Ā (Ā jan luis castellanos, cis male, he/him, ocĀ ) oh snap! is that KC MEDINA? they work over at high volume where some of the other employees have labeled them as THE GREGARIOUS. thatās probably because they can be a bit ( fun loving ) but also pretty ( scatter brained ) theyāre 26Ā and theyāve been living in woodstock for 18 YEARS, ON AND OFF.Ā it must be their shift because i totally hear BLONDIE blasting from the record store. ( aesthetics: almost always sporting a selection of colorful bandaids, looking for sunglasses when theyāre on your head, doodles on any loose leaf paper, making friends in line at the store ) [ mace, 21, est, she/theyĀ ]Ā Ā @volumeupdates
SEASON 1 RECAPĀ Ā :
in plot drop 3 kc is at the store when the backroom is lit on fire,Ā he circles back in to make sure a fellow coworker gets outĀ &Ā ends up with third degree burns up his left side,Ā which he goes to the hospital for.Ā he spends a few days there before being allowed to return home.
kcās best friend trip comes home after touring gone wrongĀ &Ā crashes on his couch until he finds an actual apartment.Ā thereās a little conflict about rentĀ &Ā whether trip should be there at all between trip, jamie (kcās actual roommate) and blair (partial owner of the medina singh household couch) but kcās happy to have him there.
the same dayĀ &Ā borderline the same time as plot drop 6 is going on kc and marty make their way to the sheriffs station after a employee meeting regarding what to do now that jerry is officially missing, having decided they would go and tell the sheriff theyād been worried just in case it came up. the sheriff basically tells them he knowsĀ &Ā to shooĀ !
max and kc have a brief little situation that started with max having a crush on kc,Ā peaked at them kissing,Ā and dissolved just as quickly with max turning him down though there was a mutual liking thereĀ !Ā kcās not fussed about it or anything,Ā also timeline wise i think this spanned a couple things so just assume it was a thing at some point. you donāt need specifics.
high volume closesĀ &Ā kc gets a job at joannās fabrics & craft store because heās monumentally bored with all the sudden free time.Ā i think he probably keeps it even when high volume opens again,Ā just for sewing and fabric discounts.
trip moves off the couchĀ !Ā heās all grown upĀ !Ā bye trip i love you tripĀ
runaway yesterday, a band consisting of nisa, ethan, josieĀ &Ā kc perform at battle of the bands.Ā itās their first real gig and they donāt win, but they do get approached by john corrigan who may just open up some opportunities for themĀ !Ā who knowsĀ !
ON TO THE BASICSĀ ,
full name Ā : Ā kendall chayanne medina
alias Ā / Ā nickname Ā : Ā goes by kc pretty exclusively.Ā people whoāve known him since they were young would probably remember a time he went by kendall,Ā but no one really knows his middle name.
gender Ā / Ā pronouns Ā :Ā Ā cis man, Ā he/him
sexual Ā / Ā romantic orientation Ā :Ā Ā bisexual & biromantic, Ā no preference
birthday Ā : Ā march 25th
zodiac Ā : Ā aries
height Ā : Ā 6ā²2
born Ā : Ā puerto viejo,Ā costa rica
current location Ā : Ā woodstock,Ā Illinois
faceclaimĀ Ā :Ā Ā jan luis castellanos
notable featuresĀ Ā :Ā Ā has a few dumb,Ā tiny tattoos,Ā both ears piercedĀ &Ā a septum piercing he refuses to take out
STATSĀ Ā ,
compassion Ā : Ā 9/10
empathy Ā : Ā 9/10
passion Ā : Ā 6/10
creativity Ā : Ā Ā 10/10
teamwork Ā : 10/10
initiative Ā :Ā Ā 7/10
restraint Ā : Ā 3/10
positives Ā :Ā Ā loyal,Ā creative,Ā fun loving,Ā easygoing,Ā honest,Ā genuineĀ
negatives Ā :Ā Ā irresponsible,Ā flaky,Ā scatter brained,Ā restless,Ā easily bored
BIOĀ Ā ,
kendall was born from a one night stand that took place years into a marriage that everyone around them felt was as stable as could be.Ā Ā the medinas had recently moved to costa rica from a small town in illinois to run an animal rescue center a short ten minute drive from the beach front,Ā founded on their own, a dream that came at a cost. the womanās name was daniela and it was harmless the first times they spoke, but all it took was one late night and a few too many drinks for that to change.Ā Ā even then, it was supposed to be a harmless one time thing. what adrien medinaās wife didnāt know wouldnāt hurt her and daniela hadnāt contacted him in the days afterwards. it didnāt come up at all until a month later, when daniela appeared at the very spot theyād first met and told him she was pregnant.
