Profiles - AlmaLinked OCs - Pt.1
Raymundo Ortiz - ♥️🐇 Reluctant(?) Protagonist
"If you hit a bat with a broom, it's obvious it'll turn into your classmate in a poof of smoke. Dead in your living room. Yup. I've finally gone insane!"
A university art student who left home to study under a scholarship. As he works day shifts at a café, most of his classes are during the night: his classmates are…unique.
Turns out most humans aren’t supposed to see—or even be drawn to—the night class offers, yet he remains oblivious of this fact for months. Perhaps, this started from the moment he got that scholarship...
Raymundo’s passionate and emotionally driven, owner of a fiery temperament and an intimidating glare that often keeps people away. Old habits die hard and he’s too used to being on the defensive to save himself pain, but even so his heart constantly peeks out his sleeve (literally, if you count the birthmark on his wrist).
If you talk to him for more than a couple minutes, you’d find a friendly guy who’s just too worried and overly conscious about being judged by others. His closest friends, Marina and Niko, are all the way back home and while Ray tells himself he can well survive as a loner, he longs to connect to others.
Now, if his classmate Angelo would stop being a jerk, they might even become friends…?
Age: 20/21 years old
Pronouns: he/him
Languages: Spanish (native), English (second)
Occupation: art college student, cafe barista/waiter
Family:
-Dad (died in an accident)
-Mom, Stepmom
-Grandma
-Younger sister, Rosario (17 y/o)
-Two older siblings
-Back home, they have a rabbit (Canela), a couple fishes, a dog (Batata)
Likes: art (drawing, painting, sculpting he manages different mediums); rock/metal music, pop occasionally; bunnies, cute things in general; running, exercise
Dislikes: pineapple on pizza; horror movies; feeling lonely; pointless violence; awkward silences/completely silent rooms
Appearance:
-Short brown hair, longer bangs at the sides which he usually braids (the tips are dyed orange); when drawing or working, he pushes it back with a bandana so it's not in the way
-1,65 cm tall, strong torso and arms, balanced build
-Has freckles across his cheeks, shoulders and back; dark green eyes; hands often have smudges (pencil, oil, paint), skin is a bit rough, faint scarring around knuckles and one more notable starting between his index and middle finger and ending before his wrist
-Has a 'birthmark' on his right wrist curiously shaped like a heart ♥
-Wears earrings and piercings on both ears
-Day to day he wears comfortable shirts and jeans or overalls; has a set of overalls specifically for when he paints that have accumulated plenty of oil, watercolor, carbon etc smudges. Back in high school, he used to dress mostly in black, and while these days he's incorporated color, he still enjoys a bit of goth/emo fashion (he'll usually wear those clothes for band concerts).
Misc:
-Bi, demisexual; has limited romantic experience.
-Wears socks with cute patterns (paws, animals, etc)
-Doesn't handle horror well--back home, Marina would make him and Niko watch horror movies all the time but he never warmed up to them. He prefers to watch comedy or tear jerkers. Despite how he tries to appear, he's a big sentimental guy.
-Focuses better with music in the background
-He's a scrappy fighter, with a bit of technique he picked up for self defense. He WILL fight back if provoked.
Angelo Valentini - ♠️🃏 Self Proclaimed Cryptid
"I'm not dead, you fool. Now, could you take me out of this closet? It's quite cramped..."
(Do vampires count as cryptids? Angelo would say that yes).
He's Ray's classmate in some of his classes, and assistant to the head of university; one of the few people who gets to see them in person.
His main interest lies in fashion but he enjoys studying a large range of subjects to make up for lost time (and now he has immortality worth of it). No one knows where he goes during the day, or where he lives, or really—much about him.
He’s a man with past regrets, and a future he doesn’t knows what to do with.
Upon a first impression, Angelo appears as someone of few words, serious and distant; he’s blunt and to the point and this often causes him to come off as rude (sometimes on purpose, sometimes not, but he doesn’t usually care). Logical and calculating, he leaves little room for emotion.
It all betrays a secret playful side, and a softer, caring personality reserved for a select few.
