Austin Carrigan.

Name: Austin Carrigan.
↳Known As: The Forgotten Son.
Age: 24.
Sexual Orientation: Straight.
Species: Human.
Occupation: Janitor at Carrigan Law Firm.

Personality: Neither dominant nor submissive. That was beaten out of him a long time ago. He’s very reserved, and deals with his inner demons on quite a day to day basis. It’s rare that he says many words throughout the day due to feeling so alone and lost in the world that he’s in.

Special Details: While working at his father’s law firm, he’s not allowed to say that he’s his father’s son due to his father not wanting the people there to know he abandoned his first wife and child. He wants them to believe his life is perfect, which leaves Austin to deal with poor attitudes from the people there. And that doesn’t help with his addictions. He also has scars on his wrists from his childhood where one of the women his mother was competing with had tried to kill him to get to her.

F/C: Chace Crawford.

Bio:
For a great proportion of his life, Austin Carrigan, has known that life is full more of downs than ups. When he was born, his life was actually pretty normal. His mother was a nighttime nurse, and his father worked a car dealership, however, when Austin was two, his father got laid off due to low sale percentages. This caused a huge rift in his parents' marriage, and eventually, his father had had enough, and he left.

His mother did all she could to provide for him. She took extra shifts at the hospital, and even got another job part time at a local fast food restaurant. But all of that only helped temporarily. She couldn’t afford their house, so they had to move into a much smaller one in a run down neighborhood, and eventually, she lost their car, which in turn made her lose her jobs because she was constantly late from walking back and forth. And she couldn’t always afford childcare for Austin, so she had to miss days for him.

With no money, and no other options, his mother was left with something that she never would’ve considered if she didn’t have a six year old at home; prostitution. For days she’d be gone, leaving Austin with her pimp’s sister who did nothing but shove him into a closet and throw him table scraps. And every time he’d try to tell his mother she would disregard him because she was finally making money again. Soon, she was addicted to drugs and alcohol too, which didn’t help her relationship with Austin when he got older.

When he turned seventeen, he had already dropped out of school after many bad grades, detentions, and suspensions. His mother couldn’t care less about any of that. She only cared about her drug habit and getting her money from her Johns. With their relationship strained beyond repair, Austin moved out of their house and moved in with a few friends of his that also didn’t attend school. They were a part of an amateur gang that regularly got into trouble with the law, though Austin tried to steer clear of that. He only stayed with them because he had no other options.

Less than two months before his eighteenth birthday, the police and a social worker showed up looking for him. His mother had overdosed the night before, and because he wasn’t yet eighteen, they had to take him into the foster care system until his birthday. No foster families wanted a seventeen year old with that much damage, so he was put into a group home, and he had to stay there for the next two months. When his birthday came, he went straight back to his friends, with a much different attitude.

Instead of sticking clear of the trouble, he went head first into it this time. It was clear that he was so much more broken after losing his mother, even if they weren’t close, it still broke him in ways that even he couldn’t understand. And what really finished him off was the fact that his father tried to contact him after he heard about his mother’s death. He wanted to reconnect, and introduce Austin to his new wife and kids. Austin slammed the door in his face without a single word.

That night, Austin got plastered beyond belief, and he got into a fight with another member of the gang, and he almost killed the guy. He was thrown out, and forced onto the streets with nothing apart from the clothes on his back and whatever pocket change he had on him. For a while, he jumped from couch to couch from different acquaintances, and he even spent time in a homeless shelter.

Eventually, the only thing he was left with was to contact his father, who had a new job as a lawyer. After he’d left his mother, he’d gotten his degree, and had just recently opened up his own firm. Austin hated to ask for a favor from the man that left him and ruined his entire life, but he didn’t have any other options.

His father didn’t give him money, instead, he let Austin stay in his guest house, and got him a job at his law firm doing busy work and cleaning up. He even convinced his son to get his GED, and explore a career of his own, which didn’t settle well with Austin, but he didn’t disagree. He felt like he couldn’t after all his father had done for him, especially when he didn’t have to.

Everyday now, Austin has to deal with his own addictions to alcohol and his temper, which isn’t easy when he sees his father with his new family. It isn’t thrown in his face, but it feels like it is to him. It just built up to the point where he eventually almost hit his half brothers, and his father forced him to go to therapy or he’d throw him out.

No matter what, Austin knows that he won’t be fixed as he’s broken beyond repair, but he wants to figure out how to make his addictions and anger manageable enough that he won’t kill himself with them like his mother did.