jan luis castellanos, bisexual, cismale + he/him â hey look, itâs hector reyes! theyâre twenty-seven years old, theyâve lived in shrike heights for one year, and theyâre currently working at julioâs bar. i heard theyâre pretty conceited, but i think theyâre so driven at the same time.Â
Triggers: mentions of adultery, brief death reference, sports related injuries
I enabled myself into going for a second chara so letâs see how this goes! As with Dhruv, Hector is a new character for me but will undoubtedly have remnants of characters Iâve played in the past but here are some basics:
Born in the Dominican Republic, raised partially in Bronx, NY before his family moved to Shrike a year before he started high school (something he truly has never gotten over).Â
Really Hector is that jock who peaked in High School, had a chance of going pro in baseball and never shut up about it, got a devastating knee injury and was forced to return home a year ago to live in his parents pool house.Â
Hector was that kid who was always running around, always the last one to come inside and often had his clothes filled with dirt. The middle of three kids, Hector always felt like he had to prove to everyone that he was the best at anything he did. But when it came to be clear earlier rather than later than he wasnât as book smart as his siblings, he leaned on sports, particularly baseball which could always be heard in his house through the summer.Â
Little league was where he shined and where he grew to have a better relationship with his father. His parents were hardworkers, his father a bus driver and his mother a receptionist at their local hospital. And for a while that was their life. Going to Hectorâs little league games, his siblings studying hard while the house revolved around him and his dad practicing in the yard and going to games.Â
That was until his father ruined it all by having an affair and before they knew it, Mrs. Reyes was packing up the house and moving them out, closer to her sister who had made it all the way out to Colorado.Â
So to say Hector has daddy issues would be an understatement.Â
After that, Hector fully formed into the slight heartthrob but mostly asshole jock he was always meant to be. He wasnât so much a bully as he was hyper dedicated to baseball and used to making himself feel good by making others feel smaller. He worked hard and played hard, known for always being the first to do a keg stand at any party. And though he missed his extended family and the Bronx like crazy, though not as much as he missed DR, he saw Shrike Heights as a chance to reinvent himself a bit, getting through most of high school by telling people his Dad was dead, despite the many gifts and birthday cards he sent.Â
As high school came to an end, Hector actually got some attention from a few Division I colleges that seemed like a sure track into the minor then major leagues. And it was for a while. He got a scholarship to play at Texas A&M as the first Dominican short stop their team had ever seen and in Texas he got another chance to re-invent himself, even having a relationship that lasted for the majority of his time in college (not that either of them remained the most faithful to each other.)Â
But as with most men who fly too close to the sun, Hector only enjoyed minor success, tearing his ACL two years into the minor leagues and a week before he was supposed to start spring training with the first major league team that had given him a shot. To say the least, Hector was devastated and spent a year in physical therapy in Texas before it was clear that the injury would alter the way he played forever. He spent the year after trying his hardest to make it back into the league but all of them were dead ends and no major team wanted to take him.Â
So last year, he returned to Shrike Heights with his legs between his legs, his pride absolutely demolished and his future totally up in the air. He spent most of the first year in the pool house of his mom and step fatherâs home until about four months ago when he finally found a decent one bedroom apartment that has felt like his first little slice of moving on after everything that happened.Â
He got a job at julioâs bar as a barback so he could make a bit of money at first and lowkey so he could always have access to a free drink. Being back home has brought a little bit of the party boy out of him and as he gets back in shape, heâs kind of a bit of a menace, especially since heâs convinced no killer will ever catch him. Obviously he hasnât really learned his lesson.Â
Possible Connections:
People he went to HS with old friends, the few friends he stayed in contact with, old enemies, exes, old crushes and flings.
Old teammates as well!!Â
His College partner, maybe? open to it being a gf or bf if they happened to go to texas a&m or were in the texas area
Co-Workers @ julioâs or regulars thereÂ
Anyone who needs a running or training buddy
Neighbors? TBH have not established where he lives.Â
Someone who is not at all to call him on his shit and still lowkey love him.Â
And anything else you can think of!!













