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Gabriel Read
☽ "You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature." ☾
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Fᴀᴄᴇ ᴄʟᴀɪᴍ ✦ Marlon Teixeira
Dɪᴀʟᴏɢᴜᴇ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ✧ #5b88f6
Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ✦ #4169e1
☽ "You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature." ☾
Song || Artist /|\ Song || Artist /|\ Song || Artist
Fᴀᴄᴇ ᴄʟᴀɪᴍ ✦ Marlon Teixeira
Dɪᴀʟᴏɢᴜᴇ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ✧ #5b88f6
Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ✦ #4169e1
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✦Fᴜʟʟ Nᴀᴍᴇ✦
Gabriel Raphael Read
✧Nɪᴄᴋɴᴀᴍᴇ✧
Gabe
✦Bɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ & Zᴏᴅɪᴀᴄ✦
October 30th - ♏
✧Aɢᴇ✧
29
✦Gᴇɴᴅᴇʀ✦
Male
✧Sᴇxᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ & Mᴀʀᴛɪᴀʟ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs✧
Straight & Single
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✦Fᴜʟʟ Nᴀᴍᴇ✦
Gabriel Raphael Read
✧Nɪᴄᴋɴᴀᴍᴇ✧
Gabe
✦Bɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ & Zᴏᴅɪᴀᴄ✦
October 30th - ♏
✧Aɢᴇ✧
29
✦Gᴇɴᴅᴇʀ✦
Male
✧Sᴇxᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ & Mᴀʀᴛɪᴀʟ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs✧
Straight & Single
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✧Hᴀɪʀ✧
The best word to describe his hair would be "a mess". He certainly sports that "just rolled out of bed, not even gonna try to figure out a style" look on a daily basis and somehow, it works for him. The brown mop of hair on his head is rarely ever slicked back and is usually literally in the same state that it was when he woke up. His mother hounds him to get it cut (and not just occasionally trimmed like he does), but he refuses.
✦Eʏᴇs✦
Brown
✧Sᴋɪɴ✧
His skin is honey-beigeish, with a constant warm glow.
✦Hᴇɪɢʜᴛ & Wᴇɪɢʜᴛ✦
6'2 & 180 lbs
✧Eᴛʜɴɪᴄɪᴛʏ✧
50% Brazilian, 50% Scottish
✦In Depth✦
Describe character's appearance. Include character's fashion style, if you want.
The best word to describe his hair would be "a mess". He certainly sports that "just rolled out of bed, not even gonna try to figure out a style" look on a daily basis and somehow, it works for him. The brown mop of hair on his head is rarely ever slicked back and is usually literally in the same state that it was when he woke up. His mother hounds him to get it cut (and not just occasionally trimmed like he does), but he refuses.
✦Eʏᴇs✦
Brown
✧Sᴋɪɴ✧
His skin is honey-beigeish, with a constant warm glow.
✦Hᴇɪɢʜᴛ & Wᴇɪɢʜᴛ✦
6'2 & 180 lbs
✧Eᴛʜɴɪᴄɪᴛʏ✧
50% Brazilian, 50% Scottish
✦In Depth✦
Describe character's appearance. Include character's fashion style, if you want.
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XXXWitty ✦ Selfish ✧ Reserved ✦ Honest ✧ Intelligent
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If you don't like Gabe, the first thing that you're going to use against him is that he can be crude and not as refined as a boy from the Upper East Side should be. It goes on the scruffy look that he sports 24/7. Even if you don't know the business he's tampering in, you can get a sense of him being a bit of a bad boy. He doesn't like to follow rules and social expectations laid out by other people, and if he's bored, he might just defy them simply to piss off whoever set them. He doesn't take himself very seriously and if he finds someone who takes themselves seriously, it will sometimes become his mission to make them lighten up. Yeah, sometimes he's a jerk, and sure, "pain in the ass" is accurate every now and then... but he's not completely unbearable. It helps, knowing that when he's acting like this, it's usually in a playful manner. At least, it's playful for him. Watching steam pour out of someone's ears makes him laugh, is that really that wrong?
