Mario Arias, Age 15, 16, 17
Mario Arias, a 15 year old local in the slums of El Corona, 38ST. Mario is an aspiring music/creative artist, rather than the rap dreams most have around him, Mario Arias grew up with the likes of his older brother Alvaro Arias, who was heavily influenced in the 90's teen classics, such as skating, punk rock and graffiti. Mario and Alvaro both lack a father figure in their lives, being deported to Guatemala Mexico in 09, leaving Mario to seeing his bigger brother as his role model, Mario started copying his mannerisms,got into graffiti, started to play the guitar and desperately try to "get up" in the graffiti scene.
With the loss of his brother in 2019 in a gang related shooting, Mario was left to fend for his own, helping his poor mother try to make ends meet, all the while he suffered through chronical stress due to having all the heavy weight being put on him to provide. Nowadays Mario still resides in El Corona and still continues trying to pursue his dream as an artist.
Due to the lack of same interests around the hood, Mario can't relate to many, while others are bumping Lil Rob and rapping along, he was trying to show that Suicidal Tendencies is also a hispanic band. And the hope of all the graffiti around, he found noone is actually interested, rather they're marking territory instead of getting up. All this left him feeling lonely with noone to relate to, Mario usually hangs around and tries to influence others into a band he's creating or trying to relate to others who suffer the chronic gang mentality that he's free of.
PRESENT DAY
Mario Arias, 17 gave up on his dreams of becoming a pro skateboarder and his graffiti crew PTU (Paint The Ugly) failing horrendously, Mario fell victim like mostly everyone else in his neighborhood, he started to hang out with the killers and thieves he always stood away from, yet he didn't change anything about himself, he still kept trying to make people laugh and trying to fit in, ultimately not realizing no one really fits into a gang. He stood out of the gangway most of the time yet still kept being pressured into their way of living. With the release of Amethyst "Sleepy" Sagrario, Mario saw a new potential, instead of falling into one of the 2 cliques, he chose to join the gang in his own terms, that being the revival of the currently inactive clique Parkside Dukes (PDKS.) Mario knew he may not get people to join PTU, but he can surely get people in Dukes, the glorification of gang banging in his neighborhood completely clouded his judgement, not even realizing he's no longer looking for fellow artists to join his graffiti crew to get up with, rather groom people exactly like he was groomed to become another gang member, another statistic. Especially with the life he took from a rival gang member on the seventh of november, 2025, which made him feel like there really is no turning back and this is the life he must live now, his future. All the potential he once had now fell short as do many people in the hood.
(yes another emo char thread by yours truly)
