s i n ⋆ c i t y ; advanced rp. discussion

Juno Ximenia: Approved
Charlie Lee Myong: Approved
Adrian Montalvo: Approved

LEGAL NAME: William Ximenia
GOES BY: Juno Ximenia
ALIAS: JX.
GENDER: Male
AGE: 28 years old
SIGN: Virgo

FACE CLAIM: Michael Tintiuc



PERSONALITY:

A determined force of a man who hides his feelings under a veil of confidence. Proud of his success, he credits it all to himself. Others may view his confidence as an overinflated ego, but he simply says that he carved himself from nothing and all his success is because of him and his skills.

Somewhat analytical and aloof, he tries to understand other people the way you would understand a machine. Despite that, he tries to be kind to others especially if they’re willing to impart gifts or good favor. While a charming person, Juno has little actual charisma due to his childhood spent in solitude, with most of his knowledge of the world from a computer. He tends to do things because they’ll either help him or they’ll amuse him, which gives him an almost cruel, blunt nature to those he doesn’t care for.

However, he has kindness and empathy for those he deems good and those he can relate to, which isn’t any people in general.

BACKGROUND:

His first experience with smuggling is when he was forbidden to bring home any form of science textbook into a heavily religious home, threatened with a beating and more hail marys than he can count if he were caught with anything suggesting any theory of the universe other than creationism. He quickly learned how to put hidden layers in his backpack if his parents were to skim through his bag in search for any contraband.

His next experience with hacking was when his parents put a password on his computer that would alert them if he tried to look at any sites that weren’t approved by them or the church. Thank god for the textbooks he smuggled him because they taught him the ins and outs of computers and code.

He was thirteen years old when he was to be set up with a young girl around his age, a potential partner, and he quickly learned that he was the very thing his church despised. Leviticus 18:22 swore that God looked down with hatred upon him each time he told her that he loved her but instead wished that her face was more angular, or wished that she looked more like his pastor’s son. He can still remember the first time the two boys kissed behind the church’s parking lot and when Peter had promised him that they’ll run away and get married.

It never happened, sadly, and he still wonders what became of Peter.

At age sixteen they found the textbooks under his bed along with some cutouts of various male celebrities between the ages. He came home after school one day to be told that they were taking him out of school and instead of taking him to a “religious institution.” Knowing what those camps were, and what they would do to him, he fought back even when his parents became violent, breaking his father’s nose when he shoved him against the wall and yelled slurs at him.

Since then he’s been living on the streets of Los Angeles, bouncing from shelter to shelter until he found real money in hacking and skimming just enough to live on from the pocket of businessmen too ignorant to update their online security. He quickly became a mule for various small gangs, teaching them the science of smuggling whatever they’re smuggling without detection.

Juno now is a successful worker in a small antique bookstore, a man who spends his days alongside books once forbidden to him and while appears innocent, he will hang books with hidden code in the margins with a smile promising secrets in exchange for coin. If they indulge him, he’ll show them exactly how he’s survived as a hacker in the underworld of Los Angeles. Within the book store is an attic where he operates out of (and lives), and within the attic is a computer bigger than most desks can hold.

His place is small, with narrow walls and more long than wide, but it’s enough for both him and his dog, Impact.

Juno may be a growing force in the crime-ridden underbelly, but he’s not the best criminal in terms of ruthlessness. With a weak stomach and a poor constitution, he finds it hard to do any job that involves blood or corpses and he’s ultimately terrified of violence. He cannot handle himself in a fight and would rather hire lackeys or people willing to resolve such issues if they were to pop up.

GANG AFFILIATION: Undecided/Neutral

FAMILY:

His mom and dad were higher-ups in the church system and were in charge of the church’s finances. They were, much like their son, entangled in some crime such as fraud, as they steal meal vouchers from members within the church and use it for themselves. His father is a lawyer and is on the hunt, determined to find him and bring him home.

