Cressie's Temps

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I decided I'd start a temp thread, to which I'll move my temps from the other thread. Simply because I'm apparently beginning to have so many of them.

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name: Scarlet
nicknames (if any): -
age: 33
type: earth
gender: female
body color: tan
hair color: scarlet red
eye color: bright green
symbol: a scarlet red flower

personality/temperament (how they act: quiet, daring, etc.): Scarlet is a fun-loving and extravagant woman, of the type that always wants more and more and more, and can never be satisfied for very long with the same old thing. She is a bit of a sex addict, but gets bored with the same partner as quickly as she bores of a same old dress. She’s always on the prowl for fresh young men to satisfy her needs. She does not feel any attraction towards females, and thinks of male-male or female-female sexual relationships something quite horrible.

clothes: very revealing and sexy: tight-fitting tops with generous necklines, short mini-skirts and high heels. Wears lots of jewellery and is always very careful about never showing her face anywhere without heavy but tasteful make-up on.

pets (if they have any): a Persian male cat called Catnip

history: Scarlet was born to a rather rich family and is used to getting everything she wants. Ever since she was young, she has planned seducing a rich and handsome man who would take care of her and give her all the jewellery and stuff she could ever want. With her looks, this worked fairly early. She dropped out of school when she met Mario Tirano, Chip’s father, and married him. Mario wasn’t especially rich, but he was wealthy enough to support for her, so she deemed herself happy with him – if only they got rid of his kid. So she got him to send Chip off to a boarding school. For a while the couple was happy, but by the time Chip came back from school with his Master’s Degree, Scarlet was already tired of Mario and looking for new fish. Chip caught her eye, and she has been frustrated in trying to get him interested ever since. Scarlet isn’t used to losing, and therefore she is putting all her charm and her effort in luring Chip.

birthplace: some distant town somewhere; who cares? She doesn’t.

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name: Cole Callaghan
nicknames (if any):
age: 32
type: earth
gender: male
body color: black
hair color: blue
eye color: golden
symbol: golden feather
personality/temperament (how they act: quiet, daring, etc.): creepy. Cole looks like your average, likeable, good-humoured, easy-going guy. And on the surface, he is just that. Beneath, however, he has a horrible secret. Cole is, well, simply put, a psychopath. He doesn’t really care about anyone. Or anything. To him, all that truly matters is his own wellbeing and his own comfort. He doesn’t hesitate to take what he wants, no matter the cost to others and no matter the method. He has obsessions and needs that control his life and motivate his actions. He can be awfully charming, however, and can talk like no other. He could probably persuade a leopard to part from its spots, if he really decided to. This ability to mask behind an honourable and likeable and convincing role is what makes him so dangerous. No one would ever guess there’s a killer behind those appealing golden eyes of his. He’s as smooth as a feather in his moves.
clothes: comfortable college shirts and jeans and the like. Nothing that would especially attract attention but always black and grey and blue and gold in tones.
pets (if they have any): none

history: Cole is always remembered first and foremost as a charming, good person. He always has managed to give everyone the appearance of respectability, even when he’s been straying to the dark side. And that he has done a lot. His very first crime was the murder of his parents fifteen years ago, at the age of seventeen. The details shall be spared here, but the reason he was never caught was that he staged a fire that burned his parents’ bodies and all the evidence. Since then, he has leaned on his uncle Badge, who has taken care of him financially all through his high school and then college. Cole achieved exceptionally well through college but, to his uncle’s dismay, dropped out on his last year, and wrote to his uncle he wanted to try out his wings. Cole has been going through a multitude of jobs and career attempts, but none of them has really stuck with him. Miraculously, he still comes across as not a drifter but a determined man who has simply had bad luck.

Throughout all this, Cole has lived a secret double life. One reason why he won’t stay in one city for too long is because he doesn’t want the local police to get on to him. He is a murderer, and worse – a serial killer. He kidnaps young girls between 15 and 25 years of age, and takes them to his home, either by charming them or by drugging. There he keeps them for a while, as he is “looking for that Special One”, as he himself puts it. Never having yet found a girl that would in the end not disappoint him, he has killed them all in the end. I won’t go into detail here.

