#about cesar

Cesar is a nomad. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, he was always dreaming of leaving and doing more with his life. He could never quite figure out what that was until he got his first car at 16 and started to take long drives away from home. By the time he turned 18, he drove away one night and never looked back. What should have been his college years were spent working any odd job, scamming his way into a room for a night, and figuring out what hobbies he could make into a profit. Unfortunately for everyone else and for his bank account, gambling became his most profitable habit. 

The longest stretch of time he spent anywhere was in his mid-20s, when he spent five years in California. He had enough money to buy a place, build up a group of friends and gain some skills. It was the first time he was introduced to computers and coding. He had never considered himself especially smart, but he took to it and found himself learning what he could. 

By the time he made it to New York five years ago and eventually connected with the Contingency, he had acquired a lot more skills than just coding. This made him perfectly prepared when the Contingency needed a jack-of-all-trades cleaner. 

Headcanons: 

Lives in the Bronx in a house in Mott Haven. He rents out the bottom floor for AirBNB and always has crazy stories about guests. 

Sort of a cat owner. Hercules is a neighborhood cat but likes staying on Cesar’s balcony the most. 

Has a 4 year old daughter. But no one in his NY life knows about her. He’s trying his best to protect her from his own bullshit. 

Terrible sleep schedule. He stays up late, sleeps in the middle of the day. He prefers early mornings. He spends either smoking and working on his balcony or restocking the shelves at the Archive early. 

Either travels via his bicycle or his beat-up Honda Civic. He likes to keep a low profile if he can. 

Cesar lives his life feeling like he's constantly teetering between two worlds. The person he has always wanted to be and the person he actually is. This divide became even more evident after the passing of his wife when their daughter was still fairly young. His work for the Contingency came from a need for thrills in his life and the convenience of his day job at the Archives. It didn't hurt that his daughter had recently moved to New York for a job and it just made sense to be close to her.

He is too curious for his own good but a little too lazy to actually act on any of it. He likes to think he's adventurous but grief has made him a bit fearful of the world. Which sometimes comes as over protectivness, especially when it comes to his daughter. Or daughters when he considers all the years he's spent orbiting around Mikayla, his first daughter who he has yet to meet.