Delgado Community College

Community College MUMU based in NOLA.

[communitymumu]

DE CAMPO, REYA.

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Birthday: September 16, 2003 Birthplace/Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana Occupation: High School Senior Portrayed By: Zendaya

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Born in New Orleans to parents who shouldn’t have been so, Reya was raised by her grandmother from just a few months of age. The elderly woman did her best to bring up her granddaughter, who had been severely hard of hearing from birth, pushing to give the girl a fighting chance. Though Reya could be consistently clever and stubborn in her attempts to navigate the world, she still grew up reading lips and speaking simple phrases, though she preferred to use American Sign Language as her primary communication.

As she grew, Reya spent her days listening to the faint, muted hum of the world around her, always aware of her surroundings, and more so, the people around her. Her lack of adolescent desire to readily fit in and find a group of friends to burrow into made it easier for her to turn her laser-pointer focus to things like her studies, hobbies, or sports.

But with the age of 13 came the death of her grandmother, sending Reya into the system. It was a devastating change, not in the least because her parents, forcefully summoned to court individually to take responsibility, refused the chance to regain legal custody of her. Though she braced herself for her new life, knowing it was harder for teenagers to find permanent homes, it was only a matter of months before Indy and Soledad De Campo visited and took a great interest in Reya, and the process to becoming their daughter moved quickly after that.

The De Campo family naturally became a source of warmth and assurance for her; it was easy to accept these women as moms, to place them into a spot that had never been filled in her life before. Reya was accepted and encouraged just the way she was, no matter how many boundaries she tried to push to make sure the walls of her new home were solid. Most especially, Reya was quick to form a bond with the woman who was now her older sister. Shay reminded her deeply of the grandmother she lost what felt like ages ago now and the lengths she would go to make her new family proud were unprecedented.

These days, at 17 years old, Reya is very well adjusted to the life that the De Campos set up for her. She attends a few introductory college courses a week where her sister is studying, always striving to be like and be close to the woman. With excellent grades, a good standing in the volleyball team and an unshakable drive under her belt, it’s apparent to most people that Reya can do anything she wants with herself, anywhere she wants to do it but her reluctance to leave her family remotely in the distance keeps her from even entertaining such options.

► personality;

+ Loyal, focused, intelligent, multi-tasker. - Confrontational, short-tempered, hard-headed, impulsive.

[communitymumu]

MENDOZA, LOURDES.

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Birthday: August 22nd, 1992   Birthplace/Hometown: California, USA.   Occupation: Nurse   Portrayed By: Zión Moreno

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Growing up Lourdes was the baby of the house, spoiled for the most part but often due to the Mendoza parents being busy working multiple jobs she was left to the care of her not much older brother Romeo. Despite the seven year age gap, the pair were close as children even when Romeo got in trouble for her actions, and considering Lourdes hadn’t transitioned until after high school she was constantly referred to as Romeo’s “Mini-Me”. During her youth her parents often blamed Romeo’s delinquent activities as being a bad influence to Lourdes, who was the favorite for a while. 

Once Lourdes fell into puberty and preteen-hood, her parents began to reject her instead in favor of Romeo’s machismo, often criticizing her clothing choices for being too feminine or calling their child a fresa (strawberry/gay slur). In their own moments, Romeo as a teenager tried to understand her, but his own blindness and thirst for his parents favor often asked her why she didn’t just stop. This caused discourse between the once inseparable pair in their youth, but unlike his parent’s ability to easily cut Lourdes off, Romeo always tried to remain in contact with her. 

When the family moved to New Orleans Lourdes was sixteen and had been kicked out of the house. Romeo tried only once to convince her to move with the family to NOLA since he planned to move with his girlfriend and four year old son, but she refused and instead crashed with friends on couches and stayed with their favorite Tía Nelly until she finished high school. She worked odd jobs for a while to save up money, working four years at a senior care home and three more at a physical therapy office while taking night classes to get her nursing certification.

