Asi's remade characters

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Name: Kunal Diven Vergara. Kunal got his first name from his mother's grandfather or his great grandfather. The name "Kunal" has various meanings, essentially an Indian name, it has roots in Arabic, spanish and sanskrit. Variations of his name are Kunala or Kunāl. The name Kunal in Hindi, Arabic, and Spanish means "Eagle" or "Protector of the Skies", thus it meaning 'Kunal' symbolises the Eagle. Its meaning in modern Hindi is simple "that which is pure or holy". His middle name "Diven" means "wine" in haitian creole and is a reference to his parentage, although Kunal doesnt realise this until much later. His last name "Vergara" is of Spanish origin suggesting that his ancestors may have come from Spain however this too far back to be reflected on his family tree.

Nicknames: Kunal's name is simple and hard to shorten. He doesnt like variations of his name and rarely if ever uses his middle name, preferring instead to be called by his first name.

Age: Kunal is 18 years old and was born on 12th december.

Gender: Kunal is biologically male, he also identifies with the male gender. However Kunal is not the stereotypical alpha male and has various attributes that may be considered "feminine" such as he gives a lot of importance to grooming and has a deep fondness for the arts, he particularly enjoys opera.

Race/ethnicity: Kunal is orginally from South India and belongs to the Dravidian Race. However, he doesnt feel very connected to his origins as he spent barely a couple of years in India before his mother began taking him along with her on his travels all year long. He eventually stopped identifying with a particular country and considers himself a global citizen.

Accent: Kunal has a neutral accent although his speech shows the influence of many languages. Owing to his travels, he speaks many languages fluently and can converse adequately in many others as well. His conversations are peppered with foreign words although he speaks English perfectly.

Skin Tone: Kunal has brown skin as do most people in South India. His mocha coloured skin often makes people assume he has a permanent tan.

Eye Color: Kunal has striking black eyes. They are one of his most expressive features and can almost always tell you what he's thinking. They usually seem to have caught the light and are twinkling in amusement at some private joke. His eyes are almond shaped and quite small, the tend to become narrow slits when he laughs.

Hair Color: Kunal has dark chocolate brown curls. He inherited them from his mother and he often jokes that they're the only thing that proves that they are related.

Hair Length: Kunal's hair is generally long and unruly. It's longer toward the front than the back. His mother has often referred to it as a "mop". His hair covers his ears slightly and most of his forehead, it falls in his eyes frequently and this annoys him so he goes and cuts it off but it grows back within a few weeks. The fact that his hair is curly, shortens its length to a great extent. If it were straight it would probably come down to his shoulders.

Height: Kunal is 6.1 feet tall. He used to be just 5feet until he was 15, when he hit a growth spurt and shot right up. He also took up swimming around that time  and this contributed significantly to his growth.

Weight: Kunal weighs 74kgs, which is approximately 163 pounds. He used to be painfully thin, about 69kgs before he started working out and eating healthy. Naturally he metabolism is really high so he doesnt put on weight easily.

Body Type: Kunal has a well toned and muscular body. However he is not a beef cake. He's slim and toned but would not be described as beefy by anyone. He has a broad chest and the powerful shoulders of a swimmer and his torso tapers down toward his waist.

Mortal Parent: Kunal's mortal parent is Rita Vergara. Rita was from an aristocratic Indian family, having been cared for by nannies and attendants all her life and having received her education at first from a private tutor and then from exclusive boarding schools Rita never felt particularly connected with her family. To some extent it is this alienation that she has passed on to Kunal who never felt a sense of belonging to any place or person before he reached camp half blood. At the age of 16 she was sent to a finishing school in Mussoorie, which is a hill station in northern India. After finishing her course there, over a couple of years she returned to Delhi which is where her family lived. As heiress of the Vergara family's massive fortune, she did not have to bother herself with work or anything of that sort and instead busied herself as a socialite and opened a number of art galleries around the country. She soon became a fashion icon and a popular figure on the social front. Young, beautiful and charming, Rita had no troubles in steadily adding to the Vergara fortune. However privileged, her closeted existence began to bore her and at the age of 19 she left Delhi, in what many saw as bold move. Despite her fame and money, Rita experience had been very limited and she had little or no knowledge of the world outside India and of the international arena, quickly picking it all up Rita quickly rose to be one of the most prominent figures on the international social scene. When she's not in L.A, she's in Milan, or London or Paris.. you get the point. So basically unless you've been living on a cave at the edge of civilization, you've probably heard of her. She's now an international fashion icon, socialite and all round party animal. For mom standards she's also extremely young, since she had Kunal when she was only 22. For this reason Kunal seems to regard her more as an older sister in her wild phase rather than as a mom, he is a bit put off by the idea that she's his mother although at most social gatherings he was identified as her son.

