General Information About Everest ! ------------------------------------------------------------- Full Name is Everest Seth Collins. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mostly just called Everest or Collins. ------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Years Old. ------------------------------------------------------------- 6'2 Feet Tall. ------------------------------------------------------------- AMAB & He/Him. ------------------------------------------------------------- Personality wise he's sweet but skittish, at times he zones out as well and can be oversensitive. ------------------------------------------------------------- Fun facts ! He can play the guitar & loves pumpkin spice lattes, and he was born in Maine. ------------------------------------------------------------- He suffers from Survivors Guilt, leaning into PTSD as well. ------------------------------------------------------------- Everest & a group of 7 others were given permission to go to the vast wilderness of Russia. They were researchers technically, high on the field. Everest wasn't really into the stuff much, mostly the more physical stuff of the work. They had been warned that not only they'd be facing freezing conditions in the wild that they also should just be careful in general, again, they are alone in the wilderness studying. Around the two years mark of being there Everest was walking into their camp, just a usual afternoon but then he heard sizzling, like one of their emergency flares had been lit. Before he could even investigate there was a large blast with a flash of light. Everest woke up in the snow, bleeding from a cut on his head and on his left cheek. He couldn't feel his right arm. Although in this mumbling state Everest had realized that a flare must've accidentally been lit, in turn the flare accidentally lit the large amount of small explosives they had brought to break extremely thick ice and debris. Although vision blurry and ears ringing Everest sat up enough to look around. The scene was horrific. How partners, his friends, all laid about in the snow. One or two were missing limbs... Even his best friend who was not to far from him lay limp, the snow red beside him. He eventually fell back, closing his eyes with a shuddering breath. He was going to die in the cold wasn't he? Not even a few moments later a helicopter from somewhere near by landed, people pouring out, Everest couldn't make out what they were saying really as they loaded him up into the chopper. He could tell though that the others didn't seem responsive. Everyone was pronounced dead, all 7 members, except Everest of course. Everest was sent back home immediately after he was healed up. His injuries weren't that bad, his right side was slightly burned & scared but nothing life altering, at least nothing life altering on a physical level. Mentally? Definitely. Everest, now a few months later, mostly just rots away at home. Thinking, reminiscing on that moment. He barely cares for himself truthfully. It should've been him, Not any of those lovely human beings. They all died and yet he's still here. Why couldn't he had just died instead of caring the weight of the memory? Anytime Everest tries to sleep he keeps thinking back to it, he's became so tired that he takes a lot of sleep medication. He barely interacts with people anymore, keeping to himself. He tries to keep away from fireworks & firecrackers, etc. as it makes his pulse skyrocket, his palms sweaty at the sound of it, the brightness. All familiar in a bad way.
Placing The Blame - Self
