Lore posting 001: Chandrani-Rivera triplets' cousin, trans boy Mario Herrera.

09/28/25:

mario with very short, choppy, but stylish falling cut hair with a permanent smile and amused brows. he wears a binder under his shirt.

mario with very short, choppy, but stylish falling cut hair with a permanent smile and amused brows. he wears a binder under his shirt. he's covered in darkness and his red eyes appear glowing now.

okay casual blue horizon mario herrera lore thread.

so mario, even when i was younger, had some of his temperament based on mercutio from shakespeare. he's mainly crafted out of my love for the 2000's obsession with rogues.

he was my favorite character ever as a teen in the 2000's due to my interest in the former! he used to snark a lot in my head. then one day i realized i lost my teenaged snark, but nowadays think it's for the best, as i want to be able to establish a lot for him beyond his quips, and when i think back on my teens, i can admit a lot of my cringe. still adore mario. made him my first t-boy character by '12.

his boyfriend was always tybalt-like IF he weren't trying to be a total ass. suddenly, one day i realized i thoughtlessly made said bf start feeling toxic instead of rivaling, and i rehauled him like crazy. (didn't want my main trans boy dealing with that.) THEN…

it was like i had no direction i wanted to take said bf. SO I REHAULED ANOTHR TIME and bruno was born. very simp-y but keeps some messiness/rival issues.

RE: bruno. he and mario were always a bit of a bickering Potential Couple. and when!! i made mario trans in '12, he became trans as well. this bruno started feeling to bland versus his initial concepts (had no real backstory), but i wanted to change him and wasn't sure how.

eventually by mid-'10's i made him cis--and due to wanting to change his vibes, made him too asshole-ish. full rehaul changed everything--he's a huge simp now. when i did the full rehaul, i went back and forth for a few years on cis or trans bruno. DUE TO HUGE NOSTALGIA i got hit with the need for t4t mario and bruno, so i settled on t4t gay lyfe for them.

somehow i brought mario and bruno back to their "mercutio vs tybalt as rivals" concept without totally destroying what i always liked about them!!

mario will stay snarky and like i said in a previous thread, is close and important to antonio chandrani-rivera, his cousin. armando [herrera-]rivera is his uncle (tono's dad).

mario is one of my OCs who come off a bit solitary to the point other characters always wanna bother him. works well with the mercutio vibes. he doesn't get a lot of people care about him.

antonio has two besties among his families through his teens--one is layla and one is mario. they don't always get along amazingly but like hanging out around each other.

ik antonio's flaws as a character, but he's a trans ally! so when i mean "besties" re: mario (and layla), it's /srs.