ian (e ankhar, kodhiyan)
(definitely a work in progress)
age: 33
origins: a hospital!! just a normal hospital where sometimes ladies give birth!!! (somewhere on the threan continent)
appearance: inherited a lot of his physical traits from satero, including satero’s teeth, which aren’t even physically inheritable given that satero filed his teeth down himself. the red/yellow eyes are courtesy of his mother’s genes, though.
background:
son of kitka and satero, or: the sum of some drunken misguided escapades, a sudden onset of moral and ethical struggles, a whole slew of suspiciously lucky coincidences, and one huge pushover of an ex-boyfriend.
kid had the luck to be raised by bariyan instead of by either of his biological parents! as a result, he grew up in an extremely healthy and stable and happy household of two (him… and bariyan… and well lots of animals too I guess) and grew up to be a mostly functional human being, with some quirks.
but then bariyan faked his death since he didn’t want ian to know that he was immortal. ian was pretty sad about this! at least, he was sad until he ran into bariyan again by complete accident years later. at which point he was just angry and betrayed and followed bariyan to hell and back until bariyan finally explained things to him.
now that ian knows all about the immortals and kharta and his biological parents, he’s retreated away and off to do research and investigation of his own. he seems very keen on the otherworld and the immortals and everything tangentially related to those things. no one’s quite sure what he’s planning and that is actually highly worrying all around.
this is especially worrying since ian appears to have inherited a little bit of his father’s good fortune: as in, things just work out for ian without him really having to try. he’s almost guaranteed to succeed at whatever he has half a mind to do.
personality:
he’s a strong independent woman!! man. strong independent man. he’s headstrong and strong willed and very unforgiving when it comes to failures of any sort. ian doesn’t believe in his own weakness. in fact, ian quite possibly believes in his own invincibility strongly enough that it practically makes him invincible.
he is also a weird guy with a lot of weird quirks. the worst of these quirks is probably his fixation on using physical pain as reminder/confirmation of his existence. so ian is pretty much eternally injured in one way or another. he also occasionally injures other people, though only when he doesn’t like them much (ie: not at all). he’s pretty self-aware that this is not typical behavior. he indulges in a lot of atypical behavior.
but ian relishes his eccentricities and likes using them to his advantage! mostly this means weirding people the fuck out and then taking advantage of their utter confusion. he’s bossy. he likes to start roaring commands and terrify people into running around carrying out errands for him before they finally wonder wait, who the fuck is this guy?
while he may be slightly unpleasant to interact with he is actually a fairly decent person on the inside. he cares about people and their problems and he cares about the world and all its problems. he wants to help everyone. he’s selfless! he’s nearly as selfless as it gets around these parts!
that probably unsettles the rest of the cast way more than anything else he could do, actually.
relationships:
bariyan e kodhi is ian’s adopted father and, as far as ian is concerned, his real father. he was very close to bariyan growing up and adored him to bits. after the whole debacle with bariyan faking his death and abandoning him ian is slightly less happy with bariyan and grumps at him quite a lot, but he’s mostly gotten over that now that he understands why bariyan thought he had to do such a thing. bariyan, for his part, cares about ian just as much as he cares about the rest of his children, but ian also worries him quite a bit given ian’s heritage and his headstrong nature.
catsovi e viciro showed up at bariyan’s house one day and suddenly ian had to deal with the fact that his father was apparently in a relationship? with some snippy ill-tempered blind guy? ian didn’t take this very well (he thinks bariyan could do a lot better!!) and made it his personal mission to make catsovi as uncomfortable as possible, much to both catsovi and bariyan’s displeasure. bad first impressions aside, ian actually grows to like catsovi and vice-versa, a little bit. mostly catsovi thinks ian is a man-child with behavior problems.
satero e ankhar is ian’s biological father, who was always totally unaware of ian’s existence until ian was about thirty. that was when ian tracked satero down and decided to say hello by stabbing satero through the hand. they don’t like each other very much. satero is still kind of confused by this weird red-eyed thing that looks uncannily like him and ian thinks satero is a big stupid lout and is embarrassed to be related to him.
mukhari sharak is utterly bewildered by ian’s very existence and sometimes refuses to believe that ian actually exists (which sometimes he genuinely believes, due to hanging around satero all the time: satero and his contagious miasma of insanity). he also gets really upset when ian starts to get in contact with some of mukhari’s children, for all sorts of reasons. actually mukhari just gets upset wherever ian is concerned, in general. but ian thinks mukhari is a riot! in fact ian likes mukhari quite a lot! enough that he hits on mukhari despite the both of them being really incredibly straight, and also enough to do stuff like break into mukhari’s house and gaslight him and then steal all his potato chips. they’re friends. they’re good friends. definitely.
