More actions
Ben Couvin
| Ben Couvin | |
| Species: | Human |
| Home Planet: | Earth |
| Favourites: | |
| Actor: | Ben Couvin |
Ben Couvin was a eighteen years old student in Earth Sciences in Paris in the beginning of the 2010s. He wants to become a doctor in geology and to travel around the whole world.
biography[1]
Born in 1993, Ben has always dreamt about travelling. He went four times in United Kingdom , was in London , Oxford , Liverpool and even Bath. Yet he was later attracted by Germany , since he'd been also four times, in Nuremberg , then in Berlin , where he think he could live. His biggest dream is to do a big journey in the Southern hemisphere.
He is mostly inspired by the Doctor , because he is travelling beyond the limits of imagination, through time and space where the majority of human beings will never be
EARLY LIFE[2]
When he was a boy, Ben was already fond of space and stars. He liked much Uncle Scrooge because of his incredible adventures. He was quite good at school and got the French baccalauréat with a Mention Bien. Thanks to that, he could go to university Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. He chose first to study physics, but he feared to be bored, and finally chose earth sciences.
Ben and THE DOCTOR[3]
Ben never really met the Doctor , but discovered Doctor Who in 2008 , when he first saw Gridlock with David Tennant and Freema Agyeman on France 4 channel. This show was so weird to him, that he liked to look at it sometimes.
Later, in 2010 , Ben got more interested in Doctor Who because of the appearance of a new doctor : Matt Smith . Though he always prefered the tenth Doctor , he found the new series very cool. Ben also likes Torchwood.
first trips[4]
back in berlin
After his Baccalauréat, Ben had first decided, not quite sure, to go to England , wandering from a city to another on their feet, following Valentin, Oscar and Simon the blond, his high school buddies. Unfortunately, this trip never happened, because they were unprepared for such a journey. But Ben refused not to leave the country after he passed his final exam. So he did improvised : he heard that a friend of him : Soraya Khelfallah, was going to Germany in august 2010 with friends of her, all girls. Ben enventually went in Berlin a second time with them. Unfortunately for him, any of the girls could speak a word of German, or knew the place. Ben had to do everything, to plan all the trip, and he did not have fun a lot because, as an underage, he could not go into Berlin famous clubs. But the worst was that
the girls were mostly lesbians, and for Ben, who were gay, they were too different. They didn't understand at each other, and decided, the final day, to leave without a single "good bye". Nevertheless, he was enjoying walking in Berlin again, look at each street and each park. Berlin makes him happy. He even went to the university there, in order to know if he could, one day, study in Berlin.
visiting julia
A couple of months after he met his boyfriend Raphaël, he did organize a trip to Nuremberg with him, in April 2011 . Their very first trip, but it had an aim : visiting his friend Julia Luschnat, who left France the year before. In spite of some problems of organization, the trip was very peaceful, and made Raphaël discovering Germany. He said afterwards that all there seem good, except the language.
RElatives[5]
FAMILY
Ben's parents, Harry and Sylvie, were both journalists. They never get married but had had two children though : Ben, and his sister Ambre. Harry and Sylvie split up in 1997 and Sylvie then sued Harry twelve years later in 2009 in order to get back her alimony Harry wasn't giving anymore for three years, because of financial problems. She won, and Harry's family was screwed. Ben's sister Ambre begin after that to dislike her mother, and turned rebel and lonely. Ben has furthermore two half-brothers from his mother side, and a young half-sister from his father side.
FRIENDS
Ben has got a lot of scattered friends from different places and with different ages and cultures. He never had one best friend, but he always had good friends, like Nicolas Calaber, in his early life, at primary school, or Simon Petrelle (who is also fond of Doctor Who) and Lili Ta, at the secondary school. In high school he met Oscar Pouts-Lajus, Simon Gendrot, and Valentin Le Mercier, with he was mostly during three years, but a misunderstanding, and then a big fight, separate him from Simon Gendrot, and he forgot Valentin too. Then, he built a friendship with Seda Aksit, who is still in 2011 at university with him, and Justine Ramade.
At university, during his first term, he quickly met Benjamin Lemonnier and Alizée Gratian, who were very friendly to him. During his second term, when he went to the faculty of geology, he didn't see Alizée and Benjamin a lot, but didn't either talk a lot with the students of his new geology class. Instead, he has found old friends again like Simon Petrelle, Oscar, Morjana Mokkedem, Audrey Frazza, and met new, like Jean-Loup Vittu.
Friends in other places
During his trip in Liverpool, he met François Marcaillou, who used to live with his parents in Saint-Malo until 2010. He lives now in Rennes. He used to have a girlfriend called Clemence but they split up in later summer 2010. Last time he saw François was when Ben invited him in november 2010 to come in Paris, where they had sex together.
In high school in 2009, during a school trip in Nuremberg, he talked for the first time to Julia Luschnat. They quickly became friends. In 2010, she left Paris to live in Nuremberg with his german boyfriend Tim Gradel, but Ben and Julia continued to see at each other. Indeed, Ben came in april 2011 in Nuremberg with his boyfriend to see her.
Love life
Until year 2010, Ben didn't have got any boyfriend, and after three missed trials, he fell in love with Raphaël Leiba, a 19 years old boy from Créteil he met in a bar during a TV Jussieu party, November 2010, the tenth. They're still together in 2011.
CAREER[6]
As a student, Ben didn't work a lot, but he's already been on the shooting of a french movie called No et Moi, directed by Zabou Breitman, making some appearances as a crowd artist.
PERSONALITY[7]
Ben come from a middle-class parisian family and has never been in the need. He is full of will, bravery and honesty, but he can sometimes be very spiteful and scornful in front of people who made fun of him in the past. He depends a lot of his friends, but he can easily get rid of them if it's necessary. He has always been happy and lucky in his epicurial life, though he had not always had good moments, especially during family crises he went through. According to him, to runaway on his own is a good solution, but his friends and family will often tell him it isn't.