Columbia INCITE | Maurice_Jayson Bolton_3-4-19
Q:
All right. You ready? Today's date is March 3, 2019. What's your last name?
BOLTON:
Bolton.
Q:
This is Jason-- No, I say my name. This is Maurice [INAUDIBLE] interviewing Jason Bolton. What's the name of your school?
BOLTON:
Sherman Multicultural Arts School.
Q:
Sherman Multicultural Arts School. Do I have your permission to record this interview for the 2019 portrait project?
BOLTON:
Yes, you do.
Q:
Awesome. This year, we're focusing on young men of color in Milwaukee. [INAUDIBLE] images participants can illustrate how they see themselves, and how they wish to be seen. Word. Where should we start? Should we go back to talking about your art? Or do you want to start with where you grew up?
BOLTON:
I grew up switching house from house, because my mom tried to find one of the perfect houses for me and my two older brothers that I have. I'm the youngest one, out of all of them. We lived in a apartment across the street from a corner store. And one day, that corner store got robbed. And were right next to it. So all the cops were outside. And I didn't know what was happening. It was like the worst [INAUDIBLE] So we moved from there, moved to Brown Deer. We got a house there.
Q:
What's it called?
BOLTON:
Brown Deer.
Q:
Brown Deer. How do you spell it?
BOLTON:
B-R-O-W-N. So we got a house there, stayed there for two years. And then we got another house. It was St. James Apartments. We lived there for a couple months. The rent got too high. And my mom was on lease. So we went to stay with our grandma. We're staying with her currently now until April 1, I think. And then we're moving out to go to another house. And I
lived in the basement of a house-- very cold-- with my little brother and my youngest. He stays home in the attic. Q:
You're the oldest?
BOLTON:
Oh, no. I'm the youngest.
Q:
You're the youngest.
BOLTON:
Yeah. And my mom, she stays over at her boyfriend's house. [LAUGHS]
Q:
Air quotes.
BOLTON:
I still live with my grandma. She takes care of me for now until we move out. Back to the subject with my aunt. We were at Strawberry Festival walking around--
Q:
What is that, Strawberry Festival? What is that?
BOLTON:
It was like a state fair with no rides, and a lot of food and people. We were at Strawberry Festival. We got a couple of things there, prizes and stuff. So I was super hungry. I begged my mom to leave. So we left, went back. We went to McDonald's, got us something to eat. And my cousin called me and told me that our aunt was hit by a car, because he was a drunk driver.
Q:
Mm-hmm.
BOLTON:
So we went back to where she got hit There were paramedics. And my cousin got hit, too. My cousin was OK. She was [INAUDIBLE]. And they rushed them to the hospital. My cousin, she had a broken leg. She sprained her tailbone. Yeah, and after that she lived with her brother. And we went over there to check, every weekend, on her. Well, my auntie, she stayed in the hospital for a good two weeks and then passed away, because they couldn't figure out where she was hurting, because she was super special. And she didn't understand anything. She couldn't tell them they couldn't help. They tried to x-ray her. They'd seen parts, but it was unfixable. She had shattered ribs and everything. And I went to the hospital to see her-- No, that wasn't me. My mom and grandma went to the hospital to see her. I was over at grandma's house when this happened. And my mom came back home. She was crying. And I asked her what was wrong. And she told me
that my auntie passed away. Q:
Mm-hmm.
BOLTON:
And you know, it was super tough. So we went to her funeral. Got nice clothing for her funeral, and everything. We went to that. And yeah, that was super painful to deal with, because her sister just passed away a year before that.
Q:
Her other sister? Wow.
BOLTON:
Yeah, my auntie's sister. My auntie says she took care of me when I was a kid. When my mom had to go to work, she would take care of me. And I didn't get that. I didn't know all the stuff she did for me until she passed away. I was super hesitant about going to the hospital, seeing her sister, because I didn't know her. I didn't want to see her. My mom told me she took care of me. And I didn't believe her until she showed me the pictures. And when she died, I started crying. I was in tears for a good week or so and got over it. But my auntie's death-- I was super close to her. She was like a brother or sister to me. I was super close to her. And I saw her every day.