After long debate and finally feeling strong enough in her opinion of herself, she decided it was time to address her family. Whether it went well or not, she knew she would regret not doing it, and at twenty eight and twelve years of only sharing a few letters around the holidays with only her brother, occasional money in envelopes in place of physical love, she deserved answers. Taking a few weeks on a whim to secure a job at a hospital in New Orleans, Lourdes booked a room at a hotel near by and flew out indefinitely to crescent city. 

► personality;

+ outspoken, sensual, nurturing, tough  - insecure, sensitive, jealous, prideful 

[communitymumu]

MENDOZA, ROMEO.

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Birthday: April 20th, 1985  Birthplace/Hometown: California, USA.  Occupation: Line Cook for No Maches  Delgado Major: Business Management, (CTS) - Entrepreneurship   Portrayed By: Manny Montana

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Born to Cesar and Camila Mendoza in California, he was a problem kid and his parents had little control over him and his brother. Despite the stress it put on their parents they often did as they pleased regardless of how angry their father was when they got home. A class clown who hung out with the wrong crowd as a way to feel cool, Romeo never thought much about his future, choosing to live in the moment. When Romeo was nineteen his high school sweetheart and on again off again girlfriend Veronica Ruiz became pregnant with his son Ángel (16), acting as the first push in Romeo cracking down to prepare for unexpected fatherhood. 

After Katrina washed over New Orleans, many Latinos from different places moved to the US to rebuild the city from the ground up. His parents insisted, considering their relatives from Mexico were planning on moving to New Orleans, that they too wanted to move to be closer to family and to build a richer community. He’s lived in New Orleans for 12 years now and considers himself a local, celebrating the birth of his daughter Xiomara (11) not long after his move. Romeo is a man of many talents, having done odd jobs most of his life and whatever he could to get by and provide a roof for his family; he eventually went on to work as a line cook at Tex-Mex restaurant No Manches.

After years of fighting, cheating, and Veronica’s alcoholism the never married couple split and Romeo has partial custody of his two children. Romeo has the kids during week days and his home is their primary residence. Over the years Romeo grew into the kind of man his parents always wanted him to be, putting a lot of pressure on him to take care of them, and they constantly compare him to his brother who never left California with them and is currently estranged from the family. 

 His son Ángel is sixteen and frequently acts out in a careless, disrespectful teen angst manner. After numerous arguments between the two of them over Ángel not caring about what happens after graduation, and Romeo trying to convince him to look into career options and to push himself to his fullest potential, Ángel had some choice words. He asked his father why he had to do anything with his life since Romeo never did, and why he had to consider going to college or a trade school since Romeo never did. Despite feeling slighted and existential, Romeo made a bet with his son that if he went to Delgado and got his degree that Ángel would have to come up with a post high school plan. “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Ángel scoffed, and Romeo applied for fall classes the very next day. To be fair, he is a sore loser.

Romeo’s long term plan is to hopefully, using his business and entrepreneurship certificate, leave No Manches to open up his own authentic Mexican restaurant in NOLA with mama’s recipes. Romeo is a hard, serious worker where it matters and he’s often picking up shifts and staying late at work. If he’s late to a meet up it’s usually because his boss asked him to stay late at work and he couldn’t say no.

► personality;

+ loyal, charismatic, social, playful, easy-going  - prideful, childish, saucy, impulsive

[communitymumu]

BAUMANN, BOBBIE.

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Birthday: July 23, 1989 Birthplace/Hometown: Tempe, Arizona, USA Occupation: Event Planner Delgado Major: Hospitality Management (Associate of Applied Science, A.A.S.) Portrayed By: Mae Whitman

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For someone working with tourists all the time, Bobbie Baumann felt green as pea when it came to knowing the world outside Arizona. Her interest came from the one time her family went to Florida and stayed at a nice hotel, she felt like the princess she never really wanted to be, but the marble stairs, gold details and multiple elevators that would fit her family and all her middle school friends at once.

Despite her deep interest in becoming one of the uniformed people who worked behind the scenes at hotels, Bobbie tried a semester at college in her hometown, but her ADHD and personality combined made it very difficult for her younger self to sit still and learn.

