My cup runneth over with OOC info!
And now is the part on Hell!Ramon's LJ where we dance where I attempt to make a real bio! Wahoo!
Name: Ramon Salazar
Age: 20
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Power: Medium for the dead
Birthdate: December 13 1987
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
Current Location: Hell, WI
Family: Miguel Salazar (father, killed by plague), Isobelita Salazar (mother, killed by plague), Diego Salazar (older brother, deceased)
Personality: Shy, timid, gullible, sensitive, naive, easily intimidated and/or frightened. He will rarely stand up for himself, always preferring the path of least resistance. Partially since he's a bit of a pushover, but also because he just feels it's easier for everyone if he just remains unobtrusive and non-confrontational. Opinion? Oh, no he doesn't really have one. No really. Please, just do what you feel is best, don't worry about him, he'll just sit over here in the corner and wait for whatever decision you all come to.
Quick to apologize, he also feels he's overall just a burden to others since he doesn't have much to contribute in the way of skills or abilities; survival, occupational or otherwise. And since his power leaves him mostly a basketcase ANWAYS... Also, he just had the sense of being anything but a bother worked in by his parents, who only just barely put up with his weird antics of seeing imaginary boogeymen. And he hates 'making a scene', as his mom always put it, drawing unwanted attention (which is...ANY attention) to himself. So Ramon will do everything in his power to go unnoticed. This is also the reason why he covers up his Spanish accent near-flawlessly. Anything that makes him stand out is a bad thing.
Friend-making and socializing skills are in the negative levels, of course. He's polite and agreeable, and very kind and actually quite intelligent, but he stammers, fidgets, relies too much on vague, half-hearted body language and gestures instead of words, trails off mid-sentence, etc. If you talk to him, expect that and repeated use of the phrases 'um' and 'you know'. No, Ramon, we don't know.
There are very, very, very few things that will get a rise out of him. The only time he'll ever speak up is if killing is involved. Killing another human being is never, ever, ever, EVER okay with him and will protest loudly if it seems to be a course of action another is taking. Even if the person being killed is a horrible, scociopathic, evil bastard. Both because Ramon really is that kind-hearted and pacifistic, and because he doesn't want to have to deal with that person's ghost once they've passed on.
History: Ramon was born in Barcelona, Spain, the second son of Miguel and Isobelita Salazar, their first being Diego, three years Ramon's senior. Ramon had some rather harrowing complications during birth, but other than that, he seemed a normal, healthy baby. A bit on the noisy side, often crying for no reason, but that's no big deal, right?
The parents thought so, until Ramon's rather delicate emotional state never seemed to change as he got older. He'd cry and scream in the middle of the night at nothing, running down the hallways of their home as though fleeing something. They wanted to pass it off as nightmares and night terrors. Except he did it during the day while wide awake too. Simply burst into tears and screaming at seemingly random moments. He appeared to not have any developmental or mental problems; aside from the irrational, unexplained fears and outbursts, he was just like any other kid. Counseling never seemed to go anywhere. One doctor managed to get out of him that he was afraid of dying, or so they gathered. 'He'll grow out of it,' they said.
Ramon, of course, never did. Soon enough, he was a teenager, and still always acted like the shadows were out to get him. He had no friends, none of them being able to put up with his bizarre, spastic behavior and unusual, obsessive habits. The only person to ever be his friend? His older brother. Diego loved his little brother and was the lone figure of protection, understanding and companionship Ramon ever had. Diego would stand up for him when he was bullied, help soothe him during his 'fits', laugh and play with him, and never pestered about explaining what it was that upset Ramon all the time; Diego just stayed by or saved Ramon from them when they were upon him. They were very, very close siblings, needless to say, and Ramon all but hero worshipped his older brother.
But, tragically, when Ramon was eighteen and Diego twenty-one, the older Salazar boy was in a horrifying car accident that both mutilated his body and took his life. Ramon, if it was even possible, became all the more reserved and withdrawn after Diego was gone, and even more prone to his 'fits', reacting even more dramatically than before. His parents, still mourning their elder son and at a loss as to what to do with their remaining one, soon moved from Spain, immigrating over to America, where Ramon's father had a promising new business opportunity. As well as an excuse to get away from that place with too many memories for them all, perhaps start fresh.
Once the parents were settled in Los Angeles, CA, they immediately decided that it was time for Ramon to pursue a higher education. They shortly sent him off to an expensive college all the way across the nation in New York, insisting that this place was the best for him, without ever really saying WHY. Ramon had a few guesses, but they always went unsaid. Like a lot of things in his family do.
Two years later, Ramon flies to LA during Spring Break to visit his folks, and is now making the return flight back to his school in NY. Which is where his fated arrival in Hell, WI, and our story begins...
Likes: Music, small enclosed spaces, root beer, Goldfish crackers, kittens, spiders, the indoors, reading, sleeping, tangerines, sweaters, going unnoticed, paper clips, scarves, bottled water, origami, keeping things neat, living things.
Dislikes: Dead things/death, ghosts, blood, loud sounds, barking dogs, scary movies, the news, carrots, beer, ringing silences, cold, causing a scene, sparrows, wide open areas, untied shoelaces, being alone, sharp objects, being the center of attention.
