★ THE CELEBRITY is TWENTY THREE years old and originally from ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO. They identify as BISEXUAL. The role of The Celebrity is TAKEN.
The Celebrity is a secret member of The Resistance and joined before they were famous. However, they chose not to give up on their dream, despite their status as a member, and continued to work hard at their career.
Now they are famous, the Celebrity can use their social status to attempt to influence others. However, they must do so carefully to avoid arousing suspicion and knows they need to tread carefully. One wrong move could lead to serious trouble.
Being a member of The Resistance is something the Celebrity prides themselves in - they’re just disappointed they can’t make it more public. Despite being secretive about being a member, they’re still passionate about the cause and determined to make a difference.
Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to two young bohemian parents, Maverick had a very vibrant upbringing. Always well versed in art and music, he excelled in the arts - being able to bring his knowledge and experiences into the classroom. He had a real talent for music and would want to play any instrument he picked up - guitar, drums, flute. Anything possible, he wanted and his parents were more than willing to indulge him.
As soon as he started High School, Maverick started to become the victim of bullying. Not only was he one of the very few black kids at school, but he was also chubby, only wanted to dance and sing, and didn’t have many friends. It wasn’t uncommon for him to spend lunch with his head being swirled in a toilet bowl, or go home with a wedgie burn and bruises. He hated school, and soon became very timid. The less people saw him or heard him, the less he would get bullied.
The summer before his senior year, Maverick’s parents saved up all their extra money to surprise him with a much needed gift - summer camp for kids gifted and talented in the arts. Though he was apprehensive at first - having been so out of practice outside of his bedroom, and performing arts classes, Maverick went. Being surrounded my like-minded people, a whole spectrum of races and seeing how talented he really was ended up being an eyeopener for him. He knew who he was and he knew what he wanted.
Senior year was a game changer. Knowing he only had a few months left before he could leave forever and head to stardom, Maverick worked on himself. He would spent an hour in the gym every morning to work on his body, spent all the free time he had writing songs and discovering his sound and after school was filled with dance classes. If anyone had something to say about his race or his skills, Maverick ignored it and even through a few punched back when he needed to. These idiots were below him and in the end, everyone would know his name.
At eighteen, Maverick packed his bags and moved to LA. Though he was young and had no idea what to do with his life, Maverick was determined. Working a day job at a clothes store, Maverick worked on his own music - hosting his own quiet gigs and modeling on the side for some extra cash. It was a slow start, but Maverick never gave up on his dream of having his voice heard. There was a lot of hatred in the world, for young kids, people who were different, be it sexuality, race or anything society deemed as a minority - a lot of oppression and Maverick wanted to do his part to change it if he could.
After a year of no luck, Maverick started to wonder why he even bothered in chasing his dreams if the world wasn’t giving him anything in return. It was then when he started getting involved with people that he shouldn’t. He was a strong guy with a lot of confidence and it attracted the eye of one of LA’s many gangs. It was easy at first - helping punch some sense into whoever he was told to, dropping and picking up low class drugs and stealing from anyone who had apparently done the gang wrong. The money he started to get was pretty great, girls were all over him and he made some strong friends. People respected him for the first time and he thrived.
It all changed for Maverick when a group of them were caught in a street fight with another gang. It started off as nothing more than hostility but when one of the guys against them pulled out a gun, it went sour. Shot in the neck, Maverick remembered falling to the group and waiting for his trusted gang-mates to help him. The last thing he remembered before he was kicked in the face was the sight of his trusted friends running away and leaving him for dead.
Waking up in the hospital, Maverick knew he had no choice but to thank God for his survival. The bullet had only just grazed him but after losing a lot of blood, he had been out cold for a few days. Â He swore to become a better man and the woman who was lying next to him in the hospital was just the woman to help. She talked of injustice and how the new government was corrupt and how a man named Will McCarthy would help change it all for the better. From that day, Maverick swore himself to The Resistance.
Through his work with The Resistance, he finally felt as though he was working for a real cause. While he wasn’t working with them or doing odd-jobs for cash, Maverick started to write songs again. Not expecting anyone to see much of them, he wrote from his experiences, rapping about his time on the streets and his childhood being oppressed due to his race. Releasing a few videos online was all it took for him to become a sensation.
It seemed like a world wind. One day he was rapping in his bedroom and the next, he as in recording studios and on music video sets, performing concerts for thousands of people and becoming a household name. He was finally somebody and this time, he could use it for the good of the people.
Though he’s working on his second album, performing regular concerts and keeping up with the crazy life of being a celebrity, Maverick always puts time aside for The Resistance. God kept him alive for a reason - and that was to see the fight through, no matter how big he got. So much in the public eye, Maverick could use his affluence to sway others to the cause, being careful not to get himself caught in the process.
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