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Player Name: Bon
Contact: bonpuns @ plurk/discord
Invited by: YOU WON'T LET ME OUT
Other Characters: Takame Kesi, Diarmuid ua Duibhne, Ragna the Bloodedge, Wei Wuxian
Character Name: Lighter
Canon: Zenless Zone Zero
Canon History: Here!
Canon Personality: - Charismatic. Lighter holds his title as the Sons of Calydon’s champion and the Red Scarf proudly but even without that he just has magnetic energy. He’s got a passion for any challenge, he’s got good looks, he never belittles anyone who is coming at him with a genuine attempt and helps his opponents up after they fall, giving them improvement advice and welcoming another challenge down the line. He’s just got rizz, as the kids (and Belle) say.
- Confident. He’ll take any challenge on, small or large, but go in to win and is very aware of his status as the Undefeated Champion. He mentions it idly several times, though it’s not a core part of his personality it IS his entire image. And he has used this to receive better payment for jobs because the man knows his worth in this sense. He’ll take anything that gets him money. He’s got the thug energy that comes with being in a biker gang and formerly a mercenary band.
- Forgetful. This man’s short and medium term memory is an absolute mess. He’s so bad with names and faces and likely with scheduling. He isn’t ever late probably because as soon as he’s told hey we’re gonna do this thing he goes to it immediately and waits for three hours. He certainly isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer sometimes but if told that he would tell you "Haha, well at least I can punch and don’t need knives".
- Prone to shyness. He told the Proxy he is not shy. Which is what a shy person would say. Lighter has his moments of social awkwardness where he forgets or doesn’t particularly know what to say. He knows his Champion-ness only goes so far and the cool sunglasses only cool so much but he is the sort to avoid eye contact.
- Guilt-ridden. Lighter fully blames himself for the accident that killed his old Mercenary group. He was reluctant for a while to feel anything close with anyone, though in the ring he was placed in that wasn’t necessary. He said himself he was like a Zombie in the ring, afraid of looking his opponents in the eyes and seeing himself in them, this man with his spirit broken and not an ounce of what compassion he used to have. Maybe even the dead eyes that would remind him of his old team. He dwells on this a lot, when an aspect of his past appears he freezes and his charisma halts. He goes through short periods of disassociation that he forces himself out of with a task to do or a conversation with the proxy. It’s classic survivor’s guilt.
- Altruistic. Lighter is a man who blames himself for the fall and death of the other three people in his old group. He took responsibility and took on massive loans just so the families of the deceased could take care of what they needed to because that needed to be done. He tried to pay it off normally, but inevitably he was brought to the fighting ring to pay the loans off by debt collectors. He has his code of honor that he will not falter from even at the cost of himself. But he won’t ever allow anyone else to diminish their worth or the worth of honesty and integrity.
- Loyal. Lighter will say until the cows come home that if another gang offers him better payment, he’d leave the Sons of Calydon but he absolutely won’t. They’re his reason for living, quite literally. He would have eventually died in the ring if Big Daddy didn’t scoop him up for the Sons. But more than that, they’re his family. They’re his reason for waking up every morning. He loves and cares for them and that loyalty extends equally to the Proxy who he confided in about how he came into this gang. Trusted them not to interfere in the one verses many take down. The Proxy is one of them.
AU Name: Lorenzo Fuentes (goes by "Lighter")
AU Age: 29
AU Birthday: December 27th (Canon)
AU History: cw: death, gun violence, racism, gang violence, bullying
Lorenzo’s life was tumultuous from the very beginning. Born in El Paso, Texas, both of his parents were killed in a shootout and a work accident when he was an infant and was taken care of in those days by his elderly Abuelita Zoila Fuentes, sometimes seeing distant cousins like Rika when they were young. Because of her old age, though, she could not take care of both him and herself for long. He was sent into the Foster Care System when he was 6, his Abuelita passing two years later.
One thing his Abuelita passed onto him though was knowledge of magic and the paranormal world that their family had been tied to for many generations. "You might get some powers like the TV Shows, mijito, but being the heroic one? That’s more fun than being the bad guy, cause the bad guys? God sends them to hell," she told him. Just you know, with a smidge of the fear of God to cap it off, as was her wont.
Things were turbulent for a young man in and out of different homes with five or six other children who only sometimes didn’t make fun of him for not being fluent in English immediately. Some small fires may have been lit in those homes. When he was in better houses with nicer people that he could actually have conversations with and would even help with his English, he would leave them eventually. He never stayed for too long in one place, the longest lasted four years while he was in High School.
