[pedro pascal — 42 — he/him] Introducing JAVIER GUZMAN. Word on the street is they are a CRIMINAL PROFILER, and despite what others might think, they remain CORRUPT. Though they are NEGATIVE TRAIT and NEGATIVE TRAIT, they can also be POSITIVE TRAIT and POSITIVE TRAIT. In the chaos of New York City, they’re sure to fit right in.
— BASICS
Name: Javier Guzman Age / D.O.B.: 45 Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: Male, he/him, Bisexual Hometown: Affiliation: CORRUPT Job position: Criminal Profiler Education: NYU Relationship status: Single, widowed Children: One, 19 year old named Luca Positive traits: (Loyal, smart, calculated, educated, quick witted) Negative traits: (Grumpy, noncommittal, moody, uncaring, big temper)
— BIOGRAPHY
Javier did not grow up in a good family environment. Growing up, he was surrounded by poverty and drugs, and became a bit of a hardass when it came to his family. His single father was the only true stability in his life, and taught him how to take care of his family; working as a single dad at a casino, he illustrated the dangers of drugs and alcohol to his son from a very young age. Javier mostly took care of himself, developing an attitude and getting in trouble at school a lot for acting out, but his father's teachings stuck enough for him to know not to get involved with drugs.
After graduating high school, he took a year off to work a couple of retail jobs and rake in the money. Before long, he had enough to get a small apartment and get out of the area he'd grown up in. In an instant, everything changed for him. His attitude changed, his anger changed, his life changed. He no longer felt a need to act out, no longer was seeking the attention of his father, now that he was living on his own. It felt like he could breathe again.
He decided to go to college and pursue criminal justice, with the intention of going back to the neighbourhood and trying to fix the things that he'd seen. It had never been his goal to become corrupt in any way. In fact, it had been his goal to help people, to save them. At 25, he was even in a relationship with a woman, he was in therapy, and she had said yes to his marriage proposal. He was working as a police officer, well on his way to becoming a detective. All was well.
Finally, he was assigned the role of detective, and he started investigating the gangs and requested to work in his old neighbourhood, buying a new apartment there. For a few years, he improved things there, and even set up a new government building to help underprivileged kids receive free extra educational classes outside of high school to prepare them for scholarship applications.
Then, tragedy struck, as it typically does in these sorts of situations. He was working on investigating a drug hit in the area, when he found one of his current students at the scene. The boy begged Javi to protect him, and he made the decision to take the child in, keeping him safe. Unfortunately, the child has a friend, and he shows up at the house demanding his drug money after the child accidentally lets slip where he's living now. An altercation starts and he can't get there fast enough. The only one who survives is the child, Javi's wife is killed and the friend flees the scene.
Although Javier is able to profile the criminal and fellow officers make the arrest, it's too late. The trauma sticks with him, and he can feel himself reverting back to his old self. Despite himself, he can't let go of the child, and ends up keeping him as he sells his apartment and moves back into his old one. With justice served to his wife's death, he feels he no longer really has a major purpose in life.
He stays at his job, the education center he'd opened stays open and he consistently keeps up with it, but the passion is lost. His child is the one who mostly takes over those sorts of departments, and he tries to keep a positive face about it, tries to not let him see the pain and tragedy under the surface. The job at the education center stabilizes the boy so much that he's almost ready to live on his own, but he stays to keep Javi company
However, his father's wishes for him are suddenly ancient history. He finds himself frequenting bars, drinking on occasion, mostly just surrounding himself with others who are low and rowdy and can drown his thoughts out. It's here he finds himself occasionally meeting others, and it's at those shady bars that the corruption starts.
At first it's simple things. A criminal he's profiling finds him and offers him a few thousand to steer the police in the wrong direction. He'd rejected those offers his entire career, but after his wife dies and this career becomes something he doesn't care about as much, he finds himself accepting those offers. It turns out to be easy money.
Then it gets more serious. Accusing others. Implanting whole new ideas in the eyes of law enforcement. Despite himself, he can't get himself to stop accepting offers. He saves the money, pockets it, and doesn't care that his name is starting to rise among the local gangs. There is no one specific gang that he stops for, but he frequents certain areas where the TTC is a lot, and is typically assigned jobs in that area. His corruption is more based around not caring about his job and the consequences. If he is arrested or killed, he doesn't care that much anymore.
— WANTED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS
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