── ( justice smith. 27. nonbinary. he/they. ) there’s something about hadden, man, that makes me so nostalgic. like, you see that? GABRIEL DE LEON? yeah, they’ve been in hadden for twenty years now, and i don’t think i’ve ever seen them leave home without their STICKER - RIDDEN, ANCIENT TELECASTER THEY KEEP ALIVE OUT OF PURE SPITE. i think they’re a BARTENDER over at WEASEL'S and a PIERCER over at PETAL & PUNCTURE - which makes sense since they’re so ENTHUSIASTIC and HAREBRAINED. i didn’t think i’d see them out in public so soon, though, ever since … y’know, they got lost in the woods during a bad acid trip and now believe they're undead. yeah, it’s pretty bad - but i heard they’re also SPITEFUL and LACKADAISICAL, so i guess you really never know a person … maybe it’s just a SCORPIO thing? either way, everytime they’re around i always get pretty handsome awkward by the used stuck in my head and it just makes me so LIVELY. i gotta go walk it off before i do something drastic - see ya! / as penned by ur admin!
...content warnings for... non - familial terminal illness, divorce, mentions of death, drugs, depression, delusions, and drugs again.
common knowledge.
full name — gabriel franklin leone.
nickname(s) — gabe. gift of gab. annoying little shit. whore ( said affectionately ).
place of birth — newark, new jersey.
date of birth & age — october 31st, 1996. twenty7.
gender / pronouns — nonbinary, they/he
sexuality — queer ( preference in the masculine ).
occupation — musician; guitarist in any band that'll allow them. bartender at weasel's. piercer at petal & puncture.
astrology — scorpio sun, cancer moon, aries rising.
residence — a small apartment on main street; discounted due to the previous tenant's unexpected demise. all brick walls and a huge, arching window. a bitch to find curtains for. comfortably cramped.
interests — the little skrrtch skrrtch feeling whenever a new tattoo is imminent. sweet coffee. vegan food and new recipes. secondhand leather. bleaching their hair; sick designs painted with dye. music, the louder the better; punk, nu metal, rock, any emo variation. steel - toed boots. lung - restricting laughter. messy make outs. house parties, even now. hardcore shows. shitty beer; slamming the can against their forehead. producing. the environment, sustainability. keeping their friends close. never spending a night alone. horror films, halloween ( obviously ). dungeons and dragons.
aversions — cleaning, it disrupts the creative process; one must live in squander. animal cruelty, but also PETA. standing still. thinking too much about anything. their anxieties. unintentionally ruining their ( or others' ) friendships. not being able to tattoo. improper piercing aftercare. vapes ( is forever a cigarettes guy ). bad acid trips. not remembering the previous night. being haunted in an un - sexy way. their step - brother. facing reality; their delusions not being humored. serious conversations. geese.
quirks — a serial nail biter and lip muncher; tries to over - balm in compensation. tattoos over their old tattoos when they're bored of them. a new piercing every week; offers stick and pokes at parties or in the bathrooms of clubs. talks too loud in too quiet of spaces. gets separation anxiety if away from their friends for too long. is extremely clingy. treasures every vinyl in their collection. still uses a walkman; makes cassettes for their friends and lovers alike.
most played — you've seen the butcher by deftones.
notable features — hair consistently buzzed short and bleached; an array of patterns that change every week. tired eyes deep - set into a muted purple.
general disposition — a shaken bottle of coke ready to shatter glass; all fizz until he lays flat. unsteady, but excited.
character study — chris miles ( skins ) & finn ( adventure time ).
public record.
grows up in the jersey suburbs with their mom and dad for the first seven years of his life. his mother sonia’s an art student-turned-struggling artist who splits her time between nj and nyc for whichever side gig she can pick up, and his father’s an old punk turned chef with a severe vendetta against bobby flay.
when money’s tight and there’s no sitter to turn to during the summer, gabe accompanies their parents into the city. occasionally the stars align and sonia picks up a waitressing shift at the restaurant his father works at, allowing gabe to sit in a tucked away booth and scribble away. sometimes his dad’s old friends stop by the diner, letting gabe color inside the lines of their tattoos as his mom finishes up for the day.
terminal illness;when gabe’s seven, sonia gets a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with an illustrator she’s long admired and once mentored under; he’s terminal, losing control of his hands, and needs someone to finish what he no longer can. the pay isn’t the most lucrative, but the experience alone is enough for sonia to accept the offer. the only catch being that they have to relocate to hadden, new york where her old mentor resides.
around the same time, gabe’s dad gets promoted at the restaurant he’s been cooking at - he’s got it in good with the owners, could very well own the business himself if he keeps up the way he has. he loves his job, loves the restaurant and the bustle of the city. he wants to move them up to nyc.
