Appearance:<br/>(http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc370/Sage226/beautiful-black-hair-boy-eyes-hoodie-Favimcom-112126myeye_zps15c17363.jpg)<br/><br/>Lip piercing 1/4'' away from his right lip corner, silver hoop, and an eyebrow silver horseshoe piercing on his left eyebrow.<br/><br/>The man enjoy wearing a black corner-bowl hat, a black tuxedo jacket, button-up shirts and jeans during the summer. He wears a big winter coat, tuque, hoodie (button-up shirt under it) and jeans in the winter. (If winter there snows)<br/><br/>Name/Nicknames: Derek "Ghost" Ashford<br/><br/>Age: 18<br/><br/>Major: Fine Arts with a minor in Graphic Design<br/><br/>Personality:<br/><br/>Derek is known to be a guy who is smart, but also thought to be an emo. He is actually emotional but keeps it reserved to himself. Deep down, the guy is hard on himself, never thinks he's good enough, untalented and a loser, just like the bullies of high school told him. He enjoys smoking, drawing, listening to music, socializing and playing video games. Derek likes many types of music; one day, metal music would be blaring out of his ear phones, the next may be classical, dubstep, alternative, punk, or rap... The list goes on. The guy remains to be serious, a natural difficulty to catch on sarcasm and usually the guy the ends up cleaning up the messes.<br/><br/>Addiction/reason for being in the apartment:<br/><br/>Derek cannot afford to live without roommates. He also decided it was a good way to meet new people and build a new social circle<br/><br/>Brief History:<br/><br/>Growing up without a father had taken a toll on him, his step-father wasn't much of a replacement. The man was the kind of man that came into someone's life and made the rules. Derek hated the man, especially since the man always drank beer. It was a common case, a common scenario. The room was a safe zone, a personal sanctuary. Where he'd hide and, in his teenage years, smoke cigarettes or joints. He discovered marijuana at the age of 14 and pierced his own lip at 16, to mark the first shift into adulthood, or so he thought.<br/><br/>Derek grew up as a sore thumb in a crowd. A black sheep. A prime target for the school bullies. Kids love to pick on the ones who stand out too much and Derek was no exception. Shoved in the lockers, last picked, laughed at, name-called, books shoved to the ground. The usual harassment a usual teenage boy suffers through when he is like Derek. The geek. The goth. The emo. The loser.<br/><br/>He never had a large circle of friends and the ones he had were close. He didn't like crowds and passed many parts of his days in solitude. Derek calls himself a ghost because he is always the guy in the background, the one that you could remove from a group and it wouldn't change anything. He actually has deep self esteem problems dug into the fact that his father left when he discovered he was going to be a father. Derek thinks he wasn't good enough and usually thinks poorly of anything he does. It leaves many people to think he is a pessimist and just a negative person in general.<br/><br/>When Derek finished his high school and passed the summer, he  decided that he was putting his foot down and standing up against his step-father, to break the control that man had tried to have over Derek's life. Derek had left home that night, jumping onto a plane that he hadn't informed his parents about. They thought he was going to a school into the local area, used the money his parents had given him to pay tuition and used to pay for a school in a different country, got his cards and made sure the transition would go through fine. On the night he faced his step-dad, he took his personal stuff in a large trunk and jumped in a taxi and took his plane, smoking a cigarette on the way, since he couldn't smoke a joint in the taxi. Derek had just abandoned his family and he felt no regret, no remorse over what had just happened.<br/><br/>The airport passed by like torture, every second ticking was a long wait. Derek wanted to get out of the country as soon as he could. It was a question of time before his parents would pick up on the fact that he had packed things and left. He hopped on the plane, plugged his ear plugs in and listened to his MP3, falling asleep soon after the flight took off. Derek was rather shaken by what he had done, however, he quickly ignored any thoughts about his parents, blocking them out of his mind completely.<br/><br/>Changing country also meant ending up in a school where Derek knew no one. Adding the fact that his wallet wasn't fat enough to support himself on his own in an apartment, he quickly opted to take a room in a dorm. The next problem was getting there. Derek originates from Canada and the next flight he could book was late and so he informed the school that he would not be able to attend until he was able to get on the flight.<br/><br/>Sexuality: Bicurious, leans towards the female side more than the male side.<br/><br/>On's: Simple needs for a simple man. Anything that would sound fun, without too many consequences. Derek is open to pretty much anything that isn't on the off list. He has a preference for dominant girls (not tomboy, but a girl who likes to take the wheel and wants some roughness as is going to get exactly that) and girly guys. Kudo's if you catch him when he has had a fresh puff of marijuana.<br/><br/>Off's: Vore, anything that goes in the toilet, self-centered, close-minded people, marijuana-haters who are misinformed, bullies.