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|  | NAME: Hugo Berrones ALIAS: N/A NICKNAMES: N/A CID: #97476 GENDER: Male AGE: 34 DATE OF BIRTH: 12/08/1984 PLACE OF BIRTH: Valencia, Spain CURRENT LOCATION: City 24 EDUCATION: Basic High School OCCUPATION: Café Worker |
| -BACKSTORY- Hugo was born in Valencia on the east coast of Spain. His mother left when he was quite young, though the reasoning was never clear - it’s something his father never talked much about. He was always a polite young boy usually surrounded by a small cluster of friends - though always a follower, never a leader. Hugo spent his youth in Alboraya in a block of flats with his father. He always admired his father’s dedication to balancing doing what he loved with providing for his small family. His dad was an artist, mostly selling large watercolour paintings to tourists near the coast. In private, his dad would paint more morose, grayscale paintings of people. After the Seven Hour War, the pair were briefly sent to City 72. His father died in the ensuing Xeno infestation before Hugo was quickly carted off to City 59. He spent some years being bitter and jaded as he bounced from place to place, always relegated to the slums and struggling to make ends meet. Eventually, he learned to cope with his anger by helping those around him, often by making risky trips and gathering contraband to keep people happy. Now, a fresh new start in City 24 has opened up… -FAMILY- MOTHER: Anita Morales / Unknown FATHER: Mateo Berrones / Deceased SIBLINGS: Unknown | -APPEARANCE- Hugo is quite a plain man, usually clad in some kind of scruffy, scratched up jacket and occasionally a hat, when he can get his hands on one. This is to cover his receding hairline, which he gets a little self-conscious of due to the earliness of the balding process. He’s always wearing thick, cheap, plastic-framed glasses. -PERSONALITY- Hugo looks serious. His expression is serious, his voice sounds serious and on first meeting his conversation subjects tend to be goal-focused. However, underneath that is a man that just wants to connect to the common person in the slums, and would go to many lengths to ensure the people he likes and trusts are looked after. -LIKES AND INTERESTS- Hugo likes to be useful, and so gathering materials and distributing crafted items brings him a lot of joy, even when things seem thankless. Though not much of a talent at it, he does enjoy the world of art having grown up around it. -DISLIKES AND AVOIDANCES- Hugo has a strong distaste for the people at the top of society, thinking of them as people who have trodden over the corpses of working people to get where they are. He also really hates wasps, though it isn’t much of an issue anymore. |
| -RELATIONSHIPS- LOVES ADMIRES RESPECTS BEST FRIEND FRIEND ACQUAINTANCE DISTRUSTS DISLIKES HATES DECEASED Hannah Gilchrist You have shown me how the slums work in this city, my friend. Your dedication to helping those in need is both respectable and awe-inspiring. You're clearly a clever woman with a keen eye on who to trust, and you know how to work the system. And of course, you are a funny lady. Very dry. ... Yet, I still feel there's something unreadable about you. Cards close to the chest. ---------- I appreciate the hell out of you for giving me a chance in this city. I know I don't look the part, but I'll do what I can to help your store, and help the people in the community. And... Thank you for trying to talk to Iz with me. I don't think I could have taken it all on alone right now, I just... Couldn't. ---------- How on earth did we get to where we are? Thank you for giving me this chance, I'll work hard and make sure that you have every success possible in Victory... For the people. Isabella Katrina Spencer (MIA) I know you are holding something back. Please, please... Stay safe. I can't see you get hurt again. Don't fall down this hole. --------- Isabella, you're breaking me apart. I know you are angry, I can feel the fear coming from you... But this is not the way to go. Since you were assaulted, you just seem so... Different. I miss the silliness, I miss you talking of your art and... I feel so selfish just saying that. I can't ask that of someone who has been through so much. When you talk to me about your plans, I am scared and sick, right to my stomach. You're going to end up dead because you can't control your rage. Why do I have to control my anger, why do any of us, if you are just going to cave into it and throw everything away? --------- You vanished. You vanished without telling me. After everything, after we finally admitted what we were feeling... Did you run away? Did the law catch up to you? But... You were playing their game, you were climbing the social ladder...? I took the train to Alaska. Thought maybe you'd be on there. I was wrong. I nearly didn't come back. Yuno Hira (Presumed Dead) ... Ech, I can't ever stay that mad at you. You're like a little lost lamb. I feel responsible for you. Oh God... What have I done? Argyle Bentwick I really appreciate what you're doing in the slums, sir. You give people hope, a reason to keep getting out of bed and soldiering on. I hope we get to speak more soon, you seem like a good, honest fellow. ---------- Argyle, you crazy son of a fuck! You said what we all want to say, and I admire your cojones! Just wish you'd come to us first before making a rash decision, huh? I hope wherever you are that you are safe. I owe you so many beers. I just want to know who is going to look after your project, now? Elias Siemens I think we got off on the wrong foot. I really tried to bite your head off, but... I was angry. I'm sorry. I know now that you are a good person, trying your best in this shitty world. Part of me respects how far you've managed to push yourself in this world. Another part of me really feels icky when I talk to you... I wonder who you stepped over to get to where you are, even if it was for the greater good. I'm not sure. I hope we talk again soon. "Big Tony" Keep being you, Big T. --------- How fucking dare you say what you said to me. I get it, you're a big man with big secrets. You crossed way over the line. Director Grodno I hope this city chews you up and spits you out. I have been advised by my work team to revise my stance and retract all previous feelings. --------- I thought I had you figured out in one glance... Thought I had all of you suits figured out! And yet, you