Q:
Mm-hmm.
BOLTON:
And it was super tough, because to see someone pass away like that is tough in your eyes.
Q:
Mm-hmm. How old was she?
BOLTON:
I think she was in her 50s.
Q:
Mm-hmm.
BOLTON:
Everything was a tough about that situation. My mom was always taking care of me, because when I was 6 years old, my dad left and went to Mississippi, got away with someone else. That was painful for my mom to deal with, because she was crying, too. And I didn't know what to do, because I was super little at that time. So I couldn't help her in any sort of way. That was painful. And he comes back. He tries to come back to interact with me. I don't know, but I can't forgive him. One time, he came to my house. Me and my brother, and my other brother were all at the house. He came over. And my mom wanted me to let him in. And we just let him sit out there, because we do not like him at all, because that's such a
horrible thing to do. [INAUDIBLE] my house and his girlfriend were all over. We're in the living room. And I called my dad. I asked him, how come you don't spend enough time with me? And he told me to give the phone back to my mom. He gave it to her, and he went off on her. She started crying. And she gave me the phone back. So I hung up. And he called again. I picked up, and I snapped on him so badly. I was super disrespectful. And I hate myself for that, because I don't want to be disrespectful to adults. He really pissed me off. I had to calm myself down and take a day off, because I was about ready to kill him, because I wouldn't let anybody snap on my mom. That was in the summer sometime. That was probably July, I think. This was in February. No, January. My uncle, he got hit by a car. Yeah. His brain was bleeding. Q:
Like a brain aneurysm.
BOLTON:
Yeah. He had blood. [INAUDIBLE] He's OK now. But it was crazy, because I thought I was going to lose him, too. So I just thought for a moment, what if this happens again? Who's going to be an actual role model for me? He's survived. His girlfriend was in the car, actually. Luckily, she didn't get hurt. He went to the hospital, stayed in there. And he came over to our house. And I was super happy to see him, that he was OK and everything. But he was special. They helped him and everything. He just went to the hospital to check on his head and everything. And that turned out to be well. I think one of the most painful times in my life was when my grandma, she passed out once.
Q:
She passed out?
BOLTON:
Yeah. She passed out. I wasn't over there. And my cousin told me, or my mom told me. I was at your house. She passed out. And my granddad was there. But he's super old, so he didn't call anybody. My cousin, she's 22. She was over there. Her name is Tajay. She called the paramedics. And she went to the hospital. I don't know what was wrong. Two organs were twisted in a weird way. She wasn't OK. But she's OK now. She's at her house right now probably [INAUDIBLE]. She's OK.
Q:
Why was that so painful?
BOLTON:
Because to hear that she passed out, a lot of things came to my head like, what if she dead?
What if this happens? This and this. Q:
She takes care of you.
BOLTON:
Yeah. She is actually an angel. My mom told me when I was first born I just like [INAUDIBLE] couldn't breathe. I couldn't breathe when I was first born. But when I first came out, I was a perfectly healthy baby. After a week or so, we went back to my house. I had cravings and everything. So my mom noticed that I wasn't breathing. So she called the paramedics. They rushed me to the hospital. I was in the hospital for a good two weeks. And they put me on steroids to help me breathe. So [INAUDIBLE] When I was a kid, around five, six, when I started walking at three, my head was super big. My mom said my head couldn't even fit on my body. And I was thinking of George Lopez, because he had a huge head and a small body. You know, she told me a lot of things about when I was a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have gray eyes. That was because now I have brown. Oh, my cousin. I have a little cousin, right? I don't know what's wrong with him. He's clumsy [INAUDIBLE]. He always hurts himself. Once, he hit his head against a glass table--
Q:
On accident?
