David Summers

**David Summers** is a character role-played by []

## General Information

David, grew up in the safe northeastern suburbs as the first of 4 children. His parents still go to church every Sunday and call him every week asking if he has yet joined a church or found a nice catholic girl. David is an educated fellow who holds an MBA and was a member of the prestigious fraternity Alpha Sigma Alpha.  When in the car alone he prefers to listen to classic rock over any modern pop or rap hit and if it’s late enough, relationship radio talk shows to listen to others happiness as he searches for his one and only. David’s the kind of guy to wave to his neighbor every morning when he takes the bathrobe walk to pick up the newspaper. He is a man of awful puns and dad jokes that can catch even the most stone-faced criminal off guard with his harmless and innocent demeanor. When approaching an establishment at the same time as a woman, elderly gentleman, or someone over weight he slightly walks ahead as to hold the door for them, expecting nothing in return. David’s preferred alcoholic beverages are as follows, if it is the morning or brunch time, he will take a bloody mary and requests an extra celery stick, if it’s the afternoon returning home from a jog or “jog” could be a soft “j”, David will take a nice afternoon IPA preferably Juicy or Hazy, never a Sour. In the evening David prefers a nice cocktail of the whisky or vodka variety including but not exclusive to an Old Fashion, Whisky Ginger, White Russian, or Moscow Mule. When going out expecting to consume and alcoholic beverage, David always pre arranges rides as to not get behind the wheel and put fellow drivers or himself at risk. Is a car speeding through the neighborhood? David would shout to slow down and write down the make of the car for later if he catches them doing it again. He comes from a nice neighborhood after all and we live in a society. David took great pride in his old home out North East especially the salt water pool in the backyard and his neatly cut grass.

David has a strong fear and negative reaction to firearms. As a youth in grade school, David witnessed a classmate lose his eye as a result of playing with an airsoft gun. The daily reminder of the permanent effects guns can have on someone's life gained from looking across at his classmate influenced David heavily. As a result, David does not carry a firearm even in self-defense. When in the presence of a firearm David has been known to vomit, pee himself, or mumble in fear if threatened. If a weapon was not brandished in a threating way or just used to show off, David would politely ask them to put it away, while taking a handful of steps back. For self-defense, David relies on his boy scout pocket knife that he keeps in his back pocket and will frequently brag about its variety of handy uses.

Unfortunately, his sheltered suburban life leaves David completely oblivious to the more niche criminal activity of those around him. David is not a criminal but his naïve personality and lack of understanding that anyone would ever want to commit a crime could get him in trouble. David also suffers to empathize with people that grew up in violent or lower income situations different than his own. He would not rub it in, but some may take his obliviousness or his response to their behavior the wrong way.

David is a regular smoker of menthol cigarette’s, a habit that he picked up in college at a Fraternity party. An example how David can easily succumb to peer pressure around those he considers close friends. David is trusting to an extreme extent and is used to being treated as he treats others. David is happy to pick up a hitch hiker and take them to their destination even if it is out of the way in the search of engaging conversation. Additionally, David may be set off and forced to give a piece of his mind to individuals disrupting the peaceful surroundings by playing their music too loud, driving too fast, attacking, or harming his fellow citizens, if the situation is not relating to firearms regardless how sentient they are, or God forbid hurts a nearby innocent animal, especially dogs.

David is an easy-going guy for the most part and strives to serve as a levelheaded voice of reason in his professional life as to not alienate or lose valuable employees. In his social life he is always up for a good debate but will take a hard line on simple topics with flaky at best justification. As an example, Daphne is way better than Velma due to his affinity for redheads. Or that the best dinosaur is the stegosaurus because Spike in The Land Before Time was the only dinosaur smart enough to realize they should not be able to talk.

David is in good health despite his regular smoking habit due to frequent exercise and good genetics. He has a full head of hair that he brags he will have until the day he dies like the other men in his family. When it comes to fashion he feels most comfortable in casual wear although he has not figured out how to pick out his own clothes in a way others would say matches. He does still like to put on a suit and dresses up for social events. It provides him with a sense of confidence and reminds him of his previous respected position in corporate America.

David enjoys harmless recreation, like fishing along side his best friend Cleo Cloak, stirring conversation, movies especially those from the 80’s and 90’s, a nice “jog”, visiting and photographing the dogs and other animals throughout the city. David strives to be a level head in a sometimes-insane world but, everyone has a dark passenger from time to time and a grave misjustice can push even the most sensible person to an extreme but calculated solution. David seeks to spread his unique brand of sanity and positivity for the people out there that haven’t realized they could use a little more summer in their year.

## Romance

David is single and has used his remaining income after his divorce and childless marriage in pursuit of a new life in a new city. Previously, his social circle was primarily limited to his now ex-wife that was more than controlling in their relationship and her approved circle of friends. She instructed David how to dress, how the house was to be decorated, made him cut ties with the friends from his fraternity days, and demeaned him at every turn and romantic gesture that he tried. You see she was an uptight woman, a woman from class and stature that David felt secure with and gave him a sense of “making it”.

Post-divorce David has become somewhat of a womanizer with an old school approach. He gets the hint but will shoot his shot if the situation presents itself. When dating he likes to take things slow, deploys retro lingo, and holds a self-constructed relationship ladder and expectations based on cheesy John Hughes movies.

## Work Life

Professionally David was working in finance for a morally bankrupt corporation that focused on pushing profits over the well-being of small companies or the people that worked for them, a concept that David never realized. He would sort out the finances of small companies during the acquisition process believing that working for a larger corporation will be best for not only the company that is being acquired but their employees as they will have a larger salary, better benefits package, and increased job security. Unknown to David, the corporation actually used his analysis to then justify gutting those companies and laying off their employees in pursuit of only the valuable Intellectual property that they held. David was always onto the next acquisition after sale so the consequences of his actions went unnoticed. After the stress of his divorce David has since left the company ceremoniously receiving a company party to celebrate his years of service and his benefit to the corporate overlords and their stock price. David started seeking a more passion driven career as a nature and wildlife photographer and later moved on to photography at LSBN and reporter of "Positive News" to brighten peoples days and to get away from all the loud and hectic noise of corporate life. He worked at Burger Shot for a while as a Part-timer, his one condition is that he would never "Sheesh", but it still affected him as he would scream any time anyone else would "Sheesh" around him. Eventually he started working at Digital Den, he was very passionate about the business and quickly became the CEO's right hand man, and even took over the mantle once the CEO (Maytag Mortimer) stepped away.

## Physical Appearance

David has white hair and his fashion sense being a little wacky and out of date can cause his clothes to be mismatched.