Appearance Description: A handsome man by anyone's standards, Juan Ramiro stands at 5'10" and weighs around 160 pounds. His eyes are pale blue and disarming, but with a gleam of mischief, like the dull curtain of a soft, persistent rain -- and the rainbow left in its wake. His hair is chocolate-brown, messy, coming down just to his ears. Juan has a strong physique, though not overly muscular. His attire of choice is a black, high-end suit, three-piece, with the jacket replaced by a black leather one. When outside, he dons a pair of black sunglasses, and will not go anywhere without his father's old watch on his left wrist.
Name: Juan Ramiro Medina
Nickname: El Tiburón -- "The Shark"
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Nationality: Mexican
Role: Con/Fence
Personality: Juan is a man of many faces: an opportunistic trait many con-men acquire. Or, perhaps, it is these men who find their way to a life of crime, and not the other way around. For his friends -- and he does not have many genuine ones -- Juan is lighthearted and witty. He was born with the knack to talk, and has used that to get out of many a hostile situation. When faced with stress, he is the first to try to diffuse the situation, believing stress to be "a vulgar and unnecessary habit". However, his life has not been without trauma, and Juan did not come out unscathed. He has killed, and sinned in many a way, and there are moments when he grows quiet and distant. But he buries it, and moves on.
Biography: Juan Ramiro Medina was born in Mexico City, and lived in the town of Teoloyucan, Mexico until he was 20. His father, Manuel, was a firefighter, and his mother -- Teresa -- a waitress. His little sister, Gabriela, was born two years later, and the family lived a modest life in a small, one-story ranch on the outskirts of town. Despite his family's situation, Juan immediately stuck out in public school. He was nearly always the brightest child in each of his classes, and excelled specifically in mathematics. His other major talent was that he was a fantastic speaker, often being the one to mediate any situation (and occasionally, the one to talk his way out of a detention or two). All signs pointed to Juan having a bright, legitimate and successful future. However, fate was not on his side, as an explosion took both of his parents' lives one afternoon at their house.
Seventeen year old Juan and fifteen year old Gabriela were both at school. When they learned of their parents' death, they were told it was an accident -- that the likely cause was ignition of the gas in the stove. Juan was skeptical, but kept these feelings to himself, not wanting to worry his sister. He moved into an apartment and began to raise his sister by himself. Quickly, however, he realized he could not manage to live on a part-time job's salary, and dropped out of school his senior year. The potential employers, however, were not looking for high school dropouts, and Juan took to a life of crime. For a while, he traversed the streets of Mexico City running short-cons and pickpocketing. But by the time he was twenty, his skills grew to include basic forgery and identity theft.
After his sister graduated, twenty year-old Juan decided he would pursue larger targets. Though he now lived comfortably in Teoloyucan, he could not imagine the wealth he would obtain in the United States. His destination, after much deliberation, ended up being the City of Angels - Los Angeles.
Once in L.A., Juan found himself making more money than he knew what to do with. At first, much of it he sent back to Gabriela, but he still could afford many luxuries. luxuries he had never before even witnessed in Mexico. He worked solo for a few years, doing jobs for employers that needed something stolen. He was always careful to make sure there was no trail to lead back to him or his clients. "Anonymity," he once quipped, "is just about as important to me as my appearance." However, he joined up with a larger crew to work a big job, and ended up sticking with them for a period of three years. They became his family, a surrogate for his dead parents and distant sister. Together, the crew made a fortune. And then, unknowingly, they robbed from the Columbian Cartel. Everything else went down so fast: one of their crew turned on them, tipped the Cartel off, gunned them down. For the second time, Juan's family had died. This time, it was no accident. Only he and one other managed to make it out alive. After that he liquidated what assets he could -- not much -- and left L.A. for greener pastures. He was initially hesitant to join a new crew, but found strength in numbers and skill, and cautiously signed up.
Equipment:- When able, Juan carries a silenced Beretta 92A1 handgun and a Smith & Wesson executive foldable blade.
- He has a high-tech card reader for skimming credit cards and other critical belongings
Relationships: [This will be added once all characters are accepted]
Miscellanous: Juan's sister, Gabriela, still lives in Mexico and is unaware of his criminal activities. She's a schoolteacher, an innocent, and Juan does his best to shelter her from his life.
Theme Song: Over The Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin
