JAKE KANNERS
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
Aries ruled body parts are the head, brain, eyes, face and muscles. Unfortunately, Jake does not hold true to the lively, energetic and daring zodiac sign. He needs to be forced to do daring activities. Force him. It's for his own good.

Standing at 5'9, Jake's stature is on the more slender side having never achieved the protein shake body his other gym buddies have built up. However, this doesn't mean he isn't toned. First appearance features include his short, brown hair and hazel eyes. He was unfortunately cursed with a constant look of questioning and brow furrowing and is completely unaware of this feature. Jake takes with his hands and can be overly fidgety but, with his boyish smile and kind eyes can win over most people.

PERSONALITY
So this is what you want me to be?
Boring with no personality?

Developed at a young age an over active anxiety disorder, Jake has based his life on how close he is to his Xanax. He has never understood where the disorder came from, his childhood hadn't been a rough one. His therapist says some kids are just born to be anxious due to the fact that they're merely the weakest. He thinks his therapist is a smart-ass but, the back and forth he finds too amusing to seek other help. He tends to over analyze simple situations and worry to much only to become flustered at daunting tasks. He is extremely organized and plans almost everything to the hour out of habit only to keep an order to his life.

Jake found a way to express himself and his way of thinking using his deadpan sense of humor, sarcasm and an armored shell. He keeps his prescriptions near by just in case times get's too overwhelming however, he has been off them for nearly eight years. As of late though, Jake is a very happy individual. He is usually very supportive of his friends, even though it can sometimes be not always reciprocal.

Finding sanctuary in outdoor activities, Jake longs for the free spirited self that comes with letting go of all his insecurities. Despite the weaknesses, he can show a surprising amount of spine and even physical prowess when necessary. When incensed enough he will stand up to just about anyone. He has a trusting nature and indicates that what he lacks in physical strength and courage, he more than makes up for in strength of character.

HISTORY
Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall

Jake was born and raised in Charleston, SC to a Mark and Annabell Kanners. His father was a tour guide in the city of Charleston driving around the horse carriages for tourists and dishing out the secrets of the Holy City. His mother was a nurse at MUSC where her work consumed her for most of Jake's upbringing. Always admiring his mother for her noble work in the healing field, Jake couldn't help but feel neglected for the first part of his life. Spending most of his days with his father, Jake would tour the city on the carriages and learn about the history of his birth place.

During some time in highschool, Jake developed an anxiety disorder hindering him from most normal activities. For most of his life now, he has lived on mood altering prescription drugs that he resents. Knowing that he needs them for multiple purposes, he feels dulled down and expelled from feeling anything more than for a lack of a better word, dull. Once old enough to leave home, he decided that getting out of South Carolina would be the best. The city had proven to be a friend but, the world was too inviting. He broke free and chose New York to attend school. By the time he had graduated at the age of 22, New York had become his new home. During his junior year in college, Jake took a philosophy class and after a day of realization decided to stop taking his prescriptions. It's been eight years and after a few horrible incidents, Jake has been forcing himself to deal with his condition. Dating was his first step and still one he's working on.

After being accepted into Brooklyn College, Jake found his niche quickly with the organization and planning that comes along with studying for classes. Majoring in Business Management with a minor in Art History, Jake graduated college with a rather high GPA and found himself with no career waiting for him outside the comfort of higher education. The fact that he had a girlfriend surprised him. During a class his senior year, Jake had met and was paired up with a girl who, despite everything, made him calm and collected. The last year of his college career ended smoothly. After they both graduated, they decided to move in together on the outskirts of Brooklyn and to pay the bills, he picked up a few office position jobs answering phones and doing some accounting. He hated his job. Customer service was not becoming his specialty and it only heightened his awareness of how difficult it was for him to deal with highly stressful situations. Not only was the anxiety highly stressful on Jake it was weighing down on his now 3 year relationship. The couple decided the move their separate ways.

At the age of 26, Jake moved to Sleep Hollow finding a rather calming job in the public library. Books had always been his sanctuary. The break up had been hard on him causing him to be enable to preform some of his basic duties and decided to resign himself after 3 years of working as an administrative manager at the library.

Now 29 and about to turn 30, Jake has turned a new leaf. Therapist and all. Jake now owns his own business selling and buying local art which allows him to de-stress his life and is relatively happy to be working from home. The crazy years are technically behind him while the future is ahead, Jake strives to push forwards. Despite everything he had gone through, Jake has a good circle of friends and acts and seems like a normal human being. No one, today, would know about his past because he shows no signs of having any issues unless they were to ask.

Relationships
In these bodies we will live.
In these bodies we will die.

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