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when: january 10, 2023 where: port valdez who: @derekshaws​

It is too reminiscent of some melancholic social media post that leaves him sighing and wishing he’d never made a profile simply to like Elliot’s podcast (truthfully, he’s listened to all of two...) to say “what a year” about a year that has only existed for all of ten days. And yet, this is exactly what he thinks as he sits on a boulder near the caves to clear his head. Or, at least, where he’d meant to be clearing his head, and he realizes to his misfortune someone else in the nature of Port Valdez. “If it isn’t the grumpiest man in all of Alaska. I regret to inform you there aren’t trash cans in the near vicinity.” 

[ofheroism]

when: december 22, 2022  where: elliott’s apartment who: @xdivinve

she’s caught him at a terrible time for numerous reasons. first of all, it’s nearly his birthday, which reuben has rather mixed feelings about, considering his mother’s claims that his very birth was a curse upon the earth. secondly, it’s somewhat difficult to remember to have his guard up at elliott’s place, despite it normally not being filled with partygoers. finally, reuben was unaware that there was rum in the eggnog until after his third eggnog. perhaps this is why he stands, calling out “table thief ?! ” with a grin. “a table wasn’t good enough, and now you’re here to steal my best friend ? i hate to inform you that some people, other than yourself of course, are rather fond of me.”

[ofheroism]

{sean teale; cismale; he/him} hey isn’t that REUBEN VALENCIA? the 25/30 year old DHAMPHIR with the ability of PRECOGNITION and a song that plays when you see them is EMPTY by LETDOWN. They are known to be RESOLUTE and CYNICAL. They have been in VALDEZ for 10 years and always remind me of being lost in a forest in the dead of winter, a silhouette of someone alone in a cemetery, a murder of ravens, always looking over your shoulder. what secrets will they discover?

BASICS

CURRENT ALIAS: reuben elian valencia

BIRTH DATE + AGE: december 25, 1992 – 21:48

GENDER: male

PRONOUNS: he/him

ORIENTATION: heterosexual heteroromantic

SPECIES: dhamphir

SPECIAL ABILITY: precognition

OCCUPATION: mechanic at gutierrez auto

BIRTHPLACE: santa monica, california

FAMILY: hector ozuna? - biological father (vampire), valentina valencia - mother (human--deceased), anny perez - paternal half-sister (dhamphir)

APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM: sean teale

EYE COLOR: dark brown

HAIR: dark brown

HEIGHT: 6′1″

TATTOOS: a small triangle on the outside of his left wrist, a grim reaper on his left shoulder, a rose entombed in glass below the grim reaper (not in color)

SCARS/BIRTH MARKS: a diagonal scar across his right palm 

PERSONALITY

ZODIAC: capricorn sun, aquarius moon, virgo rising

MBTI: intj, the mastermind.

ENNEAGRAM: 5w6, the problem solver. self-preservation/sexual subtype.

ALIGNMENT: true neutral / neutral evil

TEMPERAMENT: melancholic

ARCHETYPE: the kinslayer / the outlaw

ELEMENT: earth

ASSOCIATED CHARACTERS:, geralt of rivia, robbie reyes (agents of shield), bellamy blake, warren peace, rhysand from acotar, luke castellan, zuko from atla, maybe dick greyson/robin (teen titans).

AESTHETIC: being lost in a forest in the dead of winter, a silhouette of someone alone in a cemetery, a murder of ravens, always looking over your shoulder, hidden smirks, fists clenched, dread in the form of a foreboding thunderstorm cloud over your head like a cursed crown, checkmate on a chessboard 

bio tw: death (significant other and parental), murder, blood

reuben elian valencia was the only child born to valentina valencia. valentina had never believed in the supernatural, at least not in terms of vampires and werewolves and witches. with no belief in anything spiritual either and no particular moral values, valentina had no qualms about conning people out of their money as a pretend psychic. upon meeting a handsome man, she even went so as far as to hit on him by telling him his fate involved meeting a beautiful stranger under magical circumstances. he was entertained by her lies and they’d had a one night stand which ended in reuben being born. he also decided to feed on her without compelling her to forget. to be fair, he had asked permission to bite her...

for reuben’s early childhood, valentina declined quickly. no one believed the woman who lied for a living that she’d been attacked by some sort of demon and now also carried his child. she believed reuben to be some sort of punishment for her crimes against a mystical world she had ignored and mocked for years and kept him only as a form of penance. whenever he’d ask about his father, valentina would inform reuben his father was a devil who had cursed their family and he should never ever speak of him. 

