Name: Daniel Esteban Rivas
Gender: Male.
Date of Birth: February 23, 1989
GPA: 4.2
Year: Sophomore

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Height: 5'10"
Eye Color: Blue
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
Hobbies: Reading, studying, jiu jistu, wrestling, programming, playing the piano, going on the internet.
Personality:
Daniel Esteban Rivas not just distinguishes himself from other students academically, but also by his appearance. Being of the few Hispanic kids at his high school, Daniel is also an academic all-star at his school with what most can say that he has a bright future ahead of him. Though despite this enduring academic stoicism and prowess to achieve more with his life, Daniel is rather the type to not find contentment with the day-to-day routine of what most could say a picture-perfect student. He finds repetitiveness and routine rather tedious as he spends time often thinking of doing things differently each way. Many can say that this act of wanting to think in different ways to have contributed to his creativity, as it as often benefited him getting out of certain situations.

Often, he is seen sleeping most of the day when he can. One could say he is rather lazy, though he is more of a bored high school student, wishing to spend the rest of his days as a trouble-making adolescence doing the dumbest and most dastard things he could pull before going to adulthood. This is one of the personality traits he often hides the most, using his innocent looks to often get away with the things he usually does that many seem as low, though he's not quite as a apathetic criminal as you'd think. Daniel possibly has more of a conscious than most people, often knowing when to draw the line morally between what's crossing that boundary and was shouldn't. Though despite this "consciousness", Daniel could be regarded as being arrogant at times, as he takes pride in being better than most other people.

Short Biography:
Daniel Esteban Rivas was born the second son of Mexican-American Carlos Alfredo Rivas and Irish-American Marcella MacArthur, both who come from a background of social injustice and peril and often wanting to show that to their children. Together they both had Michael Bartley Rivas, Daniel Esteban Rivas, and their young three-year old Maeve Lluvia Rivas. Daniel looks more like his father, Carlos, with the same similar Hispanic appearance as well as the curly hair he gets from his grandmother on his mom's side and the radiant blue eyes of his forefathers. Growing up young, Daniel was noted for being intelligent like his siblings though the most socially engaging out of all the Rivas children, mostly being ahead in his verbal skills.

Growing past toddler-hood, Daniel became close friends with his cousin, Alfredo Zapien, a noted trouble-maker since birth as his parents would say, who would often taking part in petty crime and later partying hard as he grew older. Though not nearly as good as a student as Daniel, Alfredo still has the grades to get into a half-decent school, but not really quite being motivated to do so. Alfredo was, however, everything Daniel wanted to be socially, a cool and notoriously feared person at school, picking fights with fellow students who talked trash. "These white boys can't fight", he would say after getting out of one, a fight he typically won against middle-class "white boys" as he called him. Despite being a bad boy, Alfredo often confides with his cousin, often lecturing him about not doing the same mistakes he made.

Taking some heed of his advice, Daniel realized the importance of studying and staying avid in his approach towards his education, striving to be that academic all-star he is today. His life could be explained almost the same way as any other teenager growing up in suburbia from there on, not knowing what to do with his leftover time of what diligence had yielded to his seemingly life of perfection. It was at this point in his sophomore year of high school at Hillcrest, would he choose to take a life as a young and petty underworld criminal.

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Name: Alfredo Zapien
Gender: Male.
Date of Birth: March 11, 1987
GPA: 3.2
Year: Senior

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Height: 5'11"
Eye Color: Brown
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic
Hobbies: Driving in his 1995 Toyota Tacoma, hanging out with friends, partying, soccer, baseball, amateur boxing.
Personality:
Those who know Alfredo will say that he's a pretty laid-back and relaxed individual, though not unless you piss him off is he going to explode. Being known for getting into fights and winning them, Alfredo is also known for his decent boxing skills as he is an amateur boxer with an impressive record of 11-0, most of his wins by knockout and is about to enter the state competition of boxing. Though despite his physical prowess, Alfredo is surprisingly quite modest in his abilities to beat people in fights. "The funny thing about learning how to fight," he told his cousin Daniel, "is so that you don't have to." Carlos is not quite known for being heated often, in fact, during confrontations he usually takes a rather humorous approach, sometimes even provoking others to attack him. Carlos is the type of individual who ends a fight rather than starting one.

Short Biography:
Alfredo Zapien is a full blooded Mexican-American, being raised in East LA before moving into the suburbs when his father got a job as a Union worker when the young Alfredo was eleven. Alfredo was raised pretty rough, probably more so than any other family member as has been in Juvenile Hall at the age of nine for three months for assault and drug possession and got into quite a few fights growing up. Though pretending not to care about school, he is actually somewhat studious, maintaining a decent GPA and able to get into a pretty good school. Though following a life as an intellectual isn't as much as a dream to him as his younger half-Irish and Mexican cousin, Daniel, who he likes to lecture and give advice to as they are both close friends.

Alredo is the third youngest born to Bacilia and Lorenzo Zapien, a hard-working family who just barely married, had their first son, Lorenzo Jr. before waiting five years to have Javier, and another two to have Carlos. Bacilia is Carlos Riva's oldest sibling who was born in Mexico and raised there longer than Daniel's father, and Lorenzo Zapien was also the same. Lorenzo is a hard-working union man, often coming from late and tired from work and is also a lover of trucks due to his work. All three brothers in the Zapien family were quite close to one another until becoming adults to live their own lives as separated.

