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Name: Daniel Fernando Alvarez-Garcia

Nickname: Danny, Dan

Age: 10

Birthday: September 21

Sign: Virgo

Gemstone: Sapphire

Blood Type: O+

Fav. Food: It's a toss up between Flan, Chili Rellenos, and Habaneros.

Hated Food: mushrooms, duck, and Peanut Mazapan (He finds Mazapan a bit dry)

School: Knightside Elementary

Hobbies:
Cooking
Daniel began cooking two years ago on New Years by helping his father prepare masa for tamales and began helping to cook since. While he's not allowed near the stove yet, he is allowed to help, usually by rolling our tortillas, mixing and seasoning tamale masa, shredding cooked beef and chicken, and similar. Cooking is a common tradition and his family will usually make cooking a family affair, though he particularly enjoys it and sometimes assembles his school lunches himself, using leftovers or by asking for help in the morning from his parents or older siblings.

Soccer
Daniel enjoys soccer, and signs up for the sport team as much as possible and allowed. He enjoys playing offense on the team, and honestly has a good time playing it. He tries to watch international soccer on television, but it's often frustrating for him to find any good channels when his family is around.


Virtues:

Dependable
When Daniel says he'll do something, he does it. While for a ten year old this is quite a bit, Daniel has it ingrained to try to do what he says he will or to show up when he says he will. He values keeping his word, even when it bugs him to no end-- especially when he fails. Being the second youngest in a family with three boys and a girl, he gets shuffled around a lot, and has trouble keeping up sometimes, making keeping his word extraordinarily difficult. He does, however, keep it often enough to be a dependable person, and usually people trust him when he says he'll do something.

Resourceful
Daniel knows how to get things done with what's on hand. While he's still young, he's used to patching up his brother's hand me downs with things on hand and sometimes he'll fix their things too. This extends to lunch at school as well. When he doesn't have lunch money or he loses it, he often manages to come up with something. While he can't always get himself out of a pinch, he typically comes up with ideas of how to get out of things and how to get things done.

Respects Adults
Daniel may have issues with peers or his siblings, but by goodness his parents drilled respect into his head from day one, and so long as he's speaking to an adult, he's polite, soft-spoken, and minds his pleases and thankyous. He dares not to be rude to an adult, and adult-like figures in any way, even when he politely declines them. It's in so deep he doesn't understand why other children may bite the hand that feeds them any. Really, what's with the other kids? That's where the flan comes from!

Flaws:

Ill Tempered
Daniel is dependable, resourceful, and polite... He's also a foul-tempered little monster when things don't quite go his way, or someone gets on his nerves. He doesn't play well with others once he's picked on, and his temper can get him in trouble for fighting. He commonly stomps around, yelling in English and/or Spanish, and he'll use all manner of rude names, including his favorite, calling people a stubborn burro or donkey.

Resentful
Daniel resents a lot of things. He resents being the youngest son in the family, he resents getting only hand me downs, he resents being held to his brothers... He's a brat really. If someone wrongs him, he quickly resents them for it, and where many people find it off-putting, he finds himself resenting people who scold him for it. Because of his resentment, he's often in a sour mood and doesn't really cope well when things don't go HIS way.

Disrespectful to Peers
Daniel is rather nice and polite to adults. His peers, however, do not get this boon from him at all. Coupled with his temer, he's a very grouchy, rude little boy and while he can make friends, it isn't easy-- he will not hesitate to call people names if he doesn't like them, and might not be as dependable or willing to be nice. And he's a name caller with attitude. He won't ask nicely, he just demands or expects things from people, making people think he's a bit snobby.


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Brown-lighter brown, round and usually surly looking.

Hair: Short, with longer hair in front. He's not trying to impress, so he's usually fluffy.

Face: A mix between heart-shaped and angular-- has average ears and he's usually in some sort of mood. He's pleasant, honest!

Clothes: Knightside Elementary.

Bits not in the Form

Family, essentially.

Father: Ruben Samuel Alvarez-Garcia Jr.
Daniel's father was born in Mexico City and immigrated to the United States after college, where he studied for a Culinary degree. Currently he works at a small Mexican bistro downtown. Thus far, Daniel has a good relationship with his father-- whom Daniel will insist makes the best tortillas.

Mother: Maria Frances Ramirez-Garcia
Daniel's mother Maria is a second-generation Mexican-American lady. She's kind and welcoming and good at baking. She currently stays at home with her youngest child and only daughter and always has a kind word or advice for anyone coming home with her boys.

Brother: Ruben Samuel Alvarez-Garcia III
Daniel does NOT like his eldest brother by any stretch. Ruben is the eldest, and works with his father... And because of Ruben, Daniel's always getting Hand-Me-Downs, in his mind. Ruben himself is rather a nice boy, age 18, but Daniel.... Thinks he's the favorite and gets a little jealous sometimes, which leads to a few creative confessions during Confession at church.

Brother: Thomas Robert Alvarez-Garcia
Daniel's other brother is still not Daniel's favorite person. There's four years between them-- four LONG years -- and he's always teasing his little brother, getting into his stuff... There's a reason he goes to Hillworth. It involves his pranks and general brattiness. Daniel also really dislikes getting his hand-me-downs, because Rgomas is NEVER giving them up without a fight.

Sister Rosario Adriana Alvarez-Gonzalez
Rosario is still a baby, only one year old, and Danial ADORES THIS KID. He's always happy to help take care of and play with her, and when he's out if allowed he'll happily show her off. It's his secret favorite past-time, besides soccer-- taking Rosario out in her stroller. Daniel adores tending to his sister to no end, and she's his favorite sibling.

I think I should have things adjusted! Also got the typo, I caught it after the fact. *Deeerp*

Let me know if he needs any more adjustments! :>

Thank you! smile