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Name: Jess
Age: 17
Contact Info: jessie_corbin@hotmail.co.uk
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CHARACTER INFO
Character name: Luca Velasquez
Nicknames: Luc.
Character age: 28
Birthdate: June 11th 1979
Gender: male
Lycan Species: Rodere
Level: King? ( I’ll leave it up to the Admin though )
Strengths:
•He can make hard choices under pressure
•He can say no and not feel guilty about it
•He’s loyal to friends and allies
•He doesn’t flinch in the sight of death

Weaknesses
•Children
•His sisters and mother
•His anger if it gets a better hold on him

Weapons carried on person: None if he can help it but he does carry a switch blade.

Tell me about yourself
Hair colour/style: Black/ brown. Short.
Eye colour: brown.
Portrayal: Nicholas Gonzalez
Picture:




Physical description:

If someone where to look for Luca in a crowd it would be hard. He goes out of his way to wear the current fashions most of the time. However he is down to earth and most of the time he wears just a plain shirt and jeans. His two visible features is a small birthmark just behind his left ear and a gold stud in his right ear lobe. He has one tattoo, a small crescent moon on his right hip. He stands at an even 6 foot tall, toned and athletic he looks good enough to eat when he's been working out.


Likes:
•Computers, he’s a whiz with them
•Meeting new people
•Fast cars.
•Making people laugh.
•Cooking.
•Playstation.
•Rats, well they are related.


Dislikes:
•Vampires that can call to rats (it boarders on fear)
•Tea
•Nightmares
•Making decisions that could cause strife within the Rodere of Miami
•Police
•Lying to people
•People that lie to him


Fears:
•People close to him getting hurt
•Seeing his sisters dead
•Being alone

Nervous habits:
•He bites his lip when he’s nervous

Personality description:

Luca is naturally laid back even though he’s a Wererat. He could charm the birds from the trees if he wanted to. He isn’t someone that acts on his emotions; he likes to plan things out first. He actually listens to advice where others wouldn’t. He’s the kind of guy that grows on you, you could dislike him from the first time you met him but after awhile once you got to know him a little better you’d get to like him. He loves to joke and laugh and isn’t serious as some people might think. When he's angry or stressed out people can normally tell, while he can act like nothing is wrong it can be clear in everything he does and says. His view on the world is simple; if it doesn't poke its nose into his business then he won't poke his nose into the worlds. When the need for violence comes up, he’s quick and efficient and can deal with anything thrown his way. Despite the way he behaves he is a dominant.

Take me home to meet mom and dad:
Parents:
•Father, unknown.
•Step father, Thane Velasquez, 49 years old.
•Iness Velasquez, 47 years old.

Siblings:
•Rachel Velasquez, journalist, 21 years old.
•Juanita Velasquez, 10 years old.


Children:
•One but he’s not allowed to see her by court ruling.

History:

Luca was born in La Paz Mexico as the result of a one night stand between a local and an out of Towner. His mother didn’t have the heart to go and pay for an abortion so she carried the first of her children full term. Life was hard but even with all the trouble that seemed to land on their shoulders they always pulled through. His mother being a teenage runaway trying to make it big was bad; money was hard to come by as no one would employ her, being a drug addict and a single mum was even worse. With what she managed to scrape together she went from hostel to shelter for a place to stay, always saving money up and by the time Luca was two years old she had saved enough for a small apartment. Now you have to understand that while she couldn't afford many things she always looked after her son, if he scraped his knee at the park she put a plaster on it. If he was ill she stayed awake all night watching him while he slept. So his childhood was relatively ok. When he hit eight years old his mum had started seeing Thane, it wasn't anything new to him really. Of course he didn't understand it and all that he knew to do with any of his mums boyfriends was call them uncle like he'd been told to do from an early age. On his twelve birthday he found out that he had a baby sister on the way.

