Torrance Harroz O'Neal

Torrance Harroz O'Neal, hailed Torrance, is one of Thirlcrest's many physically gifted students, but he is sure to prove less generic than his common figure testaments him to be. His backstory is scathed with troubles and disappointments, but doesn't lack positives and niche traits that are sure to prove interesting. He is played by Z3Cop.
==Appearance==
Torrance is gifted with a dynamic duo of jet black dreads and hazel eyes. His outfits, though standout from most regular students, are rather laid-back and generic. His outfits don't exactly serve as a testament to anything regarding who he is as a person, though. 
A corn-fed boy from the north-eastern region of Oklahoma, his genetics seem to be God's personal gift to him. His build is representative to that of an ectomorph and mesomorphic mix, a personal gift of long limbs and broad shoulders, but an ability to put on muscle mass with more ease than others.
Torrance's attire is mostly a testament to which college teams he likes, what the weather is looking outside, or what he could find in his closet. Though, he is most commonly seen wearing a rather generic black hoodie over a mildly unbuttoned button-up shirt. Aside from his clothing, his ears are pierced and donned with diamond cluster earrings. He usually also has a pair of matte black tinted sun glasses poked into his cluster of dreads, resting on his head.
==Characteristics==
Torrance cuts out to be one of the more moderate personalities regarding being a trouble maker, compared to others on the campus of Thirlcrest. His personality is rather turbulent and advocative, and makes him out to have decent-leveled mental stability and capacity. Furthermore, Torrance comes off to be rather confident, decently capable of managing the stress in his life, though these attributes are expected and come with most athletes of his caliber. Despite all of the compliments and niche traits to his personality, Torrance does seem to not flourish is being resistant to attempts to fit in or being socially manipulated. His dire attempts to remain in good standing with those who are at the top of social food chains plays a crucial role in his appearance and attendance of Thirlcrest. His backstory explains how this seemingly assertive type of boy came to be reliant on fitting in and being at the pinnacle of social attention and praise.
Taking into account his personality and flaws, Torrance is rather outgoing and will attempt to be the type who makes conversation or breaks ice if he so wishes to. As for his success with being a well liked and outgoing student? They are decent, and do play a role in what makes him capable of fitting in, but his caliber as an athlete who is capable of being a vital part of any varsity sports team he appears on contributes the most to any form of his popularity among peers. Digging even deeper, Torrance does appear to have some control over his desire to fit in with certain peers, and despite the nature of most students who are athletically gifted like him and chase to be popular and well-liked, he doesn't exactly go out of his way to pick on those who are socially or physically below him. His methods for not associating with them? Ignoring them and letting them be, though going to the farthest measures to assure he does not interact with them. Lastly, Torrance easily checks the boxes of someone who will resolve to physical altercations if push comes to shove, and has quite the track record with such. 
==Character Background==
=== CHAPTER 1: YOUTH & ELEMENTARY ===
The exhilarating plains and rural living of Bixby, Oklahoma. The former home and birth place to Torrance Harroz O’Neal, and the place would be where most of his life and future were set into motion. A seeming solitude to Torrance, forever his home in his heart. Though, this solitude could also be considered the where the troubles in his life began, but such argument could be put down with how it is where all of his enrichments came to be. A boy of good virtue, though so easily manipulated to become the type of delinquent to have to attend an academy such as Thirlcrest.
Growing up, Torrance was the eldest of two, a brother and a sister growing up. An eldest of two, especially with each being of either gender, became to be one of the many experiences that fleshed Torrance into the young man he is currently. Each experience of his adolescence serving as testaments to who he truly is. Regarding his youth and growing up, Torrance was just a little over 3 years old when his father, whomst he barely was able to grow up with, passed away and left him without a father figure. Though, Torrance never used this experience as a way for gaining sympathy, he had no choice but the automatic sympathy that came from his mother. Before even becoming a teenager, Torrance underwent the trials and tribulations of being raised by a single mother with two other mouths to feed beside him and herself. Torrance, while living in a situation that many had probably undergone, was put in one of the most unique circumstances. A single mother, who chose to only work one job due to a battle with laziness, leaned on her eldest child to be an overseer of the household.
His household, the solitude of it beginning to diminish due to the stress of his situation and the expectations that he carried on his shoulders. A mother, who could only put in enough effort to feed the mouths at the dinner table, and for rare and occasional luxuries or pleasures. Still being young, Torrance had plenty of opportunities to flourish, and thus’ collected playing football to be an outlet. His athletic prowess was an inflation to his ego, but this hobby became more than just his sport to him, it was capable of becoming his full-fledged life thanks to his natural ability. Considering his home life, Torrance was relatively limited and oppressed in opportunities, such making football the perfect outlet in his life. With such, Torrance began to develop a bond with the sport and the team he played for, the sport was extremely prominent in such a strong football state. Though, with the sport and the popularity that came with it, came shifts and fleshed out traits of his personality. These changes played roles and created the Torrance known currently, and contributed to each personality trait and characteristic that is described.
Playing through his elementary years, Torrance’s household situation found new life with the appearance of Torrance’s step-father, now estranged, Garrett. While in his youth, it was without a doubt easy to appreciate Garrett, as he gave the household and family liberation. Torrance’s mother became more motivated to escape her laziness, and became more productive as a mother and employee in her workspace. Garrett was already a productive human being, a good step-father, and provided the family with wealth that Torrance’s mother couldn’t cover. There wasn’t any rhyme or reason for distaste of Garrett, afterall he provided Torrance with new opportunities to help him excel considering his overwhelming athletic prominence entering his middle school years of playing organized football. While playing middle school football, Torrance’s life was taking a positive turn for him, and it would help him blossom as an athlete. Breezing throughout middle school, Torrance excelled as an athlete and puberty skyrocketed him in his favor. As a result of this his ego was boosted, and he was a social king amongst his peers. Though, high school would just open another door for him.
