Robin Florentino

**Robin Florentino** is a major character featured in Project Melody. He is a mage with the power of Oneirokinesis, and is one of the characters which Tomoya and most of his main friend group meet during the events of the story. He is close friends with Marianne and Cecilia, and had interacted with Marco on occasion in the past. Both characters are met before him, and helped Tomoya lead to meet him.

## Summary

Robin is an Oneirokinetic mage, he wields the ability to create, shape, control, manipulate, and enter the dreams of oneself and others. He can use his abilities to his advantage or for the benefit of others, since his power is considerably more on the rare side when it comes to the commonality of powers wielded by mages, he is often sought for by numerous organizations and corporations which have previously hired their own guerilla forces. His abilities involve altering the dreams of others and himself, he can even enter the dreams of others, he mostly does so as an observer and visitor to the dream, but he possesses the power to change, shape, and somehow even control the state of the dream, however it takes a lot of energy to pull off, and so only does this to his own dreams instead. His capabilities can be used for healing purposes, however he can only perform combative and defensive measures when he is inside of one's dream or his own. He cannot physically manifest his dream altering powers to reality itself, the closest he can perform such an action is if Cecilia uses his Hallucikinetic abilities onto a target, which creates a loophole for Robin to create and shape the state the current hallucination, or uses his obtained Hallucikinetic abilities after performing a Mage Ritual with Cecilia, helping him combine both powers so he is able to somehow fight with the powers he's had since birth onto others.

Robin is an Italian-American man at 23 years old. He lives with his grandparents in their home in Webster Heights, a well off area east of San Lorenzo and a portion of the Mora Valley Mountain Range. He is friends with Cecilia, Marianne, and Marco, he gets to meet Tomoya and everyone else thanks to his connections. Around the beginning of the story's events, Robin is nominated as one of the new recruits sought after for the White Hornets thanks to Damien's recommendation, the two have met before so the mercenary group is not a stranger to Robin. It is then found out that Robin lives with his grandparents at their home in Webster Heights, he has lived with them ever since he was 12 due to an event that tragically took the life of both of his parents, leaving him as the sole survivor of his family. He admitted himself that he had never fully recovered from the incident and had trouble accepting the fact he would never be able to have the familial scenarios he dreamed of having when he was a child.

His lifestyle spiraled as he got older, he was seen as the typical rich party kid during his years in high school, but when he became an adult he decided to take his experience as a way to create money and increase his popularity for the sake of attention and validity from others. He was involved in numerous drug rings that were rampant throughout San Lorenzo County and surrounding regions, his reputation as a party monster grew over time, he was gaining his own money however had spent a lot of his own money to fuel his lifestyle. He got himself within the world of drugs, having experimented with numerous substances with many people from across the region and the country, not to mention his growing alcoholism especially with his easy access to popular breweries and wineries because of his familial name. He had proven a name for himself within various groups of people who were college/university students and who were involved within the numerous mercenary groups he had created connections with, this is how Robin got to eventually meet Damien. Marco also had a similar life route to Robin, the two of them also met during a beach party in Mariposa.

Webster Heights was not the only location Robin had stayed at, he previously couch surfed with many of the friends and hookups he made during his time hosting and attending these type of get togethers. One of these areas he frequently visited was the town of Graham, known for its resorts and casinos. The Zodiac Resort and Casino was one of these locations he would often visit with his friends and other connections, and here is where he met Cecilia, just another blackjack dealer. The two became friends and Cecilia introduced him to one of her best friends Marianne, who resided in a small community located in the far northeastern portion of the county, not far from Rancho Dulce. The three became friends together, as Marianne also would sometimes come back to the San Lorenzo Valley region, specifically back with her parents in Marley, the three would hang out with each other often. However, this didn't halt Robin's lifestyle and behaviors that he was used to for years; but after a series of unfortunate events that occurred a few months before the start of the story's events, he had come to realize how harmful his lifestyle and behaviors were to not only himself, but to his friends and what remained of his family. This led to Robin coming down into a depressive state, he was able to get his own home around this time, which was just a small home in the outskirts of Webster Heights. He remained at home for most of the time being, living off the remaining money he had, despite the fact that his grandparents were generous enough to donate him some money to help, but his guilt was too large to accept their kind offer. When he did go out, he would also visit the remaining friends he had, especially his two good friends, Cecilia who was often in Graham for either work or at home, Marianne who was either with her parents in Marley or back in the gated community she resides in in eastern Webster Park and Marco who he had contacted again who had his own home in his hometown of Leiria. Luckily, Robin still had hobbies such as cooking and weightlifting so he was able to keep fit, stay well fed, and go on hikes nearby the Tenshi Valley National Park when he had the energy to do so. Despite his feelings of despair that lingered within him for some time, he was clean from hard drugs and heavy drinking for quite some time, only drinking at some occasions, but usually when he visits a bar with his friends or their own homes.

Robin had never had a typical modern societal job of his own, however he did accept the position of mercenary at the White Hornets when he was presented the opportunity. Ever since he had taken the job, he started his path of recovery and self-acceptance, which ultimately led to him upgrading his own home, and to forgive his grandparents for his previous actions, thankfully they were accepting as they always were. His love for life was starting to be re-discovered once again.

## Appearance

Robin has blonde hair and brown eyes. He has long bangs that when down cover a good portion of his face, he keeps his bangs swept to his left side, with two bangs going down near the middle of his face. He also has some hair sticking out from the right top side of his head, almost resembling an ahoge.

He has numerous daily outfits, his favorite is a white t-shirt with an unbuttoned blue dress shirt over it, along with a pair of casual jeans and shoes, which consist of a number of high-end sneakers, but also some moderately priced Jordans and Vans. He mostly sleeps with a shirt and boxers on, but also a pair of gray pajama pants and sweatpants. His swimwear consists of a pair of jet black swim shorts with a palm tree emblem design plastered over it.