#* marcelo.

MUSE NAME: marcelo reyes 

LEAST FAVORITE NICKNAME: anything along the lines of mark or marc, etc., is a strong peeve and he’ll quickly correct you. 

LEAST FAVORITE COLOR: certain shades of brown and dark yellows that aren’t mustard. 

LEAST FAVORITE SEASON: he’s got something to enjoy about every season, and he has a high tolerance for very low and very high temps. that being said, his least favorite season is probably spring, simply because he likes summer, winter and fall more. 

LEAST FAVORITE - HOT OR COLD: he loves winter wear, but he grew up in warmer climates and that’s what he likes most. 

LEAST FAVORITE HOLIDAY: he doesn’t care for chiefly american holidays like the 4th of july or thanksgiving, and he doesn’t celebrate them. 

LEAST FAVORITE FOOD: anything to do with escargots and most types of mollusks for that matter. 

LEAST FAVORITE FLAVOR: he doesn’t like sour treats. 

LEAST FAVORITE DRINK: flavored sodas. like, all of them. 

LEAST FAVORITE SCENT: strong clinical scents like formaldehyde or alcohol, most strong chemical smells.  

LEAST FAVORITE SOUND: the screeching of metal on metal, and assorted sounds of heavy machinery. 

LEAST FAVORITE TV SHOW:  he hates most kids dancing competitions like dance moms and pageant type shows like toddlers and tiaras. he finds them disturbing. 

LEAST FAVORITE AREA OF SCHOOL: as in subject? probably history cause he doesn’t care about most of the american history he learned throughout high school. he finds it super boring. as for physical location, the locker room because he hated teenage boys. 

LEAST FAVORITE ASPECT OF THEIR JOBS: he dislikes many aspects of fame and the emotional labour that comes with always having to be pleasant and charming, something he also dealt with while working in the service industry.

LEAST FAVORITE TRAIT IN OTHERS: entitlement and haughtiness. 

LEAST FAVORITE PLACE: the houses of people he doesn’t know very well. 

LEAST FAVORITE THING TO TALK ABOUT: his parents.

LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT THEMSELVES: he can be quite quick to irritate and stress.

LEAST FAVORITE DAILY CHORE: dishes. 

LEAST FAVORITE TYPE OF CLOTHING: shirts with silly prints and logos in them. 

LEAST FAVORITE SUPERPOWER: the ability to generate temporary force fields. nothing bad about the power, can be useful during battle and all, but he prefers powers that can also be useful in every day settings, not just while fighting supervillains. 

LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT BEING IN LOVE: marcelo loves being in love. that in itself can be a bad thing, since he can ignore red flags that show up if he isn’t careful or paying enough attention, and he can be too forgiving and put a lot of work into the relationship that isn’t reciprocated. 

LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT DEATH: it just happens and when people leave, they’re gone for good, so any unfinished business you might have will stay unfinished. 

marcelo’s color is canary. 

key words: friendship, happiness, light. a canary's love is freeing, and brings the recipient true and pure happiness. everyone you love is your best friend in one way or another, whether it's your fiancess, your little sister, your mother, or your favourite english teacher. you're most likely to buy small gifts for the people you love, such as their favourite snack or little trinkets, to show that you were thinking about them. yours is the love of holding hands, singing in the shower, spring time and wide smiles. best matched with: fern, lavender, cerulean

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TOP  FIVE  FILMS  :

1.) Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (2014) 2.) Moonlight (2016) 3.) As Boas Maneiras (2017) 4.) All That Jazz (1979) 5.) Madame Satã (2002)

TOP  FIVE  SONGS  : 

1.)  La Tortura / Shakira ft. Alejandro Sanz 2.)  Disturbia / Rihanna 3.)  Closer / Ne-Yo 4.)  Break the Ice / Britney Spears 5.)  Diva / Beyoncé

TOP  FIVE  MUSICIANS  :