His “son” is a small Pomeranian mix named Impact (After the meme font, god, he’s so stale) with grey and white fur. He would be a good prospect for any owner looking for a handsome dog, but he’s profoundly deaf and has large patches of burn scars on his side from cigar burns when he was a puppy. Juno covers them with sweaters that he makes himself.

HOBBIES:

Knitting, computer building, coding, making absolutely USELESS apps “this app will tell you how your coffeemaker is feeling at the moment”, learning languages, dog fashion shows, cooking, stick and poke tattoos (not very good at them, but he enjoys it.)

“I think my fate is losing its patience
I think the ground is pulling me down
I think my life is losing momentum
I think my ways are wearing me down” - Mitski, Brand New City

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Charlie Lee Myŏng ☆ Female ☆ Bicurious ☆
Korean-American ☆ 21 years old ☆ Gang: Undecided.☆

APPEARANCE:
Charlie stands at around 5'1" and has ear-length black hair often ruffled and unbrushed. She often wears warm, cozy sweaters and most clothing simply hangs off her small frame, made even smaller by skipping meals to feed her father.

SCARS:
She has a scar on her lower stomach, near her hipbone by accidentally stabbing herself while trying to hide in a box with a knife. On her wrists are circular, rubbery dark scars from escaping handcuffs.

PERSONALITY:
A fiery, passionate young woman, Charlie grew to stand up for herself when she was bullied for her learning disabilities and even her race. Charlie is very poor and has a deep, deep love for her family, going into thievery to help her dad with the bills at a young age. Although she's full of passion, she's spiteful, blunt, and uncaring of how what she says could hurt someone, amplified by her naivety regarding the criminal underbelly of her city.

She hates being cooped up and much prefers exploring the city late at night.

ATTRIBUTES:
Power:
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Speed:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Technique:
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Intelligence:
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Teamwork:
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

ABILITIES AND SKILLS:
Second-Story Work: Adept in the city landscape, Charlie has gained the ability to scale buildings and work in towering heights due to her nimble nature and fearlessness.

Contortion: Due to intense training and loose joints, Charlie is able to bend her body past perceived human limitations, thus making her able to cram herself into tight spaces. Has shown her skills by popping her joints out of place to escape handcuffs and even managed to get into confidental areas by hiding in a small box.

Sticky Fingers: She’s very good at stealing things and picking locks with slender fingers. Sometimes the urge to steal is… Much too strong for her. She sometimes manages to resist.

BACKSTORY:
(view spoiler)[Charlie doesn’t remember much of her childhood, other then that she was happy despite living in a low-income household. Her mother was a famous gymnast and her father had met her when he became her nurse and he was there when she fell ill with sudden pain and was unable to continue her career. Charlie was nine when her mother killed herself, unable to live with her pain, and Charlie noticed that her joints were strange, popping out of place and bending in ways that it probably shouldn’t. Delighted to have the same talents as her gymnast mother, she began practicing contortion on the down low as while her father was loving, he expected her to be studious and grow into a higher position than himself. Charlie didn’t like school, though, and quickly learned how to sneak out where she resorted to cramming herself out of a tiny vent in the school bathroom and down two stories to the sidewalk, where she fell onto her ass and broke her tailbone.

And then she hit adulthood and the pain started. It felt like her bones were breaking at the joints and they would crack and pop like she was eighty years old. Determined to end this pain, Charlie began working at her dad’s hospital as a med student where she learned deep within the archives that the medicine for dealing with this illness was under direct control from a pharmaceutical company, who refuses to release it in favor of selling medicine just to manage the many, many symptoms. Her mind made up, she tried to sneak in and steal it when she was caught. The owner of the company hired her as his personal thief and allows her access to the medicine despite it being addictive and having horrific side effects. She now works as a full time criminal and continues to keep the facade that she’s a good daughter for her father, who is now suffering from his old age. (hide spoiler)]

EXTRA:
(view spoiler)[ Effiset - Highly addictive controlled substance: used for the treatment of joint decay. Side effects include: Compulsive Behaviors, Insomnia, dizziness, vomiting.

