Calvin Parks

Calvin Wiley Buckley Parks (born February 14, 1994) is an American healthcare provider and hockey coach. He is a supporting character in the Lost Tales universe.

Early Life
Calvin Parks was born on February 14, 1994 in Daisy, South Carolina, the son of Julianne Parks (nee Buckley), an art history professor, and Trace Parks, a veterinarian. He has one younger sister, Jenny, and it was believed that his older sister Rachel was stillborn on April 8, 1989. However, Rachel was reunited with the Parks family in spring 2019, now going by the name Calliope Hendrickson. Parks is named after his paternal grandfather Wiley Parks and his maternal grandfather Hector Buckley. He attended Daisy Elementary School, Daisy Middle School, and Daisy High School. Parks played many sports during his middle and high school years, including baseball, basketball, and golf, but he excelled at ice hockey. He was also student body president of Daisy High School for the 2011-2012 school year and a member of the DHS SATB choir for four years.

Parks attended Central Carolina University on a full ice hockey scholarship, graduating with a nursing degree in 2016. While at CCU, he was a member of the Lambda Delta Omicron fraternity, serving as president his junior year, and played intramural basketball. He also coached a local peewee basketball team. After his graduation in 2016, Parks became a graduate assistant with the CCU hockey team and received a master's of science in nursing in 2018.

Career
Parks became a board certified family nurse practitioner in 2018 and currently works at Quick Care, a retail clinic inside local supermarket SaveBarn. He has been the head ice hockey coach at Daisy High School since May 2019, starting as an assistant in 2018. Parks also worked with his former coaches to create the Jr. Longhorns hockey league, becoming the first coach of the squirt team in 2018.

Personal Life
Parks had a few unserious romantic relationships in high school, but none are notable. It is implied that he had a crush on Elizabeth Carter for years, but eventually realized that they were too different to become seriously involved.

Parks met Lana Gray on his first day of college in the fall of 2012. They did not start dating until almost a year later, and remained together until shortly after Gray’s graduation in 2015. Parks proposed to her at her graduation party, but she told him to wait until he graduated as well. The relationship ended a month later when Parks found out that Gray had been involved with a doctor she was working with. Since then, Parks has not pursued any relationships and is shown to be reluctant even to talk about romance.

Parks developed a casual relationship with coworker Maddie Durant, but it does not go anywhere.

In addition to his coaching positions, Parks is also a volunteer Little League coach. His other hobbies include video games, golf, singing in his church choir, basketball, and playing the guitar.

Parks lives in a duplex condo with his two best friends, Sam Morris and Archer Crabtree.

Parks's parents divorced when he was 6 years old. He has a stepmother, Alessandra Matisse Parks, and two stepbrothers named Rosse and Lennox. He has a good relationship with everyone in his step family.

Parks is a Christian. He attends Daisy Presbyterian Church, where his grandfather and namesake Wiley Parks is the minister. He sings bass in the church choir.

Parks's uncle Walker Ranger is the mayor of Daisy. Eventually, he also successfully runs for mayor.

Parks drove his late maternal grandfather’s 1957 Thunderbird convertible until it became unreliable. He now drives a silver 2019 Hyundai Sonata, but stores the Thunderbird in his father’s garage for special occasions.

Parks has an old basset hound named Brutus.

Parks is not politically active aside from voting and is not registered for a specific party. However, he tends to vote Democrat.

Character History
Calvin's first appearance was in a November 2014 scrap story called "Night of Silence," although his name in the story was "Corey" and he was unrelated to Jenny Parks. His first appearance as Calvin was in December 2014. simultaneously in "Love is an Open Door" and "What Christmas Means to Me." He did not become related to Jenny Parks until "All in the Family," which was written c. February 2015. He did not become officially part of the Parks family until 2016. He has been portrayed as age 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, and 27. He has also held numerous occupations, including a high school student, a college student, a coach of various sports, a history teacher, a physician's assistant, and a nurse practitioner. He has been in many situations, friendships, and romantic relationships, but two lasting relationships are his dedicated friendship with Sam Morris and his complicated romantic relationship with Elizabeth Carter. Calvin was originally portrayed as caring, energetic, and excitable, but in some works he is somewhat rude, annoying, sloppy, and grumpy. Currently, Calvin is depicted as compassionate, dedicated, humorous, loyal, immature, caring, stubborn, loud, carefree, flirtatious, selfish, and somewhat irresponsible. He is sometimes intensely avoidant of his past and reluctant to take risks for the future. He speaks with a southern accent, but uses more of a frat boy vocabulary than southern words.

Calvin Parks is described to have straight dark blonde hair, dark blue eyes, and medium tan skin. He was originally supposed to very closely resemble his sister Jenny, although his hair and skin were slightly darker and he did not usually wear glasses. Currently, however, he is not supposed to look very similar to Jenny. He is most often seen wearing scrubs with a white coat and a blue stethoscope (or red at Christmas). When he is not in work clothes, Calvin dresses in a preppy style or represents one of the many sports teams he coaches. His stock color is dark blue. His body type is described to be muscular and athletic.

Favorites
Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Dessert: Memaw's banana pudding

Favorite Sport: Hockey

Favorite Animal: Dogs

Favorite Fruit: Oranges

Favorite Subject in School: Social Studies

Favorite Food: Flamin' Hot Cheetos

Favorite Drink: Blue Gatorade

Favorite Season: Winter

Favorite Holiday: Easter