BOLTON:
Yeah. He cut his head a little bit. They said his brother pushed him into it, but I don't believe him because he is always doing something stupid. So he fell and cut-- But he was OK. Nothing [INAUDIBLE] happened. He was OK. Just my family is-- comes. My brother, he fell off a rock and sprained his leg. This was at-- what was that placed called? I don't remember the name of it. It's a place in Kenosha.
Q:
Kenosha is a city?
BOLTON:
No, a little town. I'm trying to find-- Action Territory. He was doing mini golf, and he fell off one of those rocks and sprained his ankle. That was another thing. Oh, yeah, I have three other sisters.
Q:
Mm-hmm By your mom?
BOLTON:
They're my step sisters. I have three step-sisters and one step-brother. My step-sisters, I keep
in contact with one of them. The other two I don't like. I barely talk to them. The last time I talked to them was when I was at my old house. Those two-Q:
They live in Mississippi with your dad?
BOLTON:
Yeah. Well, not anymore, because my dad hit one of them.
Q:
He hit one of them?
BOLTON:
Yeah. Their mom called the cops on him. He stayed with us for a couple of days--
Q:
After he hit her?
BOLTON:
Yeah. My mom took him to court. Yeah, he had a court date with them. He went to court. And he stayed with us for a couple of days, because they were still living in the house. That was painful because I do not like him. When he left, I kind of felt way better. I've just finished talking to my stepsister a couple-- My oldest one, the one that's 18, I talked to her a month ago, because my dad-- My oldest, he doesn't like my step-sisters at all. I don't know why. He just-those two hate each other.
Q:
It's not his kids? It's from his new wife?
BOLTON:
Yeah, he doesn't like them. My older stepsister, she sent a message to my mom. And my mom told him to read it. And I read it, too. And I sent a painful message to my father. And me and my step-sister planned on meeting up somewhere. But we never did.
Q:
Where does she live now?
BOLTON:
She lives in, I think, Milwaukee somewhere. And I have her phone number and everything. There was one time where-- Let me see. [INAUDIBLE]
Q:
Take your time.
BOLTON:
Right now, my dad is living by himself.
Q:
Still in Mississippi? He went back? Or is he here now?
BOLTON:
He's here now. [INAUDIBLE] So he came back to my mom to come move in. But she asked us. I disagree. I don't want him to. I have a game, right? My mom bought it for me when it first came out on PS4. I have a whole different life in my game. It's a whole different world. I have a
lot of friends. One of my friends, she is a mute. She is mute. She can't talk. Q:
Really? But you know her from the gaming world.
BOLTON:
Yeah. And she's a cool person. She loves anime. I love anime, too. Once, she had the chance to get a voice box. But she refused because she liked being different. I have another friend, Jacob. I had two friends called Jacob over PS4. One, I look at him as a brother, because anytime I want to tell him something, he doesn't judge me. He actually talks to me about it. And we have full conversations for a good two hours straight about it. And he's one of those people that, if you tell them something, they'll go on with you. They won't laugh at you. They won't criticize it. They just get it, and that's it.
Q:
Yeah. Do you tell him things you don't tell anyone else?
BOLTON:
Q: Yes, I've told him a lot of things I don't tell anyone else. My other friend, Cyber, I call him. His real name is Jacob. He is one of those guys that plays around a lot. Me and my new friend Bomby, that's her PS4 name. She's a mute. Well, I told you that. Me and her got into a stupid argument. And he hopped in. He kept telling her, make me a sandwich. I don't know why. He just kept saying, can I get a sandwich? I told him to quit playing around. It was super serious. But he was like, I'm chill. I just wanted a sandwich. He just plays around so much. That's why I like being his friend, because he's one of those people that play around. And if I ever do get mad, he'll say something really dumb to me to make me feel happier. We all have the same thing in common. It's an animation we watch called Seven Deadly Sins. Our PS4 real names-- there's real names on PS4-- we put our real names on PS4 as anime names, like Zeldris of the Ten Commandments. That's a person on Seven Deadly Sins. Jacob, the one that plays around a lot, his name is Sir Meliodas. That's another anime character off of Seven Deadly Sins. My other friend, the other one that's super serious, that Jacob's name is Lambda Eclipse. I don't know why. I don't even know that anime. It probably is. And the mute, hers is also off of Seven Deadly Sins. It's Melascula of the Ten Commandments.
