Felix



FELIX WILLIAM KONG-SANG LONG aka "ShortCake", "ShortStack", "SparkPlug"

Felix Long's parents were less than ideal. Instead of being what many of a stereotypical bent would assume to be strict, traditionalist parents, they were lax to the point of irresponsibility. Both being fifth generation Chinese-Americans, his mom, Amy, a fairly successful real estate agent, has a temper and a gambling addiction. His dad, Jonathan "Jackie" Long is a recovering drug addict working as a security guard and secretly a part-time criminal.

Felix, determined to be absolutely nothing like them, was a habitual teen runaway, who left home permanently at age 16, after his parents' first (that he knows of) violent altercation. His mother went to jail for almost killing her husband with a baseball bat, and Felix went to the alleyways, public parks and freeway underpasses of the city, and was occasionally lucky enough to couch-surf with a few friends for a couple of weeks at a time.

Despite his circumstances, Felix doggedly continued to go to high school until graduation, and hold down a part time job as an overnight shelf-stocker in a local grocery outlet store, hiding his homelessness from friends, co-workers and faculty alike. After a month or two of that, he was "adopted" by a local couple of drag entertainers - Bambi Valentine and Lilandra Lascivious, aka Barry Donowitz and Louis Klein, who put him up until such time as he would eventually move in with his boyfriend, Rex Riley, near the end of high school.

His older sister, Karen, who had left home a few years ago in much the same manner, for many of the same reasons, now lives in another city with her husband, Jimmy and their two young children. Thankful that Felix didn't turn out like their parents, but, still somewhat disapproving of his current life and lifestyle, she only opts to see Felix two or three times a year, for major holidays.

Felix met Camilla Gonzales and Rex Riley on the third day of their sophomore year in high school. The pressures of his life - being a homeless queer teen - were getting to him, and he was goaded into a fight with the biggest bully in school - Earl Bell - and put him on his back with a mere two punches. Unfortunately for Felix, the teacher who busted him, Ms. Eileen Lemmon, supposedly only saw Felix punch Earl. (Mainly due to the fact that she was Earl Bell's own very biased aunt... one of the ways Bell had gotten away with his bullying for so long), Fortunately, however, many of the students witnessed Bell threaten, push and insult Felix with racial and sexual slurs and recorded the altercation from start to finish with their phones. Ms. Lemmon was able to spin things so that her nephew only served a week's suspension, but, Felix was still given 3 days detention - for defending himself. There, he met the two people he would eventually come to love, the rest was history.

Felix is much tougher than he seems at first glance. He used to have a hair-trigger and Napoleon Complex regarding his height and slight build, but, after a couple of years being with Camilla and Rex, he has mellowed on that considerably - to the point that he has rather embraced his frame as a weapon, and a strong, if sometimes belligerent, statement of his bisexuality. Despite his height of 5-foot-5, he is an expert brawler, but, he often does everything he can to not fall into the trap of being a macho man, jock stereotype like his also short-ish father, (who nicknamed himself, and middle-named Felix after Jackie Chan), in order to overcompensate for his shortness and bisexuality. He often goes out of his way go opposite of that - to play up his feminine side and appear 'cute' in order to disarm his foes and /or cause to underestimate him should things get serious.

(He WILL do that thing with the 'anime eyes' to manipulate you)

Make no mistake: If you piss him off, before you realize it, he will have wrecked you AND your two toughest friends, while wearing guyliner, a skirt and a bizarre shade of lipstick that he borrowed from Camilla to deliberately apply before kicking your ass, just so you'll have to explain to your friends and/or the police exactly WHO beat you down.

Felix speaks Spanish, and, sometimes, if he and Camilla want to have a private conversation from Rex, will speak it. Though he has picked up a lot of "The BeatSpeak" from Rex, Felix will often pepper his lingo with Spanglish or Yiddish words and phrases, gleaned from Bambi and Lilandra.