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[b]Name:[/b]
[i]Jose Christopher Alba Dela Cruz[/i]

[b]Nickname(s):[/b]
[i]O-chan, Jo-chan, That Big Thing In The Middle Of The Road[/i]

[b]Gender:[/b]
[i]Male[/i]

[b]Age:[/b] 
[i]18[/i]

[b]Nationality:[/b]
[i]Fil-Am (Filipino-American) Immigrant[/i]

[b]Appearance: (Will draw later)[/b] 

	Tall, almost excessively so, standing at 222.5[sup]cm[/sup] (7.3[sup]ft[/sup]), with a muscular and broad body. Despite his intimidating physique, he has a gentle and soft face that's looks much like a koala. He has short, frizzy hair and large round black eyes, thick eyebrows and a pointed nose. He constantly wears a pendant with the image of the Virgin Mary on it, even while bathing. His knuckles are callused and somewhat deformed looking due to boxing things too hard. 

[b]Personality:[/b]
	
	A man of few words, Jose rarely talks, and only does so when needed or if asked to. He is a gentle person, despite his size, and dislikes conflict. He enjoys helping people and has something of a martyr complex, although its not that bad. Jose is a very tolerating person, with a long patience and who easily forgives people; however this only applies to slights against him, and not to the people he cares about. He is a protector and a guardian, and can his slow, steady nature is calming for most people. He is not good at strategic or academic thinking, however he is very emphatic, and despite his low intelligence, seems to know exactly what to say to people. He is a very morally upright person, and despite the being unpractical, he will always choose the morally right action, even if it endangers himself. 

	It would be best, however, for people not to underestimate him or consider him 'soft'. He is nice, kind and gentle because he [i]wants[/i] to be. Jose can compartmentalize like the best of soldiers, and can easily consider matters to be to separate things, meaning that if he wants to, he can be extremely ruthless and cold as steel. 

[b]Biography:[/b]

	Coming from the slums of the Philippines, Jose is used to 'hard life'; his single mother was the local whore, and he was one of twelve children - some of his sibling didn't even have the same father. Despite that, however, they were still a family who loved each other. Their mother urged them to study and to have lives that were better than they were now, at the same time instilling them with a strict sense of moral and spiritual discipline. Jose did his best to make his mother proud, and even as he worked in the evening collecting and selling junk, he studied hard in the mornings and afternoons at a local public school, where he achieved above average grades, despite his low IQ. He even got a scholarship due to his height, were he was drafted into the mayors basketball team. It was also around this time that he was introduced to boxing, where he aimed to follow the footsteps of his idol 'Manny', to become the same 'rags to riches' kind of story.

	A recent economic plunge, however, made life thrice as hard for the excessively large family. They could barely eat a single meal daily, and finding the funds to send some of her children to school was becoming increasingly difficult. As a last resort, Jose mother sought out all of her children's respective fathers, sending them messages and pleas to take them in. Some where hard to find and took time to contact, others were basically non-existent; the chances of any of them replying were abysmally low.

	A stroke of luck happened, and several of them [i]did[/i] reply and agree - one of them being Jose own father, an American businessman with a base in Japan. The man agreed to take him in and take care of him, in fact, he even felt guilty that he had a son and never knew or checked up on him - as far as he was concerned, Jose's mother was a one-night stand that resulted in nothing but good memories. Thus, Jose was sent to Japan, where he spent three years studying before starting high-school. Due to poverty stunting his educational growth, he was older than most students when he was in highschool, being seventeen in his first year. 

	He gained a reputation as a scary person, despite not really doing anything, and so most people avoided him. He didn't really care, and focused on his studies instead. He was in second year when the virus broke out, forcing him to begin a new kind of struggle for survival.

[b]Relationships:[/b] 
[i]N/A[/i]

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[b]Other:[/b][list]
[*]A practiced boxer and fit athlete. 

[*]His IQ is a below average score of 83.

[*]Is fond of small and cute things, like puppies and kittens. [/list]