Birthdate: March 17th, 1994 (24)
Gender and Pronouns: Male, he/him
Hometown: New York, New York
Neighborhood: Upper East Side, Manhattan
Occupation: Chef / Owner of Baby’s All Right
Faceclaim: Noah Centineo
Trigger Warnings: Abandonment, Alcoholism.
Growing up, Levi learned how to work the system that had become his family. Being the baby of the family, he was always heavily relying on the actions of his older sister, wishing he could be as strong as he saw her to be. When their father left when he barely turned eleven years old, Levi was heartbroken. The picture of “family" that he had was in shambles. He had no more role models as parents – no male figure to figure out his way through life. Instead, his sister was there, but he could tell she was barely keeping herself together, let alone able to handle Levi. Ignoring any phone calls that were given to him out of obligation by his father, bitterness settled deep within his heart.
There was the issue of abandonment that haunted Levi, and while his sister went on to live her own life, he found himself obsessing over the need to remain relevant to her in any way possible. He easily could’ve been called needy at times, but he only wanted to make sure his older sibling knew that he was always going to love her, no matter what. Levi didn’t want to be part of her spotlight, no, he just wanted to make sure Selene knew he wasn’t going to leave her for any reason or anyone.
Levi learned how to be self sufficient, however, even though it was hidden behind the façade that he learned to put on for the media. As a child that lived in the spotlight, there was always someone paying attention to the action of the Dubois family. His sister’s acting career took off, and Levi pulled the reigns back. His childhood was lonely, relying heavily on the companionship of his sibling before he was finally able to leave and go to culinary school when he turned eighteen. Using connections was easy enough, and he started up his own restaurant, deciding to try and make it big in the food scene of New York.
He never wanted to be in the spotlight, but his charade he gave to the camera only hid the real Levi that was underneath it all. From bar crawling to getting wasted across Europe, Levi lived up his anonymity in places that didn’t know who he was or who he was connected to. It easily led him into a time of debauchery, where he did what he wanted without consequence. Eventually, he crawled back to New York, immersing himself back into running his restaurant and paying attention to his life he’d tried so hard to leave behind. Putting on his false sense of self is habit now, but Levi feels like he’s falling apart at the same time. He uses his relationship with his family as a crutch, and he refuses to stand on his own until he absolutely has to.
( + ) charismatic, thoughtful, strong-willed.
( - ) desperate, melodramatic, resentful.