Alias: Chess2
Gender: Male3
Age: 194
Race: Human5
Financial Status: Currently broke, lower class6
Ethnicity: Dominican 7
Preferred Profession: Assassin, con-man, embezzler, smuggler, bodyguard8
Parents: Gomez Placencio, father [but he's nothing like Gomez Addams; though strange, Addams is a better dad]; Maria Placencio, mother.9
Parents' Profession: Gomez was a gambler and an alcoholic; Maria was a laundress, waitress, and a factory worker. Both are deceased.10
Alignment: Generally on the other side of the law, but he'll help the side that he thinks will bring the most profit.11
Appearance: Chess' hair is a curly dark brown/black. He has creamy coffee-colored skin, a lithe build, and is a little under six feet tall. Chess has hazel eyes, a narrow nose, thin lips, and an angular chin. 12
Clothes: Chess is almost never seen without his checkered vest, which earned him his nickname. He wears black skinny jeans, a braided belt, a cap, black-and-white shoes, a black waist pouch, black fingerless gloves, and a black T-shirt with a skull, unless otherwise stated. [Yes, Chess is kind of weird.
] 13Weapons: Small, sharp triangles of metal dangle from Chess' belt. He also wears a shark tooth necklace. But it's a very sharp shark tooth.
At his waist is an elaborate ivory knife and sheath. 14Strengths:
- strong
- intelligent
- good endurance
- hard-working
- can move quickly but quietly
- knows how to cover his tracks
- knows how to track things down
- perceptive of people's thoughts and emotions
- knows of several methods of fighting [though he prefers 'fighting dirty']
- also has knowledge of nearly all types of weapons
- not a bad cook
15Weaknesses:
- can be blunt or rude
- doesn't have many allies
- doesn't accept help; arrogant
- alcoholic
- when drunk, can become quite reckless
- won't use guns16
Personality:
- suspicious, calculating, hardened, and cold
- fond of using sarcasm
- has a strict sort of 'code of honor' - does not show fear; does not show pain; if he's hired as an assassin, he won't kill women or children; does not permit disrespect to himself; etc.
- smooth-talking
- lies easily
- interested mainly in self-preservation
- pushes people away if they try to get close to him
- convinced that he has bad luck and that those around him will be affected by it, and therefore usually isolates himself
- has a flair for the dramatic
- something of a clean-freak
- sort of a narcissist - sometimes vain and usually acts it, but sometimes he despises himself
- despises cowards, wealthy people, beggars, idiots
- can be respectful if he feels something/someone deserves it
- asking about his history is taboo
- spends all his money on liquor, like his father, and despises himself for that
- very judgmental17
Background: 18
Chess was born to Maria and Gomez Placencio, two Dominicans who had recently immigrated to America. Maria was naive and hard-working, a kind, simple woman. Chess hated her and loved her for the same time; she had a beautiful personality and raised him lovingly; however, she submitted to her husband's will and thought whatever he did was right. Gomez was a drunkard; though Maria took on three jobs to support the family, Gomez squandered all her earnings on drink and gambling. And he wasn't even a good gambler, at that. Sometimes he was abusive. Chess hated him for that. One night, when Chess was eight, the factory Maria worked at burned down. Maria died trying to help the others escape. She didn't even have a proper burial. Chess made a shrine for her in their rented room, but Gomez destroyed it, and since then Chess has tried to forget Maria. 19
Gomez did nothing to try to make more money, for a while. They were kicked out of their room when they couldn't pay the rent. When there was no longer any more money for drink, he decided to turn to stealing. He forced Chess to join him. Chess was much more skillful at it; he knew how to creep about quietly, from avoiding his father, and was skinny enough to squeeze through the smallest places. He was also fast and had keen eyesight. Gomez would buy newspapers and squint at the headlines, reading with difficulty. When he found mention of some wealthy place, he would check it out for a while, then, if it was possible, spend some of the money they had previously earned or that he had borrowed for blueprints of the estate. Then he would send Chess to steal what he could find. They were always successful, and to celebrate Gomez would go and buy both he and young Chess a drink. They continued living like this until Chess was thirteen.20
They were planning to steal from the mayor's mansion. Chess swung over the gates, then landed nimbly on the ground. Gomez had been lax in his research - it was possibly he hadn't surveyed the area at all - and what they didn't know was that the mayor was fond of dogs, and kept four fierce guard dogs to protect his house. They woke as Chess was preparing to climb to the second floor. One of them jumped after him and pulled him down. Chess got bitten in the calf, and his shoulder was also pulled out of the socket as he struggled to cling to the wall. He fainted.21
The mayor came out of the house and stopped the dogs. If he had not, Chess would probably be dead. Chess was quite suspicious, dressed as he was in all black, masked, his skin covered with black chalk. He was sent to jail. Chess lied about his identity and said that he was seventeen. This wasn't hard to believe. Though Chess didn't even have the beginnings of a beard, he was tall and strong for his age, with a rather deep voice. After some time, even he almost grew to believe it. His jailers forgot about him [sucky prison, right?], but he escaped by strangling a guard as he walked by and taking the keys. That was the first time Chess killed a man.22
He returned to where he had lived with Gomez after Maria's death, but could find him nowhere. Later, Chess learned that Gomez had been in a brawl on the bridge. He was knocked into the river and drowned. Chess was glad, and made a vow that he would never become like his father. To start, he would need an education. He took his money from where he and Gomez had hidden it and paid an old man he'd been acquainted with before to teach him reading, writing, some history, science, and mathematics. The old man had a daughter, who Chess fell in love with. [Typical. -_- Haha.] Her name was Aida. However, somebody else liked Aida. [Ah - a love triangle. How original. I couldn't even choose any other shape, like a square or a pentagon or something. >.<] That somebody-else [let's call him John] hated Chess. Now, John was already pretty odd, but he became quite cuckoo. But he was in love - it is mandatory to be at least a little crazy. So John took it into his head that he should kill Aida and Chess. He failed; Chess pushed him away. John shot himself. It was then that Chess decided he had awful luck, and that it would rub off on those who got close to him. Normally, Chess hated superstition, but this was his belief. So he left Aida23
Chess was sixteen [though he almost believed he was twenty-one, in accordance with his lie] when he killed again. He was a guard for a group that was smuggling guns, but another group attacked them. Chess fought well and the smuggling expedition was successful. He was rewarded with some money and a higher position. After a while, Chess left, thinking that he could do better than that.24
He was seventeen when he began drinking again. He had become depressed of late after seeing Aida holding hands with a man and balancing a child on her hip. For a while, he became something of a stalker, hanging around the house and staring hopefully at the windows. The man was David, the child was Rose. Now, one day it came about that a gun-happy loony [let's call him Leslie] moved into the neighborhood. Leslie was getting quite restless and developed an itch in his trigger-finger. So he went out on his porch with his gun in hand and spotted little Rosie. He hid the gun [it was a small one] and walked over. Leslie introduced himself and acted quite friendly. Then - he raised his gun - but BANG! BANG! - he dropped to his knees. Dead, with a bullet in his head. Unfortunately, Chess had shot two bullets, and one had hit Rose, who also died. In shock, Chess thew his gun to the ground and fled. It was then he developed his aversion to guns.25
He was eighteen when he became an assassin. Chess was talented at his job, but refused to kill women or children. He didn't particularly enjoy his work, but figured it was just right for him. He worked for whoever hired him and paid him enough money. Although he prefers solitude, Chess also joined a gang [called South Side Skulls, or Triple S, prowling the south section of town], of which he quickly became the second-in-command. 26
This is what shaped him and made him what he is.
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