On a better note, aside from his impeccable sense of humor, Gabe is intelligent. He's book smart, but street smart too. He's definitely manipulative, although he wouldn't use that word to describe it. To him, it's just being smart and strategic. If he wants something, he's going to get it, no matter how many people he has to fuck over in the process. Maybe it's because he was raised by such a business oriented father, but he has always been okay with stepping on the little people if it means that he is going to benefit. He's the kind of person who will never do without though, not only because of his family, but because he always seems to make what he has work. He's creative, hands-on, and persuasive when he needs to be. It's a trait that's necessary, not only for his white collar profession, but his side one as well. Sales are an important part of both careers and he's aced the technique of selling people things that they don't need or originally want.
When it comes to his conscience, things are complicated. There are certain parts of him that make him seem very reserved and withdrawn, maybe even heartless. He doesn't like to open up or talk about his feelings, because he's not someone who likes getting all mushy and sensitive. It makes him uncomfortable. At the same time, it's impossible to claim that he doesn't feel bad for some of the things that he has done. If he wasn't so addicted to the money and success, he never would have started dealing his company's drugs to people because he sees how badly it ruins people. It keeps him up at night sometimes, it really does. It's just... hard. He doesn't know where his priorities lie right now because he feels like he needs to grow up, get serious, and stop doing things that could not only ruin his own career and life, but his father's career and other people's health, but he has no real reason to grow up right now. He's not in a serious relationship, is living the good life, and has no expectations set for himself.
XXXWitty ✦ Selfish ✧ Reserved ✦ Honest ✧ Intelligent
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If you don't like Gabe, the first thing that you're going to use against him is that he can be crude and not as refined as a boy from the Upper East Side should be. It goes on the scruffy look that he sports 24/7. Even if you don't know the business he's tampering in, you can get a sense of him being a bit of a bad boy. He doesn't like to follow rules and social expectations laid out by other people, and if he's bored, he might just defy them simply to piss off whoever set them. He doesn't take himself very seriously and if he finds someone who takes themselves seriously, it will sometimes become his mission to make them lighten up. Yeah, sometimes he's a jerk, and sure, "pain in the ass" is accurate every now and then... but he's not completely unbearable. It helps, knowing that when he's acting like this, it's usually in a playful manner. At least, it's playful for him. Watching steam pour out of someone's ears makes him laugh, is that really that wrong?
On a better note, aside from his impeccable sense of humor, Gabe is intelligent. He's book smart, but street smart too. He's definitely manipulative, although he wouldn't use that word to describe it. To him, it's just being smart and strategic. If he wants something, he's going to get it, no matter how many people he has to fuck over in the process. Maybe it's because he was raised by such a business oriented father, but he has always been okay with stepping on the little people if it means that he is going to benefit. He's the kind of person who will never do without though, not only because of his family, but because he always seems to make what he has work. He's creative, hands-on, and persuasive when he needs to be. It's a trait that's necessary, not only for his white collar profession, but his side one as well. Sales are an important part of both careers and he's aced the technique of selling people things that they don't need or originally want.
When it comes to his conscience, things are complicated. There are certain parts of him that make him seem very reserved and withdrawn, maybe even heartless. He doesn't like to open up or talk about his feelings, because he's not someone who likes getting all mushy and sensitive. It makes him uncomfortable. At the same time, it's impossible to claim that he doesn't feel bad for some of the things that he has done. If he wasn't so addicted to the money and success, he never would have started dealing his company's drugs to people because he sees how badly it ruins people. It keeps him up at night sometimes, it really does. It's just... hard. He doesn't know where his priorities lie right now because he feels like he needs to grow up, get serious, and stop doing things that could not only ruin his own career and life, but his father's career and other people's health, but he has no real reason to grow up right now. He's not in a serious relationship, is living the good life, and has no expectations set for himself.
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✦Lɪᴋᴇs✦
✧ The ocean ✧ ↣ He loves all sorts of water sports, is perfectly content just laying on the beach and getting some sun, and somehow, the salty air always seems to put him at ease. The ocean, no matter which one it is, will always feel like home to Gabe.
✧ Junk food ✧ ↣ He will eat almost anything, so it's hard to narrow down his favorite food choice to just anything. While he's not a fan of the classic fast food places (McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, etc), he's a sucker for food that isn't exactly healthy. He can convince himself that junk food that's probably of the same quality as McDonald's is better than the latter, and he indulges in it hard. Pizza, tacos, burgers, you name it, and he's eating it. In his defense, he does prefer home cooked meals, he just sucks at cooking for himself.
