Gael De Luca was formerly known as Gael Santi Rivera—Santi being his second name while Rivera was his mother's surname. They lived in Brooklyn, New York which is the second most expensive place to live in the nation. He had never met his father then and had only seen one picture of him while growing up.
His mother didn't like talking about his father and he didn't know why. All he knew was that they were no longer together and they were never married but he never saw his mother with another man. Growing up, he got bullied because he didn't have his father and was shamed as a child born out of wedlock—an illegitimate child.
But he never paid attention to those people and most of the time, he would just brush them off; though there were times that he would inevitably end up in a fight because he didn't like what his schoolmates say about his mother.
