( bruna marquezine. female. bisexual. ) that’s GABRIELA SANTOS , the michigan state university journalism student , they're twenty three years old and are known to be hard working and blunt. their go to karaoke song is here's to never growing up by avril lavigne.
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄: gabriela santos
𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒): gabs, gabi ( loved ones only ),
𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒): gabi ( loved onles only ), gabriela ( everyone else )
𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄: october 31st
𝐀𝐆𝐄: 23 years old
𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑: female
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒: she/her
𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: bioromantic
𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: bisexual
𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐍: none
october 31st, the day she was born was a surprise to her parents. seeing as she wasn't supposed to be born for another month. on a night when her father was off duty and at a halloween party with her mother, it caught them off guard. a few hours later, at eleven at night on halloween, she was finally born. due to being born a month early, she was kept in the hospital for a few days. as the doctors said, just to make sure she was okay. after a few days, her parents were finally able to bring her home.
being brought home, her older sister immediately became protective over her. which wasn't surprising at all. especially since her eldest sister had always wanted a younger sibling. two years later after she was born, the third and final child of the santos family was born. her baby brother. despite only being two at the time, gabriela was excited to have a younger sibling. it wasn't long after he was born that her father got his new orders. this time at the base in germany. doing what they had to do, the family packed up, and moved to germany. their house that they had lived in was put on the market and sold not long after.
for the next fourteen years, she lived there on base with her during her time there, gabriela had fallen in love with ice skating after going to a competition. it was after that, that she asked her parents to enroll her in ice skating classes. to her surprise, they did. and that had become part of her life. by the age of sixteen, gabriela had made the US olympic figure skating team. something that she had worked her butt off for. going to the olympics was a dream for her. her first time there, she ended up winning two gold medals. one for the womens free skate and one for free dance. returning home after the games ended, what happiness she did have was soon to vanish.
a week after returning home, she walked in to see her mom with another man. to walk in on that, and seeing her mom with someone else shocked her, yet at the time, it made her angry. walking out of the house, she did the only thing she could do, which was call her dad. he had every right to know. and gabriela wasn't one to hide stuff like that from anyone, including her dad. the divorce between her parents afterwards was messy. but gabriela and her siblings did their best to stay out of it. though at some point, gabriela and her younger brother were asked who they wanted to stay with. their dad had been the obvious answer to that. not long though after that, gabriela made the decision to move back to the states to live with her grandparents. after talking back and forth, her dad finally agreed to let her move back to the states. moving in with her grandparents in east lansing, she finished off her final year of high school there.
graduating a year later, instead of going straight off to college, she took some time off, for herself, but to also to relax without any added stress. by fall though, she was back to practicing. the following year, in the fall, she started her first year at MSU with her major being journalism. to her, it was something normal. a normal life that she wanted. it was during her first year there though that she had made the cut for the US figure skating olympic team. during her two weeks at the olympics, she won two more medals, a gold and a silver. it was also during her time there that she celebrated her birthday with her team mates. returning home, it was back to school for her. now, with another winter olympics coming up, gabriela is back on the ice, practicing her butt off to try to make the team again one last time.
writing has always been something she wanted to do. more so after she retires from figure skating. after that, she plans on covering the sport once she's done with college.
her dad is a general in the army. something she both hates bet yet is proud of him. him being a general just meant that more eyes would be on her and her siblings.
after her parents divorce, she cut her mom off completely. she hasn't spoken to her ever since she was sixteen.
she currently lives in her grandparents house. a six bedroom house which was left to her a year ago when her grandparents decided to buy an RV and go out traveling.
during her time on the base in germany, she was taught how to fight by one of the soldiers.
hockey and football are two of her favorite sports aside from figure skating.