ENYC.INTRO - Blog Posts
It's 5AM, I'm nihilist, I know there's nothing after this.
—Not everyone can say they’ve been to the Big Apple, but Leo Davis, a thirty-three year-old cis-male has lived in Chelsea, Manhattan for ten years. This is the city of dreams and he knows it, because they came to NYC to be an acting coach. Well, that and as The Regular. Living in the city means they meet all kinds of people, but everyone always seems to think they look like Penn Badgley. They even got away with free cab fare once because of it!
HEY, HEY THERE THANK YOU CLICKING READ MORE. Before you continue there are heavy topics that will be spoken without much care as they should be approached. Leo’s very direct as is this intro. The following triggers are alcohol abuse, substance abuse, abandonment, cheating, narcism, depression, anxiety, death, suicide, religion, and open aggression.
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BASIC INFORMATION
name: Leonardo Anthony Davis
nicknames: Leo, the regular
pro-nouns: he / him
gender: cis-male
age: 33, thirty-three
d.o.b: July 31, 1988
p.o.b: Brooklyn, New York
current address: Chelsea, Manhattan, NY
astrological sign: Leo Sun, Aries Moon, Libra Ascendant
sexual orientation: heterosexual
relationship status: married, but he’s unfaithful
occupation: acting coach
education: grad of tisch school of arts
APPEARANCE
height: 6’0 ft
weight: 176 lbs
build: slim, muscular
hair colour: dark brown
hair length: curly, shaggy, to the nape of his neck
eye colour: dark brown
wardrobe style: causal to classic well-tailored designer pieces
tattoos: none
piercings: none
jewelry: ( left hand ) white gold wedding band & watch, ( right hand ) white gold pinky ring
defining features: voice, bone structure, nose, full beard
HEALTH
physical ailments: none
mental ailments: undiagnosed anxiety, undiagnosed ptsd, undiagnosed bi-polar disorder, anger management issues, alcoholism
do they drink: oh, yes
do they smoke: cigarettes? occasionally
recreational drugs: mary jane? definitely
addictions: alcohol and sex
PERSONALITY
positive traits: creative, attentive, charming, energetic, passionate
negative traits: blunt, impulsive, volatile, self-centered
likes: coffee, cake, cocktails, music, old films, theatre, yelling, running
dislikes: driving, cooking, small talk, lack of attention, lack of control
character parallels: Joe Goldberg ( you ), Nick Miller ( new girl ), Adam Sackler ( girls )
ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
skills: teaching, creativity ( vision ), acting
weaknesses: his own emotions and actions
hidden talents: can sing surprisingly well, and lie really well
languages spoken: English, and a little Spanish to get by
brief history
the davis family is to put it quite plainly, a fucking mess. it started out fairly typical. boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, boy and girl get married and have a baby. and then that baby ends up in foster care as a toddler. oh wait, that’s not typical. just the short end that leo was given by life, and man did life continue to give him a number of short ends. let’s back track at little.
leo’s mom passed away when he was three years old. growing up everyone had told him she passed because she was sick. when he was old enough to find out what really happened, he regretted it. her autopsy had stated she had died from accidental poisoning, but he knew how to read between the lines. a young couple with a newborn in Brooklyn in that economy? leo’s poor father only made it three more months before he had succumb to his own vices, and figured his child was better off at some home ran by nuns.
now you’d think, okay, a toddler would have a fine time getting adopted, but it became clear that his terrible toddler years weren’t a phase. he had bounced around from family to family till he was deemed too old to be desirable. leo was generally a quiet kid until this burst of energy would charged right through him. then he was loud, uncontrollable, and almost unattainable. the nuns had claimed he was possessed, but without looking through the narrow eye of religion, it was clear he needed help. but even as an adult he had never found the help he needed. he still deals with inability to communicate his emotions in a healthy way. he chooses vices to keep them subdued. hell, his own livelihood is one to mimic emotion and make others believe it.
work
through everything, leo found solace in watching the black and white tv in the game room, and reading every bit of dr. suess and shakespeare he could get his hands on. he admired the way things always seemed to work out so well on the screen. how things were always so perfect when planned, written, and especially how they were portrayed. he was in love with that aspect and knew that he could act just as well.
he had success in beginning of his so called acting career. he was a vessel of pure potential. but even with a degree of performance arts from nyu, leo couldn’t be what they were all looking for. notes of being too aggressive, too intense, and too much had him fall back to teaching or live on the streets. he wouldn’t have guessed it but teaching all the ingenues and having their careers begin to bloom before his eyes was his own personal hell. he would watch as they took his advice and become far more than he’d ever be. the only thing that kept him going were three things. one, the money for he made was decent, and kept him comfortable in his townhome in manhattan. two, he could at least live vicariously. three, he could afford to forget it all at dive bar on the 9th.
love
somehow leo met his wife in a cinematic meet cute. it was perfect. too perfect. too perfectly easy. their love affair moved in a way where an outsider could look at them and fill in the passion that wasn’t there. at least it wasn’t there for him. he loved her but didn’t know if that love held any depth. but somehow he made her happy. he didn’t understand himself but he continued through the motions long enough for him to believe that there was something between them rather than connivence. he gave her what she needed to keep her happy. a ring and a home, just anything other than himself.
no, he reserved his true self for words on a screen. his affair was new and he didn’t deem it as an affair. he was seemingly just getting along with someone who understood him better. someone like himself. someone who wasn’t perfect and didn’t expect him to be.
wanted connections
- platonic : friends, neighbors, college friends, acting clients, best friend ( the bartender skeleton ), therapist ( the therapist skeleton )
-romantic : exes, wife ( the married patient skeleton ), cat fish mistress ( the pretender skeleton ), baby mama
-familial : close friend from foster care