Appearance Description: A handsome man by anyone's standards, Juan Ramiro stands at 5'10" and weighs around 160 pounds. His eyes are pale blue and disarming, but with a gleam of mischief, like the dull curtain of a soft, persistent rain -- and the rainbow left in its wake. His hair is chocolate-brown, messy, coming down just to his ears. Juan has a strong physique, though not overly muscular. His attire of choice is a black, high-end suit, three-piece, with the jacket replaced by a black leather one. When outside, he dons a pair of black sunglasses, and will not go anywhere without his father's old watch on his left wrist.

Name: Juan Ramiro Medina

Nickname: El Tiburón -- "The Shark"

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Nationality: Mexican

Role: Con/Fence

Personality: Juan is a man of many faces: an opportunistic trait many con-men acquire. Or, perhaps, it is these men who find their way to a life of crime, and not the other way around. For his friends -- and he does not have many genuine ones -- Juan is lighthearted and witty. He was born with the knack to talk, and has used that to get out of many a hostile situation. When faced with stress, he is the first to try to diffuse the situation, believing stress to be "a vulgar and unnecessary habit". However, his life has not been without trauma, and Juan did not come out unscathed. He has killed, and sinned in many a way, and there are moments when he grows quiet and distant. But he buries it, and moves on.

Biography: Juan Ramiro Medina was born in Mexico City, and lived in the town of Teoloyucan, Mexico until he was 20. His father, Manuel, was a firefighter, and his mother -- Teresa -- a waitress. His little sister, Gabriela, was born two years later, and the family lived a modest life in a small, one-story ranch on the outskirts of town. Despite his family's situation, Juan immediately stuck out in public school. He was nearly always the brightest child in each of his classes, and excelled specifically in mathematics. His other major talent was that he was a fantastic speaker, often being the one to mediate any situation (and occasionally, the one to talk his way out of a detention or two). All signs pointed to Juan having a bright, legitimate and successful future. However, fate was not on his side, as an explosion took both of his parents' lives one afternoon at their house.
Seventeen year old Juan and fifteen year old Gabriela were both at school. When they learned of their parents' death, they were told it was an accident -- that the likely cause was ignition of the gas in the stove. Juan was skeptical, but kept these feelings to himself, not wanting to worry his sister. He moved into an apartment and began to raise his sister by himself. Quickly, however, he realized he could not manage to live on a part-time job's salary, and dropped out of school his senior year. The potential employers, however, were not looking for high school dropouts, and Juan took to a life of crime. For a while, he traversed the streets of Mexico City running short-cons and pickpocketing. But by the time he was twenty, his skills grew to include basic forgery and identity theft.
After his sister graduated, twenty year-old Juan decided he would pursue larger targets. Though he now lived comfortably in Teoloyucan, he could not imagine the wealth he would obtain in the United States. His destination, after much deliberation, ended up being the City of Angels - Los Angeles.
Once in L.A., Juan found himself making more money than he knew what to do with. At first, much of it he sent back to Gabriela, but he still could afford many luxuries. luxuries he had never before even witnessed in Mexico. He worked solo for a few years, doing jobs for employers that needed something stolen. He was always careful to make sure there was no trail to lead back to him or his clients. "Anonymity," he once quipped, "is just about as important to me as my appearance." However, he joined up with a larger crew to work a big job, and ended up sticking with them for a period of three years. They became his family, a surrogate for his dead parents and distant sister. Together, the crew made a fortune. And then, unknowingly, they robbed from the Columbian Cartel. Everything else went down so fast: one of their crew turned on them, tipped the Cartel off, gunned them down. For the second time, Juan's family had died. This time, it was no accident. Only he and one other managed to make it out alive. After that he liquidated what assets he could -- not much -- and left L.A. for greener pastures. He was initially hesitant to join a new crew, but found strength in numbers and skill, and cautiously signed up.

Equipment:
- When able, Juan carries a silenced Beretta 92A1 handgun and a Smith & Wesson executive foldable blade.
- He has a high-tech card reader for skimming credit cards and other critical belongings

Relationships: [This will be added once all characters are accepted]

Miscellanous: Juan's sister, Gabriela, still lives in Mexico and is unaware of his criminal activities. She's a schoolteacher, an innocent, and Juan does his best to shelter her from his life.