Q:
Melascula. What is that?
BOLTON:
It's a girl on that show, a demon. The Ten Commandments is deadly clan that takes out
anything that stands in their way. And my other friend Jacob, his name is Sir Meliodas. He used to be the captain of the Ten Commandments. He retired after he knew they did. And he started doing good things. We are a big anime lovers. We love anime. Of all the things we watch, anime is what makes us all unique with each other. Q:
Is that your favourite game, Seven Deadly Sins?
BOLTON:
I wouldn't say that's my favorite game. Our favorite, we all play Call of Duty, Destiny 2, Fortnite--
Q:
Mm-hmm. It's so popular.
BOLTON:
Yeah. Apex. We all have lots of things in common. That's makes us all a good friend group. And I've got another friend. His name is Keelan. He likes our mute friend. He likes her.
Q:
He likes her.
BOLTON:
Yeah. Yeah, he doesn't want to admit it. We had a full conversation or argument about him liking her. I was like, admit that you like her. You already know it. She was in the party, too. All of us were in the party.
Q:
You know each other in real life?
BOLTON:
No, we don't. Well--
Q:
You've never met?
BOLTON:
I'm planning on going to Kentucky, because that's where one of my friends is, Jacob. He and I are going to meet up. I'm going in June. Yeah, I'm going in June, and I'm going to meet him there. And my other two friends, I don't know when I'm going to meet them. Keelan, he likes her a lot. And we basically had to have one of our friends separate us, like, yell at us to stop arguing, because I was trying to get this point across that he loves her. But it's always, no, I don't like her. I like her as a friend. But I know. I know he likes her. We have a lot of arguments, a lot of them, some that seem personal. But they're really not. There's two friends that I have, that's the two Jacobs. Those two are always at each other's necks. They're always arguing. That irritates me a lot. I would say, the friendliest friend I have on my friends list has to be the one upstairs right now, Leniah.
Q:
Upstairs. What does that mean?
BOLTON:
In my classroom. She's here today. I've known her since, I think, second grade. We were in the same class. We have a perfect bond. That is, like, my best friend.
Q:
Is she the only one you know in real life?
BOLTON:
No. Keshawn. Yeah, he [INAUDIBLE]. He's a good friend, too. Everybody in there is a good friend. Yeah, she helps me out a lot. I lost my account. I had spent, like, $200 on that account. And the first thing she did was offer me her account. And she actually gave it to me. We share it now, because I don't want to take it from her. We share it. When she's not on, I get on. She is barely on, as well. So we share accounts, now.
Q:
That's a good friend.
BOLTON:
Me and her, we have a clan. I don't know what happened to it after I lost my account. Everything just fell apart. I don't make anymore YouTube videos or anything. I don't do anything.
Q:
You used to make YouTube videos explaining gaming?
BOLTON:
Like playing games and stuff with Leniah and Keshawn.
Q:
You recorded it to show people. Why do you think you love anime so much?
BOLTON:
Anime is one of those things where-- It has a lot of funny things, and stupid and silly things. The most stupid anime I ever watched was Dragonball Z. And the funniest one is Naruto.
Q:
You like comedy.
BOLTON:
Yeah, I like comedy. There is a comedy movie that I absolutely love. It's called Almost Christmas. I absolutely love that movie.
Q:
Why do you think you like gaming so much?
BOLTON:
It touches me in a way that nothing else can. Gaming is the only thing that separates me from the rest of the group. I know everybody else has games, but I'm attached to mine in a different way. Say someone came to my house and broke my game, we would probably have a fight. I don't joke about my games. My game is the only way I can connect to people. I can express myself without having people being judgmental about it.