Name: Ramon Salazar
Age: 20
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Power: Medium for the dead
Birthdate: December 13 1987
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
Current Location: Hell, WI
Family: Miguel Salazar (father, killed by plague), Isobelita Salazar (mother, killed by plague), Diego Salazar (older brother, deceased)
Personality: Shy, timid, gullible, sensitive, naive, easily intimidated and/or frightened. He will rarely stand up for himself, always preferring the path of least resistance. Partially since he's a bit of a pushover, but also because he just feels it's easier for everyone if he just remains unobtrusive and non-confrontational. Opinion? Oh, no he doesn't really have one. No really. Please, just do what you feel is best, don't worry about him, he'll just sit over here in the corner and wait for whatever decision you all come to.
Quick to apologize, he also feels he's overall just a burden to others since he doesn't have much to contribute in the way of skills or abilities; survival, occupational or otherwise. And since his power leaves him mostly a basketcase ANWAYS... Also, he just had the sense of being anything but a bother worked in by his parents, who only just barely put up with his weird antics of seeing imaginary boogeymen. And he hates 'making a scene', as his mom always put it, drawing unwanted attention (which is...ANY attention) to himself. So Ramon will do everything in his power to go unnoticed. This is also the reason why he covers up his Spanish accent near-flawlessly. Anything that makes him stand out is a bad thing.
Friend-making and socializing skills are in the negative levels, of course. He's polite and agreeable, and very kind and actually quite intelligent, but he stammers, fidgets, relies too much on vague, half-hearted body language and gestures instead of words, trails off mid-sentence, etc. If you talk to him, expect that and repeated use of the phrases 'um' and 'you know'. No, Ramon, we don't know.
There are very, very, very few things that will get a rise out of him. The only time he'll ever speak up is if killing is involved. Killing another human being is never, ever, ever, EVER okay with him and will protest loudly if it seems to be a course of action another is taking. Even if the person being killed is a horrible, scociopathic, evil bastard. Both because Ramon really is that kind-hearted and pacifistic, and because he doesn't want to have to deal with that person's ghost once they've passed on.
History: Ramon was born in Barcelona, Spain, the second son of Miguel and Isobelita Salazar, their first being Diego, three years Ramon's senior. Ramon had some rather harrowing complications during birth, but other than that, he seemed a normal, healthy baby. A bit on the noisy side, often crying for no reason, but that's no big deal, right?
The parents thought so, until Ramon's rather delicate emotional state never seemed to change as he got older. He'd cry and scream in the middle of the night at nothing, running down the hallways of their home as though fleeing something. They wanted to pass it off as nightmares and night terrors. Except he did it during the day while wide awake too. Simply burst into tears and screaming at seemingly random moments. He appeared to not have any developmental or mental problems; aside from the irrational, unexplained fears and outbursts, he was just like any other kid. Counseling never seemed to go anywhere. One doctor managed to get out of him that he was afraid of dying, or so they gathered. 'He'll grow out of it,' they said.
Ramon, of course, never did. Soon enough, he was a teenager, and still always acted like the shadows were out to get him. He had no friends, none of them being able to put up with his bizarre, spastic behavior and unusual, obsessive habits. The only person to ever be his friend? His older brother. Diego loved his little brother and was the lone figure of protection, understanding and companionship Ramon ever had. Diego would stand up for him when he was bullied, help soothe him during his 'fits', laugh and play with him, and never pestered about explaining what it was that upset Ramon all the time; Diego just stayed by or saved Ramon from them when they were upon him. They were very, very close siblings, needless to say, and Ramon all but hero worshipped his older brother.
But, tragically, when Ramon was eighteen and Diego twenty-one, the older Salazar boy was in a horrifying car accident that both mutilated his body and took his life. Ramon, if it was even possible, became all the more reserved and withdrawn after Diego was gone, and even more prone to his 'fits', reacting even more dramatically than before. His parents, still mourning their elder son and at a loss as to what to do with their remaining one, soon moved from Spain, immigrating over to America, where Ramon's father had a promising new business opportunity. As well as an excuse to get away from that place with too many memories for them all, perhaps start fresh.
Once the parents were settled in Los Angeles, CA, they immediately decided that it was time for Ramon to pursue a higher education. They shortly sent him off to an expensive college all the way across the nation in New York, insisting that this place was the best for him, without ever really saying WHY. Ramon had a few guesses, but they always went unsaid. Like a lot of things in his family do.
Two years later, Ramon flies to LA during Spring Break to visit his folks, and is now making the return flight back to his school in NY. Which is where his fated arrival in Hell, WI, and our story begins...
Likes: Music, small enclosed spaces, root beer, Goldfish crackers, kittens, spiders, the indoors, reading, sleeping, tangerines, sweaters, going unnoticed, paper clips, scarves, bottled water, origami, keeping things neat, living things.
Dislikes: Dead things/death, ghosts, blood, loud sounds, barking dogs, scary movies, the news, carrots, beer, ringing silences, cold, causing a scene, sparrows, wide open areas, untied shoelaces, being alone, sharp objects, being the center of attention.