Lorenzo was a well known terror and menace in high school when it came to following the rules. He would pick fights with bullies, especially the ones who made fun of accents or names, would threaten them with fire as he carried a switch lighter with him at all times to mask his magic (thus picking up "Lighter" as a nickname). He had been written up multiple times and had middling grades at best. People pounding on the little guy infuriated him and he never stopped fighting them, though he accepted each write up. Other students were drawn to him being such an arbiter of justice, so to speak. He was quite popular and well known by even the biggest wallflower.
After he turned 18 and was no longer eligible for Foster Care, he applied for grants and scholarships for people in his situation as well as physical and sports scholarships. He did acquire one, enrolling in a University in another state, meeting new people. Eventually, he dropped out of college realizing it just wasn’t for him.
He made money through random jobs like youth services for others in foster care, summer camps and the like. But largely moved around just as he was used to. He didn’t know any other life and this was just easier. At some point he came across a man named Kinich on an odd job. They happened to finish the work together and Lighter mentioned he was in between work. Kinich directed him to another group he worked with once that was kept together by shoe strings and dried gum, essentially. Lighter joined this group, but not long after, their old leader had passed away in an accident. They were close to disbanding but with his natural charisma and leadership skills he took the helm of the head of the group and for a long while as he grew close to them and their families, things went well.
Until they didn’t. He was overconfident. He had the entire group take on a job that was a front for an organized crime ring. Had Lighter noticed their strange choices for meeting places, the constant repairs on bodegas they owned, the fact that they were often armed… he could have avoided this. But they met in a warehouse for an exchange and a rival gang to their client stormed it. Leaving many dead, more missing, and Lighter on his last leg of life surrounded by bodies and contraband just thinking I should have stopped this.
Then a voice called out to him from somewhere. A voice asking if he wanted to live. Saying he had too much potential to win to let one loss stop him. And naturally… he still wanted to live. Whether he deserved to… that was in God’s hands. Or rather. In a god’s hands. As the Norse war god Tyr now took hold in his body. Demanding victory at all costs. To become an undefeated champion.
What else was Lighter to do? He took out loans, he did what he could to fund the families he broke and seek out missing people of those who weren’t confirmed dead to repair families. He lost himself for years in underground rings, forgetting who he was, being taken over by Tyr when the edge of defeat came close at the cost of light sensitivity after prolonged use. However, one of these rings he found himself in was in a place known as "Ghost City". And it was led by a man named Hua Cheng who was seeking information.
Lighter knew that he couldn’t do this anymore. This constant fighting for profit. He lost his passion and wanted it back. So, he’ll scratch Hua Cheng’s back and perhaps Hua Cheng will scratch his. And being around a bunch of outcasts? That was his style.
While he was still a drifter for the most part, Lighter dedicated himself to whatever Hua Cheng needed. Having been in and out of Kaisou for a few years (and taking jobs both Ghost City and otherwise), he was also one of the leads in evacuating Ghost City during the rebellion against the Black Order. He helped them relocate back but spent a few months longer in Shanghai before coming back to Kaisou in early 2025.
AU Personality Differences:
- A little temperamental, a lot lonelier. He’s reluctant to lose people again and does not have the support network the Sons of Calydon provided and his past wasn’t filled with kind people, so he has juuuust a bit more of a temper.
- Guilt-ridden.......2!! He has not fully paid off the debt to the families he ruined, so he has no closure and as a result his survivor’s guilt is much higher.
- More of a Leader. In the Sons of Calydon, he’s glad for Caesar taking the helm because he won’t have to and his time as such has passed. Again, he doesn’t have the Sons here so in his heart he feels the passion to take charge but his guilt is keeping from seeing that to its full potential.
Element: Fire
Purchased Powers:
Conjure Fire - High (3)
Regeneration - Medium through Possession (1)
Inspiration - Low (2)
Solar Knowledge (1)
Irritation - Low (2)
Possession: Tyr
Prices:
1. Victory at all costs. If challenged to a fight, Lighter must be the one to come out the winner even if Tyr has to step in himself to make it possible.
2. He has to pet every dog he sees. Every dog. This may include dog people sometimes.
Note about The Bit(tm): He will saying he's Ares given the fact that Tyr is often confused for Mars and in Kaisou's current lore Tyr and other Aesir gods have been MIA. Lighter just calls him "Big Guy".
