Post by Wes Ellis on Aug 21, 2016 19:45:25 GMT -5
*WesleyMichaelEllis!
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but it's you who have
further to fall~
but it's you who have
further to fall~
*whoyoucontrol!
full name: Wesley Michael Ellis
nicknames: Wes
age: 39
birthday: September 8th
sexual orientation: gay
occupation: Attorney, Ellis Law, LLC--Immigration, Family Law, Employment Law & Civil Rights
living arrangement: Wes shares a townhouse with a community courtyard in back with his husband, Dean.
vehicle: Gray 2012 Buick Regal
*lookscankill!
appearance: Standing at 5' 11", Wes has grown into a rather distinguished-looking man. The haphazardl-sexy look of his twenties has given way to a more attentive and professional approach to his appearance. His stubble has been replaced with a full, clean beard. His brown hair--which, like his beard, has a hint of gray--is kept equally neat. While the nearly perfectly fit body of his youth has softened a bit, Wes still maintains slender and fit physique through regular exercise.
style:Like his grooming habits, Wes' wardrobe has seen a drastic change over the past ten years. His closet full of jeans and drawers of tight, fitted t-shirts have given way to slacks and three-piece suits. While he has kept his favorite jeans and several pairs of athletic shorts for lounging around the house, even when he's in casual-mode, Wes is bound to wear khakis or slacks and a button-up shirt than he is to grunge it up like he used to.
play by: Chris Evans
*removethatmask!
general personality:Passionate and outspoken, there is little mystery to Wes and even less mystery to his opinions. While he has tempered the frequency of the verbal lashings he is known for dishing out to people who, as he described it, were "being stupid," his tongue is still as sharp as ever. He is still just as capable of being bitingly sarcastic as he was in twenties. Doggedly determined and stubborn, he's managed to marry these two qualities with the anger he feels at social injustice and, through his law practice, uses these skill to help those that cannot help themselves.
He tends to be exclusive when it comes to friends. While he does get along with other people, he keeps only a few in his close circle. He hates it when people don't act like who they really are and normally does his best to push them in the direction he feels they need to be going to be themselves. A lot of people seem to have issues with this part of his personality, and that's part of the reason that he, still, has such a small group of friends.
*homesweethome!
spouse: Dean Reyne•husband, Photographer/Model
children:Kayley (Ellis) St. Croix•daughter (legal), Student
mother: Jill Ellis•Homemaker
father: Henry Ellis•Judge
siblings: Jennifer Ellis•sister, Baker/Caterer
Brett Ellis•brother, Male Escort
other: n/a•n/a
hometown:Los Angeles
*waybackwhen!
history: The eldest son of United States District Court Judge Henry Ellis and his homemaker wife Jillian, Wes found himself disowned and forced out into the streets by the time he was fifteen years old. For much of his life, he has had a love-hate relationship with his father. Although Wes went out for football, basketball, and wrestling while he was in junior high, his dedication to the dance classes Jillian had enrolled him in—at Wes’ request—when he was younger still grated on Henry’s nerves.
Despite being interested in dance, it wasn’t until he hit puberty that Wes began to notice that there was something “wrong” with him. Unlike the rest of his guy friends, Wes’ interest in the girls of his class never extended beyond that of friendship; meanwhile he began to take notice of the other boys. He’d often catch himself sneaking periodic glances at the other boys in the locker room, and he soon began to realize that he had the same feelings for the other boys that the other boys were having for the girls.
Wes kept this realization to himself, burying his feelings out of fear of being discovered, branded a “queer” , and treated as an outcast. Unfortunately, Wes’ attempts to remain under the radar unraveled when—at fifteen—the football coach caught him making out with a sophomore boy under the bleachers.
The news rapidly spread throughout the school and in no time Wes’ parents were called into the Guidance Counselor’s office to discuss their son. Furious at having a gay son, Henry Ellis threw Wes out of the house, forbidding him to come back until he “straightened himself up” and made a decision about whether he wanted to be “normal.”
With nowhere else to go and too embarrassed to go back to school, Wes took the streets. He wandered around Los Angeles for several months before falling in with a group of kids who had stories similar to his. Unable to secure a job without drawing any questions as to why he wasn’t in school and unwilling to resort to turning tricks, Wes hooked up with a group of petty thieves that broke into area businesses and cleaning out the cash registers.
Two years would pass—with Wes only serving two brief stints in jail for minor thefts—before Wes met the person who would change his life and set him back on the right track. Wes and his accomplice broke into an area restaurant after closing hours hoping to clean the place out like they had every other.
To both of their surprise, the place wasn’t as empty as they had expected it to be. The owner, Lila Buchanan, and the Chef, Karl, had stayed late to perform the quarterly inventory. Busted, Wes found himself eating the carpet and restrained by Karl while his accomplice made a quick escape.
The next few hours would end up changing Wes’ life. Rather than call the police, Lila sat with Wes in her office talking with him. While he resisted for over an hour, by three A.M. Lila had managed to extract enough of Wes’ life story for her to learn he was just trying to survive. She decided to offer him an alternative to jail: she would give him a job, and a place to stay until he could afford one on his own.
