Nicholas Venner, an average kid working at McDonald's to make ends meet throughout high school. His life soon changes as he enters the Air Force. Nicholas works his way through basic training hell and is deployed here, state-side. Cutting roughly twenty pounds, quite a hunk in a woman's words. He is ecstatic that he stays state-side but hates being twelve hours from home. Nick's usual day: up and breakfast by 3:55, work 4am-8pm, home, phone, and repeat. Nick pushes through his work working two days having off three, then working three days having off two. He is proud of his job and works hard to protect the "weapons" on the base. Normally Nick drives around in Humvees sporting his farmers tan while protecting the base and playing pranks on his coworkers. You see, some days Nick has to drive around others he just has to sit in the truck and watch the flight line. The worst thing that could happen on the flight line, besides getting ready for war, would be falling asleep. Nick is quite a prankster, standing at 5'8 he still rules the town. Instead of calling it in when someone falls asleep Nick just sharpies their faces. When that gets old he fills their buras with mustard and then calls over the radio for them to stand at attention. Jumping from the trucks and whipping on their caps makes for quite a scene.
I couldn't think of a good scene and character for this one... =/
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I actually like the character, Erica; my suggestion: is there a specific event, a moment you could zero in on to show this character in action? For example, what about a visit back to that McDonald's after he's been in the Air Force -- how would he behave, how would he see that place, and how would other people behave towards him? Imagine how many of these details could be woven in as he contrasts his current life with his days working fast food!
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