hello my friends. I have an unusual request. No it doesn't involve a chicken suit or gravy this time.

In an upcoming story, my character is a young metalhead in middle school.

Jimmy Mcculloch is small for his age and a bit immature. He's the younest in his class because his August birthday fell at just the right date for him to start scool.

He wears NIN or Tool or anthrax or megadeth t-shirt all the time.

He drinks and smokes weed every day. He doesn't have a lot of friends and is a target for bullies.

He is not brilliant in all of his classes. He's not self confident, doesn't really know who he is.

He is very angry and has been abused by a drunk mother and he skims her dope when she is passed out.

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What would you expect to find on his MP3 player? What groups would he like? or hate?

Why?

What does he hope for? What does he fear?

Help me figure this guy out.

I think I know him but there is always more to a person than the masks they wear.

If Jimmy Mcculloch sounds familiar, it should. It's the name for a guitar prodigy that played with Paul McCarthy and Wings in the 70s and died very young of an OD.

There's always a reason.