{chay suede, 29, cis man, he/him/his} || rĂ´mulo cardoso is a mutant with the ability of bogeyman physiology. theyâve been in new york for twenty-nine years where they spend most of their time as a bartender at the honey trap & drug dealer. when i think of them, i think of waking up before the sun has risen, tied up shoes hanging from a power line, laughter echoing across an empty parking lot. they are affiliated with the brotherhood. [eli, 24, she/her/hers, gmt-3]Â
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full name:Â rĂ´mulo cardoso nicknames: rome, romy gender: cis male, he/him sexuality: bisexual birthdate: april 15th languages: (brazilian) portuguese as a first language, english as second, dabbles in spanish species: mutant abilities: makes mean drinks, can cook, good at sports affiliation: brotherhood
alignment: chaotic neutral zodiac: aries positive traits: caring, loyal, humorous, a good addition to your haunted house next year negative traits: unforgiving, impulsive, self-centred, shit stirrer, gym rat physical traits: always has facial hair, usually seen with floppy curly brown hair but sometimes shaves it down, pretty buff, handful of tattoos, short king at 5'8 in his human form, though in his bogeyman form he's probably a little over 7 feet i'm sorry
BACKSTORY
TW: parental neglect.
rĂ´mulo's parents were never supposed to be more than a fling. he was born kicking and screaming into the arms of immigrant parents who were just trying to make the best of the american dream, and did not have the energy to care for a baby. still, they tried their best, at first. the couple split up when he was still just a baby, mom remarried, and they carried on co-parenting until he was about two years old.
at two, rômulo's father mysteriously disappears. not much is said and not much is done about this, rome's mother assumes he just ran away. by three years old, the first incident happens. his stepdad is playing with him in the living room, and rome shifts. later, a shaken up, mortified stepdad will explain to rômulo's mom that he swears he's seen their child turn into a seven-foot-tall monstrosity for a minute.
it keeps happening after that. whenever rĂ´mulo felt any grand emotion -- which was a lot of the time, considering he was a three-year-old --, he would shift and release the bogeyman creature inside of him. even if his mom and stepdad wanted to get used to the image of the flappy-skinned creature their son turned into, that only lasted a week before he learned how to shift into their worst nightmares. he thought it was kind of fun at first, to see his mother scream her lungs out after meeting with a monster around the corner. but it didn't feel like a good joke anymore when she was crying and cowering away, when he just wanted to hug her. at three, he didn't understand why his parents were so scared -- it was just him. to him, it was just a silly thing, no different than sticking his tongue out or clapping his hands.
his father was a mutant, as well as all of that side of the family. rômulo's mom was a human and knew this, but never paid that world any mind; since rome's dad had an invisible mutation, it was pretty easy to ignore. when living with her own son became unbearable, she turned to his father's family. the only person left from that side was tia esperança, a great-aunt, a recluse old lady who gracefully accepted to take in and raise rômulo herself.
tia esperança is rome's entire world. she was already old by the time she took him in when he was three, and she's now ancient, though she will never reveal her age if you ask. she is a hardcore anti-humans mutant, after growing up in a world unaccepting of her own abilities. she decided to raise rômulo to be the most unapologetic, chaotic thing the world has ever seen. she always believed in his powers' potential, and she always treated the bogeyman as his real form -- the human face was just a shell, a charade to trick others. it's still very common, to this day, for her to get mad at him if he shows up in her house with his human face on. funnily enough, he has never been able to find out what her biggest fear is, she has always been greeted with his default bogeyman shape.
so this is how he grew up. thinking so highly of himself-- abandoned by his parents, but at the same time, adored by tia esperança for the same thing that made others turn their back. it got beaten into him, how to love himself, how to put himself up on a pedestal. he grew up and into his powers, and he learned about how the world won't accept him because he is better than them.Â
from the kid who learned he could get all the toys to himself by terrorising the other kids in the playground, to the man who doesn't take anything seriously anymore. rĂ´mulo, much like you would expect from a bogeyman, is a shit stirrer just for the sake of it. he doesn't go around scaring people often, if only because he's protective these days, but he takes great joy in freaking people out when he does.Â
he never had many goals for an actual career in mind, and drug dealing just sort of happened to him, after hanging out with the right (or wrong) crew in high school. he's been dealing ever since, because it gives him good money. for the sake of doing something else with his time and for networking new clients, he also took up a job at the strip club, and he's been bartending for a while there. it's just dark enough in there that he can get away with excusing his slip-ups out of his human form, by the end of the nights. if someone starts blabbering about how they saw a monster, well -- that's enough vodka for you, terry!
CONNECTION IDEAS
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