Post by {{xander.caerson}} on Aug 25, 2010 12:33:52 GMT -8
Name:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Xander James Caerson
Age:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Nineteen
Gender:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Male
Heritage:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Irish
Job Position:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Xander James Caerson is unemployed. He does odd jobs to earn enough money to eat but he doesn't have a set job.
Physical Description:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Xander is tall and muscular. He's got long legs and muscular arms. His shoulders are broad and his face is still filled with youth. His hair is blonde and slightly long but not very long at all. It's still cropped pretty short. His teeth are straight and pearly white and his smile is welcoming. He can generally be seen with his horse with him or somewhere close to him. He has a revolver that he keeps with him but he doesn't use it often at all. Xander isn't seen with a lot of people surrounding him. His face is prominent but still very youthful. His feet are proportioned almost perfectly to his body and his eyes are pale.
Personality:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Xander is happy with his life and he enjoys being alone. He doesn't mind company but he never sticks to one place for too long so he doesn't have a lot of friends. That doesn't bother him considering he's content with his wandering life. He loves to ride and work for a little bit but he's easily bored and moves on. He wants to be able to settle down but he can't stand the boredom that comes with staying in one place. Xander James Caerson also loves chasing down the mustang herd but only for the fun of it. He catches and releases mustangs just to show he can catch 'em. He only has one horse and that's the horse he wanders on. Xander doesn't like people much and he never gets drunk. He keeps himself out of trouble but he tends to scream "trouble maker" just because he doesn't stay in one place for more than half a year at the very most.
Xander James Caerson doesn't really care about material items except for clothing, a saddle, and a bridle even though he can ride without a saddle or a bridle. To ride a horse, all Xander needs is a halter and a lead rope. He has a gift with horses and has no trouble with most of the wildest horses. He's patient and easy to talk to because he doesn't interupt. He's also very polite, learning his manners from his father. He doesn't really care about being able to read and write and he doesn't care what people think of him. He likes the heat and hates the winter but he can't really avoid the winter. Xander has distanced himself from his family because he had a fight with them a long time ago and now they hate his guts. He doesn't care what his family thinks about him either though. Xander has changed his alias and refuses to tell people his real first name, Alexander, called Alex. He used to be called Alex but since that's what his parents called him, he refuses to go by it. He goes by Xander now.
Xander Caerson doesn't really like idiots and people who don't treat their horses right. He refuses to talk to those kind of people and he loves to just watch the Mustang herd. His own mount is a quarter horse and he has thought about letting it go but first he wants to buy a new horse that he can ride around in. Xander generally goes shirtless because he can't stand getting too hot but he will wear button up shirts when he's in town or going out with somebody. He doesn't stick with relationships either. He's outgoing but he doesn't do long-term stuff. He's a jokester and likes to tease when he has a good friend.
Past:
[/blockquote][/blockquote]Xander James Caerson was born to John Paul Caerson and Sarah Vera Caerson on June 24th in Utah. He was small for his age and already had three brothers and three sisters. His family was mormon and went to church every sunday and his father was a well-known rancher in the area. Xander was not expected to be anything great because the eldest son, Paul Jackson Caerson was supposed to take over the ranch. In fact, Paul was married and just waiting for his father to give him the deed to the ranch. Xander was watched by his eldest sister, Rachel Sarah Caerson, whom was not getting married because she'd been attacked by a cougar and no man wanted her. Xander, as a toddler, could be seen roaming around with a horse at his heels and he generally slept in the stable where all the hay was. They had no where else for him to sleep so he slept out there with the youngest of his three older brothers, Mountain James Caerson. Mountain went by Jimmy though.
Jimmy and Xander got along pretty good and at the age of three, John put Xander on his first pony who was known as Inkpot or Inky. Xander loved Inky and could be seen riding him around with his father and trying to help but generally getting in the way of working on the ranch. He wanted to help in every way possible and he didn't particularly like being left behind. When he was left behind, he got on Inky bareback with just a halter and lead rope and went to find his father. One day, doing this in the winter, he got lost and had to hole up in the ground when he was just five years old. His mother wasn't too attached to him because she had three other sons to keep her happy for now. Jimmy was the only one who really cared that Xander was not at home and was missing. Jimmy went out and found him and little Inky and brought them home. John beat the crap out of Xander for running off like that.
At the age of six, Xander got a slightly bigger pony and Inky was given to a little boy down the street. The pony was fiery but Xander got a good hold on him and learned quickly to hang on tight. He named the new pony Kip because it was easy to say and that's what the pony answered to. He didn't particularly like Kip all that much but he worked with him. That was also the year that Xander was taught for real how to work with cattle and rounded up the weanling calves. He was put in charge of those once he learned and branding was a pain for the young boy but he learned quickly. They quickly decided that Xander was no good for roping but he was all right. He wasn't the best like Paul or Jimmy but he was all right at it. He eventually got better and at the age of eight, he had full control of the weanling calves.
At the age of ten, Jimmy took Xander out on his first outing with mustang catching because John needed new blood in his string of horses. John wasn't well-known for his horses but Xander was known well by his town that he was gifted with the horses. Xander was not able to catch any horses that day but Jimmy caught one and brought it home. It was just a measly mare that wouldn't amount to much but Xander spent hours just watching her when he wasn't working around. He didn't go to the schoolhouse just because he was always busy and John didn't go out of his way to send Xander there. Xander worked and watched the mare that came to be known as Hoss. That was it. Xander liked her and got to know her and she came to trust him. He could feed her by hand where John couldn't because he didn't spend hours with her. Jimmy could come up to her but he couldn't feed her by hand. Then Xander got bucked off his first horse because he tried to ride Hoss. He broke his arm but it healed up within six weeks in a splint and not being able to move.
At the age of sixteen, Xander was well-known in his town for being gifted with horses. He had a quarter horse that he rode around and his father was getting increasingly angry with him. He didn't like to work the calves anymore because it was boring work. His blonde hair was kept short and John didn't like that either. Finally, John said, you either follow by my rules, or you don't live here at all. Xander left on his quarter horse with what money he had and few belongings and was gone. John hadn't meant those words but Xander was already gone. He wandered around, going to California, Wyoming, new parts of Utah, Arizona, and finally at the age of nineteen came to Colorado. Now he hopes to settle down but he doesn't count on it.