✧ Working out ✧ ↣ Eating so much means that this is a must if he wants to remain fit, but he does it more than just because it's a necessity. He actually enjoys going to the gym and feeling strong.
✧ New York ✧ ↣ He's lived full time in New York and Hawaii, but his family has homes scattered across the globe and his passport will attest to how far he has traveled. Still, New York comes out on top. There's no place that can top the city that never sleeps.
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✧Dɪsʟɪᴋᴇs✧
◆ Prescription pills ✦ ↣ Call it ironic considering the company he works for, and how much he handles them outside of work, but Gabriel has never used any prescription medication that wasn't prescribed to him by his own doctor. He sees what they do to other people and the addictions that they can form, and he doesn't need that. Actually, aside from alcohol and an occasional smoke out with marijuana, he doesn't use drugs.
✦ His conscience ✦ ↣ His life would be so much easier if he didn't have to feel guilty about the things he does wrong. He doesn't care about his actions being wrong in the present, but it's always when his conscience kicks in and they start catching up to him that makes him go crazy.
✦ Cold weather ✦ ↣ New York winters make him consider moving back to Hawaii for good.
✦ Losing ✦ ↣ He likes competition and success and winning keeps him alive. It would be very easy for him to settle with just living off of his parents money, or maybe taking on some normal job and just floating through life, but Gabe wants to win. He wants to beat everyone at everything, and for him, the numbers and the money counts.
✦ Country music ✦ ↣ He'll listen to almost anything, but that hardcore hick country music just doesn't fly when he's in control of the radio.
✧ The ocean ✧ ↣ He loves all sorts of water sports, is perfectly content just laying on the beach and getting some sun, and somehow, the salty air always seems to put him at ease. The ocean, no matter which one it is, will always feel like home to Gabe.
✧ Junk food ✧ ↣ He will eat almost anything, so it's hard to narrow down his favorite food choice to just anything. While he's not a fan of the classic fast food places (McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, etc), he's a sucker for food that isn't exactly healthy. He can convince himself that junk food that's probably of the same quality as McDonald's is better than the latter, and he indulges in it hard. Pizza, tacos, burgers, you name it, and he's eating it. In his defense, he does prefer home cooked meals, he just sucks at cooking for himself.
✧ Working out ✧ ↣ Eating so much means that this is a must if he wants to remain fit, but he does it more than just because it's a necessity. He actually enjoys going to the gym and feeling strong.
✧ New York ✧ ↣ He's lived full time in New York and Hawaii, but his family has homes scattered across the globe and his passport will attest to how far he has traveled. Still, New York comes out on top. There's no place that can top the city that never sleeps.
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✧Dɪsʟɪᴋᴇs✧
◆ Prescription pills ✦ ↣ Call it ironic considering the company he works for, and how much he handles them outside of work, but Gabriel has never used any prescription medication that wasn't prescribed to him by his own doctor. He sees what they do to other people and the addictions that they can form, and he doesn't need that. Actually, aside from alcohol and an occasional smoke out with marijuana, he doesn't use drugs.
✦ His conscience ✦ ↣ His life would be so much easier if he didn't have to feel guilty about the things he does wrong. He doesn't care about his actions being wrong in the present, but it's always when his conscience kicks in and they start catching up to him that makes him go crazy.
✦ Cold weather ✦ ↣ New York winters make him consider moving back to Hawaii for good.
✦ Losing ✦ ↣ He likes competition and success and winning keeps him alive. It would be very easy for him to settle with just living off of his parents money, or maybe taking on some normal job and just floating through life, but Gabe wants to win. He wants to beat everyone at everything, and for him, the numbers and the money counts.
✦ Country music ✦ ↣ He'll listen to almost anything, but that hardcore hick country music just doesn't fly when he's in control of the radio.
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✧Tᴀʟᴇɴᴛs✧
✦ Surfing ✦ ↣ It is definitely his favorite hobby and a big reason for why he spent a year in Hawaii after graduating from high school.
✦ Manipulating people ✦ ↣ He has a way with words, and depending on the point of view, it's hard to tell whether it's a gift or a curse.