On her twenty-second birthday, Rita threw a huge party the likes of which surpassed the limits of most people's imaginations. Littered with A list movie stars, socialites, Big-wigs of the fashion industry and billionaire friends from all over the world, the party would eventually turn into the stuff of legend. Midway through the night, a young, handsome and slightly inebriated young man offered Rita a glass of her favourite wine, Carbernet Sauvignon. More than slightly inebriated herself, Rita was almost instantly swept away by his charm and spent the rest of the party laughing and chatting with him. Little did she know at the time, that he was Dionysus, the God of wine himself. Two weeks of courtship ensued, at the end of which after a particularly tipsy night, Dionysus explained to Rita all about the God's, who he was and that their future son or daughter would eventually have to leave to go to a place called "Camp half blood". That was the last Rita ever saw of him, though often in years later she would continue to think of him fondly. Naturally she put their conversation down to druken memories and hallucinations, however she never could shake of the uneasy feeling she had about it. Sure enough, their son was born 9 months later and Rita remained terrified of the possibility that her drunken 'dream' was more than just a dream after all.

Although like Rita, her soon too had the benefit of a privileged upbringing, in some ways he's had a childhood that almost at poles with his mothers. While her own childhood was closeted and limited in scope, Rita's son has seen it all  and done it all. He's had experiences in his short life so far that most adults can only dream of experiencing. Having travelled around the world with his mother, he and Rita bonded in some measure but Rita although affectionate to her only soon is simply not "mother material" as she likes to say herself. Nevertheless, she ensured the best care for Kunal when he was too young to accompany her on her travels and later a whole host of attendants including a private tutor like she herself had. They maintained a generally good relationship, as Kunal in the meantime was brought up by a whole host of Rita's staff and entourage. As Kunal approached his teens, his relationship with his mother became turbulent as he began rebelling against her and began to question their life and her decisions, often culminating in ugly fights. While she brushed this away as merely a phase, Rita began to feel slightly uneasy knowing that the time was close when she would have to reveal Kunal's true identity to him. When Kunal was 13 after one of his mother's extravagant society parties, incidently where he had his first sip of wine, he was claimed in his sleep. Rita had wandered into his suite for some reason or another and saw the holographic symbol of a wine goblet with a creeper entwined around it floating over the sleeping Kunal's head. She screamed and woke Kunal, who upon hearing of his mother's 'vision', told her she was drunk and to go back to her own suite. For Rita however, the memory was seared in her mind and she never forgot it. She knew now what she had feared for 18 years, that everything Dionysus had told her had been true. She knew the time was not far when Kunal would leave, but in her typical knack of avoiding uncomfortable things Rita ignored the incident in the morning pretending it never happened, causing Kunal to follow suite. When he finally left for camp, Rita told everyone in her social cicrle that he was away at boarding school in England. Kunal has visited his mother once since he came to camp and is yet unsure about how much she knows about his identity, since she never brought up either his disappearance nor his prolonged absence. And where his mother is concerned Kunal has learnt to leave touchy topics alone.

Godly Parent: Kunal's Godly parent is none other then all around well loved and popular (haha) camp director, Mr. D also known as Dionysus and sometimes referred to as the "wine dude". Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. the last god to be accepted into Mt. Olympus. Dionysus was good at nothing in his human life but cultivating wine. The people in his village mocked him, not knowing of his heritage, his father, or knowing his future, and what he would one day become. Zeus was so pleased with him for inventing wine, he was made immortal and a God. When Dionysus was invited to Mount Olympus, it was Hestia who graciously offered him her golden chair to prevent any conflict or embarrassment. He was the youngest Olympian and the only one to have a mortal mother. A son of Zeus, he is also the Lord of all satyrs and God of Epiphany though these are some of his lesser known traits. Leopards are sacred to him and he enjoys turning people into dolphins. He is usually found in the big house playing card games with Chiron. His preffered clothing is hawaii-esque floral print shirts and his favoured drink is diet coke, (since he isnt allowed wine anymore). Whats the God of wine and revelries doing in a children's summer camp? Good question. Dionysus chased after an out-of-bounds nymph and as punishment was banished to Camp Half Blood to serve as camp director for a hundred years. His power and influence over plants such as strawberries causes bursting and brilliant growth of these plants in the fields near camp. This helps pay for Camp Half Blood's expenses and enables their cover as Delphi Strawberry Service. Mr. D spends most of his time in camp cursing his punishment, mispronouncing/deliberately refusing to remember demigod's names, trying to beat Chiron at card games and generally terrorising satyrs.


