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Paulo Abbate
Topic Started: Jan 13 2012, 12:54 PM (891 Views)
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Name: Paulo Abbate
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12
School: Aurora High School
Hobbies and Interests: Watching UFC, participating in backyard MMA, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu(poorly self-taught)

Appearance: Paulo is a boy of stocky build at 5'7" and 180 lbs. As per his mixed Brazilian ancestry, he has a light brown shade of skin and thick, dark hair that he tends to keep cut short. His nose is crooked, having healed poorly after being broken in a backyard mixed martial arts bout. He also has a scar on the base of his right index finger where he had cut it on a bike chain during a rather nasty spill in his youth. His eyes are a dark brown, almost matching his hair in shade. Paulo's wardrobe is dominated by mixed martial arts wear. Rarely is he seen without a gaudy Tapout, Sprawl, or Affliction T-shirt. When he can get away with it in school he wears similarly marked baseball caps.

He doesn't have a muscular cut to his body. most of him is soft, especially in the abdominal region. Despite obviously being out of shape, Paulo has a cocky walk and carriage, as if he's actually a professional fighter.

Biography: Paulo was one of the fraternal twins born out of wedlock to Marcello Silva and Jennifer Abbate, alongside his sister Alda. Due to the circumstances of their parents meeting, neither of the Abbate siblings know their father very well.

Marcello was a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructor in southern California, in the country on an expired work Visa (a friend of his owned the school for legal purposes). Jennifer, a career retail worker, had decided to try out BJJ for self-defense at Marcello's school after being assaulted transporting a deposit to the bank. She had shown somewhat of an aptitude for the martial art, and Marcello, interested in getting more representation for his school in the female divisions so as to drum up more memberships, started giving her private lessons. It was during these sessions their relationship moved beyond master and student into something more.

The two began their relationship outside of the school in earnest, going on the occasional date when they could manage it. Two years after Jennifer started training at Marcello's school, they started talking about marriage. The benefits of the marriage were twofold; the two seemed to be very much in love and it was a natural progression, and Marcello would be able to stay in the country without fear.

It was around four years into the relationship, when Jennifer was pregnant, that the two started running into trouble. Jennifer was tired of Marcello spending more and more time at the school and his seeming attitude that he was more interested in her jiu-jitsu than their marriage. Little by little, the rift between them continued to open as Marcello became more and more scarce as he got students ready for tournaments, or went to grappling seminars, or flew home to Sao Paolo on occasion to train with his former coach. Marcello almost didn't make it to see his son and daughter born.
A month after the twins were born, Jennifer up and left California with her two children to Seattle to live near her family, fed up as she was with Marcello. She threatened to get him deported if he followed her, and since he was still an illegal immigrant, he couldn't pursue legal action.

The Abbate siblings were brought up mostly ignorant of their father. The family was poor, living off Jennifer's meager wages and whatever help from her family they could provide. Alda grew up with a vague interest in poetry and softball. Paulo, perhaps taking after his father, watched UFC. The fires of this interest were stoked when his mother, figuring her children should at least know where they came from, told them their father was a (good-for-nothing) BJJ teacher, then told them to stay away from the sport if they knew what was good for them. An easy enough task for Alda, who had no interest in it.

Paulo, however, latched onto the idea that his father was a black belt. It became almost an obsession for him to emulate the man, in hopes someday it would be his ticket out of poverty. It was especially difficult because his mother wouldn't pay for him to take BJJ, both out of a respect to their finances and her own persona distaste of the martial art.

Paulo made do with what he did have; the internet. He watched countless YouTube videos of techniques, continued to watch UFC events online as often as he could. He would invite friends over to practice techniques (out of the eye of his mother), and that's how the backyard MMA started happening. Eventually he had a ring of friends from school that spent their weekends beating on each other with poor semblance of technique from what they imitated.

As the circle of friends grew, so did Paulo's false confidence. He came to think of himself as a backyard jiu-jitsu master, and he started trying to act more Brazilian, which essentially amounted to him speaking in a faux-Brazilian accent most of the time. He even insists to people they call him by his father's Brazilian surname of Silva, as long as he knows his mother won't find out about it.

He started wearing fight-wear around school to culminate a tough guy image, although he's never actually gotten into a fight at school (truth be told, he was actually terrified of getting called on his tendencies). His mother tries every so often to break him of these habits because in a way, he reminds her of Marcello. But Paulo clings fast to this image.

The MMA fights in Paulo's backyard is mainly what his group of friends is. For the most part, this group contributes to his ego. Since few of them know any better, they believe Paulo actually knows what he's talking about when he does "jiu-jitsu" in their fights, or tries to teach any of them the moves. He rides high on their ill-placed praise, and they help him perpetuate the facade.

Alda may well be one of the only ones that sees through this image and knows why he tries so hard to live up to it, but she mostly just sees her brother as being a dork with a tough man complex, and his circle of friends as a bunch of morons.

He has few aspirations or goals, although deep down, he's really hoping that keying in on the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu will give him some sort of connection, however slight, to his estranged father. Even his school performance doesn't indicate any particular intellectual path to greatness, as he's mostly a C to B student with a slight affinity for social studies (his attempts to find out as much as he can about Brazil has lead to some aptitude studying cultures). He has gotten in trouble on more than one occasion for being threatening to other students, although his transgressions have never gone to actual violence. He's lucky another kid hasn't put his lights out.

Advantages: Paulo has some measure of toughness, simply by way of sparring with his friends in the backyard; he's taken punches, although they were gloved and untrained punches. His "jiu-jitsu" while technically incorrect in almost every way, may still catch off-guard people with no grappling ability.
Disadvantages: Paulo has an abrasive personality that may burn bridges with potential allies. He also reacts negatively to anyone that questions his tough guy image, and this could potentially get him into trouble.
Edited by Outfoxd, Jan 13 2012, 11:14 PM.
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Hi Outfoxd! I'm Wheeler and I'll be your server moderator for Paulo.

There are only a few minor things I would like to see before Paulo gets the green light.

1) Hobbies and Interests - Does Paulo have any other interests outside of the two primary ones you have listed. Two only have two primary interests (while validated well in the profile) might limit what others may think of Paulo during the game itself, or while researching the person they may be writing with.

2) Appearance: The sentence: "What’s interesting is how he tends to carry himself in his walk as confident, as if he actually is one of the professional fighters he watches on TV." This has an awkward flow up to the comma. If you could rework the carrying himself bit, that would be super.

3) Biography:
- "...know their father very much." Another minor thing, but I believe changing the "much" to "well" helps the sentence read better.
- I love that you have an excellent back story for Paulo's family and how they developed, but it seems as though there wasn't much for Paulo himself. His school life and friends seemed to be skimmed over a touch, so a bit of fleshing out on that would help.

Those are my only critiques for Paulo. Great profile, and not much to fix before he's all good.

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Good on ya mate!

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