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Razor

"Either keep up or keep out. I'm not saving your career if you fall behind."

Admist the calls of the lifegaurds evacuation procedure, the frantic crowd of beachgoers fleeing from the incoming freak lightning storm, and the fearful screams as they trample me shove each other to ensure their own safety your flailing and cries for help go unheard. Churned and thrashed about at the cruel mercy of the waters you've always loved your strength drains rapidly as you fight to keep your head above the waves. A larger wave swallows you and your remaining strength, the warers embrace you and attempt to finalize your liquid tomb. A blur of black and red sees you coughing up the water constricting your lungs. As you gag on the salt and try righting yourself your savior laughs at your near death - you're supposed to ride the waves not drink them, you know? - and ducks down and away from your indignant swipe. His laughter disappears under the waves in the same way his body does...

PERSONALITY

A bitter flavor can be easily managed with a little sugar; Razor was largely shaped by injustice and discrimination stemming from ignorance. He takes that information as motivation and has used it to fuel his pursuit of understanding. He’s rough around the edges for certain; slumming the streets and causing problems will have that effect. Razor can come across as cynical and aloof at times, but it isn’t meant as such nor does he want it to push people away from interacting with him.

At his core, he wants to interact with lots of people from endless walks of life. If he can open communication and they accept it, change isn’t impossible. He jumps into social situations with exuberant joy and doesn't hesitate to throw himself in groups that cause him discomfort for the chance to deepen his understanding. Whether that understanding of himself or the people involved, as long as there's something to learn he doesn’t view it as a waste. He’s a helper and mentor - someone to confide in who will tell you as it is without any useless platitudes.

The kessholumi isn’t without fault as he does things with his all and sometimes that crosses the threshold of extremes. He’s sarcastic and well aware that he can be rude/vindictive if he doesn’t give himself time to cool off and process. He has a capacity for destructive violence but he will never use it to solve any problem he’s faced with.

TRIVIA

  • He refers to himself as a professional gymnast but he’s just as much of an athlete. He likes to focus on his flexibility/dexterity and such over his ‘force’/‘damage’ output even though he has the physicality to excel at both. He enjoys fromer more by a landslide.
  • Known to be harsh with rookie gymnasts who go to him for training/suggestions. It isn’t born from malice or cruelty; he refuses to lie or sugar coat the reality of the profession is all. He won’t baby anyone and shows obvious distaste for the people who fawn over his skill that cite him as a ‘natural’ or say things like he was ‘born gifted’. He takes it as an insult to his effort and the work he put in to polish his skill and he will make it clear.
  • Visits the detention center to see Mist and almost always gets swallowed by the kids participating in JAS. They either wanna shake his hand, talk to him endlessly, see how high he can throw them, ask him if he’s single, or question if his teeth are real. It gets loud and much more rowdy than the staff would prefer but they let it go since it gives the juveniles something to get excited about. Mist gets an hour of Big Bro Razor time at most before his mentees find a reason to interrupt.
  • Mist and the JAS kids have to act as a barrier between Razor and the female staff. He isn’t oblivious to his charm/appearance, but he is to how often he’s flirted with or hit on. (One of the staff celebrated because thought she scored a date with the dumbass and was disappointed when in the next instant he invited Mist…)
  • Has a weird flirtation setting; weird as in it doesn’t have an off button. It’s either ‘harmless teasing flirt’ level or ‘prepare to lose your panties’ level. There are in betweens but those two are the defaults. The former is common and Razor doesn’t even realize he’s doing it. (“A-are you flirting with me, Mr. Hotshot?” “?? …No?”)
  • Once a year on a set date Razor visits his adoptive mother’s grave. He went alone for the longest time but he does invite Kurogiri and Kuroko if they don’t ask in advance. He usually brings a few dishes he learned and they sit and chat with her for a few hours. (Outside of the routine visit he always goes alone when any other opportunities come along.)
  • From time to time people close to him address him as Sharky/Shark and he always turns red or avoids eye contact with those people for a bit. It’s a reference to his ‘troubled teen’ phase where his graffiti tag was ‘Sharkbait’.
  • For your own safety, never take Razor clubbing/bar hopping with the intention of drinking him under the table. Even without the shark genes he’s a heavy ass drinker and everyone except Kuroko and Kurogiri think he can’t get drunk. Firstly; he can 100% get drunk and when he does he’s extremely clingy, way too rambunctious, or unabashedly horny with no in between. Secondly; the assumption he can’t get drunk is because no one drinks him past tipsy which is where his flirtation setting ‘prepare to lose your panties’ becomes his default. It doesn’t help that he doesn’t show any balance issues, slurring, lethargy, etc unless he’s drunk.
  • Got piss/blackout drunk once and swore to never let it happen again. He still can’t explain how he ended up a whole state over when he came to his senses and he wasn’t going to question the amount of one-night stands he had to have participated in to have a pile of naked bodies sleeping around/on top of his own.
  • Attends photoshoots with Kuroko and Kurogiri to add to his personal photo album of them. Each twin has a separate collection in addition to the joint one. He may or may not also attend for less-than-innocent reasons after a certain lingerie shoot. (He is 100% aware he’s banned from lingerie shoots and has tried multiple times to not let it stop him.)
  • He’s dense, not dumb. Razor never attended school/university and learned pretty much everything on his own. Reading, Writing, Math, etc. That noted he is highly intelligent and possesses a keen perception that he never uses.

