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Rizzo Vitoria
Topic Started: Nov 18 2009, 11:53 AM (339 Views)
Acelister
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Name: Rizzo Vitoria
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Grade: 12
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: A desire to be needed has led to him having several diverse hobbies such as parkour, storytelling and website design. He likes people being able to come to him and need him, which bred his want to learn how to build websites, but he knew that being able to get to places others couldn't would allow him to be needed.

Appearance: Short black hair with a rat's tail at the back tops his short face and grey/blue eyes. He wears clothes with labels on, but they are mostly damaged - he never buys clothes, only getting them from dumpsters behind the Promanade. He has the best trainers he could buy though, knowing that grip makes all the difference between getting up a wall or breaking your arm. He sometimes goes cross-eyed when he's tired, though more often he has random twitches because of slight hyperactivity and an over-use of caffine pills. He's 5 foot 3 inches and weighs just over 100lbs, meaning he looks very young and weak for his age.

Biography: Rizzo was born to a middle-aged couple who had moved from Brooklyn to Saint Paul, MN. They moved when she got pregnant as they wanted to bring their child up in a peaceful place - and New York didn't fit the bill. They are retired now, both approaching 60, but as they had high-paying jobs, Rizzo hasn't wanted for much. His father is of Spanish descent and his mother is Italian-American, giving him his unusual name.

When growing up, Rizzo was made fun of thanks to his name being the same as one of the Muppets, despite having long before been used in a John Travolta film. Because of his traits of hyperactivity, which his parents deemed too minor to medicate, he was also said to be sneaky and up to something - later being called a rat by some children. More followed suit.

Upon reaching high school, he found that people always needed something. He started offering his services - carrying books, getting library books, coming up with good excuses and the like. When he learnt of the existence of free running, he started to practice it himself. He tried to start a Parkour group at school but that didn't take off. He's been doing it for two years now, meaning he's quite proficient at it. He has used his skills to get into the dumpsters behind the local mall - once coming across recently thrown ladies underwear. He took that home, along with some things he figured he could wear, and sold it on eBay. This netted him two hundred dollars. His parents questioned why he was wearing torn or dirty clothes, but he simply told them it was the latest fashion. As not all discarded clothes are his size, he has learnt how to sew, allowing him to adjust them to fit.

Whenever his parents give him money for clothes, he spends it on candy, caffine pills, or something that he might be able to trade at school. He's bought beer for parties mainly, getting a nice profit from it split between him and his 23-year old cousin - he couldn't fool anyone into thinking he was over 21. At one party he attended, he lost his virginity - but he won't tell anyone who to. It's unclear if she wants it to be a secret, or just him but one rumour is that it was a girl in one of the junior years.

Despite his elderly parents, he swears almost constantly. He avoids it at home, but whenever he deals with someone there's almost always a cuss in there. His parents have given him a strict schedule though, meaning he is always at home before 9pm. This has helped his school work, but he never stays in bed for more than 6 hours, more often than not only having 5 hours sleep. He does this by downing caffine pills, drinking Red Bull and eating candy. As his body has adjusted to the little sleep, it's been giving him more REM sleep and making him feel rested, so long as he has a pill every now and then and fell asleep at 10pm exactly. In his free time, he bids on eBay, builds webpages for students or writes short stories He is a mostly straight-B student, which his parents are very proud of.

Advantages: Free running experience and the ability to scavenge items will help him on the island, having gained him a keen eye in finding what others need and giving him excellent stamina. He knows how to sew, so may be able to deal with closing open wounds. His helpfulness has given him good social skills.
Disadvantages: His size and desire to be needed can be used against him. His reliance on caffine pills will count against him when they're unavailable, thereby denying him his much needed fix. Without his caffine pills, he is likely to become tense when he starts to feel tired. Missing his strict bed time will make him very tired, the longer it's left.
Edited by Acelister, Nov 20 2009, 07:07 AM.
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Hey there, Acelister, and since I haven't seen you before, welcome to Survival of the Fittest! I'm MK Kilmarnock, a moderator of the site and one of the many people available to help you and make your experience a good one! I'll be your mod for Rizzo, and I'll work with you the best I can to make Rizzo accepted.

Right now, Rizzo is a solid-looking character and it looks like he'll be in V4 pregame in very little time, but there's a few things I want to note before he goes from DENIED to accepted.

Again, the things aren't major... Rizzo is mainly likable from his origins to his daily life at school, but there's just a few things that make him an odd enough duck to warrant his denial. First, and this is a recurring thing among applicants, is that his 'storytelling' hobby appears nowhere in the biography. The hobbies and interests section is just a listed summary of those that are contained in the biography, so if it's in the bio it should be in that section, and vice versa.

Flesh out Rizzo's advantages and disadvantages as well. Some potential advantages include stamina from his parkour, perhaps some interpersonal skills, anything you feel would fit and fits within the scope of realism. I'd also like to see his 'jitteryness' and lack of sleep presented as a disability in addition to the reliance on caffiene pills you've put up, since it doesn't matter how well your body adjusts to that; there are going to be some adverse effects.

And yes, Danya will probably take those pills, but it's probably best to remove that note at the end for when this profile is placed on the SoTF wiki.

Fix those things up and Rizzo should be all set!
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I was writing it at work, so forgot the storytelling bit... :$

Edited now. Anything else, don't hesitate to kick my shins.
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This will be ACCEPTED for now, but things to think about when this is resubmitted for v4:

The hobbies section should preferably be just a list rather than a paragraph. That's my preference though, perhaps other mods like it the other way.

I had to look very, VERY hard for anything even remotely resembling 'storytelling', and it really isn't a hobby. I let it slide because coming up with excuses and lying to his parents might just barely qualify... as such, Rizzo is more of a compulsive or habitual liar than a storyteller.

His sleep schedule will be absolutely butchered without any sort of aid, but the fact that he relies on such short boosts is a disadvantage even while Rizzo has access to his pills. Consantly being jumped up on short term energy is VERY unhealthy. Ask a doctor.

Anyway, great job with Rizzo, keep in mind what I've said as you explore and have fun with him in v4 pregame.
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