APLICACIÓN
OOC;
name: Tobias Chang, but Tobi is fine.
age: 28
experience: I was in The War.
e-mail: tobiasfiori@hotmail.com
IC;
nation: (Kingdom of) Spain; (Reino de) España
name: Antonio Carriedo Fernandez
nickname(s): Toni, Toninho, Toniño, Tonio (are you sensing a trend here?)
petname(s): Bastard, jackass, retardedly retarded retard of a retard, figlio di putanna, cacasenno, etc. All lovingly bestowed by Lovi. <3
age: 26
date of birth: October 12th, 1983
hometown: Madrid, Spain.
occupation: A waiter at Dos Llamas, a cashier at the local grocery store, and a part-time ice cream truck driver when his friend doesn't feel up to it.
residence: A charming house in Ocean View.
family: Antonio's family is Catholic. In other words, he has more than a handful of brothers and sisters try seven. He is also very close with his cousin's family, although his cousin [Portugal] doesn't exactly... reciprocate his feelings.
first impression: "Oh, Tony? I remember him. Kind of annoying, but he had a really nice ass."
TWELVE PAINFULLY TRUE FACTS:
UNO! Toni is a nice guy, really. Just... sometimes a little too nice. His cheerful nature and seemingly never-ending optimism ("Look on the bright side!" is practically his catchphrase) gives people the impression that he is an oblivious idiot, which is only true most of the time. His feelings do get hurt quite easily, though, but he usually doesn't show it and just tries to laugh it off. It takes a lot to get him upset enough to hold a grudge, but minor infractions on his pride and self-esteem are usually fixed by the tried and true method of sleeping it off.
DOS! You'd think that an attractive, sensitive Spaniard would have women clawing at his door. That's usually the case at first. Antonio is a bleeding heart and romantic to boot; he'll leave flowers at your doorstep, sing you a song, take you out to nice dinners, the whole shtick. However, while some guys would consider this the "wooing" stage, Antonio considers this behavior mandatory at every possible moment and is the kind of guy that calls you up in the middle of the night for a spontaneous confession of love.
It's usually the girl that ends up breaking it off. They tell him that he's too "clingy", but so far a long string of romantic failures hasn't deterred him in the least.
TRES! Flamenco is a dance that Toni has a passion for. The pulse of his heart, the thrum of the streets, every sound in the city is a beat that he can dance to. As a young man in Madrid, he used to be a "street" flamenco performer (code word for throw a piece of cardboard on the floor and have your friend pound on a percussion box beside you) and made quite a lot of change doing so. He's not so open about his dancing anymore, but even when he taps his foot in line or meanders about while cooking in the kitchen, there's a distinctive rhythm to it.
CUATRO! Toni never had a very good naming sense- it's probably on par with that of a grade-schooler's. That being said, he has a pet turtle named Sr. Burbujas that he snuck into America in a water bottle on the airplane. He also has a pet dog named Toro that he affectionately calls Toto, which makes people assume that he has a cute Chihuaha until his big ass Great Dane comes bounding down the hall. They frequently play corrida together, and more than a few lamps in the house have broken in the process.
CINCO! Antonio's got pretty decent English after living in America for this long (and going to school in England, but we'll touch on that later). His accent is noticeable, but not so thick that you wouldn't be able to understand what he was saying. However, it's not his English-speaking accent that singles him out; it's when he has too many drinks at the bar and starts lisping in Spanish that all the borrachos around him start poking fun at the Spaniard. He's been the butt of more than a few joto jokes since coming to America, but he takes it all in stride.
SEIS! Antonio loves kids. N-not like that! Well, most people tend to suspect it's like that, but really, it's not. Ever since he was young he has had to take care of his little brothers and sisters, and being the oldest sibling in the family meant that he had to change more than a few diapers. He loves making kids laugh and smile, which is why he doesn't mind driving the ice-cream truck for one of his friends on especially hot days during the summer. He even used to dream about having a big ass Catholic family of his own some day, but now that he's engaged to Romano, well...
SIETE! Speaking of Romano! Have you heard of the love of Antonio's life, AKA his only reason for getting up in the morning and breathing? Romano Vargas, soon to be Romano Vargas-Fernandez (hopefully) and affectionately dubbed Lovi, is the man that Antonio is currently fueling all his affections towards. And, considering how much affection Toni has, it isn't certain if Romano quite enjoys that much attention. Either way, Antonio will gladly attend to his beck and whim and spoils his fiance rotten.
