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Star Anise
General Information:
-Domain of: Star anises devision
-Sex: Male
-Nationality: Hindi/Indian
-Country of Origin: India
-Original Name: Lavraj Rai (Rai was his original last name but since he was orphaned, it was never known to him)
-Lived: 1644 - 1663
-Birthday: January 23
-Physical Age: 18 years
-Physical Appearance: - (I will write it in detail later):
Downfall: He was killed by the jealous husband of a woman who was in love with him
Songs: - Duniya - Raageshwari www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaYWlc…; Future - Con.Fi.Den.Tial www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8SM3R…; Cheereya - Mansheel and Emoshn www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zbCA…; Are Re Are - ??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpFiD… Water Your Garden - Luscious Jackson
Quotes:
"It's ya boi Lavraj!!!1~"
"My differences light up a world made of the darkness that is people like you, who are afraid to truly live."
"Shut up, you're doing it wrong." (yes, seriously)
"You and me, we can conquer the world, just by our very being."
"Your ambitions are useless if you don't have faith in them ... !"
Personality:
Initial traits are a strange combination of quirk yet confidence, and an also odd mix of elegant taste in everything. Tough and not afraid to offend, he's blunt to everyone; yet you can tell he conceals much, which also strikes people as odd. Indeed, Lavraj is a complex individual; arguably his most major trait is his charismatic confidence. Though this youth is very quirky and unlike anyone else, he flaunts this, acting proud and as if every one of his traits, good or bad, is yet another way he is superior to those around him. May also come off as a bit dry and sarcastic yet fiery; this, along with his superiority, stems from his impressive intelligence and others' “lack” thereof. Lavraj's main struggle in life is his secrecy; despite his confidence and disregard of others' opinions, what he is afraid of is loneliness/rejection. This drives him to conceal his innermost thoughts; he has found “faking it until you make it” to be helpful, and has become good at it, as “fake traits” soon become true parts of him. He has found a position behind the scenes directing many others' friendships, though he sometimes abuses this for his own means. Despite the fact that he's popular it is somewhat hard for him to see. Because of his accumulated dealings with peers, he has become very good at reading others; this is where his dry bluntness primarily comes from. This habit is especially evident when he is annoyed, and he becomes eloquent but brusque with his words. Loves world travel and romance. Also likes internet culture; he is the self-proclaimed "prince of memes" in the modern timeline.
History:
In Southern India around the area now known as Karnataka, in 1644, was born a child. The son of a wealthy Kshatriya nobleman and a poor woman of a much lower caste, he abandoned the child upon its birth so that his grievous act would not be found out.
The child, abandoned and left to die, was soon found by a poor woman of the working Shudra caste; she named the child Lavraj, a name relating to lightness, as she had seen the baby as a beautiful light, a sign or a gift, shining from the darkness and attracting her to it.
For the first seven years of his life, the woman and her husband took decent care of Lavraj, though he was deprived of love and attention and grew depressed and very lonely, always wanting more than he was allowed. He was also treated much less carefully as the many other children in the family and was often discriminated against due to his already low caste, as well as his mysterious appearance granting him a rather “untouchable” status.
Over time the little boy grew to be an extreme pleasure seeker, a major problem since he had major limitations placed on him by society. He would often break the rules and be severely punished or beaten. In 1651, he committed a crime so humiliating for one of his age, insulting members of a higher cast due to his stubbornness, that Lavraj's family decided that it was enough, and threw him out.
Devastated and left to wander endless roads once again, the small child grew even more in loneliness and became even more attention-starved and greedy. However, in a way, he also began to appreciate himself more; no one had the right to deprive him of anything, no one could understand him, he was beyond society and better than anyone else. These were just the seeds beginning to grow in his mind, of the source of many of his major decisions going forward.
Ridiculed daily, without consistent food or shelter, nor anyone to look after him, Lavraj nearly perished several times over the course of the next four years and indeed grew a very tough shell. In fact, it was a miracle that he survived at all, and realising how strangely the event unfolded despite the odds stacked infinitely against him, he felt he was favoured by the gods and begin to become extremely ambitious. His goal in life was not to become higher up in society, to gain wealth or even necessarily to survive, but to enjoy life as much as he could as it lasted, while defying anyone who dared to get in his way (which was a great many people since he was now considered outside of any caste.) Since he was living so much for pleasure he often prayed to the goddess Rati, and developed a major devotion to her.
One day, at the age of 12, the starved boy accidentally consumed a poisonous plant, weakening his strong immune system. Though he survived, he was predisposed to other ailments, and soon after, contracted a particularly bad strain of malaria. Although he did not know what exactly was happening, he became disoriented rather easily and was constantly in severe pain, vomiting whatever he did eat. This newfound greater starvation, combined with the dreadful disease, brought him closer to the brink of death than he had ever before been.
