Larten Winters

> "Larten Winters? Oh, right. Eastwood Kid. Uh. I hear he's on the disciplinary course. Personally, I think he wouldn't stand a chance against the Skaters. Heard he's a fucking asshole, though."
>
> - Ayana talking about Larten.

### Aliases

- Lar.- Lantern.- Guy who lost his arm in a fight with a bear.- 16 going on 60.

### Affiliation

- Eastwood Academy.- Eastwood Academy Disciplinary Course.

## General Info

Larten Winters is a 16-year-old Omnisexual/Homoromantic boy, currently Eastwood Student. He’s notable for his appearance, mainly his grey hair and lack of arm. He’s irritable and unpleasant, usually found brooding around the school or its surrounding town.

## Personality

Larten is a man who is usually calm and neutral at first. He tries desperately to keep to himself due to his easily provoked nature, but he can easily be pulled from that state.

Larten is extremely easy to provoke. By nature, he’s an aggressive person. He confronts things that he doesn’t like in an unpleasant and impolite manner and overly seems to not be able to control his anger. He’s snappish and all too easily annoyed. A good way to describe interacting with him is “Walking on eggshells”⁠— If you do something he considers out of line, he’ll slam you into the metaphorical eggshells no matter what. There are few limits to his anger, especially when his thoughts about the situations his anger gets him in to come into the picture in bursts of regret and self-righteousness… But, I digress. He’s excellent when it comes to verbally degrading people, though I don’t mean that positively. He hates arguments and debates⁠— And he hates it more when somebody makes a good comeback. It seems to go in a cycle⁠— Verbally argue with him and get physically hurt, or get physically hurt and argue with him.

Though it doesn’t seem like it, Larten is very easy to manipulate if you do it in a certain way. He can easily be overwhelmed and almost crazed when he feels he’s in a state of immense power. Making him feel like royalty or tricking him into believing he has more power than he actually does is the best way to get him to bend to your will. This is easy because Larten feels powerful by default— He knows that he’s capable of harm and that his aggression can make him very good at beating people up. But when you make him think he can do more? Well, most times you can play him like a fiddle, let me tell you.

Due to his upbringing, Larten isn’t very trusting. His sisters were cruel bastards, his parents weren’t the best, and any friends he made at school quickly turned away from him upon seeing his true nature. He’s hard to befriend due to the way his mind works, and due to this is usually on edge. He needs time and patience to get to know people⁠— It’s hard to get him to like you in a day, let alone comfortable. He struggles with keeping in contact with people he meets⁠— Even if you give him your phone number and text him daily, he’ll struggle with continuing to talk to you.

When Larten finally begins to warm up to you, there are a few things that seem to happen quickly. He becomes a lot less snappish and aggressive, his anger becoming a little more rational. What would once get you punted into the stratosphere will get you a dirty glare and least. He loosens up considerably, becoming much less adamant to hang out and talk. He may even indulge you in his hobbies which include whatever the fuck he’s using as a coping mechanism this time. He relaxes a lot more in your presence and certainly becomes less on edge⁠—- He’d usually freeze if somebody he didn’t know that well patted him on the shoulder, but when he befriends people he becomes a lot more touchy himself if that makes sense. He showcases a cynical and ironic sense of humour and shows that he isn’t just a person who laughs when he wins.

It’s rather hard to get Larten to fall in love with you, let me tell you straight up. Larten is a mentally damaged person who seems to think that everyone is out to do the worst to him- He needs somebody firm. Somebody capable of comfort and setting boundaries. Somebody who can put him in his place while giving him the emotional support he needs. Though he craves physical contact, kisses, maybe even sex, he shouldn’t be in a relationship where it just focuses on that. I’m sure that’s just prostitution /j.

Though in all seriousness, Larten can be a good lover. He’s a person who can genuinely care for other people, though he struggles with showing his care and communication. If his partner can’t communicate with him and get him to communicate back, then let me tell you- That’ll instantly end up into something toxic.

As you may have guessed, Larten struggles with his emotions. Larten can’t control his anger in the slightest and deals with his other emotions just as badly. He bottles up his sadness and guilt a lot, though he does cry easily. When he cries somewhat unprompted, he’ll blame it on his eyes watering. Even if he were sobbing, he’d say something along the lines of the wind in his eyes.

Though it's easy to make him cry, Larten is very hard to sadden. It’s hard to get him to be genuinely hurt to the point where his bottle bursts. He doesn’t vent much, but if you’re a close friend who catches him at a bad time? Expect lots and lots of things being thrown at you at once, let me tell you.

## Appearance

Larten is a scruffy- Though somewhat attractive man. His most notable feature is his naturally white hair and his amputated arm. His hair is rather oily, making it soft but greasy. He doesn’t get much dandruff, thankfully.

His skin is pale and somewhat weathered, making some people think he’s albino. It’s littered with scars and the results of pimples, and he usually has a few scratches around his hands due to his impulses to pet every cat. His face is well built, housing a strong jaw with largeish ears. His ears both have piercings in them, a single hole in each. He usually wears earrings, but there are some times where he doesn’t for comfort. His eyebrows are black and somewhat bushy- His face is the only part of his body that houses dark hair, for whatever reason. He’s usually unshaven, housing the teenage boy pubestache on top of it. He rarely shaves, probably due to laziness and his situation- It's hard to shave with only one hand. His eyes are average-sized and naturally angry-looking due to their slanted shape and his eyebrows. His eye colour is a cold steel blue, adding to the assumption that he has albinism. His lips are thin and pale due to the “British” side of his family.

