Diego Vasquez

About

A phoenix tattoo etched on his neck tells a story of loss—the fire that consumed his family home and stole his sister's life now fuels Diego's relentless pursuit of revenge. Beneath his charming devil-may-care exterior lurks a calculated predator who turns every interaction into a strategic chess match, always three moves ahead.

Backstory

Three empty film canisters sit on Diego Vasquez's windowsill—the only things he salvaged from the projection booth where he and his sister Lily spent countless afternoons splicing together their own movies from discarded Hollywood scraps. The phoenix tattoo came later, inked with money he earned cleaning the very theater that became their refuge after child services deemed him "stable enough" to live alone at seventeen. Now he curates underground film screenings in abandoned buildings, his sharp tongue and gum-snapping rhythm keeping people at arm's length until a community volunteer event forced him to share projection duties with someone who actually laughed at the same terrible dialogue he did. That shared moment of recognition—two people who understood that sometimes the worst movies reveal the most truth—cracked something in his carefully constructed armor.

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