1. Brian became a christian after he finished University, before that he studied as a Mechanical Engineer, and was an agnostic with seeker tendencies. His parents were church-goers but not christians, and were horrified when he became 'born-again'. Twenty years later they still think he's going through a phase.
2. He prefers research rather than the pastoral duties of ministry. He thinks he's not much good at pastoral, but he's wrong.
3. He plays tennis left-handed because he had a left-handed tennis teacher.
4. The first time he saw Judith, he knew they were going to marry. This is regardless of the fact that he already had a fiancee and she had a boyfriend. He broke off his engagement that night. It took him two more years to sabotage her relationship and convince her to go out with him. They married within six months of officially going out together.
5. He loves cuddling and finds excuses to cuddle at every opportunity.
6. He has a son with his ex-fiancee.
7. He's been snipped. He walked bow-legged for a week afterwards because of the shoddy job the doctor did.
8. He feels things very deeply but tends to not show them. He has been known to take a shower so he can have a cry without being caught at it.
9. His favourite sport is Cricket. Summer is Cricket time, and the only thing that will stop him from watching 'The Ashes' is crises at work. He's a decent spin bowler.
10. He loves Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding, followed by a trifle. (He's very traditionally English in his food preferences).
I love that you made a sim for them too. It helps to see them.
ReplyDeleteWow, Brian all around surprised me. Especially 4 through 6. Something tells me that Grace has a little more of her father than I expected. I wonder if that's why he seems so understanding in his own way while Judith feels a need to tug and pull her daughter to make her the way she believes she ought to be.
I've made a sim for all of them - and yeah it helps me to see them too. Actually the story came out of the sim, rather than the sim out of the story.
ReplyDeleteBrian's been a rebel in his own quiet way, and not just in the past. Yeah - Grace has equal measures of her father and mother. Though part of the reason why Judith is tugging and pulling is because of what she sees in Grace of both Brian and herself, I think anyways. That's slowly coming out.
1. LOL at the idea of horrifying one's parents by becoming Christian.
ReplyDelete2. I would too - books over social interaction!
3. That's interesting - it doesn't feel wrong?
4. Oh wow. Would not have expected that - is this before or after becoming "born again"? Breaking up with your fiancee and breaking up another relationship doesn't sound very Christian, lol.
5. Cuddling is good!
6. Oooh - does this ever show up in the story?
7. LOL!
8. Awww - yay for feeling things deeply but sad at his having to hide it.
9. I do not understand any of that, lol. Will have to research cricket.
10. Ugh, roast beef - memories of Arby's. Heh - John has a theory that the British went and colonized everyone in search of better food.
3 started by feeling wrong, but after years of it, it feels right.
ReplyDelete4 is definitely before he became a christian. He actually didn't become a christian until after he married Judith and they'd had a couple of miscarriages.
6 Yes. At about the 50% mark.
10 LOL at John's comment! I like that, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he's right!