PLAYER: CEDRIC MONTGOMERY	CHARACTER: Serendipity
PRONOUNS: He/Him AGE: 28 ORIENTATION: Homosexual LOCATION: New York (USA) OCCUPATION: Personal Assistant	GENDER: <M> AGE: Adult ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? No PAIN THRESHOLD: Realistic TRAINER CLASS: Gardener

OUT OF THE GAME The sole survivor of a horrible car crash when he was only two years old, Cedric would be raised by his grandparents in a small town outside Boston. Perhaps unsurprisingly, being raised in an environment where he realized - largely subconsciously - that his caretakers were only so able to be able to handle misbehavior with their limited mobility and fragile health, the boy would grow up quiet and meek, more accustomed to curling up with a good book than he ever was playing sports with his peers or otherwise getting himself into trouble. Kind and caring to a fault, his teacher would often say he was far older than his years, relieved that the smart little boy in their class was always happy to help them with classroom duties or otherwise try to keep his peers in check. Even so, caring for a young child wasn't easy, and Cedric would only be eleven when his grandfather would pass away after a heart attack. The weeks following the funeral were devastating for him, but from that darkness came a new bright spot in his life in the form of what would end up becoming his best friend - an older boy who had wasted no time in reaming out a handful of boys who had been teasing Cedric about crying at school a few days after the funeral and hadn't batted an eye when the younger boy started trailing after him like a lost puppy. It would be something that would persist even when it became obvious their lives were on different paths - Cedric, with his dreams of being a pilot, just like his grandfather had been, wanting to travel the world, and his friend with his foothold in the family business, expected to take over just as his father had before him and his father before him. But flight school was expensive, far too much so for a young man burdened with the medical bills of his beloved grandmother, and so it was that he would place his own dreams on hold to become his friend's personal assistant and right hand man. Maybe that was why, when his grandmother haltingly brought up that she would always love him, no matter who it was he decided to love, he didn't question it - because a part of him had always known he'd loved his best friend, deep down, even when he'd just been some scruffy kid who always had to go home before the sun went down and who would always organize their in-game raids through an old, worn-down laptop he'd been gifted by his friend in high school so he didn't have to spend so much time at the library simply to get his schoolwork done. But that would only make it hurt more when, one day, upon coming in to the office, he would be tasked with sourcing wedding invitations. To his best friend's wedding. The friend that he'd been in love with for more than half his life. Heartbroken, he logged into UNOVR, just as he had almost every weekend until his old raiding group had given up on dabbling with the game, and decided to throw himself into it in a way he hadn't with a game in years, since he'd been in high school and needed something to distract him from his grandmother's three month stint in the hospital. Anything and everything to get rid of that yawning ache in his chest of feeling just like that lone little kid who had just lost something he couldn't bear to lose. (Anything and everything to find a new pack when he felt like he had woken up alone in the wilderness after yet another terrible storm...)

INSIDE THE GAME As can be imagined, there's honestly not that much difference between Cedric and Serendipity (he still can't believe they wouldn't let him reuse his old Seren username after he deleted his old account and he'd had to default back to his old original one back from years ago on Flight Rising). The both of them are kind-hearted and gentle, methodical in their planning and well-suited to the tedious task of wrangling people together for a group effort and coordinating with all of them to achieve objectives (there had been a reason his preferred role in his raiding group had been healing). That being said, however, there is one big difference - and that is that Serendipity is braver and more open with his emotions than Cedric would ever be. Granted, some of that is because his long ears and stubby little tail don't exactly give him much other choice about how he's emoting, but the online anonymity also makes him feel a little more free to express himself. After all, he's just talking to strangers, people he won't ever meet in real life, so it's not like it matters as much if they see him hurting or upset or otherwise something other than the cheerful personal assistant that he is in his day-to-day life.

FACE CLAIMS IRL CHARACTER [u]LAMENTO[/u] Asato as [a href="https://unovr.boards.net/post/22934/thread"]Cedric Montgomery[/a] PLAYER CHARACTER [u]ARKNIGHTS[/u] Courier as @serendipity pics by Kaki s && 染烟

OOC NAME Rian

STARTER PKMN Do you want to receive your starter in-character at the Starter Lab? NO, I'LL JUMP STRAIGHT INTO RP!