John Egbert, known online by his screen name ectoBiologist, is a pretty average 13 year old kid, all things conidered. He likes bad movies (his favorite is Con Air starring Nicholas Cage), video games, magic, paranormal stuff, pranks, and magician, praksters, and other practical jokers. He hates Betty Crocker products and clowns, harlequins, and other impractical jokers. He has frequent issues when it comes to holding managing his inventory, due to his extremely inconvenient inventory management system, the stack modus. John has a generally amiable demeanor, and isn't quick to jump to conclusions about new people, though this does also make him fairly easy to influence and manipulate. He is also fairly curious and adventurous. When speaking, he doesn't use caps, not even for proper nouns, but does use proper punctuation. In terms of physical appearance, John is of pretty average build and looks. He has spiky black hair, thick black glasses, and a slight overbite that makes his top teeth almost always visible. He usually wears a long-sleeved white shirt with an off-brand Ghostbusters Slimer on it, and white shorts. John lives in a suburban neighborhood with his single father. The house is almost completely filled with harlequin-themed decorations (aside from John's room), due to his father's perceived obsession with them (in reality, it was Dad who thought John was obsessed, and only did it to try to connect). Dad Egbert is also obsessed with baking, and has filled the house with cakes for John's birthday. Aside from his baking, Dad is more or less an extremely generic responsible father archetype. He is always clean-shaven, always wearing a dapper white fedora and black tie, almost always smoking his pipe, and always ready to dole out some righteous coddling and/or fatherly moral lessons. John often wishes he had more freedom in his life, to be able to have a real adventure for once. Alas, his father is perhaps a bit too protective, effectively trapping John at home with little opportunities to go anywhere on his own. (He isn't even allowed to go to school!) One could say he is... Homestuck. Because of this, he spends a lot of time on the internet playing games and watching movies. John only has 3 close friends, all of whom he only gets to talk to via IRC chats on Pesterchum. They are Rose Lalonde (the wannabe psychologist who likes to overanalyze everything John says), Dave Strider (the insufferable prick who is still John's best bro for life), and Jade Harley (the airhead who almost always has suspiciously relevant advice to give).