Sebastian Mino

Name:



Sebastian {Suri} Mino


Age:



[24]



Height:



[5'9]



Sex:



Male


Hair:



Sebastian's hair is short and straight, cutting off at the nape of his neck. He does like to keep his fangs a little long and feathered to add some texture and style. He tends to add a variety of colored highlights, blue being his favorite.


Eyes:



Blue-grey


Appearance notes:



Sebastian has a tattoo down his right arm in Kanji for "Hope, Self-love, Confidence" to remind himself of the values he hopes to achieve. Also reminds him of how far he's come when he's feeling down.


Occupation:



Bar-tender and occasional party entertainment.


Personality:



At first glance, Sebastian, or 'Suri' as he likes to go by, seems an easy book to read and figure out. He's energetic, funny, and happy to make people laugh, even at his own expense. Outgoing and generally the life of the party, everyone would assume he's an extroverted goof-ball or 'air-head'. He often is labeled 'too much' and probably not someone you'd want to bring home to your parents. People assume he's an easy lay, and not going anywhere in his life. Though he generally enjoys meeting new people and having a blast at parties, much of his outward antics are a way to hide his own insecurities. He wants to seem and be a people person so people like him.

Underneath his over-the-top behavior, however, he's lonely and afraid. It is hard to really get to know him, and not his persona. Sometimes, even he is not entirely sure what is really him, and what is the front. He doesn't like to share personal information about himself or his family and will do whatever he needs to, to get the topic off of himself. 

Generally speaking, Suri is actually a little shy and enjoys a good book or the library scene. He enjoys learning new things even if he doesn't share this about himself, and wants to live a life he can be proud of. He's always striving to do better and be the 'idle' he's set up in his mind. 'fake it till you make you' kind of person. He's kind and loyal to friends and has no qualm of being vicious to people who has hurt those who've managed to get into his inner circle.

In trying to combine the two sides of himself, Suri has become something somewhat in the middle and contradictory in nature. He's still figuring himself out so he has times of extreme introversion and extroversion. Breaking away from the front, Suri probably falls in the middle of both extremes though he still seems himself as the withdrawn and timid weakling internally constantly striving to be the 'carefree confident Suri'.

History:



Sebastian's family are well-to-do and had high hopes for their son. His father is a surgeon, and his mother a medical researcher. As such, they applied a lot of pressure on Sebastian to be in the medical field himself and join the family's legacy. Though he enjoyed biology and some of the other 'hard sciences', his heart wasn't in it. He was far more interested in cultures and people watching. His parents weren't thrilled and discouraged him from those types of lessons and continued to push him towards medicine. 

With his parents always strictly monitoring his instruction and creating plans for him, he was teased a lot in school. He was called a baby, 'teacher's pet', 'mama's boy', and never invited to anything because he always had to say 'no'. He became withdrawn and rather introverted for a long time, even into high school. He felt he didn't fit in with others, and his parents were always demanding more from him. He was trapped. He started losing interest in school and snuck side readings when he could. He started sneaking out to explore things for himself and soon labeled the 'bad student' in school. As one could imagine, that didn't go over well with his parents. The slight rebelliousness was fueled by the idea that he'd one day have a 'soulmate' and at that point, his parents opinions of him wouldn't mean the same. He wanted someone to show him how to be 'something else' and not care so much about what his parents demanded of him. He'd have someone else on his side, someone that could help him, someone he could rely on and share his secrets with. He was desperate for it, always looking at his arm, waiting for when his timer would start.

But it never did.

Most got it at 18, but he figured maybe he was just a late bloomer. But each day that passed with no timer, the more disheartened and heart broken he became. Why didn't he have a soul mate? Was he so bad and weak that he couldn't be loved and desired? For a while it pulled him into a depression, and he dropped out of college the first year. His parents kicked him out and he made a living at a fast-food joint for a while, just trying to survive. Being on his own, he started to learn more about himself and read the things he wanted to read, trying to get his old passion back. It was when he read more about positive psychology that he decided it was time to stop feeling sorry for himself and be the person he wanted to be. Sort of.

He wanted to be someone others wanted to be around. Not that he would admit it, but he secretly hoped that if he changed, maybe he'd get a soul mate. He missed going to parties as a kid? Fuck it, he would go to all the parties. He couldn't have a soul mate? Fuck it, he'd find his own companionship elsewhere. So he made himself out to be the extroverted fun-loving person with a tone of contacts and few friends. He frequented bars to get out of his comfort zone and forced himself to face his fears by pretending. He quickly fell into one-night stands when he was feeling especially lonely though that never really stopped the ache for connection. He was quickly discovering sides of himself he didn't know he had. 

Years later, he finds himself working at a nightclub as a bartender to keep up with his night life-style and studying for himself on the side and trying to incorporate the sides of himself he's created into one cohesive person. The years have shown him that he isn't quite as shy as he had been and with his 'fuck it' attitude, he could let go of inhibitions and reservations he'd had. Maybe he was finally becoming 'Suri' more and more, even if he still had breakdowns at home when he had time to think about what he was doing and how far he was pushing himself to be someone else. And on his way home one morning, his timer starts. At 0.

The old heart break came back to slam him like a freight train. He debated just walking away and ignoring it. Why seek out the soulmate that had been denied him? The one he'd needed when he was breaking, before he became this dual personality? But... now he was slightly... hopeful... and curious. He still craved genuine connection, someone who could see through the bullshit. Who was his soul mate? Why had his timer started now of all times? He had questions, and he wanted answers.