Character Name: Rodrigo Vargas Delgado
Gender/Pro-Nouns: cismale/he &him
Date of Birth: 02/14/1972
Place of Birth: LA
Species: vampire
Element: n/a
Age They Appear/Age at Transformation: 30
Coven Position/Abilities: n/a
Other Species Position: member of the vamp clan
Current presidente: queens
Occupation: floriest
Faceclaim: Alberto Rosende
Character Quote: Pain makes me a believer
Trigger Warnings: death, bullying, racism, stabbing, suicidal thoughts.
Are you applying for a wanted connection: no
If so please link the connection here: n/a
BIOGRAPHY
Ro was born and raised in LA, his parents were very loving and supportive. His childhood wasn't that bad, except for the people that weren't a big fan of the fact that his parents were latino. He was just a kid, but he had to deal with racism since a young age. He didn't understand why he was treated in such a way, but he had a great support system, his parents always did everything they could to help him feel better about it. Unfortunately, the school didn't do much to stop it, so he had to continue to deal with it. At some point his parents decided to put him in another school, one that had an amazing reputation. Differently from his old school, they actually did something when a student was treated in a unfair way, so things started to get better.
Fast forwarding to his high school years, he had yet again to deal with bullying, but this time because of the way he dressed. When he became a teenager, he stopped being scared of being himself, so he started to wear what he felt like, he wore a lot pink, because it was one of his favorite colors, and was vocal about his love for flowers, he also loved to paint his nails and wear earrings. There were a lot of people that thought he was gay, because of the stereotypes, but that didn't bother him, he didn't have a fragile masculinity, and he also didn't think that it made him any less straight, what bothered him was the way that some treated him because they thought that. It made him feel even worse for the ones that had to deal with it for simply being who they are, but like mentioned, the school protected the students, so every time they found out what he was dealing with, they did something to stop it, but they couldn't exactly protect him outside of school.
However, his life wasn't only made of bad things, when he was in the senior year, his friend dragged him to a college party, so he could see how the college life was, since he would be soon a college student as well. It was there that he met the love of his life, the first girl he truly loved, the girl who took his virginity, the first girl that he would date. He was smitten by her the second that he saw her, but due to his shy nature, he wasn't the one that started a conversation. For his luck, she was also interested, so she approached him. They talked a lot, they hit off the moment they started talking, so that was definitely not the last time that they did it. She gave him her number, but again, he was so shy that he didn't have the courage to text her first. One day, he was leaving school, and she was there, she walked to him and teased him, asked him if her phone was broken, since she didn't get a text nor call from him. He started to ramble and stutter, he thought that because of it, he would lose his shot and she wouldn't be interested anymore, but instead she smirked once more, and said he was adorable. From that moment on, they were inseparable.
They started as friends with benefit and then both fell for each other. One night when he was really jealous, he ended up not being able to hold it back anymore, and told her how he felt. When she said that she felt the same, he was surprised, but delighted, because he was so sure that she would turn him down. Poor boy, so clueless, he can never tell when someone is interested, he honestly was so surprised that she even wanted to have sex with him, as he thought she was out of his league, due to the fact he was insecure, he usually thought that about every person.
They started to date, every day after class, they spent together, which was nothing new, except they were together, so it could be what they did already before, but it still felt different for him, in a good way. They stayed together for many, many years, and she was the one that turned him. She hid so well that she was a vampire, that when he found out, he was shocked because he didn't know they existed, nor that she was one, but that didn't change how much he loved her. She told him when he was 30 years old, the two of them were going back home after a night out, and a thief approached them. She didn't use her powers on him, because she didn't want to expose herself to Ro, she wasn't ready yet to tell him what she was, besides, she figured if they gave him what he wanted, he would leave them alone, but wasn't what happened, he stabbed Ro, and was ready to do the same with her. He would have if she didn't stop him with her powers. Once he was gone, she kneeled down by Ro's side, he started to say how much he loved her, and the two of them knew what would come next, but she refused to let that happen, especially when she blamed herself for it, so she told him the truth, told him that she could turn him, that she could save him. He didn't have much time to digest what she just told him, he was dying, so he accepted her offer. She turned him.
Everything was perfect once again, he was saved, he was with the girl he loved, he worked in a flower shop, and was slowly reaching his money goal to buy his own flower shop, but as life has up and downs, his happiness didn't last for too long. His mom ended up finding out that he was a vampire, she wasn't happy, she called him a monster and said that he wasn't her son anymore. He decided to compel her and make her believe that it was all a dream, and that her son had died in a tragic accident. He faked his own death.
He and his girlfriend moved away from the city, because he didn't want to risk end up running into his family and revealing that he was actually alive. They moved to NYC. They bought a house, Ro finally managed to make his dream come true and have a flower shop, and the two officially got married, they had a happy life, which stayed that way until Rodrigo completed 47 years old. It was that year that his wife died, he didn't know what happened, but the house was burned down, and her body was found inside. He knew that it was a murder, but he didn't have any way to prove that.
After that he closed himself off, he barely spent time with his friends, he only went to work and back home. He felt like a part of him was missing, it physically hurt him. He thought about ending his own life many times, but every time, he heard her voice telling him that he shouldn't do it, that he had so much to live yet, because he knew it wasn't what she would want for him, so he continued his life.
It wasn't easy, and he was only getting actually better, and was being able to smile again, after 3 years, but he was finally going back to his old self, his happy and cheerful old self, and he knew that she was looking at him from up there and smiling because he knew that all she wanted was for him to be happy again.
Possible connections:
First kiss and first crush: your character could either have visited LA on summer break, or could have lived there before, either works tbh!
Friends: he is shy in some situations, but he is capable of having a conversation with someone he doesnāt know. He is an extremely friendly guy and he probably already lost the count of how many friends he has.
Bffs: yes, plural, because the idea that a person can only have one best friend, is ridiculous in his opinion, he legit probably have like 4 or so, as he has a lot of love to give.
Future friends with benefits/hookups: atm he doesnāt have any, because he spent a lot of time unhappy, so sex didnāt even popped up in his head at any moment, but now that he was better, that will most likely change.Ā















