Garret Gomes
Character Bio
Name
Garret Gomes
Player
HannibalBarca
Vampire, doll, Werecreature
Werecreature
Age
Appears 26 (45)
Claimed
N/A
Orientation
Straight
Hair
Dark brown
Eyes
Grey
Height
6'5"
Appearance
Not too bulky, not too lean, but damn, Garret defines the term definition--cut like a classical Greek statue, from his six-pack abs to his ripped delts and quads. Normally dresses in button-down flannels or dress shirts with the sleeves rolled up past his hefty biceps, and cargo or infantry fatigue pants, with all the pockets. An imposing six foot five, with his five-day growth and his intense grey eyes, it's hard to look him in the face if he does anything less than smile, but he's rarely angry or upset. You could say that, growing up as the biggest guy in the high school from 9th grade on got him used to being the big man on campus, and a making a few examples of the assholes who picked on girls--whether he liked them or not--laid the law down for how the atmosphere at the school would be while he attended it.
Personality
Been there and done that in combat in the military, so he doesn't spook at everyday life, or even tense or dangerous situations--he has a very zen attitude to life. He's used to being the imposing, threatening one, just because of his physique, but because of it has that laid back, chilled-out-in-every-situation personality. Spending time as an attack helicopter pilot in the army, then as a fire & rescue pilot and firefighter afterwards only added to his generally cool under stress attitude. Regardless of all of this, he doesn't feel a need to trumpet his achievements, rather letting his actions speak for themselves.
Garrett loves hard rock and heavy metal and all of it's iterations--speed, thrash, grindcore, death metal, nu-metal, and so on. He has a decent singing voice, but does a lot better with the throaty, roaring death metal vocals...though if he isn't pulling those, his voice is a very good equal to Scott Weiland's from Stone Temple Pilots. He's always wanted to sing with a female vocalist, a la Evanescence, but has never found his Amy Lee, and it is an unrequited dream.
When it comes to women, in fact, Garret can be very blase. He's gotten a lot of attention over the years from them, and gotten burned and used for his body many more times than once, so he tends to be incredibly picky. He's gotten to the point where not only does she have to be incredibly hot, but her personality has to be so off-the-wall quirky that he's almost run himself right out of the pool of candidates. Ending up in the Alaska coven has only worsened his odds of finding someone to start something serious.
Garret can seem arrogant and full of himself sometimes, but it really is just his brutal honesty, which doesn't cotton to insignificant things like...tact. He's about as blunt as they come, and couldn't really give a shit what anyone thinks about him. He lives life fairly and honestly, and if someone can't deal with him, he says fuck 'em.
Animal
Brazilian Jaguar
Ons & Offs
ons: D/s, a challenging, even weird chick, dark and exotic like him (two of a kind he likes to say), bondage (by him) sometimes, loud, noisy women during sex, including as much dirty talk as she wants, nipple play (can't get enough of them, regardless of a woman's breast size, he likes them all), teasing (both ways), surprises (both ways), variety of positions, surprisingly romance (when it gets that far, which rarely happens, so that sort of explains it, doesn't it?), oral sex (again, both ways), experimenting with new fetishes, some blood play, roleplaying (typically involves a helpless female and he's the big, bad...whoever out to get her), once involved with a woman, can be incredibly gentle and cuddly and sweet, but damn if he's only got that far with two women in forty-five years!
offs: bathroom stuff, S/M, all that -philia shit, mind games after he's going steady with someone--expects the same blunt honesty he gives out.
History
Garret is from Bakersfield, California, where there is a large ethnic group of Basques and Portuguese who initially came to the area to herd sheep in the 19th Century. Unbeknownst to the herders were the were-jaguars who came along out of Portuguese-speaking Brazil as well to prey on the easy pickings, and to hunt coyote and cougar for sport in the oak-covered foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains. Garret's family is one of these were-jaguar families. He was born in 1969, and was only six months old when Apollo eleven landed on the moon.
Hailing from a family with a proud military tradition, Garrett served in the Army with the 101st Airborne as an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot for ten years, and saw service in Operation Desert Storm against Saddam's Republican Guards. It wasn't much of a fair fight, more like shooting fish in a barrel, and Garret (who rose to the rank of Captain) has said he had more challenge in a fistfight than in the army. When he got out, he continued as a search and rescue chopper pilot for the county fire services, attached to a fire station, where he also worked as an EMT and firefighter.
He's ended up in the Alaska Coven as the Fire Marshall after getting name-dropped by the last one, and because of his pilot's license, he's the helicopter pilot for whenever the weather is good enough for a chopper to fly (which isn't often enough for him), for anything from search and rescue to airdropping supplies to bringing in the mail. Taking care of a chopper in this kind of environment is a dicey proposition at best, so he hopes whoever they hired as a mechanic knows their ass from their toolbox!
