Chance Costello, author's artistic rendering
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Full Name: *a slightly stocky boy with curly black hair looks up from the deck of cards he is shuffling* Charlie Costello, *he grins toothily* but ev'rbody jist calls me Chance. *he divides the cards into two piles and shuffles the two together, making a bridge with his hands* *they swish expertly into place*
Age: *he taps the deck loudly on the worn wood table and then looks up* Eighteen. *he gives the deck another tap* Barely. *he grins; he will be nineteen in a few months*
Appearance: Aww, lessee... *he puts down the dect and examines himself* Uh, I'm kinda short, *he is about 5'7"* got black hair that's on the curly side *his pats his hair which is cut fairly close to his head*, light brown eyes. That's all. *he shrugs and a grin spreads across his round face* *Chance has unremarkable features; typically ethnic Italian, with olive skin, darker than his sister's, deep-set large eyes, and a prominent aquiline nose*
Background: *he shrugs and fingers the cards* Lived in Harlem alla me life, usta live with my parents an' go ta school. But Mom died, an' *he frowns, his tone quieting* Dad's in *he swallows* prison. *he pauses for a moment; he doesn't resent his father in the bitter way his sister does* My sister an' brother, Maria and Joel, and I lived together fer awhile, but money got tight, so we split. *he kind of fidgets at this comment, then sighs* Lived on da streets fer a while til we joined up at da Harlem house. *he glances around the bunkroom and smiles*
Relationships: Well, dere's my little sister, Maria; you prolly jist call her Blue Skies or Skies at the Harlem girls' house. Also, I'm pals with Flash over at the girls', known her fer a long time, an' Verity an' O'Leary an' I go way back. Uh... *he looks around self-conciously* jist between da two 'a us, dat Bradshaw girl's kinda sweet. *he blushes*
Other notes: I love poker. *he grins fiedishly, whipping the deck of cards off the table* They don't call me Chance fer nothin', after all. *he winks*



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