La'Schade, Salem

Face Claim: Ban Norio // Lip on my Prince

APPEARANCE

Salem is 6'2" and 167 pounds. He is lean and somewhat fragile looking. Delicate. His hair is quite long and a dark violet, but it is a bit layered to frame his face. Sometimes he pulls it back into a small little loose bun or ponytail. He also has some of the most beautiful blue eyes that anyone has ever seen. His nails are always done a dark, matte blackish purple, sometimes he has them even further decorated with matte silver or gold lines. As for his clothes, he usually has a sweater vest over a button up shirt, black slacks, and usually a white and black uniform jacket. When not in that, he prefers greys and blacks, of any sort of soft material. On his feet, however, he usually has on some feminine sort of combat style boots. He insists it's because the girl shoes look much better than the boy shoes.

PERSONALITY

Usually, Salem is quite wonderful to be around. Calm, quiet, kind, happy. All sorts of positive little emotions that seem to fit his delicate appearance. However, when placated like this, he is slow, not very mentally clear, he zones out an awful lot, and he's just sort of a space case. This mood is brought on by the medication that he's required to take. The medicine often leaves quite horrible side effects, and often leaves the poor guy quite ill. Because of this, he tends to drop off of them.

Salem is a paranoid schizophrenic, and while he's perfectly sociable while he's medicated, most of the time, off his meds, he is sort of a disaster. He often wanders off, going where the voices want him to. He wakes up from night terrors, and sometimes just doesn't sleep, staying up for days on end creating beautiful works of art. However, he can also get quite violent from time to time, irritable, anxious, and completely prone to random outbursts of violent anger. He will pace around and talk to himself, or his "friends".

This change in him, however, was rather recent, only falling into it in the past few years or so.

Even on medication, he's prone to hearing voices and seeing people and creatures that aren't actually there, however, his interactions with them are quite a bit more peaceful, and less frantic. He'll be found reading to them, or playing them soothing music.

HISTORY

Salem had a wonderful childhood. He was loved and cared for, his parents always kept him close, even when they were working, they would call him and talk to him whenever he wanted to, and sometimes they would even take him with them. His parents were the rich sort of people, but they were humble, starting from nothing and working their way up. His father was an inventor, and his mother ran a business which soon came to sell his father's inventions, which was how they met, and they started their own company and are now considered, "new money". Still, because of their not so luxurious backgrounds, they knew exactly how to properly raise their children.

Salem does have an older brother that was around until his teen years before he was sent away to school, Salem was only about six at the time. Still, he was old enough to understand that it was in his brother's best interest. After all, Tieri often causing trouble and doing things that didn't seem quite right. His parents said that maybe he was troubled, but it was never really proven.

Salem continued to grow and learn. He did well in school, but he was shy so he didn't often have very many friends. But this did not worry his parents in the slightest, because they loved their children. When Salem was 10, there was a rough year of his life, possibly the roughest of years. It really took a toll on him, and even more so on his parents. His little brother was born, which he had been fascinated with, as he had really been looking forward to being a big brother. But it was also the year that Tieri left home, which was something he had not been expecting. His parents had their hands full with their newborn, who was incredibly ill at birth, and would spend the next 5 years practically living at the hospital due to their sick child. His younger brother passed on just before his 15th birthday.

Once he hit 15, things started to change. He started to feel like someone was following him or watching him all the time. Then the voices started. They were soft at first. Just little whispers here and there. After that, it developed further, and he would stop and give someone directions or lead them to a class, only.. He would come to realize that he hadn't in fact spoken to anyone. For the longest time he kept these things a secret, but eventually his older brother found out and sought to get Salem some help. By then, Salem had practically dropped out of his classes, locking himself away in his room and not sleeping or eating for days, just drawing more and more and more. His health and hygiene declined and Tieri had him put in an institution for a few months while the doctors figured out what was wrong with him.

Salem was released a few months ago and had since been recruited to a school for kids with potential at his brother's request. He is doing quite well for the time being, but his brother still stays in the dorms with him, just in case.