<div class="floatright">(http://[url=http://images.askmen.com/photos/cobra-starship-odette-yustman-and-michael-stahl-david-visit-mtv/39144.jpg]http://images.askmen.com/photos/cobra-starship-odette-yustman-and-michael-stahl-david-visit-mtv/39144.jpg[/url])</div><strong>Name</strong>: Gabriel Eduardo Alvarez<br/><strong>Nickname(s)</strong>: Gabe, Gabey, Gabanti<br/><strong>Age</strong>: 20<br/><strong>Sexuality</strong>: Pansexual<br/><strong>Addictions</strong>:<br/>- Heroin<br/>- Mephadrone<br/>- Cigarettes<br/><br/><strong>Group</strong>: Prostitutes<br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong>: Gabe is tall with long limbs that are slender, bordering bony; his skin is pale and stretched thin, marked with track marks and various scars from years of self harm, living on the streets and using heroin. He has a shock of dark brown hair and eyes of an almost similar hue. He has a tendency to wear ripped, baggy jeans and one of the two old, ragged sweaters he owns over a tank top; however, when he's working, he'll wear tighter jeans and a nicer shirt. He has the letters 'D R' tattooed on the right side of his colour bone in dedication to his home.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Picture 2</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://[url=http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0d567nkLy1qa9okxo1_500.jpg]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0d567nkLy1qa9okxo1_500.jpg[/url])</div></div><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Gabe is odd, in one word. Many people have said he's completely insane. One day, he can be hyper, exciteable and talkative, never stopping and asking constant questions; seemingly childish, he'll act half his age, jumping around and playing pranks then suddenly being frightened and looking to others for guidance. Other days, he's completely silent but seemingly calm, drifting around with a glazed over, slightly pained looked in his eyes as if he's stuck somewhere else, his mind wrapping round past experiences. Other times, he's twitchy and irritable; he won't answer questions and snaps at anyone, with his words or with his fists, especially if he hasn't had his hit, he'll be incredibly violent and paranoid - its best at these times to just leave him alone. Gabe is partial to a little weed and greatly enjoys his booze when the mood strikes but he is not addicted to other, merely a recreational user - his addictions lie somewhere darker. He's incredibly prone to mood swings and changes in personality but there are a few constants with Gabe; he's incredibly protective and fiercely loyal to any and all from the Row.<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>: Gabe ran away at the tender age of twelve, after years of abuse from an alcoholic father who believed the best way to discipline his son was to sexually assault him.<br/><br/>Gabe was born in Uruguay but his father quickly took him and his mother to America soon after his birth, though this wasn't a choice his mother had say in. She was a drug addicted schizophrenic who couldn’t speak much English; a child wasn’t what she wanted, Gabe's father had raped her and then forced her to stay with him, knowing he could get something from the kid – food vouchers, benefits, money, anything once they'd moved to the US. At the age of 4, Gabe witnessed one of his parents' most horrendous fights - he doesn't recall much, just the vacant, glazed over look on his mother's eyes as his dad beat her around the room, calling her a smack whore and a deadbeat bitch. She didn't say a word, make a noise, register any pain until Gabe's dad grabbed a knife and slid it into her gut; it was then that she made a soft whimper, slumped to the floor and bled to death as Gabe watched. His father called the police but quickly hid the evidence and acted the part of distraught husband, claiming he had walked in from work and found her on the floor. The police were quick to believe his story; it was a bad neighbourhood and they were just too lazy to see past the lies.<br/><br/>Soon after, Gabe started school and did very well, excelling in all his classes though he was very quiet and rarely spoke. Teacher were always wondering why he turned up with bruises and his father never came down to parent-teacher conferences. But of course, this was the bad part of the city and no one was about to ask any questions or get social services involved.<br/><br/>And so, Gabriel managed to pull up the courage to leave in the dead of the night. He kept running and running until he came across the apartment complex that everyone called Desolation Row. He’d seen the pictures in the papers and heard the horror stories from kids at school about the junkies and the hookers, the people ready to steal your soul and sell it for less than a buck.<br/><br/>Cold, hungry and alone, Gabe had nowhere else to turn so he headed into the apartment complex, looking for an empty room to sleep, terrified out of his wits that he would be killed and his body thrown into a dumpster. But what he found wasn’t quite what the kids at school and the newspapers had described. Okay, it was similar. But it wasn’t all that bad. Gabe was taken in by a friendly prostitute who was only nineteen at the time. He was made part of the group, starting out as a scout, making sure none of the shelter workers or police came along and alerting the group if they did. After a year, he started to sell his body and gradually got into drugs, starting with weed the older kids would sell him but rapidly getting into heavier drugs and eventually ending up addicted to smack just as his mother was as well as mephadrone which he discovered from a client years ago who claimed it would give him a boost of energy.<br/><br/>A year ago, perhaps longer, Gabe came across Nionette, cornered and frightened by two gutter-minded pigs who liked to call themselves police officers. Gabe was never one for doing such a thing to a person, past experience taught him the hatred he has for sexual violence and he set them straight then paid them off and took Nette in, welcoming her to the Row and slowly, she became one of his own, a part of his family. Since then, they have had some kind of incredibly tumultuous and rapidly changing relationship.<br/><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 6pt;">Ryan</span></div>