"you wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery."


jaime allen (gallows) + 28 years old (april 30, 1987) + north side, chicago, il + only child of jonathan and heather gallows (real estate flipper and socialite, respectively), though estranged + dance instructor (advanced & professional hip-hop & contemporary/modern) @ velocity dance center & avid choreography youtuber + king of sass and sarcasm, too stubborn and secretive for his own good


first, middle, and last name: jaime allen gallows. i don't use gallows anymore, i haven't for some years because trouble is attached to that name, so i'm only jaime allen now.

birthdate and age: april 30, 1987, freshly 28. ever closer to 30. how thrilling!

occupation: i teach advanced and professional levels of hip-hop and contemporary/modern dance at velocity dance center in seattle. i also youtube choreography, which isn't so much a job as it is a hobby that i get way too into.

who does your family consist of? how many siblings do you have? i have cameron, my best friend, and her son, milo. i don't have any blood siblings, my parents knew perfection when they saw it. oh, my parents. i guess they're sort of expected here. my father is jonathan, he buys, renovates, and sells properties for exorbitant amounts of money. my mother is heather, who used to do the same as my father but now occupies herself by pretending to be important.

what kind of pets do you have? this is fenrir greyback, the most savage beagle alive today. he's about seven months old now and likes to spend his days either sleeping in my bed or chewing through furniture or objects that happen to get in his way. he's a menace, but i set myself up for it by naming him this. he was almost sirius black, but i couldn't relinquish my loyalty to the dark lord.

which hawthorn neighborhood do you live in? wentworth village.

do you live alone? i live with cameron and her baby.

what is your idea of perfect happiness? i'm not sure perfect happiness exists. there are too many factors, both internal and external, that would come into play and potentially ruin that happiness bubble. i think it's possible to come close though, i'm very happy when i'm teaching. i'm also happy when i'm sitting at home with cam doing a whole lot of nothing. happiness is in the company. but liquor would be a nice addition, let's be real here.

what is your relationship like with your parents? if you don't have one, explain. these hard-hitting questions. my relationship with my parents is very much nonexistent. my father is a very hard, by-the-book sort of man who doesn't allow for much outside of the norm, he's got a set idea of how he wants his life and his world and when things happen to upset that, it's not a good day for those involved. he also pushes self-reliance to a disastrous end, to put it vaguely. my mother and i were once very close, i'm not ashamed to admit i was such a mama's boy growing up; she was very kind and accepting and encouraging, entirely the opposite of my father. but she was also the type to bend easily and didn't really know how to stand up for herself or anything else that was important. there were two times in my life when i very desperately needed them, and i was turned away both times, which ultimately led me down a really terrible path. so now there's nothing.

what does your ideal weekend or day off look like? sleeping in, first off - noon would be good. after that i honestly wouldn't do anything exciting. i'd probably go for a run with fenrir, then either go out for a movie or stay home all day and veg out in bed watching bad netflix recommendations. or subjecting the neighborhood to wonderful taste in music. or me indulging in my favorite pasttime of actively trying to get us kicked out of the neighborhood. there's probably a box of wine involved in all of this.

what do you regret most about your time in high school? high school would have been much easier for me, i think, if i'd cared enough to be a bit more... discreet. catholic school as an openly gay teenager is a wild ride from start to finish. those places reek of scandal, moral ambiguity, and the 'holier than thou now that the lights are on' personality flaw. boys.

what word or words do you overuse the most? god damn it, fucking, basic and/or bitch, peasant, kill me, omg. i hate myself for my vocabulary choices.

what fictional character do you most relate to and why? well.


how would you like to die? quietly and calmly and with cameron there. i've had enough could have, should have type, near-death experiences to know that none of them are what i wanted or what i would ever want.


blurb: jaime was born in the north side of chicago to two real estate flippers who had never particularly intended to have children - his father begrudgingly accepted the reality while his mother stressed over the thought until the very day her son was born, at which point she fell in love immediately. as a child, jaime wanted for very little; his father was often absent due to work but his mother was never far out of sight, having put her career on hold in order to be a bigger part of her son's life. from the start, jaime was hyperactive, filled with theatrics, and quite possibly an actual hellion, though in heather's eyes her baby boy could do no wrong, and he often got away with being a terrible prankster and troublemaker - his behavior was somewhat corrected over the course of a private catholic school education, though he still had a natural inclination for people and things that would get him into questionable situations. this manifested itself in the worst possible way during his second year at loyola university as he worked on a degree in dance & musical theatre, initially using moments of stress as an excuse to turn to drugs and partying, which quickly consumed his life. he barely managed to graduate, but when he did, he failed to show up at his actual graduation, electing instead to celebrate in his own way (his own way being a five day long, $1300 coke/adderall binge) before arriving at home and being officially disowned. this sent jaime into a dark downward spiral of a combination of addiction, depression, and reckless behavior due to self-loathing; he spent a good amount of time couch-surfing or staying in his car as he got tangled up in a huge web of unsavory activities with equally unsavory people. after a particularly traumatizing experience two years in, he knew he had to take control of his addiction or let it kill him; a year and quite a few ups and downs later, he had managed to kick it entirely - though he remained in the same company and continued many of their prior illicit activities, both because it was easy and because of the money involved. this changed in late 2013, when his best friend cameron's boyfriend (who ran in the same circles) was killed and he shifted his focus away from that life entirely, agreeing without a second thought when she came to him less than a year later asking to move across the country - and then again when she asked to leave los angeles for hawthorn. now three years clean, jaime feels better than he has in years, though the guilt and shame of his past decisions still haunt him daily. he focuses heavily on his career, cameron, and helping her raise her baby, milo - and for him, this is as close as it gets to being truly happy.


random facts: has four tattoos (a pair of simple lineart otters holding hands on the inside of his left ankle, matched with cameron's; "it won't consume my heart anymore" above the inner bend of his left elbow; a large celtic knot on the cap of his right shoulder; an elaborate red/orange/yellow phoenix on his right calf/foot); owner of various dings and scars, including a bullet graze across his upper left arm; is afraid of doctors, hospitals, etc and relies heavily on "dr. cambee" when something goes wrong; also afraid of snakes to an extreme degree; thinks he's outdoorsy until the mosquitos come out; more nerdy than he's willing to openly admit; more soon!