Snapchat text box: "F*** selfie sticks amirite?"
Skye is a Canadian soccer player with a lax, yet competitive attitude. (He is also my OC, so yeah, you can't steal him.) He loves to satirize many popular trends all in good taste. When selfie sticks were on the rise, he had to borrow his friend's selfie stick and post this. The following paragraphs below are an excerpt from a Toronto newspaper article about the hometown hero:

Born and raised just outside downtown Toronto, Skye Lambert grew up playing soccer for several travel teams. His friends encouraged him to join due to his miraculous agility. Almost no one could stop the speedster when given a goal on the other side of the field. What would make Skye eventually stand out from everyone else was his Canine condition. First seen in him at the age of 13, Skye developed the ability to gain traits such as a brown fur, a muzzle, a tail, claws, and paws, while being able to "transform" these traits back and forth at will. To sum it up, he is a walking, talking wolf on two legs. At first, Skye was told not to show these traits. Discrimination against Canines is still a huge concern to this day, especially in uninformed places. However, Skye stood up for himself and Canines as a whole. He frequently attended school and played soccer in Canine form. He was rejected by three travel teams before being accepted again by a team, and was physically and verbally bullied early on in secondary school. One incident lead to Skye being forced into and dragged around campus on a dog leash. He was told to walk on all fours and follow his "owner's" commands. It took him about four years (according to Skye), but Skye won over the respect of his peers. Westbrook Secondary School became the first official Canine safe space in Ontario. His favorite secondary school memories include starting up TCAG (the Toronto Canines Acceptance Group) and attending prom with his girlfriend while in Canine form. The theme for that year was the animal kingdom, so it was a perfect fit.

Fast forward to today, and Skye is 21 and representing the Canadian soccer team. To some, he is a bonified superstar. He's been Canada's starting forward for the the past three years and scored the winning goal to send Canada to the 2014 World Cup. To the rest of the world, he's just a pretentious, run-of-the-mill player. After the 2014 World Cup, Skye lost his starting role to another rising star and has mostly been second string ever since. On a few occasions, he has used his Canid appearance for media attention. In the team's 2016 photoshoot, Skye posed in a crouched stance grabbing his shirt while howling for his individual celebration shot. To clarify his motivation, he told us that, "Canines seem to be condemned for doing anything animalistic. I want to show that it should be acceptable to embrace these traits. You're part wolf, and that's freakin' amazing. Don't let social standards tell you what to be."