Juan Diaz (Blanco)
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Basic Information
Full Name: Juan Raymond Eduardo Diaz (better known as Blanco)
Player: The Guindo
Date of Birth: October 31 1976
Age: 30
Journal: juanblanco
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 150 lbs
Appearance
Definitely hispanic, skin tone and facial features would leave you thinking nothing but. His hair is dark, thick, and unruly. Brown eyes. Fluctuates between mustache and clean shaven. His build is lithe, thin but not scrawny, and he doesn't look particularly strong or imposing by any stretch of the word. He is typically seen with a goofy grin or a bright smile, and hardly ever looks serious about anything. His happy-go-lucky attitude comes out strongly in his body language.
Blanco's PB is Diego Luna.
Personality
Juan is the sort of person who is perpetually smiling. He's very cheerful, almost naive, and maybe ditzy. He's rarely serious about anything and has no problem being able to laugh at himself; he tries not to let anything get to him. He's the sort of person who can just shrug off almost anything and roll with the punches. He's very attached to his friends and family, and problems with either are one of the very few things that can make him serious and really affect him. Whenever Blanco does get serious, you know it's a big deal, just because it never happens.
He is fiercely protective of his daughter. As a single father, he has a hard time with her, but he does his best. Because of his job, he ends up having to leave her with a sitter more often than he'd like, and he does have a tendancy to spoil her, which does show in her personality. She knows that she can get away with murder with her father around.
He has a habit of rambling, about anything on his mind at the moment really. He also dislikes having to take disciplinary action against his students and reserves his teacher-powers for the really serious infractions.
History
Juan was born in Sacramento to a fairly normal Mexican family that had been established in California for at least four generations. He had an older sister who teased him brutally as older sisters are wont to do, a mother who liked to nag about everything, and a father who was obsessed with cars. Overall, a pretty normal household. When he was five, they moved to Elk Grove, just about 20 miles south of the capital, under the assumption that a smaller town would be a nicer environment for the kids to grow up in. For the most part, they were right.
Nobody quite remembers anymore when everyone started calling him Blanco. If asked, he'll tell you it was probably something his sister used to call him that just stuck. By the time he was a teenager, it was pretty common for people not to even know his name was really Juan, all his friends had long since picked Blanco up from his sister and when they introduced him to other people it was always, "This is my friend Blanco," never, "This is my friend Juan." Unfortunately (embarrassingly, that is), the moment that most of those friends learned his real name would be whenever his mother referred to him as, "my little Juanito," in front of them.
Sometime during high school he decided that he wanted to be a teacher when he grew up. When he graduated, he went to Sac State for a teaching degree and decided to go for one of the few things he was actually good at: home ec. (History was a close second.) It took him a little longer than most, but he earned his degree and went right into teaching in his home town.
During college, he met a girl named Bianca and they fell madly in love, marrying at the age of twenty. By twenty-one they had a daughter, whom they named Genvieve. For a time, everything was peaceful. Blanco taught, Bianca continued nursing school, Genvieve grew up cute and wonderful and perfect, and life was excellent.
Bianca was diagnosed with cancer at twenty-five, and it was already too late to do much for her. Within a year, she was gone. This loss was devastating to both her husband and five year old daughter, and Blanco ended up having to take time off from his teaching and move back in with his folks because he was so emotionally devastated that he just couldn't function in the professional environment. After six months he started subbing, to try and get back into a normal life and recover.
Two years after Bianca's death, he was ready to go back to teaching full time, but not at Elk Grove High where he'd been teaching before. He wanted to get out of this town and go somewhere else, there were too many memories of Bianca there. So, he searched for schools that needed home ec teachers, applied to work at a bunch of them, and ended up getting hired by Second Heaven and moving out to the alps with his daughter.
Other Information
Birth Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
Why Second Heaven?: They hired him! He liked it over the other schools that had hired him, and it was pretty darn far from California!
Favourite color/food/activity/subject: White / Tamales / Teaching / History
Least favourite color/food/activity/subject: Green / Musaka / Grading / Math
Likes: His family, California, sunny days, cooking, talking, food, building card castles
Dislikes: Hospitals (they make him really nervous), rainy days, nagging, chihuahuas
Family: Daughter (Genvieve Diaz), parents, older sister (Rosada), tonnes of aunts/uncles/cousins/etc
Languages: English (fluent), Japanese (conversational, picked up around the school), Spanish (very, very little)
School Information
Subject Taught: Home Economics
Years at Establishment: Two
Relationships
None
