Post by RILEY GRAYSON TAYLOR on Aug 22, 2011 17:45:09 GMT -5
MR. RILEY GRAYSON TAYLOR
sixteen | mckinley high | cameron mitchell
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" Hi, I'm Riley, and I'm sixteen, and I'm a junior at McKinley. You probably know me 'cause I'm that kid always getting tossed in dumpsters and getting called a Jesus Freak or a nerd....I guess I sort of embrace the nerdy side of me, but being picked on for my religion kind of sucks sometimes. I mean, the constitution has that whole part about freedom of worship, so I think it should apply to being persecuted for what you believe, even in high school. But anyways, I'm straight, and I'm involved in a lot of extracurriculars...I took over as president of the Celibacy Club after Quinn Fabray left, and I'm in the AV club and on the baseball team....I'm kinda good, but I know I'm not the best. Plus that glee club thing looks cool, but I'm not sure if I'd ever work up the nerve to audition. "
" Um, I guess I'm kind of into a little bit of everything. I like baseball even though I'm not amazing at it, and I like being in the AV club. I've worked on the lighting for every single one of the drama club's productions since freshman year....I think it was pretty fun. There's some hilarious stuff that goes on up in that lighting booth that most people would probably look past even if they knew about it. I guess I'm just saying that nerds know how to have fun, too. So anyways, I like performing. I used to try out for the talent show every year in middle school and I always made it, but I'd back out of every show because I get serious stage-fright. I mean, I love singing and playing my guitar, but just being in front of people and knowing that they're criticizing your every move just freaks me out. I did take over the Celibacy Club when Quinn Fabray left, and I do still feel weird about it sometimes. I guess I was just sort of next in line for the throne. Everyone popular sort of left with Quinn. I don't really get why I don't fit in because of what I believe. When Quinn was president, she was never judged for it. She was also a lot more popular than I am, but whatever. I don't like parties. I tend to be the guy who seems to be glued to the corner because he's just hanging on the fringes and absorbing everything. I'd rather learn about people by watching them than by having to interact with them. I feel weird when I have to walk up to a girl and talk to her. And with girls, sometimes it's hard to feel obliged to stick to the 'wait-until-marriage' thing that my parents taught me. I mean, being Christian and my parents having those morals, I agree with it. I agree with the belief entirely, but I am a teenage guy, and I do have hormones, and I have those moments when I start thinking, 'To Hell with it all,' and wanting to totally stray from it. It takes a lot more maturity than I have to stick with not having sex througout high school, so I'm just juggling my hormones and my beliefs and it's just this crazy, horrible rollercoaster ride sometimes. Anyways, I hate dancing. I'm like six-foot-five and it's like there's just so much of me that I don't know what to do with it all. I guess that's one explanation for why I'm really uncoordinated. The other explanation would probably be that I'm just not gifted with the whole hand-eye thing. I'm the only kid I know who broke his nose by getting hit in the face with a baseball. I mean, it might not mean anything, but I'm pretty sure most kids would've been able to catch it. So it's a shocker sometimes that I'm even still on the team at all. And I'm afraid of heights. I think it's because I think I'm going to trip or fall off the edge somehow, like if I'm on top of a tall building or on one of those Starblaster rides at Six Flags. But I guess as far as my personality goes, I'm complicated. I've got a lot of parts to me, like being shy and getting stage-fright, yet sometimes I'm just this big ball of energy that wrecks everything in its path. Me and a lot of energy just don't mix. Those are the times when I get hit in the face with things or end up breaking stuff. "
" When I was little, I was just this really shy wallflower type of kid. I've always blended into the wallpaper. I personally think I am unique, and I am different, and there's a lot about me that stands out in a crowd, but for some reason, everyone ruled me off as just part of the furniture ever since I was a kid. My parents raised me Christian. They strongly adhered to the principles of the religion, and that meant that I did, too. I went to CCD every Tuesday and I was a Sunday School kid and I had to go to that Sex Ed class in seventh grade like all the other kids at my church. When I was a little kid through being in middle school, no one really cared what religion I was. I guess that's another reason why I can't really put my finger on why I joined Celibacy Club. I don't know why it suddenly mattered to me so much once I started high school - it was like everything else I joined; I just suddenly wanted to be involved with everything. I guess because it mattered to other people that I was religious, it started mattering to me. But when I first joined, I didn't feel like I belonged, really. Being in Celibacy Club used to be this big status symbol because it was head cheerleader Quinn and all of her friends, and then all of her friends' boyfriends. I was just sort of the lowly freshman sitting in the corner. I was always the odd man out when it used to be about popularity. I don't know why I was one of the few that stayed in it after everyone left, and I'm still kind of confused as to why I wanted to be president. I don't like attention at all; I'd never do something just to be in charge of a lot of people. I don't want everyone looking at me because I know I'd feel weird about it. A lot of the guys that pick on me say that I want to shove my beliefs down people's throats, and that's not true either. I guess I just wanted a way of representing what I believe in without saying that it's right and that other people's faith is wrong. I just wanted to be able to have people acknowledge my religion based on the beliefs that I adhere to rather than just knowing from the cross around my neck and tossing me in a dumpster because of that. "
" I'm Haley. 2 years RP experience. That guy up there that I'm using as my play-by is Cameron, and he is my future husband. So yeah. You all should know me by now. I'm in charge of you people and all that. lightningthief22 on AIM or just PM me, please. PM will probably reach me faster since I'm never on AIM. "
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