Contact: bonpuns @ plurk/discord
Invited by: YOU WON'T LET ME OUT
Other Characters: Takame Kesi, Diarmuid ua Duibhne, Ragna the Bloodedge, Wei Wuxian
Character Name: Lighter
Canon: Zenless Zone Zero
Canon History: Here!
Canon Personality: - Charismatic. Lighter holds his title as the Sons of Calydon’s champion and the Red Scarf proudly but even without that he just has magnetic energy. He’s got a passion for any challenge, he’s got good looks, he never belittles anyone who is coming at him with a genuine attempt and helps his opponents up after they fall, giving them improvement advice and welcoming another challenge down the line. He’s just got rizz, as the kids (and Belle) say.
- Confident. He’ll take any challenge on, small or large, but go in to win and is very aware of his status as the Undefeated Champion. He mentions it idly several times, though it’s not a core part of his personality it IS his entire image. And he has used this to receive better payment for jobs because the man knows his worth in this sense. He’ll take anything that gets him money. He’s got the thug energy that comes with being in a biker gang and formerly a mercenary band.
- Forgetful. This man’s short and medium term memory is an absolute mess. He’s so bad with names and faces and likely with scheduling. He isn’t ever late probably because as soon as he’s told hey we’re gonna do this thing he goes to it immediately and waits for three hours. He certainly isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer sometimes but if told that he would tell you "Haha, well at least I can punch and don’t need knives".
- Prone to shyness. He told the Proxy he is not shy. Which is what a shy person would say. Lighter has his moments of social awkwardness where he forgets or doesn’t particularly know what to say. He knows his Champion-ness only goes so far and the cool sunglasses only cool so much but he is the sort to avoid eye contact.
- Guilt-ridden. Lighter fully blames himself for the accident that killed his old Mercenary group. He was reluctant for a while to feel anything close with anyone, though in the ring he was placed in that wasn’t necessary. He said himself he was like a Zombie in the ring, afraid of looking his opponents in the eyes and seeing himself in them, this man with his spirit broken and not an ounce of what compassion he used to have. Maybe even the dead eyes that would remind him of his old team. He dwells on this a lot, when an aspect of his past appears he freezes and his charisma halts. He goes through short periods of disassociation that he forces himself out of with a task to do or a conversation with the proxy. It’s classic survivor’s guilt.
- Altruistic. Lighter is a man who blames himself for the fall and death of the other three people in his old group. He took responsibility and took on massive loans just so the families of the deceased could take care of what they needed to because that needed to be done. He tried to pay it off normally, but inevitably he was brought to the fighting ring to pay the loans off by debt collectors. He has his code of honor that he will not falter from even at the cost of himself. But he won’t ever allow anyone else to diminish their worth or the worth of honesty and integrity.
- Loyal. Lighter will say until the cows come home that if another gang offers him better payment, he’d leave the Sons of Calydon but he absolutely won’t. They’re his reason for living, quite literally. He would have eventually died in the ring if Big Daddy didn’t scoop him up for the Sons. But more than that, they’re his family. They’re his reason for waking up every morning. He loves and cares for them and that loyalty extends equally to the Proxy who he confided in about how he came into this gang. Trusted them not to interfere in the one verses many take down. The Proxy is one of them.
AU Name: Lorenzo Fuentes (goes by "Lighter")
AU Age: 29
AU Birthday: December 27th (Canon)
AU History: cw: death, gun violence, racism, gang violence, bullying
Lorenzo’s life was tumultuous from the very beginning. Born in El Paso, Texas, both of his parents were killed in a shootout and a work accident when he was an infant and was taken care of in those days by his elderly Abuelita Zoila Fuentes, sometimes seeing distant cousins like Rika when they were young. Because of her old age, though, she could not take care of both him and herself for long. He was sent into the Foster Care System when he was 6, his Abuelita passing two years later.
One thing his Abuelita passed onto him though was knowledge of magic and the paranormal world that their family had been tied to for many generations. "You might get some powers like the TV Shows, mijito, but being the heroic one? That’s more fun than being the bad guy, cause the bad guys? God sends them to hell," she told him. Just you know, with a smidge of the fear of God to cap it off, as was her wont.
Things were turbulent for a young man in and out of different homes with five or six other children who only sometimes didn’t make fun of him for not being fluent in English immediately. Some small fires may have been lit in those homes. When he was in better houses with nicer people that he could actually have conversations with and would even help with his English, he would leave them eventually. He never stayed for too long in one place, the longest lasted four years while he was in High School.
