TURNER, riley delrick

[riley delrick turner]

VALKYRIECALIFORNIA

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RILEY DELRICK TURNER
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INTO THE NIGHT
DESPERATE AND BROKEN
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SO, TELL ME. WHAT'S YOUR FULL NAME?

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"riley delrick turner."

AND HOW OLD ARE YOU?

"twenty seven"

WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

"i'm a high school english teacher at the academy. the same high school i graduated from."

YOU SEEING ANYONE, OR ARE YOU SINGLE?

"yeah, i'm single, hehe."

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THE SOUND OF A FIGHT
FATHER HAS SPOKEN
THE PERSONALITY

IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN SEVEN WORDS WHAT WOULD THEY BE?

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"Well, responsible, protective, sensitive, hard-working, funny, smart, and cautious."

WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO YOU LIKE?

"somethings i like are: reading, ireland, valkyrie, writing, life in general, those long-term relationships that shape you, teaching, literature, movies - all kinds really, plays, los angeles, beaches and swimming, outdoor activities, board games, my daughter."

WHAT KIND OF THINGS DON'T YOU LIKE?

"I don't really like fake people, girls who change while dating, failing a student even if they deserved it, coffee, smoking, fashion trends, math, people who don't apply themselves, rap music, being viewed as the former 'golden boy' of valkyrie."

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WERE YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES?

"my number one strength is that i'm a great listener. i tend to be a go-to guy when some of my friends need to complain or vent. i also tend to be loyal, too loyal for my own good maybe.

i have two great weaknesses, first is my daughter, tatum, who i can't help but do everything she asks. spoiled? maybe, but she's five. i can't help it. the other weakness who has and always will be a weakness are my two younger brothers, reed and regan. all my life i've been getting them out of trouble and cleaning up after their messes. it's not like i don't mind. i just want to protect them. that's who i tend to be; the protector."

DO YOU HAVE ANY SECRETS?

"i have secrets sure, who doesn't? i was involved in a self-defense crime that resulted in a death of someone. i know a lot of people don't know that i was engaged once."

WHAT ARE YOU MOST SCARED OF?

"i'm afraid that some things that happened in my early twenties will catch up with me. you never know... you know?"

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WE WERE THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF PROMISE
WE WERE THE VICTIMS OF OURSELVES
THE HISTORY

TELL ME A LITTLE OF WHAT YOUR FAMILY IS LIKE?

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"well... i'm close with my entire family. my brothers don't get along with my father at all."

WHO ARE YOUR PARENTS?

"my dad is seamus, he's fifty-five now and a retired fisherman. i say that loosely since he is always down at the docks, hanging on to something he probably loves more than his family. my mom, rachel, is fifty and she works in a sewing shop."

DO YOU HAVE ANY SIBLINGS?

"two brothers. reed is twenty four and owns the bar downtown 'bad seeds' and regan is twenty two and works at the bar."

ANY OTHER RELATIVES CLOSE TO YOU?

"i have a daughter. her name is tatum and she's five years old. she's... haha, she's a piece of work. demanding like her mother, yet somehow adorable like her father. haha. but she's a little girl with two uncles that are always rough housing with her."

TELL ME THE STORY OF YOUR PAST?

"my mother and my father, rachel and seamus, lived in dublin, ireland their entire lives. they were high school sweethearts, or whatever the term is called to the irish. though, my dad was five years older, he actually had to repeat a year. my mom was young, and some may say was stupid, falling for a guy with a temper problem five years older than her. seamus has and always will be a hardass. rachel was the polar opposite, somehow she seemed to balance him out. they were each other's first and only loves. my mom said she was lucky that she found her soulmate so early in her life. according to her, you can search for your soulmate your entire life and never find them. seamus, didn't believe in that kind of superstitious stuff. they got engaged right after my mom graduated high school but didn't get married for another four years. you see, seamus was a fisherman on the banks of the ocean. so he's go out for weeks at a time leaving my mom home in dublin. oh yeah, it was one of those stories. but hey, they eventually got married. though collectively they had been together for ten years, they were only married for one when they started having kids. people wondered if they ever would start a real family. well big surprise because my brothers and i all canon balled out. first there was me. then reed three years after that, and two years after that regan rounded it out.

looking back, having three sons, really must have sucked for my mom. washing three muddied up bodies and hoping none of us dirtied the couch. she splitted up fights and made sure all of us did work around the house, no matter how small it was. but for my brothers and i, it was a blast. roughhousing in the living room until our mom told us to take it outside. getting in trouble around the neighborhood, and of course the eldest brother getting us out of it. the three of us really have been three amigos since day one. we all have such strong personalities that my mom told me recently she knew how we all were going to turn out. she knew i was always the responsible one, but the one that would get his hands dirty to get people i loved out of harms way. she knew reed would stumble on the way. tripping over what he wants to be, what he should be, and what he currently was. and she knew that regan would always be strong but to us, he'd always be baby boy. guess mother always does know best.