do nothing but help Hannah out. What you are doing for her, and by extension me, keeps the people in the slums fed. Who are you? Alex Weaver What in the hell did we sign up for? Everything changed for me the moment you came up to me in the train station. "Have you ever handled a gun before?" At that point I knew this wasn't the labour mission I thought it was. You asked me to form a team, to protect the camp and... protect you. I still don't know if I did my job. God, Weaver, I... I got so many people fucking killed! You got shot, I wasn't there, Jesus... I led them back into the mines, we didn't all make it... If anything, you protected me - by being the strong leader you are. I don't agree with everything you said and did on the trip, but... I couldn't have handled the pressure half as well as you did. We have a bond forged in fire and blood. I only hope that we are shown gratitude back in 24. Chappie God am I glad you came into the café! I just-- I just had this feeling you were going to be important. Despite everything you were going through, your kindness radiated through. And then, within days everyone else saw how great you were as well! You deserved that first place prize with your... amazing... jokes? And then shit hit the fan. I didn't expect to see you on that train platform. Didn't expect you to be second in command... I didn't know if someone with such a sweet demeanour would be able to do what Weaver asked of you. I've never been so glad to be wrong. You're a confident, wise and fucking scary individual. I'm so glad you were on our side! I won't forget what I said to you. Gonna get you in the café. We're done with the danger, for now. Your secrets are safe with me. You will live among the people as before. Julia Jazmin I hadn't met you before Alaska, and given your apparent high-status... kinda glad we hadn't. But that's 24. Here, you showed yourself a powerful and resourceful friend. You saved so many, you helped my dear friend Chappie on countless occasions and... you definitely saved me. It is nice to find other Spanish natives out there in the world. I was starting to think us endangered! I hope that we can remain allies in 24... bonds forged in battle are the strongest ones, right? Fucking hell! I thought Hannah was the scariest woman I ever met and then... you! I think you were a very complicated individual. Cynical but driven. Relentless but... there was a kindness in you, too. I don't know if you had to do all the things you did... You were quick to take life, if the rumours are true. But again and again, there you were, guns blazing, a group of trusted allies... saving us time and time again. You died to save my friend. I will never, ever, forget you. I tried so, so hard to be a good man on our trip. But you tested my patience at every opportunity. You fail to see the bigger picture. You disobey every small order, from everyone! And yet... You didn't deserve to go out like you did. I truly hope you saved people with your sacrifice. This one is just so hard to write. You didn't sign up for this. You were forced into this... and there I was, telling you I walked into this like it was some fucking holiday! You laughed at me, like a father when his kid gets into mischief. And then you did everything you could to protect me, to protect all the good people beside us. I'm drinking a whole bottle of vodka for you when I get home. I was so happy to see you on that train platform. We worked together, we drank together. I'm... I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have signed you up to be a guard. If I hadn't, maybe you'd still be here. Perhaps we'd have had a bunch of adventures in 24, become the best of friends... Shit, SHIT! Arthur Eastgate You know, I don't think I ever met you before all of this! But you are one hell of a leader! Okay, yeah, shit got confusing... And tense. But you can sure as hell get people to shut up and listen to you, you know? I hope I see you around in the city. You're a good man. You saved the comms camp, no doubt. Ferris Oozy I got to know you a little before we headed out. You seemed like a real genuine, down to earth guy. And then I hear through the grapevine that you... you saved a man's life? Took out a corrupt overseer? Led the people in a dark hour? You looked a little lost, but fuck - got to admire the balls on you, friend! Sergei Bolinski You were a good guard. A great man. You signed up for hell, even when I warned you how bad the odds. You better do good things when you come out of this, friend. I heard you pulled a gun on two women coming up the pass, though. I get it, final days, things were tough. Dick move, still. Another person that I signed the death warrant on... After all you suffered, I should have pulled you out of there... And yet, you charged into the heart of hell at my side-- God, I'm so sorry, I'm so so sorry! Shit! We did it, though. We got Alex out alive. I'll drink to your memory. Jesus, Nick... What the fuck happened? You were such a normal guy and then... I heard you going ballistic on the radio, and then... silence. Athena & Sofía Athena, you are a brave woman who faced fear beyond imagining... And you saved us ALL. Sofía, you are a scared woman that acted out in frustration in a hopeless situation. I don't know what kind of fate brought us to the cliff edge... But you both made big promises. Look after each other out there... I'll be thinking of you both. Minato You know, I don't know what it was that made Alex and I trust you so implicitly... but not once did you do anything other than prove how right we were to do so. You shielded us from so much danger, went out against the unknown to bring us such valuable intel... If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have made it, friend. Human You did actively what I tried so passively to do... achieve peace and unity between camps. If you hadn't been there, trust from every corner... I don't think any of us would have made it. Ayaz Osmanoglu You! You saved us ALL! If you hadn't taken charge at every point and taken care of feeding an entire platoon of people, we would have torn each other apart! How did a member of security defend us so well and still take it upon themselves to go beyond everything asked and look after us, so? I owe you so, SO much food and drink. Swing by the café, I'll try and fudge some numbers and give you some stock price shit. |
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