However, it isn't all churros and torrijas with them. Antonio is frequently frustrated by Romano's inability to express himself honestly and, seeing as his marriage proposal was accepted less than enthusiastically, sometimes he worries if his Lovi really wants to be with him at all. But that doesn't put a damper on his excitement for the marriage- not at all! He thinks he just has to try harder to get Romano to open up to him more before it's time to say their I dos and has been upping his touchy-feely tactics to the max to try to get a rise out of him. Whether it will be a pleasant one or not has yet to be seen.
OCHO! Not everyone approves of their pending marriage, however. Antonio's parents are his most difficult obstacle. It's not that they hate gay people (his dad doesn't, at least), but they don't approve of gay marriage being allowed in Spain either. Something about the holiness of matrimony, wanting grandkids from the oldest son, and being a bad influence on his younger siblings who look up to him. It's not exactly indifference, but Toni doesn't care about any of that; religion is something that he interprets in his own ways and if his little brother or sister decided to be gay, well, that was their own choice. He just wants to spend his life with Romano, and even though his mom he always thought he would settle down with a pretty señorita someday, he isn't afraid maybe just a little to fight for their future. Even if it means burning a few bridges.
NUEVE! Antonio is stubborn to a fault. When it comes to Do It Yourself, he tries to apply that philosophy to everything. He likes washing his laundry by hand and hanging it out to dry, growing his own food in the yard (especially tomatoes!), attempting to fix his own furniture and the shitty fence that keeps breaking for some reason, and pretty much everything else that you would expect a macho-esque family man to try doing. He isn't a total dick about it though, and isn't afraid to ask for help if he absolutely can't do something by himself. Sometimes.
DIEZ! Best friend(s); Antonio has two of them, Francis and Gilbert, and they're tighter than the three musketeers themselves. He met them in a boarding school for "Wayward Youths" which... really just meant that it was a place for parents to stick their troubled children. They didn't hit it off at first, but it was a lot like suffering through jail together- you eventually make alliances with the other inmates. To this day, Antonio has kept in contact with his old friends, and they're partly why he moved to Liberty in the first place. It's only when they're out causing some nostalgic mischief together that his nature sinks a little lower than your average good Samaritan.
ONCE! It might seem a little strange at first, that someone as nice as Antonio would have been labeled as a "delinquent" and sent away, but back in his younger days he was much more... feisty than he is now. Minor grievances were not passed off with a laugh and a smile, but instead thoroughly avenged with an iron fist. For example, if someone even looked at his baby sister wrong, or badmouthed his mother (no matter how much of it was true), he would wail on their ass until someone had the balls to pull him off of the poor idiot. Which wasn't that often. As a result, he would frequently end up sending people to the hospital.
And then one of those people ended up passing away due to complications. He only found out because he was convicted for Constructive Manslaughter shortly after and sent away to a penitentiary boarding school, but it wasn't the punishment that stuck in his mind. Every day he still feels the weight of someone else's death on his shoulders, so fighting is always a last resort to him. He knows what can happen if he doesn't keep himself in check and will do anything to make sure it doesn't happen again.
DOCE! Antonio didn't stop fighting cold turkey, though. His Latin temper and a particularly frustrating young Englishman named Arthur made him break his vow relatively quickly. They've been stuck on the wrong foot since that day they first met at school, and ever since then they've had an unspoken competition between them. Antonio wouldn't call himself a sore loser, but if he had to speak truthfully, Arthur would be the one person that he hated to lose to- which was quite often back then, actually, despite Toni being the older of the two. That lingering humiliation and his own pride is what has kept them from making amends... although Arthur's attitude certainly hasn't helped bring them closer together either.
secreto Antonio is a very open and honest person, however... he keeps a lot from Romano. Like, a lot, a lot. If it doesn't concern immediately concern him, Toni would rather smile and tell him that nothing is bothering him than worry him unnecessarily. He also tends to keep his bad habits, past transgressions, and old relationships a secret from him, because he highly values his already incredibly low opinion of him and doesn't want Romano to think any less of him.