Vance Cole

Play-By: Taylor Kitsch

Age: 24

Occupation: Musician

Birth Place: Calabash North Carolina

Sexuality: Heterosexual


Physical Description: Vance is a tall broad shouldered young man. His brownish blonde hair is shaggy and unkempt.  His face often goes unshaven for days at a time, leaving him, more often than not, with a five o'clock shadow. Vance almost always has a hint of a smile.  If not on his lips then in his light hazel eyes.


Distinguishing Marks: Vance has a single unfinished tattoo of a howling wolf dream catcher, located on the inside of his left forearm.  If someone looks closely, one of Vance's hazel eyes is slightly more green than the other.  He has a small scar on his abdomen where his appendix was removed as a child and his left collar bone has a slight hitch in it.  Reconstructive surgery on his left arm and several small scars mar his naturally tan skin. Down the front of his chest is a long faint scar from the heart transplant he received a little over 2 years ago.

Personality: Vance has a great sense of humor.  It's not that he tells great jokes, in fact most of his jokes are comically bad, but rather he always seems to find the humor in life.  Vance is talkative but usually knows when to shut up and listen a skill he does surprisingly well.  Although by no means lazy Vance has a relaxed air about him and seems to do things just a touch slower than most would.



Back Ground:
Vance was born and raised in Calabash North Carolina with his twin brother Jacob and their younger sister Lucy who the boys dubbed Lulu at birth and then shortened to just plain old Lou as she grew older. Growing up the brothers worked as deck hands on their fathers commercial fishing boat. By the time they were 16 they were running charters for various captains through the week, raising a little hell come the weekend and being dragged to church by Momma Cole come Sunday morning. Where their hungover souls were promptly and robustly prayed for. And somewhere between all that praying, the epic fistfight over Mara Jackson and discovering their true loves of music and art, the boys grew up.

In the years to come the brothers remained close and even attended the Savannah School of Art and Design together. Vance pursuing music and Jacob art.

Then on new years eve of 2024 everything changed when the brothers were hit by a drunk driver on their way back from a show Vance's band had headlined.  Jacob was pronounced dead shortly after their arrival at the hospital due to massive head injuries.  A severe chest wound would have had Vance following close behind his brother into the great unknown but doctors replaced Vance's damaged heart with his brothers healthy one.

The road to recovery both physically and mentally was a long one for Vance. It was six months before he could walk again and almost a year before he could physically do all of the things he once could.  While he has mostly recovered there are a few lingering neurological issues.

Vance will always miss his brother but because  he feels like he is living his life for the both of them, he rarely falls into depression.  The near death experience has brought a calmness to his heart he had never known before.  Vance sees each day as a gift and does his best to live it as such.



Likes:
Music, Blonds (although not exclusively), Stormy weather, Being in the rain, Fishing, Listening to a good story, Telling a good story, The outdoors, Bad horror movies, Bad jokes, Bad girls, Good hearts, Kids, Photography, Quirky laughs, Badonkadonks

Dislikes: Celebrating his birthday, Schedules, Lists, Coconut (the taste not the texture)

Strengths:
Open Minded, Artistic, Lives in the now, Fit (from working fishing boats not the gym)

Weaknesses:
Occasional Nightmares about the accident.  Is a little too laid back at times.
Lives in the now.  Isn't a natural long term planner.  His feet are a little tender

Fears:
Very little.  He's admittedly bothered by extreme heights and he gets a little nervous in cars if the person driving is acting foolish or not paying attention.

Fun Facts: Vance cooks breakfast related meals pretty well and makes a mean batch of scrambled eggs.  He was voted most likely to join the circus in high school, Speaks a little Spanish, doesn't play basket ball but is an amazing trick shot, so he's dangerous in a game of horse. Was a pool shark in college. And hevis a three time Beaufort county fair cornhole champion. His unfinished tattoo was one his brother had started doing just before he died.

The Perfect Girl for Me:
The perfect girl for me has a good heart with just a little kink in her soul.  She Likes music, enjoys dancing and loves life.  "Oh and it wouldn't hurt if she could cook.  Because I mean one of us should, right?"