Lorenzo was a well known terror and menace in high school when it came to following the rules. He would pick fights with bullies, especially the ones who made fun of accents or names, would threaten them with fire as he carried a switch lighter with him at all times to mask his magic (thus picking up "Lighter" as a nickname). He had been written up multiple times and had middling grades at best. People pounding on the little guy infuriated him and he never stopped fighting them, though he accepted each write up. Other students were drawn to him being such an arbiter of justice, so to speak. He was quite popular and well known by even the biggest wallflower.
After he turned 18 and was no longer eligible for Foster Care, he applied for grants and scholarships for people in his situation as well as physical and sports scholarships. He did acquire one, enrolling in a University in another state, meeting new people. Eventually, he dropped out of college realizing it just wasn’t for him.
He made money through random jobs like youth services for others in foster care, summer camps and the like. But largely moved around just as he was used to. He didn’t know any other life and this was just easier. At some point he came across a man named Kinich on an odd job. They happened to finish the work together and Lighter mentioned he was in between work. Kinich directed him to another group he worked with once that was kept together by shoe strings and dried gum, essentially. Lighter joined this group, but not long after, their old leader had passed away in an accident. They were close to disbanding but with his natural charisma and leadership skills he took the helm of the head of the group and for a long while as he grew close to them and their families, things went well.
Until they didn’t. He was overconfident. He had the entire group take on a job that was a front for an organized crime ring. Had Lighter noticed their strange choices for meeting places, the constant repairs on bodegas they owned, the fact that they were often armed… he could have avoided this. But they met in a warehouse for an exchange and a rival gang to their client stormed it. Leaving many dead, more missing, and Lighter on his last leg of life surrounded by bodies and contraband just thinking I should have stopped this.
Then a voice called out to him from somewhere. A voice asking if he wanted to live. Saying he had too much potential to win to let one loss stop him. And naturally… he still wanted to live. Whether he deserved to… that was in God’s hands. Or rather. In a god’s hands. As the Norse war god Tyr now took hold in his body. Demanding victory at all costs. To become an undefeated champion.
What else was Lighter to do? He took out loans, he did what he could to fund the families he broke and seek out missing people of those who weren’t confirmed dead to repair families. He lost himself for years in underground rings, forgetting who he was, being taken over by Tyr when the edge of defeat came close at the cost of light sensitivity after prolonged use. However, one of these rings he found himself in was in a place known as "Ghost City". And it was led by a man named Hua Cheng who was seeking information.
Lighter knew that he couldn’t do this anymore. This constant fighting for profit. He lost his passion and wanted it back. So, he’ll scratch Hua Cheng’s back and perhaps Hua Cheng will scratch his. And being around a bunch of outcasts? That was his style.
While he was still a drifter for the most part, Lighter dedicated himself to whatever Hua Cheng needed. Having been in and out of Kaisou for a few years (and taking jobs both Ghost City and otherwise), he was also one of the leads in evacuating Ghost City during the rebellion against the Black Order. He helped them relocate back but spent a few months longer in Shanghai before coming back to Kaisou in early 2025.
AU Personality Differences:
- A little temperamental, a lot lonelier. He’s reluctant to lose people again and does not have the support network the Sons of Calydon provided and his past wasn’t filled with kind people, so he has juuuust a bit more of a temper.
- Guilt-ridden.......2!! He has not fully paid off the debt to the families he ruined, so he has no closure and as a result his survivor’s guilt is much higher.
- More of a Leader. In the Sons of Calydon, he’s glad for Caesar taking the helm because he won’t have to and his time as such has passed. Again, he doesn’t have the Sons here so in his heart he feels the passion to take charge but his guilt is keeping from seeing that to its full potential.
Element: Fire
Purchased Powers:
Conjure Fire - High (3)
Regeneration - Medium through Possession (1)
Inspiration - Low (2)
Solar Knowledge (1)
Irritation - Low (2)
Possession: Tyr
Prices:
1. Victory at all costs. If challenged to a fight, Lighter must be the one to come out the winner even if Tyr has to step in himself to make it possible.
2. He has to pet every dog he sees. Every dog. This may include dog people sometimes.
Note about The Bit(tm): He will saying he's Ares given the fact that Tyr is often confused for Mars and in Kaisou's current lore Tyr and other Aesir gods have been MIA. Lighter just calls him "Big Guy".