My Favorite Year - Character Bio

So for every show that we do at the high school, we have to write a character biography. Which is actually kind of fun! Since your character usually doesn't have a lot of back story, it just means that you get to make up a bunch of random junk and call it your character's biography!
So for this show, my character's name is Rookie Carroca. This is the first time I have been a semi-important character in a show, and so I did have to follow at least a little bit of back story. However, that mostly just comes in the last paragraph. The rest is just my wild imagination. Enough of it, anyway, to fill a Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, single spaced page. And so I decided I would post it on my blog, since I have nothing better to blog about! Enjoy people!

Rookie Carroca

            Rookie Carroca was born in the providence of Puerto Rico. His father was Enjolras Guadalajupe “Rex” Carroca, and his mother was Jill Smith. She didn’t want to change her last name because Rex insisted very highly on rolling the R’s in his name, and she absolutely could not roll her R’s for the life of her.

Rex Carroca was actually a famous Puerto Rican jockey, and he rode a horse named Sun Tan like a king. At all of the races, Sun Tan was the main horse people bet on. However, at one race when Rookie was only seven, in mid-stride, Sun Tan keeled over and died. Just like that. Not only were the fans who had bet on Sun Tan severely disappointed that they had lost their money, but Rex Carroca’s right leg had to be amputated because when Sun Tan had fallen over, his leg had been trapped and all circulation had been cut off immediately.

Needless to say, this event drastically impacted Rookie’s life. His father no longer had a job! The Carrocas were soon out of money, and they were evicted by their landlord. To feed his family, Rex had to sell his trophies. Sadly, they weren’t worth much at the time he sold them because everybody was still upset about Sun Tan’s disappointing loss, and all twelve of his trophies only bought enough food to feed his family of three for a month. Jill was distraught. Would the bread earning responsibility now fall upon her now that her husband was a cripple? She decided that, inevitably, it would. And so, a mere five months after her husband’s accident, she ran away.

With Jill’s disappearance, Rex didn’t know what to do. Everything he loved was slowly being taken away from him. Everything, except for his little Rookie. But what could an amputee do for his seven year old son? He decided that the best thing for him was to be taken care of by someone else, because he knew that he couldn’t provide for his son. And so, Rex sent Rookie away to a family friend to be taken care of.

What was Rookie thinking through all of these events? All of these events slowly hardened his heart and he soon had a very dreary outlook on life. And so, he would often sneak out into the town at night to pick a fight with a gang leader, or just people that happened to be in his way. When the family he was staying with found out about Rookie’s secret excursions, they wondered what they could do to help this poor child, and they decided that a cooking class was the best option, and so, Rookie began to learn how to cook. And he loved it! Gradually as it had hardened, Rookie’s heart began to soften again, and his view on life began to be a little more cheery, however the past was still there, and he couldn’t forget it no matter how hard he tried.

When Rookie was 20, he had worked hard enough to earn enough money to move out on his own, and so that’s what he did. Always cooking gourmet meals for himself, Rookie was very well fed. Soon he decided that he needed a better way to make money than what he was already doing (which was sweeping streets), and so he took up fighting again, which he excelled at as well, and soon made it to the Bantamweight competition. He won that, and held the title for six whole months! As well as gaining the Bantamweight title, he had earned a significant amount of money, and so he decided to move out of Puerto Rico. He moved to Brooklyn, NY in America where the Bantamweight competition had taken place because he had liked it there. And who should he find but one of his admirers! And a very attractive admirer, at that. Her name was Belle and they were married three days after having met. Since Rookie had so much money from his fighting career, he quit fighting and decided to just cook for the rest of his life. The End.