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CHARACTER INFORMATION

face claim: Lamorne Morris.

full name: Quincy Booker Asher-Thompson.

nickname(s) / goes by: Booker.

pronouns & gender: he/him, cis man.

sexuality: straight.

birth date: December 11, 1984.

birth place: Atlanta, GA.

arrival to merrock: local.

housing: suburbs.

occupation: pharmacist.

work place: The Medicine Counter.

family: Frederick (father), Adelle (mother), Darnell (brother). He has one daughter, Dina Gabrielle.

relationship status: single.

PERSONALITY

All in all, Booker is a good man and really wants to be the best father for his daughter. No matter what, she is his first priority. He is a logical thinker, driven and very focused on attaining things that he wants. He's quite intelligent and has always possessed a rather quick witted tongue but doesn't lack that light sense of humor to sweeten a little bit of the bitterness. He's learned to take one step at a time with every decision in life instead of doing everything on impulse. He hopes he has grown into someone his daughter is proud of. When he's not working, which isn't often, he can often be found coaching his daughter's softball team or grabbing a bite to eat at Paco's.

WRITTEN BY: Janessa (she/her), est.

BACKGROUND / BIO

triggering / sensitive content: brief mentions of car accident, injury, medical talk, pregnancy.

Quincy Booker Asher-Thompson (don't ask him about why he doesn't go by his first name; he doesn't know either) and his story starts about forty years ago, when he was born in his father's hometown of Atlanta but only remained there for a number of months before the little family of three moved to Merrock, where both his parents found work - his father as a cardiothoracic surgeon and his mother as a dance teacher. Not long after the move, actually only ten months later, his younger brother, Darnell had been born and for the majority of their lives, the two brothers acted more like twins than anything else - they were joint at the hip.

As a kid, Booker had definitely been the more active one and while a little more mischievous than his brother, the two were a duo that were a force to be reckoned with. Booker was usually the one to get into more harmless trouble, but Darnell and their friends, they always kept him grounded, perhaps never quite recognizing just how much he truly needed their attention. He was always the type to stand in the center of the room, to say the last word and drag everyone out to play. Maybe he had his own agenda, maybe he was an attention seeker, but Booker had never been overbearing as a kid, there was something about his smile, his stupid jokes and that never-ending energy that made him who he had been.

As a student, Booker was brilliant. He always seemed to be a couple steps ahead of the other students, and class was rarely a challenge for him. Of course, if Booker wasn't challenged, he always found his mind wandering. That's how the prankster in him came out, something to occupy his time. For years, no one suspected him of the lavish pranks, whether it was the class guinea pig suddenly turning green, the glitter glue on the seat of the teacher's chair, or the poor girl who found a rubber garden snake in her desk. No one would expect the sociable and charming boy to be capable of the elaborate jokes. Eventually, he was found out, but that didn't stop him. Even with the teachers' suspicions focused on him, he was exceptionally clever. At least, for the most part, his pranks were aimed at making people laugh. They were harmless. Booker absolutely loved making people smile and laugh, it was sort of his thing. Due to his charming nature and his exceptional grades, he could basically get away with anything.

High school was an interesting period of time. It was when he got the reputation of being the boy next door disguised as the class clown, being the type that made someone someone feel good about themselves while also being the person that made someone laugh when they weren't supposed to. He let Darnell be the ladies man and only dated casually every now and again. He was an outgoing guy, but no one could say what group he was part of as he was somewhat of a social floater. His energetic personality was an annoyance to some while others were bothered by his constant pranks. Some thought that it was silly that he would stumble over his words because his mouth would move faster than his brain while others were jealous of his intelligence. Booker would say that his behavior would be the way that it was because he hated living in Merrock. He had always been someone who felt like he was more than his "stupid little hometown". In order to feel like he was doing something with his life, he tried out for track and field, ultimately joining the varsity team as a sprinter. He also played on the soccer team as a midfielder and was a photographer for the school newspaper and yearbook.

He needed to fill his schedule with extracurricular activities on top of the job he had as a waiter at the diner because otherwise he'd have to think about how boring and ordinary his life was and that just wasn't something he wanted to do. That's one thing about Booker that could be noted: he doesn't "do" feelings very well, preferring to push it all aside or focus on somebody else instead. Maybe that was why he decided to go into the medical field - helping people is a lot easier than helping himself.