Date of Birth: Kunal was born on 12th december, 18 years ago. (Im omitting the year so he doesnt have to get older you see..) This makes his zodiac sign "Sagittarius" or the archer. Although he couldnt care less about zodiac signs and such Kunal has often been told my his mother's tarot-toting friends that he is is the typical Sagittarius, often described as having a positive outlook on life, they are full of enterprise, energy, versatility, adventurousness and eagerness to extend experience beyond the physically familiar. They enjoy travelling and exploration, the more so because their minds are constantly open to new dimensions of thought. They are basically ambitious and optimistic, and continue to be so even when their hopes are dashed. Their strongly idealistic natures can also suffer many disappointments without being affected. They are honorable, honest, trustworthy, truthful, generous and sincere, with a passion for justice. They have both profound and widely ranging minds, equipped with foresight and good judgement, and they can be witty conversationalists. They love to initiate new projects (they make excellent researchers) and have an urge to understand conceptions that are new to them. they think rapidly, are intuitive and often original, but are better at adapting than inventing and are at their best when working with colleagues of other types of character that compliment their own. They are strong-willed and good at organizing, a combination that gives them the ability to bring any project they undertake to a successful conclusion. Their generosity can be balanced by their extreme care at handling their resources.

Place of Birth: Kunal was born in Brentwood, in the state of California in Los Angeles, United States of America. He is thus an American by birth and holds an American passport.


Weapon: Kunal's weapon is a long celestial bronze sword with vines engraved below the hilt. It is about 36 inches, 3 feet in length. The vines are long twisted grape vines, the hilt is silver.

Armor: Kunal doesnt like to wear much heavy armor. He fights offence rather than defense and likes to remain quick and agile. Heavy armor would wiegh him down. However when he needs to be in proper battle gear sometimes, he wears silver armour that consists of a helmet with deep purple plumes, a breastplate and a shield that is engraved with grape vines.

Powers: Kunal can make vines grow out of the ground, these vines are about 4 to 5 feet long and about an inch thick, they are very strong and could be used to bind people where they stand but not strangle or suffocate them. He can make them appear 4 times a day. He can do two types of charms, the first one is a cheering charm where he can make people have more fun, its more like an aura really that accompanies him when he enters a party or a public gathering, people instantly become more cheerful and lively. The second is one where he can intoxicate someone with his influence, he makes them weak and disillusioned and can also make them hallucinate vividly for about 2-3 minutes and they will know that they are having a hallucination. While the first charm can be performed to a number of people at once, the second will apply to single individual at a time. He can do both charms a total of 6 times a day. They will both last about 15 minutes before gradually fading away. Also, while he cant cure insanity, he can soothe madness and calm the mad person down or take away their madness for about 5 minutes. He can do this 3 times a week or lesser if he has already used some of his other powers in that day.

Pets: None.

