Hector/profile

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## Hector

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## Personality

Hector is easily amused, friendly and compassionate. Despite having a really low opinion on humanity as a whole, they assume the best of the individual until proven otherwise. They have a distinct weakness for pretty faces, so handsome people tend to get away with noticeably more bullshit than others. In that regard they are a bit shallow.

Growing up with two significantly older siblings meant that their parents didn’t really have the time or interest to go through the raising process so they set up a set of strict rules they expected Hector to obey without actually trying too hard to keep them in place. That resulted in Hector considering them more a type of optional recommendation that could be disregarded as long as they didn’t get themselves caught. This attitude still shows in the way they treat laws and regulations.

Their addiction to adrenaline makes it a perfect recipe for trouble. They love their job and physical fights and anything that lets them push their limit. However, they left the years of actively trying to endanger themselves behind them. Nowadays, they at least will do themselves the courtesy of coming up with a pseudo-justifiable reason. Convincing them to go on adventure will take no time at all.

They don’t deal well with being yelled at. The range of reaction, depending on situation, can go from freezing up to flinching away to lashing out, depending on situation. This is seemingly at odds with a personality that is so attracted to confrontation, but there are certain situations that even they find uncomfortable.

Thanks to previous experiences, they find it hard to connect to other people on more than a superficial level. They decided to make sure that as many humans as possible find their way back home in as good as condition as possible. This is their sole purpose now

## Background

Hector was an unruly child, loud and starved for attention with significantly older siblings and parents, the last unplanned family addition and easily recognized as such. A lack of playmates around the household forced them to take matters into their own hands and wander off to explore until they escaped parental supervision often enough to prompt them to sign them up for acrobatics, as they hoped that would provide an outlet for all that pent up energy.

They took to it like a fish to water and they kept it as a hobby for years to come. Being rather tall and wiry from the start and with a solid athletic foundation, they got recruited for the track and field team as soon as they entered school age. “Amelie Irving” to this day holds half of the school’s records in terms of sports events.

Being good at sports comes with popularity and they were no exception to that rule. Generally well-liked they had a large crowd of friends. It was pretty crushing for them to realize they never were all that close in the first place when their so called friends finally turned on them, too.

When they found out at their 18th birthday that they were the result of an affair from their mom, that was the final straw. Suddenly, it made sense why their parents would barely look at them or the brief flash of guilt when they saw them laugh a certain way. Since their siblings were long moved out, they packed their stuff, emptied their bank accounts and left for the US to track down their biological father because why the hell not. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Out of money and with no idea where to even start, they stranded in California. Then they realized they couldn’t even legally drink in this country. They took a job as a waitress and when one of the regulars asked, they poured out their entire story. Venting was nice. The stranger finding them funny was even nicer. Making a new friend who offered to smuggle them into a bar so they could get at least that checkbox of a self-pity trip off their list was the absolute best, or so they thought.

Not a week later this friend introduced them to who soon would become their husband. They were young and stupid and in love and married him just a few months later.

There are very cruel fairy tales out there and this was one of them.

Three years later they were divorced, on not quite voluntary leave from their job as a stunt actor, forfeiting a court battle for custody of their child in favour of their sister before they even tried.

Another four years later, they are back in their job, more successful than ever, finally free and somewhat at peace with themselves.

And yet when the note comes in, and when they think about their life so far, they don’t have anything to hold them back, don’t they? So why not. Another adventure, another lifetime to make mistakes. They’re the expert at the fall, what is another?

## Trivia

* Hector’s nickname comes from a role they landed in their school, as Hector from Troy. It was a rewritten and modernized version for the school festival and years later their school friends still quote their most memorable lines at them.
* Tendency to take care of people who were neglected as children.
* Their son's name is Caleb and he is being raised by their sister. They never talk about him.
* Nowadays, their siblings work as a marine biologist(brother) and event coordinator (sister) respectively, the latter also in the US.
* They do mostly stunt rigging and combat, but recently picked up a course for aquatic stunts to broaden their skillset.
* Hector does not plan to return to Earth.
* They're enrolled in Astrum University as a med student.

## Quotes

* > "*Say Something Here*"
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