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Marked Petals: Text Edition Incomplete Character Sheet
I need to add a few characters, such as Lance’s younger brother, his Tias, Melony’s parents, Cicero’s sister, and a few others. Maybe some screen names later.
Papí Leonardo McClain – He has one brother and two sisters. He happens to be a Canadian man with Scottish roots and became Anna’s fiancé in Florida when she was studying. He moved to Cuba so he could be with her family, and he learned Spanish from Anna primarily before meeting her parents who approved of him as her boyfriend.
Mamí Anna Chavez McClain – She has an older sister a younger brother. She was a biology student and went into pathology where she makes cures through all kinds of herbs and flowers. People came to her when they want herbal remedies or input to give their kids if they didn’t believe in traditional medicine.
Tía Maria Chavez – She’s the only one in her family that didn’t marry as she went to become a radiologist who works with x-rays. She helps out her aging parents with Anna and her brother. She wants to travel the world someday to hopefully meet her soulmate and get married to the person or hook up to someone who happens to love baking.
Tío Anton Chavez – The youngest of the Chavez line. He happens to be an architect because ever since he was young he was fascinated with buildings. He’s married and has two kids. He built his two girls a tree house when they were young, and he let them have the final input. Needless to say, his backyard was a pretty popular with the neighborhood kids.
Abuela Rosa Chavez (84) – She is a housewife and she helped take care of her grandkids. She lives with her daughter Maria because she is alone. She wants her daughter to get married and they fight constantly even though they love each other. She would often go to the McClain household and babysit Jose and Lance then she would talk to Agathe if she’s home.
Abuelo Raphael Chavez (86) – He was a handyman before he retired. He lives with his daughter Maria and they bond over making his wife go crazy by doing little things that tick her off. He loves children, especially Hunk, and was the one who got him into building machines.
Cicero (18) – Lance and Hunk’s childhood best friend. They are close and he aims to become a child psychologist despite what his parents warn him to do. He loves to party, builds cars as a hobby, and relax by playing his lute and sing. The three of them were in a band where Lance would play the harmonica—because he has the lung capacity—and Hunk would play the drums.
Melony McClain (19) – Cousin to Lance from his father’s side. She lives in Colorado, but her family tries to make it to some family gatherings in Canada or Cuba where the majority of the family is at. She was there for Lance’s tenth birthday, as it’s important to the whole family. Most of the family came to Colorado when she turned ten, and it’s a tradition in the McClain/Chavez household to either be there or send something equivalent to Skype to congratulate your niece/nephew/cousin on attaining their soul words. She takes photos that look professional, listens to alternative music, and trying to learn Spanish. Once she’s mastered it she would be trilingual as she already knows Canadian-French and English. (She’ll be the one speaking mainly in English)
Eli Garret – Hunk’s dad Samoan. He is a clinical lab technician and his hobbies are gardening and geneology. He does geneology on the side and even shows Hunk how things are done. He makes corny jokes about how you can trace anything back, and leave enduring notes hidden in the house, and then he would forget about it. The longest recorded note was the one of the Valentine’s Day notes, he made four for his family when Hunk was thirteen, but his wife forgot one. It wasn’t until April of the next year did she find it in one of her books. To this day they haven’t let him live it down
Agathe Garret – Hunk’s mom she’s half Greek and Spanish. She loves trying to make different food from varying cultures and she is a cultural anthropologist. Currently she’s a professor, and she does write some books about the various cultures she has experienced. Occasionally she would fly out of the country, so Hunk would have to learn how to cook. She leaves him her cook books, and brings home something she thinks her family would find interesting. She’s good friends with Rosa and would call her Abuella out of respect even though the woman says she shouldn’t have to be reminded of her age constantly.