Ten years later, Wes was still working at Lila’s Restaurant even after Lila passed away and ownership was passed to his former co-worker Allison Whitney. Wes eventually went back for his G.E.D., had his first serious relationship with Lila’s son Aidan—and subsequent ones with Justin Bailey and Dean Reyne—and has cultivated friendships with Lila, Bethany Barker, Kristen Lefabre, Kate Roberts, and Allison Whitney that have served to replace the family that cast him aside.
For a little over a year, Wes' life became little more than a game of 'musical men.' After breaking up with Dean Reyne because of issues regarding Dean being closeted to certain people in his life, Wes reconnected with his ex-boyfriend, Aidan. Yet, despite having both beginning to move on with other people, Wes and Dean found it difficult to get over the physical attraction they shared and continued to have an affair.
While his own personal life was divided between romantic picnics with one man and illicit sex with another, Wes continued to be a major player in the personal lives of his three friends. He continued to pressure Beth to give in to the bartender, Nate, who had been after her for months, gave advice to Kristen's new boyfriend Tyler on not trying to be her hero, helped Beth to beat up Kate's ex-boyfriend Griffin, got into a tussle with another ex-boyfriend of Kate's named Sean, then befriended that very same boyfriend.
However, after losing both Dean--due to the model's career--and Aidan--due to Beth and Kate, Wes hooked up with Nick Armstrong, an ex-con who also just so happened to be Nate's cousin.
Nick and Wes, alas, did not last long. Just as Aidan skipped town back to England, Nick ditched Wes for Wes' ex, Dean, leaving Wes single and with no prospects for the first time in years. Shifting his attention from his own love life, Wes spent most of his time working and giving love-advice to his friends, namely Kristen, Allison, and Kate. However, with Nick and Dean out of the picture and the very straight Sean still very single, Wes began to develop feelings for the man who had become his best guy friend...ever.
Despite his own attraction to Sean, Wes continued to push Sean to ask Kate out--who Sean had been fawning over for months. Finally winning that battle, it would prove to be a Pyrrhic victory when Kate--after just discovering she was pregnant with Brett's baby--broke up with Sean, claiming she planned on marrying Jagger St. Croix, the father of her 2 year old son.
Feeling ambushed, Sean lashed out at Wes and Kristen, accusing the pair of deliberately setting him up as part of some elaborate joke. Crushed by Sean ending their friendship so suddenly, Wes confronted Kate where he discovered that her betrayal was only half of what he'd thought. Kate confessed to sleeping with Wes' brother, Brett, to getting pregnant by him and that the reason she'd broken up with Sean was because she didn't want Sean to have to raise a child that wasn't his. Furious, confused, livid, flabbergasted, and just plain dumbfounded, Wes couldn't think of anything to do but the thing his brother should have done: man-up and take responsibility.
The introduction of pending "fatherhood" into Wes' future spun his life in all different directions. He moved out of the apartment he shared with Kristen--just as Kristen's fiance', soon-to-be husband, and father of her child, Tyler moved in--and in with Kate. After a violent confrontation with Brett in their sister's apartment, he and Jennifer both cast their baby brother out of their lives until he grows up. And, last but not least, the time Wes had to focus on Kate and the baby, Kristen's pending wedding, his sister, his baby brother, work, and trying to resurrect his friendship with Sean only served to limit the amount of time he spent on his newly-kindled relationship with Dean.
Even though things between Wes and Dean seemed to finally be getting off to a start and heading in a direction where both of them could be happy and develop a mature relationship, Wes' attention constantly being pulled in every direction but Dean's had already begun to fray the nascent relationship. Things came to a head when Dean discovered that his visa was expiring soon and, due to some stupid legal crap, he had to go back to England indefinitely, perhaps forever. After spending most of their relationship together choosing his "girls"--Kristen, Kate & Beth--over Dean, Wes realized this was likely the last chance he'd have to choose differently. He took it.
Wes & Dean left the United States together and lived in England for a few months before, with some luck and some finagling by both of their friends, Dean's visa was renewed and they returned to Los Angeles hand-in-hand. The time spent unemployed and away from the girls gave Wes time to do some thinking, however. He'd considered what his life had been and had meant up to this point and realized, for perhaps the first time, he wasn't doing what he should be. He wasn't "paying forward" the kindness that Lila had shown him so many years ago.
After sharing his epiphany with the girls during one of their late-night 4-way phone calls, Kristen told Wes that the first thing he was going to do when he finally got back to LA was enroll in college and, from there, go to law school, pass the bar, and help people like he wanted to. And, she insisted, he would be doing so on her dime. While Wes tried to refuse the help, it took little more than Beth interrupting him with "Shut up, you're doing it. Just say 'thank you'" for Wes to, uncharacteristically, surrender.
Sure enough, after his and Dean's return to Los Angeles, Wes enrolled in college. After several years of hard work, he graduated with a juris doctorate, passed the bar and--again with Kristen's help--opened his own small law firm in a poorer area of town. There he serves the community by helping lower income people and families with legal issues they may encounter, especially family law, employment law and civil rights law issues.
In the same space of time, Wes and Dean's relationship has gone from off-and-on to locked-and-loaded after they got married shortly after marriage equality was achieved across the country. Together, they bought a two-bedroom townhouse with a community courtyard, adopted two rescue dogs of indeterminate breed named Nugget & Trixie and have, for the most part, managed to avoid repeating the stupidity of the earlier relationship.
*thepuppetmaster!
name: Brandon