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R.I.P. 2 My Youth- The Neighbourhood

| NAME |
Valentine Antonio Amor

| NICKNAMES |

Full of energy, smiley, Chatterbox, Partner in Crime, Cheetah, Chaos, Amor.

| AGE |
18-20

| ZODIAC / BIRTHDAY|
Cancer/11th July

| SEXUALITY | 
Bi-sexual. However he leans towards guys more.... but still goes out with girls.

| PERSONALITY (short) |

In front of others Valentine is like a small ball of positive, bright and crazy energy. He is pretty much relaxed, laid back, energetic and always smiling. And yes. Valentine can be very, very cocky, normally when someone says something he doesn't like. Valentine never fails to bring the light back into others lives, telling them crazy made up stories to see a smile on their lips, or telling them not to frown, that a smile goes a long way. He often says when you smile it tricks your brain into being happy, and yes Valentine does believe that fact. However there's something unexplainable about Valentine, that others can't place a finger on. Perhaps it's his gentleness and his kind words towards others or perhaps it's simply how he seems to act like he doesn't have any kind of shame; with his actions or words. People often want to stay around Valentine, they want to be his friend and become close to him. There's also something seductive about him, how he speaks and looks, maybe it's his odd friends or possibly it's simply his patience that he has. Others try and annoy Valentine but it all goes over his head, the male simply blanking them out like he heard nothing. But nonetheless, people tend to flock towards him, while wishing they were more like him.

Disregarding all of that.. Valentine is... very very different. Valentine's friends or strangers he meet say they want to he like him, that they desire a life like his. But they don't know a single thing. Valentine is whisked away in his own worries, his short attention span is due to him always worrying about his mother, his mother being on his mind 24/7. Valentine has a soft and hidden personality. One he only shows to his mother. Or people he trusts... a lot. This side of Valentine is more... affectionate, allowing hugs and brighter smiles. When around his mother it's like Valentine is walking on egg shells, always speaking softly, always smiling at her, never yelling or arguing. Even if he does want to go mad.

| LIKES |

❅ Valentine loves the coldness, you can find him just laying in the snow for hours, in just shorts and a shirt. It makes him feel alive and let's him escape for a while. After all everything looks so pure...the snow is like a blanket wrapping around him that protects him. It makes him feel safe as well, how it falls on his face, it was like snow was kissing it gently. It definitely bring Valentine a sense of comfort.

❅ Like his brother, Valentine loves to cook/bake things. Always learning how to cook new things everyday, looking up new recipes he can use with his mother. He has been cooking since a young age, his mother not being able to or too busy to cook for him. He loves making food, it brings him joy knowing he is in control! Plus his cooking turns out pretty good! Especially when he makes his homemade meatballs. His always seemed to taste amazing...

❅  The brunette male enjoys sleeping. A lot. Valentine always felt safe when being asleep, knowing he won't feel anything. Valentine can sleep for a whole day if he wanted to...if he was able to. However Valentine will sleep whenever he can.

❅ Valentine also loves swimming. Enjoying to be under the water. He doesn't do it for anything, just going to the nearest swimming pool and swims, for at least two hours. It's how he relaxes in another way.

❅ Valentine loves photography as well, he enjoys going out and seeing if there are any pictures he can take, often going out by himself and loosing himself in his own world...well he doesn't go out that much. So whenever he can he will sneak out to take these pictures.

| DISLIKES |

❅ Drugs. He hates them. Drugs is why his mother is in such a mess. If Valentine could he would get rid of them completely. Valentine hates them with a burning passion.

❅ Valentine hates any kind of confrontation. Or  being forced to reveal anything about his personal life. He hates it when someone puts him on the spot. Which is why he tends to avoid any kind of personal questions, or well... questions about life at home.

❅ Valentine dislikes any kind of snobby behaviour. Why do people think they are above others?? What do they do that's so great? They all breath the same air, all love the same, cry the same. So when someone is snobby around him Valentine will immediately get angry, wanting them to shut up... sometimes he has said the words 'shut up' to the person's face.

❅ His mother criticising him. Valentine knows how much he has done for her, so when she criticises him Valentine would just shut down and go all quiet, staying like that for a couple of days before going back to normal. Whatever 'Normal' is.

| STRENGTHS |

✵ Keeping a positive mindset. Valentine believes that if he breaks down that is it, so he keeps his head up, looks straight ahead and walks into the savage gun fire. Valentine doesn't like to think twice when around others, but around his mother it's like walking on eggshells.

✵ Valentine is very sympathetic towards others and their issues, often being a shoulder for others to lean on. Without telling anyone his issues back at home. Valentine is a shoulder for others to cry on, someone to rely on, someone to tell others what to do, where to go, disliking it when others try and get him to open up.

✵ Valentine is great at ignoring his issues, putting up a front and smiling. This may not be good, and he has heard the lines 'Don't bottle up all your issues' Blah blah blah. But he doesn't care. His mother comes first. Than everyone else.

| WEAKNESSES |

✵ Opening up. Like stated before Valentine hates opening up. Valentine struggles to describe what he is feeling, how he is feeling, or what is happening in his life. But now? It's just became a normal thing. Valentine often closed down when someone asks him what's wrong, saying he is tired and that's all. Which easily passes since he is tired.

✵ Valentine has fallen on hard times and was insecure about the way he looked, which is why he began to do more sports. Of course it probably wasn't the best route to go down but soon he found that he had a passion for both swimming and Basketball.

