Name: Colin Renee Rabideau

Age: ~25

Birthdate: February 6th, 1976

Birthplace: Toronto

Astro sign: Aquarius

Height: 6'7"

Weight: ~215

Ethnic Origin: French Canadian (father) Italian (mother)

Physical Appearance: Colin appears to be a very big man, but not big as in fat. He's the tallest of all the Ameliorites, and also built the largest, probably due mostly to a large bone structure. It's apparant that his upper arms are probably the strongest part of his body for they are the must built on him, and he has a pretty wide shoulder span. His skin tone is of a dark olive color due to his mostly Italian features. His hair is semi short, and very wavy, and very black, and little curls sweep across the top of his forehead every-which way. To put this part crudely, Colin is also the hairiest of the bunch, or at least appears so because of his dark hair. It's mostly evident on his forearms, chest, and legs. Colin's face is pretty square, but round. He has a rather strong jaw line, and a wide rounded chin. Despite his age, Colin's face still seems to retain a baby look to it. His nose is semi long, but it ends rather roundly, and semi wide. Colin's eyes are a semi dark green, and he has rather evident eyelashes. Even when he's mad his eyes still have a warm feeling to them. His eyebrows are pretty evident too, because they are also rather full, but they curve up a bit at the beginings, making Colin look absolutly harmless. Colin's hands are proportionally big, but oddly smooth, and it almost makes you wonder how he plays guitar the way that he does. Colin's attire most of the time consists of button up shirts, and a tie of some sort. He doesnt wear jeans or khakis either, he's perfectly happy wearing well worn slacks.

Family:

Childhood: Most of Colin's childhood memories are of fun with his family, and overall love. Being the youngest of a large family, Colin had plenty of people to look out for him and love him. Although you might expect the older siblings to be jealous of Colin, they couldn't help but love Colin because he was such a sweet child. Colin was the closest to Dylan and Thearese due to their close ages. However Dylan would often save Colin from Thearese's barbie and dress up parties. (if you asked Colin if he ever played with Barbies, he'd be truthfull with you.) Dylan was also probably the biggest menace in Colin's life, but Colin looked up to his big bro no matter how much trouble they got into. Dylan was the type of brother who would push you into a mud puddle, then buy you an ice cream from the ice cream man the next second. Colin went to Catholic school where he was well liked by all, especially the girls, even at a young age. He was also in his family's church's choir, where he learned he had an incredible voice talent. Colin often sang solos at church events. In a Public High School Colin did pretty darn well, and he further practiced his singing in the choir where he was the only male fallsetto. In Colin's last years of High School, he bought a guitar and learned to play after Dylan took him to a Rheostatics gig at a dim tavern downtown. Colin fell for lead guitarist Martin Tielli's voice, which sounded very similar to his own at that point. After High School Colin continued on to College to pursue a bachelors in Liberal Arts. He graduated after four years, only to realize that a Bachelors in Liberal Arts won't get you anywhere. It was then Colin decided he wanted to be a musician, and not much later the Ameliorites found him.

How this shaped his personality...: Being the baby of the family realived Colin of a lot of worries that often get dumped on the older siblings. So for most of Colin's life he didn't have to worry too much about anything. After a while though, Colin wanted to get out on his own and stop having people always leaning over him. Despite the fact that Colin has had a lot of love his entire life, he has somehow developed an empathic mind that allows him to see things from other people's perspective, which makes him a rather sensitive guy. Another aspect is the fact his mother did most of the raising in the household, and she did it in an Italian fashion (she was born and partially raised in Southern Italy) so needless to say all the children love their mama and papa, including Colin who is probably the most affectionate of them all.

Basic Personality: Overall Colin is a bright, talented, affectionate, loving, nice, and curteous young man. He's not very outgoing, because he is quite shy, and perhaps a little self conscience around others. He is also very humble, and claims that he "really isnt that good" at the things he is obviously best at. However, since meeting the Ameliorites, Colin has become a bit more outgoing, and a bit more crude in his language, but it's mostly for jokes. Colin is perhaps the most teased out the entire band, but he can hold his ground with the best of them, and he takes it all with a grain of salt.

