[Freeform] SON: Desmond Jameson (Twin)

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Desmond Jameson
The Intelligent and Constitutional Twin

Age: 18 on December 22, 1980
Birthday: January 14, 1962
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 132 lbs

History and Character

Quite the troublemaker, Desmond was. Like any child, there was hardly a good reason for it. Other than, of course, the fact that he had a lot more handed to him than most children ever did. It had always been present to some degree, but it perhaps began to grow more noticeable when, on his fourth birthday, he received a signed copy of the Beatles album "Please, Please Me", along with a record player, on which he had the album played until he convinced his parents to buy him more music. Later on, books became his favorite things in the world aside from the time he spent bonding or otherwise hanging out with his fraternal twin sister, Diana.

With her around, any worries he managed to create for himself would go away, even when she convinced him to engage in some pretty "girly" activities, such as playing with dolls, dressing up, and drawing up new clothing that Diana would wear someday, all of which he did actually enjoy in some way. His better times with her were the times she would get him to go on imaginary adventures, some of which became very memorable fantasies that he would keep with him for the rest of his life. She and his belongings seemed to be all he ever needed for some time, but slowly he began to grow more comfortable with the other people in the world. That was, of course, for his own gain, however.

Given his spoiled past, Desmond became quite fond of getting whatever he wanted, but a couple of months before his sixth birthday, his dad felt that he should know a philosophy that his father had told him, that "It's not what you know, it's who you know." Later, Desmond's father told him that there would be a time when he would have to make his own way, and it's best to learn how to make your own way before that time comes to pass. Following that advice (albeit quite some time later, as he didn't immediately realize what it meant, being only five and all), he concluded that he would have everything he could ever want if he just knew some people. Still, since he hadn't even come to the double-digits in age, he had a lot to learn about interacting with others.

Desmond had somewhat of an odd way of trying to make nice with people at his young age. A "Blue-and-Orange Morality", by another name. The basic premise of his ethical code was to confuse people, a code he often failed at, which in itself sometimes confused people (though not in the way he intended). At the same time, Desmond also retained his knack for terrorizing everyone he knew with sudden outbursts of energy coupled with the average young boys' mind, which led to circumstances that could be described as interesting, but awful. Other times, his reasoning was just downright ridiculous. One scheme (which, even in his late teenage years, he still regards as his fondest childhood memory), conducted when he was seven years old, involved convincing his sister to help him nail sandwiches to the wall of his father's study. For some reason, he was convinced that doing so would gain his father's respect, and that through that respect he would "know" his father in order to make his own way in the future. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned, and he ended up being grounded from books for a week. Indeed that hardly deterred him from continuing what it seemed he did best.

His sister, Diana Jameson, on the other hand, was a little more down-to-Earth than he, for the most part. It was she, in fact, who got got him interested in "the arts", but inadvertently, though much more prominently, introduced him to math and science. Some time after the incident with the sandwiches, the two twins began to drift apart, albeit slowly enough that it was barely noticeable until some time later. As they drifted, their interests also evolved separately, and while his interest in the arts began to diminish, his contentment in the learning of math and science grew.

By the age of ten, he had come to excel in math (though not enough that the school would bother to bump him up a grade, much to his disappointment upon his reflections back on the subjects as a teenager). Consistently, he would come up as one of the top three students in class when it came to logical subjects. Not only that, but, remember his father's advice, he came to love helping his fellow students along with their math work. It took him much longer to take a serious interest in the sciences, though he did come into close encounters with them many times and he still did much better in any given science class than most of his other classes, most notably his history class, in which he would often receive some of the lower grades in his class.

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