Character:Fortunata
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Fortunata
(a main Character in Peritia)
née Javier Serrano,
born on 2002 (27 years old),
pronouns he/him,
musician and yoga teacher,
of Spanish background.
A Problem: dispersed
A Want: find a purpose and a direction
Contents
Personality
- Gentle: lacks confrontational skills; lacks authority; avoids conflict
- Sensitive: often puts the needs of others before his own
- Passive: especially while interacting with other people; also about his life in general
- Receptive: wants to be a better person (learn from his mistakes); wants to know, and understand people; wants to find a common ground
- Omnivore: thought about the cruel truth behind the meat industry but he can’t ignore the fact that he loves the taste of it, and feels he needs it in, at least, one meal a day
- Avoidant: censures himself in order to maintain overall peace; represses feelings like frustration, anger, and fear of failure
- Non-judgemental: tries not to judge (without the complete information, the whole picture); doesn’t discriminate; he often settles, he conforms (he knows most people struggle when putting in practice the concept of freedom)
Struggles
- self conscious (feeling either invisible or too exposed)
- dispersed, unfocused
- perfectionist (afraid to make a fool of himself)
- easily disappointed
- overthinker and insecure (double or triple checks everything he does)
- extremist, impulsive (all or nothing, now or never)
- had countless love partners, none of them long term. Only a few great friends scattered around the globe (it's hard for him to open up/be vulnerable/show weakness)
- loves mostly women, art (romance, literature, poetry, music) and living the present
Source of pain
- he wants to create a peaceful environment for everybody, because he grew up in a house with many siblings and sometimes felt overwhelmed by the social behavior of his immediate family
- he hates rudeness, aggression and violence (he often feels disappointed by other people’s actions towards each other) because he’s oversensitive to criticism himself, since he was a child and he’d hate to do the same to someone else.
- he was never a good enough student because his interests were always so random, and without genuine interest he just doesn’t retain the information
- he was an excellent friend, brother and son, truly committed, but lately he’s been acting more independent because he realized that being so involved in his loved ones life's was counterproductive since he wasn't taking care of his own
Needs
- ACCEPTANCE: of self, of circumstances, of reality
- FAITH: in oneself, in others, in the world, in God
- TRUST: in oneself, in others, in the unknown
- RESPONSIBILITY: including duty, accepting one’s destiny
- REDEMPTION: including atonement, accepting blame, remorse, and salvation
Wants
Wants to find a purpose and a direction.
- he wants to find peace within; he dreams of reaching a balance between his mind, body and soul; to be wise, rather than smart
- he wants to be proud of himself, confident, assertive
- he wants to be a published and respected author
- he wants to overcome his stage fright and sing/play one of his own songs, live, in front of an audience
- he wants to make a difference, to leave something behind when he’s gone; to make people think, feel, and/or wonder
- he wants to evolve; to get out of his comfort zone and try new things, meet new people
In pursuit of her goal (be in control), they've been actively:
- he’s developed the habit of reading, writing, and making music since he was a kid; he writes songs in the shower, and he sings aloud then (also when he's happy, and completely alone)
- he took a few classes after finishing high school, creative writing, guitar and piano lessons, but he's mainly self-taught (due to his diverse interests)
- he managed to get a steady, regular job. A column/a spot in a new but rather popular online magazine called Paella, a Spanish website, originally, but it's content is available in most languages so he writes both in English and Spanish (to earn some extra money)
- he’s been practicing yoga for the last five or six years and he meditates almost every day
Roadblocks to achieving their goal:
- he's too afraid of failure, and he thinks when it's clearly time to act
- he has many different interests and started/abandoned projects. A lot of his ideas stay ideas, until they vanish into thin air
- his hope is fragile and he's over-sensitive so he tends to lose time doubting himself and his skills
Desires
They desire sustaining this lifestyle for the rest of their life.
Background
- writer/musician working as a freelance columnist for Paella, an online magazine (he writes under an alias, about life according to him)
- 27 years old
- lived with his family in Madrid (high-income middle class) until he was 18, after that he started travelling around the Europe playing his music and writing in secret
- had a lot of different jobs, worked as a yoga instructor and as a waiter/dishwasher part/time, he's also worked as an assistant a few times, a delivery man (by bike), and barman (among other jobs)
- freelance writer, amateur musician, Gaianist, and Buddhism enthusiast
- he represents romance, and the sensitive male. Spirituality (the depth and the beauty of simplicity), the anti-consumerist market
- studies (???)
Family
- from Spanish descent
- fourth of nine siblings
- his mother (Montserrat Antonia Hidalgo, homemaker) married his father when she was 22 and he was 23; they met each other in high school and they’ve been together ever since
- his father, Francisco Serrano, was a professional photographer who built most of his career working for National Geographic Magazine
- their marriage had its ups and downs but the bond between them has proven to be strong and stable, they raised nine children and they now enjoy retirement together in their hometown, back in Poland (???)
- they were mostly catholics (some more devout than others), going to church was optional but there was always a special reward for those who attended Sunday mass
- his father's parents were artistic and working people, they were lower middle class, she was an actress/waitress and he was an amazing sculptor who did construction work for a living.
- His mother's parents, however, were more traditional, she was a stay at home mom and he was a businessman (who worked from 9 to 7 in an office on the city, always wore a suit, and he always carried a briefcase)
Appearance
Looks like a young Javier Bardem:
Research
Surnames
- apellidos más comunes en España
- Alvarez
- Navarro
- Serrano
- Old surname, some authors say it had its main and primitive solar in the kingdom of León. It had its origin in nicknames related to the noun –serrano-, “individual who inhabits a mountain range or is born on in”
- https://es.geneanet.org/
- Martín
- Montero
- Lorenzo
- Santiago
- Bravo
- Last name of castilian origin without one single branch, because in the nickname era, a diverse crowd of males with no unitary family ties, apparently, were deserved to be nicknamed "Bravo" for their bravery and strength, thus recalling fighting bulls. Also known like a brave bull
- posibles significados apellido Bravo
- https://es.geneanet.org/
Other details
- his writing style is similar to Rafael Chaparro’s in: Opio en las Nubes
- the sort of music he makes is similar to Jérémy Frérot (from Fréro Delavega, a french music group)
- gaianist
- relationships
- free love: noun / the idea or practice of having sexual relations according to choice, without being restricted by marriage or long-term relationships
- non possessive, nor jealous, but expects the truth at all times (no matter what) if not, it is betrayal
