Atlas (Coded Profile)

Loyal • Principled • Composed • Perfectionist

Atlas is extremely loyal, to him his friends and family, and to a slightly lesser extent, his community are his main focus, he'd give his last dollar to a friend. He is also very principled, he holds a lot of values and tries to uphold them, aside from loyality he also cares for honesty, justice, fairness, and he quickly gets angry over cruelty, disloyality, bullying and bigotry

Atlas also tries to be self-controlled, he knows he has trouble with his emotions so he's worked hard to become more level-headed and composed, he doesn't often loose his cool and doesn't easily crack under pressure and he tries his best not to act from his emotions and he tries to keep everyone else in check too. He always tries to put his all into everything he does and constantly strives to be better. Overall he's charismatic, straight-forward and level-headed.

Emotional • Obsessive • Dogmatic • Overworker

Atlas has alway had strong emotions, while it's something he's worked on, he can never get rid of them and as much as he tries to stop it he is prone to acting on his emotions which also ends up often being explosive, angry or violent, especially when faced with something that goes against his principles. He is also pretty dogmatic, he holds his principles very highly and can be quick to judge others who go against them and is stubborn and can be overbearing with them.

He also gets obessive over work and ideas pretty often, and his perfectionist tendencies work against him on this front and will work himself to the bone if he thinks something is right or a good idea, and he often doesn't like to stop and rest, which can also lead to an intensifying emotional state which only worsens them and his obessive drive. He's also often too harsh on himself and can get frustrated when things don't go the way he wants them too.

Childhood

"♪~It's so hard to get old without a cause, I don't want to perish like a fleeting horse~♪"

He was born to a single mother and grew up fairly poor, he spent a lot of his time as a young child with her and his aunt and cousin, he became close to his older cousin and they grew up in close proximity together and became like brothers. As a child he loved swashbuckling adventure stories, he grew up with movies and books about daring adventures, dandy highwaymen, noble heroes and lovable-rogues, he idealized the heroes of these stories and tried his best to live up to them, though unlike the heroes in his favourite stories he was very emotional and often acted rashly. His strong emotions and weird interests drove him away from the other children, no one wanted to play with him and he got angry when they would avoid him, though left to his own devices he eventually became better at controlling his emotions, he often thought back to his fictional heroes when he was insulted or pushed around and acted as he thought they would, which eventually worked its way into his personality.

While he learnt to control his emotions as he got older, his reputation stuck and he was still considered weird and uncool by the other kids and was occasionally bullied, his mother picked up on this and signed him up for a boxing class at a local gym, he quickly took to it and enjoyed the self improvement of the sport and it became a kind of escape and hobby for him. However as he entered his teenage years he became more aware of the problems facing his family and community, the area he lived in was a hotspot for conflict and fighting between others and it hit close to home when his cousin was arrested for fighting after defending himself in the midst of a fight, despite it being in self-defense the authorities didn't care and gave everyone involved jail time.

Early Teens

"♪~Don't cry, don't raise your eye, it's only teenage wasteland.~♪"

He knew his cousin didn't deserve the punishment given and was outraged at the decision, and from that point on knew that he couldn't rely on the systems in place to protect him or his community from the issues they faced, he lost the sense of security he had before and quickly learnt to distrust authority and those he didn't know. As he reached high school he had become better at looking out for himself, he had good eyesight and was good at spotting people looking for trouble, he had continued to practice boxing and found that when sparring with the other members of his club he was exceptionally good at the kinds of tactics involved in fights, he was good at reading and predicting others moves and was good at counting them or defending himself, and outside of that he was good at talking himself out of trouble and keeping a level head, skills he had developed from the bullying he received in school and the harassment from people out on the street. But despite his own efforts he knew he couldn't change anything by himself and if he wanted to protect others he would need help. Fortunately help came for him when a kid from the year above him from his school, Santiago, helped him out in a fight against some older teenagers who were harassing him on his way home, and they quickly became friends. Santiago agreed with his view and wanted to help him out in his desire to push out the troublemakers from his area, they decided the best way to do that would be to stick together with a group to help each other out where others couldn't or wouldn't. The first person to join their gang was Aries, a troublemaker from another school, while he and Aries disagreed frequently and often butted heads he also could see the good in him and how useful his skills were when they got into fights or needed to escape from the law. One day while hanging out a rival group stole a car and while looking for the suspects, a police officer cornered the group thinking they were responsible, taking action he gestured for Aries and Santiago to run and ran the opposite way, drawing the officers attention away from them and after a quick chase he disappeared into the crowd of the city. After returning to their hangout, and waiting a few hours he was surprised to see his friends returning with another teen, Yorkie, who also expressed interest in joining and seeing what their gang was about, and who quickly fit in. Eventually their group gathered more members as their reputation grew and he began to claim an area for himself which rival gangs started to avoid.

Current

"♪~Let us die young or let us live forever, we don't have the power but we never say never~♪"

Atlas currently leads his gang, it has 5 other core members, their hang out is at a small industrial warehouse owned by a movie importer/bootlegger who keeps them around after hours to keep away potential thieves or other people with bad intentions.