#asher dameron

BASICS.

full name: asher michael dameron.  face claim: matthew daddario.  gender + pronouns: cismale, he/him.  orientation: homosexual, homoromantic.  hometown: oakland, ca. united states.  occupation: social studies teacher.  employer: whatever middle school.  birthday + zodiac: september 20th, virgo. 

HEADCANONS.

All Asher ever could rely on when he was younger was himself. His mother was far from being the role model that he and his sister wanted to mold themselves after, so it had to be up to him to step up and care for the both of them to the best of his abilities – and for someone as small and young as he was, it wasn’t as if he had very many to begin with. Any food he could scrap together, he split between the both of them, always choosing to give his sister a bit more on her plate. He would gather all the spare change he found in between couch cushions in order to afford whatever the local Goodwill had to offer to simply have clothes on their back.  With his cheeks gaunt, his clothes ratty, he was far from being the popular one in elementary school, often being picked on by others around him. In fact, Asher had been knocked into the sandpit more times than he could count on both hands.

There came a point where it became abundantly obvious that there was something wrong in their home, leading to a tip to child services to be placed. When the social worker arrived, she was horrified by the circumstances the children found themselves in and immediately took them out of their mother’s care. With no close relatives to take them in, especially since their grandparents had long disowned their mother before the two were even conceived, they were placed in a foster home together. Asher was no more than eight-years-old, his sister not that much younger, and he was terrified, unsure of what was going to come next. All he knew was that he’d protect his sister with his life, and all hell would break loose if anyone tried to separate them.

Within the same year he was taken from his mother’s home, he and his sister had become wards of the state, being placed into the foster system until they were either adopted or aged out of the system – and to their sheer luck, it was within that very year that they had gotten onto the radar of Kathy Dameron, an esteemed family lawyer in the Oakland area. She had no children of her own, and then all at once, her home was theirs, where she raised them alongside her partner of fifteen years (and counting), Margaret. It was a difficult adjustment, especially for the oldest of the two, who hardly even spoke in front of them, but his mothers were patient. To this day, Asher can’t thank them enough for what they had done for him – they saved his life.

Middle school was when Asher first noticed he liked his best friend just a tad more than he liked him, but it wasn’t until high school when he fully came to grips with the genuine attraction he felt towards men. It had never really fazed him, though – there was no moment where he had wondered if there was something wrong with him. He was raised in a family that marched in Pride parades every year, lived in a home where love had no discrimination against sex, color, religion, and everything else in between. He was lucky, he knew. Not many others had the chance to say the same. In college, he met the boy who would leave him breathless with only a mere smile. They fell quickly, the way most kids do – or at least Asher did. It was only in the months leading up to their graduation that he found out his boyfriend had been sleeping around behind his back, and he broke things off with him without batting an eye. Despite being heartbroken and disillusioned, Asher still knew he deserved better than a man who promised him the world and then couldn’t deliver. 

From the start, Asher had always had his eyes on living somewhere on the east coast. And even though it was difficult to leave his mothers’ home on the west coast, he knew he’d have to eventually spread his wings and see more of what was out there. He knows he isn’t settling down his roots anytime soon while living in the Sylvester Suites, but he has high hopes that soon he will find the right place to call home and the right person to share it with.

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