Well what was he supposed to do? He’d grown up alone child he welcomes the idea of a baby sister. He didn’t want to be the one fussed over all the time; it was the one thing he hated growing up. When Rachel was born however, Thane announced that they where all going to be a family even though he wasn’t related to the man by blood, he was still treated like a son. Well it looked like everything was ok and it was, Thane and Iness where married within the year and he had a sister, the world of vampires and shape shifters never really had much of an impact on them as a family. He hit a rebellious stage when he hit his teenage years, like every normal person he went into the grunge look and rock music. He never smoked, drank or did drugs however, it was the only thing he wouldn’t do even when his friends made fun of him.

He was seventeen when he was bitten; it was just really bad luck. A rouge shape shifter on the run form a bounty hunter for killing some campers in another state. It hurt like hell and considering that he’d heard about the murders on television he considered himself lucky. While the shifter made sure that he would live even after mauling his arm to a point where physical therapy was a long shot in the hopes of regaining mobility. Well, it was a kick in the teeth. He contracted lycanthropy, his mother swore that she still loved him, Thane and Rachel said the same thing and while they tried to be brave about it he didn’t mind. The way he saw things was that it was meant to happen. Thane was the one that really pulled through by contacting the Blood Mist Clan and explaining everything. The King’s second came to their home a week before his first full moon and showed him what to expect and answered questions that Luca wanted answers to. His change was as expected painful. The urges from the animal side nearly over ran him but the Clan helped out a lot. They made sure he didn’t hurt himself or anyone else.

For the next few years he worked his way up the social order of the clan, he fought of course and was injured many times but still he held on. Not having high aspects though he settled as an enforcer by the age of twenty four, he had two beautiful sisters and a family that loved him despite the fact that he could grow whispers and a tail. His life took a jolt with a one night stand that would eventually end with a child. He wasn’t the type just go out and sleep with someone, honestly there is no way to explain what he did but he tried for the right thing and asked to see the kid. The woman refused and when she found out that was a lycanthrope screamed blue murder, it wasn’t that he had lied about what he was, and it had just never come up before. The case went to court and he lost, the judge seeming to hate him for what he was. He gave up after that, there was no point in fighting a battle already lost before it began. While withholding his position in the clan he decided that a change was in order, he’d stayed in La Paz all his life and with his twenty eighth birthday coming up he decided that he wanted to go to Miami of all places. And so he went, not sure if the fast life would keep him away from everything he’d known or he’d come home with his tail between his legs. The only information that he knew that could hinder or help him was the fact there was no Rat king out there.


Writing Sample:


“Luca. Get out of that bed now and help or I swear I’m going to hit you into next week.”

If there was anything that could scare him worse then his youngest sister it was his other younger sister Rachel. Looking up at her face as he blinked he caught the faint scent of paint and wondered what was going on. The vague notion that he had promised to help paint their mother’s new condo flitted across his mind as his eyes drifted shut. It could wait, even he needed sleep and after a seventy two hour shift…painting could wait.

“Luca! You are so lazy”

Oh lord there was two of them. His sisters had paid him a visit. One wasn’t so bad, both together. Well, even the sanest of men would cry uncle after awhile. Scrunching his face up as the younger Velasquez sat down on the bed he pretended to sleep even as the quilt was drawn back exposing tanned flesh…at the last moment his hand snaked out and latched out onto it before it could be removed fully. Quirking a dark eyebrow with his eyes still closed he smirked “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” he warned softly as his dark eyes opened up to slits and looked at them both in turn. They both smelt of paint and turpentine it made his nose twitch. The thought that he'd promised mum that he would help came back to him full force.

“Why are you here? I’m sleeping after all and didn’t hear you knock” He directed the question at Juanita seeing the guilty look pass across Rachel’s face before she hid it. While he loved them both he didn’t like them wandering around, they knew the dangers and he’d told them not to do it before. But like mum they where boundless, he just didn’t know what to do with them. He knew 'Nita was good at picking locks but damnit! , when he saw that innocent puppy dog look settle on her face he knew that was exactly what they'd done.

And the rest:
Anything else? Nothing I can think of at the moment

Did you read the rules? ADMIN EDIT

ACCEPTED

As far as the position of Rat King, let's see how this character is played over the next few weeks and take it from there. :)