Russel Roger

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**Russel Roger** was a

## Appearance

Russel is a tall, angular man, with golden blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a friendly demeanor, and can usually be found smiling. His hair has always been curly and thick, but kept at ear-length. He commonly appears to be innocently confused, giving him a very unassuming image.

For his teaching job, he dresses in a gray suit with a black tie over a white dress shirt. In his earlier years, he would wear a waistcoat instead, colorful dress shirts, and rolled sleeves above his elbows.

Russel has always been very handsome, carrying himself like a gentleman and keeping a clean-cut look about him. Many say even at his age now, he is still a very good-looking man.

## Personality

Seemingly, Russel is a timid person, who likes harmony and has a very virtuous nature. To a degree, this holds true but he is not as innocent as he feigns to be. Inwardly, he is rather critical, cynical, and in some cases, sardonic. While he expresses these qualities in being assertive and directive as a principal, he shows their more raw forms to his family.

He can be cold and analytic to them, his charismatic appearance falling at a snap. He has a very high tolerance for others, but when it does disappear, he is a very intimidating, unapproachable, and non-resolving man who aims to win and feel in control.

This tends to conflict with his wife a lot, whose conservative views he does not genuinely agree with and rub him the wrong way. He then pents up his frustrations until he explodes in an aggressive and hostile way, almost unrecognizable to the person he presents himself to be.

When he is not being violent, bitter, or unstable, he has a peculiar personality. He is a creative and innovative individual at heart, though that all was constantly suppressed growing up. Russel has a lot of ideas that he constantly battles with himself to remain pragmatic about. In turn, he is considered entertaining, memorable, and to some, eccentric, as he approaches a lot of subjects in odd ways.

## Biography

### Early life (1982-2000)

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Russel’s father was a French immigrant who emigrated with his family to Texas when he was a young boy, while his mother was a French immigrant who lived in a Creole community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. When her family moved to his city for better opportunities and they met as teenagers, they became sweethearts and swore they would get out of poverty together.

Thus as adults, when they began an oil and gas company, they found unprecedented riches. They quickly credited their success to God, shaping themselves to become very religious.

In 1981, they had their first son, Tristan, and another boy a year later, Russel. The two grew up very sheltered, their parents determined to provide them everything they would ever need. Unfortunately, their personalities were very inflexible in return. His father grew into a temperamental man, and his mother a coddling woman.

Since Russel was ten, he began suspecting he was not heterosexual, but it was not until he was twelve, when he began dating a girl in his class, did he fully realize he had no interest in girls. This terrified him, given no one in his family valued his creative mind or unusual personality alone. In addition to his father’s stoic character and mother’s awry dependency on religion, Tristan was very masculine and regularly used gay slurs with his friends, be it jokes or insults.

As Russel became a teenager, he tried to hint about it, but it was immediately confronted with anger and offense. Tristan seemed the most silent about it, but tolerated a lot of their parents’ criticism at his humor, making Russel feel very crazy in his home.

### Adolescence (2000-2005)

By the time he started at Texas A&M University, he had a reputation of being too pretentious to date. During the time he was studying English and had a part-time job as an editor on a local newspaper, het met his future wife, Marie Dupont. Her immediate taking to him reminded him of his family’s constant questioning about when he would find a girl, and he found it opportune to protect himself.

Thus, the two began dating, and while he genuinely liked her company, he was unable to show a lot of sexual interest in her. After he acquired his undergraduate degree, he spent another year to get his teaching certificate.

In 2005, he began teaching English at a local public high school and later got married to Marie. By the next year, they had their first and only child, Quentin. The pregnancy was very stressful as his wife went through depression and continued having postpartum depression after he was born.

### Adulthood (2005-Present [2031])

As a new teacher at the school, many students, especially females, began taking a sexual interest in him. Eventually, in the second semester of his third year teaching (2008), he got involved with a student.

A senior boy in his last English class of the day was failing his course, and Russel noticed he began hanging out more after school to help clean up and study. He initially perceived this as greater effort in his class, and at worst, was trying to create a bias to cut him some slack in his performance. Unfortunately for the student, Russel did not budge in his grading system and he took it up a notch, asking him directly for after-school help and increasing physical touches.

Still, Russel did not think much of it and gave the help to him, in concern to his upcoming graduation. On the week before their third quarter exams and Spring break, the boy showed up and asked for extra credit to help him before the quarter ended. As he locked the classroom door and closed all the blinds, Russel was frank and said he did not think there was anything left for him to do at this point.