=== CHAPTER 2: PRE-THIRLCREST HIGH SCHOOL ===
Entering high school, Torrance was living up to high expectations to take the reigns as a leading defensive player for the Bixby Spartans. Already having a chip on his shoulder, a bolstered ego, and his football skills turning the tide in his favor, he did amazing. Though, as Torrance was doing amazing in football, the scarcity of students of African-American descent became apparent in the plains of northeastern Oklahoma. Thus, Torrance was more prompted to associate with students of his race, due to the comfort that resided in not always being with their counter acting Caucasian students. Though, despite the band of brothers, trouble and bad influences lurked in and jeopardized Torrance’s integrity as a student-athlete fully. Though it should go without saying, Torrance already was partaking in unethical and outright immature activities, the bad influences that came with the band of brothers were extremely apparent.
While scaling through his freshman year, Torrance’s bad influences became heavily reliant on trying to lean towards a lifestyle of crime and trouble as many other students of his race did. This obviously, due to Torrance’s flaw of dire attempts of staying at the top of social food chains and being popular, meant he followed in the footsteps until being intervened with. Torrance was excused of his behavior due to extremely good standing with the school because of his bolstering image as a future collegiate athlete, but Torrance’s step-father was quick to intervene, the only person in his life who would dare to take such an approach. This was easy to aggravate Torrance, considering he wasn’t aware enough to see that Garrett was the only one brave enough to stop him from crashing him potential as an athlete and student into the ground.
Entering his sophomore year, in an attempt to shine more light on Torrance’s athletic dominance and also to stray him away from trouble, Torrance was transferred to attend Broken Arrow High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The school was expecting the extremely dominant athlete, serving as a perfect landing place for the athlete. Broken Arrow tested Torrance’s prowess as an athlete even more, considering their reputation for driving towards a state title almost every year. Torrance did not disappoint as Broken Arrow’s starting defensive end, and his performance was eye-catching across the state, proving him to be an extremely capable prospect.
Continuing through his sophomore year, Torrance had struggles with stay in connections with his bad influences from his previous Bixby High School, this proving to be dangerous to him as a top-prospect. A heavily influenced life of crime and dare-devil hobbies proved to finally catch up to Torrance, as he was caught by police in a scandal that was completely capable of jeopardizing Torrance’s future as an athlete. Torrance’s mother and step-father, in a heavy attempt to save his future, pleaded and bargained with police to have the scandal shoved under the rug and dismissed from Torrance After the night, deliberations for sparing Torrance of another scandal like such from occurring began, and whilst Garret and Madonna had saved Torrance, there was no guarantee they could bail him out in a second scenario. Thus, with the concern of keeping Torrance’s future safe, they collectively decided to send him to Thirlcrest Academy. Despite the less prominence of football in the New England region, top college football prospects of Torrance’s caliber who also struggled with staying out of trouble were present in the school, meaning Torrance could most likely complete his academics there without losing his reputation as a top prospect and keeping in good standing with prominent schools such as the University of Oregon.
Thus, right before Torrance began his junior year at Thirlcrest Academy, Torrance was rewarded with a lower end four star ranking from Rivals. This made him even more on the radar for early recruiting as he was entering his junior year, though doubts rained down on him as he was openly attending a school for dealing with troublesome students, and being an athlete there could mean leave a distasteful look on Torrance’s athletic dominance. 
=== CHAPTER 3: THIRLCREST ARRIVAL ===
Right before Torrance began his junior year at Thirlcrest, the four star defensive end prospect committed to the University of Oregon, becoming a Duck. This would bolster his ego even more before stepping onto campus at Thirlcrest, a good attribute to have before attending a school of such nature. Though, Torrance still has many trials and tribulations to conquer, most importantly on his list getting into good standing and prominence with the Varsity clique. Torrance has aspirations to pursue a defensive end position on the team as soon as he can, also putting forth his personality trait to get into good standing with those at the top of social food chains.
Currently, Torrance is just a recent arrival on campus, but has high expectations and standards for himself. His story is just beginning.
==Relationships==
===Madonna Yeldell O'Neal - Mother===
Torrance is still in contact with his mother, frustration with her for sending him to Thirlcrest is rather apparent in most interactions, but Torrance does not deny loving and remaining in close connection with his mother, considering such is the truth.
===Garret Christopher Laframboise - Step-Father===
Torrance's relationship with his step-father is nothing short of estranged, and communication is bottom of the barrel. Torrance does not ever volunteer to speak about his step-father or their relationship. Though, despite his seclusion regarding the topic, has notably expressed his extreme placement of blame and distaste in his step-father for playing a critical role in his departure to Thirlcrest.
== Trivia ==
* Torrance, as of the summer of before his Junior year, committed to the University of Oregon. He has yet to sign a Letter of Intent. Furthermore, a majority of Torrance's aliases originate from his commitment to the prominent school. Sco Ducks!
* Torrance is a low end four star defensive end prospect, his ranking profile can be found on the Rivals.com recruiting prospects website.
* Torrance's playstyle is unique to the defensive end position for the era, and is the reason why he is only considered a low end four star. Despite being considerably undersized compared to other defensive ends, he still excels at strength, but his undersized build allows for agile speed and footwork. He is capable of being compared to edge rusher James Pearce Jr. of the University of Tennessee. 
* Despite being such a prominent athlete and large-scale prospect, Torrance is currently a nonnie. The reason for such can be logically explained due to his extremely recent appearance on campus and the Varsity's lack of contact with him.
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