Rey Celio Rogelio

Name: Rey Celio Rogelio
Age and Birthday: 18 years old, October 18
Class (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior): Senior
Reason for Enrolling in an Arts’ School (examples: dancing, singing, culinary arts, acting): Photography, Art
Appearance:
Height: 5’2
Weight: 107 lbs
Hair color and style: Pitch black, short and spiky when not hidden under the cap.
Eye color: A darker brown
General:: Despite his age, he’s often mistaken as much younger. Some say it’s his baby face, others say it’s his height, others will even say his quiet nature is a reason as to why he looks so much younger. However, he tends to avoid situations where his age truly matters, aside from school. His skin is a bit tanned, a generic trait with his family coming from a Hispanic culture and background.
He tends to wear a small silver chain with a cross hanging from around his neck. His ears are pierced once each, usually with silver or black hoops, often in the shorter variety. He also has a fairly small piercing in his eyebrow, also often in silver or black. His clothing designs vary a little, but the base color has always been black, it never really varies away.

Personality:
Likes (5+):
-Strawberries
-Coffee with french vanilla creamer
-Cigarettes
-His boyfriend (More like love, but meh)
-Meeting new people…. That aren’t hyperize energy bunnies in human form.
-Nature in general, which is why he draws and photographs so much around him. Even the people around him are possible targets to draw/photograph. However, he never shows his work of others without either a: permission, or b:blurring out some of the face. He does this as a minor respect thing, so their identities aren’t so obvious.
-Any time after 10 PM-5 AM
-Sunrises and sunsets
-Full moons, especially over a lake
-The sound and feel of rain
-Swimming

Dislikes (5+):
-Dark chocolate
-Plain coffee/black coffee
- Being lectured, especially with his cigarette usage
-Other people hitting on his boyfriend
-Being around really hyperactive people-- They sort of overwhelm him most of the time
-Loud noises, being stuck inside all day
-Any time between 9 AM-5 PM---It’s usually louder and busier during those hours.
-Bright sunlight, overly hot days
-No moon in the sky
-The sound of loud thunder, occasionally the lightning also spooks him a bit
-Stuck outside on a hot day with few ways to cool down.


Family members:
-Father: Antonio Cruz Rogelio, 40 years old. Although his family was always far from being rich, low middle class at best, Antonio never gave up. He was raising his two sisters by the time he was 19 years old, and was basically the sole breadwinner of the small family. He managed to teach his sisters enough for them to get jobs of their own, and sort of hold the fort down as he tried to go to college.
The first year went fairly smooth, the siblings keeping constant contact via phone and texting. The second year, however, he fell in love with another student, a smart and brilliant latina by the name of Angelica Ana Roberto. By the time he was 22, they had sex several times. Soon, however, a bone was thrown in his spokes- Angelica was pregnant. Antonio dropped out, taking head of the household again, moving Angelica in with him. He went back to working as much as possible, just trying to keep the household afloat. Once their baby was born, the names sort of just slipped out...and stuck.
Antonio is now moving up in the ladder, so the family isn’t struggling as much as before, and his two aunts are working as well. Antonio has proven to be a bit of a perfectionist lately, which was causing arguments around the household, and that alone caused Rey to seek out Metric, as he heard of the prestige and vast amount of schooling classes and education from his Aunt, who was a teacher at that school.
Antonio seemed to be irked by this, and has since stopped contact with Rey-- Especially when he found out that Rey was dating another male.


-Mother: Angelica Ana Rogelio, 39 years old. Although she wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth, her family was far better off than her husband’s. They supported her through college… until they found out she was pregnant. Her parents berated her, and when she refused to abort it, they cut contact off with her. She doesn’t have a single member of her own family that’ll talk to her at all. As far as Angelica knows, she’s been burned off of the family tree. Once she moved in with Antonio, she felt like an outcast at first, but she soon focused on her entire being on taking care of the child.
Now a days, she seems to be distant, aloof, quiet on a constant basis. She doesn’t stand up for Rey most of the time, seeming to be timid or afraid of Antonio’s temper, but his two aunts often started going to war, defending their nephew from their own brother, his father.

