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HEY EVERYONE, i’m admin birdy & i’m so excited to have you all here ! and also i’d like to introduce my baby to you guys ! and let know that i only have a few wcs for this one because idk, he’s new in town and also i’m both lazy & without ideas ! but i’m up to everything you guys want, so hmu or like this post that i’ll, eventually, crash into your IMs and we can brainstorm together !

* ♡ ˙ ˖ / matthew daddario + cis male + he/him. — did you know idris’s real name is idris henderson? oh yeah, they are a thirty year old football player known as the reveller that has been in town for four days. this pansexual leo can be sociable + confident, as well as careless + sarcastic. i hear their soulmark is the big dipper constellation on the back of his neck, and their soulmate looks like dominic sherwood. muscles stretching, empty alcohol bottles, thunderstorms in the middle of the night.

( suicide tw ) ; ( drug tw - ish ) !!!

it is safe to say that idris’ life started in a hard way. he was born and raised in denver, colorado , alongside a younger brother and their mother, a woman long ago consumed by a hard life. his father was never around and from an early age he had to understand the challenges life would bring. his mother had come from the same humble origins and never had a chance to grow in life, leaving her limited to a small job with an even smaller salary ― far from being enough to support her and two children. idris constantly watched the woman stop eating for two or three days, so he and his brother could have three full meals over the same period.

over the course of a few years, the situation only worsened for the family. his mother lost her job and, already tired of her life, couldn’t stay in any other for long. at the age of sixteen idris even tried to help and break his time between school, a job and the only privilege that allowed to have in his life; football was his sweet scape. while in the field he was able to forget about all his problems, his poor family and the prospects of a broken future with little to no opportunities ahead of him. maybe because of talent or even effort that idris used to dedicate to the sport, he eventually stood out.

idris was eighteen and in the final days of high school when he received the news that synthesized the only chance he would get to not only follow his dream, but also help his mother and brother to lead a better life; he had, somehow, managed to qualify for the university of colorado’s football program, with a full scholarship. his mother, however, would never know about that. already tired of an existence that bordered the misery, she chose to take her own life and finally be able to rest. shock and sadness almost made him give up on his own dreams, but idris's brother, who had displayed a strength he did not know it even existed, made him move on with the scholarship.

for the next few years, idris tried his best to keep himself into his college & football routine and also be a good brother, since both boys were all what was left of the impaired family. he never came to graduate from college since, after four years of hard study and frequent participation in the college football league, idris made the official petition to enter the nfl drafts early. for his surprise the petition was accepted and he was drafted by a big team who had him on their radar for a while already. trying his best as never before, he proved to be both talented & hardworking and it was just a matter of time until he started to stand out in the field.

fame and money came fast for the young player; his life now seemed to be stable and promising. his only concerns were to stand out more & more, and to attend most of the great parties for which he was invited. everything was finally easy ― but it wouldn’t stay that way for long. years after he had finally become a professional football player, the disaster hit idris in the form of two men from the opposing team, in one of the first games of the season. he suffered gruesome injuries to his knee and ankle, leaving him out for the rest of the games and undergoing two surgeries to try to fix what had been broken by the accident while no one knew if idris would ever return to the fields.

idris was really shaken by everything that happened, afraid of losing everything he had conquered over the years. the treatments were difficult physically & mentally, and the physiotherapy was painful, but the biggest problem he faced came in another form; the small pills designed to lessen his pain created a dangerous dependence, that threatened his career much more than the injuries. it took a few months until someone finally noticed idris' addiction and he was officially temporarily removed from the next season not only because of his knee or ankle, but in order to treat himself and get back to what he was before everything.

however, a strange supplicating pressure caused him to drop every kind of new treatment for his addiction before it even started. it was a weird, uncontrollable feeling that wouldn’t go away, no matter how hard he tried ― and he tried hard. the strange sensation consumed all his thoughts and even his dreams, until idris found himself in the middle of the night driving for hours on end ‘till he finally reached jericho, where he knew nothing and no one; nor what had brought him to the tiny town.

HOLY SHIT, this ended up to be huge, so long story short: idris was born very poor, had a shitty childhood. has one younger brother and loves him dearly. had a hardworking mother that took her own life when he was eighteen. got a footbal l scholarship, managed to become a professional football player and never graduated from college because of that. he suffered an injury to the knee and ankle that took him out of the season and left him addicted to pain medication. he never got to start rehab, though, because he felt the strange need to go to jericho, where he's been for four days. and this is where our story begins !

idris' personality is very expansive and confident. he is rarely insecure about something and, when it happens, he tries to hide behind several layers of his other traits. idris is a very intense ( and ends up being careless about himself because of it ) man and he normally tends to devote himself to things & people with impressive ease ― but he is also known for quickly getting tired and bored of both things just as easily. he constantly varies between the arrogance acquired by the past years surrounded by money & fame, and humility typical of those who grew up knowing the meaning of necessity & poverty. idris rarely is aggressive or hostile toward others and often silently directs these feelings to himself; he frequently overcharges himself and becomes undeniably frustrated when he fails to achieve his goals. the football player is a very sociable man and makes friends with ease. he doesn’t like to stay home, doing nothing, although the accident has made him ( almost ) used to the stillness.