the insiderâ elijah young
Welcome to Coolsville, the best little small town in Ohio.
âŚexcept for right now, but thatâs not really ELIJAH YOUNGâS ( MICHAEL EVANS BEHLING ) fault, is it? Known as the INSIDER around town, HE is just your friendly neighborhood DEPUTY SHERIFF. Sure he can be BRUSQUE and SCATTERBRAINED, but he can also be DEPENDABLE and EARNEST just like any other 23 year old. That doesnât mean he has anything to do with our string of recent chilling events, though⌠right?Â
book currently sitting at the bottom of his jansport: normal people by sally rooney ( he thinks heâs a man of taste, itâs the latest book gabbyâs left on the passenger side seat ) superlative(s): best eyes, tallest in class, most likely to sleep through an earthquake current quote: candid pics? no, take cryptid pics of me. make me as blurry as possible. my eyes glow. iâm in places i canât logically be in. tv parallels: kronk ( the emperorâs new groove ), guillermo ( what we do in the shadows ), ruthie ( shrill ), stan ( good girls...before it went to shit ), a sprinkle of parrish ( teen wolf ), a dash of james mcguire ( derry girls ), jake peralta ( brooklyn 99 ), jim ( the office ) current brands he's loving: he doesnât fucking know, the gap? dickies?
full name: elijah nathaniel young age: twenty-three ( born december 20th, 1998 ) zodiac: sagittarius and thatâs all he knows...ask his sister about the rest occupation & goals:Â deputy sheriff...reluctantly & well, he wanted to be a firefighter but that didnât happen so idk, itâs not like he wants to make chief.Â
001. Eli Young was one half of a matching set, but youâd never hear him complain about it; if anyone had been there for him throughout the rollercoaster that was life, it was his twin. He thinks the two of them spent most of their childhood stranded on an island in the middle of the turbulent sea that was their home. To hear their mother tell it, their parents fought hard but loved harderâ sheâd told her children that those were two sides of the same coin, but Eli never thought it made much sense.
002. Still, heâd always feared that he could be just as angry, just as volatile as his mother and father had been. Elijah had felt it building beneath his skin when someone had yanked his sisterâs hair or when that one bully had shoved him a little too hard during recess. He knew what he could be, and he knew it wasnât the person he wanted to becomeâ but it wasnât always easy. For all of elementary and most of middle school, the people that would push Elijah would be pushed back twice as hard.Â
003. All the same, everyone needs outlets, right? Heâd picked up a string of them: played the drums in a band once, lost interest and then moved on to bass; volleyball didnât manage to keep his interest and neither did swimming, but heâd try anything once. The only consistent roles in his life were âson of the chief deputy,â âthe taller twin,â and âthat one kid all the grandmas likeâ. Elijah hated the former but took the latter in stride, heâd wanted to be that kid more than anything else.Â
004. In high school he joins the track team, because testosterone is at its highest, and he canât find a better way to let off steam ( heâd never really liked football all that much ). He runs in the mornings before the sun is out, and is always the last to leave the field after practiceâ heâd probably been trying to spend as much time away from home as possible. It was obvious that his father wanted him to join the Sheriffâs Department as soon as he was able but Elijah didnât even like cops.
005. That was a common thing in the Young home, with their father complaining about how unappreciated he was as a cop, and Elijah holding his tongue in response. Sometimes Eli thought the man did it on purpose, bringing up random points he knew would make his son uncomfortable. If his father wanted to make him feel bad about his constitution, it worked ( for the most part ), but Eli would just as quickly turn around and complain about the expectations hanging in the home.
006. He ran his mouth like the best of them, but sometimes it was all he did; that was cowardice for ya. Elijah would say heâd never join the force; he didnât want to be like his father, or his uncles or their fathers or anyone else for that matter. And yet he found himself taking the test ( for formalities really, when your dad is chief, you get the job ). Next thing you know, heâs on the same trajectory as his father had been, and still was. Every day he puts on his uniform he feels like heâs drowning.
007. One silver lining is that Elijahâs always been a helper, that kid all the grandmas like. As a deputy, heâs given all those inconsequential calls, non-emergency situations where he spends half of the time rectifying the issue and the other half making conversation. Heâs a people person at his core, and that part of the job doesnât make it so bad. But he sure as hell isnât making a difference and he sure as hell wishes he were making idle conversation over something else.Â
008. Must be why he acts out at work, pushing against âeffortsâ made when a girl goes missing because itâs not enough, he knows it isnât. Elijah sees firsthand how his colleagues work through this case with lethargy and tunnel vision; he sees how theyâve exhausted their efforts after the first forty-eight hours. He knows the statistics, ( theyâve been drilled into this skull ), but it doesnât even feel like theyâre trying anymore, why arrest some girl who doesnât know any more than they do?
009. Some decisions in life make themselves, and some come running right at you. Heâd been pouring over the case files on his own before that group came barreling into the Sheriffâs Office, some familiar faces but none heâd thought would hang with one another just because ( heâd had eyes and ears in high school, like everyone else ). Seriously, the mayorâs daughter coming to bail out that other girl that somehow became their prime suspect? How did that even happen?Â
010. What happens after could cost him his job, but then again, heâs not all that attached to it. For once heâs the last one in the office, slipping the case file into his Jansport before cutting off the lights. Heâs fond of those inconsequential non-emergencies, but in doing this he feels like heâs actually doing something importantâ more than his father and everyone else is doing anyhow. Whatever happens after, it was probably meant to be. Heâd needed a new outlet anyhow.
&&. heâs got a ton of those enamel pins on the lapels of his deputy uniform, because he stands for all of that and also because he wants to rile up the old assholes in the office: a pride flag, a blm flag and his favorite, which stands for nothing at all, the kermit pin.
&&. the man is a collector and heâs been collecting those sappy novels on the lowâ blame his sister for leaving that one jodi picoult novel in his car ( he read it as a joke until it wasnât )âŚand gabby kept leaving books after and he thinks sheâs just going and doing it on purpose now.
&&. heâs gone to all the little hole in the wall places and posted about their shitty food. and heâs consistently going to the pub and trying out their even shittier food and blasting them on the internet because they never learnâŚeveryone knows he runs this blog but he won't âcome cleanâ.
&&. heâs got a lot of snacks in his Jansport, and a tool box because you really never know. you gotta be prepared for anything? even though heâs sitting on his ass most of the time, but you just really never know. especially now that heâs running with pseudo-vigilantes.Â