BACKSTORY

TL;DR: His biological parents’ families find out he exists while his mother is in labor, lets him live but forbids his parents from contacting or interacting with him. He’s dropped off at an orphanage where he grows into a bitter, angry teenger who turns to petty crime and vandalism to vent and express himself because the Astrivean’s view him as a hybrid/halfblood. Eventually gets acknowledged and assisted by an older human before they turn him to the authorities. Spends the first few weeks angry at the ‘betrayal’, realizes the reason/intent behind it, gets out parole. Mentors the younger juveniles and helps them work on their issues. Starts his career as a gymnast and goes pro while getting involved as a Hybrid Rights activist. Visits the elderly human to thank them to find they’ve passed on and left their earnings and land to him.

A product of a Kessholumi / aquatic Beastkin union, Razor’s life was never going to be simple regardless of his biological parents' love for him. They were forced by their families to disown and cut off contact with the newborn after he was shipped off to a closest orphanage. His parents were ‘grateful’ that their families didn’t try to kill the child when they stumbled in during his birth and gave in to their demands to give their son a shot at life.

The orphanage he was surrendered to wasn’t much better but at the very least they didn’t cast the newborn into the streets and provided the absolute minimum care to keep him alive. His hybrid status wasn’t subtle and there was no way to hide the obvious mix. This led to him not only being widely neglected by the orphanage staff but shunned, feared, and ostracized by the other orphans as well.

With no one to turn to - no shoulder to cry on, no ear to vent to, and no hands to steady and support him - it was only a matter of time before he had an outburst. He grew more bitter, envious, hateful, and enraged as the years and neglect continued to pass and accumulate with no signs of change. Due to any attempt for aid being ignored, he withdrew to fester. Naturally the other orphans were adopted and new ones took their vacancy. While he isolated himself the others were emboldened by his lack of protest of their bullying and abuse. Eventually verbal insults and vicious words turned into small acts of physical violence. Hair pulling, shoving, and poking/prodding escalated without any adult intervention.

One of the older girls took notice of his aversion to heat and managed to sneak a lighter. At thirteen years of age, equipped with his genetics, and his terror being roused by the threat of being set aflame, only then did the halfblood retaliate. The boys who spectated and jeered were near-death from horrifically deep cuts, bite wounds, and blunt force injuries. The girl who had or had started the event was heavily scarred and missing fingers and a chunk of her arm while also suffering the similar but less life threatening cuts, bite wounds, and force damage.