Now Cole is arriving back “home” to his uncle Badge, having yet again fallen on his feet after another disastrous, ambitious enterprise. His uncle has got him a job on the local car shop, and he has sworn to his uncle, once again, to mend his ways and become good. But he does seem to hang out a lot at the favourite spots of the local kids.
birthplace: somewhere in the south


And here's Cole's uncle... he's actually based on the nameless police officer in Tales show who tells Patch that the Pony Point is off limits in the episode "Up, Up and Away". Ace might find his colours interesting.

name: Badge Callaghan
nicknames (if any): Baddie
age: 70
type: earth
gender: male
body color: tan
hair color: creamy tan
eye color: blue
symbol: badge with a star inside
personality/temperament (how they act: quiet, daring, etc.): Badge is a law-abiding, very responsible and utmost nice guy. He takes his job or any other duty very seriously, however, and doesn’t like bending the rules for anyone.
clothes: while still working, Badge wore practically non-stop his officer clothes, but now that he’s retired, he’s turned to check-shirts (those Scots-checks… I’m not sure what word to use) and jeans and other relaxed, country-kind of clothing. He’s always been a country cop at heart.
pets (if they have any): German Shepherd called Buddy

history: Badge used to be a cop. He comes from the countryside somewhere in the south, and asked to be transferred into Meadowbrook when his wife’s job brought her here. He rose in rank as Chief (is that some kind of police rank? O.o I hope so) fairly quickly. “Baddie” and Buddy were known as one of the most efficient cop couples in the district. His wife dead twenty years, he never moved away from Meadowbrook, finding friends here, and not having many relatives anywhere anymore. Since his retirement, he has been living in a comfortable, relatively large house in the neighbourhood together with his old dog Buddy, who has lately shown some signs of growing too old. Badge expects his best friend to die within the next two years, and thus treats the dog with special care nowadays, saying if someone’s earned a luxurious pension, it’s Buddy.

More importantly, since his younger brother and his wife died fifteen years ago, Badge has been taking care of his nephew Cole Callaghan, living on and off in his house. Badge loves Cole like his own son, and would do nearly anything for him, even if Cole’s been disappointing him time and again by never staying in any job and always chasing impossible dreams. Now that Cole’s returned again to Badge after another bummed-up enterprise, this time in the used car business, Badge has found him a job at a car shop whose owner he is especially good friends with. Badge knows many people in town, and practically everyone likes him. He knows the Rosacci and the Tirano family especially well, and has been known to go to dinners at their place every now and then. (Obviously he has no idea they’re actually criminals )
birthplace: some small town somewhere in south

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... for the mafia plot. He'll hang around every now and then.

name: Antonio Romano
nicknames (if any): -
age: 29
type: earth
gender: male
body color: brown
hair color: black
eye color: blue
symbol: a blue shark
personality/temperament (how they act: quiet, daring, etc.): Antonio is… well, mostly a self-conceited bastard. He sticks up for those who are his friends or family, but those who are his enemies will know that there’s not a good bone in his body. He isn’t much of a friend, but he’s the worst kind of an enemy. He’s handsome and smooth enough to be quite the ladies’ killer, but he doesn’t keep women well; most of them either walk out on him or start to hate him when he doesn’t call afterwards. He doesn’t do relationships. On more general note, he’s confident, unfortunately smart and daring.
clothes: mostly suits or otherwise neat clothes. Wears only the most expensive kind of clothes.
pets (if they have any): none
history: Antonio was born into the Romano mafia family. He is not to inherit any prominent role in the business, unless his uncle decides to pass over his own sons and give rule over to Antonio himself; which is not likely to happen. Antonio is mostly an errand boy; the guy who does all the dirty work for the bigger sharks. He’s pretty content with this, however. Antonio has lived his entire life outside of Italy, and moved to Meadowbrook only some years ago. Still, he already thinks of the place as his own, and is most eager to drive out the Tirano and the Rosacci families from what he likes to call “his turf”.
birthplace: some city somewhere.

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Opp, yeah, and Vinnie would still be a temp, I think. So here. And I'm thinking of changing his name to Vincenzo. ...and so I did.

name: Vincenzo Tirano
nicknames (if any): "Winner", Vinnie, Vince
age: 19
type: earth
gender: male
body color: white
hair color: steel grey
eye color: blue
symbol: shackles
personality/temperament (how they act: quiet, daring, etc.): Vincenzo is a self-confident, rumbustious [spelling?] and daring. He’s the typical dominating tough guy of the croud – he thinks crying is only for women and wussies, and he likes to maintain an appearance of coolness to the very end. He never gets embarrassed, and usually always gets what he wants – in one way or another. He has a bit of an identity crisis, of which he himself is not yet aware of; though he gets turned on by guys as well as girls, he thinks of gays as wussies and disgusting. This makes him dangerous, since because of his own uncertainty about himself he tends to react in an overly hostile way to gays (or gay suggestions about himself). He’s very aggressive, mostly due to his home life, and does tend to act before thinking.