Q:
Mm-hmm. Do you think it's a nice break from real life?
BOLTON:
Yes, it is every time I play. I go inside a different dimension when I'm playing video games. I become a whole different person, sometimes angry, sometimes happy, and all the time neutral.
Q:
It's kind of like stress relief.
BOLTON:
Yeah, it is.
Q:
Let's talk more about how you grew up, where you were born.
BOLTON:
I was born in the hospital right there.
Q:
You've lived in Milwaukee since then?
BOLTON:
I went to Michigan--
Q:
Really?
BOLTON:
Yeah, for six months because of my mom. My auntie, she was in the military. [INAUDIBLE] She went overseas for six months. She asked my mom to take care of her child, which she did. And I went to a school called-- What's the name? I don't know. I forgot. But it had a lot of kids that were different skin colors. And they were all weird.
Q:
Do you remember which city?
BOLTON:
It was Detroit.
Q:
Really? It was an elementary school?
BOLTON:
Yeah.
Q:
Was it DPS? Detroit Public School?
BOLTON:
Probably.
Q:
I'm from Michigan, I'm from Detroit. I don't know which school you're talking about. I can't think of it.
BOLTON:
Oh, yeah, I did go to Detroit again in July for my family reunion. We all went to Detroit. We
stayed in a hotel. It was huge. Q:
Downtown?
BOLTON:
I think so, yeah. It was a huge hotel. It was actually nice. The scariest thing about that hotel, it was super huge. And I'm afraid of heights. I hate heights. So every time I looked over the railing, I got shivers down the spine.
Q:
What was it like going to school with so many different types of kids? You'd never seen that many different types?
BOLTON:
Well, yeah, it was super hard because I had no friends that I actually met, knew. I didn't know how to interact with any of them. I was been attached to my friends at this school for so long. It's super hard to make new ones. And I kind of forgot how to make new friends, because I had the same ones for a long time.
Q:
Is it mostly a sense of color at this school? Does it make you more comfortable?
BOLTON:
Yeah, it makes me a lot more control, because I know-- not to be racist or anything, but white people have the kind of self that they're a little bit too disrespectful. And they get out of hand too quick. That's what I hate about them. But I love white people. Don't get me wrong, but they have a disrespectful side that I don't like.
Q:
Have you had experiences where they disrespected you?
BOLTON:
A lot. One time, some kid called me the n-word.
Q:
No way. Here in Milwaukee?
BOLTON:
I got so mad. But I took control of myself. I didn't do anything about it. I just walked away, because it wasn't even worth it. I passed that up.
Q:
What's the community like here? Do you feel like there are people who are racist in Milwaukee?
BOLTON:
Definitely. I don't notice them that much anymore, but I definitely know there are.
Q:
Do you do activities after school, outside of gaming, like sports?
BOLTON:
Yeah, I do. I just [INAUDIBLE]. I used to play football for two years. I was a peewee.
Q:
Nice. What position were you?
BOLTON:
I was a running back.
Q:
Nice. So you're fast.
BOLTON:
Yeah. I'm the second fastest in the school. [INAUDIBLE] is first.
Q:
Does it make you feel like a leader when you play sports?
BOLTON:
Kind of, kind of not, because when I play sports, it relieves me from school. It goes on school with the grades and everything. But I can release a lot of things with a sport, like my anger.
Q:
Do you think there are leaders in the school, like in a community, that you look up to?
BOLTON:
Yeah.
Q:
Like who?
BOLTON:
I look up to-- Let me see, in this community, probably the person I look up to the most right now is Mr. Coleman. He's the assistant principal. He's super chill. He's always telling me the right thing to do, even though it's kind of irritating.
Q:
Why is it irritating?
BOLTON:
Because it's every day.
