Full Name: Salvador Cortes Cavendish.
Nicknames: Sal.
Pronouns and Gender: He/him, cis man.
Birthday: September 4th, 1990.
Birth place: Aurora Bay.
How long have they been in town?: On and off for most of his life / has always been based in California, just not necessarily always Aurora Bay.
Sexuality: Bisexual.
Housing: Crystal Cove Condominiums.
Occupation: Owner of Lost Spirits.
Family: Aurelia Cavendish (sister), Atticus Cortes (maternal cousin), Gus Wells-Cavendish (son).
tws for biography: violence, law enforcement, arrest, injury, blood.
BIOGRAPHY.
first born and only son of carmen cortes and currently unknown bio father.
while salvador’s mother’s saw his conception and impending birth as an overwhelming potential mistake, her employers at the time she saw it as an opportunity.
with all the means and money in the world, luca and eloise cavendish's life was only lacking in one department, their yet to be grown family. attempts to conceive had been a fruitless struggle and they solved it the way they did best -- by seizing an opportunity and throwing money at it.
carmen didn't need much convincing to agree to the adoption, innately aware that they could give her child the kind of life that would never be accessible to her and so without her family's blessing or backing, she agreed.
five months later salvador cortes cavendish was born, named by his birth mother before being handed off to his adoptive mother.
five years later in what seemed like a small miracle in itself, his sister aurelia came along naturally and rounded out the family.
despite being handpicked by the cavendish's before even being born, being raised by them was no easy feat for sal, unattainable expectations were the foundation of his life and meeting targets was seen as the only plausible outcome.
the only reprieve he got from his parent’s often suffocating ideals was when he was with his sister. from the day she was born, the only goal he placed on himself was to be someone that she could look up to and rely on.
despite how much control his parents tried to exercise over his temperament, no amount of long talks about manners and instruction could stifle the anger that resided deep in him. he was never good at regulating it, but he could keep himself in check for the most part, even if that did mean he got comfortable lying about where cuts and bruises on his knuckles came from and why friendships for him seemed to come to a sharp and drastic end.
always excelled in academics, especially in physics, mathematics and anything in the realm of engineering.
wanted to be an astronaut when he was a child, but after one too many times of his father tutting and telling him he had his head in the clouds like it was an insult, he settled on aiming to be an aerospace engineer.
was a little bit of a wayward teen and liked to push the limits of both his parents patience and his own luck, which resulted in him nearly being arrested at 18 which he narrowly avoided by a generous check and a litigious. that was a wake up call for him and he decided to focus his all on the future he had been working towards.
took it incredibly hard when his mother passed suddenly in a car crash when he was 19 years old and tried to throw himself into his studies to avoid dealing with it.
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering from massachusetts institute of technology before he went on and did a masters for two years after that.
at 26, after a slew of internships and short term employment opportunities in industry, he finally got his dream job and uprooted his life to california to work as an aerospace engineer at nasa’s neil a. armstrong flight research center in edwards.
he was back and forth to aurora bay as much as he could be to check in on his sister, never missing a holiday or a family event, but by thirty he was certain his life was no longer there.
fate would have other ideas when that same year he found out he was going to be a father with his long-time friend louie. after some initial apprehension and uncertainty in himself about whether or not he could be a father, sal was on board and their song august orion wells-cavendish (gus) was born in 2021.
with his career on a steady incline, sal had eyes on how he could move up internally, but that all came crashing to an end with more damage than any test flight gone wrong he had over seen at the end of october 2022.
during a routine ground test for an aircraft, a comment from a co-worker he had never gotten along with had him seeing red. the reports of the incidence afterwards read that it was unprovoked and vicious, resulting in broken bones and blood on the cement but even when he had been dragged off of him by three members of site security, sal hadn’t been able to see it as anything more than an inevitability.
his dismissal was immediate and absolute and he knew there was no salvaging his career with nasa. with nothing else holding him in place and the possibility of a criminal charge that would further impede his employability, sal knew it was time to come home.
he’s been back in aurora bay full time ever since.
PERSONALITY.
+ quick-witted, intelligent, precise.
- violent, hot-headed, inconsiderate.
FUN ADJACENT FACTS.
father to a three year old called gus, possibly the only thing in his life he doesn’t feel like he’s actively failing at.
became the owner of lost spirits as an act of sincere defiance to his father for years of ongoing pressure for salvador to step up and take over the family business that he's always felt was more lia's birthright than his.
was never charged for the october 2022 assault and is certain his father had something to do with it though he refuses to say either way.
used to go to egypt every summer with his mother until he was 21.
his favorite beer is stella and no, he doesn’t mean artois, he hates that one.
has told people he’s an astronaut before to get laid / avoid having to get into explaining what it is he actually does (did).
fond of alcohol but is more hesitant with drugs, knows from experience they don’t mix well with his personality.
CURRENT CONNECTIONS.
older brother of @cavenshh
baby daddy of @louiewells
father of @delilahcarreno + @buddywellls' nephew
older cousin / big brother vibe to @atticuscortes
childhood / current friend of @connievanderbilt
former almost brother-in-law of @presleyfarrow
close friend of @eddieferguson
aerospace engineering dweebs with @nellie-eddowes
SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.
childhood friends: self explanatory, the folks he goes way way back with. can go any way dynamic wise.
california based muses not restricted to AB: folks he would have known over the last near decade he was living/working elsewhere in state. can be friends/co-workers/exes whatever the heart desiresss.
customers: come buy some booze so he pretend he's not in a deep flop era. will he be pleasant about it? streets are saying no KJSHGSHJ
more to be added!
GENERIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.
connections wise he’s pretty much an open book right now, but some baseline ideas that can be springboarded off are:
friendly.
a best friend(s) / ride or dies / close friends / childhood friends / friends / drunk friends / new friends / people he knew from massachusetts when he studied there / people he knew from california when he worked there.
romantic
flirtationship / friends with benefits / one time hook ups / tinder matches / unrequited crush (can be either way) / exes from high school / exes from his twenties / exes on good terms.
antagonistic.
enemies / former (best) friends / exes on bad terms / frenemies / rivals / negative influence / people he’s fought with (can be several, for a variety of reasons from serious to downright stupid).