Charlie is addicted to this medicine and can show signs of withdrawal which can include facial tics, nose bleeding, agitation, increased joint pain, and tremors. (hide spoiler)]

Rosalie Haynesfield ☆ 21 ☆ She/her ☆ Lesbian ☆
Gang: Other/Neutral ☆

CRIME PORTFOLIO

JOB(s):
Sniper
Marksmen
Smuggler (Arms dealer)

ATTRIBUTES:
Power:
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Speed:
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Technique:
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Intelligence:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Teamwork:
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

★ ABILITIES: ★

Steady hands:
Rosalie has demonstrated such skill in her job as both a tattoo artist and a sniper. She has exceptionally study hands, giving her a natural advantage over other snipers and marksmen.

Family Connections:
It’s been supposed that she is a distant cousin of known arms dealer Samuel Knox and the beloved niece of a pharmaceutical representative.

Cute Demeanor:
Ever a charmer, Rosalie has been known to smuggle lockpicks and weapons to gang members in jail. She seems to naturally disarm people with a smile.

Far-sighted:
She can see much farther than a typical person could, again, showing her natural skill as a sniper.

★ WEAPON OF CHOICE: ★
She hides a small hand-gun under her skirt and pieces of a sniper rifle are usually hidden and smuggled on her person.

★ CRUTCHES: ★
Low Morale: she doesn’t seem to have a taste for crime unlike many others within Sin City.
Disabled, she is hard of hearing due to childhood trauma that caused her eardrums to rupture and get infected, treatment was only able to save a portion of her hearing.

TRAITS:

HUMOROUS: She likes to defuse situations with humor and charm.
KIND: She has a lot of empathy for other people, especially those trapped by the underworld of the city.
ARTISTIC: Rosalie is a tattoo artist and painter, she loves art and loves to show other people her work.
DREAMER: Rosalie often is described as having her head in the clouds.

LIKES/DISLIKES:

♥ Painting/Body Art
♥ Classic paintings
♥ When people use ASL to talk to her
♥ Dark-haired girls
♥ Soft girls
♥ Her rats, Venus and Milo.
♥ Guns (even though she hates that she likes it)

x Crime
x Crowds
x Sweet alcohol
x Spicy food

BACKGROUND:

Rosalie learned as a child that it was best not to ask questions, especially with parents just looking to keep their head low after a big scandal happened within the family gang and they were being hunted, forced to keep moving in fear for their past catching up to them. Rosalie grew up in the back of the family van, watching her mom change the plates within states, and crappy motel rooms.

But it went wrong, it always does.

Rosalie was nine years old when gang members burst into their room wielding guns, locking her in the closet and tying her parents up to interrogate them. She sat in the closet listening to them when she noticed that they hadn’t fully locked the door and if she was careful she could escape and get help.

She climbed out of the closet, stared at their backs as she silently creeped out, trying her hardest to not look at the panicked eyes of her mother or her father’s beaten face when she tripped over a power outfit and a rookie of the gang panicked and shot, causing a barrage of loud gunfire that killed her parents and ruptured her ear drums, leaving her nearly deaf.

She was put in foster care for a week while they looked for someone willing to take her and thus Uncle Maxwell came out from the rubble of her broken family, a smart, rich business man running a seemingly wholesome company looking to cure diseases. Of course, it’s Sin City, so it was much less wholesome. Her life from then was quiet, different, he sent her to catholic school where she got in her first fight and chipped some girl’s tooth. On the side, she was taught everything about guns when Maxwell learned that she was farsighted.

Working with guns didn’t give her anxiety like many would believe, no, it put her in some sort of stupor where all she could focus on is the target. At age 15 she had her first job, to perch on the rooftop and shoot this supposed rapist who was sticking his fingers where he really shouldn’t in terms of Uncle Maxwell’s business.

Quickly they picked up on her talent and she lives a double life of running her tattoo parlour and working in the criminal underground, at her uncle’s beck and call.

