Tablo (tabloco) wrote in deviantstrain, @ 2008-06-12 22:01:00 |
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CLAIM: Tablo
Player's Name: Speedy Gonzales
Character's Name: Tablo
Character's IJ: tabloco
Nationality: Korean
What are they from? Epik High
Human/Mutant/Vampire: Mutant
Ability: Omnilingualism
Background: 23 year old Tablo believes in a lot of things: evolution, the power of music, the corruption of government, and the existence of aliens.
He was born in New York but moved to Mexico with his parents when he was 5 years old. He's not really sure what was behind the sudden move. He asked his parents numerous times but was almost always met with silence, until the day his father said "Aliens." Even at such a young age, Tablo knew that was just a stupid answer to shut him up, but it sparked an insatiable interest in Tablo's rather active imagination.
Already speaking English and Korean fluently, his parents thought that his ability to pick up Spanish seemingly overnight was simply due to the fact that he was a child and children tend to learn languages so much more easily. And since they had carefully crafted new identities and a new history for the family, no-one else ever questioned Tablo's ability to speak Spanish so well, thinking that the boy had grown up in Mexico.
It wasn't until he was 12 that he came into contact with other languages and his ability made itself known. Two boys had been speaking French and Tablo had responded to them in kind. At the time, he didn't realise that they had been speaking a language he wasn't supposed to know. He simply heard it, understood it, and knew how to respond. It was his friend who had overheard the conversation that made him realise that he'd just randomly spoken French.
Tablo began to think that maybe his father had been telling the truth when he'd said about the aliens. Maybe aliens had done something to him, or maybe he was an alien and they were running from the government - or maybe the government had done this to him, maybe he was the victim of some weird experiment. Tablo didn't know, but what he did know was that no matter what language he heard or read, he was able to understand it and respond fluently. He and his friend experimented a lot with it online, going into foreign chatrooms or websites, IMing random people from places all over the world, and always the result was the same.
At first Tablo began to think if it was a superpower, then it was a pretty useless one. He wanted something cool, like the ability to fly or shoot fire from his hands, or turn into the incredible hulk or something cool like that. But he began to realise that this was a pretty cool thing to be able to have. He could communicate with people he wouldn't have been able to communicate with before, he could read things that weren't available in English. It opened up a whole new realm of possibilities and information to him, and he soon learned to appreciate that.
Tablo graduated from highschool with flying colours because thankfully his excellent grades overruled his rebellious and generally mouthy behaviour, and got into NYU where he just finshed obtaining his Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors.
He doesn't actually use his degree for anything though. He mostly did it because the subjects he chose sounded interesting, and because he didn't have any better idea of what to do.
He's currently working at a travel agency, and doing work on the side as a translator (with fake degrees from language schools, of course).
He loves music, especially hiphop, and still very much believes in the existence of aliens. He's a big sci-fi fan. It's almost embarrassing.
Preferred RP Style: IJ, paragraph
Anything Else: my flow is an eight-ton truck out of gear~