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Name: Deléno Pierson (first name pronunciation: da-lay-no)

Age: 18

Personality: Consistently cocky and boisterous, Deléno is someone who appreciates - and commands - attention from anyone and everyone in his vicinity. Deléno's confidence and materialism can cause him to become a source of conflict among others, who find him to be a bad example to the other young members of the community for focusing more on creating his own identity in his style and his egotistical ways, instead of contributing outright to the community's welfare. He can be considered selfish, but as someone who is used to attention and assurance of his overall importance, it is just how he was raised. However, he can be quite capable on his own. He has a passion for dance and mixed martial arts, making him quick on his feet and surreptitious in any given conflict. He just needs to be cracked open like an egg before he can share his skills with anyone else - as he truly feels like he is better and more worthy of survival than others around him. He is not completely cold, he just needs some time and work to grow on, and consequently latch to, others.

Backstory: Deléno's mother became pregnant with him quickly into the apocalypse with a man she barely knew, latching onto him for sexual comfort and not expecting pregnancy. Due to the vicious circumstances around her, on numerous occasions Deléno wasn't even going to be born, she constantly waived with the option of aborting him. With the stress on her body, etc., Deléno was born early and became a bother to many members of her group.

The group blamed their problems on the baby's birth, so Deléno's father was murdered, while his mother fled with her child and a couple other members of this group, who took care of her and the baby for many years - nurturing him together, as a small family unit of their own ( Note : the other members of this 'family' could be other characters that have been auditioned? I'm leaving this open-ended for you, Fitzy :3).

Unfortunately, Deléno lost his mother in a wicked incident due to his own carelessness and anger at the age of twelve. He lived with this guilt for a while, hiding the true nature of her death from the others in the group ( Note:  the details of this incident and what really went down - was it murder? did he lash out at her and kill her on accident? what the hell happened? You can fill that in Fitz, m'dear - all up to you).

When he was fourteen, Deléno and the remains of his "family" of survivors arrived at the community they are living in now, where the woeful tales of survival he brings with him and the circumstances of him being born during these desperate times, make him a superstar in their eyes. The attention he gets from the people in this community have crafted how he acts, and have become his motivations for everything in his life.

Deléno is a capable fighter and light on his feet due to dancing and MMA lessons he's received throughout his years of survival and training from his fellow people, but he'd rather put all attention on him for his looks and his outgoing (and some could say obnoxious) personality rather than his abilities. He has started to push away those who matter most to him and those who have taken care of him throughout these times in order to become, well, a "superstar" in the eyes of the other people, without any thought of how detrimental that could be to not just the people who have cared for him all this time, but how much it could hurt his own well-being.

Actor: Jacob Latimore