clothes: leather. Leather, leather, leather. [What is it with me and Italian guys and leather? *lol*] Vincenzo likes to wear leather and in general sexy, tough guy’s clothing. Occasionally you might spot him in jeans as well, since they go with his eyes better. Usually he wears boots but when occasion calls for it you will see him in Armani shoes and even with a black tie. This is extremely rare, however.

pets (if they have any): none. He doesn’t have the time. Oh, except if you count in his bike. She’s called Lady.

history: Though Vincenzo was born in Italy, he spent his first years in [Ponyland?]. Mostly he lived on the road since his father worked as a travelling salesman and kept his family with him, and it was only around his tenth year of age when the family moved to Italy for good. He finished his school there and then started working as a waiter and do other odd jobs, because his brains nor his concentration would get him through any higher degrees of education. At this point he decided to move away from his folks and indeed from Italy, for reasons of his own.

Vincenzo has suffered from a lousy home life. His father was abusive and beat him and shouted at him nearly daily over trifle matters. Every trace of weakness was beaten right out of him during his early years, and in general Vincenzo doesn’t like to think back on his youth or childhood. Needless to say, he has since become rather closed-up on the details of his past, though he does attempt at appearing as though there never was anything wrong. He’s a fighter, and has therefore survived, but school never inspired him – or that’s what he says, at least. He graduated only barely, and has since then stuck with low-profile jobs such as waiting or bartending. Currently he’s arriving to the city straight from Italy, and doesn’t have a place or a job yet.

birthplace: Italy

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Those of you (probably just Kat) who has read my Chip stories from Tales in Time (www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=tales_in_time), will know this one. He won't be sticking around for long, though, I don't think. Or I'm not sure. Anyway, he's going to come visit Chip soon-ish, maybe around Halloween, and I thought to post his bio here for reference.

name: Colorado Rivers
nicknames (if any): Col, Collie
age: 24
type: earth
gender: male
body color: silver white
hair color: creamy white from the sides, black from the middle (kinda like Norse Fjord Horse only the colors reversed); cut reaaally short for the most part, except for a long ponytail in the middle of his head, this consisting only of the black hair.
eye color: reddish brown
symbol: a red and white collie dog in a very royal-looking pose
personality/temperament (how they act: quiet, daring, etc.): Col is a flashing personality, to say the least, though not quite the same way as Chip. He tends to be noticed, and he’s not afraid to speak out, but he doesn’t bring himself forth the way Chip does all the time. He has a great sense of humor, but he’s a bit of a wuss when it comes to anything dangerous or otherwise stressful. He refuses to be ashamed of anything he is (or of anything anyone else is, either), and he is an extremely artistic temperament. Easily excitable, highly eccentric, and a little prone to nervousness.

clothes: now this is the interesting part. He has a black leather jacket with staples on it pretty much anywhere you can imagine putting staples. He wears tights (not the see-through female type of tights, rather like Robin Hood-type of tights) and a loose miniskirt, both of grey, white and red Scottish pattern. Under the jacket he usually wears different kinds of shirts, always to the same color scheme. Lots of silver jewelry.

pets (if they have any): none

history: Colorado is Chip’s oldest friend next to Dan. He knows Chip from the boarding school. After graduating from the boarding school he went to an arts school, which just happened (haha) to be in the same city as the university Dan and Chip went to. When Chip and Dan graduated, he remained to study for another year and to begin his career as an artist. He comes from a super rich family so despite the uncertain career choice, he doesn’t have trouble with living. He doesn’t have a father, never had actually. His mother became pregnant with him from a casual date she didn’t even remember well the next morning. She didn’t really care, anyway, she liked the idea of having a baby, so she kept the child. Not that she’s a very dedicated mother, Colorado was basically raised by a nanny, and he hardly ever sees his mother, but he’s not too concerned. This also worked in his advantage when he wanted to make his gayness public. His mother couldn’t care less for grandchildren, and in general it’s all the same to her what Colorado does, as long as he stays out of her hair. So she cares for her son only as much as she needs to: she’s more than happy to support him financially if it will keep him satisfied. He’s an only child, logically, so he gets all the benefits – including a huge inheritance. His life is thus comfortable and safe, which is the reason why he can be very careless and thoughtless sometimes. He loves reveling in money and good times. He is a rather good artist, though, so he doesn’t just live off of his mother; he actually provides for himself to some extent.
birthplace: Paris (where his mother happened to be on a business trip)

