Post by dmitri alexandre mendoza on Mar 19, 2014 19:31:58 GMT -5
DMITRI ALEXANDRE MENDOZA
FULL NAME: Dmitri Alexandre Mendoza.
NICKNAMES: None he'll answer to.
AGE: twenty-five.
GENDER: Male.
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Citizen.
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: N/A.
JOB OCCUPATION: Playwright.
HAIR: Brown, neat but kind of on the longer “grown out” side of guy's hair length. There's a slight wave in it that comes by naturally, but for the most part, Dmitri just keeps running his fingers through it rather than really setting out and styling it.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: He has a slight scar on his chin from an accident with a whiskey bottle and a very drunken night.
TATTOOS: None – he's not a fan of needles of any kind.
PIERCINGS: None.
PLAY-BY: Cillian Murphy!
LIKES: The theatre, whiskey, motels, unexplained mysteries, flying, peppermint tea, black coffee, his own company, dark chocolate, Home Alone movies, cookies, thriller movies, slow music, slow dancing, bottled water, fresh fruit, European history, writing, staying backstage, speaking through an agent/PA, steampunk, plants, staying indoors, full names, old movies, books with yellow pages.
DISLIKES: cats, needles, public speaking, having to deal with people, public transport when it's crowded, horror movies, pitch black rooms, noisy vents, cold feet, cold fingers, blisters, chewing on pens (but he still does it), chamomile tea, bruised fruit, socks, rock gardens, nicknames, coconut shower gel, treacle, texting, computers, being yelled at, losing his temper, gyms, Halloween, chapped lips.
FEARS: Needles, cats, being entirely alone forever.
SECRETS: Pretty much his entire existence. He always stays in the shadows as best as he can, using his assistant and other few trusted people to take care of the public speaking or the things in his life that he just doesn't like. He's not one for putting himself out there and prefers to spend his life in a quiet little bubble.
PERSONALITY: Dmitri is very eccentric and extremely quirky. His habits are a little out of the ordinary, just like his tastes, but without them he wouldn't be Dmitri. He's the type of guy who sees everything when he's out and about, remembering things well. A certified genius with a 174 IQ, however he doesn't have a college education to match that since he dropped out. He's a quiet man who is very distrusting of others; only a select few are even allowed into his apartment. Shy probably doesn't come close to cutting it for Dmitri. He's not one for any sort of interaction, but interestingly enough he does have an explosive temper when people push him too hard or criticise the wrong topics. In those cases it is a difficult task to calm him down and make him stop yelling or fighting someone. He's incredibly gifted at writing, but he's also a terrible perfectionist who won't let anything go to the stage until he is perfectly happy with it. Dmitri could probably also be described as a technophobe since he loathes any kind of new “fan-dangled” technology and refuses to use it or let it in his home. He's rather close to becoming a recluse and if it wasn't for his PA and maybe his only other close and trusted friends/relatives he would probably never, ever leave his home. When it comes to romance, Dmitri is definitely clueless. He can write charm and charisma, but lacks it himself, which makes first encounters memorable for all the wrong reasons usually. He's the apologetic sort who would say sorry for even turning up on a date in the first place. Dmitri sees himself as remarkably unspectacular and he kind of likes to keep it that way.
MOTHER: Leona Hattie Mendoza, 54.
FATHER: Paul Benjamin Mendoza, 57.
SIBLINGS: Broderick Stewart Mendoza, 27.
OTHERS: Georgie Alyson Baker, 24, PA & Roommate.
PETS: Barley, blue and yellow Macaw! (Technically, he's Barley II but only when poked about this will Dmitri acknowledge that the first Barley had died and this was a replacement that Broderick bought the same day that Barley I died)
HOMETOWN: Westbrook, Maine.
HISTORY: Leona and Paul were the type who expected to settle down and have that typical nuclear family. They thought their sons would play sports, join school clubs and lead the type of lives that they had once wanted for themselves, but had been forced to think twice about when it came to making choices about their relationship, school and work. Paul was a correctional officer while Leona was co-owner of a small bridal boutique. She had hoped for a daughter to share some of the girlier things with, but they both knew that two children was all that they could handle with their schedules. They didn't want their children to suffer because of their work hours. Still, two sons were enough for them both and Leona and Paul were set for some perfect little future with their family.