✦ Math ✦ ↣ It was always his best subject in school, and since he has a very strong love for money, it's a necessary skill.
✦ Sex ✦ ↣ He's selfish in a lot of aspects of his life, but the bedroom isn't one of them. Most of the girls he's slept with can attest to this.
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✦Fʟᴀᴡs✦
✧ Guilt ✧ ↣ Maybe it's not so much of a flaw as it is something that he deserves, but after things are said and done, Gabe's conscience has a tendency to eat him alive. He feels guilty for things he did years ago and no matter how much he tells himself to just get over it, he can't let things go. What's worse, maybe, is that he refuses to talk about most of these things to anyone, so all of the thoughts remained trapped in his head.
✧ Expressing emotions ✧ ↣ He hates getting deep with people, but this often affects his close relationships with people. Even in his last serious relationship, it was nearly impossible for him to truly open up. A lot of the time, his deeper emotions will be translated in an aggressive or even passive aggressive way because he hates getting emotional and expressing them in their true form.
✧ Compromising ✧ ↣ Especially when it comes to business, it's his way, or no deal. Being stubborn makes him difficult to deal with sometimes, but if he thinks that he is right, he is not letting up.
✧ Cooking ✧ ↣ It's quite possible that he's just too lazy to put enough care into his work, but he's triggered his apartment's smoke detector more than once just trying to cook toast.
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✧Secrets✧
✦ Deals drugs ✦ ↣ It's only a secret to some people... like his father, Pfizer, and the law. Gabe wouldn't consider himself to be an actual drug dealer anyway. No, he's more of a salesman, that's it. He doesn't stand on street corners trying to pass off a dime bag. He steals thousands and thousands of dollars worth of pills from his company and passes them along to Manhattan's finest. It's not a big game, but he knows how to play it right so that he makes the big bucks.
✦ He's not over Teegan ✦ ↣ His relationship with Teegan was the first and only serious relationship he had ever been in in his life. He had never been one for commitment before her, but when they were dating, he felt different and it was a good sort of different. Things ended, and he acts like he's completely indifferent to it all, or sometimes, even glad that it's over and that he can be a free bachelor, but he definitely misses it sometimes.
✦ He may be obsessed with Juliet ✦ ↣ Just look at her, the girl is beautiful! It's not hard to see what she's been his muse since they were just teenagers and he helped her get her fix on pills, even before he was working for Pfizer and had strong, reliable ways of getting his hands on prescription medications. When they were younger, he used the pills as a bartering tool, and really, a way to keep her interested in him. He didn't accept payment in the form of money from her. Just in sex. It was fucked up for sure, but she didn't really seem against it, so he doesn't think it was too horrible to have done. She claims that she's moved on from drug abuse for now, and though he doesn't believe it, he hopes that it's not true because he feels like that was all he had to offer her, and for some reason, one that he doesn't even know, he craves her attention.
✦ Surfing ✦ ↣ It is definitely his favorite hobby and a big reason for why he spent a year in Hawaii after graduating from high school.
✦ Manipulating people ✦ ↣ He has a way with words, and depending on the point of view, it's hard to tell whether it's a gift or a curse.
✦ Math ✦ ↣ It was always his best subject in school, and since he has a very strong love for money, it's a necessary skill.
✦ Sex ✦ ↣ He's selfish in a lot of aspects of his life, but the bedroom isn't one of them. Most of the girls he's slept with can attest to this.
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✦Fʟᴀᴡs✦
✧ Guilt ✧ ↣ Maybe it's not so much of a flaw as it is something that he deserves, but after things are said and done, Gabe's conscience has a tendency to eat him alive. He feels guilty for things he did years ago and no matter how much he tells himself to just get over it, he can't let things go. What's worse, maybe, is that he refuses to talk about most of these things to anyone, so all of the thoughts remained trapped in his head.
✧ Expressing emotions ✧ ↣ He hates getting deep with people, but this often affects his close relationships with people. Even in his last serious relationship, it was nearly impossible for him to truly open up. A lot of the time, his deeper emotions will be translated in an aggressive or even passive aggressive way because he hates getting emotional and expressing them in their true form.
