[ . . . ] 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 .

birth  name:  rhys benicio luciani.   age:  twenty  -  eight.   birth  date:  july twenty - fifth.   zodiac:  leo.   gender:  cismale.   pronoun(s):  he,  him, his.   orientation:  bisexual,  biromantic.   language(s)  spoken:  italian,  primary  -  native.  english,  secondary  -  fluent. portuguese, tertiary, semi - fluent. spanish, written only.   birth  place:  capri,  italy.   current  residence:  capri,  italy.   living  arrangement(s):  family home in via  del  bacio.   education:  high school diploma, forwent college.   occupation:  co  -  owner  of forno luciani, family bakery.  has a variety of side hustles because the # grind never ends.   pet(s):  recent unwilling owner of his baby sister's two - year - old calico, minou, while she's off for college. mother:  arianne luciani nee beckham, marine biologist from bristol who stayed in italy after falling in love with his father. alive.  father:  giovanni luciani, retired fisherman. alive.   grandfather:  marco luciani,  former  owner & co - creator of forno luciani.  alive.  grandmother:  giulia luciani,  former owner & co - creator of forno luciani.  alive. sibling(s):  ??? luciani, older sibling & co - owner of forno luciani. bianca luciani, younger sister & freshman at the university of barcelona. height:  six feet, two inches.   hair:  naturally dark brown, dyed blonde since high school to differentiate himself from his siblings.   eyes:  dark blue, twenty twenty vision.   piercing(s):  none.   tattoo(s):  has his favorite animal ( sharks ) tattooed over his shoulder ( ref ).   scar(s):  several ! has a rope burn scar on his left arm ( from a boating accident, oops ) & a light scar over the right of his top lip ( from an alcohol opening accident, oops ) & a long, faded scar over his right ankle ( from that one time he had to get stitches after a surfing accident, oops ).

[ . . . ] 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀&𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 .

+ most animals with the exception of ostriches because of one time he went to a zoo and an ostrich kept pecking at its enclosure to get to him, bitter coffee, surfing, movies he can put on as background noise and then forget about, any kind of pasta, his family, being busy, orange - flavored anything, those tiktok verticals ( but not the ai ones ), blasting music out of a speaker at full volume, karaoke, making people roll their eyes at him, dinosaur documentaries. - uptight people, apple - flavored anything, iced tea that's too sweet, something about certain shades of green that make him feel like a bull seeing red, books longer than 400 pages, authority/listening to authority, having to be a "responsible business owner".

[ . . . ] 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 .

rhys came into the world like a lightning bolt. only fitting that his birth was accompanied by a storm, chaos erupting from the moment he took his first breath, an announcement to all who would listen : hello, world, here i am. by the time he came in the picture, the luciani family home was already full. here for what they'd swear was centuries, the home houses several generations of luciani's, with several empty beds left behind for those who left for other adventures. needless to say, quiet wasn't something rhys grew up around, and in return quiet was something he'd never had a chance to be. a little tyrant of a boy come to bring his mother a never - ending headache as she waits for him to one day become ... less of a headache.

middle child of three, though the way he acts like he can get away with anything, you'd think he was the youngest. known since early education as the class clown & deeply unserious. always the kid who'd get paired with the quieter kids in hopes of getting him out of trouble, though of course, that never worked, because as it happens with rhys, trouble often finds him & he heads straight towards it like a moth to a flame.

did not originally intend to work at the bakery despite being named a co-owner by his grandparents upon their retirement as soon as his older sibling turned eighteen ( their father was skipped entirely because he'd never wanted the shop ) and having a talent for both customer service and, well, baking. taught directly by his grandparents growing up, but because he'd spent most of his childhood summers either at the bakery or working in it once he was old enough, teenage rhys thought he'd do something completely different with his life. was apprenticing under the previous lighthouse keeper to take that position, but due to ... extraneous circumstances ... he was fired & decided to simply stay with the bakery.

loves the words "party", "event", "celebration", "festival" etc. and will show up to any of these unannounced and uninvited. do not think you can throw any sort of activity within the confines of capri and somehow not see rhys there. he's willing to do anything just for the sake of spending the day out and about alongside other people. extreme extrovert; he can't stand being alone or having moments with just his thoughts, and if you ever see him not talking someone's ear off and just quietly staring off into the distance by himself, something's gone terribly wrong.

has a soft spot for boating, surfing, fishing, and generally anything that has to do with water. will 100% close down the bakery in the middle of the day if someone invites him to go to the beach. sometimes closes down the bakery in the middle of the day to go to the beach anyway.