#privatticus

ELLIOT: Do you remember back in middle and high school?

ELLIOT: How so many people made fun of me, and you were always there to protect me.

ELLIOT: Why did you hit me?

Asher waited excitedly for Atticus to arrive at his house. He let Max outside so he doesn’t immediately jump on Atticus. After a little bit of waiting, there was a knock at the door and he jumped up and answered the door, “Hey Atti.”

Uh…that would be me

Mmk, well hi hello, I’m Shoshanna Ben Israel, future business leader of America.  And clearly someone wants me made aware that you are effing my little brother and going to be going on a date with him.

Any idea why that might be?

ATTICUS SMYTHE ➝ FIFTH SIBLING

I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN

❖ FULL NAME: Atticus Elliot Smythe. ❖ PRONOUNS: He/Him. ❖ AGE: 19. (February 14th). ❖ BIRTH ORDER: Fifth. ❖ GRADE: Freshman. ❖ MAJOR: Athletic Training, with a minor in Psychology. ❖ SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual. ❖ ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Biromantic. ❖ FACECLAIM: Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

I'LL FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU LOVE ME

Kidnapping TW Torture TW

Being the last born of the Smythe clan, Atticus was often the forgotten brother. He was smart like the rest of the family, but not so much that he was seen as being any better than anyone else. He found himself being closer to the helpers around his house then he was his own parents. This would lead him to being found helping to cook with the chef or playing with any of the maid’s kids if they came by.

He had no interest in following the family line, even though he was a half decent actor and singer, he found no joy in it. He didn’t know where his spot was, until he was given the chance to be on the track team and get into sports, he was a natural. He had colleges offering him scholarships from the time he was a freshman and he knew that even before that his parents had been receiving offers. He found himself trying to separate himself from his family name and things that came from it, he didn’t like feeling like he was living in a glass bowl that was part of an exhibit.

He thought he had gotten pretty good at just fading into the background, being ok with being forgotten when he was kidnapped. He was walking home just after his sixteenth birthday, when a black van pulled up alongside of him and asked for directions, and when Atticus had his back turned, he was knocked out and taken in. He was awoken in a dark dank place, being questioned on his family’s bank records and passwords. When he refused to answer the questions, he was beaten and tortured. This went on for two weeks, before the cops got a tip of where the captors were. They ran off before the police got there, leaving Atticus tied to a chair, broken and battered. With the help of Atticus’s fuzzy memory, the captors were caught, but the damage had been done.

Atticus’s ankle hadn’t been set properly following the breakage, and by the time he got treated, it was already healing wrong so even when it was set correctly, it never healed right. This left him to have a limp following the incident. The possibility of him getting a scholarship to somewhere for sports was now gone, and so was the chance of him being able to hide in a crowd, as there had been media coverage with his picture placed everywhere while he was being kept.

After the whole ordeal, Atticus threw himself into work, no longer having a safe space to go to. He was tortured with nightmares every night, something he was able to keep a secret mostly due to how big his house was and how most of his siblings had left by that point. When he was looking at colleges, his parents pushed him to go to PSU, something he didn’t argue with because he didn’t want to argue with them. So he went to PSU, trying to get away from the memories that just won’t let go.

BABY, THERE'S NO OTHER SUPERSTAR

Atticus doesn’t really have a style, choosing instead to wear whatever he can find. He wears a lot of hand-me downs from his older siblings, and can sometimes be found at the nearby thrift shop. He usually wears jeans and polo’s, flannels or button ups. But he also has more fancy clothes in his closet if needed. He usually just brushes his hair over a side, but other than that doesn’t really deal with it.

YOU KNOW THAT I'LL BE YOUR PAPARAZZI

[Asher is there holding the gifts in front of Atticus]

You might have to fight her, but maybe.