Willard Simons

Rio de Janeiro

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Sobriquet: He is Will to his coworkers, Bill to his friends, Billy to his wife and only his mother calls him Willard.

Appearance: Willard stands just under six feet tall, but he insists to everyone that he actually is six foot tall. Will is about twenty-five pounds over-weight, but he resists the idea that he is fat, rather he is just a big guy, but growing up, his mother always called him chubby to family and family friends and even in public. He appears to be in his early 30s and has light-florid complexion, his mother would call it pink. He has sandy blond hair, that is severely receded, but he has chosen to save face by do a comb-over. He is built sturdy enough to have played football in high-school or even college, but his mother wouldn't let him try-out for the team for fear that he might hurt himself. Generally, he wears a white oxford, button down, with dark pants and shoes. He even still has his pocket-protector. For some unknown reason, when he uses his Arcanoi, his face and exposed skin become extremely red and blotchy and when he goes to some extreme effort, he looks like he is about to pass an I-beam.

Behavior: Willard is a slightly insecure adult man, who has mother issues. Unfortunately, he married a woman who was just like his mother and produced a couple of children of his own. Will always played it safe growing up, because his mother was always concerned about his safety because his father took too many risks and died too early in life while driving too fast. In most situations he will play it safe; after all, doing so has gotten him this far, right? But, beneath the surface, he has a nasty temper and once he is angry, or outside his comfort zone he is much more likely to take radical risks. Due to decades of habit however, he tends to act in a timid manner and goes along with the crowd or whoever has the most authority. Its never occurred to him that he could be an authority figure himself, neither his mother, nor his wife allowed him to even consider such a thing and unconsciously he resents both of them and all women for that.

History: Willard was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. Willard was an excellent student up until the death of his father. The death of his father hit him rather hard, as he looked up to the elder Simons for all his time away from school or home. His mother, a woman who lived her life hiding her aggressive personality behind the image of a nervous and insecure house-wife, dominated Willard's life thereafter.

The rest of Willard's youth was unremarkable. Like everyone else, Will found middle-school to a early level of hell and high-school to be one of Dante's lower, more specialized levels of the Inferno. Willard made his way through high-school as best he could, of course, he was the subject of constant bullying and he dealt with it as best he could, usually just taking it in the hopes that the bullies would get bored and go away. Sometimes this tactic actually worked, but most of the time it only lead to more torture and things didn't get better until Willard finally fought back. During a particularly rough encounter with the school's worst bully, something finally broke loose inside Will's psyche and he fought back, hard. The bully was so surprised that he might indeed have been beaten himself if not for the interference of the physical education teacher. The teacher ended the fight and sent the other kids away and took Will to his office for a chat. The coach saw a spark of an athlete in Will and wanted him to try out for the wrestling team. Willard made the mistake of asking permission of his mother, whose reaction, far exceeded even his horrified expectations. She dragged him to the high school, confronted the teacher and did so in front of the rest of the student body. The coach was fired, the other kids despised him and managed to slink through the rest of high school without drawing any more attention to himself than was absolutely necessary.

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