Valentino Morales - 20 - Finch

Name: Valentino Sebastian Morales
Nicknames/Alias: Val, Valery, Val-U-Mart, Tiny
Age: Twenty
Pronouns: He/Him
Shift Type: C - European serin (Finch)
Occupation: Florist/Musician

Appearance: Val is pretty tall, but he's also pretty skinny. Over the next year, he will fill out to have slightly wide shoulders. His torso will taper down to his waist slightly, but it wouldn't be so obvious at first glance. His face is a square-ish heart shape, emphasizing his average cheekbones and ever so slightly crooked nose. There's a tiny little scar on his ear tip and an old scar on his upper lip from when he tried to eat a stapler when he was a toddler. His hair- more like feathers- is a yellow-ish blonde shade. Bright blue eyes have a slightly larger pupil than normal. His fingers are long and bird-like.
Shift Traits: *Technically* Val is a c-shifter. Which means at one point he was a b- or a- shifter. In his terms, he used to be an a-shifter. When he was six, he had trouble turning back into his human form and after two weeks of attempting to turn back with various levels of success, his human form ended up with bird-like traits. Over time, they've only emphasized what his form was. His hair has basically turned into soft, fine feathers that resemble hair visibly, but to the touch they are bird-feathers. His pupil has grown bigger. His fingers became longer and slightly sharper in appearance, with his finger nails being sharpened and as hard as rock. Along with that, over time he started to grow wings. He is unable to fly, as he does not have hollow bones and is too heavy too lift from the ground. The bones in his wings are hollow though, and could be easily broken. The feathers are yellow at the base, with brown, black, and grey vertical stripes peppering them.
Faceclaim: Narukami Arashi - Ensemble Stars

Personality: The fact that he's a c-shifter is enough cause for people to whisper about him whether they're human or shapeshifter. He's a lttle self-conscious of it, worrying that he's not good enough for his band-mates and friends. He has a lot of love to give, translating into his immense generosity, clinginess and need for touch. He's very outgoing and friendly, with a trusting nature.

He can be a little annoying and maybe too loud. He doesn't like lying, telling the truth as much as he can. People accusing of him lying offends him immensely, and results in a grudge. For someone so trusting and friendly, he can hold a hell of a grudge. Even when he decides to forgive, it is very likely that he hasn't actually forgiven the person completely yet and it shows. He has a tendency to not talk very much when he talks to those people and might seem quiet, if not stand-offish or outright rude.

