A17: ÁNGEL ALCÁNTARA

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Name: Ángel “ArchUriel4Ohm” Alcántara
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Hobbies and Interests: Gaming, speedrunning, programming, reading, anime.

Appearance: Ángel's Avatar and his real self aren't that different. Ángel is 5’9” in the real world weighs 158 pounds and has a slender build. In Cyberspace he is the same save for being 6'2” and having a slightly more muscular body. In the real world, Ángel is pale from a lack of sunlight and lacks muscle. He has black eyes, a straight nose, and slim eyebrows all pulled together by black rectangle glasses. He has straight, black hair with blue tips on the front, he makes sure to keep it ear length and has a small ponytail at the back. Ángel also sports a small but intricate pair of wing tattoos on his upper back and a gear on his right shoulder. Ángel changes his Avatar once a week. This mostly is outfits, both hair style and color, and his accessories most predominantly his eye contacts. Ángel was wearing a crow skull hair tie for his ponytail, a bullet stud earring in his left ear, a black choker, a red hoodie with a black skull t-shirt, an Ouroboros bracelet, a pair of blue jeans, and combat boots in the real world. In the Cyberworld he is the same except for a pair of small detachable moth antennae, his eyes, and his clothing. His pupils are replaced with big stars because of a pair of contacts while his clothing is instead a Cyberpunk 2077-esc red leather jacket and LED collar, a black choker, a shark tooth necklace, and a pair of black and red gloves. Finally, his jeans are instead black and with an added jean chain, and his boots are a bit more stylized and longer.

Background: Ángel Alcántara is the son of Alejandro Alcántara and Isabelle Alcántara, a freelance programmer who was one of the early adopters of CR and a coffee shop owner respectively. He was born in San Jose, California in 2004. Ángel's early memories were of a happy childhood. When he was six his father began talking about CR and how it was the future which sparked Ángel's interest in it. His life from the age of 6 to 18 has had CR being a large part of it. His father quickly bought a CRD and began working with it once it became available.

Ángel quickly found himself enamored with CR, however, his specific interest was in gaming, which informed his decision to become a game developer specifically for CR. Once he spoke of this to his father at the age of eight Alejandro was ecstatic at the idea and spent his free time teaching his son the ins and outs of programming. When Ángel was nine he created his first program with the aid of his father, this same year his younger brother Miguel was born. At ten he created his first game by himself, at this age Ángel discovered speed running and quickly found himself enthralled by it. He began to practice speed running with Doom 2 on his mother's old laptop.

Over time Ángel began to devote more and more of his time to his career goal, he stopped speed running for fun but instead to better understand game mechanics and how the players think. He stopped several of his other hobbies like sports to spend more time coding. While his mother was worried about this behavior change, his father saw it as just him being devoted. By 10 he had several games he thought himself proficient in this including Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Wolfenstein. When Ángel turned 13, he fully transferred to CR in gaming and programming. While Programming in CR was far more difficult with, the aid of his father and the several programming camps and classes he went to. Ángel slowly began to learn more and more.

Ángel could feel a small divide in his family, his father would spend more time with him and less with Miguel. His mother spent more with Miguel and less with him, while this bothered him he continued to focus on his goal. His mother was worried that all the time spent in CR and in front of a computer screen instead of with other kids his age was negatively impacting his development as a person. Ángel spent most of his time when he wasn't at school, or the several afterschool programs he went to, at home, and roughly 60% of it was either in CR or programming. Ángel didn't have many friends, through a combination of choice and focusing on his hobbies.

When he was 14 Ángel developed his first crush on a boy. Ángel counts himself lucky that his sexuality was accepted, he never truly got the chance to explore it because not long after the two began to date his boyfriend cheated on him. Sometime later he developed another crush, this time on a girl, it was at this time that he realized he was pansexual. Ángel started a relationship with her as well however, it only lasted a month before she broke up with him, stating that she felt ignored. This resulted in Ángel only predominantly interacting with others online rather than in person.

It was also at this age that he really began to spend more time in CR, coming up with the username "The castle was here" based on a Doom reference. Ángel loved the freedom of expression that CR gave him, He found a particular love for changing his eyes and accessories. His first online friend, "darkXwolf17" gifted him a shark tooth necklace which he has worn on all of his Avatars ever since. It was also through darkXwolf17 that he began creating his own Avatars. Since then he sometimes does commissions.

