Victor/profile

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## Personality

★ Ambitious | +

        Victor has become an ambitious person beginning with his goal to get into college. Because he came from a humble background, he knows that he has to work hard to achieve some things that should just be expected of him. Having reached that first goal, he has become even more ambitious, now realizing that his life’s path really does reflect his efforts.

    ★ Protective | +

        Because he didn’t have much while growing up, Victor became protective of what he could hold on to. He puts great care into the things he owns, and treasures the few personal connections he has even more. This isn’t to say he becomes easily attached though-- only that when he can finally afford to buy something or finally does warm up to someone, he feels a sense of responsibility and guarding.

    ★Enduring | +

        Victor is able and willing to put up with a lot, whether it is physical stress from sports, a heavy workload from school, his parents venting from the stress of their work, or a variety of other situations. He’s pretty patient, but his indifference doesn’t let things get to him on a personal level. This way, he can take a lot of stress without too much of the negative consequences.

    ★ Pragmatic | =

        As a perhaps overly practical person, Victor wastes no time on what he thinks to be frivolous or wasteful. He wants things done efficiently and thoroughly, and has little patience for any sort of antics. This is especially the case for when he has a goal in mind. Rather than being idealistic, he is down-to-earth, sensible, and sees things in a realistic view.

    ★ Moralistic | =

        Morality and fairness is important to Victor as an athlete. This has spread to his overall mindset, and he can’t stand any sort of unprincipled behavior. He tries to avoid the dangers of self-righteousness, but is completely aware that his search for equality in the world may lead him to seem assuming and self-serving in that way.

    ★ Solitary | =

        Victor spent a lot of time by himself as a child, and has since become accustomed to the solitary life. It’s not like he doesn’t like people or anything, but he believes that he just works better by himself. On top of this, he is introspective, but keeps his thoughts to himself. It’s mostly just that Victor values independence and free will over friendship and love.

    ★ Closed off | -

        While he doesn’t exactly mean to be a secretive person, Victor often distances himself from those around him. He won’t easily trust people, and won’t easily share his thoughts, and much less so his more personal information and feelings. He’s overly wary of those who seem manipulative, and guards himself from others.

    ★ Apathetic | -

        When it comes to other people’s problems, he is quite detached, and it’s hard to make him genuinely care. This comes alongside the fact that Victor is pragmatic, for if he thinks that certain worries are not justified or simply unreasonable, he won’t even bother to put any thought into it. He tries not to concern himself too much with things that won’t have a real effect him.

    ★ Critical | -

        Victor can be quite a disapproving person, so even if he might not care about people, he certainly can be pretty judgemental, too, as this also builds off his moralistic personality trait. He keeps all of this to himself and doesn’t necessarily mean to be so negative in his critical thinking when viewing others’ dispositions, but he can’t help but look for faults in others as he does to himself.

## Background

Victor was raised in the center of the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, in an old, low-rise, brick-faced tenement house. His childhood was humble and somewhat lonely, for his parents were far from rich and always preoccupied with work. Both of his mother and father worked full-time jobs, which left the young boy to fend for himself most of the time. Though he was often away from them, Victor didn’t feel sadness or resentment to his parents for the way they lived, but that was due to the fact that he just didn’t know life any other way. Throughout his years at elementary school, he was always the first to arrive at school when his parents went to work, and the last to be picked up at the end of the day when his parents were finally free. As this trend continued through middle school, he decided to join his school sports teams to pass the time, for if he were to stay at school anyways, Victor decided that he might as well do something productive with his time. This way, the young boy remained at school all year round by playing football in the autumn, swimming in the winter, and baseball in the spring.

These sports only started with a vague interest in Victor’s mind, but he soon grew to love the game, as it was the first time in his life he felt that he belonged in a group or team-- and the first time that he felt that he received recognition for the hard work that he put in. And soon, thanks to this, the boy finally gained a sense of pride that he had never found before, as he was seen as somewhat of a little local sports star throughout middle school and high school. He held the captain position for both his football and baseball teams, and there he was able to gain a sense of leadership and responsibility. Furthermore, he learned sportsmanship and the importance of fairness and justice especially when on the field. Success, in sportsjust as in life, is won through fair play and hard work.

While he enjoyed sports, it was not until he was in high school that he actually saw it as an asset to his life in the bigger picture. Victor had come to terms early in life with the fact that he would never be able to pay for college, and therefore never imagined he would be able to go. Up until then, he had kept good grades not only to be able to continue to participate in sports, but also because he truly believed high school would be the height of his formal education. When he learned about being able to do sports scholarships though, it became the new focus for his life. He had been complacent with his situation before, but now Victor knew ambition. His new goal was to go to Columbia University with a full sports scholarship, as it was not only an excellent school, but also just a half an hour by bus from his home. Considering this, he could stay close to help out his parents, while still continuing his education.

Through hard work and much training in his last years in high school, Victor’s dream finally came true. His high school coach had encouraged him to visit the sports advisors and coaches at Columbia, and he was thankfully recognized for all he endured for his dream, especially under the circumstance of his less than fortunate upbringing. He decided to play baseball for his college career to avoid the danger of injury that comes with football. If the scholarship was the only thing allowing him to stay in college, he wanted to make sure to keep up his health to be able to continue attending school. Within the next year, Victor entered college to play baseball, and chose to study Chemistry as he believed that it might one day earn him a successful career to further pay back his parents for all the work they did for him when he was a child.

Once in college, baseball became his life. His freshman and sophomore years were successful, but at this point he lived only to study and to practice, and had no time to even think of anything else. Even during the summer after his first year he had to do physical training and took summer classes to get ahead on schoolwork so he could spend more time during the semester to practice

Now, it was the last weekend before his summer classes began before his junior year. Victor was on his way to baseball practice when, taking a shortcut through a local park, he noticed a small crowd gathering. He passed by this area almost daily, but only now did he realize that he had never onced bothered to really look around him, as he felt that this was the first time that he had ever even seen that compass rose. Worried that some sort of trouble was occuring, he stepped closer to get a look, slipping past the wrought iron gates and into the crowd.

It was just then that he heard the tolling of the city bells.

## Trivia

* Though he’s a baseball player now, he has probably tried almost every sport possible, especially when he was around middle school age. He still remembers bits of boxing, martial arts, and other sports in order to use them for physical training, even though he hasn’t formally practiced those things for a long time.

* He doesn’t believe in anything religious or supernatural, but some of his teammate’s superstitions about winning have stuck to him.

* Likes really fashionable sneakers even though he’s too poor to buy them. (It’s a secret though)
* Ripped pant knees 24/7 due to sliding too much in baseball (Both in and out of his baseball uniform)
* He knows how to longboard!
* Victor is a pretty good chef because he often had to cook for himself when his parents were away at
* Honestly, Victor is into extreme couponing. He never misses a chance to get a good discount!!
* He plays First Baseman position in baseball.

## Quotes

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