reasonably,Ā Ā his wife was not happy.Ā Ā deciding they would be the ones to raise the baby when he was born was not an easy process,Ā Ā but it was the choice they ultimately came to. in a big way, he felt like something they were both obligated to,Ā Ā not something they wanted but were now responsible for regardless.Ā Ā they tried to make the marriage work for three years before the split that had been building from the beginning. kendallās dad stayed in puerto viejo to keep the animal rescue center going, while his mom moved all the way back to her hometown of woodstock,Ā illinois where her parents still lived.
originally kendall spent in large part time with his dad,Ā but after a few years the animal rescue center was taking up more and more of his time and kendall was a quick moving, never stay still kid.Ā Ā an arrangement was sorted between the two that kendall would spend the school year with his mom in illinois and summers back in costa rica starting when kendall was seven.Ā it worked, tentatively, for quite a while, but what kendall most served as to his mom would always be a reminder of past betrayal.
when kendall was thirteen he began going to summer camp for the summer instead of costa rica, through a decision that he had no part in.Ā Ā summers were getting busier at his dadās place and his mom still wanted her time off, so summer camp it was. this is where he garnered the nickname kc, given to him by a friend and never shaken. he got into a whole lot of trouble every summer without fail. it was mostly harmless stuff, but it was the only surefire way he knew to get his momās attention when he felt like heād been handed off, who always inevitably found out about it. he did holidays and vacations in costa rica sometimes, but it wasnāt really the same, and it got increasingly hard to avoid the obvious truths of both his parents trying to skirt around having him.
during his high school years he spent less time at home,Ā Ā more time wandering through woodstock.Ā Ā these are the years he grew comfortable with high volume, already semi-familiar with it because the owner was a long time friend of both his parents from before theyād decided to leave for costa rica at all.Ā he could be seen all over the place depending on when you caught him, but high volume was the only place he really settled into. the people were nice, the music was good, and it really didnāt take long before jerry knew him better than either of his parents had in quite a while. he had camp during summers and ended up liking it so much he was a counselor from ages seventeen to twenty, but aside from those eight weeks of the year high volume became the place he went to when he didnāt want to go home.
he tried the college thing out at woodstock community college,Ā but academics were never really his thing. he was just so, so bored, and being uninspired isnāt a good look for an artist.Ā his mom had been wanting to move out of town for ages, tired of feeling stuck, and she told him sheād be leaving for chicago when heād successfully completed one year at college.Ā true to word, she left the summer after his freshman year. he made an attempt to continue, but with the push to not let his mom down lessened by her absence he only lasted until the end of his second year before dropping out. it was two weeks after heād officially called it quits that he interviewed for high volume, and the rest is history.