✧ Compromising ✧ ↣ Especially when it comes to business, it's his way, or no deal. Being stubborn makes him difficult to deal with sometimes, but if he thinks that he is right, he is not letting up.
✧ Cooking ✧ ↣ It's quite possible that he's just too lazy to put enough care into his work, but he's triggered his apartment's smoke detector more than once just trying to cook toast.
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✧Secrets✧
✦ Deals drugs ✦ ↣ It's only a secret to some people... like his father, Pfizer, and the law. Gabe wouldn't consider himself to be an actual drug dealer anyway. No, he's more of a salesman, that's it. He doesn't stand on street corners trying to pass off a dime bag. He steals thousands and thousands of dollars worth of pills from his company and passes them along to Manhattan's finest. It's not a big game, but he knows how to play it right so that he makes the big bucks.
✦ He's not over Teegan ✦ ↣ His relationship with Teegan was the first and only serious relationship he had ever been in in his life. He had never been one for commitment before her, but when they were dating, he felt different and it was a good sort of different. Things ended, and he acts like he's completely indifferent to it all, or sometimes, even glad that it's over and that he can be a free bachelor, but he definitely misses it sometimes.
✦ He may be obsessed with Juliet ✦ ↣ Just look at her, the girl is beautiful! It's not hard to see what she's been his muse since they were just teenagers and he helped her get her fix on pills, even before he was working for Pfizer and had strong, reliable ways of getting his hands on prescription medications. When they were younger, he used the pills as a bartering tool, and really, a way to keep her interested in him. He didn't accept payment in the form of money from her. Just in sex. It was fucked up for sure, but she didn't really seem against it, so he doesn't think it was too horrible to have done. She claims that she's moved on from drug abuse for now, and though he doesn't believe it, he hopes that it's not true because he feels like that was all he had to offer her, and for some reason, one that he doesn't even know, he craves her attention.
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✧Dʀᴇᴀᴍs✧
✦ Live in Hawaii again ✦ ↣ He knows that he won't be moving there permanently any time soon, but taking a few months off from work to rent a place down there might be in his near future. It's definitely going to be at the top of the list for places he'd like to retire in, too.
✦ Become CEO of Pfizer ✦ ↣ EXPLANATION
✦ Have a net worth of over one billion dollars ✦ ↣ There are very few people in the world, of his age or younger, who have net worth's of that proportion, that are earned entirely on their own. Gabriel doesn't know what he wants to do yet, but after making it to the top of the Pfizer ladder, he knows he's going to want more. He's not happy unless he's growing, so he's already brainstorming ideas for his own companies that he can make to boost his net worth by the hundreds of millions, without it being linked to Pfizer, and his dad's help.
✦ Meet Taylor Swift ✦ ↣ Judge him all you want, but she's his celebrity crush, for sure. It's important to note that he'd like to meet her after she dumps Calvin Harris, though.
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✦Fᴇᴀʀs✦
✧ Drowning ✧ ↣ He loves swimming and surfing and being in the water in general, and no amount of stories about people dying in the water will change that love for him, but drowning sounds like a really, really bad way to go. Just through his experience in the ocean, he knows how terrifying it is to be trapped under the water, not knowing which way is the surface and which way is deeper water, so he can only imagine how bad it would be to die through something like that.
✧ Being exposed ✧ ↣ If anyone important found out that he was taking and selling Pfizer's drugs, he'd be absolutely, positively screwed. He would potentially face losing his job and credentials, risking his father losing his job, and possibly being imprisoned.
✧ Bees ✧ ↣ When he was a little kid, he had a really serious allergic reaction to a bee skin. His doctor insists that it was just a freak reaction and that he's not actually allergic to them, but if there's a bee in the area, you can bet that Gabe's gonna be on edge, watching that son of a bitch until it's long gone.
✧ Dementia ✧ ↣ If he's going to die of old age, then he at least wants to die knowing who he is and what's going on. Aging in general scares him, but he's really terrified of one day, becoming incapable of taking care of himself, physically and mentally.
✦ Live in Hawaii again ✦ ↣ He knows that he won't be moving there permanently any time soon, but taking a few months off from work to rent a place down there might be in his near future. It's definitely going to be at the top of the list for places he'd like to retire in, too.
