S077 - Romero, Leslie

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Name: Leslie Santana Romero
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12
School: John Endecott Memorial Academy
Hobbies and Interests: R/C helicopters, skateboarding, simulation video games

Appearance: Leslie stands at 5'3" and weighs 155 lbs. He is quite short and a little overweight, although due to his somewhat active lifestyle the extra weight makes him look more stout than pudgy. He is Cuban-American with a light-brown, easily tanned skin tone to match.

Leslie has a round face with beady dark brown eyes, a small mouth, and a flat nose which gives him the appearance like that of a bear. He has thick black hair uniformly shaved down to just the skin, and he also keeps a light, neatly trimmed mustache and goatee combo on his face. He has some acne scarring, mostly concentrated on the left side of his face.

Leslie dresses in a casual, streetwear style. On the day of the abduction he was wearing a brown denim jacket with a gray hooded lining, a white tshirt, blue jeans, and a pair of yellow Timberland boots. He also had on a nondescript brown belt around his waist and a gold cross necklace.

Biography: Leslie was born on November 11th, 2003 to Gabriel and Sara Romero in Tampa, FL. Gabriel worked as an aerospace engineer for the United States Air Force before eventually retiring and subsequently working as a real estate agent the year before Leslie entered high school. Due to being in a household that didn't need for both parents to work, Sara mostly remained as a stay-at-home mom or worked occasional part-time gigs for supplemental income. Leslie has no siblings.

Growing up, Leslie was a child who mostly kept to himself and was a bit of a loner. Part of this was due to his natural disposition, but another factor was due to moving around fairly often due to his father's job in the military. This instability along with having to change schools and locations fairly often meant that Leslie would have a hard time keeping friends or really emotionally opening up to people to begin with as he felt there was no point in making strong bonds if he was just going to have to move again in a few months. This way of thinking would continue until 8th grade when Leslie's father retired out of the military and ultimately rooted the family in Salem, MA, several miles from the last air force base he had to work at.

Other than some slight resentment in having to move constantly, Leslie has a good relationship with his parents. He appreciates his mother as someone sensible who he can talk to about anything or come to her with any problems he's having, although there are some things he does keep secret from her. He also appreciates his father enough and views him as a strong male role model to look up to, although he doesn't have as strong of a relationship with him as he'd like to due to his work hours and him more or less being gone away from the house very often.

One hobby Leslie does get to enjoy with his father is remote control helicopters and airplanes. His father made it a point to bond with him early over his favorite hobby, which due to the thrill of trying to operate a machine and keeping it in the air along with the puzzle solving elements of troubleshooting problems or physically fixing issues, Leslie grew an attachment to it as well. Later on when he was able to start taking odd jobs such as mowing the neighbors' lawn, Leslie would use his own funds to finance and purchase his own remote control vehicles.

Later on closer to middle school, Leslie would also develop an interest in skateboarding, initially using it as an excuse to try to bond with a school friend who had invited him to go on the weekend. He pretty quickly found it rather fun and would try to go to the skate park or just skateboard around town whenever he felt like it, although he is very bad at pulling off any tricks and just has fun swaying around on a board. He is also somewhat accident-prone and seemingly regularly comes to school bruised or with some body part in a cast after a skateboarding mishap.

Around sophomore year of high school, Leslie became interested in business and engineering simulation video games. Not being much of a gamer, he got an interest in checking out Planet Coaster after some of his friends were talking about it. After getting it as a gift from his parents for his birthday, he fell in love with it as a near limitless construction toy box of sorts along with the business management angle to it. Later on after looking up similar games on the internet he would also find joy in simpler, older games like the Roller Coaster Tycoon series and OpenTTD.

Leslie does all right in school, mainly getting Bs and Cs and doing about what he needs to to graduate, though he could do better if he studied harder. He does really enjoy math and science and will put more of an effort to pay attention in class and will sometimes manage to pull off a few As. Socially, he is somewhere on the outside of things and considers himself as a bit of a loner with no real solid connections. He is friendly enough and tries hard to not be cruel to others or stand out as much as his louder peers, but as he found it hard to permanently adjust to a setting where most everyone knew each other for years already and had already established cliques and such, he defaults to his nature of being a bit of a cold person who puts up walls around himself as a defense mechanism and has difficulty letting his guard down around others. He has tried to work on opening up to people his age on a more meaningful level especially now that his family has settled down in a place, but he still struggles to create those strong relationships, at least from his perspective.

After high school Leslie doesn't know what he wants to do, although he has entertained the idea of going to trade school and becoming an electrician.

Advantages: Leslie has fairly decent stamina due to his outdoor activities. He has good planning skills from his experience with simulation games, which may give him an advantage to cope with the evolving nature of the game as it progresses.
Disadvantages: Leslie doesn't consider himself to have many friends and will have a hard time finding people to immediately trust at the start of the game. He also tends to be a little physically clumsy and accident-prone, which in the environment of the game may prove deadly.

Designated Number: Student No. 077

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Designated Weapon: Stun gun

Conclusion: I'd love to say that we have a wild Florida Man on the loose, but this guy looks like a boring sack of shit who's probably going to die from tripping over his own two feet. - Veronica Rai