Augusto Castillo

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By	Premade
Wilder Academy	windmill_man	Diego Luna	The Don Quixote

Basic Stats

Full Name: Augusto Castillo Molina
Nickname(s): Gus
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: April 23, 1990
Zodiac: Taurus
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Hometown: El Paso, Texas
Grade: Junior
Extracurriculars: None
Pet: None

Family

Father: Patricio Castillo Casales (in jail: petty larceny & crack possession)
Mother: Clarissa Molina Merlo
Brother: Emilio Castillo Molina (age 19; cocaine dealer)
Sister: Graciela Castillo Molina (age 13)

History

Augusto Castillo Molina is the middle child of Patricio and Clarisa. His older brother Emilio is three years older than him, and he is likewise three years older than younger sister Graciela. When Augusto was five, his father was sent to jail for dealing cocaine, and Gus didn't meet his father again for several years. He was ten when a man first approached him. Gus could see the similarity in their features and remembered enough about his father to know who the man was. Pat assured Gus that he meant him no harm, he just wanted to meet his boys. Gus only spent a little bit of time with him the few times Pat approached him, but they didn't have much to talk about, so Gus didn't see his father nearly as much as his older brother did, though still more than his younger sister did. Pat had begged Gus not to tell his mother, and Gus grudgingly agreed.

Unlike his older brother, who eventually retreated into the world of drugs to deal with the hardships of the real world, Gus delved instead into the fictional worlds of the books that he scrimped and scrounged to buy (as well as the ones he was able to check out of the library), as well as the worlds he made up in his own head. Exceptionally creative and brilliant, he did well in school, when he actually paid attention to the classes. This garnered him a scholarship to a boarding school in Canada, Wilder Academy. Although he was thrilled to go to a school with new textbooks, a library full of books for him to read, and other students who weren't caught up in gang warfare or drugs, he was sad to leave his mother and sister behind, as well as the brother who had protected him from teasing and bullies (a boy with his head in the clouds attracted all manner of bullies, of course). But Clarisa urged Gus to take advantage of this opportunity because he could do so much more with his life with a top-notch education like the one at Wilder. She also hoped that the students at Wilder would be better influences than those at his high school in El Paso, and that they would draw him out of his own mind. He transferred into the school in the middle of his freshman year.

Once he started at Wilder, Gus immediately fell in love with the library and began going through the books quickly. He felt detached from his fellow students, however, considering that he was from a poverty-stricken family and on a scholarship, and there were so many other students around who were rich and had fancy cars and nice jewelry and nice clothes. He would imagine his own clothes (the non-uniform ones from home, that is) as wonderful garments fit for royalty, would convince himself that his beat up old bike that he used to get around when allowed off campus was a majestic steed, or at least a fast convertible. Even while other students thought him weird for such imaginations, he did find a friend in Nola Emerson, who encourages him and his fancies.