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basic stats.
full name: malachi santos holmes nickname(s): mal gender: cis man pronouns: he/him age: 28 birthday: 3 august 1994 zodiac: leo sun, aries moon, sagittarius rising ethnicity: 1/2 black (afro-american), 1/2 asian (filipino) nationality: canadian sexual orientation: heterosexual religion: atheist hometown: vancouver, bc current residence: marpole, vancouver, bc occupation: employee at a local family-owned pizza place/soundcloud musician time in vancouver: whole life education: high school  languages: english
physical.
hair color: dark brown, often dyed other colors eye color: dark brown height: 6â˛0 tattoos: half-sleeve on right forearm, bicep/shoulder piece on left arm, lots of little finger and hand tats, a tiny apple right below left eye, one really detailed colorful piece on left shin, black and white chest piece piercings: both lobes, usually not wearing anything in them scars: tba fashion: plain t-shirts, flannels, ripped jeans, converse, boots, etc
family.
birth mother: serena santos (deceased) birth father: unknown to him adoptive mother: linda holmes adoptive father: frank holmes birth siblings: none adoptive siblings: dec holmes pet(s): none
personality.
outlook: pessimistic pos. traits: savvy, loyal, courageous, altruistic, humble, witty, independent  neg. traits: stubborn, bullheaded, reckless, morally arrogant, emotionally unavailable likes: diners at 2am, getting stoned and listening to music, feeling independent, black coffee, red wine, feeling really close with people, when the days are shorter in winter, science podcasts, doing drugs, cold weather, video games, anything artificial cherry flavored, giving gifts, live music dislikes: being sober, hot people being fake humble, reading, his adoptive parents, influencer culture, asking for help, holidays, his birthday, public speaking, law enforcement, having big responsibilities, planning for the future fears: getting old, losing people
headcanons.
only likes attention for things heâs good at and enjoys like playing his music or rolling a perfect joint but otherwise haaaates it literally hates his bday and that kind of stuff, and even if it was good attention for something like music it would still be too much eventually
plays guitar really well and has a great ear for music. he loves making beats and mixing stuff and puts a lot of instrumentals up on soundcloud. sometimes heâll record lyrics but itâs always really synthetic and autotuned sounding (this kind of stuff)
does a lot of drugs, mostly coke and hallucinogens, def has a coke problem
loves loves feeling like heâs important to people he cares about
very like altruistic but simultaneously arrogant? like his instinct would be to risk his own life to save someone but heâs not gna be friends with u necessarily FTYGUKHLJK
doesnât rly expect things to work out for him. kind of just assumes shit doesnât go well and lets that keep him from trying to do more with his life
has extremely complicated feelings abt his brother and will absolutely talk shit abt how heâs a magician but is of the mindset where heâs allowed to make fun of him but no one else is TYJFUGHILJOK
more tba
full biography.
**trigger warnings for death, birth complications, fostering and adoption trauma, drug abuse, addiction
In late July of 1994, Malachi Santos took his first breath in the back of a truck in downtown Vancouver. His mother, a seventeen-year-old runaway addicted to cocaine, had gotten a ride just the day before with a man in a Ford F-150 while hitchhiking west from Edmonton. They had just crossed within the cityâs limits when Serena went into precipitous labor and managed to terrify the man driving the truck into agreeing when she shouted at him not to take her to the hospital, where they would be legally obligated to contact the foster parents sheâd just escaped from â instead, he found a Walmart parking lot and folded down his back seats. An hour and a half in, however, he got spooked as Serena became less and less responsive in between contractions; Malachi was born five minutes before they reached the hospital, and Serena died from blood loss ten minutes after that as they were rushing her into the emergency room. Because of the drugs in her system and the premature birth, Mal had to be kept at the hospital for a couple weeks, and after being determined unfit to continue fostering, he wasnât returned to the couple his mom had run away from.
Mal spent the next tumultuous half a decade in Vancouverâs foster system until finally getting adopted by Frank and Linda Holmes â two vibrant actors with a love for giving back to the community and another adopted son theyâd already had for five years. They had gone into the adoption process for the second time with the idea of making the next one a girl, but neither could resist the challenge Mal presented when they met him and were given warnings by the adoption agency that he was a difficult child. So Malachi Santos became Malachi Holmes, and for many children, it would have been the proverbial jackpot: the Holmes family was warm and welcoming and decently wealthy to boot, but even at five years old Mal didnât feel like he fit into it. One of the most difficult parts for him â though he never really understood why, especially when he was younger â was that this wasnât a foster home this time but an adoptive family, and one that seemed determined to make him feel like heâd been cast in a weird sitcom every time they dressed up for Renaissance faires or as Mr. and Mrs. Clause for Christmas.
On paper they were good parents was the thing, and Dec was a good brother, it was just that by the time he hit eleven or twelve, the imposter syndrome coloring his entire home life solidified into its own identity; he felt like the black sheep not only in his home dynamic but in a much grander, cosmic sense that, in his mind, put him on one side of the proverbial fence and everybody else on the other. He was not unfriendly in school so much as deeply introverted and on some level uninterested in other people, except for two friends he made in sixth grade and stayed friends with through high school.
Heâs the kind of person who has plenty of friends he chills with but those two are his homies and heâs crazy hard to get close to because heâs not interested in expanding that circle. He really doesnât have a lot of ambition and has no grand plans with his music, in spite of knowing somewhere deep down he might actually like to. He started playing around with mixing in high school and still does that and uploads his stuff to SoundCloud and everything, heâs got a great ear for music and really enjoys doing it, but the idea of making a career out of it freaks him out pretty badly. Besides that, he works at a local pizza joint where heâs close with the family who owns it, and heâs happy (or, at least, satisfied) doing that as long as it makes ends meet.
