Backstory: Ohh, wow! I looked at how many people had signed up and are still signing up and thought that i needn't put too much in as the character wont probably even get to the story stage! Man, that's dedication! You must have a looot of notes when writing these stories, xD
PART 1
Favourite Colour: Orange

Occupation: He's 14, not even legally allowed to work, xD

Backstory: He grew up in Southampton in the suburb of Bassett, with his grandmother. His parents had divorced about 2 years after he was born, which was too early in his life for him to remember much, but he has one vivid memory of a Man and a Woman fighting and snarking at each other with words he couldn't understand. The tone that they displayed stuck with him forever. He remembered crying and the man coming over to pick him up, then the woman snatching him, taking him out the door. As Harland looked back on that event when he could understand, he felt that it was too much to bear; he did everything in his power never to be lead back to that moment. At school he started off as many normal kids would, meeting friends, learning what pluses and minuses are, that whole wave, but when he got to Year 2, it all changed; he started off as much more conservative. He didn't see the need to do stuff in school, he always had his head down, he showed little to no effort towards anything and everything. This made him a target for bullies, bullies that were actually 2 years older than him. The teacher saw he had lost his spark and organised a meeting with his grandmother. She didn't know what to do. That night she talked to Harland about it. She brought up the point of how she noticed she was loosing him, that she wanted the old Harland back. The Old Harland; Just what lead him back to that wave of events. He cried on his grandmothers lap for 3 hours straight. His grandmother hadn't a clue as to what he was crying about. She tried to comfort him, although clueless of what she had thought had happened at school.

TBC

PART 2

Backstory (Cont.): Harland finally stopped, and without a word, he went to his bedroom and sat on his bed, thinking. His Grandma dare not to disturb him, she hadn't a clue what else she might trigger, so she left it till the morning. When Harland was thinking, he thought about how this had affected him. Looking back on how events he had no control over, events he didn't even understand till just recently, had affected him. He made a resolve not to never think about them, but this time to learn from them. He was never, ever gonna speak to someone in that tone, ever in his life. He was never ever to be disrespectful to anyone, ever, and was to respect everyones opinions. And those bullies he knew, well he was gonna give them a show. The next day he came to school a different person; he was more out there, he remade many of his friends he had the year before and when those bullies came around, he didn't fight back one bit; instead, he just nit grittily picked everything they were teasing him about. They soon got bored, moved on, and he found out he rather liked the way he handled them. The next time he encountered them was at scouts in Year 3, and he had the most fun with them ever! They never came back to scouts, too. Throughout the rest of school and into high school he was one of the most insistent people out there.

Skill: Bad Poetry, making cocky remarks, is good at tying ropes (from when he went to scouts) and can make really big splashes from doing bombs in the pool.

Whats in HIS vacation bag (JK JK, XD): He packed 3 pairs of shorts, a notebook and 2 books, a Hawaiian shirt (bricklink: [LegoTorso Hawaiian Shirt Open with White Flowers over White Undershirt Pattern / Dark Azure Arms / Yellow Hands]) and  a couple of other generic ones, his grandmothers old necklace as well as his trusty 'dumb phone' (he can get quite paranoid when it comes to the internet, xD) and some dank shades.

Weapon of choice: His grandmothers necklace.

How he does under pressure: If it doesn't really affect him or he just hears about it it's fine but if something happens right in his vicinity he can get very paranoid very quickly, flipping immediately.