#valente nazareno app

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CHARACTER NAME: Valente Nazareno

CHARACTER FACECLAIM: Henry Zaga

CHARACTER AGE/DOB: 24 (November 14, 2001)

CHARACTER PRONOUNS/GENDER IDENTITY/SEXUALITY ETC: Male, He/Him, Bisexual/Biromantic

CHARACTER FANDOM (if relevant): N/A

OC OR CANON: OC

WHERE THEY ARE CURRENTLY LOCATED & ANY IMPORTANT ALLIANCES OF NOTE: Currently located near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, no alliances of note following the fall of Whispering Pines Ranch in Arkansas. 

IMPORTANT CHARACTER INFORMATION TO NOTE AND SHARE: Val grew up poor to a single mother. She did her best for her son, who was born deaf and later became mute as a result. She died, however, when Val was just seven years old and Val ended up in foster care. 

The foster home was generally pretty horrible, but kept Val around until the apocalypse happened. Then, in order to keep their “real” family alive more easily, he was turned out. 

Luckily, a man named Nick Caslin found the ten year old hiding alone in his barn and took him in. Val lived with Nick and travelled with him for years. By the time he was twenty, Nick was well versed in the ways of the dead. He couldn’t hear them, but he could feel their shambling steps, and could smell their rot from yards and yards away. 

And of course, there was Nick. The only person Val ever considered to be a father to him. Nick kept him alive. 

They find a community on a large stretch of farmland in Arkansas called Whispering Pines Ranch. Things go well there for awhile, until one by one, each member of the community starts falling ill. Val goes out on his own for the first time in years to try and find medicine after everyone around him starts dropping like flies. 

Ends up being attacked by another group of survivors, ends up blinded in one eye as he staggers home to Whispering Pines. 

Wakes up from his injuries several days later, locked in a room. Takes him awhile to get out, but he manages to. Finds the dead community members roaming the ranch, all perished to the illness he never caught. 

He manages to escape in a van that was used for supply runs. He’s been running ever since, headed across the US and sleeping in the van for a long time now. Rarely ventures out, and scavenges almost everything he has from broken down cars to avoid straying too far and being caught off guard again. 

ONE SONG THAT HAS YOUR CHARACTER VIBES: Ain’t no Grave - Crooked Still

ooc information:

NAME/ALIAS: Junestar/June

AGE: 26

TRIGGERS: ooc drug use, ooc animal harm/death/illness