“We could sing pretty melodies
On the unmade bed
Slow-dancing to a silhouette
Cause I ain't dead yet.” - Hellfire, Barns Courtney

Adrian Montalvo ☆ 34 ☆ He/Him ☆ Gay ☆ Puerto Rican ☆
Gang: Other/Neutral ☆

CRIME PORTFOLIO

JOB(s):
Vigilante
Private Detective

ATTRIBUTES:
Power:
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Speed:
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Technique:
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Intelligence:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Teamwork:
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

★ ABILITIES: ★

Intimidating:
Adrian is grizzled and strong, when he wants to put up a tough face he can do so accurately and efficiently.

Police Contacts:
Still loyal to the police, Adrian knows of a few other policemen willing to look the other way when evidence goes missing. He knows of their patrol schedules and knows a security woman who deletes any footage of him skulking around.

Police training:
He has been trained in the art of disarming someone and is proficient with firearms.

★ WEAPON OF CHOICE: ★
He has a cane that he uses often to clobber someone, but he does usually carry a handgun and has several weapons hidden around his house for protection.

★ CRUTCHES: ★
Disabled: His leg is forever mangled, making him a lot slower.
Family connections: He has people he cares for, making him much less willing to put his life on the line.

TRAITS:

PATERNAL: He has an intense paternal instinct, especially for children/teenagers who were put through the foster care system.
KIND: He is ultimately a kind individual known to show mercy to those who seem willing to repent for their crimes.
INSIGHTFUL: Adrian shows a knack for being able to read people’s behaviorism, he can easily pick up on lies and when someone is hiding something from him.
ALOOF: One of his flaws is that he shows difficulty in expressing how he feels.

LIKES/DISLIKES:

♥ His Children/”adopted” children
♥ Tequila
♥ Playing guitar
♥ Moonlit stakeouts
♥ his doggo, Missy
♥ Gwen’s cat, Leggy (will never admit it)
♥ Spanish soap operas

x Cruel individuals
x Racists (who doesn’t, though.)
x Modern radio
x When women flirt with him

BACKGROUND:

Adrian used to be a devoted son in a catholic family, taught at a young age that he was to be the man of the family after his father left and that his job was to find a pretty wife. He worked hard to support his mama and his sisters, but when the people he loved turned to crime he knew that he had to get away and become something bigger.

College was something else entirely. He doesn’t remember half of it, other than attending a few concerts and protests, getting pushed off of a balcony and breaking his collarbone; ironically, by his future ex-wife, and learning quickly that he would be a disappointment if he wasn't the person his family wanted him to be. The man his father taught him to be.

After dropping out of business school to get married to his best friend, Josephine, he moved to Los Angeles to support her career as a nurse. He joined the police force then, to be like his father, and joined quickly that things worked differently in the corruption-ridden city then his small hometown. He changed a lot then, become more hardened. The only thing that broke him out of his shell and prevented him from wandering down the path to corruption was this blonde spitfire straight from hell they dubbed “the blonde menace.”

In her he saw himself, running around the streets of his hometown with no clue what to do when he was young, committing petty crimes just to support his family. Through her many, many arrests, he learned a lot about Gwen and couldn’t help but become more paternal, even more so when Josephine fell pregnant with his son Ethan and eventually his daughter Savannah.

And then everything changed with that one damn job. They were desperate and to cover their tracks they collapsed the damn building. He was trapped under rubble for two hours, nearly smothered and crushed to death. They did all they could to save his leg, leaving him with a twisted, gnarled mess of a limb. He was forced to retire, becoming a simple desk jockey where he couldn’t help anyone any longer, and with that he became severely depressed, near suicidal. His marriage collapsed, though without malice as Josephine just always knew that he had no true attraction to her, and Adrian swore that he will still help those even if he’s not allowed to.

He stalks the alleyways at night, hunting down dangerous gang members and tries to help those escape the life of crime when they can.