From a very young age Dmitri was extremely unusual. He never wanted to play downstairs with his brother, but would prefer to stay in his room. He picked at things and fussed over things most young children wouldn't even think twice about. Worried, Leona took her youngest son to doctor after doctor just in case there was an illness they hadn't seen in infanthood or a learning disability, but Dmitri was in fact extremely bright and brilliant. It just came with him being noticeable and painfully introverted. As time ticked by it became apparent that they would just have to tolerate and handle Dmitri's unique ways and hope that he might grow out of them. Alas, he did not and his quirks only became more bizarre and stronger within him.
He excelled at school, surprising everybody with his natural ability to learn and retain information. He was a head and shoulders above his classmates with a shocking IQ at a young age. He skipped grades when it was advised as the behest of teachers and parents, but it wasn't something that affected his schooling. Dmitri didn't care about his classmates or their antics. Their words never bothered him. He would sit in class with his head down and not even notice when a teacher was calling on him for answers, but just scribbling away in his notebooks. The only person he would really talk and listen to was his older brother, Broderick. Broderick had the patience for Dmitri and had worked hard when they were very young to try to understand his bemusing little brother. Growing up, Broderick was the one who could convince Dmitri into coming on days out, talking to other people and covered for him whenever his bashfulness was getting out of hand in some situations.
Nothing spectacular happened during Dmitri's youth. He was the weird boy in school, but no one bullied him or said a word because he was Broderick's younger brother and Broderick was a pretty powerful player in those high school corridors. He was on the basketball and lacrosse teams and made a pretty decent charmer with the girls. Plus, some others respected Dmitri for his brain. He was the first to finish exams, never scored less than an A on anything and people expected him to be brilliant in the future, which he was, but not in the way everyone imagined him to be. He was a high school senior at sixteen and would graduate at the same time as Broderick. Before that though, he entered an inter-school competition to write a short play. Dmitri's was based on a young boy during the Cold War in Eastern Europe and while it only made second place, it sparked his passion for plays and writing them.
Broderick was moving to New York for school and it was agreed that given Dmitri's habits it would be beneficial for the parents to shed the money for an apartment for them both in the city. Dmitri didn't want to go to college, saying school had offered him nothing more than headaches and smelly teachers. Leona and Paul hoped that their son would change his mind once Broderick settled in and showed him what it was all about, but it never happened. Instead, Dmitri spent days in the apartment at a time, writing and perfecting plays and hoping one of them would be just right to take to the stage. Three months before his eighteenth birthday, that happened. However, Dmitri was not one for bossing people around and playing director. He knew what needed to be changed and how things should be but he didn't like shouting them to people. He used Broderick to help him pull the play together and it was Broderick who took the praise at the end of the opening night, while Dmitri lingered nearby with his head buried in one of the programmes while he listened.
By the time Dmitri was twenty, two more plays had been successfully moved to the stage and the three were now currently being performed across the country. However, Broderick was always the front man for anything Dmitri achieved and he had his own life to live. He couldn't babysit his little brother forever. Which is why Broderick began interviewing for assistants to do everything he had previously done for Dmitri. At first, most quit before a month had passed, but changes here and there to the job description, plus a bump in pay and perks had them at least attempting to stick around for longer. There was no way to hide that Dmitri was a difficult man, and Broderick needed to find the perfect person to handle him, his quirks and his job. It took three years before Georgie came around. Broderick knew in the first interview that she was perfect for the job, but she still had to win Dmitri over before anything successful could be toasted over. Luckily, she managed it by first winning Barley over. The Macaw was Dmitri's first friend away from Broderick and he would frequently talk to the bird like it was another human being.
As per the deal of the contract, Georgie moved into the apartment with Dmitri, since Broderick had moved out six months earlier. It became her job to be the face of Dmitri, to speak on behalf of him and to deal with anything eccentric he might get up to in the middle of the night or day. It was a full time job, for sure, but she was the first assistant to come along who Dmitri valued. As the months became a year, Dmitri began holding serious conversations with her instead of mumbling at her in passing. He's still got a long way to go, but Georgie is bringing him a friend he never knew he could have without Broderick being around to mediate.
There's still a lot to go through in life, still a lot that Broderick wishes for his little brother, but right now Dmitri is still 90% stuck in his eccentric ways and he has no conscious plans to change. He could happily spend the rest of his life in his apartment with just his typewriter, his plays and a whiskey bottle.
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RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim
WHERE YOU FOUND US: Back of a postage stamp.
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