringdon. He worked a steady job stocking shelves and cleaning the store until late 2021 when a strange woman came by. This woman was known locally as Mother. She was an elderly woman, who was both incredibly repulsive, and yet incredibly irresistible. She always bought tea, some custard creams, a tin of tuna for the cat, and a random scratch card.
Ste was oddly intimidated by her, so he gave her a wide birth at first. However, one day, when he was stacking some milk, she approached him.
“ELLO STE!”, he heard her screeching seductively. “I’VE GOT A LITTLE TASK FOR YA! SEE, I AM AN OLD CUNT AND I HAVEN’T GOT ANY CHANGE FOR A CAB SO CAN YOU CARRY MY SHOPPING HOME FORrRrRrRrR ME PLEASE?”
Our Ste was confused, as he had no idea what to do in this situation.
“How’d you know my name?” Ste mumbles.
“IT’S ON YOUR NAME BADGE YOU DAFT BASTARD. JESUS CHRIST LOOK AT THIS ONE. IT’S NO WONDER EVERYONE IS GOING TO THE TESCOS NOW.” 
Mother was getting annoyed with Our Ste’s incompetence, so she wandered off to ask another co-worker. Who happened to be Falling Out Boy. Now, he was clever. He agreed to help her, and did so within earshot of Our Ste. Upon hearing this, Ste perks up and said “Yeah, I can help too. You’ve got a lot of bags, yeah?” 
“OH BRILLIANT. YOU YOUNG MEN ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO TREAT AN OLD LADY. WHEN WE GET HOME….” Mother paused, and a rattling was heard inside her head… almost as if it was like a dice rolling. “…. WHEN WE GET HOME I WILL HAVE A LITTLE TREAT FOR YOU.” Falling Out Boy looked mortified, but Our Ste didn’t get it. But both men gathered her bags, and helped her outside. 
Before they set off, Falling Out Boy ran back inside. He claimed that he’d forgotten something. He hadn’t, and Mother was blissfully unaware. 
“DON’T WORRY ABOUT HIM HE WILL CATCH UP MY DARLING. LET’S HURRY HOME COS I’M FREEZING ME KNICKERS OFF I AM!”
The two of them walked back to Mother’s house. This was the last anyone saw Our Ste, until December 13th, 2021.
== Quotes ==
"Let me just put my shoes on..."- Episode 1, Loop 1
"Alright, let's just get to the shop and get the stuff for Quasimumdo..." - Episode 1, Loop 1
"I think that's it for me, mate.... just gonna have a sit down..." - Loop 1, Episode 1, his last words
== Trivia ==
* Our Ste's shirt roll was the very first roll of the show, just beating out the first weather roll
*The Power of Roy Keane is one of the first uses of creative roleplay to avoid death, or to do an action
*Our Ste has heard that a few characters want to run for the President of the United States, so he now wants to be president too.
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