✦ Become CEO of Pfizer ✦ ↣ EXPLANATION
✦ Have a net worth of over one billion dollars ✦ ↣ There are very few people in the world, of his age or younger, who have net worth's of that proportion, that are earned entirely on their own. Gabriel doesn't know what he wants to do yet, but after making it to the top of the Pfizer ladder, he knows he's going to want more. He's not happy unless he's growing, so he's already brainstorming ideas for his own companies that he can make to boost his net worth by the hundreds of millions, without it being linked to Pfizer, and his dad's help.
✦ Meet Taylor Swift ✦ ↣ Judge him all you want, but she's his celebrity crush, for sure. It's important to note that he'd like to meet her after she dumps Calvin Harris, though.
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✧ Drowning ✧ ↣ He loves swimming and surfing and being in the water in general, and no amount of stories about people dying in the water will change that love for him, but drowning sounds like a really, really bad way to go. Just through his experience in the ocean, he knows how terrifying it is to be trapped under the water, not knowing which way is the surface and which way is deeper water, so he can only imagine how bad it would be to die through something like that.
✧ Being exposed ✧ ↣ If anyone important found out that he was taking and selling Pfizer's drugs, he'd be absolutely, positively screwed. He would potentially face losing his job and credentials, risking his father losing his job, and possibly being imprisoned.
✧ Bees ✧ ↣ When he was a little kid, he had a really serious allergic reaction to a bee skin. His doctor insists that it was just a freak reaction and that he's not actually allergic to them, but if there's a bee in the area, you can bet that Gabe's gonna be on edge, watching that son of a bitch until it's long gone.
✧ Dementia ✧ ↣ If he's going to die of old age, then he at least wants to die knowing who he is and what's going on. Aging in general scares him, but he's really terrified of one day, becoming incapable of taking care of himself, physically and mentally.
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✧ Ian C. Read ✧ ↣ Father ↣ Living
✦ Sophia Read ✦ ↣ Mother ↣ Living
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It's hard to complain about your life when you've been livin' the good life for the past twenty-nine years. Gabe's upbringing was something that most people dream of. He spent his childhood in a six story townhouse in Manhattan's Upper East Side, though his weekends and summers were spent split between Greenwich, Connecticut and Southampton, New York, where his family owned other homes. Although both of his parents were born into comfortable lives themselves, their parents couldn't offer them a tenth of what they offered Gabe. Ian started working for Pfizer, an American pharmaceutical company, after he graduated college in Scotland, and climbed the ladder after taking a job in their Latin American branch in Brazil. Here is where he met Sophia Cruz, who two years later, would become Sophia Read, and two years after that, would give birth to their first and only child, Gabriel. By that time, the family had relocated to The United States and thanks for Ian's connections at Pfizer, Gabriel's parents became American citizens. His father's rise in Pfizer hit it's peak ten years ago when he was appointed to the position of CEO of the entire company.
The Upper East Side treated Gabe well, even if he didn't grow up to be a squeaky clean nerd who earned his ride to an Ivy with endless hours slaving over textbooks in the library. Gabe got there, and mind you, without a penny spent by his father to help him, but he was never the kid that you would pass on the street and think he was a Brown student. He had the brains, he had the prestigious private high school degree, but he did not have the look, and definitely not the attitude. None of that mattered though, because Gabe graduated with his bachelor's degree and master's degree in a fast track option that took four years (plus summer semesters). His dad wanted him to immediately join the Pfizer team, promising him that the company would want "young faces" sooner or later, to replace him as CEO, but Gabe wasn't ready to settle down in the real world just yet. He took a year off from everything and lived in Hawaii, doing absolutely nothing aside from relaxing, even though, according to Pfizer's payroll, he was one of their top new employees. It's good to have your dad as the boss, and that became an even truer statement when Gabe finally did actually start working there at age twenty-three. It wasn't just the expected perks of being the son of the most powerful man of the country that made Gabe want to stay on board... it was the drugs. He wasn't taking them, but you shouldn't underestimate how easy it is for a guy in a suit, even one as scruffy looking as Gabe, to threaten the people below him into getting him bottles upon bottles of the most expensive drugs that their company makes. He makes a pretty penny already according to payroll, but with his side drug-dealing business he's opened up, he's doing real well for himself.
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