Your persona:
Name: Valentine Holt
Nickname: Val. With such an unfortunate first name, what would -you- tell people to call you?

Position/Occupation: Mechanic/grease monkey
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Birthdate: June 15th, 2691
Birthplace: Earth - Midwest

Parents and family:
Father: James (Jim)
Occupation: Politician
Mother: Carol
Occupation: Politician's wife
Siblings: Sue Ellen (2 years younger); James Jr. (2 years older)

Physical description:
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 125
Eye shape/color: Just your average shape, gray green hazel
Facial features: Val is reasonably good looking but in a non-specific and normal sort of way. There's nothing glaringly wonderful about any of his features. They just work nicely together.
Hair color/style/texture: Dyed bright purple with about two inches of solid black roots. Sticks out all over the place – more tufted than spikey.
Complexion: A bit pale from spending too much time in garages and workshops.
Build: On the slim and wiry side.

Identifying marks: A few tattoos - mostly artsy knot-work/linear designs - just black, no color - A generally v-shaped design between his shoulderblades, a small upside-down v-shaped design at the base of his spine, a bracelet-like design around his right upper arm, and a diamond-esque design around his navel.

Handiness: Right

Dress: Overalls or coveralls when he's working - which is most of the time. When he's being social, he tends towards 'clubbing' clothes. Nothing overly slutty or tasteless - but enough to usually set his conservative family's collective teeth on edge. Colorwise, he leans towards purple (hence the hair), black, silver, and white.

Jewelry: Numerous piercings, all silver - enough metal all told to stick fridge magnets to. Mostly around either ear, one in his right nostril, two in his left eyebrow. And one in the navel. Owie.

General Background: The middle child of three, Val neither had the pressure of being the eldest nor the coddling of being the youngest. Left to himself for the most part, he was content to fiddle with his tinkertoys. His earliest memories were of his father campaigning for something or other - and most memories of his formative years were filled with the exact same thing. His entire family life revolved around his father's political career, and though his mother, brother, and sister all contributed whole-heartedly, he never took much interest in it.

At school, he was a reasonably intelligent student who applied himself and got respectable grades. His brother, two years ahead of him, was popular, well-liked, and a football player. Definitely a member of the A-group. His sister, following two years behind him, was perky, also well-liked, and a cheerleader. Still A-group material. Val was sociable enough and not bad on the eyes, but he prefered the company of a crowd that didn’t spend half of its time running about in a trendily dressed herd and the other half turning on each other like a pack of mad hyena.

His new friends introduced him to the more interesting sides of piercings and hair dye and gave him a nicely diverse point-of-view from his rather stiff home environment. Much to his father's chagrin, his favored school activity turned out to be shop class and not student government which he avoided like the plague due to serious lack of interest. He discovered a real talent with machinery and also an actual enjoyment of working with it, eventually getting an afterschool job at a local garage – instead of with his father’s campaign office as was expected of him. Even after graduation from highschool, he kept his job at the garage, foregoing further education in favor of something he actually –liked–.

Though his older brother and younger sister were dedicated to their father’s work, helping out with rallies and public outings, Val gradually started to avoid them which, as he started taking more and more liberty with his appearance, his father was likely grateful for. In fact, both his father and older brother were known to comment that Val was more like a middle finger than a middle child – always sticking out and offending people. Most people might have found that sort of comment a little on the offensive side, but he didn’t really take it seriously.

Knowing that his choice of dress and lifestyle where hardly what your average politician wanted to advertise, Val just let himself fade out of the public view. Just because he didn’t like his father’s career, didn’t mean that he wanted to harm it. Each to his own. So he turned his attention towards his work and his friends, and left it at that.

Personality: Val looks like a little punk, but really isn't that bad. He wasn’t the kind of person to outspokenly rebel against his family. He just sort of gradually drifted in the opposite direction. Granted, he started getting the piercings and tattoos for shock value, but he only kept getting them after realizing how much he actually liked them on an artistic level. No stranger to clubs or raves, he likes the press of dancing, sweaty humanity but he isn’t a poster child for the evils people like his father pinned on such places. In other words, he doesn’t smoke (much), have casual sex (often), or do drugs (true). He doesn’t agree with his family’s values, but he also doesn’t have anything against them personally, so he just tries to stay out of the way and not draw public attention to himself. He truly loves his work and his passion makes him an extremely good mechanic. Though he’s fairly content working at the garage, he’d be more than happy to take any better opportunity that came along.

On a personal level, he’s not very serious – almost always joking and sometimes a bit too glib. He’s intelligent but tends to divert that intelligence only into things he’s actually interested in. Generally affable and friendly, he likes crowds and being social. He gets lonely easily but fills his time with work to make it manageable. Easy-going, it’s difficult to make him angry, but distinctly possible. He’s just a slow-burn.

Hobbies: With the soul of a grease monkey, Val likes tinkering even when he’s not at work. He enjoys sketching the little ideas he has from time to time, and designing new and interesting tattoos that he may or may not make official one day. He also has a weakness for retro New Wave music.