Theme Song: Over The Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin

Appearance Description: Standing at five feet nine inches on her heels, Mei has a slim body that appeals to the men she sets herself up for. Her silky white skin and smooth, long legs pop out in a crowd. Her body is slim and she is commonly referred to as a "twig" which, she'll admit, she hates but knows its true. She weighs in at 127 pounds.
Name:Mei Anake Nakamura

Nickname: Mei used to prefer the beginning of her middle name, Anake, which would be shortened to Ana. She drifted away from that as she got older, though, and prefers just plain Mei. Her father used to call her Sugar Sweet, though, and that was pretty much it besides her street name of Anabelle.

Age: A lady never tells her age, but I'll tell you a secret. She's twenty-nine, going on thirty. No one would ever guess that, though, which is why nobody really knows.
Gender:Female

Nationality:Japanese-American

Role:The Temptress!

Personality: It is easy to mistake Mei for a cold person- Really, it is. Unless she is on the job, when one first meets Mei, you'll probably be intimiated. Just because she is small doesn't mean she can't be scary, of course. Although her job may say otherwise, Mei is an extremely smart woman and graduated college when she was twenty-one. Most of Mei's personality to those that know her show her of loyal character and strong emotions. You'll make her mad or cry pretty easily and drama can sometimes be drawn to her. Trust me, she doesn't try- You know, girls just get a bit..jealous of her hot body. Of course. If you couldn't tell already, Mei is also a bit narcissistic and can be even more self-centered sometimes. All in all, though, she tries to be a good person when she needs to be and if you're the right kind of person, she'll put herself in harm's way for you.

Biography: Growing up in a primarily white neighborhood isn't easy for someone with Japanese descent, especially someone growing up in a primarily white neighborhood in a small town. You don't know just how judgemental people are- It's terrible. Mei was born to Ariana Gina Nakamura and Eugene Lee Nakamura, Japanese from her father's descent. She was born when her mother was extremely young- Sixteen, to be exact, which added to the stress as she grew up. She was commonly thrown racial slurs that would send her home crying when she was only a little girl. She learned to toughen up and ignore those around her. Mei's family was never all that rich and it shows from her childhood photos- Old, faded clothing that was usually torn a bit, dirty nails, messy hair.. all were common for Mei as a child. This led to her taking up makeup as a hobby to try to make herself pretty- Pretty and ready to get picked up.

When Mei turned sixteen, she ran away from home. She hitchhiked her way from a small town in Tampa Bay, Florida, all the way up to New York where she went to a community college and graduated easily with a degree in Chemical Engineering. One that, might I add, she never used and still hasn't. After college, she spent time in New York as a petty theft on the streets, getting away with the use of her distracting men and women alike with her body. It was, you could say, Easy Money. Around her twenty-sixth birthday, she was "picked up", you could call it, by (insert member of the group here, we don't have set characters yet so I don't know--). It would be a few years until she'd meet anybody else or even start working with the group. From that point forwards, Mei had set foot in many a city, many a country and has toned her skills of distraction to a T. She takes pride in it, let me tell you that.

Equipment: Mei always, always, always carries a change of clothes with her, whether it be the same outfit or a completely different one. You never know when you'll hit the same people on the street, right? She also carries a set of spare keys for one of the group's cars, as she doesn't really drive on her own. Not only does she carry those items, but she also carries a set three hundred dollars hard cash and a swiss army knife for common protection. If she is on a more dangerous mission, all she'll have on her weapon-wise is her army knife and a glock that can be hidden in a jacket if necessary.
Relationships: ---

Miscellanous:
-Mei has had problems with men showing up later in her travels that have actually stalked her. She stays as anonymous as she can most of the time, but that one guy always slips through the cracks and she ends up having to 'get rid' of them.
-Mei rather enjoys her job of distracting men and, every now and then, "getting rid of" them. It makes her feel needed, like she isn't some kind of temporary thing in the group.

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