Lance and Miles 4

Further outlining and backstory for Lance and Miles

Lance is the type to give to tramps whilst at the same time be rude to charity fundraisers. He only does both of these things though when around his friends and especially when he's drunk. He drinks a lot, frequently on his own and without others knowing. He takes great pride in his alternative taste in alcohol; random bitters and Russian Whiskey being his weapons of choice. He despises people who drink spiced rum. Along with musical soundtracks he likes a variety of punk rock bands, Rolf Harris, The Cure and country music. Many people think that he's only listening to country music to fit in with his white power counterparts in America. He used to be quite close with his mum, however thanks to his progression through adolescence he has become embarrassed to spend as much time with her as he has realized that he is a bit of a mummy's boy. To everyone else however it appears as though Lance is ashamed of his mum's disability. Nobody has mentioned this to him and he has never considered the issue and so it is the source of much tension and resentment amongst the family. He doesn't plan on voting BNP when he is of age. He doesn't plan on voting at all as he believes politics as it is is weak and that nobody in westminster has a clue about what is good for the nation. Politics is what really brings him and his brother together. They indulge in collective rants about the government, coated in dogmatic ideas and ignorance. He likes to consider himself well read, he only really reads Stephen King, the rest of his library is whatever WH Smith has on special offer.

Miles' dream is to own a medium sized island, he can't be arsed to get a large island and anyway that would be excessive. One of the few funny things he talks about is his wacky plan for his island. His unquenchable passion for money, politics, power and money all culminates into him getting very enthusiastic about his island and his only creative moments since nursery school have been him working out what he's going to have on his island namely; a yo sushi type conveyer belt throughout house, garden and surrounding land, a replica Palace of Westminster with Wonka style chocolate river as the thames, for his child; teletubby land exactly as it was on telly, for his wife a large garden (with Alan Titchmarsh living at the bottom of it), a helipad that has his face in place of the H and a large underground humidor with an intricate sysetm of tubes that feed into the branches of a small orchard of fake trees creating the illusion of Cuban cigars growing from the trees' branches. He feels that most people don't like him, he tells himself that he doesn't care and in part this is true because he knows that he is a good person and that if people can't see that then screw them. There is still a fairly large portion of him though that wishes he was liked more. Ironically Miles is liked by most people and one of people's main qualms about him from others is regarding his paranoia. At school he wasn't bullied, partly because not a lot of people knew who he was. He didn't stick out like a dork. First claim to fame at school was when he appeared in the cover photo of the school prospectus. This was an especially big deal as he was the first black kid to ever appear on the cover. Some of the white stuffy parents were clearly unsettled by it and Miles' father wrote a song about the whole affair and emailed it to all the parents he suspected had a problem with the photo.