Ángel's parent's never forced him to go to church and his father even disliked it, after telling someone online about his name he was questioned about his religion for the first time. It didn't take long for him to settle on agnosticism, Despite this Ángel loved his name and would use it constantly, with wings and halos being incorporated constantly into his look in some way. He loved it so much that he changed his username to "ArchUriel4" based on the Archangel Uriel. At 15 he began to like moths and added moths to his Avatar designs including antennae, wings and mandibles. After getting a recommendation from darkXwolf17 Ángel found himself reading in his spare time, some of his favorites being Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, and Akira by Katsuhiro Otoma.

During high school, Ángel joined the Omega Squad which gave him a larger network of friends who shared hobbies with him, when he joined he once again changed his username to "ArchUriel4Ohm". Once his mother found out she was ecstatic that her normally loner and anti-social son was spending time with people.

Ángel originally joined the Omega Squad as a way to pass time with like-minded people and to make his high school transcript look better for college. However, they quickly grew on him. He found himself enjoying spending time with them and for the first time in a long time, Ángel made friends outside of CR. It was during his early time that Ángel found himself growing closer with a fellow member, Winter Castillo. She sparked a more mischievous side of Ángel. He views her as both a confidant and a little sister.

When Ángel turned 16, he got his first internship with one of the businesses his father worked with. Ángel has found himself constantly busy with getting better at programming, spending time with his family, work, the several coding classes he takes outside of school, his relationships, and his hobbies, like reading and speedrunning. This has led to him favoring some over others, with his extremely few relationships often being the ones dropped. However, his relationship with the Omega Squad always remained a priority. Spending time with the Omega Squad has further widened Ángel's knowledge, leading to a budding interest in anime and manga due in large part to Winter. It was also Winter's fault that Ángel, found himself involved in the "Woodie" community which led to him creating his own woodsona as a running gag, a stool named Gabriel. He has also commissioned over 200 dollars worth of artwork of it, which he is happy to show off. His favorite piece is an artwork of Gabriel the stool with a M1911 pistol sitting on top of it. He has it framed in his room.

Ángel also played a part in the FuguFish incident. An incident where Winter made a mod that made it whenever a student in 12-B logged in, their HUD would automatically pull up, playing an unskippable clip from the video game Stupid Invaders depicting a singing yellow cartoon pufferfish. However it glitched it was originally only supposed to play once for each student when they logged in, but it instead played the video for every classmate logged in each time someone joined, resulting in further chaos and confusion. Because of Ángel's involvement he was sitting right next to her in Mr. Franklin's office after the incident. Luckily the two go off relatively light for it being both mostly harmless and somewhat comical. Afterward, It became a common occurrence that whenever Winter had a plan that involved CR Ángel was often right there aiding her.

At the age of 18, Ángel got his first tattoo, a small pair of angel wings and a gear. He plans to get his second set when he graduates and his third set once he reaches his goal. Once he graduates, he's planning on going to college to continue his education before trying to develop his first true CR game and then following his father's footsteps as a freelance programmer and game designer. When it comes to speedrunning he has managed to get a world record in Doom 2, a third place in Prototype 2, and top twenty in The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess. He is currently working on an ULTRAKILL speedrun. Though a majority of his time has been devoted to getting better at CyberTag. Ángel is also excited to release his first true CR mod for Cyber Driving Simulator which he has spent the last year working on as a test of his skills. That isn't a gag or something he helps WInter with, of course.

Personality: Ángel is determined. Ángel enjoys interacting with others, especially in CR. Ángel cares very deeply for his family and regrets not spending enough time with his younger brother and mother. He respects his father and sees him not only as a father but a teacher. Ángel finds it hard to balance everything he does, leading to him sometimes focusing more on his goal than his relationships. Despite this, he still tries to be amiable and personable with his classmates, even if it does lead to him being viewed as constantly busy at best and aloof at worst. However, this changes around the Omega Squad, Ángel is more of a prankster with them, and no matter how busy his schedule he will make time for the group. Ángel has begun to view them as a second family and people he can really trust.

Reputation: Ángel is seen as a focused yet distant person. While he is personable and completes his work, there always seems to be a bit of a divide between him and everyone around him. Despite being pansexual it is not uncommon for others to think he is aromantic asexual, because of his behavior. The teachers respect his work ethic but are a bit concerned by how dedicated he is that he doesn't interact much with his classmates. His classmates are either fine with him, friends with him, or dislike him. More often than not the ones who dislike him are those he hurt by ignoring them in favor of other things.

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Designated Number: A17

Designated Weapon: W-16 — Magnum Research Desert Eagle Mark XIX ("Standard") [.50 Action Express / 12.7×33mmRB]
Designated Utility: U-11 — Fire Extinguisher

Evaluation: "Well, I'd say something like 'make way for the most expendable member of Omega Squad,' but given A17's stellar weapon draw, this may be a race to the bottom that Mr. Alcántara could win." — [POLK], Armory Programmer