12 Facts About Dean Prescott

So I've been working on Dean's spotlight for a while now, since October actually, but I've been really lazy about it. So, turning over a new leaf here now that it's 2012. Work is slowing so I should be good to start spamming here again. :) And I'm going to start with 12 facts about my main characters today to celebrate 2012.

Starting the day off is Dean Prescott, the Black King:

1 - He absolutely HATES sweet food. Sugar makes him gag and he just stays far away from it. Baked goods, artificial sweetners, it all makes him run in the opposite direction.
2 - Dean is unusually fond of apples. He likes them a little sour and fresh, ripe ones. He would eat nothing but apples if he could, but they are very pricey and therefore are a very rare treat. He'll eat whatever fruit is available, but apples are his weakness.
3 - He has a perfect, eidetic memory. He can recall everything he's ever read almost instantly. He hid in the basement of a library for a while which helped him become a walking library. He tends for toward fantasy and science fiction, some history, and lots of random trivia books.
4 - He has a habit of reciting nursery rhymes, children's playground songs, and poems. He uses them to calm himself down and to focus when he's a little overwrought.
5 - He has a birthmark the shape of an hourglass on the back of his right knee.
6 - He loves being outside. If he has to be inside then he needs to have at least one or two really big windows so he can see the sky.
7 - He was never really much for the gods before he was on the Squad, before Apollo decided to stick his nose in and make Dean's life even more interesting than it ever needed to be.
8 - He has a twin sister, Evelyn (Vee), who he is two hours older than. When they were little, though, it was always Vee who acted like the oldest while Dean was content to follow her.
9 - Dean is covered in scars from all the things that Meechum did to him. He's always hated them, thinking them to be more evidence that the world sucks and how weak and helpless he was. He's very slowly started to take on a different attitude about them - that they are proof that he's survived.
10 - Dean is an excellent cook, but he only cooks if there's someone else to eat it. Otherwise he just does takeout or eats something boring.
11 - He may want love and stability and everything that that entails, but he refuses to be a pushover. If his lover starts pushing his buttons or acting like Dean is unable to do anything for himself then it's time to move on.
12 - Dean isn't very fond of alcohol but he can drink more than a superum, even with their outrageously amped up metabolism. It's a fun past time of his (later on in life) to drink unsuspecting superums under the table.