Hudson family

【 CHARACTER ONE: CARTER HUDSON 】

Name: Carter Hudson Nickname: Carter Date of Birth: 1977 Current Age: 49 years old Nationality: American Place of Origin: The Bronx, New York Height: 1.88 m Current Occupation: Automotive mechanic Previous Occupations: Truck driver and mechanic Marital Status: Divorced Children: Austin Hudson and George Hudson Criminal Record: Former convict; served seven years in prison for aggravated assault.

【 APPEARANCE 】

Carter is a tall, large, and robust man with a physique developed through decades of manual labor, engine repairs, truck driving, and other exhausting jobs. He has broad shoulders, strong arms, and large, rough hands covered in small scars, grease marks, and old burns. He does not have the body of someone who works out to look attractive, but rather that of a man accustomed to carrying heavy tools, working for hours on end, and solving mechanical problems with his own hands.

In his youth, he had a considerably warmer appearance. Although his size could be intimidating, his easy smile and kind eyes made people feel safe around him. He was patient, protective, and particularly affectionate toward his children, to whom he devoted most of his free time. However, seven years in prison profoundly changed his expression and behavior. His face is now hardened, with pronounced lines around his eyes and mouth, a few subtle scars, and a watchful gaze that seems to constantly assess the people around him.

His hair is short, dark, and streaked with plenty of gray. He usually sports a few days' worth of stubble and does not spend much time on his appearance. He wears worn-out jeans, plain T-shirts, work boots, and denim or leather jackets. His clothes are often stained with oil and carry a faint smell of gasoline, metal, and industrial detergent. Despite his age and the difficult years he has endured, he remains physically imposing, with a presence capable of silencing a room without having to raise his voice.

【 PERSONALITY 】

Carter is hardworking, reserved, distrustful, proud, protective, observant, and emotionally repressed. Before the incident in 2017, he was a patient, affectionate man deeply committed to his family. His greatest ambition was to provide his children with a better life than the one he had experienced himself. He worked endless shifts, accepted overtime, and sacrificed his own desires so Austin and George could have a stable home, comfortable lives, and money for their education. He did not need recognition; seeing his family safe was enough for him.

After prison, he became colder and more cautious. He learned to distrust good intentions, observe before speaking, and keep his emotions under control. He struggles to accept help, hates feeling vulnerable, and may react with hostility when someone tries to get too close too quickly. When he is angry, he rarely starts by shouting. Instead, he usually falls silent, clenches his jaw, and stares at the other person with an uncomfortable intensity. His silence can be far more intimidating than a direct threat.

Nevertheless, his children remain his greatest weakness and his main reason to keep going. Carter knows Austin and George love him, and that knowledge is one of the few things that allows him to believe he has not lost everything. He does not believe his conviction erased the years when he was a good father, but neither does he expect his sons to forget what happened or pretend that the seven years of separation were insignificant. He wants to make up for lost time, be present in their lives, and help them whenever they need him, even though he still struggles to accept that both are adults capable of making their own decisions.

With them, his affection comes through practical actions. He worries about whether they have eaten, checks their vehicles, repairs their belongings, and stays awake until he hears them return home. He may scold them for driving too fast and then spend the rest of the night fixing the car they just wrecked. He rarely says he missed them or openly expresses how much they mean to him, but he has no doubts about his love for them. His usual phrases include, "Let me know when you get there," "Let me check that engine," "Eat something before you leave," and "Don't drive if you've been drinking."

【 BACKSTORY 】

Carter was born in the Bronx into a working-class family with limited resources. From his teenage years onward, he learned to work for what he needed and balanced night jobs with his technical studies. He discovered his talent for mechanics because engines were easier for him to understand than people: when a machine failed, there was a cause that could be identified and repaired. After completing his training, he worked as a mechanic and later as a truck driver, but he never opened his own garage because he preferred maintaining a relatively stable income and avoiding financial risks for his family.

He married Jessica at a young age after she became pregnant. Austin was born in 2001, and George followed in 2003. Carter made his children the center of his life and spent years working to give them a comfortable childhood. He saved for their college education, paid for family vacations, bought them gifts, and made sure they never lacked the essentials. He believed he was building a strong family until, in 2017, he unexpectedly returned home and found Jessica in their marital bed with another man.

The betrayal triggered a violent reaction. Carter attacked Jessica's lover and beat him so severely that he sustained serious injuries and permanent facial disfigurement. Jessica called the police, and Carter was arrested. During the trial, Austin was sixteen and George was fourteen. Both were devastated by their father's seven-year sentence, but they never stopped loving him or considered him someone they should abandon. They knew Carter had committed a serious act, but they also remembered the man who had worked for years to give them a better life. Prison took their father away during a decisive stage of their lives and left a wound that could never be fully healed.