Skills/Talents: Kunal is very sociable and popular, can instantly liven up any party, is very fun and has a knack for making people feel comfortable with him, he is very knowledgeable about wines and fine dining, he is trained in formal etiquette. Kunal can play the piano very well and has recieved formal training in the same. He has also given a couple of piano concerts.
Flaws: Kunal causes a lot of trouble, is frivolous, may be seen as useless or a vagabond, is never really serious about anything. He can be disrespectful of most forms of authority. He often lies in coversations for no particular reason, he can be delibrately misleading if he doesnt like a person.
Strengths: Kunal is extremely diplomatic and can also be manipulative when required. He has a deep understanding of human nature and can use this to get what he wants. He is charming and chivalrous and is extremely loyal to people he cares about.
Weaknesses: Kunal is extremely vengeful and holds grudges. Once he develops a vendetta against someone, he is consumed by the need for revenge and this often overcomes his logic as well. Due to this nature, his is often rigid about his beliefs, once he makes up his mind, he is not willing to acknowledge anything to the contrary and very rarely changes his mind. He will go to any extent to get what he wants. He is cynical of people and does not trust easily, thus his world is limited to very few people and he does not like letting more people past his defences. He does not forgive easily. Kunal also has an addictive personality, he may get obsessive about things and then becomes dependant on them this holds true even for people. His personal loyalty is also sometimes a weakness as he puts the people he cares about abopve everything else and this puts him in a very vunerable position as he feels responsible for the saftely and happiness of the people he loves and would do anything to keep it intact even at his own expense. Also it would be easy for his enemies to control him if they observe him and find out what or whom he cares about.
Fears:. Kunal's greatest fear would be losing his loved ones. As he has only very few people he truly cares about and loves, his world revolves around them, losing them or having any harm come to them would completely shatter him especially since he would also feel responsible for the same. Kunal is afraid of fire and doesnt like to be close to it, he feels like he has a vague memory for some bad experience with fire in his childhood but cannot recall it exactly, however the fear has stayed with him.
Personality: This Indian-origin demigod is at once both similar and strikingly different from his godly parent. Cheerful and friendly and a social delight, Kunal is the perfect remedy if you're having a bad day. Chivalry comes naturally to him and if you need advice about etiquette or fine dining, he's your man. Careful not to stick around too long however or you may find yourself getting roped into one of his risky schemes that more often than not end in trouble. For someone who seems like he stepped out of the pages of a Victorian classic, Kunal has a prominent affinitity for flouting the law and a dangerous lack of regard for any form of authority. He is fiercely protective of those he cares about and will essentially attend to their every need. This loyalty however, borders on obsession and can become stifling. Due to this reason, it is perhaps a good thing that he takes time to form bonds and does not get truly attached to people easily.
Likes: Wine, parties, fine cuisine, beaches, art, pranks and practical jokes, motorbikes, cars, adventure sports, travelling.
Dislikes: unclean/messy surroundings broccoli too much deodorant, bullying.
Social Status: Simply put, Kunal is the life of the party. He is energetic, charismatic and definitely on the wild side. He personifies entertainment and has inherited the obsession with revelrie and a slightly foolhardy disregard for the rules from his father. Given these characteristics, it is hard to view Kunal as anything less than immensely popular in camp. However, although he enjoys parties and company Kunal's deepest nature enjoys a more quiter subtle kind of appreciation that is provided to him only by a select few whom he prizes above all others. It is for this reason that despite his popularity and charm, he is not one to be always surrounded by a large posse or constantly be at the centre of some gathering, strange as it seems Kunal has a rather well defined line between his private and his social life.
Appearance:Kunal is rather tall and has a well toned, although slim body. He has a swimmer's structure and rather powerful shoulders. His heart shaped face is topped off with a mop of curly brown hair that is perpetually unruly and often falls in his eyes to Kunal's great annoyance. He has even toned and clear mocha coloured skin and almond shaped liquid brown eyes that are set slightly too wide apart in his thin face. Probably his most prominent feature, Kunal has a long roman nose with a slight bend in it making it slightly crooked. This is a souvenir of a small accident Kunal had when he was around 8 years old, that resulted in his breaking his nose. The accident involved a careless nanny, monkey bars and an ice-cream truck, lets leave it at that. Apart from when he's in some sort of mood, Kunal's mouth is set in a sort of mischievious smirk, forever slightly lifted up on one corner as though trying to hold back a smile. This along with his twinkling eyes that always seem to know something you dont combine to give many people the distinct impression that Kunal is a son of Hermes, indeed he often has to correct this assumption when meeting new people.

