OOC:

Player Handle: Amanda
Contact: asirensings
Pronouns: she/her

Invite/Current Player: aGGtha sent me

Other Characters: also apping Ada Wong


IC:

Character Name: Sebastian Castellanos
Age: 38
Canon: The Evil Within
Canon Point: Post-game (pre-tew2 entirely)

CRAU: The Ton (briefly gave up cigarettes, met some people, has a whole bunch of new guilt)

History: wiki link

Personality:

Sebastian Castellanos is one tough son of a bitch roughly two seconds from a whole-ass meltdown he's too stubborn to have.

Seb is the kind of guy who joined the police force because he genuinely wanted to protect the city that is his home. And journaled about it. He's the kind of guy that doesn't waste time overthinking decisions, who can react effectively in the moment and roll with it. He feels everything deeply, and just as quickly, falling in love with his future wife and proposing within months of meeting her, and remaining so. He reads people well, his impressions rarely incorrect unless he's a little too personally invested. Myra was his first partner, and only stopped being so once their engagement became official, and his next partner, Joseph, remains so to the present day. Perhaps only because he hasn't married the man, but that's another story. His pride is in his commitments.

Sebastian is a creature ruled by emotion. He's quick to feel, to care, to care too much, and to react emotionally. After suffering the loss of his daughter he turns to alcohol to cope, in addition to what was already a smoking habit. This obviously doesn't stop how much he feels everything, but he journals about how it's the only way he manages to sleep after awhile. He's a mostly functional alcoholic, and even though it nearly costs him everything, he has yet to attempt to break the addiction.

Loyalty is Sebastian's core, he's good at keeping secrets and respecting those who have them. When his wife, Myra, gets in too deep chasing leads on the entity behind their house fire, and many other disappearances, she disappears, too. Even though it feels open and shut to onlookers than she left him due to his alcoholism, he never doubts her, and continues her research after receiving her Worst Case Scenario packet of information after her disappearance. He trusts her choice at secrecy so much he never tells Joseph the extent of the conspiracies, leading his partner to report him to Internal Affairs, out of his own concerns regarding Sebastian's health. Even though this causes an understandable rift between them, Sebastian still never explains himself, nor does he seek another partner. It's unlikely anyone else would agree to work with him, but tellingly, he keeps working all the same. He doesn't have much else to hold onto but unsolved mysteries and his one remaining friend...

He's also an expert compartmentalizer. It takes a lot to ruffle him, though he's generally regarded as a “difficult” personality type, largely because he has no patience for bullshit. He does his best to keep his emotions and motivations in check, but they've been known to escape containment, a heat that can turn to anger always simmering below the surface, he's quick to throw a punch given the right circumstances, to bend the rules to pursue a lead. In a crisis he's generally cool under pressure, however, as is evidenced by his flexibility with the trials of navigating STEM, unless, of course, someone he cares about is in danger. The only times Sebastian loses his cool on screen over the course of the game are when Joseph is in crisis. In those instances Sebastian never says the right thing, is quick to physical interference, and visibly frustrated over the course of their interactions when the cracks in Joseph's armor show, when the man is in danger. He's also able to heal his partner effectively, in multiple ways, entirely through force of will at some points. He doesn't attempt this for anyone else.

In short...Sebastian is an emotional, sarcastic, strong-willed man who cares about his city, about people, but most of all about his people and he will do whatever it takes to keep them safe, and barring that, whatever he can to keep going. He's a survivor and a protector and even though he thinks he's failing at both of those goals it hasn't stopped him doing his damnedest to save what he still can.


Abilities: → Detective Skills (Observant, calm under pressure*, quick thinking)
→ Firearm Proficiency/Mastery
→ Resilience (Physical and mental)
→ Compartmentalizing

Inventory: → Connelly's revolver
→ empty flask
→ pack of cigarettes
→ lighter
→ detective badge
→ beige trench coat
→ clothes on his back circa end of game

Eternal Reward:

“Anything my heart desires, huh? You think you can do that? You got magic that powerful but you can't put us back in our own lives?”

“Then pretend, if you don't believe. What would you wish for?”

“Pretend, huh? I wish none of this had happened. Can you do that? Can you fix that Ruv— Ruben kid and his sister? Can you save my daughter, my wife, my partner? Can you make it so I wake up tomorrow and have my life back, their lives back, and don't remember any of this shit?”

“Do you think you can live a Worthy life for this reward?”

“Fuck no. But it's all bullshit anyway.”


Goals/Ideas: → pick up some bad habits again
→ cope with all of this very poorly, actually
→ join the police force
→ eventually become a PI instead
→ Kiss Joseph

Samples: TDM Top Level, tagged around there, too

Secret Code Phrase: "All glory to the Neon Hypnotoad."