mena massoud & cis male / he/him ‷ watch out , ali hassan has crash-landed into roswell !! they look 26 years old and celebrate their birthday on october 10 . they are from henderson, nevada, reside in aurora apartments and are currently working as employee at castillo costume store. one thing you should know about them is they know how to count cards.‷
BASICS:
NAME: Ali Laith Hassan
BIRTHDATE: October 10, 1995
ASTROLOGY: Libra sun / Virgo moon / Sagittarius rising
HOMETOWN: Henderson, Nevada
GENDER: Cis male ( he/him )
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Pansexual
HEIGHT: 5'8"
HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown
EYE COLOR: Dark Brown
TATTOOS: Three lines on the back of his neck & a sunflower on his side
OCCUPATION: Employee at Castillo Costume Store
ABOUT:
Ali was born outside of Las Vegas to overbearing and miserable parents, the kind that only seem to get enjoyment out of going to church and telling their son everything he does wrong. He’s not allowed much of a life beyond the walls of their house.
Becomes a rowdy boy, much to his parent’s dismay. They send him away to boarding school as soon as they can, where he makes a fun little name for himself as Class Clown. The school is just as strict as his parents, so he doesn’t fit in well with the faculty there, but the students love him. Ali becomes part of the “Popular” crowd, but it’s not without its issues.
During his junior year in high school, Ali and his friends decide to prank on a teacher and it goes too far. Half of the East wing ends up in flames, and despite him and his friends agreeing to come forward about it together, Ali hadn’t gotten the memo that the rest of them were going to bail. Instead the entire situation gets pinned on him. The school expels him and calls up his parents to come pick him up. That night he packs a bag and leaves campus, fully aware his parents are not the forgiving type.
Ali hitchhikes himself to Las Vegas and ends up making a home for himself there. Always the charismatic and friendly type, he’s quick to find a community of other kids like him, and together they learn the best motels and abandoned buildings to squat in, until they get enough money for their own place. An avid fan of close-up magic, Ali uses his skills to charm tourists on the streets of Vegas -- and when they’re not looking, steal wallets or watches as well. He was also one of those guys who would dance in the street for cash, simply because he loves to dance. His hustles with him and his friends improved as they got older, but it never went beyond stealing to survive, even if Ali never thought about it like that.
Around the age of nineteen the cops start to catch onto him and his group, so they decide to say goodbye to Vegas and move to LA, pulling the same stunts on the beaches of California. Los Angeles certainly has its perks, but he does find himself missing the bright lights of the Strip.
Not long after coming to Los Angeles, Ali ends up stealing the watch off of an old man who quickly catches him in the act and doesn’t let him get away. Instead of turning him in to the cops, he offers to buy Ali dinner, and he spends the entire evening learning about Ali’s current living situation. (Ali, naturally, thinks he’s trying to be a sugar daddy for him.) At the end of dinner, the man offers him a job: he’s going to be undergoing surgery in a few days, and wanted to hire Ali to take care of him during it. He saw a lot of himself in Ali, and while it wasn’t an idea job offer, it was the closest thing to an honest living he’s come by.
The man – Mr. Daniels – lets Ali live in his spare bedroom for as long as he needs to, but what the young man thought was to be a job for a week or two turned into one for six months. Mr. Daniels was very ill, apparently, constantly undergoing treatment to make himself better. With no family to take care of him, that’s where Ali stepped in. And after six months, when the old man finally passed away, he left everything to Ali.
With more money than he ever knew what to do with, Ali moves back to Las Vegas, where he develops a small gambling addiction that he never quite recognizes. It’s not his fault when he finally got spending money, he was more interested in trying to grow it at the poker table. (He knows how to count cards, lord help him.) He’s twenty-four when he makes a few enemies through underground poker tournaments, ones who claim he owes them more money than he does. Much of Mr. Daniels funds are gone, just barely enough to live off of, and Ali knows if he wants to continue living comfortably, it has to be somewhere completely knew. So Ali takes a road trip, meaning to go across country, though ends up making a pitstop in Roswell, New Mexico. What started out as a fun stop along the way turned into him staying there for a few days, then a few weeks, then getting his very own apartment ( well, with roommates. )
Ali is a real goofball that comes off inherently lazy, currently in the process of trying to make a lifestyle change, one that would make Old Man Daniels proud... too bad it’s a lot harder than it sounds. He’s a classic “yes man” who will do just about anything for the hell of it and with zero shame. He’s here for a good time, not a long time! Surprisingly he’s also a hopeless romantic, the type to fall in and out of love in the span of a few weeks. He reels people with his charm and cute smile, but it’s better in small doses, otherwise he’s just a little annoying.
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