<div class="floatright">(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/567887516154331152/584106902942908435/Screen_Shot_2019-05-31_at_3.51.41_PM.png?width=209&amp;height=300)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Owen Christopher<br/><strong>Age:</strong>June 13, 1987 (Age 32)<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Straight/Hetero<br/><strong>Relationship Status:</strong>Single<br/><br/><strong>Height:</strong>6’2”<br/><strong>Figure:</strong>Muscular/Stocky, about 215lbs<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Distinguishing marks:</strong>Scars on both knees from surgeries<br/><br/><strong>Hometown:</strong>Born: Hamilton, New Zealand, Current Residence: split between Aukland, NZ/London, England<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Owen is a relatively easy going, if reserved young man. As he’s moved through his 20s, he’s learned that saying less can be a strength, especially when in groups of strangers. He has an easy smile, but when working, tends to be a bit more serious. He listens well, and has developed what he hopes is a keen sense of empathy for the people that come and go through his life. The only things that really get under Owen’s skin are rudeness, or when he sees a man being cruel to a woman.<br/><br/><strong>Bio:</strong>A native of New Zealand, Owen grew up in a working class family. His mother was a school librarian and his father a residential carpenter. His mother was an American ex-pat, who’d moved to New Zealand on an educator’s exchange program, where she met his father. Theirs had been a fast friendship and romance, with the pair marrying within 11 months of meeting. Owen was born the next year. Their union gave both Owen and his sister, Olivia, dual citizenship between New Zealand and the States.<br/><br/>He took to athletics early in his life, proving especially adept at rugby and wrestling. He was an above average student, but nobody’s idea of a genius, generally doing well enough to stay above water in advanced classes, but never excelling in them. He attended University and played rugby, but ended his studies after two years when a club team from Europe offered him a spot on it’s B-level team. He bounced around Europe for the better part of a decade, even getting time with the big clubs in several cities over the course of 6 years, though he spent more time on the bench and as a practice squad player than anything. During the off seasons, he went to bartending school and took up at a few choice locations close to wherever he happened to be playing, just to kill time in the winter and swing a few extra bucks.<br/><br/>As he approached 30, he decided he didn’t want to continue to muddle through as a secondary bench player and he ‘retired’ and took up coaching at a university in England.<br/><br/>He didn’t ‘date’ much, during that time, as most of his focus went into his sport. Certainly, like most professional athletes, there were women available to him, but he never much considered that sort of lifestyle to be for him. When Owen was approached by his agent for Love Island, he was reticent. His agent urged him that it would be a good way for him to supplement his income, and if he was truly done with playing, raising his media profile might help him get into announcing, if he wanted to do that. He was well spoken enough, after all, and had earned the respect of many teammates across several leagues. Besides, his agent liked to joke with him, doing the show might actually force him to consider actual relationships with women for the first time in 10 years.<br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Nature and the outdoors; exercising and staying fit, working with his hands, a good bourbon or scotch, live music<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>Arrogance, men hurting women, bigotry, country music,<br/><strong>Turn on's:</strong>See character O/Os, smart women who balance him out, women who help bring him out of his shell.<br/><strong>Turn off's:</strong>See character O/Os, but also: being rushed into commitment, being told what to do, losing his agency in a relationship<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Dan Carter<br/><br/>