At first, he and Ray don’t see eye to eye and clash often. But with time, some snacks, close encounters with vampires—and one Christmas where Ray hit him with a broom, they start to become friends.
He's also Danielle's ex. But that is a far longer story.
Age: 22/23 at time of turning; as a vampire, ?
Pronouns: he/him
Languages: Italian (Native), English (Second), some Spanish and a little French
Occupation: student; assistant in university (bookkeeper, helps manage the library, various duties).
Family (as human):
-Mother (died of sickness when he was 14; she was a nurse)
-Biological Father (unknown status, didn’t meet him→someone his mother had an affair with)
-Step Father (in name only, never liked Angelo)
-Younger sister, Luchia (the person he did everything for while alive)
Likes: fashion, fashion history, making clothes; languages; fruits, pineapple on pizza; mystery and suspense, undiscovered things, cryptids, legends and myths
Dislikes: pushy/meddling people; romcoms; asking for help
Appearance:
-Long, pale hair, often loose or braid or ponytail.
-Long lashes, slender hands; naturally slender body but a little too thin at times due to lack of eating; in the past, his hands would have scattered bandages or bandaids from manual work/lack of care and resources for it. Having become a vampire, his complexion actually got better in some aspects (wounds heal faster) but if you take a close look, his body retains the memory of his habits as a human (and he still sucks at taking care of himself).
-Tallish, around 1,70cm, long legs
-Day to day, he usually wears dress pants, shirt and vest (no tie, but sometimes a cravat), which makes him stand out amidst more casually dressed students (Ray joked once he dressed LIKE a vampire). He enjoys a wide range of fashion, though, particularly long elegant dresses (one of his favorite pieces to make, as well).
-As a human (disguise or past self),aquamarine/emerald green eyes, otherwise red; large bat ears/fangs/etc.
-In bat mode, he’s an albino fruit bat.
Misc:
-Gay, demiromantic; he's slept with multiple people across his mortal and immortal life, but only loved one (so far). If not for him, he may not have become a vampire...
-Back in the day, he learned to sew and often crafted clothes for himself or his sister due to lack of money. However he quite enjoys it.
-Knowledgeable in Gambling/Cardgames: he learned many games and gambling techniques to make money.
-Cryptid hunter: the truth is out there...
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Can we ACTUALLY talk about "gendered socialisation" with some nuance pls
Every time i see someone pretending that 'amab folks will never transition because they're always gonna be raised male' i make another person trans
Every time i see someone pretending that 'gendered socialisation literally doesn't exist/i am immune to gendered socialisation because im just a silly little transgender' i make that person cis again
Socialisation divvied up on gendered lines exists. It's a real strong, oppressive, arbitrary force that was invented by bathroom companies to sell more bathrooms. You are not immune to it either, you absolutely grew up with it and you're not going to lose it by accident once you find out you're a woman now. It's probably happening to you as I speak, in fact it might be in the room with you right now, and you wouldn't even know it. And some of the ways it presents will often be cut from the same cloth as toxic masculinity, and that's on you to unlearn. Call it what you want, but it came to you because you were raised to be a certain way according to the gendered expectations of your parents.
On the other hand, it's not innate. TERFs keep using that shit to push their own fascistic worldview. Gender, like biological sex, is completely malleable given time. If you hormone wash your body with estrogen, progesterone and antiandrogens, you become biologically female, your ovaries just come in a little plastic container that you get through a shady website online through legally sourced methods and a doctor's note. In the same way, you surround yourself with a bunch of women who love and appreciate you, who uplift you through your gender identity and treat you as one of their own, and you do exactly the same with and for them, your socialisation as 'masculine' will be withered away and you'll literally see your personality change in front of your eyes. It's literally so beautiful to be in a room as the person you are and have become and then realise that they see you as that person.
But, it takes a lot of work. It's bendy, and it's malleable, but it's not fully fluid. not yet at least You can't just manifestrogen HRT into your veins, you can't just will your own gender presentation into existence flawlessly without doing the busywork that comes with becoming a different person completely. It's a skill, one that takes dedication and effort to become better at.
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