PERSONALITYĀ Ā ,
in unofficial high school class superlatives kc was named biggest class clown a total of twelve times.Ā Ā he has a very lighthearted demeanor and rarely takes anything seriously, sometimes to the point of frustration to those around him. heās very rarely malicious but does tend to have a pigtail-pulling sense of humor,Ā Ā liable to prod and poke and go a little too far before he realizes he probably shouldāve stopped three steps ago.Ā itās a trait softened by overt affection and loud laughter,Ā Ā just as quick to pull you back in as he was to push you away.
itās hard to predict what heāll do,Ā Ā but never hard to know whatās on his mind. he has an opinion about everything unless it matters, at which point heād rather avoid thinking about it entirely, but he could probably form one on important things too. he just doesnāt want to.Ā Ā he wants to live only the sunny and light and fun parts of life, and for the most part heās been pulling it off for years now.Ā Ā if you tapped into his brain all you would hear at any given moment is the crazy frog song.
he considers himself to be friends with almost everyoneĀ !Ā when it comes to people less close to him he can be flaky, forgetting to appear when he should and then popping up when he wasnāt asked to. he knows how to be a solid presence, but itās not an effort he feels like putting in for everyone heās ever met. he gets bored easily and he almost never shuts up.Ā information sticks in his brain pretty easily about things heās actually interested in;Ā Ā he remembers coffee orders and peoplesā favorite movie, but he simply does not know how to solve a fraction.
all of which being said,Ā he is actually a pretty good person to have in your corner when he is putting in the effort.Ā he can be very attentive and patient,Ā and heās always very warm.Ā Ā genuine, and could probably afford to be literally even a little bit more shy than he ever is. he grew up around a lot of passive aggressiveness and a lot of anger as a whole, none of which was his fault but still got aimed his way sometimes in a he just happened to be in the middle sense. itās the exact sort of way he doesnāt want to be and doesnāt want to give into, so thereās very little that he canāt except and work with as long as itās honest and straightforward. he is an excellent communicator in relationships / dynamics with others, but itās kind of an accident born out of transparency.
TL;DR ( fair ):Ā
his parents moved to costa rica shortly before he was born. dad cheated, heās not biologically his moms but he ended up hanging with her most of his childhood. heās pretty much lived in woodstock since he was seven, but for a while he spent part of summers in costa rica and then at a local camp. otherwise heās been all woodstock all the time.
spent a lot of time in high volume prior to working there because him and his mom are weird n wonky and he didnt wanna be at home. got pretty close to jerry,Ā who was already a long time friend of his parents since before they moved. heās worked at high volume for like ... 6 years,Ā since around the time he dropped out of collegeĀ Ā !!
very sweet very chatty very very genuine. what you see is what you get,Ā at least on behalf of himself.Ā obviously he is pulling off some lies on behalf of jerry but tomato tomatah.Ā he just likes to have fun and make people laughĀ !!Ā very attentive and surprisingly self sufficient. i cannot stress how little this man likes being alone.
re:Ā the store as a whole,Ā Ā itās very much been like a second home for a while and therefore the people within it are very important and close to his heart.Ā Ā heās not shy at all about the way he feels towards people and i think everyone matters to him a lotĀ !!Ā if u let him he will give everyone a smooch on the cheek upon his (probably late) entrance to the store !!
WANTED CONNECTIONS Ā :
fwb / hookupsĀ Ā ā Ā Ā the silly big heart does in fact leave room for stuff like this but heās a pretty easy going guy?? so either consistent thing or an occasional whenever it happens it happens thing or it happened once? all chill. will make pancakes next morning if u stay over
romance???Ā Ā ā Ā Ā i will also accept a crush thing it feels weird for him to exist without liking someone
ex(es)Ā ā Ā heās been here since he was really young and i will refer back to the silly big heart.Ā couldve been literally at any time,Ā he doesnt do long things as often not cause he doesnt want them they just dont often happen for him but !! details are v flexible!!Ā probably on good terms he is not a grudgey person!!
summer palsĀ ā Ā Ā the summer camp he went to was pretty local if anybody wants to say ur muse also went to summer camps here n there or was a counselor w him or smth
i still love friends!! heās friendly!!
ANYTHING ELSE!! these were just some vibes but !!!











