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*:･ﾟ 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑻𝑺

full name: nicholas manalo nicknames: nico ( prefers to be called this, only his parents call him nicholas ) age: 23 date of birth: july 12, 1997 hometown: sydney, australlia gender & pronouns: cismale, he/him  orientation: heterosexual, demiromantic religion: raised as a christian, now agnostic occupation: film intern at an indie company languages spoken: english, tagalog, ilocano

*:･ﾟ 𝑩𝑨𝑪𝑲𝑮𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫

born and raised under the bright sun in sydney, australia, nico had a comfortable upbringing in the seemingly perfect nuclear family consisting of both his parents, him, and his three younger siblings. 

he’d often be the one taking care of the kids as his mother and father were workaholics. as much as he adored them, his reprieve was being at school and partaking in after school club. he found that making friends came easy to him and easily slipped into a close knit friend group in secondary school, where he met who he thought was the love of his life. 

 they started dating right before high school and kept it a secret from their parents. 

it was puppy love at first, and everyone around them always mentioned how perfect they were together, though none of them knew what went on behind closed doors. she was manipulative, possessive, reprimanding him whenever he got too close with other girls. she only ever allowed him to talk to their friend group and dictated most of his life decisions, something even his parents weren’t able to do. 

he stayed because he loved her, he stayed because he didn’t know any better. 

upon graduating high school, she made him apply to a local college and refused to let him try for other places, despite there being a film school in los angeles he was interested in. the entire group promised to attend together to preserve their friendship, but come the month before university started, he had found out that they all lied to him and were attending schools in different cities / countries. he felt left behind as he watched them all, even his girl friend, board their planes. 

she’d often call him, and he had hope that things would be fine despite the distance. he felt her pulling away from him and he felt helpless on the situation. she’d come to visit him and her family on the holidays, the visits becoming more sparse as time went on. the day of his graduation she didn’t answer any of his calls. 

tw: mentions of a vehicular accident and death 

it came suddenly, in the middle of the night. the call and the break down right after. he was nearly inconsolable, losing the only person he’s ever felt truly close to, who knew him more than anyone. they said she got into the car intoxicated. 

tw: end

it was then that their friend group decided to come clean to him, revealing all the secrets they kept from him of how she purposely plotted to make his life miserable because of how easily he went along with what she said, and that she cheated on him multiple times. he refused to believe them, the wounds of her passing still fresh. 

the depression he fell into greatly affected his newly accepted internship, despite his parents hating the idea of him not being a doctor or a lawyer and pursuing film, they hated to see him self sabotage like this. 

his little sister showed him camp zarafa, something she happened upon while helping them plan for their family vacation to the philippines. they all supported the idea of nico revitalizing himself somewhere new, somewhere with opportunity, and with little hope for himself, he agreed.

*:･ﾟ 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀

grew up putting everyone before himself, it became a habit. he’s actively working on regaining more control, trying to set boundaries and practicing saying no more often but its still a work in progress

is slowly coming to terms with things, though his trust is completely broken and absolutely refuses to let anyone in his life again lest they leave / betray him again. 

used to enjoy large group settings / had many acquaintances but now considers himself friendless after cutting ties with everyone from his past. 

the type to immerse himself in hobbies in order to distract himself from his real life problems (insert this is fine meme here) 

due to his reflex on keeping people at arms length, he’s the type to laugh through his pain and make jokes of things in order to keep the mood light and not go too deep into his own introspection. 

generally very active, likes to keep moving in order not to think too much

the type to play blond in a dark room and cry while singing along to self control when hes sad. 

the only passions he’s made for himself are filming, he likes bringing around a multitude of different cameras in order to film little snippets of his life. he currently has a small youtube channel where he puts his creations at, many vids are now unlisted as a lot contained his high school sweetheart. 

*:･ﾟ 𝑷𝑳𝑶𝑻𝑺 / 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑵𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺

a confidant ( though it wasn’t easy getting to that point, he made it difficult to get past his walls )

sibling like relationship

you walked in on him in the lounge listening to sad music and felt weird just leaving him alone like that

he’s craving a specific dessert his mom used to make back at home but his baking skills are dog water and you come running to the kitchen when a plume of smoke reached your villa 

they leave him in charge of music during a party and your friends volunteer you as the one to tell him to switch the music up because you cannot shake your ass to sad music 

one personality trait he cannot shake is his competitiveness and he’s chosen you as his new rival 

neither of you are friends in the way that you know each other’s favorite colors much less your middle names but the second alcohol is involved, you two are definitely the dynamic duo 

he’s always had to be the responsible one, and now that he’s lost he finds you and you’ve become something like a role model to him