Val has his own brand of insults, preferring to use little phrases such as 'Oh go suck on some nightshade.' or 'If you didn't want it, why didn't you throw it in the river?' Or if someone is allergic to something, he'll leave little gifts of what they are allergic to or takes flowers that means something insulting and leaving it on the porch. He can be almost too honest, as he can be very blunt when speaking and may inadvertently insult someone.
Likes:
+ kpop
+ cats
+ stretching
+ yoga
+ making stirfry
+ dancing
Dislikes:
- hardcore rap
- death metal
- dogs
- the dark, he has a really intense imagination
- being interrupted
- burning his dinner
Fun Facts:
~ likes to dance around his kitchen when he's home and sing to twice.
~ screaming kpop at the top of his lungs is his guilty pleasure.
~ loves making stirfry out of anything. he eats the stuff like it's candy.
~ acting like a complete fool out of public eye
~ when he's scared or stressed, his hair frizzes and poofs up. his wings do too. he looks like a frazzled bird.
~ has a little 3 year old siamese cat named Serin. he loves her with all of his heart and would literally do anything for her.
~ Serin likes collecting things, like shiny things or ribbons. she has a little nest made out of the feathers that naturally fall out of Val's wings.
~ is a collector himself, but obsessively organizes everything. all of his buttons? in a jar. various rocks that he thinks look cool? in a bowl in the center of his coffee table. the sea-glass and shells he collects at the beach? either tied up into the massive crocheted blanket that he adds on, or in buckets in his garage. all of the yarn he has? stored in storage buckets underneath his bed.
~ is a near obsessive crocheter/knitter. he stress knits so much.
~ has a secret box at the top of the closet in his room full of pictures of the band in stupid poses. when he's lonely he likes to look at them and remember good time.
~ loves fuzzy toe socks
~ addicted to peanuts and sunflower seeds
~ has an enormous stash of sweaters that he's knitted in the bottom of his closet. he tries to keep them a secret, because when he starts to stress knit all he can knit are ugly christmas or cat sweaters.
~ has a collection of feathers he occasionally plucks stashed in his drawers. he knows they're gross and hurts when he plucks them out himself, but the crooked ones itch and pull at his wings.
~ will do anything for Jun's snacks
~ sometimes likes to run around like a dork and pretend he's a real bird.
~ his friends and bandmates like to tease him by asking him to do the chicken dance
~ has a greenhouse on top of his flower-shop full of different flowers
~ zinnias are planted in front of his shop
~ his favorite flowers are lilies, but he can't have them out in the open because Serin's allergic.
~ sometimes sticks a flower behind his ear. when he does, he promptly forgets about it two minutes later. nobody tells him that it's still there until he finds it himself like "o.o when did this get here" because it's either hilarious or cute to them
~ when all the band goes home for the day and he's still there, he waits til they're all gone before he has a go on the instruments. his favorites are the drums.
~ favorite spanish singer is Shakira. when he thinks he's by himself, he'll grab the nearest thing as a mic and belt it out, wiggling his body like a complete amateur and plastering himself to the wall dramatically.
~ one of his favorite hobbies is yoga. he will literally sit there on a mat in some yoga pose for hours on end. sometimes he'll sit outside of the shop and watch in amusement as people stare at him.
~ he has a very vivid imagination and likes to make up stories. he has a fear of the dark because he thinks the shadows are out to get him or someone is watching him. val can have some very vivid dreams.
~ is paranoid enough to have five different locks on the shop door and seven on the door to his flat. there is ten leading to the greenhouse
~ has a tattoo of a small european serin on the back of his neck.

History: Val's childhood was full of feathers, playing, panic, and a period where he got lost in the walls of his father's family home in the Galician hills. As a child and a born shifter, shifting into his little finch form as a kid was uncontrollable. He loved fluttering about as a bird when he did, though when he was six he accidentally half-transformed. It threw his entire center off balance, especially when his parents panicked and argued with each other over it. The arguing and fights continued to the point where Val was in a constant state of distress.

His parents fighting with each other and threatening divorce over ways of how to fix him threw the kid emotionally off balance and by the time he was two weeks into the mess, he could no longer feel the pull that told him his shift was there. Val was in tears, throwing a tantrum and bawling when he could no longer fly. His half-transformed state at age six consisted of his hair turning basically into feathers and his fingers tapering out slightly. His parents were no longer talking to each other, blaming everyone but themselves for Val's half-shift into type c.

Eventually they went to court over custody for Val. It ended with a very angry c-shifter uncle, a frying pan, two spatulas, and both of his parents losing the court case. His uncle had filled a lawsuit against the two of them and in one fell swoop he gained full custody over his nephew. It was his uncle Felix that taught him to love himself. It was his uncle Felix that comforted a crying Val every night until he stopped having nightmares. It was his uncle Felix that picked up the pieces.

When he was fourteen, Uncle Felix got a new job offer from Sofia, Spain. He convinced Val to skip a couple years of secondary school and get a scholarship to the famed University of Sofia. Although he never got a scholarship like he hoped, Val worked his ass off at his uncle's restaurants starting when he was twelve, even though it was illegal at that age. He often told the customers that he really wanted to help his uncle with his restaurant. He saved up his allowance and work wages until he graduated SS at 16, before putting a down payment on a flat above an empty shop. From there, he worked like mad at his uncle's restaurant.

He worked extremely hard to get a spot in UoS, winning a few competitions on singing and floral design before he realized he wanted to be a florist and musician. Now, he's 20 with an associate degree of the arts under his belt and running his own flower shop, which both his uncle and father funded. His uncle gave it to him as a gift, his father pouring money into it out of guilt. Val hasn't heard from his mother since he was 12.