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Marie again! I decided to make another character because I need a serious one to counter my not so serious one. So of course, I came up with an absurdly long character history and personality.

If you have no time to read the TLDR version, here's the basic rundown:

Christopher Kahl is 35 years old and from the outside and a teacher; dedicated and gifted and taught the third grade (8 to 9 year olds) in Town for the last 11 years. He and his wife Lacy came to the Deck after Christopher was encouraged to resign from his post at a prestigious private school due to discrimination.

He adapted well to the Deck and excelled in his profession, so much so, people consider it a shame he's not moving up in the world. However, Lacy did not like the political system of the deck and hated how she was treated because she had no intention of playing the 'game'. She eventually divorced Christopher three years ago to return home. While he is still a fantastic teacher and respected member of the community, Christopher is struggling with depression though most will not know about the depression. Only a few good friends might even guess at it. The depression is connected to stagnation within himself, his job, and his rank and guilt he has choosing his newer life over his old.

So, here's the deal. If your card is 20 or younger and went to public school in Town, you probably know about Mr. Kahl. You might even have been his student or you might have a sibling who had him for a teacher. Outside of being a good teacher, he's a fairly good boxer and jogs often. Quite a few of the high ranking families has asked him to be a private tutor and he's rejected all offers.

So, basically, what I'd really like are a few friends and a few former students. Anyone up for CR?

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Christopher needs boxing buddies, too. It's no fun to just punch at a bag all the time. It never moves and Christopher is always moving and evading it's frustrating. And he needs people to be superhellacheerful at him, too. :D He might have taught Evan's younger sister, or is she too old too?

Chives absolutely missed out on having an awesome teacher. Poor him. As for Eileen, she can. And he would. And at the moment none of the face cards have asked him to ever tutor for Eileen so that is open as well. He'll reject families that are like 'ten', even Clubs, on sole tutoring, but he won't reject face cards.

I'm too lazy to log in proper.

But Evan's younger sister is Elani and we already established he taught her at least a little. :)

And this is why I need to sleep. *Hides.*

BTW, I love your Myth!Loki.

*Continues to hide.*

They will have the most fun bobbing and weaving. Evan will have the most fun, anyway. Cheerfully. And, as it looks like got established, probably met him through the fact that he taught Elani?

It might happen at some point. Eileen seems to have a track record of burning out tutors (in part because they're generally NPCs). Either way, she's likely going to show up from time to time asking him about obscure grammar questions, and possibly random literary inquiries, depending on what sort of English major he was.

Evan probably will. Christopher will ... four years prior he'd totally see it as fun. He really does enjoy boxing as a sport. Now it's more of something to keep him going. That sounds like a good route of meeting and a mention that he liked boxing. He might even have lists of things Evan could get him if he's aware of Evan's Out-Deck past dealings? (School supplies, I swear.)

NPCs, they're USELESS. *Eyes Lacy and John.* She would actually provide a challenge though I think one of the first things he might teach her is inquiry... unless, like many children, she asks questions for both learning and attention? Because if that is the case, if there is a question he does not know, he has no shame in saying "Shall we look it up?".

His focuses were American Realism and Modern, with a smidgen of English Romanticism. However he is a book fiend and reads just about anything.