Q:
But you like it, because it keeps you on track, maybe? What do you think your track is? What do you want to do? What are your dreams? What do you dream about?
BOLTON:
I dream about being a professional gamer. If I ever go pro, I will literally have to get-- Leniah, Keshawn, [INAUDIBLE]. We all said if we ever do go pro in games, we are going to have our own house, all of us. We're going to live in a huge house. It's going to be great.
Q:
How does it work? I don't know anything about the gaming world. Do you compete against each other?
BOLTON:
Some games you compete against, you play with. There's PvE player versus everyone, PvP, player versus player. There's a lot of them.
Q:
Is there POV? No.
BOLTON:
Player on everyone?
Q:
I don't know.
BOLTON:
PvP is probably the hardest of the gaming, because player versus player-- that is what PvP stands for-- is the hardest because you have people that out rank you by a lot, especially in Call of Duty. There are sweats, nerds, that I hate, especially Twitch nerds. In Fortnite, you run into them a lot. They make you want to break the controller. I swear.
Q:
What is a Twitch nerd?
BOLTON:
It's someone that has Twitch in their name. And they're super sweaty. All they do is play the game. Never get off. Twitch is like YouTube, but it's [INAUDIBLE] YouTube. Say I made a Twitch account where I just stayed up playing Fortnite every single day, every hour of the day, and ruined people's day by killing them and being irritating. That is a Twitch nerd. And I hate them.
Q:
Do people know that you're a gamer here at your school? Is it more of a separate personality?
BOLTON:
Yeah. Well, the personality thing. No one knows about the stuff that me and my other friends in the gaming world talk about, besides Leniah. But everyone knows I game.
Q:
If your classmates had to characterize you, would they say you're funny or smart? How would they describe you?
BOLTON:
I'm a very interactive, funny gamer--
Q:
Nice.
BOLTON:
--that has a big head.
Q:
How do you think people outside of school perceive you, like strangers?
BOLTON:
Probably as that one kid that loves cracking jokes, but they're never funny.
Q:
You think you're not funny? How do you want to be perceived? How do you wish people saw you?
BOLTON:
I want to be perceived like a person that people can rely on, people look up to.
Q:
In what way? How would they rely on you?
BOLTON:
If they wanted to tell me something, they could open up actually without having to hesitate about me saying something, or making fun of them.
Q:
You're just open. Have you already made your portrait? What do you think you want to include in it?
BOLTON:
Probably include game material me with a headset on in front of a huge crowd, probably at a tournament, competing.
Q:
Do you go to tournaments now? Do you want to in the future?
BOLTON:
I have in game, like, in class tournaments. I want to go to a tournament. But that involves a lot of practice, because if I were to go to a tournament now, I'd probably lose in the first round. Tournaments are full of people, pro people that actually play games for a living.
Q:
Like Twitch people.
BOLTON:
Yeah, Twitch nerds.
Q:
Word. What do you think are some of the biggest obstacles that you have faced, or are still facing right now?
BOLTON:
The biggest obstacle I ever faced was probably when my dad left. I had no role model, male role model to look over me and tell me the right thing to do. And that was super painful, because I only had my mom to keep me in shape, and actually play around with. My mom has work, so I have no one to talk to or anything, besides my brother.
Q:
When did you become so close with your aunt?
BOLTON:
When I first met her, before she became cuckoo? She was a super nice person. We hung out a lot. From the day I met her, we started hanging out a lot. I talked to her every day. She was super kind and everything. I never asked her for anything, though, because I really didn't want her to portray me as a person that asks for a lot of stuff. I'm one of those people that asks for stuff, but only if I truly, truly need it.
Q:
Mm-hmm. Is that your mom's sister, actually? Your aunt.
BOLTON:
She was my grandma's sister.
Q:
What made her special?
BOLTON:
She was actually a very kind of person that was-- Actually, she told me stuff, and I told her stuff that she didn't tell anybody else.
Q:
Why do you say that she went cuckoo?
