
[Younger brother to Aimee Lacroix]
Nickname: Stanti
Gender/Pronouns: Cis man, he/him
Age: 18
Birthday: October 26
Sign: Scorpio
Gemstone: Topaz
Blood Type: AB+
School/Occupation: Horizon Institute for Technology and Science; also works part-time at "Arkham Letters," his older sister's nerdy bookstore
Hobbies:
Art || Stanti is a pretty accomplished artist, especially for his age. He's been drawing ever since he was a kid, and has worked hard to refine his skills. He especially loves to do illustrations fro his big sister's Call of Cthulhu campaigns--he's drawn most of her major villains, all her players, and a couple of the big scenes from the storylines. Drawing mind-bending horrors and 20s fashion is just a good time, alright?
Gaming || Tabletop, video, board, whatever--Stanti loves games. He's a regular at his sister's gaming table, and he loves all kinds of video games. he's mostly big on story-driven stuff; longform RPGs, Western or Japanese, are his jam, and if he can replay it a hundred times and get different outcomes, he's even more interested (not that that's stopped him from replaying his favorite on-the-rails JRPGs an equal number of times.)
Unsolved Mysteries || While Stanti generally likes lots of true crime and supernatural stories, his favorite of all of those things are real-life unsolved mysteries. Cases that have gone cold and are left hanging, especially if they have some kind of creepy element to them. Yes, this means he adores Buzzfeed Unsolved, and he's also a fan of the YouTube channel Bedtime stories, which has a similar conceit. He'd like to start his own Unsolved Mysteries series, but he hasn't had the time or resources to set it up just yet.
Virtues:
Careful || Stanti likes to carefully consider his options and every aspect of a decision or situation before committing. He's very much invested in making sure he makes the right choice, and he tries to do his best to figure out what that choice is. He doesn't like to commit to things thoughtlessly, and will encourage others to slow down and think as well, because he thinks it's very important to make your decisions in an informed way. He's also happy to help other people get informed, and to encourage them to think things through--which makes him a good, level-headed person to have around.
Creative || Stanti is good at coming up with unusual or strange solutions to problems. He's a smart kid with a lot of attention to detail, and that means he can find solutions that other people might miss, and he's happy to share them. Any situation is a puzzle with a right answer, if you ask Stanti, and he's very good at finding odd or clever routes to that solution when given the opportunity.
Flaws:
Grim || It is really, really easy for Stanti to get lost in worst-case scenarios. He isn't exactly a positive ray of sunshine--quite the opposite, actually. Being careful and thoughtful means that he often ends up considering how things could go wrong, and he fixates on those possible bad outcomes hard. He also can't help but share his concerns, which means he often ends up talking quite a lot about how things are going to inevitably go terribly, and that does not make him a fun person to be around.
Smarter Than You || Stanti is used to being one of the smartest people in the room. Stanti is really bad at being humble about this. He tends to assume that this is automatically true, and he tends to act on that assumption, which means that he comes across as just the absolute worst know-it-all. He's also not really encouraged to curb this, especially since he is legitimately pretty smart and is right a lot--so the social backlash he receives for being a bigheaded smartypants really does not discourage him.