#ichome

(ooc)

In Iann’s cabinets, he’s got mostly Dr Bronners items - the peppermint hair creme (for his moustache), liquid soap and lip balm, and the lemongrass-lime shaving soap and lime body balm for dry skin.  He stocks a collection of Neem toothpaste, dental floss and electric toothbrush head replacements.  He uses a regular razor, not a straight-edge.  

Iann feels no connection to his father’s side because he never knew his father. Since no legal record of Iann’s birth exists, he defines his heritage singularly, by the survival system of his undocumented immigrant mother. 

Iann knows little about his extended family. His grandfather lived in California, and was his childhood boogeyman. He knows nothing about the Cardero grandmother.  Iann doubts the name ‘Cardero’ is even his real surname, since it’s not Mexican.  He might have family in Mexico, but Mala hardly divulged information, and she had no keepsakes to give Iann clues.

If asked, he identifies as Latino and specifically Chicano, if only because of the way his mother and Aunt raised him.  He’s aware that it’s kind of a joke, but Iann is insistent, attributing his self-identity as loyalty to his mother, the sole keeper of his heritage. Iann clings to that 18-year long microcosm of upbringing; his heritage is completely defined by his childhood.  Beyond that, Iann is merely a nowhere-man.