Darren Stoute

The Past
And so it began, April 4th, 1987, the life of Darren Stoute. Born into a nice little middle class family, life had never been really been too difficult. As a lad, he was quite the handful, however, always getting trouble. He could count the numerous times in middle school that he had gotten into fights for various unimportant reasons. After a while, however, he straightened his act up and started focusing on getting good grades and being a good student. He was fairly successful in his endeavors, and his parents even managed to put him through college, a wonder in light of the fact that his older sister had gone before him. He even took up playing an instrument, the piano, which he still pursues.

Darren had moved around for most of his childhood. Born in California, he stayed there only for a few years before moving on to Texas, Washington, Maryland, and finally Georgia, where he stopped when his parents, Eric and Edna, decided to retire. Darren liked Georgia from what he had seen the few times the family had visited his uncle Charles, who resided in the northern area of the state. Charles was fond of camping, and would take the kids out camping. Darren always thought he told the best scary stories; Uncle Charlie would almost make him believe them to be true, with the amount of detail he put into them. Perhaps this is what sparked his interest in things occult. He even took a few elective courses in college on mythology and legends. Darren had never really been too close to his parents, but he always enjoyed visiting with his favorite uncle. That's why the news of his death hit him pretty hard. The blizzard had chosen to take him with the many others that parished.

The Present
Darren works at a local library. It is mundane, tedious, dull, mindless, and bland work, but it certainly is far from stenuous. And it pays the bills. And even has nice benefits. He has been working there for quite some time; ever since he had started college. After earning his bachelor's in English, he decided he needed a degree that could actually find him work or make a decent amount of money; he was already working at the library, so he decided to pursue Library Science for his master's degree. It was easy enough, and all the classes were conveniently online. It even taught him a few things about research in general.

Currently, Darren is single and lives life in a nice little appartment. He passes the time by playing piano, video games, and socializing with random people. Usually, about once per week, he'll visit his friends from college (undergraduate) and they'll hit the town together.

The Future
Darren doesn't really have plans for his future. He's pretty much just going along with life, waiting for something to happen. He lives life day to day. One day, he would certainly enjoy a raise, or perhaps even a promotion, but those are pretty difficult within the library system. Ideally he would enjoy a nice little nuclear family, a lovely wife, wonderful kids, but he realizes that those are all probably a bit too optomistic for what life actually has in store for him. His true life ambition, however, is just to be happy. Whether that means that he is able to retire happy, feel like he's lived a good life, or whatever else, changes on a regular basis.