Granted, Booker didn't really have a bad home life - he just didn't enjoy how he felt stuck in Merrock. In his mind, the one downside of living in a town with a small population was that all of your escapades ended up coming back to haunt you eventually, especially if your family was well-known. If he stayed out too late or did something he wasn't supposed to with his friends, chances were that his parents would find out. But despite being stuck in his small town, things were normal for Booker and he was just your average teenager. Though, that normalcy didn't last long. When Booker was entering his senior year of high school, his little brother and their friends were nearly killed in a car accident when the weather turned bad unexpectedly. The only reason Darnell and their friend group survived was because they were all wearing their seat belts. Booker had decided to skip out on the road trip earlier that day in order to hang out with a girl he liked. He barely said two words to Darnell the morning his little brother left for the mountains, too preoccupied with his own plans. It was that day that Booker realized that every moment counted, no matter how small or how big. It made him realize how much his brother really meant to him.

Even though Darnell survived the accident, it left him with several broken bones. In order to help his parents out, Booker decided to help take care of his little brother in any way he could. Whether that'd be taking him to doctor's appointments or helping him with daily activities while he recovered from his injuries, it was what he could do to contribute to taking care of his little brother. Though, he didn't mind because he still had his brother by his side. As he continued to help his little brother, Booker became the person that his mom had always hoped he would be - patient, attentive and unselfish. Safe to say, when he graduated from high school with honors at the age of eighteen, a few months after his brother's accident, he was a very different person. He was still a bit of a troublemaker, as some teachers would've been very keen to note, but he was also hard-working and put a lot of focus on his family.

After taking a gap year, he ended up studying at Vanderbilt University - a new drastic change of scenery, but he'd eventually grown used to it. He absolutely loved the city of Nashville and got accustomed to living on campus rather quickly. He became best friends with his roommate and started dating the waitress at the little restaurant down the street from the comic book store where he worked part-time. Of course, that relationship didn't last long, and then he started dating a girl in his anatomy class… and then a teacher's assistant… the list grew rather extensive as the years went on. The women he went out with were the few who found his goofball behavior endearing. Booker always enjoyed the physical bits of his relationships, he couldn't deny that, but the emotional side typically fell flat with him making terribly cheesy and half-hearted comments. If you were to ask Booker why it is hard for him to stay in a relationship, he'd say that it would be because of his taste in women, but it probably rather has something to do with his slightly flighty, childish behavior that so readily gets bored of the same-old same-old.

For a while, Booker was heading toward a career in being a surgical doctor like his father before him, looking at applying to medical school after he graduated. Though, he gained interest in being a pharmacist during his undergrad years at Vanderbilt. He knew his time at Vanderbilt was only a stepping stone to bigger and better things, he just hadn't decided what the bigger and better were yet. Flash-forward to dissection day in biology lab… and yeah, he almost passed out. That was the moment the light bulb went off and he knew that being a pharmacist was looking exactly like his kind of doctor. So, Booker graduated with his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and then was accepted into the PharmD program at the University of Southern California. He studied really hard to get through school, graduated, then studied extra hard to pass the NAPLEX and MPJE exams, and after all the blood, sweat and tears, he finally got to where he planned to be.

After being a pharmacy intern for many years, Booker finally became a staff pharmacist a few months after he graduated. He stayed in Los Angeles before moving back to Merrock two years later to help his parents after his father had a knee replacement. Moving back to his hometown ultimately brought him the one true love of his life. His daughter, Dina. Before the birth of his only child, Booker was optimistic to still be able to do exactly what he did back in Nashville and Los Angeles, dating around and having one night stands. But after a drunken hook up that happened between him and an old friend where she fell pregnant, he knew he had to put a quick end to any of that.

Even though he only planned to stay in Merrock for a couple of years, Booker has been still living in Merrock. And during the time he has been back, he's been raising his daughter with the mother of his child not too far away, being able to co-parent Dina without any difficulties. It had seemed like everything was working out for Booker - he was content with his life. However, it was only recently that things began to fall apart. Booker has become more head strong with his idea of moving Dina to some place bigger where she could experience more and have more opportunities outside of Merrock. It's put quite the strain on his relationship with the mother of his child after she overheard him talking about his plans. Truth be told, he once again has grown to hate being in Merrock and feels like the small town life is too monotonous. If Booker had it his way, he would have left a long time ago with Dina and never looked back but he's still here and becoming lesser and lesser every day. Time will tell if he'll just up and leave or if he'll learn to appreciate Merrock for what it is.

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