Kunal dressing style is casual yet subtedly well groomed. His clothes are never dirty, crumpled or messy, although he might not like it if you bring this up but this is definitely a product of the etiquette ingrained into him from childhood. Kunal pays attention to things like dress code and is generally appropriately dressed for the setting. He is generally seen around camp in a tshirt/shirt and jeans or cargoes.
Summer or Year Rounder: Kunal is a summer camper at the moment, he hasnt quite decided what to do during the rest of the year but will most likely remain a summer camper since he is unable to restrict his frequent excursions outside of camp even during the summer and is not willing to commit himself to staying in any one place year long
Years at Camp: Kunal has been at camp for nearly a year now and it has already become his home more than any other place had ever been considering his previously rootless lifestyle. Despite this however, Kunal has already been on a number of excursions into the outisde world and does not intend to restrict his existence to any one place any time soon, not even to his new found home.
Life Before CHB: He jet-setted around the world with his socialite mother. During his travels he deveoped a taste for the finer things in life and believes life is all about pleasure and revelries. Although he traveled with his mother, their lives were largely separate and there wasnt much of a mother-son relationship between them. He frequently took off on his own and returned weeks later. He loved parties and was a complete social pleasure, his mother loved showing him off at her parties as he was intelligent and charming. In many ways he lived the dream life of a child of dionysus, however he was very lonely on the inside as he had no real friends and he knew that his mother wouldnt take care of him if he really needed help. Once when at a party at the plaza in New york, he simply walked out and never looked back. He wandered the streets of New york for a while and quickly ran out of money, he befriended a homeless man who turned out to be a satyr and brought him to camp.
Role-playing Example:  Kunal smiled at the people around him as he accepted another glass of wine. Empty masks, he thought as his smile turned slightly stale. Taking a sip of his wine, he turned to the elderly gentleman who was standing by his side and made some meaningless comment about how lovely the party was. His eyes glazed over as the man responded something equally meaningless he was sure. Kunal smiled and nodded vacantly, wondering where his mother had gotten to. Probably off somewhere chatting up a wealthy business man no doubt, he thought bitterly. Kunal was surprised at himself, he had loved this life, relished it, was it possible that it now beginning to tire him? Did he need something new to occupy his fancies? These thoughts in mind, Kunal muttered "Excuse me" suddenly to his companion, aware of the shocked expression that crossed the old man's features. He set his glass down and whirled in the opposite direction, heading downstairs and right out the door.
As the chilly New York air hit him, stinging his exposed face and hands slightly, Kunal stopped in his tracks, wondering for an instant if he was making a huge mistake. Spinning on his heel, Kunal turned 180 degrees and titled his head upward looking at the towering building, No, he decided, I have to get away from here and swept away without a backward glance. Nearing the end of 5th Avenue, Kunal thought he heard someone calling his name, on looking around however he found no one and shrugged it off. A few seconds later, he heard it again and stopping in his tracks, looked around for the source. "What the-"Kunal said bemusedly as something- someone crashed into him, specifically a rather short, petite girl with bob-cut hair, dressed entirely in a rather astonishing shade of burgundy. "Kunaaal!" the girl squealed, her pert pretty face scrunched up in what appeared to be obvious delight. Caught off-guard Kunal struggled a little to keep up, obviously he knew this girl..so who was she? A small crease appeared between his eyebrows as his mind groped around blindly for something that would tell him who she was. In a flash he had it, the girl was the daughter of one of his mother's most recent acquaintances, an up and coming fashion designer upon whom The New York times had bestowed the title of "next big thing." It was a good thing Kunal had years of practice with pretending to like people, because this chance encounter couldnt have come at a worse time for him. Then again, his mother wouldnt notice his absence until the end of the night and she definitely wouldnt think anything of it till the next morning at the very least, so he supposed he did have some time to waste. Realising that he had been frowning for a few moments now, Kunal quickly smoothed his face into a delighted smile as he tried to recall the girl's name. What had it been? Avani! he thought, remember how she had corrected the way he pronounced it, the first time that they had met ("Not Aa-v-ni, it's A-vah-nee!"). "Avani! What a lovely surprise.", he said, carefully returning her embrace before stepping back. Avani grinned at him, "Its been ages hasnt it? she said, tossing her shiny helmet of black hair as she spoke. "I dint see you at Cassie's birthday either!" Well, you wouldnt., Kunal thought a little darkly, recalling how had tossed the pink, personally embossed, perfume-laced invitation in the bin the moment that it had arrived, not wanting to risk his mother seeing it. Kunal had done a lot of things that he wasnt sure how he felt about for her sake, but high fashion themed, even he had his limits. "I fell ill that day, sadly.", Kunal said, his voice doing a convincing impression of disappointment. "Oh", Avani's eyes widened, whether from concern or curiosity Kunal couldnt tell, "Thats terrible."
Notes: Kunal's face claim is his namesake Kunal Kapoor though he is otherwise hardly similar to the actor at all.