His body is stocky and large, the cause of a genetic mutation- Most people on both sides of his family are short ectomorphs, while Larten is a large endomorph. His body houses a lot of scars⁠— mainly around his torso area. His torso and legs are considerably paler compared to his arm and face due to the clothes he usually wears- A vest and jeans. He seems to have a bias against shorts. When his muscles aren’t tensed his chest is rather soft and comfortable to lay on, and the fact that he produces quite a bit of heat when warm? Perfect to cuddle. His arm isn't very visibly muscled due to fat. His hand is on the larger side and is quite veiny. His fingernails are usually cut short to stop him from biting them and are surprisingly clean. His legs are a surprisingly average length if you take his height into account- His height seems to come from his back. They're very thick, however, having large thighs, so do with that information what you will. All in all, Larten has decent physical appeal.

## Eastwood Academy Information

Larten takes Advanced Mathematics, Worldly Studies, High Literature, Science and Physical Health and Education. For extracurriculars, he takes School Newspaper, Digital Media and Career Studies.

Larten is a student who does very well when it comes to school work and getting everything done. Teamwork, cooperation with other students and respecting students inside of class, though? Not so much. If somebody distracts him, doesn't work quick enough, works too quickly, or does anything to set off his fragile temper, he is a PAIN to deal with. His grades are high but so are the number of times he's been punished.

## Backstory

Larten Winters was born in France to two rich and well-off parents. He was an unplanned pregnancy, but due to how well off and "morally correct" his parents were, they decided not to abort him. His mother was very well known in the modelling industry while his father was a wealthy businessman, the heir of a large sum of money from his grandfather. He had two absolutely vile sisters- Victoria and Cindy- and had a bad family life from the start.

Ever since he started school, Larten was sheltered and made to be as smart as possible. He was forced to mature quickly, and knew how to read fluently, and could do the level of maths that the older kids in his school could do. This was because his father and other people tutored him instead of letting him play, or do sports, or even have a social life. The reason he was forced to be the smartest of his family was that his older sisters were rude, immature, and not the best when it came to academics.

Due to his alienated life, Larten began to develop violent tendencies. From the age of around 7, he was aggressive and snappish. He was good in school but was beginning to lead an antisocial life, and his parents didn't get him therapy for it. Even though they could afford it, they didn't agree with their child talking and being diagnosed by a stranger.

Larten was very young when the worst experience of his life happened, at the younger side of 8 years old. Due to his older sister's overwhelming success in a state exam, His parents decided to go on a skiing holiday in the Swiss Alps to celebrate. As they weren't completely heartless, Larten came along with no schoolwork or study to do! Hurrah!

The first few days of the holiday were great for Larten. A lot of his stress and anger levels were reduced. He learned to ski from a private tutor and was having a lovely time.

He remembers the morning of the accident very clearly. His parents left him with their middle child‐ His slightly older sister Cindy. She was about 12, but "mature" for her age. Well, in the eyes of the adults she sucked up to. She decided that she didn't want to ski at that time and left Larten, who may I reiterate was 8, to his own devices.

As he was very similar to the way he is now, he decided that he didn't want to go on a normal ski track and went his own way. As he skied, he went severely off track, eventually hitting a rock. He sprained his ankle as he fell into the snow, unable to crawl due to the deepness of the snowdrifts…

About 7 hours later, Larten was found. He was unconscious as he was taken to a hospital by a search party, half-buried in the snow. His left arm was in the snow and was badly frostbitten, as were other parts of the left side of his body, but none were as bad as his arm. His arm was smothered in severe gangrene and had to be amputated from the mid-shoulder down to save the rest of his body.

The next few months passed in a blur as he recovered, returning to school at age 9.

As Larten started going through primary school- He went to a posh, expensive one in Britain- his anger became worse. Other students didn’t like him at all due to the way he acted- He didn’t act rich. He acted like an “angry baboon” and “like an idiot”,  this made worse by his lack of left arm. People don’t like people who stray from their norm, right?

People had a low opinion of him, making him friendless and desperate to fit in.

So that’s what he tried to do, and to make a long story short, it didn’t end well. He ended up in a very unhealthy physical and mental state. He was underweight and worse off than ever… And then he turned 13.

Larten was sent to Eastwood Academy as soon as possible. Why? All the men on his father’s side went to it, along with his sisters, so of course, he needed to go. Larten wasn’t very happy at the change- Mainly because of the entrance exam and his little knowledge on how it would accommodate him- But he eventually was accepted. Originally he was accepted due to his academic score and results on the exam, but within his first week, he proved that he needed disciplinary help too… but I digress.

He's been Eastwood for a while now and has been doing… fine. He's been focusing on his weight and working out regime and has gotten to an impressive physical standard, a healthy body weight for a muscular, endomorphic teen.

## Health

Larten is a healthy boy, tall for his age. He’s heavily built, his body lined with muscle and fat, and his physical health is top tier. Though he doesn’t take care of his skin or appearance, he’s still healthy. Mentally, however, he suffers from Intermittent Explosive Disorder, making him not entirely perfect on the health scale.

## OOC Information

Larten Winters was created by Count (sometimes called Cheese) in 2020.