In desperation, he cried out to the God of Life for relief; following this, he began to go through a near death experience, in which his spirit seemed disconnected from his body and he saw many mystical visions of the future. Sleeping on the floor of the jungle for several days, and protected by a shield of light and magic, Lavraj awoke fully healed.
Upon his cure, the boy felt he was immediately indebted to Shiva and Rati even more; however, he also began, as always, to look for ways to use the gods' extreme favouring of him to his own advantage.
Following this event, Lavraj began to become attracted to the idea of using the gods' powers to his advantage, and he began to be very attracted to the occult and to magick. He often sneaked into large cities and temples, usually trying to imitate upper classes with stolen items of clothing, and listened in on the priests there, as well as stole things at any opportunity. Combined with his existing knowledge of plants and nature, and his intelligence, he learned many spells quickly.
Unfortunately for Lavraj, he was not always too careful, and eventually was caught. As the priests did not wish to stain their hands, he was taken to a common man to be killed fittingly. As he was about to be executed, Lavraj caught the man muttering something about his apparent grief over his son's illness. Immediately struck with information, the wise little boy claimed that if the man did not execute him, he could cure the other child. Tempted by this offer since many others in higher castes refused to assist him in his troubles, the man gave in, and allowed the boy to attempt to cast a spell of healing over his son.
Much to the continual favour of Lavraj, the spell was successful, though Lavraj boosted the effect by making the little child eat many anise plants, associated with healing effects. In extreme gratitude and astonishment, the man bowed before Lavraj and vowed that he would kill himself to keep him from the hands of those who had attempted to execute him. Seeing the great opportunity presented, Lavraj told the man of his plans idiocy. The man, in his excitement, told many others about this boy with magical abilities, just as he had assumed would happen, and his name spread rapidly, earning him many followers as well as alerting those in higher positions to his stubbornness and defiance of society.
Though he was still very secretive, and considered to be an outcast, many people came to him to be cured or for his variety of white magick spells, albeit most were commoners. He began to travel around, getting sheltered by and meeting many people. Seeing his small successes, Lavraj, though still lonely and unhappy, began to enjoy life a bit more and felt his life was finally taking a turn for the better.
In 1662, the wife of a very wealthy man had become enraged due to the involvement of another illegitimate woman, and wished her to die, although she knew that this would cause an outrage and her husband would likely kill her if it were to take place. Totally miserable and desperate, she came to Lavraj for assistance, and requested him to curse her competitor.
Lavraj did not wish to take this request, as he felt sympathy for the less wealthy woman, disliking those in higher positions, as well as never having used black magic before. However, the greedy boy could not resist the opportunity this would give him, and successfully cursed the opposing woman, with her experiencing an agonising death soon after.
In gratitude, the wealthy noble, discreetly as she did not wish the spellcaster to be known to her husband lest he guess what his wife was up to, decided she must repay him. Obtaining many extremely fancy accessories and teaching him of the esteemed ways of the brahmins, she set up the boy to easily achieve a higher caste by impersonation.
Though he still continued to travel, Lavraj was much better off, and was appreciated by many women due to the fact that his most used and popular spells besides those of healing were love and fertility spells due to his devotions to Shiva and especially Rati; he was also beloved by women due to his intelligence and lovely appearance. Resulting he was often hated by other men because of how they would lose the attention of their wives for a time. Many began extreme efforts to strive and hunt him down once and for all.
During this time, he also began to grow in self confidence and esteem, and becoming more and more greedy for wealth and attention, though retaining his tough demeanour, he began to indulge his more fanciful, lazy side and love for opulence. Sometimes being more satisfied than ambitious, missing opportunities and blinded to many dangers now that he did not have to worry as much about survival, he cared less for secrecy and made many public mistakes, heedlessly giving his location and identity away to many enemies.
It was on an occasion like this in 1643 that a woman named Kumodine, a prized wife of a an extremely high up and royal man, had fallen desperately in love with him, despite being older than Lavraj. The situation had begun when the vain Kumodine, dissatisfied with her homely husband Areeha, wanted the young man to cast upon her a spell of affection. She had not specified what she meant, whether to be made attractive or to feel affections to another, and Lavraj carelessly cast a spell without much intention and thinking primarily of himself and his own greed. Resulting, the spell's effect caused the woman to fall in love with him.
This lasted for a rather long time, and the newly socially numb Lavraj noticing only too late what had taken place, began to despise Kumodine and her continual visits to him. Selfish and vain as she was, the noblewoman began to verbally complain and without thinking, let her husband know of him and what had been going on. Enraged, the Areeha questioned her severely, and after learning everything he could from Kumodine, killed her in cold blood for her betrayal, as he was as ill natured and self-centred as she was.
As a very influential person, and knowing once and for all about the troublesome Lavraj's location and just how horrible he could be to another man's life, he began to tell everyone of the incident.
