Character Name: Carlos Moreno Character Age: Thirty-seven; Aug 29th, 1985 Gender & Pronouns: Cis-male, he/him Time living in Tonopah Falls: Twenty-seven years Occupation: Sous Chef at L’ultima Cena Gang Affiliation?: N/A Where do they live?: Webster Village Face Claim: Miguel Gomez
Background
Trigger warnings: parental death tw, crime tw, breaking and entering tw, child abandonment tw
Carlos’ mother died when he was pretty young. From that moment, his little brother, who was just two, pretty much became Carlos’ responsibility. Their Dad really struggled with providing for his sons, but when Carlos was about 10 years old, he got a job that would finally allow him to pay the bills, but would require him to travel a lot. So he sent Carlos & Juan to go live with their grandparents in Tonopah Falls. Shortly after moving to Tonopah, Carlos met and befriended the girl next door. Rosa and him became best friends and remained so for the rest of their childhood. Carlos worked really hard to be the best that he could be at… everything. He studied hard, practiced any and every sport he played as much as he could, even worked as hard as he could at being the best big brother. He wanted to make sure that by the time he graduated from high school, he would have several options to ensure he started making enough money to help his family out. But his brother didn’t have the same goals as Carlos and after falling in with the wrong crowd when they were kids, continued on a downward spiral that kept getting him into bad shit. eventually lead him to joining Los Bandoleros After graduating from high school, Carlos managed to get a scholarship to a world famous culinary school in Vegas. Realizing while he was there that cooking, and simply being in a restaurant environment, were his passion. The eldest Moreno thrived while he was there. When he left, he asked Rosa to keep an eye on Juan, and with the physical distance from constantly looking over his shoulder for his brother, he was able to focus and did so well. When Carlos graduated, he got a job working at a restaurant in Vegas. He planned on staying in the city, at least for a couple years and working his way up the ‘ladder’ so to speak. But after receiving a frantic call from his grandmother about how out of control Juan had gotten, how he had joined Los Bandoleros after all, Carlos packed up his bags and moved back home, feeling like his brother had been and always would be his responsibility. Over the years, Carlos has worked at different restaurants in Tonopah, until about 8 years ago, he finally got his big break and landed a job at L’ultima Cena, Tonopah’s most upscale restaurant. Despite how bad things were with Juan, Carlos’ professional life, at least, seemed to be doing pretty well. Then, things got turned upside down six years ago when Juan got one of his flings pregnant. From the moment his niece was born, Carlos fell head over heels. Gabriela, named after Carlos in an effort to show how much Juan appreciated his older brother, became the single most important thing to him and for that first year she was alive, Carlos took care of her just as much as Juan did. Five years ago, things came crashing down when Carlos caught his brother breaking into someone’s house in Glenn Estates. With Juan having already several priors on his record, Carlos went in after him to try to get him to leave, afraid of the repercussions his brother would face if he were caught. A silent alarm was triggered & before they knew it, the cops arrived. Not wanting his brother to miss out on all the time with his daughter, who was just a year old, Carlos took the blame so his brother could escape & was arrested in his place. Because it was his first offence, Carlos only received 7 years with a chance of getting out on good behavior. He got out after 5 and is now on the path to getting his life back, including trying to adopt his niece who he’s learned his brother basically abandoned after he went to jail.
Headcanons
got out of jail fully hoping to rekindle things with Rosa, hasn’t realized she’s married to someone else
aspires to own his own restaurant some day, but knows it’s an uphill battle now that he has a record
carries the weight of the world & feels like everything is his responsibility (toxic trait anyone??)
though he works at an italian restaurant, carlos makes a mean chicken curry
blows off steam by spending hours at the gun range
is a little bit obsessed with astrology