She worked her ass off to get a job at a nice hotel in Arizona, but after three years without any promotions, she asked her manager if they knew why newer employees were climbing up the working ladder but she wasn’t. The answer was her lack of degree, they knew she had potential but HR wouldn’t allow them to promote her when she only had her high school diploma. It was bullshit and she said so before quitting her job without thinking and then regretting.

Thankfully she a community college that had the program that she wanted, seeing the opportunity presenting itself she didn’t think twice, grabbing her stuff, saying bye bye to her parents and brother and moving to New Orleans.

Bobbie already found a job at a local hotel, it’s basic work for the Event Manager, nothing that is challenging for her, but she needs the money and it’s always a rush to meet new people. Guests, co-workers or even friends from her classes. She’s still struggling to adapt, often needing help from others to make the subjects attractive to her sparse mind, but she’s determined to graduate, go home and shove it in HR’s face the proof that there’s nothing holding her back anymore.

► personality;

+ lively, mindful, hard-working, independent. - impulsive, impatient, insecure, sarcastic.

[communitymumu]

DE CAMPO, SHAY.

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Birthday: August 11, 1985 Birthplace/Hometown: Houston, Texas Occupation: Speech therapist Delgado Major: American Sign Language Interpreting (Associate of Arts) Portrayed By: Emmy Raver-Lampman

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Removed from her biological family by law, Shay was adopted by Indy and Soledad De Campo at the age of two. She lived with them in New Orleans since, raised as a fruitful combination of Indy’s curiosity and Soledad’s resourcefulness. Though she was one to take advantage of a road trip with friends without fail, be it in high school, college, or even after, she always came back to her family and stuck close by in all her endeavors.

Shay always had a keen sense for helping others, something that played a large factor in her dedication to her work as an adolescent speech therapist. However, the longer she stayed in the field, the more she was exposed to how her ability to bring services to those in need was largely governed by eligibility, insurance, and other things that were out of the control of her or her client’s families. Over time the barriers dampened her passion for the job, pushing her even more towards getting an associate’s degree in order to change professions.

Two years ago, Indy and Soledad adopted a 15-year old severely hard-of-hearing girl named Reya into their family. Shay found a younger sister in the girl less than half her age immediately and learning of how unintegrated the world still was for her sister and others like made it clear which direction she needed to take in pursuing a new career.

Shay hopes to use her degree to transition into a full time interpreting position, working diligently towards the goal. She spends most of her time these days on campus trying to make the most of being brought back into a college experience, one she enjoyed thoroughly the first time around. Her closest friends at 35 years of age are her girl group from her days of aiming for her first degree, and though she’s grateful to be so close with them, it comes at the cost of watching how each of their lives are evolving in comparison to hers too.

► personality;

+ observant, thoughtful, organized, determined. - inflexible, defensive, perfectionist, tunnel-visioned.

[communitymumu]

SHANKER, ARNAV.

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Birthday: May 9, 1990 Birthplace/Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Occupation: Full-Time Student @Delgado Community College Delgado Major: Computer Information Technology Portrayed By: Raymond Ablack

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Arnav Shanker was born to Reepu and Deena Shanker, a software engineer and a clinical nurse. A happy go lucky child, Arnav took apart and reassembled his first Walkman at the age of 9 and fell in love with computer programming soon after.

His dreams of working in Silicon Valley came to an abrupt end, however, at the age of 20 when he was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia. Unable to continue with his studies at UCSC due to the unmanageable pain, Arnav dropped out and returned home to New Orleans to find some sort of treatment for his condition.

And treatment, he could not find. He tried anything and everything his doctors recommended: muscle relaxants, antidepressants, topical anesthetic, Botox, injections, morphine drugs, five different surgeries, needles stuck into brain stem, massage therapy, laser therapy - anything that could help with the pain, he tried. Unable to see the end of his pain, he was eventually also diagnosed with depression and agoraphobia, unable to hold down a job, constantly terrified of his next attack.

