Roma Santo

HISTORY: Roma is a part of "The Collective", or as he calls them, Ombre. His creation among them was interrupted before he could take a proper physical form, and he was sent aimlessly through the multi-verse until he landed on Earth, in 1945. He ended up outside of an Italian restaurant in East Harlem, where he was discovered by his soon-to-be adoptive eldest brother. Taking on the same physical qualities of his brother, he transformed into a human baby, and was taken in by the Santos.

Roma's natural ability to replicate human growth allowed him to grow up among his adoptive family appearing from the outside as just another church-going Italian boy. From the inside, however, his adoptive family was very aware of his alien nature. He didn't bleed when cut or scraped, didn't use the restroom or the most part shower, didn't need to eat or sleep (albeit he did anyway.) He also heard and saw Ombre, despite them not being able to. Despite his family never coming to understand him or his nature fully, they loved him in fullness and passed that ability onto him.

The relationship he had with Ombre growing up was one of mistrust and miscommunication. From their point of view, they wanted to find a way to bring him back to themselves and permanently rejoin with him. From his point of view they were his own personal spooky ghosts that said a lot of very rude things. They both couldn't explain his nature and themselves to Roma in a way he could comprehend, and he also grew to be unwilling to listen to them for many, many years. He only started to grow closer to them after he faked his death.

Going into the '70s, Roma realized that his growth had stagnated somewhere in his 20s. He wasn't going to age like the rest of his family. In 1978, with the help of his baby sister Aletto, he faked his death and started living outside of conventional society. The only ones who knew he was still alive were his immediate relatives. Upon taking on an unofficial life, Roma took to taking under-the-counter jobs and squatting in places most people couldn't live in. By the 2000s, he settled into an abandoned warehouse building that he started taking care of street cats in.

Coming into the 2010s, most of Roma's immediate relatives were either already laid to rest or going to pass themselves. Aletto, who'd grown to have serious health problems early on in life, had been moved to a nursing home. Roma visited her almost every day there for years, posing as a distant relative. He was extremely lonely, having no other friends he could share the details and dilemas of his life with for a very long time. That, however, didn't stay that way forever.

In a twist of fate, or the year 2013, he bumped into a young woman named Amya Sotir. She was small and angry and pretty rude, and given time, she became the first person Roma could open up to in a long time. Unlike most of the humans on Earth she'd had her fair share of experience with magic and other worlds, having been trapped in a dream world for a spell. Since she had only recently returned to Earth, she had nowhere to live, and ended up moving in with him. A few years later and they were best friends.

The events of Home On Earth take place starting in 2015.