Gregori Pushton

Character Name: Gregori Pushton
Nickname: Greg
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Occupation: Porter/Messenger/Temporary and Seasonal laborer

Description: Gregori has a naturally olive skin tone which only turns darker in the summertime. In the winter it looks like he has kept some of his tan which makes some very jealous. His dark hair is longer than that of men outside his caste since he has no one to cut it and cannot afford to have it cut in a salon. His eyes have peaked the interest of women far outside his own caste. He has a great smile that makes people feel at ease around him but he doesn't have reason to smile much these days.

Personality: Broody would be one way to describe him although most of the time he's not solving world problems, he's just wondering where his next meal will come from. Not unkind, still Greg has developed the Lemarsi mentality of looking out for oneself.

Brief History: Born to a Lemarsi couple, a former prostitute and a gambler, Gregori never had much more than the clothes he was wearing and the last meal he'd eaten. His few toys had been handmade by either his parents, kin or family friends and he cherished them. Most he still has in case he is lucky enough to have a family of his own.

Growing up so poor, it was inevitable that Greg try his hand at stealing. He was six the first time he stole candy from a store. A guilty conscience kept him away from it for many years but when he was 15, he stole a pair of stylish shoes that he badly wanted. As it turns out, he was not a very good thief and the surveillance vids soon helped to track him down. The severe beating his father gave him as well as the weekend in jail he was sentenced to, convinced him that crime did not pay.

Since then, Greg has worked hard and, seemingly, done little else. He will do any job that is not illegal. Mostly he hires out as a porter since the majority of the people on Jathari use non-mechanical means for transportation. Since Settlement, anything that might damage the ecology has been frowned upon. No one wants their planet to end up like old Earth. For a long time, Greg opted out of the Matchmaker's Festival because he did not have a place of his own to house a wife and children after his parents died when their ferry capsized.

However, with the small amount he was finally awarded from the courts after the ferry company was found negligent, he has purchased a tiny three room house with its own tiny courtyard. He even has a well with a hand pump in the courtyard, something that would make any Lemarsi woman ecstatic. Otherwise she'd have to go the neighborhood well to get their water. Now ready, he has allowed his name to go into the matching process this year...and hopes for the best.