Akram Malek

Akram Bechara Malek (primarily addressed by his surname Malek) is a major character in all chapters of the Mandorla Saga and appears as a hero antagonist in Carl's Unorthodox Sequential Spite
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Despite his father, Bechara Khalil Mohammad Ahmad Brahim Wehbe Kfoury Skandar Michel Suleiman Semean Abd-el Aziz Jimmy Malek, being the president of the French mandate of Lebanon from 1920 to 1926 who married a well-known doctor named Amara Malek (nee Shammas), there is nothing noteworthy to speak of during Akram's early life. His parents did not let him go outside and enrolled him in military training at a very young age to his chagrin. The only social interactions he had with other people were with other young soldiers who seemed to be begrudged towards Malek due to his status. Consequently, Malek's social experience and skills have crossed beyond the realm of ineptitude, ultimately exchanging it with combat skills, which he did not want. However, one good thing that came from this training, that being nutrition. Malek was told by his colonel that he should eat fruit every day, and so he did he liked fruits so much that he decided that he would occupy himself with a hobby: collecting each type of fruit from the fruit trees that his father grew in the manor's garden, he managed to collect a large array of fruit, except for one, the almond, which he was told by his peers that it would be beneficial for him. He looked for an almond tree everywhere nearby but did not end up finding any in sight, which upset him.
===Mandorla Saga===
====The Travel====
Malek's mother and father noticed his lack of social skills. This led to them foolhardily coming to the conclusion that he needed to be in an environment that they deemed to be "unfamiliar" for their son, in order for him to acclimatize to the unpredictability of life. What better way to do that is to go to a foreign country, as he was familiar with the French and Arabic language, they decided that they would go to the United States since English is a language he could speak but not understand very well. Therefore, they traveled to a small town in New York in 1921 just for Malek to acquaint himself with the world's diversity.
====Fated Encounter====
As Malek was in a random forest at the bottom of a cliff with his parents, he found a certain tree that caught his attention: an almond tree, he was ecstatic. He finally found what he had looking for for years and decided to indulge in an almond. As he tried to pick up the outer hull of the fruit from a lower branch, something truly unexpected happened. An overweight man and a woman that were falling from the top of the cliff landed on the almond tree Malek was attempting to pick from and then fell on the grassy ground only to end up unconscious. As expected, Malek was startled and tried to wake them up, which yielded no results. He called for his parents in an attempt to save the lives of these two strangers and in the end his mother helped save their lives.
====Aftermath of the encounter====
He became good friends with the two strangers that fell and became acquainted with their friends. However, tragedy struck and as their friend group gets reduced in size one by one, he is the only one that remains starting from 1988 all the way until 2021.
===Barron Saga===
Akram Malek was on his way to his youngest grandchildren's from visiting the graveyard where his late friends and family who passed away in the previously mentioned 1988 incident rested, but on his way, he found a man who was talking to something in an alleyway. Malek expressed concern for the man since he thought he was on any substances but then the stranger fearfully dashed inside the store in front of him which shocked Malek and did nothing but fill him with more concern and curiosity. Malek leaped in front of the alleyway to find a weird head creature that immediately plunged back into the dumpster it was floating above. Akram was so stupefied by this to the extremity that he wanted to investigate further only for the creature to exclaim "You're outta your depth, Mally." in a cocky and condescending tone of voice which was followed by the dumpster lighting on fire in order to deter Malek away from the scene, and so it did. Malek went to a nearby high school to access their library for a feeble attempt at research for what this abomination could be only to find nothing from the books, as he expected. However, when he went to the bathroom, he found a poorly flushed newspaper dating from 1981 that claimed "there was a possible world threat" in which he found out that YoY is a monster of Mandorla origin. From here on, he decided to change the main goal of the organization to neutralize YoY, by any means necessary, even at the expense of his psyche.
==Description==
===Appearance===
====Younger self====
When Malek was young, he wore a diversity of clothes but mostly a vest-like waistcoat and a wool red regimental coat over alongside formal white breeches and black shoes. He was tan-skinned and had short black hair that varied in style depending on his mood that day.
====Older self====
As Malek aged, he always tended to wear formal clothes such as tuxedos alongside his hair greying. He also needed to get glasses by the time he was 60.
===Personality===
Malek in his prime was a very air-headed yet amicable person. He had a quick-witted sense of humor despite his general intellectual incompetence and lack of life experiences which were all evident when he was spending time with his new friends in the United States. He also had a great sense of justice, determination, and sportsmanship as well as him wanting to get his friends out of harrowing situations (inspired by his mother that saved his two friends from dying because of them falling from the cliff) despite failing most of the time. However, as he was quite the determined chum, he never stopped trying to save people.
Unfortunately, after the death of his last friend and great-nephew-in-law in 1988 as well as his first encounter with YoY, he became very sleep-deprived as well as him losing sanity. Day by day he would have a mental breakdown and cry about the people he could have saved but failed. He would involve himself in criminal-law cases he had no business in and lash out at his most trusted agents in MALCO such as family members. He would also work on finding YoY 24/7 and become obsessed with Carl Barron and his story all for a feeble attempt to locate YoY and to stop Barron from getting opportunities for him to propagate YoY's influence.
==Trivia==
*His favorite color is red.
*His favorite fruit was bananas but then it became almonds, not because of the taste but the memories he associates with them.
*The first almond he picked from the almond tree before Oswin and Carmen fell on it turned into a gift from Malek to the two.
*This same almond became one of the heirlooms of both MALCO and the Malek family.
*He enjoyed swing jazz, a genre of music that his friends' band specialized in.
*Akram's first name means "Generosity" in Arabic as he sacrifices his own sake for others and "Malek" means king also in Arabic. His second name "Bechara" comes from his father but also is a reference to the real-life first president of the Republic of Lebanon from 1943 to 1952, Bechara El Khoury. (but there's also a personal reason for his second name loaleolaalallaloololoololol)