Sebastian Toussaint

Played By: Joe Jonas

Voice/Sound/Musical/Writing/Fashion/Artistic Talent: music of Secondhand Serenade

Birthday & Age: February 19, 1986; 22

AIM Screenname: bastiantoussaint.


Biography: To say that Sebastian Toussaint came from humble beginnings is an understatement.

Billy and Penelope Toussaint bore all five of their children in New Jersey. The three oldest, boys, grew up to be hard-workers, two going into the plumbing business and the other construction, all three marrying and having families. The fourth was a girl, Amelia, who grew up and married straight out of high school to a decent friendly man named Ridley Stokes. They had two boys of their own - Christopher and Stephen.

The youngest was Mary. Mary's nickname as a child was "devil-baby" because she was willful and disobedient. Though the rest of the children were for the most part, behaved, Mary threw tantrums every day, screaming and breaking anything in her path.

As a teenager, she gave Billy and Penelope a run for their money. She stayed out late, drinking and getting high, ignoring any punishment they set on her. If they told her to do or do not do something, she found a way to obey to truly tick them off. Like when they told her she couldn't pierce her belly-button. She pierced her tongue instead. She tried going to school in a low-cut tank top one day. Her mother told her to turn right around and put a bra on. Hours later, Penelope got a call from the principle, saying she had come to school wearing nothing but a bra as her top. Mary came home one day from a friends, her long hair once black, now a bright pink. Her conservative father told her to take care of it, that he "didn't want to see another strand of pink on her head." Hours later, she emerged from the bathroom, head shaved.

After week after week of beer cans in her trash, joints left still smoking on her carpet, ciggarette butts on the from steps, and strange boys Billy often caught sneaking out her window, the Toussaints had enough. There was a huge blow out with their out-of control daughter, who grabbed her overnight bag and left at seventeen-years-old.

She never came back.

Not to her parents anyway. Three years later, she showed up at her sister's doorstep. Amelia was horrified at the state her sister was in. She looked as if she hadn't had a decent shower in weeks. Her eyes were sunken in. She was strung out and grossly underweight. Amelia was about to ask where she had been when she noticed the bundle of dirty blankets in her arms.

A bundle that was whimpering.

"Take him," Mary mumbled. "His name's Sebastian." She held him out. "I don't know what to do with him."

Amelia tried to get answers from her sister before taking the baby. How old was he? ("About a month, but who's counting?") Where was the father? ("I don't know who it is.") Amelia tried to get her to come in. Maybe she and the the baby could live with them for awhile? Until Mary got some help and a job and could get on her own two feet . . . But as soon as Sebastian was in Amelia's arms, Mary turned and ran toward a waiting car, jumping in and leaving her baby with Amelia and Ridley.

Ridley said there was no question about it. Sebastian was now part of their family. They gave him as much love as their own son, Christopher and later, Stephen. Though they never kept the truth about his parents hidden from him, and though Sebastian still called them Uncle Rid and Auntie Amelia, to Sebastian, they were his real parents.

Sebastian never found out who his dad was. Mary called once or twice every two years. Sebastian felt sorry for her, even as a child. He chattered on the phone with her like he knew her, though he didn't. He wanted to though, and told her he loved her, though he'd only met her once when he was four. Even though she'd abandoned him, he wanted a relationship with her. She never did come for him permanently though.

Sebastian didn't let himself get too sad about it though. He loved his aunt and uncle and cousins and they loved him back.

Amelia signed all her children up fro piano lessons when they were children, reading that kids who learned piano did better in math. Christopher hated it. Stephen didn't mind and found he was quite good at it.

Sebastian adored it. It wasn't just playing. When he played, he found himself belting out the words to the song. The music teacher commented about how talented he was.

After that, Amelia and Ridley often found Sebastian at the piano, teaching himself new songs, and by nine, writing his own. In school he joined the chorus group, which got him partially ridiculed by the other kids, as he was the only boy there. He didn't care though. His love for music couldn't compete with the need for popularity.

In high school, it came to no surprise that he formed a band. They called themselves Amethyst Heart and was fronted by a girl named Minnie. Sebastian played piano and did back up vocals. Once they graduated, the band dispersed, going their separate ways. None of the other members had been particularly serious about it anyway.

Sebastian had little desire to go to college and began working full time at eighteen. He reformed a new band with four other guys, all who were very serious about making it big. They called themselves Encomium, which means "a spoken or written word that gives praise to someone." Sebastian once again sang as back up and played the piano. The lead singer, Thomas Young, left after only six months after they started. Instead of finding a replacement, the other members voted to having Sebastian be their new lead singer. Sebastian humbly agreed.

When Sebastian wasn't working his forty-hour week at an electrical warehouse, he was practicing with the band. They began playing in bars and clubs and worked up a small following.

After playing a few shows at The Pirate's Den, a rock club in South Jersey, Encomium caught the ear of a major label exec, who was in town visiting an old friend. He was immediately taken with their sound and saw them straight after their set. He set up another meeting with them, where he offered them a record contract. The band agreed happily.

The band gained popularity from their first single, "Fall For You," rocketing themselves to celebrity status and moving them to Los Angeles. Despite the fame, the money, and the many, many beautiful girls that show up to watch him belt out their beautiful songs, Sebastian remains friendly, humble, and sweet. The others members of the band and people in the industry think he's a bit naive and somewhat of a goody-goody, but likable. Though everyone's sure he'll either burst out with a wild side one day, or get taken advantage of very very badly.

Credits: Here.