#colonelheadcanon

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LEGAL NAME: Colonel William Jackson Barnum

NICKNAME[S]: Colonel, Will, Young Barnum, Private, Balai (‘Broom’ in French)

DATE OF BIRTH: June 14th, 1897 (implied to be 28 by time of W.KM)

GENDER: Male

PLACE OF BIRTH: Unspecified. Implied to be in the state of California.

CURRENTLY LIVING: A small cottage near the edge of the city, but in walking distance (by William's standards) to both the Manor and the barracks.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English (also REALLY bad French. Do not believe him if he says he's fluent)

EDUCATION: Academically, he dropped out of high school at 16 and apprenticed as a handyman under his father. He is a fully trained soldier.

HAIR COLOR: Dark brown/black

EYE COLOR: Brown

HEIGHT: 6 foot 3 inches

WEIGHT: I have no idea. I've never looked this up, and I'm not going to look into it now. I'm going to guess somewhere between 190 - 200 lbs.

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FAMILY INFORMATION

Reminder: This is not taking into account the scenario of Mark and William being genetically related that blogs may have for their own lore. This will all be disregarded in those cases and I will adjust if needed.

SIBLING[S]: He was the youngest of six. He has three older brothers - Johnny, Ernest, and Harvey - and two older sisters - Lizzie and Annie.

PARENT[S]: Frank and Minnie Barnum

RELATIVE[S]: Due to the large age gap between him (twelve years between him and the second youngest), all his older siblings had married by the time he was in high school. Because of this, he was in the strange position of having at least nine nieces or nephews older than him, and three younger than him. And that's not mentioning his aunts and uncles. There's too many to list, but I should remind you that he was named after his uncle due to the miracle of surviving the odds at birth. Also, if one of his parents took a shine to you, you became an honorary Barnum.

CHILDREN: None. While he did have a reputation, back in the day, he was always careful. He could barely look after himself, let alone a whole other person.

PET[S]: None, for the same reason as above.

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RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual, though depending on the setting it's not something he actively explores.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single in pretty much every setting. My boy continues my notorious bad luck with ships. But he's also a homewrecker so he doesn't deserve happiness :D

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tagged by: @pinkxtrauma

There was a reason he had been known as an intimidating soldier, after all. Standing a head above most people, along with a broad chest, powerful looking arms, and a face with an unreadable expression? He looked like he could throw a man across a room (and definitely did at one point).

I've stuck a visual reference under the cut, comparing to the average height of a man and a woman from the time, according to a few online sources.

William left school at 15 to obtain a worker's permit to train under his father.

After the War, when the four were reunited, it was hard to ignore how William stuck out like a sore thumb.

Literally - he is a man standing at six foot three. His shoulders are broad, his chest is like a barrel, and there is no denying the sheer strength in his appearance. William holds himself straight and rarely lowers himself to look someone in the eye, unless they are a friend or he wants to intimidate. Even when not wearing his hat, his glasses and moustache make him very hard to read, and he can give someone the coldest glare.

Figuratively - though he is known as a Colonel, he only moves in such high circles thanks to his childhood friends. He's a man of humble origins without an untold plethora of wealth to his name. Clearly he has money, as there are some things in life he can indeed afford.

But William was not a popular man in the eyes of strangers. People were intimidated by him. He had a reputation as a stern commander in the local barracks, and so he often kept his distance from people. He only trusted strangers if one of his childhood friends was close to them; yet he never made an effort to go out and meet new people. The war made it hard for him to drop his guard completely around strangers.

Wilf has always been able to read sign! Except he never actually learned. William never took classes or anything, yet could perfectly read it. He put it down to body language reading and thought nothing of it.

The Colonel's mind didn't crack due to madness. How would you feel if you watched someone get shot, break their neck on the stone tiles a floor before you, bleed out, be considered legally dead for ten hours, and then get back up like none of that happened or mattered?

William might be six-three and very well-built with natural strength that could topple over most people with little effort, but he will absolutely flinch if someone shorter than him starts snapping at him.

Est. June 2018.

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