This interaction is the most clear in Russel’s head, as his first, and instances after this always seem more hazy in comparison. Russel can clearly recall his friendly touches becoming rubs, his legs wrapped around him, and his baffling inability to reject his advances. His mind was always stuck on the fact he never got to kiss a boy -- never experiment, never kiss a friend as a joke -- and a young one was offering himself to him.

That was Russel’s first time with a student, with a boy, and it would not be the last. Russel carried his secret as he offered more help to students during very crucial academic periods. He never showed interest in girls, making his secret easier to hide; he utilized the first student’s demure personality to open up relationships with future desperate or afraid students.

While Russel also hid his sexual interest for his son, it wasn’t until 2018, a decade later since the first student, did his secret reach his family. Though it was not all swept from beneath his feet, they learned enough that he was gay and slept with one of his students, and that was certainly grounds for divorce. Still, the risk that the revelation would hit the public would ruin his career, his life.

Through their hardship, Russel became a more intimidating and angry man, like his father was. He put emphasis in their son, and he got in touch with a friend and teacher in Chicago about transferring there. Miraculously, he was given the news that an English teaching position was opening up.

Thus by September of 2019, Russel moved his family to Chicago and he worked as an English teacher at the school his friend referred him to. Quentin enrolled in 8th grade, though his son showed resentment toward him for having them move and causing his mother so much distress. He felt unloved by Russel hearing his father had no normal love for Marie and was not supposed to happen.

Though Russel tried to dispel that belief, him and Quentin’s relationship took a downward spiral as he worked as an English teacher for the following two years. By the upcoming third year, he learned the current principal was resigning, and due to his long teaching experience and popularity with the students, (who he took pride in not getting involved with still,) he was offered the position.

However, when he told his son he would be principal by his Sophomore year, Quentin took it very negatively. Russel felt very misunderstood that his son was not pleased and nothing he seemed to do won back his once pure admiration Quentin had for him.

That year was the most problematic they had faced yet, and it is when his looks and thoughts for his son became more serious. He perceived his relationship with his son detrimental to the security of his secret, and he began to hate his son in turn. This led him to begin to imagine caliginous romance and hateful sexual interactions with him.

During this year, a close friend of Marie’s, and Tristan’s wife, died from a long battle with cancer. This left Tristan with their five year old son, Cameron (Ron). However, grief-stricken and unsure how to take care of his son, he killed himself with his hunting rifle weeks later. Marie and Russel, in spite of their pain, took in their nephew and raised him like Quentin’s brother.

Fortunately, Russel did not harbor the same interest he had in Quentin for Ron. A partial cause for this was his desire to love Marie sexually, thus Quentin’s similar features drew him more in.

While his arguments with Quentin were common, he did not show to Marie or Ron anything beyond verbal and occasional physical abuse, if Quentin was being very difficult. When Russel was alone with him however, when Marie was working and Ron was off playing, their relationship became more sexually abusive. Their fights would be similar, but Russel would show his interest in him and make disturbing comments about wanting to punish him. One of the most alarming was when he said if Quentin did not want to act like his son, he would discipline him like a student.

This continued throughout Quentin’s Sophomore and Junior years, regardless of any girls Quentin would be seeing at the time. It was the worst in his Senior year, when Quentin got into drugs. Russel had some ideas of what his son was doing but he never said anything, instead finding it opportune to assert his dominance over the situation.

When his son entered rehab in spring of that school year, Russel’s sexual abuse reached a new high. Every look at his son was in anger, disgust, disappointment. He was able to be impatient with Quentin because Marie was just as upset, and he sometimes threatened he would hold him from graduating, which horrified his son. This was a big power imbalance, as Quentin knew he was in the wrong and was not able to do much but take it.

Their fights commonly involved things like pulling Quentin by his hair, throwing him around against walls and into other rooms, touching him under his clothes, and showing bizarre affection like forehead kisses and tight hugs.

One of their distinct fights was when Quentin said he would rather die than be touched by Russel again, and Russel laid him down with drugs he could overdose on. He put a razor down for crushing, and told him to not slit his wrist horizontally if he would cut instead.

Quentin took two of the pills and then crushed and snorted the third, before Russel watched his son have a breakdown and not go through with it. Russel sent him back into rehab and his progress was reset.

