Author's Note: I know this is not a chapter and that it in no way makes up for it being so long since I've written, but so far this month I've been working on National Novel Writing Month. Now I've sort of given up and am posting this to tide you over until the next chapter is finished. Hopefully I'll have it up by Monday. I swear, I'm working on it, but the writers block on this is strong. If you have any ideas for the forward movement of the plot, please feel free to suggest. Also, if you feel that any important details about the characters have been left out, please mention it.

Fair Play Character Bios

Part 1: Seto and Joey

Fair Play Character Bios:

Seto Kaiba:

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual…he thinks.

Age: 19

Grade: High school Senior

Occupation: Student, CEO of Fortune 500 Company Kaiba Corp. Legal guardian of his younger brother, Mokuba Kaiba.

Hobbies: Inventing, starting message board wars.

Guilty Pleasure: Pocky

General Info: Tall, lithe, handsome, with chestnut brown hair and icy blue eyes that many of his fans would mistakenly call "smoldering" when really, they're glaring. His mother and father died when he and Mokuba were very young (Mokuba just two and he, six). They lived in the orphanage for four years, until Gozoburo adopted them. Seto was abused by his stepfather (never sexually), and though there were many times he wished to, he did not kill his step father, in fact, it was one of his most loyal body guards (ironically assigned to him by Gozoburo). He single handedly transformed Kaiba Corp from a company of war to the leading gaming company in the industry. For some time he lived and breathed Kaiba Corp, designing many of its products and doing little else with his life. It was both his health and Mokuba that suffered. Though he was improving on his own recent events have brought about major changes. Since he saw Joey (a crush that, were he honest, he would have to admit he'd had for some time, but kept a secret to the degree that he hardly knew) at the Gay Awareness booth at the health fair, he began questioning his sexuality. Though he is still slightly uncomfortable, he has realized and come to terms with his attraction to Joey. He however has not gotten over his pride, or fears of rejection and commitment and exposure to the wrath of the media. Still, those few songs he danced to with Joey make up one of the happiest memories of his life.

Joseph James Wheeler:

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Gay

Age: 18

Grade: Senior

Occupation: Student. Highly trusted youth coordinator at the Domino City Pride Alliance.

Hobbies: Planning events for the DCPA, hanging out with his friends, eating.

Guilty Pleasure: Scalding hot showers.

General Info: Instantly and irresistibly likable, Joey Wheeler is medium height, slightly muscular build and has the most charming smile of anyone in his group. Often shadowed by his bright blonde hair, are deep chocolate and caramel brown eyes. When his parents divorced when he was young, the courts gave custody of his sister to his mom, and custody of him to his father, who at the time was a capable parent. His mother moved with his sister to another town and for a while, his father did well, but when he lost his job things went downhill. Without alcohol he still had a temper, but had only ever turned his words on his family, when he began drinking he became physically abusive. Joey lived through the cuts, bruises, scrapes and minor broken bones until he turned sixteen, when he was hired as an assistant at the DCPA. It was mostly doing paperwork and filing, but it was a job, and it paid. He also worked part time at the local library, under the radar of his school, of course. Between these two jobs, the funds left over after his sister's surgery, and the small amounts of money his mother sent him, he managed to rent a tiny studio apartment in a slightly better part of town, not to mention put some away for college. Many people wondered how the large sum of money he won at duelist Kingdom disappeared, but it was simple really, he paid for his sister's surgery (which his mother could never afford, having no health insurance) and all of her follow ups (which were many), he paid off his father's gambling debts (and tried to get him help for his drinking), made a down payment on his apartment, bought a car off Tristan's brother, that did little more than run, and put the rest away for college. It was a nice amount of money, but he was determined not to touch any of it unless it was an emergency, he wanted to continue his education and one day be a social worker. When he was promoted to being a youth coordinator, both his hours and pay increased, so he was able to quit his job at the library and made just a little more money than he had with both jobs combined.

While the majority of his life has been rocky, his love life has been perpetually smooth. It had no valleys of despair, but also no peaks of joy. His two relationships had both ended, passively, for lack of a better word. He had dated two boys, kissed a few more and lusted after a lot more than that, he'd been on plenty of dates, but while he enjoyed their company and conversation, found them charming and attractive, they never really clicked. This was no fault of Joey's, he wasn't a hopeless romantic waiting for prince charming to sweep him off his feet, he'd seen too much of the real world for that. It was just never…right. For either of them. But it was hard not to look and hope for a perfect relationship, when it seemed all of his friends had found it. It was on chill nights, when he was alone in bed, wishing there were someone next to him, or even someone he could call to talk to, that he became resentful, just ever so slightly jealous of what his friends had. His second longest crush (the longest standing being an inexplicable love Mr. Darcy) was still in progress. It was on Seto Kaiba who was, in effect, a living Mr. Darcy (it wasn't a horribly rare thing that Joey pictured him in regency period attire..mmm. Boots.). He admitted his feelings of lust for Seto the first time he saw him, but it took him some time longer to realize that it ran deeper than that. It wasn't long after Mokuba started bring Seto to the center that he realized he liked him more than he'd liked anyone before.