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Oh god every time I think up a new character I find out more about the whole Rosacci family circle. Man, it's huge! But here's Angelo - Father Rimani, that is. He'll stay with the temps for the time being, though I think I just may, uh, start playing him a lot. ^-^

name: Angelo Rimani
nicknames (if any): none unless you count Father Rimani
age: 63
type: earth
gender: male
body color: white
hair color: originally golden yellow but these days silver grey, some streaks of gold can still be traced here and there
eye color: blue
symbol: a golden halo with golden wings

personality/temperament: Angelo is a very good-hearted and pious man. He is not a zealot or a bigot, though – he has room in his heart for all kinds of “fallen angels” and understanding enough to have tolerance toward those who disagree with him in matters of faith. He is always trying to “salvage new souls”, however, and though his methods are gentle he will never pass over a chance to turn someone to the Catholic faith. He has his weaknesses like everyone else, and he is in many ways an unnoticeable character, as he won’t strive to bring out his opinions. He will give advice and counsel when it is asked for but never stuff his opinions down other people’s throats. He has scars in his heart that have never fully healed, however, related to many lost or unfulfilled dreams.

clothes: A black suit with the white priest collar. Period. He always dresses like a priest.

pets (if they have any): a turtle called Solomon. He often talks to his turtle when he tries to solve some problem he has.

history: Angelo was born in Sicily. He is a cousin to Vittorio Rosacci (Angelo is the son of Vittorio's aunt), and has been “in the family” since childhood. He attended Vittorio’s wedding as the best man – though he was only ten years old at the time. This was when God touched him, so to speak. He had an extremely religious experience and felt the God “call” him. Since then he has been a fervent believer in the Catholic faith. When Vittorio became the head of his family at the young age of 22, he moved the business away from Sicily into Italy, and his family has lived there ever since.

Tino, Vittorio’s oldest son, was born less than a year after the wedding – barely in time to have been conceived within matrimony, but Angelo never thought there was anything to it, though the truth is that the marriage had been hurried because Vittorio had got his bride pregnant before getting married. Anyway, Angelo was made Tin’s godfather despite his young age. This confirmed a special relationship between Angelo and Tin. Angelo, being practically born in the Rosacci famiy, was always aware of the “family business”, but though this gave him some problems of conscience, he could never fully disapprove of it. Though the church laws he abided by basically spoke against corruption, crime and the like, loyalties toward the family overrode those commandments in his heart. Also, he was assured by Vittorio that the business was conducted within the framework of God’s laws as far as he could control it. Vittorio reminded Angelo of how world was not black and white, and how the servants of God sometimes needed to choose between a greater good and greater evil. No matter how these defenses might not have stood a most critical scrutiny, Angelo’s heart was convinced – because he wanted to, and needed to, be convinced; and also because of something that happened in his own life near that time, to prove to him that things were not always so simple and clear-cut.

Angelo realized that he was gay. This caused him a severe dilemma in many ways, but it also determined the course of the rest of his life. He felt enormous guilt over this “stain” that was in him, and felt he was betraying God. Despite his several attempts to cleanse himself of this vice, he could not rid himself of feelings that kept coming to him, especially at night. At times during his teen years the situation got even so bad that he could not look at Christ’s naked body on the cross without getting disturbing feelings. It was at a night that this embarrassment happened that he resorted to desperate actions to prove to himself he could conquer this predicament. He went out and found himself some whores and paid for their services for one night, so that they would “make him a man”. The horrible embarrassment when he could feel nothing for the women nearly broke him.

It was after this that he chose to take his vows and become a priest, hoping to redeem himself in this way to God. This experience, however, also taught him that all things in the world were not black and white and that there was an awful lot of different shades of grey in between. This increased his acceptance of Tin’s and Vittorio’s chosen/inherited way of life.

When Tin got married with Bella, Angelo had been a priest for several years, and so it was Angelo who performed the ceremony for them. Two years later Dan was born, and Angelo performed the christening ceremony. This, in turn, sealed Angelo’s position as the family priest for Tin’s family. Not long after this Tin decided to take his family to Meadowbrook. It is not difficult to guess that some strings were pulled and so Angelo was transferred to the Meadowbrook church. He has been there ever since, tending to the spiritual welfare of both Rosacci and Tirano families. He became like a second father to Sweetheart very early on, but didn’t really manage to establish a successful relationship with Dan or Chip, probably because of the tendency in both boys to throw religious concerns to the wind. This offended Angelo somewhat, but he has always attempted patiently to pull both boys back to the “true way” of Catholics. He has special interests toward Chip, with whom his quite working “gay radar” has got him into suspecting things. His efforts in approaching Chip ended, however, around the time Chip was nineteen, when he was given the cold shoulder like never before and made clear that Chip had no longer any faith in anything even remotely resembling religion. This hurt Angelo, but he also became very sad, and has never stopped praying for Chip. And so Angelo has lived for the last several years – giving counsel to those who would ask for it, and taking care of his duties as a priest as best he can.

birthplace: Sicily