Dale Wilford

setting:early 2000s, America. name:Dale Wilford age:38 gender:male Species/Race:white human Occupation/role:Owner and manager of DT’s Laundry Matt. Height:6’3 Build:He is BIGGG it’s mostly flab, but he can pull his weight if he needs to. features a beer belly. VERY hairy body. Hair colour and style: Short and simple black hair, he can’t afford to go to a barber so he cuts it himself. Receding hairline. Eye colour:green Distinguishing features: scruffy stubble, crooked nose from a fight. Clothing style:usually Dale wears his uniform for DT’s Laundry Matt— a red tshirt with the company’s logo on it and jeans, otherwise he usually wears just jeans and a tshirt. mostly white, mostly stained. Positive traits:funny in a sarcastic way, will put others before him, good at heart. negative traits:drug addict, fickle, dishonest. Habits/mannerisms:rubs his face a lot in effort to make himself feel more alert. Background and backstory: Grew up with parents that prioritised substance abuse over raising him, was eventually taken away from them and sent to live with his uncle. They had a healthy relationship and when he died, Dale took on his laundry matt. However in his late 20s, he became deeply involved with a known street gang and fell into substance abuse, mostly meth and coke. He still abuses to this day, wishes he doesn’t as it’s destroying his life, but he knows he’ll keep doing it. Lives above the laundry matt. education/training: minimum levels of education. he knows how to read and write and BASIC maths. thats it. relationships- Kentucky Olsen: Street gang leader and his dealer, rough around the edges but they get along. Spark Jackson: his “friend”. they have a love hate relationship due to Spark not being incredibly good at long term relationships. Dale deals with it on most days, but they fall out sometimes. Sean Lawrence: A guy that thinks he’s Dale’s friend. Dale knows almost nothing about him apart from the fact that they share the same dealer. Sometimes Sean will come into the laundry matt to chat. speech patterns: his words are often slurred, as he’s often under the influence of substances.