1.) Celia Cruz 2.) Willie Colon 3.) Donna Summer 4.) Prince 5.) Tina Turner

TOP  FIVE  FOODS  :

1.)  Galinhada 2.)  Pasta alla Norma 3.)  Minestrone 4.)  Tamales / Hallacas 5.)  Cazuela de mariscos (seafood stew)

TOP  FIVE  PLACES  :

1.)  Cartagena, Colombia* 2.)  Bocas del Toro, Panamá 3.)  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4.)  Cuzco, Perú 5.)  Trapani, Italy *(Colombia in general, including his hometown, Medellín)

***** personal note: there’s not gonna be a set order on this bc a man can’t PICK. its just his top five faves but there’s not one that is the most favorite. 

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marcelo reyes and flor araujo!!

Grief works through Marcelo in odd ways. While it sent him right back to therapy and drastically affected his mood and his mind, he also spent little to no time actually grieving, at least to onlookers. Never spent time actually working through his emotions, or dwelling on them, outside of the once-a-week appointments. He only took a few weeks off work to figure out what had to be done with his mother’s body arrangements, set meetings with the legally appointed executor and the Marconi family lawyers to settle concerns regarding the will and start probate. And when he returned, he did so pretending like nothing happened. To this day there have been colleagues and coworkers with zero idea about what he went through and that only know him for his seemingly ever-positive nature and skills -- he got promoted after under a year of working there, came in second place at his district’s barista championships, and never had any problems with his employer. He was focused and sharp in ways you wouldn’t expect for someone going through the trauma of losing both parents in less than a five year window.

Even many people that consider themselves his friends don’t know that his parents are dead, and if they do, they don’t know how recently it happened and the circumstances behind their deaths. Marcelo does not like to share it, does not do well with people’s sympathies, especially if for all intents and purposes they are strangers. It makes him snappy. Angry to a disproportionate degree. And so he saves himself the trouble by avoiding the conversation all together. 

How he became like this has a lot to do with his mother and his mother’s own handling of his father’s disappearance. Gianna Reyes, who had been already sick at the time, was quite aloof herself when it came to her husband’s uncertain status, and his death was publicly dealt as though it wasn’t something out of the norm. Marcelo didn’t handle it so well at the start (he did a lot of acting out in his late teens, as anger-born out of sadness sent him down many regrettable paths), but eventually, after many arguments with her, he went through his own personal changes: from resenting his mother’s callousness, to understanding her, and then finally mirroring her. His mother had always been extremely reserved, and so her grief had been no different to the other ways she expressed herself. It had been subtle, and inward, and Marcelo is convinced to this day that it rapidly exacerbated her health problems, not in small part because Gianna hinted at just that during one of the conversations had briefly before her passing. When it came to his pain, his feelings of loneliness (feelings that he had even before Ysmael’s death), Gianna basically told that not everyone deserved to witness how he really felt, and sometimes he needed to protect himself by hiding it. It’s advice he’d been hearing since he was a kid, but it took her death for him to really take it to heart, undoubtedly messing him up in the process.

something will be true in all verses for marcelo and its that he loves so hard and so deep it feels almost religious. if love is like a religion then he is one of the most pious men you could find. "religious" because he is so faithful, so devout and so reverent to the person he is in love with, it can be almost be scary to be subject of such love! and thats not because he makes a lie out of you or idealizes you too much, its not because he puts you in a pedestal -- in a certain way he does, maybe, he thinks the world of you, obviously, but he is also earnestly aware of your flaws. he sees them and accepts them, tbh, doesnt make excuses for them, calls you out on them, works to help you work on those that can be worked on, shows almost infinite patience when it comes to them... because his love is also religious in the "meticulous" sense, in the conscientious sense. that isnt to say there's moments where he isnt tired, or being frustrated with you, or that hes incapable of making mistakes, but again, religious doesnt mean perfect. it just means persevering and honest and vulnerable and true, and every single one of those words describe the way marcelo loves.