Smarts: Music smart. People-sensitive smart. Slightly higher than average intellegence.

Sexuality: Hetero. Extremely shy when it comes to women, but it's in an endearing fashion. Most women love him, but he's too shy to date just anyone.

Job: Waiter at a the Braisserie Aix.

Band Role:Co-lead singer. Lead Guitarist.

Instruments: Black Gibson electric. Fender Strat. Takamine Acoustic.

Band Manerisms: Closes eyes a lot. Sometimes has tongue hanging out of the corner of his mouth unintentionaly. Will often bob or jump around to the beat. Keeps eye contact with rest of band. Very shy when it comes to looking at the audience while playing. Often smiling. Loves falling to knees when its time for a long guitar solo.

Religion: Raised in a Catholic family, but no longer attends church. Celebrates holidays.

Goals: Make it in the band. Sing better, play better. Is considering taking culinary arts classes. Secretly wishes to own a restautant some day or become a head chef somewhere. Looks forward to marrage and becoming a father.

Strengths: Humble. Optimistic. Commited. Laid back. Empathic. Good Listener. Kind. Generous. Funny. A Shoulder to Cry On. Musical. Works well with others. Can cook. Can repair things.

Weaknesses: can be overly shy. Occasionaly gets stage fright. Gullible. Messy. Sometimes lacks responsibility. Sometimes lacking self confidence. Forgetfull.

Fears: Being left alone.

Favorite things

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Colors: Music: Oldies. Can Rock; Rheos, BNL, Thin Buckle, GBS, others. Mostly looks up to Martin Tielli, however Colin admits that he doesnt really understand his songs, he just knows he likes his style.

Books: Cookbooks. Action novels. the Official Iron Chef book. hockey spec books.

Sports: Hockey (defense). Fishing. Skiing. Boating.

Television: Hockey. This Hour has 22 Minutes. Royal Canadian Air Farce. Kids In The Hall. Food Network; Iron Chef, Emeril Live, Martha Stewart Cooking.

Movies: Comedies. Blockbusters. Sad/moving films. Is able to watch chick flicks.

His relationship with his close friends: (number of *'s indicate how much character gets along with/likes character. Out of ten.)

Garrett: *******Glad that Garrett accepts him, and appreciates his musical ability. Had good first impression when Garrett recognized his very first gig act. Likes Garrett's music style and songs. Likes that they don't sound bad together either. Respects his opinion, and he thinks he's kinda funny deep down. Likes his uniqueness, and his independence. Looks up to him (or down, literally) as if he was another older brother. Sometimes gets upset that he can't figure out why Garrett gets in bad moods, and that he can't help him.

Gavin: ******** Likes Gavin because he thinks Gavin is shy as well. Thinks he can be rather funny as well. Likes his unique style, and his ability to improv and improve music.

Adam: ********* Best Friend. Thinks Adam is amazingly hilarious. Loves this guy like a brother. Although Adam is the exact opposite of Colin, Colin seems to find a bond with him. Colin almost wishes he could break from his sweet self and cut loose like Adam does...but only for a day. Sometimes Adam angers Colin because of his disrespect for women, and his constant teasing. (but mostly because Colin wasn't quick enough to tease first.) Overall, Colin sees that Adam isn't the big hotshot loudmouth he thinks he is.

Javier: ****** Is amazed by Javier's humour, and self confidence. Is sometimes put off because Javier's humour can be kind of rude.

Elaina: ******* Likes her, and thinks of her as another sister.

Dylan: ******** Favorite brother. Loves him to peices, but also gets annoyed with him at the same time, much like brothers will. Loves hanging out with him when he needs some family time, or if he's bored. Talks to him about things the most.

Thearese: ******* Colin's the closest in age to her out of all his siblings. Loves her to peices as well. Likes helping her out with things, and going to her if he's upset about something.

Personal Qoute: "I am that one person that doesn't know what art is but knows what they like!"