At present, Quentin still lives with his parents and Russel has since resumed his affairs with students, much more monstrous about them than when he was younger and just offering tutoring.

He was last heard of getting into a highway car accident and being in critical condition with Marie.

## Relationships

#### Tristan Roger

* Tristan and Russel would get along but were not personally close. Over the years as they got older, their relationship did improve and they became better friends, but Russel still hid his sexuality from him.

#### Quentin Roger

* Russel has a very bad relationship with Quentin, as he fantasizes about having a sexual relationship with him, romanticizing their negative feelings. He knows Quentin is impulsive and something is not right with him, making him feel more connected to his son.

#### Relatives

* Aimee Roger
* Cameron Roger
	+ Russel has a fine relationship with Ron. He tolerates a lot of Ron’s behavior, aiding to his very passive image, and instead lets Marie deal with him. He does genuinely care and love his nephew, given he is the only child of Tristan’s and his wife.

### Partners

#### Marie Roger

* Russel would describe Marie as his best friend, in spite of her being his wife for over 20 years. The two have a more rocky marriage, as she now knows he is gay and is having sexual interactions with his students. Still, the two do not want to drastically change their lives and continue living in the illusion their family is happy and healthy. Sometimes he finds Marie to be irrational and stubborn, and he will either passively ignore her or assertively engage to regain control of the situation. Otherwise, the two are actually rather dependent on each other and appear to thrive in a more work-relationship than romantic.

### Colleagues

* Coach Taylor
	+ Russel has a professional and fine relationship with Coach Taylor. He thinks he is a very good coach for the students at their school and also a good parent to Aaron and Bree. Due to their sons being friends, they sometimes see each other outside of school events.

### Students

* Aaron Taylor
	+ Russel does not have any personal problem with Aaron, who he recognizes as a band member during his years in high school and Coach Taylor’s son. He believes he is not heterosexual either, based on some reservations that Russel had growing up, too, which also dealt with not being interested or involved in masculine activities. He sees him a lot with Quentin on weekends, the two often playing video games together. He envies not having a friendship like that growing up, and is afraid Quentin is going to become romantically interested in him, proving his secret relationship with his son problematic.
* Ayse Erdemir
	+ Russel perceives Ayşe as Quentin’s first girlfriend and later gets him into a very popular group. He dislikes her as she reminds him of his own first girlfriend in 7th grade.
* Cerulean Rorschach
	+ Cerulean was the quarterback during Russel’s first year of being principal, along with being prom king and generally very popular in his school. He does not harbor any negative feelings toward him, and is aware he is one of Quentin’s close friends.
* Julian Delgado
	+ Russel has mixed feelings about Julian, who he knows is Quentin’s best friend. He was problematic when he was in high school and he believes he left a negative influence on Quentin through his teenage years, making him subsequently more difficult to Russel at home. However, he also knows him and Cerulean brought him Quentin about the drug abuse, so he believes he is a good friend to Quentin. A part of Julian makes him uncomfortable because he reminds him of Tristan, including his homophobic parts. Yet, he also argues with Marie about her very awry opinions that he sometimes thinks of him as a more outspoken version of himself. Because of this, he is highly attracted to Julian.
* Mason Solis
	+ Russel does not quite understand why he sees Mason in Quentin’s friend group, as he remembers Quentin and Julian bullied him during the boy’s senior year. He hears Cerulean is his best friend, though he remembers Cerulean was very negligent about the bullying. Still, Mason reminds him a bit of himself and he feels bad for the homophobic bullying. He knows Mason was one of his top academic-performing students.
* Minh-Chi Nguyen
	+ Minh is one of Quentin’s friends in his main social group, and she is very smart and athletic from her high school performance. He does not harbor as much resentment toward her as she did not date Quentin.
* Riley Packer
	+ Riley was a problematic individual to Russel, as she dated Quentin in his son’s senior year and perpetuated his drug abuse. He heard a couple years later that she had a drug overdose, though it was only announced as a “death” in the school and news.
* Shane Rorschach
	+ Shane is not often seen with Quentin alone, but Russel sees him in the group of friends, usually when Cerulean is present, given the two are brothers. Russel also knows him personally when he has shown up in his office, such as during Mason’s bullying case.
* Stacey Solis
	+ Russel knows Stacey as Quentin’s second girlfriend during his Junior year of high school. She was very energetic, lustful, and feminine, which made Russel jealous and envious due to his own interest in his son.