✵ When Valentine breaks, he breaks hard. Often taking days to weeks off and laying in bed when he isn't needed. When he is he wouldn't put as much effort in, which ends up with his mother yelling at him...that definitely doesn't help him. The longest Valentine has been down for is at least two weeks, before slowly building himself up again and fixing his smile back on his face again.

| LOOKS |

| ETHNICITY |
American/Spanish

| HEIGHT |
5'10

| EYE COLOUR |
A very dark brown/Black.

| HAIR COLOUR |
Valentine's hair colour is a brown, most of the time it's messy, giving him a lazy/relaxed kind of look.

| CAUSAL CLOTHES |
Valentine often just wears whatever he is comfortable with. Sometimes...it being too little. Like just boxers when answering the door for example. Even in winter or autumn he wears shorts and tank tops. He also wears comfortable and warm clothes like Jackets, sweaters, hoodies, jeans, sweatpants. That's not to say Valentine is just into clothes for males. He also wears feminine clothes, adding skirts, and tank tops to his outfits. So what? He likes expressing himself differently!

| PYJAMAS |
He is simple. Boxers or naked.

| FORMAL CLOTHES |
Suits. Normally formal black ones...well most of the time they end up scrunched up on the floor, him curled up in bed fast asleep.

| JOB |
Since Valentine is still going to collage, he would work part time in a small cafe, it being the easiest job he can get.

| FAMILY |

Mom |

Name | Grace Amor

ETHNICITY

Job | Currently jobless..due to a lot of issues/problems. She used to be a hairdresser, well after leaving Angus's company.

Dad |

Mr, Möller (Angus Möller)

Information:
He is from Germany, Angus met Dontes mother when he was away on a business trip in America, a year later moving to America, and two years later they had Donte, their only child. Yes. Valentine knows that story. But he also knows what a horrible person Angus is...
Angus and his mother were close friends, Angus allowing his mother, Grace to work in his business. Apparently one night he got drunk and forced himself onto her. So she had Valentine. Grace has said she was aware of what had happened, but was fired due to some kind of 'mistake' she had made. The day after she told Valentine's father that she was pregnant.

Half brother |

Donte Möller.

Donte is older than Valentine. Valentine will stay with Donte in his apartment. Partly because his father has forced Donte to look after Valentine (since he doesn't want to do it himself), which will bring the two together, yet there will be some arguments... for sure.

| BACKSTORY |

When Valentine was born he never got to see his father, Angus. He didn't even know who he was, what he did, what his name was or even if they knew each other. His mother would hold him in her arms and sing him lullaby's, telling him she would keep him safe, he would grow up feeling like a king. Well that was all a lie. Or maybe growing up like a king meant him singing lullaby's to her, holding her in his arms like he was to protect her. Maybe it meant he had to look after his mother, running away from abusive boyfriends, holding his mothers hair while she threw up in the toilet, collect bottles of alcohol and clean the house from top to bottom, clearing the drugs away. Valentine often wonders whether things would've been different if he knew his father, if he was there for them both...

Everything started when he was four, his mother bringing home one guy. Than another. Soon Valentine knew that his mother was different from the others at school. All his friends parents hugged their child, kissed them goodbye. They all welcomed them with a hug and allowed their innocent little minds make up stories to tell, about dragons and tooth fairies. Yet Valentine had none of that. A new guy came everyday to pick Valentine up, telling the teacher that his mother was ill. They meant high...that she was high. But Valentine didn't know that. Not then anyway. When Valentine got home he rushed over to her to tell her stories of dragons, how the dragons flew around their classroom, how robots were going to be his friend, how the Easter bunny left him an entire chocolate egg on his desk!! Valentine shown off drawings, golden stars and happy sticky smiles with candy he had gotten off of the teachers. But his mother wasn't listening. She never did. She never would.

When he hit the age of ten Valentine was doing most things ten year olds wouldn't even be thinking to do. Let alone being forced to do it...if they wanted to stay alive, healthy; well for Valentine to stay healthy and safe. Valentine cleaned the house, vacuuming, washing plates and pots, picking up all the dirty things, clothes, food wrappers. Valentine made the beds, washed the sheets, cleaned the floors and washed all their clothes, he chucked away the drugs, the bottles of alcohol, half empty, half full. Most of the time they were all empty. He cooked/made himself something to eat, often making instant noodles since it's the only thing he knew what to make. Valentine took any spare money from the counters that he could find, looking in back pockets of his mother's pants/skirts or her boyfriends and went to a shop, grabbing the cheapest things to eat and brought them home, often trying to make up healthy meals for him and his mother to eat. He went off to school and played with his friends, laughed with them and played basketball. He learnt how to do multiplication, how to add and subtract. How to add money and find out what was cheaper. Teachers asked him how he had learnt it all before. Valentine simply just grinned and made a joke saying he had ate magical food.

When he was twelve he got his first Job. Working in a corner shop. Valentine worked long hours, when school finished up to half nine, one half a hour break to which he got to have a sandwich that needed to be ate, doing any homework he had got or simply watching it rain outside. A older lady ran the shop with him, allowing him to bring home some food for free, giving him drinks and small gifts. The money Valentine earned he spent on more food, some clothes for him. The rest he began to put towards other things, like phones and computers.

Fifteen was when it all got worse. It was a cold and wet winters day, the clouds were threatening the fall of snow. Valentine came home after a long job, wrapped up in a coat and a scarf, his nose and mouth being covered. What he found that day changed it all... the police and an ambulance outside his house. Fear, panic and anger struck deep into him, like a dagger. The brunette male had shoved and pushed his way inside to find his mother's current boyfriend in handcuffs and his mother on the floor, bruises all over her, a smashed glass on the floor. But no drugs to be seen. His mother was obviously unconscious as the paramedics ran in taking her to hospital. Ever since then Valentine had been paying off debts, court dates came up to which he had to attended with his mother, the yelling from her abusive boyfriend as he was sentenced to years in prison. To only be let out early. Valentine snapped when he was eighteen...now here he is. And he wants to know who his father is and why.

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