Word had spread of the scandal quickly, and immediately fearing for his life, Lavraj felt he had finally earned the wrath of the gods for taking such advantage of them. In terror he fled as promptly as he could, but the men inspired by the words of Areeha had surrounded the city and had traps laid for him at every corner. He was easily caught by them, and though many of the men wished to do the honours of killing this outcast once and for all, the royal had warned them of the horrors that would take place if anyone were to interrupt his personal vengeance.
Brought before the man, Lavraj felt more bitter than ever; his life had amounted to this moment, he was to be killed young by a man that held strongly to the very society he opposed, with no true friends, no means of escape. In addition, for the first time he felt true shame, as he had excited the wrath of the gods he had loved so much. He also begin to feel as though he had been missing something his whole life … he had never once truly cared for another human being, he had never officially been integrated into society, learned of other peoples' experiences, had any true friends, he'd lived forever in secrecy, and even when more well known, he had lived only thinking of himself, for pleasure. He had never been taught otherwise, and in this seemingly immortal moment, he felt he was a truly cursed individual, cursed with a false success. The gods had preserved him, only for such a savage end. His cruel fate was too much for even someone as tough as he to bare.
Though he was to be executed by one of the prized elephants of the royal man, Lavraj wished for a quicker end; though he was bound and could not kill himself, he still had his tongue, and used it to insult Areeha so much, in hopes that he would wish to bring an end to the wretched youth personally. As his efforts most always had, this succeeded, and extremely enraged, he was impaled with an elephant tusk by his enemy's own hand.
He was thrown out of the royal estate, left to die once again, abandoned and alone. However, as he lay dying, a sorrowful woman approached him, a person who had admired him and always wished to meet him. As she assumed he would have wished, she laid many star anise herbs, famed for their healing properties and symbolism of love, upon his wound and in his mouth in the hope tha the would swallow it. As he begin to slip into the sleep of death and life of the New Eden to which he had always been called by, he felt a comfort of sorts. Perhaps it was due to the herbs, or perhaps by the knowledge that someone (even a stranger) had cared for him …
He would have another chance, reborn in the Garden of Curses ...
Relationships:
-Very good friends with Nakhla.
-Treats Orchid as an elder sister or mentor, and much respects her. Since she appreciates this, the two become great friends. This does not stop them from disagreeing on a lot, however.
-Thinks of Nasturtium as a little sister and teaches her everything he knows. She's the only person who ever has actually made him feel strong pity or sympathy.
-Gets on well with Suzie, half the time. The other half of the time, they fight incessantly.
-Doesn't understand Cantua and doesn't like him much resulting. Similar properties make up his relationship to Madrono.
-Gets along pretty decently with Liu and Romashka, all of them being extreme opportunists. However he also feels very competitive towards them.
-Gets on decently with Wisteria; though the two are not the closest of friends, they can relate a lot to one another.
-Likes Be decently and feels he can relate to her, but he also severely disdains her. He has similar feelings toward Amaryllis but admires him more.
-Low key despises most everyone in New Eden.
Fun Facts:
-He speaks Kannada and Hindi (may change)
- He is obsessed with health and herbal medicine. He also likes inventing things. Thus, in the modern timeline, his magnum opus: A healthy cigarette, made of other very addicting herbs, that are actually more healthy for you the more you take them and are addicted to them.
-He looks tall from afar but is actually embarrassingly short.
-He can still cast spells by New Eden's power even in the modern world, but the others don't wish him to do this for fear they could discover the source of his powers. Of course, he doesn't listen to them.
-He loves fashion and will go out of his way to buy the best accessories and even perfumes. However, he will also give awful looks to those who look spoilt, rich or seem to not care for the poor (this includes others like him who simply dress well ... he's a big hypocrite sometimes )
-Likes to flirt, but dislikes being flirted with.
-Loves memes and the internet more than life, and has a youtube account growing in subscribers all the time (XD)
-Like Nasturtium he's a prankster, and likes to make others mad with really clever and awful pranks as well as groan inducing wordplay.
-He's an ENTP
-Yes, he has a gaping wound under his clothing. Though flowers grow on it, it's giant, like Tsubaki's; resulting he is afraid to wear any less clothing.
Confusing details:
- I'll make another reference later and post it here, so just wait for that, please.
- His head does bleed from the side, where those anise petal things poke out. Also, his turban thing (Idk the real term? XD) lifts up a bit because the spikes come directly out of his skin.
- Yes, he has a fringe, it's just covered up here.
- That, in the middle of his forehead, is an anise flower. Not only does it bleed, it does the veins thing like Rosalisa's thorns. This is an integral aspect of his design, so please don't forget it if you draw him.
-The ribbon is translucent.
- NO, he ain't wearing makeup. That's just an effect of my style However, he have naturally thick eyelashes and red cheeks.
-He has two long tendrils of hair in the front and a bobbed haircut. DON'T LEAVE OUT HIS HAIR ... PLEASE.
-Please, don't be afraid to ask me about anything else.
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