“Name’s Ronno, and these are the boys, Stab and Jab.”
FULL NAME: Angelo ‘Ronno’ Spiridakos BASED ON: Ronno (Bambi II) FACE CLAIM: Nicholas Galitzine PRONOUNS: He/Him BIRTHDAY: 12 July 1999 CURRENT STATUS: Taken
Character Information || CW: Miscarriage, Alcoholism ||
Konstantinos Spiridakos came to America on a student visa. He lands at the college in Willowdale, where he meets and befriends Wilden Lightfoot. It is many years later, however, before the Spiridakos family crosses paths with the Lightfoots, yet again. This time, it is in a place called New Mushroomton, just outside of Detroit. Konstantinos is married now, has two young children - Lyra, who's six, and Angelo, who is three - a lovely young wife, Daphne, expecting a third child, and the shine of hope in their eyes. It is only once they set down roots, in a small apartment in an impoverished area of this small, Detroit suburb, that the Spiridakos family realizes that, perhaps, America was not the dream Konstantinos had initially believed it to be.
The rules that governed the city itself were, to put it mildly, ugly. To put it bluntly, they were cruel. The city presented itself as Magick friendly, but the stringent rules and regulations placed upon any Magick were, oftentimes, dehumanizing. The Spiridakos children were taught early on, despite this, to wear their Magick status as a badge of honor, unable to hide it away; it was actively illegal to do so, and would have resulted in hefty consequences none in the family wished to face.
(Satyr, while not dangerous, had been misinterpreted by myth and false information. Fun-loving, occasionally mischievous, nature spirits, they were now equated to lecherous, hedonistic drunkards. It was this misinterpretation that often found Konstantinos unable to find work, the children unable to find many friends, and Daphne so stressed about her life she lost her child.)
Life for the Spiridakos family isn't sparkling, but it does become better upon relocating when Konstantinos finds a job - after fleeing from a group of anti-Magicks that had threatened the children, of course - and meeting Laurel Lightfoot. Konstantinos remembers the name Lightfoot fondly. His children learn to, as well.
The Spiridakos and Lightfoot children get along like a proverbial house on fire, Ian and Angelo, Lyra and Barley. The children played, got into (and out of!) trouble. Thick as thieves, they were, and Angelo adored his friends. When he’s about ten and Ian eight, however, Ian leaves. The Lightfoots leave.
For a while, it leaves a bit of a rift. People Angelo cared about – Ian, Barley, his mother – kept leaving. He didn’t quite know why, if it was something about him, or just the place they lived, in general. He learned from that, though. Keep yourself a bit harsher, a bit aloof. Make yourself unapproachable, even mean, and people won’t want to hurt you. Won’t want to leave.
For a long time, well into his teenage years, Angelo projected himself as a bully, as someone with a temper and an anger under his skin that kept people at a distance. It wasn’t until he was just out of high school, or nearly, and lonely that he realized how much he’d really lost, what he’d messed up having to hide behind thick walls and multiple layers. The only time he was himself was when he flew to Greece to visit family and his mother, when he could find her. Daphne was aloof during those visits, almost timid, like she didn’t want to know the young man her boy had grown into. Like she was afraid to face what she had left behind. He’s twenty-four, now, though.
Angelo is steadier, calmer. Still with a chip on his shoulder, sure, but he takes it out less on the people around him, those he cares about. When he was about twenty-two, give or take, Ian Lightfoot reached out. They spoke, reconnected. Became friends again, if you could call it a friendship.
(Angelo certainly hoped that he could). And, well, he heard all about Swynlake. So, he figures, why can’t he make a detour, stay for a while? Catch up with Ian properly, see what this town has to offer. Hell, maybe he’ll even decide to stay, for a little while.
✓ Talkative, forward, confident
✖ Abrasive, braggart, mama’s boy
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