Hiiii friends. This is Mateo Huerta aka Hercules from the Disney movie, because I am still apparently the most enableable person there is. :3
Mateo (generally Teo if given a nickname, but he'll begrudgingly accept Matt) is 17-years-old, a senior in high school, and hails originally from Denver. In fact, he lived there until more or less a week ago. Backing up, he was adopted by the Huerta family as a newborn, his parents having been matched with a young couple that knew they weren't ready for kids. He has an older sister that is the bio daughter of his parents, but his mother wasn't able to have more children after that pregnancy so they turned to adoption. His father is a retired fire chief that now dabbles in just about any hobby imaginable and tends to be the guy that knows everything about anything, because he watches a lot of History channel. His mother is a Linguistics professor at University of Dunhaven. Their move to Dunhaven was prompted by his mother getting her professor position at the university; she has been here since the start of the semester and living in temporary housing, getting things ready as his father packed/sold the house/etc back in Denver.
So, Mateo is the New Guy at Aurelius. There aren't any other Aurelius students, but there's a good chance folks his age have noticed him in general; he's only been here since the start of the month, but he's wasted no time checking out where the teens hang and already took part in basketball tryouts. (He's v good and will be a point guard.) In a nutshell, he's a very Good Guy, cheerful, outgoing, and all that, but can be easily taken advantage of and is innocently gullible. You can read more about him here!
I'd love plots and lines and anything else you'd like to give! If you're looking for a character to pick up, his older sister, Valeria, is 23 and could have easily followed the family to Dunhaven from Denver, if you'd like. <3