Luciano Ribeiro

Luciano was born in Brazil, where he lived until she was eight with his twin sister, Aline, his mother and his aunt and uncle. His first language was Spanish, despite living in a country that predominantly speaks Portuguese. He learned Portuguese pretty easily, as it was fairly similar to Spanish, but English was a struggle for him to learn. And while there didn’t seem to be any reason in the immediate future for him to work on it, he did anyway, because he had a strong instinctive feeling that he should, and he always goes with his gut. Turns out, he would need it. His mom met Fred Meyer, a rich, white American who ended up inviting her to move to America to marry him. Luciano didn’t like Louis, his gut didn’t give him a good feeling when talking to him, but he saw how happy he made his mother, so he set the feeling aside. Less than a year after his mother married Fred, Luciano and Aline moved to America to live with him in Beryl Heights.

He may have only been eight years old, but he saw that he, his mom and his sister weren’t really welcomed into the Meyer family. At the time, his mother had been 27 years old when the twins moved in with her and her new husband, which was only six years older than Fred’s only daughter. Fred himself was 55, which was substantially older than Luciano’s mother, Marcia. A lot of people thought that Marcia was only in it for the money, but now Luciano knows that she genuinely loves him. His stepsister, Kaitlyn, genuinely did not believe that, and she tried to make their lives harder than they needed to be at every turn. As Luciano and Aline got closer to high school age, she always said that they didn’t have what it took to become Blue Royalty, and while Luciano didn’t really care about the list, he did care about proving Kaitlyn wrong, so he’d been anticipating his senior year eagerly. However, just before the start of the school year, Marcia learned that her estranged father was deadly ill. She decided that the whole family should be there for him as he died, so Luciano and Aline had to miss out on the beginning of their senior year to attend to him in Brazil. He died in early December and now, in January, Luciano and Aline are finally returning to Beryl Heights. Despite being late to join the Blue Royalty party, Luciano is determined to prove Kaitlyn and all of her relatives wrong about him. He doesn’t ride on anyone’s coattails.

Luciano is a friendly, calm and caring guy. He is quite attuned to others’ emotions and encourages others to express them, though not liking to express his own. He can control them pretty well, as he has learned to express himself through artistic means, such as drawing and music. He’s played soccer since he was a little boy, and refining his tricks has always been an enjoyable pastime for him. As a competitive person, he likes to do challenging activities or things that he’s not expected to win so that he can prove everyone wrong. Even if something didn’t initially interest him, he becomes very determined to do well in that thing once someone says he couldn’t do it anyway. He’s usually very stubborn but since his irritation usually comes out in passive-aggressive behaviour, he can pretend that he agrees with someone while actually cussing them out in his head. Luciano’s temper is not explosive like Aline’s, but it can reach a high level when people wrong the people close to him. He isn’t a usually violent guy, but if it comes down to it, he isn’t afraid to get into a fight. He is very loyal to the people who are loyal to him, and typically he wouldn’t betray a trust between him and someone else. Luciano prides himself on being a very trustworthy person and that is usually the case. Luciano is that guy you can call at 3 AM to pick you up from a party when you’re drunk and alone. To make things better, he is pretty non-judgemental. He will almost always defend his close friend’s actions (except if they were really bad) but he has always had trouble standing up for himself. He sort of relies on other people to back him up, although he doesn’t expect anyone too. He doesn’t like being the centre of attention, and much prefers working behind the scene and not receiving recognition. Luciano is an observant guy and knows when it is best to listen rather than talk, and because of this, he knows a lot more about people than many would expect him to.