Lloyd Bower

**Lloyd Bower**

 **Discord Username:** InsaneGiraffe
 **Platform:** Discord
 **Gender:** Cisgender Male
 **Rank:** Leader

**Physique**
Lloyd had brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5’3, and although he doesn’t look the part, he is actually pretty strong. He has a tattoo sleeve as well as tattoos on his neck. There are angel wings on the back of his neck. Up the right side of his neck, there is small calligraphy text that reads, “To live without hope it to cease to live.” The front of his neck has a flower with a checkered pattern fading away from it up to his jaw and halfway down his upper right arm where it meets a band of twisted vines with thorns. These vines then dangle down into a wolf tattoo on the underside of his forearm. On the underside of his left wrist is a tattoo of Kai’s name with a heart. He likes muscle shirts to show off his tattoos but often wears hoodies over them, too.

**Persona**

 **(-) Timid, unsure** | Lloyd often doesn’t know what answer is right when he comes to a road block. He does his best to do what is right for himself and others, but he often struggles with decision making.

**Family**

 **Kai Griffin** | Kai is Lloyd's fiancé. Despite not particularly liking her at first, he found himself connecting with her and fell in love. He knows he made the right decision in proposing to her despite not even dating for a full year.

**Background**

* Lloyd begins dating Miranda Hanson. She asked him out, and though he wasn’t particularly attracted to her, he decided he would give it a shot. He had his first kiss with her after walking her home from the movie theater on their fourth date. It was a bad experience since she nearly pushed him off the porch into her rose bushes. He broke up with her after only a month of being together because she gave a bad vibe, and he didn’t really like it.
* Lloyd begins to date Hannah Fox. He asked her out after hitting her with a basketball during a varsity basketball game at the school. She definitely meant more to him than Miranda ever did, but he never really found himself falling in love with her; it never felt quite right. She continuously tried getting him to do intimate things he wasn’t ready for, and it made him uncomfortable. After Derek Knox and Kylee Davis framed him for kissing Kylee when she had actually kissed him, Hannah had an outburst. She was angry and claimed Lloyd never loved her. After that, they split up, but Lloyd never felt right afterwards.
* Lloyd ran off after confronting Dwight about his affair. He wanted to make things right in his family, but when his father told him to stay quiet, Lloyd found himself unable to endure the pressure. He hated leaving Norma in the dark but found it easier to simply leave.
* Lloyd found himself jumping between friends’ houses to snag time to shower and eat, but after only a week, he felt taking advantage of friendships for these things was a bad thing and stopped. He began sneaking back into his house to snag things to eat, fresh clothes, showers, and money.
* Growing worried, Norma had sent in a missing person’s report and posted signs around town saying that Lloyd was missing, but Dwight never let her look for him herself.
* Lloyd gets his first tattoo, the angel wings, as a rebellion against his parents. He later adds the flower and checkered pattern merely because he likes the design and the thorn ring to represent his feelings of being trapped.
* Lloyd began spending tons of time alone in the woods. He found comfort in the sounds of what was around him, and he grew to have an appreciation for nature.
* Beginning to realize that he was growing extremely lonely, Lloyd decided he needed some real human interaction and left to woods to the park where he met Aidan Romero. Aidan recognized him from the posters and dragged him to a warehouse where he was told he should join a gang called the Forsaken. It was more told than asked, so Lloyd had no choice but to join.
* Lloyd meets Kai Griffin for the first time when Aidan asks her to keep an eye on him. He isn’t thrilled at first and calls her “princess” as more of an insult than a compliment, but he still felt like he should be friends with her.
* Kai confesses she has feelings for Lloyd, and he is surprised more than anything. It had taken them a while to connect, and he hadn’t expected her to say such a thing after he’d treated her like crap at first. He liked her some, too, but he wanted to make things right with his parents before getting into a relationship.
* Lloyd decides to return home. He wasn’t planning on saying anything to Kai until afterwards, but when she asks him for a second time how he feels about her, he finally decides to tell her.
* After telling Norma about the affair, Lloyd is blindsided to find out that she already knew about the affair and that a divorce was in progress. Angered by this, he leaves to seek comfort from Kai.
* Lloyd and Kai take turns having to support each other. After Kai accidentally kills Jasper Jordan, Lloyd felt a stronger need to try to protect Kai. When she killed the three opposing gang men, he wanted to take the fall for her because he knew that it would further disturb her. He only took the deal of moving back in with his parents because he knew it would keep her safe.
* Lloyd gets his wolf tattoo to represent his love and attachment to Kai.
* Lloyd meets Noel and Jamie Kahn for the first time. They both seem pretty cool and are supportive of Lloyd and Kai’s relationship.
* Meeting Jason Martin shook Lloyd. Finding out that Jason killed Kamryn Griffin and was out for Kai freaked him out. Lloyd and Kai later find out that Noel helped in Kamryn’s death.
* After taunting from Jason and Noel, Kai ends up killing them. She is quite shaken, and Lloyd does his best to help her.
* Lloyd was unsure at first about being a parent, but in the end, he was glad to have adopted Connor.
* Lloyd get’s Kai’s name tattooed on the underside of his left wrist.
* Discovering that Jaydenn Griffin was alive an Kamryn’s “lost” twin excited Kai, and Lloyd was glad to see her happy. Despite this, he was angry when Jay gave her pills and alcohol to help with her anxiety.
* Lloyd goes to his mother's house where he retrieves his grandmother's wedding ring. His grandfather had given it to him for when he was ready to get married. Later that day, Lloyd and Kai go on a date, and he proposes to her on the beach.
* After Kai begins suffering from hallucinations, Lloyd continuously urges her to see a doctor and finally gets her submitted to the hospital. Despite some troubles with the meds at first, he was glad that they seemed to be helping her.
* Lloyd and Kai find out that Kamryn is actually alive. Despite the excitement that came with this, Lloyd wishes Kamryn would have stuck around to spend time with his sister.
* Lloyd and Kai attend prom. When Lloyd goes to retrieve them both punch, he bumps into Hannah, who has a gun. (Hannah's father is a police officer, thus giving her easy access to a weapon.) She herds him outside where she insists that Kai is no good for him. Fortunately, Jay had seen Lloyd and Hannah leave and alerts Kai. After a small scuffle, Kai knocks Hannah out and drags her to the woods where she kills her. Lloyd never wanted anything bad like that to happen to Hannah and is upset with Kai. Noticing this, Kai asks him if he still cared for her. He responded, “Kai, I care about you more than I ever cared about her. When we broke up, she was mad at me, and I just walked away from her and pretended like there was never anything between us. Frankly, I don’t think either one of us ever got closure from that.” He also admits that sometimes her violence is too much for him and that Hannah was just hurt and confused because she didn’t get what she wanted from him.
* Lloyd finds out that Dwight is getting married to one of the women he was having an affair with: Derek's mom, Barbara. Lloyd is furious with that information, but Dwight invites him and Kai to the wedding anyways. Lloyd says they'll think about it but ends up changing his mind when Dwight demands the ring back. Lloyd and Kai refuse and leave. Afterwards, Lloyd has a strong feeling that they are being watched.

**Gallery**

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