He did have one respite, at the age of 25, when a mixture of new treatments plus a surgery put the pain to rest. Ready to move on with the rest of his life, Arnav threw himself back into college. However, relief was only temporary. When the stress of school caused the new treatments to stop working and the pain to return, Arnav dropped out of college for the second time, and fell deeper into depression.  

Then, CBD became legalized in Louisiana in 2019. That in all of its forms, plus a new mixture of treatments in the form of acupuncture, crystal healing, and a emotional support therapy dog, opened a small crack into the life Arnav believed would never be available to him.

Cautiously, Arnav took a summer course at Delgado Community College. Then, he applied for the Computer Information Technology program, so that, after 10 years, he could maybe finally finish his IT degree.

► personality;

+ resilient, laid-back, assertive, empathetic.   - anxious, anti-social, erratic, reticent.

[communitymumu]

SHI, SELENA.

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Birthday: July 15th, 1983 Birthplace/Hometown: Dallas, Texas Occupation: Unemployed, but Applying Delgado Major: Culinary Arts, Specialization in Management Portrayed By: Gemma Chan

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Born into a Chinese-American family of three, Selena Shi moved from Dallas to New Orleans with her parents when she was fifteen years old. That had just been about the most interesting part of her life thus far, since Selena always viewed her life just as normal and ordinary as any teenager. She listened to music by artists like N*SYNC, Spice Girls, & Celine Dion, she had cheerleading practice almost every day after school, and even though science was her favorite subject, she would much rather talk to her friends or maybe a boy on the phone than do her homework. If Selena had any unique qualities about herself, she honestly didn’t pay much attention to them and lived her life from day to day, making sure to do what was expected of her.

After finally turning 18 just a couple months after graduating high school, Selena began to attend The University of New Orleans, where she began her studies in Biological Sciences. That is where she met her college boyfriend Braden on the first day of school, as he chose to sit right beside her for their humanities class. Not too long after bonding over their similar dreams of becoming doctors, the two started to date and eventually, things became more serious between them. Ultimately, just shy of completing her first year at undergrad, Selena had found out she was pregnant with Braden’s child and now suddenly, she had found the newest moment to call the “most interesting part of her life”.

Selena and Braden got married when she was 20 and he was 22. To make things easier on the young newly weds, Selena decided to hold off going back to university, while Braden continued on track towards medical school. Her parents were supportive through it all, more than willing to help raise the baby until the two of them could get on her feet. And in February of that year, Selena and Braden met their lovely, little daughter Riley - a girl destined to be as ambitious as her father and the best friend to her mother. In the years she spent raising Riley, Selena would work occasionally at a part time job, but she primarily focused on being a stay-at-home mom, taking up hobbies such as painting, reading, but most importantly - lots and lots of cooking.

The years all blurred together for her, but Selena vaguely remembers her marital issues coming to service around the time she was 29. They seemed to be normal problems to have within a marriage, but eventually, the two people who’d met in Selena’s first semester of college had completely evolved at their own paces. Or at least that was a super generalized abridgment of what was the foundation of countless fights between them - arguments that were beginning to blend into the last two, three, four years - until the moment she found out Braden had been seeing another woman for several months. At age 34, Selena suggested the best thing for them was separation, and a year later, they finalized their divorce. Selena likes to project that she was strong for not just herself but for her daughter, as she had gained majority of the custody agreement and received a huge financial settlement from the divorce, but in reality, Selena was terrified - and frankly, she couldn’t help but feel defeated.  

The time finally came that Riley would turn 18 years old. Her fiesty, artistic daughter portrayed herself as an activist in the making, and soon, she would be leaving the nest to attend college at The Savannah College of Art & Design. However, now that her daughter was off to immerse herself in her studies and go after her monumental life goals, Selena was beginning to feel a little lost. It wasn’t after a conversation over the family’s mooncake recipe, where Selena passionately shared her love for her culture and cuisine, that Riley curiously pointed out how much her mom loved to cook and she might as well make a living out of it.