a middle school aged reuben took this figuratively for the most part, assuming his father had simply walked out on them and filled his mother with hatred. that is, until he started seeing visions of terrible events at age fifteen. he went to his mother, confiding in her that he had recurring nightmare-like thoughts of his high school girlfriend dying whenever they were at school. his mother decided this must be part of the curse, to give her son the gifts she never had in a twisted way like this, that reuben must be cursed to destroy everything he loved with advance knowledge. reuben still didn’t believe her until said girlfriend actually died exactly as he’d seen, a random attack on the street. eventually, he lost his own mother as well. 

twenty and armed with nothing but an apparent curse and the name hector ozuna, that proved to be an occasional alias of his sperm donor, reuben eventually found his way to valdez, alaska. here, he found not the man he’d been hunting down, but a half-sibling named anny perez. after his years of research in high school and on the road after, he’d learned that he was some sort of vampire hybrid; a theory that turned out to be true when he snuck into a hospital to see if a blood bag had any sort of effect on him. with anny, he was determined to help her gain control as he learned himself. 

occasionally goes by ben. only if he likes you. he likes no one. ... maybe call him reuben.

still uses blood bags from local hospital instead of feeding on people. 

0 kills, but has nearly killed someone once: a human doctor who interrupted him during his first feeding. 

generally avoids everyone except his inner trio of friends

reuben believes that dhamphirs and nephilim are mostly left abandoned and tossed aside, and has some sort of desire for vengeance against most vampires and angels, if not other supernaturals in general. he does not really identify with other supernaturals but also avoids getting close to humans.

top 5 theme songs:

go to war - nothing more

I don't know what you had in mind, but here we stand on opposing sides. We arm ourselves with the wrongs we've done. Name them off one by one, let's go to war.

destructible - siiickbrain

Oh, oh, I see shadows, and they're in my window. Feelings I've never known. So cold, midnight graveyard. Oh, oh, I'm gone again. Every time my heart's under attack,  I slam my skull into a wall.

empty - letdown 

You don't know the hell I've been through. You don't know the price I paid. You can't see the walls I'm bracing, time I'm facing all my days. Every bit of man I once was. Every bit of love that I could have. Setting into motion All the other fear I had.

devil doesn’t bargain - alec benjamin 

The devil doesn't bargain It's useless, don't do this It's hubris to try He's ruthless, you knew this I can see that you're sure You can change him but I know you won't He'll only break your heart again It isn't worth it, darling He's never gonna change He'll never be Prince Charming He'll only do you harm.

outlaw - the phantoms 

Dark horse Renegade Vigilante Got it made Rebel heart Underdog Play the part They call me an outlaw.

His Pinterest board is here.

His Spotify playlist is here.

— CONNECTIONS:

FAMILIAL:

HALF-SIBLING - { 1 / 1 } - anny perez - his paternal half sibling who he views as a full sister after knowing for a decade. 

PLATONIC:

INNER TRIO - { 1 / 2 } - kay morgan, tba - the only two people reuben would call his friends outside of his sister. he thinks them rather illogically outside of his abilities somehow, as they are hybrids like him and he’s never once had a vision involving either of them. ride or dies. 

FRENEMIES - { 2 / 3 } - avery danuil, probably reserved for derek shaw, tba - despite not wanting to have any new friends, he sure does seem to spend plenty of time pestering them for his own amusement.

ROOMMATES - { 1 / 1 } - roxanne sinclair

FRIENDS -  { 0 / ? } - jasper is often known to hang out with other rich, arrogant, important people in town, but also has maybe one or two friends that don’t fit into any of those categories that he likes to keep separate from his regular life.

ACQUAINTANCES - { 0 / ? } they’ve met before around town, he fixed their car, etc.

CO-WORKERS - { 0 / ? } - others who work at gutierrez auto

ANTAGONISTIC:

ENEMIES - { 0 / ? } - did he sleep with their ex/significant other/sister/them and now they hate him? did his general arrogant and careless disposition start it? the possibilities are endless

TABLE THIEF - { 1 / 1 } - avery danuil - a special place in his empty heart is reserved for being irritating by avery danuil and her incessant need to glare at him and her nose crinkle when she’s annoyed that is definitely not cute at all. 

ROMANTIC:

FRIENDS W BENEFITS - { 0 / 2 } - probably a current friend with benefit and maybe a former friend with benefit who wanted something more but he refused? no romantic feelings involved but he’s probably more charming towards them than others.

OTHER - feel free to hit me up with any other ideas you have as well !

[ofheroism]

when: december 25, 2022 where: local supermarket who: @fxrdecd

He’s late to his best friend’s party, arms full of packages of red solo cups, and the line in the supermarket leads nearly to the back of the store. “Do you really need to buy those tonight ? ” he asks the person in front of him, as if these plastic cups are eons more vital to a proper holiday than whatever they’re holding. Whether the idea of Alex teasing him for being late or the Christmas music playing at maximum volume, Reuben’s been in better moods. “Who even likes this song about a hippopotamus ? ” he grumbles.