Carlos always looked up to his brothers and essentially grew up to be similarly as he himself became a teenager though where there paths broke apart in a deviant way was when Carlos became acquainted with his intimate social circles whom his parents disapproved of. Those who have siblings know that the oldest are often the wisest, though the same cannot necessarily be same towards the Zapien family as they are a strange family. Carlos had been younger than his brother Lorenzo by seven years, and younger than his brother Javier by another two. Javier was probably the only one in the family who was bright enough to get into a decent school like Berkeley where he is today succeeding in getting a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Lorenzo Jr. is currently serving his time in Iraq as a Marine in what occurred after the 9/11 attacks in New York. Both brothers, now living to get their lives squared as they begin their journey into true adulthood with Carlos preparing, though not really knowing what to do with his own life.

All Carlos can do at the moment is perhaps give college a try and in the meanwhile, rely on his social circles to fill his days of boredom with partying and drinking before he officially 'grows up'. Rumors in his privileged high school circle around that he is a Cholo though only being partly true. To this day, Carlos often hangs out with his old friends he'd known since a child, the ones his parents warned him to stay away from. They were actual cholos. Although he does nothing too immoral in his behaviors, many speculate that what he does is quite unorthodox and sketchy as not even Daniel quite knows what he does with his spare time other than hearing rumors of him being a party animal. Despite this, Carlos is considered by Daniel to be wise, often lecturing and giving him advice on life, giving a hint to Daniel that he's been through quite a bit - though what, he doesn't specifically know.

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Name: George "Georgy Boy" Kowalewski
Gender: Male.
Date of Birth: June 6, 1989
GPA: 4.4
Year: Sophomore

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Height: 5'11"
Eye Color: Blue
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian, Polish-American.
Hobbies: Video games, coding, technology, cross-country running, playing the trombone, wrestling.
Personality:
On the outside, George is your typical honor, completely absent-minded student, who is even more intelligent than he looks - though despite these good attributes can take part in some shady behavior with his close friend, Daniel. Some could say that hanging out with George after a while could easily show his pernicious behavior as he at times look for opportunities to cause trouble and take advantage of the opportunities he has at hand often carelessly. Though looking to cause trouble isn't really something he does recreational in the same way Daniel does. Being a very notable intelligent young man, George's ego is also something that is quite predominant, often coming off as a overly-prideful, pretentious, student who is only ever humble when it comes to his athleticism.

Despite some of his flaws, George is quite a loyal person, often being capable of empathy though often at times being taken advantaged of himself by people. This is what made 'good old Georgy Boy' to be somewhat cynical, believing that most people are often only motivated by self-interest. His frustration and ego can often get the better of him, sometimes backfiring and causing him to do stupid things. It is recently that George began to develop a bad habit of smoking pot and drinking whenever he can, going to the parties that JC and Alfredo often invite him to out of pity. Though intelligent, George is sometimes mistaken for being stupid, usually by his lack of common sense and social norms, and at times saying or doing things out of lack of consciousness.

Short Biography:
George "Georgy Boy" Kowalewski is the second born child of Tyler Kowalewski and Madeline Kowalewski, two intelligent American entrepreneurs with both their own businesses, Tyler being a Software Engineer and Madeline being a Lawyer, and are well-to-do. He was born just three years after his sister, now in college, Courtney Kowalewski, who also shares her father's intellectual prowess as she is currently a Mechanical Engineering major at the University of California Berkeley. At a young age, George was already known for taking a deep interest in technology like his father and took advantage of being raised by a tech-savvy father who nurtured him into what some may call a child prodigy. George's interest in technology could easily be derived from what most could say his father, a Software Engineer who formerly had worked for Oracle. Though this interest could easily have evolved at a much younger age then his father, Tyler, who had only grown to like technology when he entered college who had originally came from a poor Polish-American family in New York City.

However, this wasn't George's only interest, like many other kids growing up, "Georgy Boy" had a relatively normal life growing up, having a couple of a few close friends with Daniel Esteban Rivas and his older, much cooler cousin, Alfredo Zapien. Both were noted as being the "high achieving" kids of their schools, being the some of the top students almost every year. Originally meeting in kindergarten, Daniel and George consider themselves to be brothers more than just friends, often being seen as inseparable. Many also consider the two of them to be mischievous, their math teacher who would later also subtlety take part of their 'underworld', Mr. Clarke, referring to the both of them as being "as quick as thieves".

Their petty criminal life first started in the seventh grade at a party which they were not invited to. It was the party of a friend of Daniel's older brother Michael Bartley Rivas, who had partied so hard, had to be taken home to whereupon George and Daniel entered in order to experience the life of high school partying beforehand. George considers it to be a joyful moment, being the first time going to a real party of a spoiled teenager. It was everything George imagined for a party at a large mansion to be like, much like the parties seen in cliché films about teenagers. There was: drinking, good-looking women, drugs, games, and a host of many desperate teenagers, hungry for excitement. So many, that nobody would notice a couple of seventh grades in the crowd of drunken and absentminded teenagers at the height of a hardcore party. It was at one moment that George and Daniel came across a bag of marijuana left behind by a group of passed out, nameless high schoolers that they would sell to a group of similarly aged students near their neighborhood.

It was there that their life of petty criminality would take off, often taking part of selling stolen items, racking up as much money as they could. After a while, their reputation at school became somewhat known, though they themselves are not quite popular at school, nor do they want to be. Being secretive is something Daniel knew was important to their little underworld, though it is today that their reputation at school would soon skyrocket to communal fame.

Hillcrest High School Student Identification