-- β¦JEREMY ALLEN WHITE, CISMALE, HE/HIM β¦ ADRIAN PARRIS the THIRTY ONE year old has been in Hidehill for TWO YEARS and was a STRANGER to Carter Thompson, one of the shadows. Whispers on the streets are that the PARALEGAL/LAW STUDENT who lives in HADLEY PARK are said to be INSIGHTFUL and PARTICULAR but I guess weβll find out for ourselves.
To tell the story of Adrian Parris, we have to start with the story of Timothy Beau Alexander. Timothy, or Beau, as he was more commonly called, spent his childhood the son of prominent political figure, a republican senator from Nevada, their home state. Beau and his three siblings enjoyed all the privleges of their fathers position, and the familial wealth inherited from the generations before him. They spent more time with nannies than their own parents, but in the eyes of the media they were that perfect all-American, catholic, republican, sinless family.Β
The Alexander children were all expected to follow in their fatherβs footsteps, at least the two sons were, but Beau was quick to see through the lies of his father, and his fatherβs entire moral compass. His rebellion started small enough, smoking pot and one-night stands, all easy enough to hide from the voters. Beau went to college, much to his fatherβs approval, on a pre-law track at a less-than Ivy League university after a Harvard deferral. It would be wise to assume his father knew of Beauβs ratherβ¦ liberal.. tendencies, but he mustβve ignored them, hoping the allure of following the funding would sway his son towards the right. It never did.
In fact, Beau almost didnβt complete his college degree, after being derailed by a heart break, and turning to drugs to cope. He never made it into law school, and instead skated by on his trust fund, as his parents hoped they could at least pay him enough money to stay away from his fatherβs upcoming presidential campaign in 2016. That didnβt work. With not much else to live for at that moment, Beau redirected his lifeβs focus into derailing his fatherβs campaign in any way necessary. Intentionally being spotted leaving casinos with call girls, getting arrested for public intoxication, the occasional spontaneous protest at his fatherβs rallies. His father was quickly cut from the nomination pool, but two years later, Beauβs reputation continued, sullying his fatherβs image enough to leave him the blame for his father losing his representative seat.Β
That was the final straw for the Alexanderβs, and in exchange for promising not to turn him in to the police and press charges for all the crimes theyβd been aware of, Beau signed away his rights to his family name. From there, he joined another family, a crime family, one that promised to support Beau and his girlfriend, to protect them, in exchange for Beau picking up a few more responsibilities. The former casual drug dealer, was now in much deeper than he thought heβd be. Despite knowing that his current girlfriend was the love of his life, there had been many threats on both his life and hers, so he let her go. Not long after that, a deal gone bad had him in a cell at the LVPD, where he promised to tell-all in exchange for a trip to rehab and a new identity.Β
This is where we meet Adrian Parris, a man from California, moving to Hidehill for a βfresh startβ (and certainly not to hide in a place frankly unreachable). Once βgraduatedβ from rehab, he decided to return to all the things heβd planned for himself before the drugs entered his life. With no connections and a whole new backstory, he worked from the ground up to find himself finally achieving the goal of attending law school. Now, he spends most daylight hours in a library or a classroom, working as a paralegal to gain both the experience and rent money, or volunteering to pass out harm reduction kits to the nearby Nashville unhoused population.. In the brief moments he has time off, you might find him throwing a ball for his dog, Mr. Breakfast, at the beach, or writing in his journal (which he thought was the dumbest idea at the time, but has found truly does help maintain his sobriety).
