Tony Blanco - Extended Profile

An extended profile for Antonio Blanco (Tony), including past history, mannerisms, trivia, etc - serves as additional information as the main profile already exists, and also because putting it on the profile is cruel. This profile tries to take into account the different arcs, but it can mostly be generalised.

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History

FAMILY HISTORY
Tony's father (also Antonio Blanco) is a second-generation Italian immigrant, while his mother (Igrayne Garcia) doesn't have any particular ancestry to note. Both came from relatively impoverished families with strong religious upbringing. Tony is conceived out of wedlock while his parents were teens (17 and 16 respectively); his mother was forced to keep the pregnancy, and escaped her household too late to terminate it. While his father tried to stay in the picture, his mother fled from everyone and everything, and brought up Tony in a housing/neighbourhood project called Hyacinth Park, located in Oceanside - an out-of-place community of poor, coloured or immigrant families, in the middle of a white suburban coastal town. Tony does not meet his father until well into his 40s, at his mother's funeral.

CHILDHOOD
His mother keeps him fed and takes him to the doctor's, but is otherwise physically and emotionally absent, leaving Tony to learn how to grow up by himself. Before he could go around unsupervised, he is often brought to his mother's workplace to sit quietly without a lot of stimuli. Tony's mother doesn't bond with him, which resulted in strong, emotional attachments to his teachers during grade school to look to as parental figures. The lack of attention he received as a child results in his quiet, undemanding and passive nature, as if helpless. As he grows up, he becomes independent from his mother, and often doesn't see her despite living in the same household due to her long hours at work.

Tony has remarkable difficulty in making friends, usually shying away or being extremely awkward. Oceanside School's traditional values, as well as his distant personality, resulted in him being ostracised, often last to be picked as a friend or project partner. He is often bullied for having long hair and for looking "girly", and usually hangs out with teachers during recess as a child. In his first 19 years of school, he does not have anyone who he can confidently call a friend. For the first nine years of his life, he's often brought to therapy because he rarely speaks. The "spells" often last weeks. 

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

• Once skinned his knees while walking home at ten years old. As his mother was not home, he had to patch it up himself. This was one of the most remarkable events that shaped his personality and his relationship with his mother.
• Had a classmate cut off his hair in grade school because he looked "girly". He cut a lot of it off on impulse at home, upset, but hasn't really learnt how to tidy it up since.
• As a child, he expressed his wish to be married to a boy when he grows up to a teacher during recess. His teacher gently tells him that it was wrong and immoral. As the teacher was the only parental figure he had, he took it to heart and kept himself closeted.

• Working
• TV soaps (he could only watch it at work, because his boss had one in the backroom)
• Fruit juice
• Being acknowledged

• Being acknowledged
• Being made fun of, being teased, being bullied
• Being called "bony", "lanky", or other variations
• Getting smacked at the back of his head
• Generally being touched without warning (okay if he can expect it/see it beforehand)

Personality and Mannerisms

• Stuttering: Has a noticeable stutter, usually worse in social situations or when experiencing strong emotions. Has an even rate of speech and doesn't halt, but tends to repeat the beginning of syllables
• My input doesn't matter: Does not speak unless prompted to, rarely carries the conversation himself and has a knack of ending it by saying "okay" or "cool" - or says things like "what do you want to talk about?" when the conversation dies
• Rambling: When possessing a piece of information somewhat important, he tends to speak for a long time, often without pause or punctuation, until he realizes and embarrasses himself
• Trailing away: Usually trails off the longer he speaks

PERSONALITY FEATURES

• Passive: Doesn't contribute a lot to the conversation more than necessary, doesn't want to put himself under the spotlight. Would rather have the other lead the conversation
• Irritation: When angered, he can only display annoyance or disappointment. The only time he lashes out is when he's under the influence of substances (after his 20s), but only at extremely rare occasions
• I'm listening: Tends to look at the floor or walls when talking to someone, which results in him looking inattentive. He actually is listening, he's just extremely bad at eye contact.