BOLTON:
Well, I don't know how, but she just started acting super different. She couldn't comprehend what we said. She probably had Alzheimer's. She would forget everything. And she couldn't talk right. I don't know what happened to her.
Q:
No one ever diagnosed her.
BOLTON:
My grandma, she told me that one day they diagnosed her with something. I don't know what it was. But she went crazy. She had to have a baby sitter watching over her. My cousin, Marcus, he was at the Strawberry Festival with her. He was the one that got hit. But my other cousin, her name is Monica. Those two were together. And I remember the car came and took a turn over the corner, over the sidewalk, and it hit them.
Q:
How did it make you feel when she started to kind of slip away mentally?
BOLTON:
It was painful. I didn't know who I could rely on besides my mom.
Q:
She's busy a lot. What are your siblings like? Are you close to them?
BOLTON:
Yeah, my middle one. [INAUDIBLE] a lot of stuff.
Q:
Do you feel you're closest to your gaming friends?
BOLTON:
Yes.
Q:
Well, thank you for talking to me. We talked for a while. Do you want to add anything that we didn't talk about?
BOLTON:
I got hit in the face with a jump rope when I was little.
Q:
Who hit you?
BOLTON:
It was an accident. I was very, very intrigued by the color of the jump rope. I just walked into it,
and it smacked me upside the face. Q:
Why do you remember that so well?
BOLTON:
Because it hurt badly. It was super fast. It was a year or two ago. I walked into the jump rope. And I thought it was going to stop, and not going to hit me. I thought I was going to step on it or something. That didn't work out. The jump rope just kept swinging. She was swinging jump rope, using it. I walked into it. [INAUDIBLE]
Q:
What made you so curious about the color of it?
BOLTON:
I think it was red. And I really like red.
Q:
Yeah. What about red?
BOLTON:
Red is the color that fits in with a lot of colors. I mostly use red when I draw or paint. I want to start drawing my feelings out. But I don't know how to draw. So I'm going to start practicing.
Q:
You know how to draw. It'll start coming out. What do you feel emotionally when you see red?
BOLTON:
Call of Duty.
Q:
Like blood?
BOLTON:
Yes. Not that goth-y stuff, like darkness. Call of Duty because it has a lot of gore to it. It has an unreal amount of gore to it. In Mortal Kombat, every time you hit someone, it's like a gallon of blood comes out. That's unreal.
Q:
Do you think it's visually striking, like artistic in a way? What makes it so crazy?
BOLTON:
It's visually weird. Say in Mortal Kombat, if you go up to him and do the slightest hit, a pint of blood flies out.
Q:
Do you think you ever want to create games, like help to design them?
BOLTON:
Yeah, definitely. I want to be a developer in Call of Duty. But that's probably going to be discontinued when I'm older.
Q:
Why?
BOLTON:
Call of Duty is starting to die.
Q:
Oh, you meant the game. But something else will come up that you can help make.
BOLTON:
Like Fortnite 2.
Q:
That'll still be going, probably. Last question, what's your gaming character like? What's he look like? What's he talk like?
BOLTON:
My gaming character? Well, I have a lot of gaming characters that I make. My Warframe character as a kid, he talks like if he was an 18-year-old stuck in a five-year-old's body. I turned it into a girl. She has a yellow suit on with black hair, yellow and black eyes. My Ghost Recon character, that is a woman, too. I kind of made it out to look like my auntie. She has a wig and a helmet on with goggles and everything. She looks like a real military person. That's so I can kind of figure out what my auntie's doing. But it doesn't help at all. My Fortnite character. Pink hair. There's a lot of skins on there. But the one I use the most is called the Bullseye. It has pink hair, a helmet over it.
Q:
You can finsih your thought.
BOLTON:
Pink hair. And a bullseye on the chest.
Q:
Why the bullseye?
BOLTON:
It's like a try hard skin. I actually like it.
Q:
Word. All right. I guess we're done. Thanks, Jason.