UsernameEmailRegionInterestAOL IMICQ IDYahoo! IDMSN IDJabber

gdamn shino app.
Name: Q
LJ Username: semchance
Age: 18+
AIM Screename: AburameS

Character's Name: Aburame Shino
Character's Age: 20
Character's Model: Seung Ri
Year in School: 2nd year
Major / Minor: Biology major, zoology minor (specializing in entomology)
Clubs / Activities / Job?: Iaido club; research assistant, library intern

Background History: Some children are raised in bright cheery nurseries with lots of colours and shapes to stimulate their minds. And some children are raised in brightly lit university laboratories with lots of biology students and tiny insects to captivate their attention. The Aburame family raised their children in the latter environment.

Shino comes from a scholarly, fairly well-to-do and intensely quiet family with a long history of weak eyes. An only child, he was raised in a world of academic adults without much interaction among peers of his own age. After a brief stint of being dragged around the country by his parents, Shino was finally settled into something of a ‘normal’ life at the age of 12. The socialization process was difficult and unhappy for him, the sort of thing that never actually stuck with him, particularly when his parents began drifting apart and eventually parted ways.

School was painful, a long awkward experience he was ready to get away from as soon as possible—that is, from secondary school, as he was fairly certain university would be some sort of hyper-intellectual sanctuary. It was difficult, of course, to think about leaving the safe haven which was his home nest, so Shino very wisely split the difference and threw himself into academics, a familiar field which had allowed him to escape his slightly disjointed childhood.

Then, of course, he was actually at university. There was a lot more talking, a lot less time when he was actively allowed to hide, a lot fewer people who were willing to let him live his own life in his own quiet corner of the world. As an added bonus, it became increasingly isolating to live on his own when he parents decided to separate while remaining married. After an initial period of resistance, Shino began working his way into the system. He learned to talk about things other than his major, joined a club that helped him keep his mind in a state of calm and let himself smile from time to time. If he couldn’t be a recluse, he would learn to live with the swarm.