divorce; gabe doesn’t really understand why it happens, he’s seven and doesn’t really know where hadden is - they already take the train between new jersey and new york, why couldn’t they take the train between hadden and nyc? if their parents love each other, why do they have to go separate ways? no amount of explaining could make gabe understand; and next thing he knows, his mom’s driving with him to blue harbor.
it’s tough settling in at first; gabe misses their dad and the city, and his dad’s cooking, and taking the train every other weekend between the two states - and his dad’s cooking, again. but he’s not completely alone; their dad’s old walkman left in their possession and the promise of visiting whenever he can.
days turn into years, and gabe’s older now, a teenager; he still visits the city every summer and crashes on his dad’s couch when he’s not out exploring the city or making out with a random boy from the hardcore show they’ve just attended.
minor death mention;sonia remarries, eventually - and it’s like, good. it’s really good. they met during one of sonia’s local art exhibitions, her career finally taking off after her mentor’s passing. his name’s bill, or greg - maybe craig. he makes sonia laugh like gabe’s dad did, and has a son around gabe’s age. it’s good. life is good for them.
drug mention; it’s difficult for gabe to adjust to the marriage, and the addition of a step-brother. he’s not used to family being anything other than sonia, or his dad. his friends are like a family to them, but that’s different. it just feels different. their step-brother doesn’t play dnd, or care for marching band in the way that gabe oddly does - doesn’t listen to hardcore, or appreciate horror movies. fuck, he doesn’t even smoke weed. not even a little.
gabe’s not home as often - they’re off doing better things, like smoking in someone else’s basement and trying hard to start a band that never really takes off. they do free piercings at parties in cramped bathrooms; it’s how they’ve gotten several of their own. stick and pokes on someone’s grandfather’s old leather couch, drinking shitty beer from the only gas station that doesn’t check ids just outside of town.
they don’t mean to distance themselves from their family - it just sort of happens. the only child complex; the inability to share, and minor feelings of incompetency whenever his step-brother gets praised for his ever-growing list of achievements, while gabe’s stuck with the same routine of try hard, fail, mope, then pick themself up again just to do it all over again.
eventually they graduate high school (barely but surely) and enroll in langston - most of their friends head off to better colleges in better states for better opportunities while gabe stays in the same place. they could go back to the city - but it’s expensive, and well - fuck - gabe doesn’t know. it’s hard to go anywhere once you feel stuck.
depression, death mention;they start taking anti-depressants sometime after dropping out of college, unsure of what they want to actually do with their life. gabe hits a couple low-points, but eventually takes up a job as a piercer at petal & puncture and gets an apartment for dangerously cheap on main street after the previous tenant passed unexpectedly in the home.
personal details.
currently residing in the cheapest apartment they could get. it's not, like, great - but they have at least one giant window and all brick walls, and that's enough for them.
too friendly for their own good. isn't automatically trustful but also isn't distrustful. it's easy to get on their good side, because despite all their anxiety - they're pretty laidback otherwise.
is in their head. a lot. insecure but keeps a mostly confident demeanor. tends to laugh it off a lot but they care a lot about what others think about them. at least if it's someone they care about.
clingy so clingy. loves their friends to death and is probably a little in love with them too. doesn't do well when there's miscommunication, because they'll probably assume the worst. but the worst is always, oh they don't like me anymore and they think i'm ugly and my dick's a flop and - and not like, oh they're betraying me in some way.
drugs / delusions; partier. loves loud music, loves crowds. loves feeling alive. prone to acid trips. last year they had a particularly bad trip and they still believe they're actually just a ghost and their body's buried somewhere. has gotten a little more impulsive because of it.
5'6" and every inch of their skin minus their face (mostly) is covered in tattoos. can't help it. has gotten re-tattooed over older tattoos because they grew tired of them. has a knuckles tattoo that just says KNUC KLES. it's actually their favorite sonic character.
was a band kid in high school. and a dnd nerd. is still a dnd nerd. and a comic book nerd. and a horror movie nerd. is like if a loser was also a whore (affectionately; loves to love, loves affection, and loves sharing a bed with two or more bodies at any given time).
still plays guitar, sometimes does their own vocal tracks but it's mostly distorted or altered in some way. is stuck in the 2000s emo scene perpetually, but also the punk scene. and the nu metal scene? there's variety.
has a lip ring. and a nose ring. and an eyebrow ring. lots of rings.
nude figure model for the local colleges' art programs because they would never say no to some extra money, and also because they love their body.
vegan n loud n proud about it. big on sustainability and animal rights.