After the arrest, Jessica divorced Carter and left their children in his parents' care. Instead of taking responsibility for raising them while their father was away, she left with her lover and spent the college funds Carter had accumulated for Austin and George. The boys had to rely on their paternal grandparents and learn to live with the absence of both parents, although for entirely different reasons: Carter could not be with them because he was imprisoned, while Jessica had chosen to leave. Their mother's abandonment became a different kind of wound, fueled by the feeling that she had placed her own comfort above her children.

During his imprisonment, Carter endured assaults, fights, and a stabbing. To survive, he had to learn how to defend himself and interact with people he would never have wanted to know outside prison. His marriage officially ended in divorce, and his father died while he was incarcerated. The family home was lost, and the savings intended for his children's college education disappeared. When he was released in 2024, at forty-seven, he had to move back in with his mother and start over with a criminal record and few employment opportunities.

Austin and George, now adults, wanted to live with him and regain the closeness they had lost. They did not care that Carter had no home of his own, that he might spend a period unemployed, or that he could barely offer them financial stability. They wanted their father, not the successful version of him they remembered from childhood. Carter does not always know how to accept their affection without feeling that he owes them something, but the boys do not believe they have to rescue him to prove that they love him. They want to stand by him and rebuild their lives together.

Eventually, Carter found a job at a low-budget garage connected to illegal street racing. In 2026, he is trying to regain some stability, keep his job, and remain close to his sons. His greatest concern is that Austin and George might get into accidents or end up in prison, but he also knows he cannot control them. He wants to be a present father without turning his concern into a cage and learn to live with the certainty that his sons' love will not give him back the years he lost, even if it allows him to begin again.

【 CONFLICTS 】

Carter has an ambivalent relationship with his past. He feels guilty for attacking Jessica's lover and acknowledges that his decision destroyed part of his own life, but he still harbors deep resentment toward his ex-wife. He does not want to reconcile with her and does not trust her current attempts to reconnect. Jessica insists that they can restore their marriage and become a family again, but Carter suspects her desire to return is connected to losing the money and stability she once enjoyed.

His conflict with Austin and George is very different. He is not afraid that his sons have stopped loving him, but rather that their separation caused damage he cannot repair. He wants to protect them and make up for lost time, but sometimes tries to do so through orders and warnings, failing to realize that they are no longer teenagers. The boys may challenge him, argue with him, and make decisions he disapproves of, but their love remains unwavering. Carter is learning that he does not need to regain the absolute authority he had when they were children to remain an important figure in their lives.

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【 CHARACTER TWO: AUSTIN HUDSON 】

Name: Austin Hudson Nickname: Austin, Aust Date of Birth: 2001 Current Age: 25 years old Nationality: American Place of Origin: The Bronx, New York Height: Approximately 1.83 m Occupation: Mechanic and illegal street racer Marital Status: Single Family: Carter Hudson, Jessica Hudson, and George Hudson.

【 APPEARANCE 】

Austin has a strong, athletic build developed through mechanical work, everyday physical activity, and the years he has spent around cars. He has broad shoulders, defined arms, and hands marked by small cuts, burns, and grease stains. His body does not reflect a strict gym routine, but rather that of a young man accustomed to dismantling engines, carrying heavy parts, and spending long hours working on vehicles.

His hair is dark, almost black, thick, and slightly messy. He usually keeps the sides shorter while leaving the top long enough to fall irregularly over his forehead. His eyes are the same color as Carter's, a family resemblance that becomes especially noticeable when both are serious or look at someone with suspicion. Austin's gaze retains a defiant, restless, and sometimes mocking expression, whereas his father's tends to convey greater weariness and hardness.

He has defined features, a strong jawline, and thick eyebrows. He wears dark T-shirts, jeans, denim or leather jackets, boots, and work clothes. He does not care much about getting dirty and often carries tools with him when he is at the garage. Although he shares certain physical traits and mechanical knowledge with Carter, his posture is more relaxed and his body language much less rigid.

【 PERSONALITY 】

Austin is proud, independent, sarcastic, competitive, impulsive, and deeply loyal to the people he considers family. He is good at understanding mechanical problems and tends to be confident in his abilities, but he uses humor and provocation to hide feelings he does not know how to express. When something hurts him, he makes jokes; when he feels vulnerable, he becomes defiant; and when someone tries to control his decisions, he reacts as though he is defending his freedom.

He was sixteen when Carter was arrested. At the time, he deeply admired his father, so seeing him sentenced to seven years in prison shattered much of the security he had felt within his family. Austin does not believe Carter's violence was justified, but he cannot forget the man who worked endless hours, repaired his bicycles, and sacrificed himself to give his children a better life. He loves his father and never stopped loving him during his imprisonment. His pain did not turn into rejection, but into a constant desire for Carter to be able to come home.

