Oh, look! It’s [GABRIEL ’GABE’ DEVRIES]! I heard they’re [36], a [MALE], use [HE/HIM] pronouns, have been in town for [2 WEEKS] and are actually from [ROTTERDAM, SOUTH HOLLAND]. They are currently working as a/an/the [RETIRED INVESTMENT BANKER] and living in [LIBERTY HILLS]. You know, I personally think they look like [PETER GADIOT], but that’s crazy, right?
triggers: Abandonment, addiction, mental illness mention
general information.
full name: Gabriel Michiel Navarro DeVries
known as : Gabriel / Gabe
age : thirty-six
place of birth: Rotterdam, South Holland
zodiac : cancer
gender : cisman
nationality : american
religion: atheist
orientation : hetero
relationship status : Ha. funny.
connection: previous client of Isla.
physical attributes.
face claim :peter gadiot
height : 5 feet 10¾
weight: 70 kg (154 lbs)
hair color : brunette
eye color :light brown
tattoos : a few
background information.
hometown :Queens, NY
current residence: liberty hills
spoken languages : english, dutch, spanish
education level: college graduate
occupation: retired investment banker / aspiring artist
familial information.
mother: Maria Navarro
father : Willem DeVries
siblings :Half siblings. 4 of them on his fathers side.
children None.
significant other: None.
connection ideas.
neighbors (he’s only been here 2 weeks)
Gym buddies
Art friends
Anything else you can think of
biography.
triggers in biography: Abandonment, addiction, mental illness mention
Gabriel had always thought that the grass was greener on the other side. He’d never really had the chance to experience the life his half-siblings were offered, all due to the fact that he was the result of an affair. While his siblings spent their days living lavish lives, he and his mother were doing their best to get by, and Gabriel didn’t understand how a man could treat a woman he shared a child with in such ways as he’d witnessed. Appearances were everything to his father, not even allowing his son to take the family name because of how it may seem to the neighbours and the people he saw every Sunday at church. No, his investment banker father didn’t care about his bastard child, or the woman he brought him into the world with. He didn’t care one bit.
Perhaps we could call it dramatic, how Gabriel used his life and skills to be everything his father told him he would never be, but he wouldn’t be his true self if he wasn’t at least a little dramatic. While his young life had been in Rotterdam, his mother soon moved them to New York, cutting ties with the DeVries and starting a life for themselves elsewhere. But for Gabe, he held onto the little bits of torment from his father and used it to push him through life. While his mother worked several jobs, waiting for her break on Broadway to take form, Gabriel fell into his studies. He was a weird kid anyway, people would tease him because he’d rather spend time in the science labs than out at recess. A mathlete, a tall, lanky kid who people classed as a geek. He was a gifted child who focused on working hard and proving everyone wrong, so gifted that he’d achieve amazing things.
His mother worked hard to get him into private schools which in turn helped him land a scholarship at Harvard when he was only 16. She’d always told him that he deserved everything and anything the world could provide, and while money was minimal, she considered it no object where her son’s future was concerned. As his life moved on he walked out of college life with his MBA and CFA certification before he secured an internship on wall street. It was around this time that Gabriel decided to use his fathers name to push himself ahead in life, leaving Navarro in the past, at least for now. The DeVries name was world renown in the finance industry and while none of his siblings had followed in his fathers footsteps, Gabriel had, all with the intention of being better than the man ever was. Cocky, headstrong and somewhat brilliant, Gabriel made one of the biggest mergers in his company’s history, and became pretty well known around his field. In his mid 20’s he started working with fortune 500 companies, branching out where he could and investing more money than he ever knew existed… all to spite his father. He even won awards against his father, and it was at this point that Gabe thought yeah, I've done it. His father had tried at this point to claim glory for Gabriel's success in multiple interviews, each time Gabriel bit back saying that the man did nothing but abandon him and his mother. He wasn’t about to let the man take the credit for raising him when he’d never lifted a finger. He gave his mother all the credit he could, praised her, and labelled her as the hero of his story.
After becoming one of the most successful investment bankers of his age, and getting his mother her dream home, Gabriel felt as though he’d achieved more than he could ever imagine— but it wasn’t enough. He found himself taking on a life of someone who was the opposite from himself, and it came easier than he anticipated. He was now a completely different man from what he was in school, no longer a geek or math nerd, he was now surrounded by people who he didn’t even know, and they all loved him... Or was it his money? He had always struggled connecting with people on a deeper level than simply face value, simply because of who he’d become, and Gabriel found that in order to play the role of the man he’d become, he needed to keep up the act. Various substances helped him wear this mask and Gabe found that he was able to make his way through day to day activities fitting in rather well.
He moved through his lavish life never having to make a meaningful connection with anyone, hiring girls to be on his arm for events and partying with whoever he pleased until his mother verbalised her distaste for who he’d become. So he stuck with one girl, one girl to take to the parties, to have on his arm and to spend time with, one girl to keep his mother happy. If you asked him now he’d deny that his emotions for the girl were the reason he pushed away, but we’d all know he was lying. Gabriel was well and truly falling for someone, and he’s never considered the possibility of doing so. Frankly, it scared him, so he did what he’d done whenever anyone got too close to him, he cut them off. This time however, it didn’t feel the same.
This part of Gabriel's life ended up being a turning point for him. Surely he was more than this, right? He was a decent person, at least he thought, but if he'd cut off the only person he'd ever really had feelings for, and was becoming someone his mother didn't like then was he really the good person he thought he was? He'd spent some time battling with himself and after his addiction saw him losing whatever grip he had on himself, he ended up spiralling down a rabbit hole that his mother thankfully dragged him out of. He had struggled to gain a firm grip on the life he’d curated to spite his father, and realised that he was only becoming the man he hated. Gabe quit his job, sold his cars, his homes in various cities, left his cats with his mother and checked himself into rehab. Through his time focusing on his health, he rediscovered a love of art and has been dabbling in sculpture, metal work, things where he can work with his hands. Things outside of his past. His mother talked him into settling down in Bridgeport after telling him that living with her forever wasn’t going to help him rediscover his purpose in life. She’d always loved Bridgeport and visiting her friends there. She wanted her son to see what easy, calm, wall street and drug free life looked like. It’s always awkward settling into a new place as a person he wasn’t known for the longest time, but Gabe spends his time creating, reading and collecting things, trying to start over again.
