Name: Ford William Graham Daniels
Birthdate: October 27, 1988
Age: 24
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 198
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Tattoos: Why mar perfection?
Parents: Lula Anne Daniels, a bartender. Beau Elliot Daniels, a mechanic.
Siblings: Two older brothers, Rhett and Colt; a younger sister, Jackie
Relationship: Single
Occupation: When he can, he?s a substitute teacher for Upson County School District. Recently graduated from Gordon State College with a B.S in Biology (with a Secondary Teaching certification), Associate degree in Health and Physical Education.
When he?s not teaching, which is most of the time, he works on a maintenance crew for the Upson County Road Department.
Personality: The third and youngest of the Daniels boys, Ford claims that his parents kept at it until they got it right and then had Jackie because there was no point in another boy after that. Not that he believes it, but it?s a way to get under his brothers? skins. He manages to pull off with a good natured grin that leaves them forgetting why they were mad at him five seconds later. He?s also the most studious of his siblings, with a serious, bookish side that he rarely lets people see. Why spoil the illusion?
Talents & Abilities: Ford has an innate charm that puts most people at ease. He?s adept at reading emotions and reactions, and smart enough to adapt. That easy charm and ready smile make him popular, socially. Conversely, it?s easy for him to melt into the background of things and go unnoticed, a trick he finds extremely useful at times.
Strengths: Despite, or maybe because he had to deal with the ?Daniels Boys? reputation his brothers earned, Ford?s developed a thick skin. He lets insults rolls off his back, and is more like Rhett than Colt in that he won?t step into a brawl when there?s an alternative that ends without a trip to the walk-in clinic.
Like his brothers and sister, he knows his way around outdoors ? camping, hunting, fishing, swimming, four-wheeling (and tailgating). He?s a natural teacher, outdoors or in the classroom.
Faults: It?s possible to be too easy-going, and popularity comes with a price. He?s most comfortable on the periphery of things, rather than having the spotlight focused on him. He also lets things that bother him slide until he can?t stand it anymore. When he blows up, he blows up big.
Brief Bio: Ford idolized his older brothers growing up, particularly Rhett, whose heels he hounded daily. As the youngest of Beau and Lula Anne?s boys, however, he also found himself constantly compared to both Rhett and Colt, both a blessing and a curse. As a result, he avoided some activities they were particularly successful with. When Colt excelled in football, Ford dropped it and poured his energy into track and field. Since Rhett joined the Army, Ford avoided ROTC.
It has always looked like Ford didn?t have to work hard to get what he wanted, but in reality, he did. While he always had good grades in school, he preferred to downplay his accomplishments and struggles. He told everyone he used Pell Grants and a small track scholarship to pay for college. In reality, an academic scholarship and a series of part-time jobs paid for his school.
He graduated with honors in May 2012 and returned home to Thomaston, hoping to get on at the middle or high school teaching science and coaching track. When no job for the new school year materialized, he put himself on the substitute call list and went back to work full-time with the road crew, a job he held every summer since he was sixteen. Lately, he?s been thinking about getting on with the state park service, but hasn?t acted on it.
List Additional Information:
* Ford loves his family, and is closest to Rhett of all of his siblings, though they lost some of that tightness during his high school years when military life took Rhett away from Thomaston.
* Despite popular myth, Ford sampled from ?the Buffet? infrequently. This was partly because the reputation Colt developed with them (and the girls? parents) grew to include all of Beau Daniels?s boys, and partly because he saw how hurt Jackie looked each time it happened, even though she pretended she didn?t care.
* The recent rumor that Ford was dating a stripper from Macon was false, though he encouraged it. He?s close-lipped about what he was doing all those nights he claimed to be driving out that way.