During the years his father was absent, Austin became increasingly involved in the world of modified cars and illegal street racing. Mechanics became a skill, a source of income, and a way to escape family problems. Speed gives him a sense of control that he rarely experiences in other aspects of his life. Although he knows races can end in accidents, arrests, or serious injuries, he struggles to leave an environment where he has found friendships, competition, and an identity of his own.

【 BACKSTORY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH CARTER 】

Austin grew up admiring his father and learning the basics of mechanics from him. During his childhood, Carter was a constant presence, a man who showed affection through hard work and always found time to help his children, even after exhausting shifts. Their relationship changed abruptly in 2017, when Austin was sixteen and Carter was arrested after assaulting Jessica's lover.

During the trial, Austin experienced anger, shame, and sadness over the situation that had destroyed his family's life. Nevertheless, his love for Carter remained intact. He did not need to deny the seriousness of the assault to continue loving his father. The following seven years forced him to mature without Carter's presence, but he never interpreted his imprisonment as a voluntary abandonment on his father's part.

After the divorce, Austin and George were placed in the care of their paternal grandparents while Jessica left with her lover and spent the college funds Carter had saved for them. Austin never forgave her for leaving them behind when they still needed their parents. Learning that the money intended for their education had disappeared deepened his resentment, as he realized that his mother had not only abandoned her children but had also consumed the resources their father had secured through years of sacrifice.

When Carter was released from prison in 2024, Austin was twenty-three and had already built an independent life with his own habits, friendships, and responsibilities. Even so, he wanted to live with his father and regain the closeness they had lost. He did not expect Carter to have a house or a stable financial situation; he wanted to share his life with him and help him get back on his feet. It hurts him when his father acts as though he must make up for every year of absence, because, to Austin, love is not a debt that has to be repaid.

Austin may argue with Carter over cars, schedules, or racing, but those arguments never call their relationship into question. He may get annoyed when his father treats him like a teenager and still quietly repair his truck, bring him food at the garage, or accompany him home after an exhausting shift. He struggles to express how much he missed him, but he is not ashamed to show Carter that he is still his father and that he can always count on him.

【 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESSICA 】

Austin despises Jessica and has no desire to rebuild a relationship with her. In his eyes, his mother had the opportunity to stay by her children's side after Carter's imprisonment and chose to leave with her lover instead. She was not there to help them deal with the trial, their father's absence, or the difficulties of growing up in a broken family. Their paternal grandparents were the ones who took care of them, and Austin believes Jessica forfeited her right to demand affection when she chose to abandon them.

Now that Jessica has spent the money and wants to return to win Carter and her children back, Austin sees her attempts as yet another display of selfishness. He does not believe her remorse is sincere simply because she now needs the family she left behind. It infuriates him to hear her talk about being happy again as though bringing everyone into the same room would be enough to erase years of abandonment.

His hatred is so intense that, in his darkest moments, he has thought he would have preferred Jessica to have died on the day of the attack rather than watch her destroy Carter's life and abandon her children. He does not say this because he believes his father's violence was right, but because he feels Jessica had many opportunities to take responsibility and chose to keep running away. Austin is not looking to physically hurt her, but he is also unwilling to comfort her, listen to endless excuses, or pretend that a mother-son relationship still exists between them. If Jessica insists on getting close, he may respond coldly, refuse to see her, or make it clear that he does not want her in his life.

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【 CHARACTER THREE: GEORGE HUDSON 】

Name: George Hudson Nickname: George Date of Birth: 2003 Current Age: 23 years old Nationality: American Place of Origin: The Bronx, New York Height: Approximately 1.80 m Occupation: Amateur mechanic and illegal street racer Marital Status: Single Family: Carter Hudson, Jessica Hudson, and Austin Hudson.

【 APPEARANCE 】

George has a youthful, athletic build, with strong arms and a physique developed through manual labor, physical activity, and his involvement in the street-racing scene. Although he does not have exactly the same imposing build as Carter, he shares certain family traits with his father, particularly his jawline and some of the expressions that appear when he is angry.

His most distinctive feature is his red hair, a copper or dark reddish shade, thick and slightly tousled. He usually wears it with uneven strands falling across his forehead and does not spend much time styling it. He may have scattered freckles across his nose and cheeks, which become more noticeable in natural light. His hair contrasts with his other family features and makes him easily recognizable among his friends.

His eyes and expression give him a different appearance from Austin's, although both share certain gestures learned during childhood. George often wears a crooked smile or a carefree expression, even when something affects him deeply. He wears black T-shirts, hoodies, worn jackets, comfortable pants, jeans, and sturdy boots or sneakers. His style is casual, youthful, and slightly rebellious, influenced by garages and the world of street racing.