All six orphans were taken to the hospital and the halfblood responsible escaped after he realizing he was the only one who was going to be punished in the aftermath. Devastated, homeless at thirteen, and forced into the much crueler streets, he had little choice but to turn to theft to survive. No one was going to save him and no was going to help him. The only mercy the astrivean’s would grant him was death, and he wanted them to feel what he felt long before then.

In the years between thirteen and seventeen he became a ‘repeat offender’ and was delving further into actual criminal behavior. Instead of restraining and running from the authorities who attempted to capture him he started injuring and taunting them. During this time he tapped into his flexibility, agility, and overall physical prowess. At some point he managed to come across an older woman who offered him food. He was wary but he didn’t have the luxury of rejecting a free meal.

She attempted to set him straight for a few months and he was making progress. During those months she took to calling him ‘Razor’, and the name stuck. They grew into a mother-son relationship of sorts that he was finally beginning to acknowledge when she turned him in to the local authorities. He was devastated , distressed, and distraught while struggling to accept her betrayal.

He rotted in juvenile detention for weeks before he began to recognize the intent behind her actions. He put his all into turning over a new leaf and finding healthy ways - which she had opened his eyes to - to cope with his feelings and expressing them in a way that didn’t involve violence or screaming matches. The first time he was offered parole for good behavior he turned it down, stating if he could do it then he’d help the others do the same.

Razor founded and operated the Juvenile Aid System (JAS) within the facility. In the midst of the finalization and the receiving permission to get it up and running he was introduced to another hybrid as a test and trial run for the JAS program. The younger juvenile was prone to violent outbursts and self-harm but more than anything he was depressed and anxiety ridden. Razor took him in without hesitation.

The younger kessholumi was wary of him because he was hybrid. It took weeks for his junior to speak instead of just nodding or shaking his head at yes/no questions and thankfully his first words were his name. Mist was another orphan whose bitterness was a product of the system even if said system wasn’t the same that bred Razor’s own. Mist rarely used his voice and even then never able a certain volume.

At Razor’s patient and understanding guidance Mist opened up more and more at a pace comfortable for him. He appreciated Razor’s direct/blunt nature especially because he wouldn be honest when Mist was in the wrong without accusation or placing blame. Mist completed and was deemed ‘reformed’ (A term both kessholumi’s were disgusted with) thanks to the program and JAS was granted approval and funding.

Razor appointed Mist as his student/coworker and the program sailed smoothly. Razor was released and deemed ‘reformed’. Though Mist protested his departure and Razor didn’t want to leave, he had aged out of the juvenile center's jurisdiction and couldn’t stay regardless. He left JAS to Mist who was upset but understanding. Razor had started participating in gymnastics and visited the detention center at every opportunity and he was also present when Mist was released and when younger kessholumi went back to the juvenile center as official staff to keep JAS running.

Razor managed to get scouted and went pro while also fighting as a Hybrid Rights Activist. Truthfully, other Kessholumi know he’s not a Hybrid, as the concept doesn’t exist to them as a species. That doesn’t stop them from showing up and supporting him to which the Pro-Gymnast is forever grateful.

The elderly woman had dropped her address for Razor to come find her when she turned him in and left it with the detention center staff who passed on the information. He restrained himself from immediately going to see her as he wanted to have more to show her than a new attitude and outlook. Two years after and gold medal/celebratory events in order he finally caved.

He found the house just as it was when he had first arrived with the exception of the elderly woman who was nowhere to be found. In his room, the one she had given him, he found an album and some letters. The album was filled to the brim with pictures of him during performances and competitions as well as a few from when she had first taken him off the streets. The note was filled with congratulatory messages, encouragement, proud acknowledgment, heartfelt sentiments, and packed with his name being her son.

The final letter in the set was an address which he hurried off to. Unfortunately, with how much time had passed and paired with her health, the coordinates led Razor to her tombstone. He spent hours crying and thanking her for her care. When he returned to her home he entered her room and found a deed that left him her earnings, land, and their memory-packed home.

  • DESIGNER AllCapsAloha
  • SPECIES Kessholumi
  • MASTERLIST #058
  • OCCUPATION Pro-Gymnast
  • PRONOUNS He/Him
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