It wasn’t a shock to anyone that Riley would be the person in Selena’s life to convince her to go back to college and go for her dream, knowing well her cautious mother now needed to find a path of her own while she was away. She had some general studies and business credits completed from when she first attended college anyway. After Selena had already sacrificed so much to make life extraordinary for her daughter, wasn’t it about time she finally had the chance to make it extraordinary for herself? Selena didn’t want to live life with any regrets - so now was just about the right opportunity to get it cooking.

► personality;

+ love of home and family, compassion, tenacity, intuitive - over-sentimentality, self-indulgent, dependency to loved ones, moodiness

[communitymumu]

Bio Template

LAST NAME, FIRST NAME.

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Birthday: Birthplace/Hometown: Occupation:  Delgado Major: (if applicable)  Portrayed By: Faceclaim 

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+ positive, positive, positive, positive.  - negative, negative, negative, negative. 

[romeomendoza]

Assignment #1 - Bobbie’s Family

Romeo Mendoza  Spanish 101  Señora Lebron September 25, 2020 

Bobbie has a small family compared to mine. Her father’s name is Bruce and is Canadian and her mother Maple is American. They’re cute because he’s from Canada and Canada’s symbol is the maple leaf, so he basically married Canada. Talk about patriotism. It’s kind of sweet though, like fate or whatever, I like it. Bobbie is from Tempe, Arizona and not from New Orleans originally. I think she moved here recently. She has a brother named Billie, and together they are Bobbie and Billie, even though it sounds ridiculous. It’s okay though, because her full name is Boberta, so it’s really Billie and Boberta without the rhyme. Bobbie said she’s Bo Baumann and her brother is Be Baumann. I won’t speak more on the matter, we’re both thinking the same thing TA Martínez. Anyway, Bobbie isn’t close with her grandparents, but I think she wants to be. It’s none of my business, but I hope she finds her peace with that.

Hope you enjoyed my assignment Señorita Martínez and had a laugh or two. Love to put a smile on that face since you’re always working so hard. I know how they treat TAs. Have a good one! Don’t let the college man on top beat you down! Am I gonna get in trouble for this?

[romeomendoza]

MOOD BOARDS: ROMEO MENDOZA

“ 🤪  ”

[arnavshanker]

MOODBOARD: Arnav Shanker

“Without even finishing his sentence or waiting for her reply he walked away towards the direction of the bathroom, his hands clenched into fists.”

BONUS: [because he’s getting better]

[scarlettsrhodes]

SCARLETT RHODES: A MOODBOARD 

[shiselena]

✰ SELENA SHI // MOODBOARD ✰

BONUS:

[bobbiebaumann-deactivated202211]

MOODBOARD: Bobbie Baumann

“Are you trying to hurt my feelings? Because if so, you are succeeding. Fortunately, my feelings regenerate at twice the speed of a normal man’s.”

BONUS: Spanish Class Bob

[arnavshanker]

Assignment 1 {Spanish 101}

Scarlett Rhodes is a girl. Scarlett is learning Spanish. Scarlett is in Delgado Community College. Scarlett has one mom and one dad. Mom is called Hanna. Dad is called Peter. Mom and Dad is South Korea. Scarlett is South Korea.

Scarlett has one brother. Brother is young. Brother is called Jasper. Scarlett has one sister, too. Sister is young, too. Sister is called Ruby.

Scarlett does not have husband.

The end.

[bobbiebaumann-deactivated202211]

Assignment #1 | Spanish 101

Romeo Mendoza is a man, he’s from California. He lives in New Orleans for more than 10 years.

His family is large: The mother of Romeo is called Camila. The father is called Cesar. They’re from Mexico. Romeo has 3 aunt, 1 uncle, 1 brother. Romeo has 2 children, a boy called Angel (16) and a girl called Xiomara (11).

Xiomara is very smart. Romeo is happy.

– Bobbie Baumann

[shaydecampo]

moodboards → shay asani de campo