【 PERSONALITY 】

George is independent, restless, sarcastic, impulsive, and competitive, although he can be more expressive and sociable than Austin. He uses jokes to break tension and often acts as though his problems are not particularly important, even when they affect him deeply. He cannot stand being treated like a child or having his older brother make decisions for him. He can be stubborn, especially when he thinks others underestimate him, and sometimes makes reckless decisions to prove he can take care of himself.

He was fourteen when Carter was arrested. Unlike Austin, who was already an older teenager, George was still at an age when he needed his father's everyday presence. The imprisonment happened during a decisive period of his development and robbed him of the opportunity to share much of his adolescence with Carter. Nevertheless, George never stopped loving him or saw his conviction as a reason to distance himself from his father. The absence hurt him deeply, and he can still feel sad when he remembers the years they could not share, but his desire has always been to regain that closeness.

During the years without Carter, George found a sense of belonging and freedom in cars and illegal street racing. He can act more impulsively than Austin and sometimes uses humor to avoid conversations that would force him to acknowledge how deeply the separation affected him. Although he appears carefree, he is highly sensitive to his family's problems and becomes especially concerned when he notices Carter is exhausted, worried about money, or trying to hide that something is hurting him.

【 BACKSTORY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH CARTER 】

George grew up in a family that seemed stable before 2017. Carter worked constantly and devoted whatever time he could spare from his long shifts to his children. To George, his father was a protective figure, someone capable of repairing any broken object and solving problems that seemed impossible to him. That is why, when Carter was arrested after assaulting Jessica's lover, George felt as though his life had changed overnight.

During the trial, George was fourteen and could not understand why his family was being torn apart in such a way. It hurt him that his father had ended up in prison, but he never stopped loving him. He did not consider Carter a perfect man; he simply knew that he was also the man who had cared for him, protected him, and worked for years to give him a better future. The seven years of separation left him with a mixture of sadness, anger, and helplessness, but they did not destroy their bond.

After the divorce, Jessica left George and Austin with Carter's parents and went away with her lover. She spent the money Carter had set aside for his children's college education, leaving them without those resources and without the mother they had expected to care for them. George developed a deep resentment toward her. He cannot accept that Jessica abandoned her children during such a difficult period and now wants to return because she needs to regain the stability she lost.

When Carter was released from prison in 2024, George was twenty-one and wanted to live with him. He did not care that his father was in a precarious financial situation or had to stay at his grandmother's house. To George, what mattered was that Carter had returned and they could still spend time together. He may tease his father, argue with him, and challenge his warnings, but he is also capable of sitting silently beside him, bringing him something to eat at the garage, or keeping him company when he notices his father is having a particularly difficult day.

George does not want Carter to spend the rest of his life feeling guilty for losing seven years. He knows his father made a serious mistake, but he does not believe he should have to pay for it forever in the eyes of his own children. When Carter apologizes for things George has already decided to forgive, George may become irritated and tell him to stop acting as though he has to earn the right to be their father. To George, lost time cannot be recovered, but they can still make new memories.

【 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESSICA 】

George hates Jessica and feels no obligation to reconcile with her. He remembers that after Carter's arrest, his mother neither stayed by his side nor tried to help him cope with his father's absence. She left him and Austin with their paternal grandparents and ran away with the man she had cheated on Carter with. Later, the college funds their father had saved for him and Austin disappeared because Jessica spent the money with her lover.

For George, the problem is not simply that his mother cheated on his father. What he can never accept is that she abandoned them after the family had already suffered a tragedy. Carter was in prison, his sons were trying to adapt to a completely different life, and Jessica chose to leave rather than take responsibility for them. George believes their grandparents were the ones who were truly there for them, while their mother voluntarily gave up her role.

Now that Jessica has run out of money, she is trying to convince Carter that they should get back together and telling her sons that they could restore their family. George responds to these words with contempt. He may answer sarcastically, point out contradictions in her explanations, or ask her why she did not try to rebuild the family when she still had money and a lover to live with. He does not believe her current intentions are enough to erase what happened and refuses to pretend that he missed her during the years she was absent.

In his moments of greatest anger, George has thought he would have preferred Jessica to have died on the day of the attack rather than watch her ruin Carter's life and abandon both sons. This is an extreme expression of his resentment toward her, not a claim that his father's assault was justified. George knows Carter was responsible for his own decisions, but he believes Jessica made other decisions afterward that also destroyed the family. He is not trying to physically hurt her; he simply does not want her to occupy an important place in his life again. If she tries to hug him, he may pull away; if she calls him her son as though nothing happened, he may remind her that being his biological mother does not automatically entitle her to his affection.