Colle
Faceclaim: Andy Biersack
Details: 19, male, homosexual
Collin McAnders is a 13th-grade student, born on December 14 in Puerto Rico. Standing at 193 cm tall, with black hair, light blue eyes, and various tattoos on his neck, arms, and upper body, he immediately stands out. As an openly gay student, he enjoys presenting himself with makeup and nail polish and embraces an extravagant lifestyle.
Outwardly, Collin presents himself as the classic rich kid: arrogant, snobbish, and disrespectful toward almost everyone. He loves expensive things, like cars, jewelry, watches, designer clothes, and Collin makes no secret of it. Wild parties and a strong social media presence are part of his image. His favorite band is Panic! At The Disco. At the same time, he openly looks down on people he considers beneath his level: “losers, homeless people, nerds, punks” - as he puts it himself.
Collin deliberately stages himself as an “elite gay” and decides who is “allowed to be gay” at school. He lives by the motto: “Turn your weaknesses into strengths or hide them well enough.” He doesn’t want his sexuality to be a point of attack, so he turns it into his trademark. The fact that he is reproducing homophobic structures himself completely beyond him.
Behind the facade hides an emotionally shattered young man. His closest circle consists of only a few true friends, toward whom he does show empathy and care, when he isn’t too preoccupied with himself.
Collin’s greatest source of pain is his grandfather, who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home in Puerto Rico. He was the only person in Collin’s childhood who truly cared for him. Collin often cries himself to sleep in secret, as contact is now barely possible. His parrot Mandy, who lives with his mother in Leipzig, also means a great deal to him.
Collin speaks reluctantly about his parents. His mother, Guillia McAnders, and his father, Edward Westminster, married purely out of convenience: she wanted money, he needed an heir for his empire. His relationship with his father is icy, and the one with his mother hardly warmer. After their divorce, when Collin was five, he had to move with his mother to Boston, and later to Leipzig.
Collin flirts with almost everyone and boasts about having many conquests - the truth is, he’s still a virgin and has only kissed a few boys. His love, Isaac, and his best friend, Hyunjin, have both moved away, which had hurt him deeply.
Despite having a great grades (best subjects: sports and music; worst: history and geography), Collin has no idea what he wants to do after graduation. His parents expect him to go to university and take over his father’s company. But he himself feels clueless and overwhelmed by that expectation.
