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| Chris Barstow-Carson | ||
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| Status | Active | |
| Focus | Civilian | |
| Biographical Information | ||
| Date of Birth | 1994-08-06 | |
| Age | 28 | |
| Place of Birth | Liberty City | |
| Nationality | American | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Pronouns | He/Him/His | |
| Licenses | Driving License
Weapons License
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| Residence | Alta St. Apartments | |
| Physical Attributes | ||
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Hair Color | Blonde | |
| Relationship Information | ||
| Marital Status | Single | |
| Sexuality | Straight | |
| Partner(s) | None | |
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| Role-Player Information | ||
| Played By | [[NotTheStig]] | |
Description
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Background
Christopher Barstow-Carson was born in August of 1994 in Washington D.C. to Johnathan Barstow and his wife Sarah Carson. At the time Jonathan was studying for his Ph.D in post-modern literary analysis at Georgetown University, but after completing his Doctorate accepted a teaching position at Columbia University as a professor of Contemporary Literary History. After accepting the position, Jonathan moved his family to Liberty City to stay close to the campus. Jonathan met Christopher's mother, Sarah Carson, while studying for his Masters. Sarah was an Art History student at the time, and the pair bonded over a shared interest in bygone eras. While Sarah enjoyed the academic world, in her Senior year of her Bachelors degree she got accepted into a prestigious internship at The Smithsonian which launched her career in the art world, and the excitement of the real world kept her away from further academic life.
The couple were caring and attentive parents to Christopher, aided by him being an only child, but they had their fair share of differences, which reflected in Chris's upbringing. Rather than being attached to either of them in particular, he adopted elements of both of them. His mother was fairly liberal and free spirited, which rubbed off on Chris quite a bit. He loved a good adventure, and was very much his own person. His father on the other hand was far more conservative. While Jonathan imparted his enthusiasm for stories, writing, and critical thinking, Chris felt that his dedication to academic pursuits left him blinded to what was really happening in the world.
Teen-age Life
In high school Chris really began to become his own person. Around the same time he started high school, the 2008 financial crisis started taking it's full effect. Being in a private school among some of Liberty Cities more wealthy families he saw the consequences of the recession first hand with immediate effect. He started paying attention to the multiple news outlets that covered what happened, from opinion pieces to deep investigations. Very quickly he realized how messed up the world around him was, and that the only people doing anything about it where the reporters telling the stories. Pretty soon the news was his life. Every day before school he would swing by the local news stand and pick up all the big papers he could. The Times, The Journal, The Herald, Weazel News, even the smaller local publications. He no longer trusted the systems around him, and he wanted to read everything he could about what was going on. It was like a train wreck, as terrible as it was he just couldn't look away. These reporters became his idols, and some of the biggest names became his heroes.
In his Sophmore year of high school he joined the school paper. His eyes were bigger than his head though, and quickly found himself butting heads with the senior editors because they weren't doing big enough stories. As much as he wanted to break some big corruption conspiracy, his enthusiasm was his own worst enemy.
Chris's growing passion for the press acted like an axe between him and his father. Being the conservative academic English major that he was, he saw most journalists as a plague who sullied the literary world with their fast paced, cut throat, attention seeking behavior. True knowledge, he believed, lied in books and papers, not on the front page. When Chris announced he was going to Boston University to study in the Journalism major it drove a rift in their relationship that was never mended. While they still occasionally talk, there is an energy in the air of words better left unspoken.
College and Early Life as a Journalist
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