-Oldest aunt: Celia Estela Rogelio, 36 years old. Celia is one of the more energetic people in the household, although she doesn’t really bother Rey much, although that could be because she’s more of a motherly figure than his own. Around the time he was five years old, his mother started to distance away from everyone, apparently overwhelmed by everything, and his aunts took over raising him. He’s closest to Celia, as she was the one who helped him the most, be it homework or learning how to draw. Most of his artistic skills were passed down from his aunt to him.
Celia is also currently a teacher at Metric school of the arts. She takes the role of an art teacher for the high school grades. Yet, much to Rey’s relief, she doesn’t favor him over the others. She does her best to treat her students equally, although she’s also known to spend a little extra time with those who are struggling. She, herself, was a student at Metric in her younger days, unknown to her brother since he was in college, and her little sister covered the bases for her.

-Younger aunt: Alicia Maria Rogelio, 28 years old. Alicia, just like her brother and sister, struggled with life at first, merely skating through for the first few years after their parents died. Alicia was the first of the sisters to start working, and she seemed to depend on working long hours to somehow escape reality. She became a bit of a workaholic until Rey was brought into the world, into her house. She slowed down to help take care of him, but she was a bit jealous of Celia, since the baby much preferred her… but, as time went on, she easily let go of any reins she had, and went back to work, working full time plus some if she could.
She’s currently distant with all of her family, as she moved clear across the states to take on a huge job, and she’s determined she’ll soon be a millionaire, and she doesn’t feel like her family deserves a single dime.



Backstory:
--Born: October 18, 5;55 AM
-Around five years old:: Mother distanced, Celia and Alicia took over caring for him, though he slowly began to prefer Celia.
-5-9 years old:: His father and Aunt Alicia went back to working full time, and his mother remained detached, aloof, distant
-9-11 years old:: His aunts are angry with his mother, as she’s basically only leaching off of them- Free food, free shelter, etc. It causes a huge wave in the family.
-11-15 years old:: It all comes crashing down. His mother stopped even trying to defend him or herself, and pretty much just shut down. His father and his aunts were arguing on a constant basis.
-15-17 years old:: The family is falling apart, his mother attempts suicide and was hospitalized. He basically sticks to Celia, and she manages, against her brother’s will, to get him into Metric. Her only words were --Prove to me that I made the right decision. Prove to me that you belong there, alright?’ ((Also met Charles, slept with him for the first time, started dating him shortly after))
-17-18 years old:: Current times, attending Metric. His mother is still in the mental ward, his father pretends he simply doesn’t exist, and his other aunt is so caught up in work that she never talks or visits him anymore. He has his boyfriend, and his aunt.

Important relationships (friends, lovers, enemies, ect):
--Boyfriend:: Charles Damian Santos, 22 years old. He’s a pretty big guy, so it’s rather amusing to most to see him with short little Rey. He’s just under 6’ in height, and rather muscular. Rey had met Charles when he was around sixteen, and escapes to his house when he couldn’t be with his aunt. Emotions quickly grew, emotions surfaced that neither one of them had ever felt before. They slept together right on Rey’s seventeenth birthday, but the only one who knew was Celia, and she didn’t care much, but she did threaten that if Charles ever laid a finger on Rey, in a hurtful manner, she would be the one burying him six feet under.
The rest of his family didn’t know until Charles came to the house to help him pack for Metric, as well as driving him there since his aunt was preparing for her own return to Metric. His father had seen him kissing Charles, rather passionately (although they tried to find a way to be hidden), and pretty much kicked Rey out, telling him to never return. Alicia, despite claiming she was all for equality, agreed with her brother, Antonio.

(Friends and such is open~)