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Post by AKEEM TEN-AMEN on Jun 15, 2016 15:17:31 GMT
TEN-AMEN, AKEEM SAIF
Character's full name: Akeem Saif Ten-Amen Nicknames: Bugs (although he doesn't really like it) Age: Twenty-five Talents: actor, director and scriptwriter (in the making at least) Orientation: Heterosexual Play by: Rami Malek
Appearance: While Akeem can sometimes appear tall, he’s actually short for a guy, standing at 1,71 m or 5’7’’. It’s because he isn’t very burly with long arms and legs that he appears taller. He has dark brown hair that is very thick and tends to curl like his father but has the green eyes of his mother. His lids make them look almost like bug eyes, hence his nickname of Bugs, a nickname he doesn’t quite like, mind you. He has a square jaw and a small mouth that turns pretty big when he smiles. His voice is drawling and easily recognizable. Personality: Akeem is someone who will look serious and quiet at whoever meets him for the first time. Once he is around friends however, his personality makes a 180. He is very funny and even a tad hyperactive. As a child, he had trouble focusing but he had grown used to it and it is easier now. He still cannot sit still for more than an hour or two without feeling fidgety but he controls himself. Akeem is good with repartee, a talent he honed with improvisation. He’s an avid soccer fan and loves to play the sport despite not being very good at it. He isn’t a sore loser so he doesn’t care.
While his family is agnostic, they do stick to some traditions but he hates when people assume that they do. If his father never liked that his sister Aisha showed skin, it was because no father likes when their daughter shows skin and not because of his religion. It is a touchy subject to him and he can be sarcastic and even lose his temper if people decides to talk too much of this with him, especially if they assumed he acted in certain ways only because of his origins. Akeem is not one to lose his cool easily but once he does he cannot control his mouth and will say cruel things. He is not physical however, and will usually leave if he ever feels like he may lose it to that point.
Akeem is a very friendly person and is loyal to his friends. He’s the kind that sticks until the end, even if he saw it coming a long time ago. He will be hurt and may even get sleepless nights because of it but once it’s done, he moves over and shifts his loyalty to those who remain. He had done that to shows as well, sticking to watching them even when he felt they had lost their drive along the way, just in hope it would turn good again at the end of it. He may not be the most intelligent person but he has wits and is resourceful. He is more practical than logical.
Likes: soccer, improvisation, karaoke (even if he sucks at it), creativity, licorice, matcha tea Dislikes: people thinking they know all when they barely know anything, lemon, stories with too many explanation about every single detail in it, writer's block
History: Akeem’s father is the famous cook Rachid Ten-Amen. His restaurant is quite popular in L.A. He is Egyptian and moved to America when he was a child. Akeem’s mother is Helen Ten-Amen, an American girl who manages the restaurant Rachid owns. He also has an older sister, Aisha, who is a lawyer. At a young age, Akeem showed desire talents in comedy. He enjoyed making his family and friends laugh and thought it would be really awesome to be an actor. His dream did not come easy for him. He did not exactly have the look people were looking for. People preferred all-american children and it was not exactly what he was. Still, he kept trying, doing shows for his family in the meantime.
At school, he was part of everything related to drama. He never got major roles but he shone in the ones he got and never really had any trouble remembering his lines. It also helped him discover the work behind the scenes. He proved good at directing others and loved helping out for things to look the best possible. He also took to improvisation where he was brilliant. Still, when it came to more serious stuff, the kind that comes with a paycheck, it was almost impossible for him to nail anything. Luckily for Akeem, he lived in the world of internet and YouTube made no distinction to race or gender. With some friends, they created a channel where they posted their own videos. They made their own shows there, using what they owned and filming at their own places. At first, he mostly directed and filmed those videos, helping out with the writing and only making guest appearances.
Their first show that got successful was about a bunch of girls in their senior years of high school, when they had just graduated from it in reality. He played a gay friend of theirs in it, for the fun of it and helped with some of the text, showing talent in writing comedy as well as playing it. Of course, they could only upload one or two videos a month, of this one or the others they offered, since they all had jobs and lives, this being only a way they tried to achieve their acting dream. If YouTube had been the solution for Justin Bieber and other artists, why couldn’t it be for them? While not working on those videos, Akeem tried to pursue his acting career, getting minor roles on shows without much recognition. He also appeared on stage, again in supporting roles but it was still something and he was not complaining. On the side, he took directing lessons as well as scriptwriting lessons and worked at his father’s restaurant as a waiter.
There was another show they put on their channel that got really popular. Akeem wrote the pilot of it during his writing class, based on relationships he had had in the past, whenever people commented on his name or when they thought of just how strict his family must be, assuming he was Islamic when in reality his family is agnostic. It was how an Islamic boy falls in love with an all-american girl he met and how their different culture, traditions and way of being raised affected their relationship, bringing all sorts of comical moments. He proposed it to the others and they started filming, landing him his first main role. The webisodes became very popular as it both showed differences, laughed at them yet at the same time offered a nice message of inclusion. They had barely finished the first season when things started going wrong. The one playing the girl in it had to move out of L.A. for work. It meant the end of the show, since he didn’t want to use someone else. It was sad but they had no choice.
He was not as motivated to write other shows for the channel however after that news. Most of the others being also busy with work, it was hard to have them together for filming so they started posting even less videos on. So now he tries to sell his concept and perhaps others while still hoping to get at last his big break as an actor.
---- Name/Alias: What can we call you by? Map: How did you find us? RP Sample: This must be done with everybody's first character and canons. Just a simple 3+ paragraphs, or around 200 words, in character of course.
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Post by SAY on Jun 15, 2016 15:46:22 GMT
ACCEPTED! welcome to city is ours!
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