Post by swifty on Feb 6, 2011 22:03:03 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400x; padding: 10px; background-image:url('http://i39.tinypic.com/2j0faz9.jpg'); border-right: 5px #000000 solid; border-top: 5px #000000 solid; border-left: 5px #000000 solid;] CHEN "SWIFTY" TERRACINO FUN-LOVING, EASY-GOING, REALISTIC, MOBSTER, ITALIAN CHINESE, PICKY, FLEXIBLE, QUICK-FOOTED, SECRETIVE Name: Chen Agosto Terracino Newsie Nickname: Swifty the Rake Origin of Newsie Nickname: He received it shortly after arriving in Manhattan and he's never been able to get rid of. It was given to him one day in his first week when he tried to woo a girl in front of his new friends with his fluency of the Italian language and it worked a little too well for his thirteen year-old self. Chen chickened out and ran away. He long ago got over the fear of girls that plagued him all those years ago, but he’s still far from living up to his nickname. Age: 17 Place of Origin: Florence, Italy Occupation: Newsie, mobster Public Knowledge: Speaks Italian and Chinese, but gets jumpy when he hears other people speaking them | hates spaghetti | has a funny laugh History His father was an Italian mobster, his mother an Asian beauty. No one really knows what kind of relationship they had, or if they even had one, but Swifty was the result. His mother picked Chen as his first name, his father chose Agosto as his middle, and the newsies later dubbed him Swifty the Rake. Growing up, Zhen, his mother, would try to keep little Chen away from his father as much as possible and focus him on his studies. By the time he was eight, he was completely fluent in English, Italian, and Chinese, could write passably in the first two and had begun to learn the third; well on his way to becoming a scholar. Chen, however, was more intrigued by the enigma that was his father and was constantly dodging lessons, trying to find ways to be around him. At age nine, his father, Mariano Terracino, finally granted his wish. He took Chen into the grand study, sat him down and told him many things; things he was never to tell another living soul about. From that day forward he was occasionally allowed to sit in on meetings and added on one-on-one tutoring sessions with his father to his list of other studies. Things went on in this way for a couple years and Chen was more or less happy. The night after he turned twelve, however, everything changed. He was dragged out of bed by his hysteric mother and told that they had to leave. Once they were down in the stables, she informed him briefly that his father and two of his closest advisors had been murdered by an uprising among the ranks and that her and Chen were the next targets. She didn’t know why these things were happening, so neither did Chen, but he knew enough to be scared. He and his mother were placed on horses and an attendant loyal to his father climbed up behind Chen, a guide to their destination. Just as they were about to depart, part of the uprising broke through the door and his mother was shot in the scuffle that followed. Without sparring a moment, the attendant with Chen spurred their horse out the door and into the night. They were perused briefly, but the attendant knew the back roads too well to be caught. Ridding hard through the remainder of the night, they made it to the coastal town of Livorno with the dawn. The attendant wasted no time in buying the boy a ticket on the first passenger boat leaving that morning and took him to the docks. Before parting ways, the man instructed Chen to take this boat to America and to never come back to Italy – too many people here wanted him dead – and then gave him a necklace he’d worn for years. It was the medal of Saint Louise de Marillac, the patron saint of orphans. Chen got on the boat, arrived in America, and grabbed the first job he could find: that of a newsie. He quickly found a place among the welcoming Manhattan newsies and tried to live each day as normally as possible, never letting on to who he really was. He knew that it was possible the men of the uprising had found that attendant and got out of him where he had sent Chen, but he highly doubted it. Still, he is careful about talking too much with Italian strangers, just in case, very aware of how many secrets he knows. About the Player Player Name: Dani Borough: Manhattan Characters Played: lots... Timezone: CST Anything else: Staff member this app was coded by pygmi of caution 2.0 |