SAWYER MCLAREN ( THOMAS DOHERTY ) is an EIGHTEEN year old from CONRAD, MONTANA. HE is known around the island as THE WILD CARD because he is EASYGOING and FREE-SPIRITED but can also be STUBBORN and FOOLHARDY. HE reminds of baseball bats, dog-eared books, and single-malt whiskey.
BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: sawyer dean mclaren
NICKNAMES:Â the hick/texas, soy dog, blue eyes
BIRTHDAY: december 2, 2002
AGE: eighteen
HOMETOWN: conrad, montana
BIRTHPLACE: conrad, montana
RELIGION: agnostic atheist
ETHNICITY: white
NATIONALITY: american
EDUCATION: some high school, no diploma
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single and always trying to mingle
SOCIAL CLASS: lower
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
HEIGHT: 6â0
EYES: blue
HAIR: dark brown
BUILD: slim athletic
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: a scar on the left side of his nose that extends to the corner of his mouth
NOTABLE FEATURES: strong jawline, skin that freckles in the sun, tattoos of varying propriety
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES: if you pay close attention, you can see he walks with a limp in his gait; sawyer likes to tell people he got it in a brawl with a grizzly bear (he didnât)
ALLERGIES: none
PERSONALITY & BEHAVIOR
HOBBIES: wood-carving, knife-throwing, bed-rocking
LIKES: big dogs, bad ideas, comic books, the smell of rain, open fields, fireflies, fast cars, conspiracy theories, cheap liquor, expensive liquor, stick-and-poke tattoos, falling in love, collecting patches, writing on his hands and clothes
DISLIKES: the manâ˘, conservatives, commitment, tension, tight jeans, dark chocolate, going to church, being told what to do
QUIRKS: speaks with a lazy country twang thatâs often mistaken for southern, refers to people by pet names, uses laughter as punctuation, likes to philosophize about the future of the universe, thinks jack daniels is an acceptable substitute for water, writes illegibly, can recite the entire ending passage of the great gatsby from memory but canât tell you what he ate for breakfast yesterday morning
STRENGTHS: a natural leader, thrives on teamwork, uses the âuneducated hickâ label people put upon him to his advantage when it comes to outsmarting others
WEAKNESSES: once he gets an idea in his head, itâs hard to convince him otherwise; puts a little too much trust in others, bad with directions
POSITIVE TRAITS: charismatic, sociable, open-minded
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Â stubborn, aimless, reckless
MENTAL DISABILITIES: adhd
SHARE 5 FUN FACTS ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
sawyer served 14 months of an 18-month sentence in juvenile detention for auto theft and joyriding. the fun part about this fact is that the only difference between juvie and deserted islands is the food.
with two older brothers, sawyer is the youngest child in a family of four. his mama dipped when he was a kid: old enough to remember a life with her in it and young enough to brush off the hurt she left behind. his daddy, on the other hand, took a âtough loveâ approach to raising sawyer and his brothers. if they got hurt, he let them cry it out. when they made mistakes, they had to figure out how to right âem on their own. on sawyerâs twelfth birthday, his father gave him a rifle and taught him how to shoot â said he needed to learn how to defend himself. sawyer spent the better part of his adolescence chasing after a childhood he never really had in the first place.
sawyer probably wouldâve made the top percentile of his class if heâd ever formally gone to school. despite his impetuous antics, heâs naturally intelligent and loves to learn. he used to spend a lot of time in the library as a child, reading whatever he could get his hands on, from comics to nonfiction. some of his favorite books are treasure island, don quixote, and the odyssey.
he picked up stick-and-poke tattooing in juvie as a creative outlet for folsom prison blues. sawyerâs not an artist by any means, and most of the tats he has look like bad childrenâs drawings, but he takes pride in his ability to help others make equally terrible decisions.
no, heâs not related to that mclaren. yes, he absolutely knows how to gun a car down the freeway.Â
WHAT WAS YOUR CHARACTER WEARING ON THE FLIGHT?
on the flight to kona, hawaii, sawyer was wearing:
a ratted, army green jacket with a hood and four pockets
a long-sleeved sweatshirt
a white undershirt
a black bandana tied around his neck
slim cargo pants, rolled at the ankle
a plain pair of socks
a plain pair of boxers
black sneakers with duct tape wrapped around the right sole
PLEASE LIST 3 PERSONAL ITEMS OF YOUR CHARACTER THAT WASHED UP ON SHORE
a rusted dog tag with the initials O.S.Y. engrained into the metal, seemingly by hand
a paperback copy of lord of the flies, most of its pages illegible or torn from water damage
a 30-day supply of adderall xr with twenty-two pills left
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