when i was thirteen, my dad told us all one night around the dinner table that we were moving. not across town or even across the country. oh no, we were moving to the states because he got a job offer and one of the docks there. i will admit, i didn't really want to leave. maybe it was because i was thirteen and i didn't want to leave my friends when it's so hard to make new ones the older you got. not long after the annoucement though, we left. it was sad. dublin was where i grew up. it really was all i knew. we moved into a new house, that really wasn't much bigger than our last one. however, i didn't have to share a room with my brothers. i got my own room, while reed and regan had to share the third bedroom. benefits of being the eldest. it wasn't long around the neighborhood we adopted the same name of 'those turner boys' as a way to identify the three new irish boys in the neighborhood. a baseball through the window? must be us. grafitti on the old abandoned house at the end of the block? us again. it was easy to pin the minor delinquencies on us. ha, but chances were, it was us. however as i hit high school. i became what do they say, 'the good brother.' i was the one people could rely on. i smooth-talked my brother's way out of trouble, i tried to steer them in the right direction. high school was a lot easier than i thought it would be. i got involved in football in the fall, basketball in the winter, track in the spring, and then baseball in the summer. it wasn't like i was amazing in them, but i was good enough to be put in. i made a lot of friends through this. yeah, i guess you could say i was part of the inner ciricle of the high school cliques. but yet again, i was a bit different. i was the nice one. the sensitive one. the one girls could ask to drive them home during parties because they knew i wouldn't try something.

even though high school was great, at home, it was getting more and more intense everyday. i guess i really can't pinpoint the exact moment reed started acting out on dad, but it got really bad for a few years there. reed and i both knew why dad was always so hard on him. because reed should have been more like me. instead, he was partying on the beach, smoking weed, and finding himself in trouble at least a few times a week. i always tried to calm both of them down, because you wants to see their brother and father throwing insults at each other when you're trying to eat? i wish i could have stayed at home longer. but i got accepted into ucla and after graduation, moved to los angeles. it was hard for me and my brothers. we had always been with each other, always had each other's backs. and now, i was the first to leave. it was sad. i was going to ucla for english and teaching. i really wanted to be an english teacher for high school students. the summer after my first year of college, some of my new buddies convinced me to come with them to austraila for a month. vacation. i had money saved up from jobs, so i said sure. how many times would you have a chance to go to austraila? i had always been really composed. thought before i spoke, assesed situations before they got sticky, always made the responsible decision. however nothing could compare me to the girl i met. addison slade. i was nineteen and i thought i knew what my mom was talking about the whole soulmate thing. and it was like boom! i had to marry this girl. it was a whirlwind romance for sure. after the second week were were engaged. we spent pretty every day together. at the end of the month, i told her to come back to the states with me. but... she couldn't do it. i was crushed and went back to the states with a broken heart. stayed the rest of my summer in valkyrie with my brothers.

my sophomore year, i got a call from reed. in complete hysteria. he said he was on a bus to los angeles. he said he and seamus were in an all-out brawl and reed was going to emancipate himself from our parents. reed stayed with me for the next few days when i tried to convince him to not go through with the emancipation thing. it would break our mother's heart, but reed said it was because of dad. reed ended up going through with it anyway and moved into his own apartment. that was a hard time for my family and i made frequent trips back to valkyrie on weekends. it was sad to see what my family would never be again. my junior year, i was student teaching at valkyrie academy, and as my littlest brother's spiral out of control was becoming more evident with drugs and alcohol, i decided to transfer out of ucla and attended valkyrie university to be with my family. however, regan was caught cheating on his spanish final and then security for the school found weed in his locker. it was a double whammy and i knew regan was going to be expelled. however, i was his older brother, i had to get him out of this. i was friends with the principal at this point and i convinced him to not expel regan. instead have him enter rehab, complete the program, and could be re-admitted to the school. yeah, i am that good, because the principal agreed and regan was shipped to a rehab in nevada.

after that, my life seemed to go from shitty to... shittier? i got caught up with this girl, liz hughes. and when i mean 'caught up' i mean drunkly slept with her and eventually went to los angeles with her to try and talk her out of something. instead, i followed her into a warehouse and was attacked by her older brother. did i mention that these people were in a gang? oh, beacuse they were. as her brother was nearly choking me to death, she shot him. it was a terrible experience. i had nightmares for two years after that night. i was scared, i was scared shitless. i had no idea if people were going to find out and hunt me down. and then there was coco lehoux, mother of tatum. what happened between us was yet another one of my drunken mistakes, resulting in a pregnancy. those were a tumbleweed of emotions. we didn't even like each other like that but we liked each other enough to rise our child. what happened with liz? uh, nothing. she was having a hard time with some things going on within her... uh... people. i talked her off a cliff, she kissed me, and that was the last i heard of her. her brother told me liz died. a little bit after the news of liz's death, coco gave birth to a girl, who we named tatum. that girl was spoiled from the beginning.

the next five years came through with a blur. i graduated from valkyrie university and then i got a teaching job at the academy. interpretation of literature teacher. surprisingly, i still live in the same apartment for the past six years. i changed the room that regan lived in into a little girl's room. regan is crashing with me again. i ended up buying a fold-out couch, just for him. right now, life is pretty good. i mean, i teach, i still have my family, and i'm kind of a great father. in case you haven't heard."

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MAYBE THE CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL
THE EARTHQUAKE

SO, YOU KNOW THE EARTHQUAKE THAT OCCURRED ON JANUARY 7TH, 2012?

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"yeah, i do."

WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY OF THE EARTHQUAKE? WHAT DID YOU DO?

"i was teaching a class at the time, at the academy. i ordered all the kids to crouch under their desks - standard procedure. my immediate thought went to tatum. then to reed and regan. funny how dangerous situations like this make you think of your family before you even think of yourself."

DID YOU KNOW ANYONE THAT WAS AFFECTED BY THE EARTHQUAKE?

"my mom was. some shelf fell on her while she was out shopping. she's still in the hospital as of now."

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WE STOLE OUR NEW LIVES
THROUGH BLOOD AND PAIN
THE ROLEPLAYER

NAME lainey
AGE 19
RP EXPERIENCE how long? 6/7 years
FACE CLAIM josh duhamel
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must be your average post. min of 500 words

credit format by lainey, lyrics by 30 seconds to mars

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