Adham Fadel

Adham Fadel is well renown for his jokes and schemes at Ember Moon. Despite first impressions, Adham is known to get serious when times call for it, especially when a touchy subject comes up. Coming from a humble family in Morocco, Adham had to overcome many challenges during his upbringing to earn his slot in life.
== Personality ==
Adham is a witty boy, taking every opportunity available to make a friendly jab at peer, preferring this over showing his affection via gifts, touch, and other love languages. With their past to cradle them close, Adham is quick to shift tones if he hears insensitivities related to his struggles. Sharpened blade nested to his side at all times, you can't see them without Belle, his trusted dagger. Bestowed upon him by his late father, Adham uses his survivalist and blade skills to enjoy themselves an adventure outdoors when given a chance.
== Appearance ==
Being blessed in the height department, Adham stands at a length of 5'9. Brown-black curly locks drape over his upper portion of his face, the kinks and thick strands flowing in every direction, painting the adolescent in maturity. Red-brown eyes sit under his hair, shielded by thick lashes. On their sharp, heart-shaped face, only a small stubble, if any, can be found, more scars and scrapes than actual hair. Going for more of a rustic style, Adham tends to dress in natural, desaturated colors; dark greens and browns making up most of his wardrobe. No shorts or tanks in site, he consistently can be found only in tee's and trousers.
== Early Life ==
From a lower middle class family, Adham had to face the struggles of life at a young age. Never truly comfortable in their own body, they blamed it on the limited clothing their family could afford. Despite this, if asked how his childhood was like, he'd consider himself spoiled, never knowing true pain as a kid and always thinking of how worse it could've been. 
Only having one sibling, Adham would come to believe them and his brother, Hassan, to be spoiled due to the endless love provided by his parents. Never arguing, their parents were a perfect example of a perfect marriage, his father showing him love through his hobbies of camping and archery where as their mother would teach them how to cook and spoil the two with compliments.
Despite his happy childhood, he'd find it coming to a quick, abrupt end around his ninth birthday when his father began to get sick. The last birthday he’d share with his father, he received a dagger as well as a weekend trip out into the woods. Though he did enjoy the time with his dad, Adham couldn't help but notice the pain their father seemed to be in, clutching his chest and wincing every so often, but shook it off after being reassured that it was nothing.
With their father's worsening condition came their parents' arguing, and Adham tried his hardest to shelter his brother from the shouts and chaos. After a few months more of life, his father would face a fatal heart attack while sleeping. Unfortunately, the family's efforts to get him to the hospital fell flat, as the life had already been taken out of him.
Ten year old Adham, struck flatly with grief, didn't know how to handle it all, not being something his teachers or parents taught him. Nightmares were his brain's way of processing it all, visions towering over the corpse of their deceased father, dagger in the boy's hand, blaming himself for it all. Finding his faith as a Muslim was the only way to not give up on life, he held onto his beliefs in an afterlife and of God, knowing his father was now in a better place.
Realizing it was time to stop letting a dead man pull the strings over his life, Adham began to cope and take control back over himself. Hopping job-to-job to support their widowed mother and brother, young Adham also took the opportunity to question who he is relative to who he believed himself to be. They didn't want to die before not knowing themself. Janitor to waiter, they began to realize how uncomfortable their skin felt on their bones. Assistant to servant, he learned the term for the feeling.
== Life at Ember Moon ==
TBA
== Relationships ==
=== Atlas Doriel ===
Being his dorm mate and one of his first acquaintances as the academy, Adham sees Atlas as a good friend, even going as far as to befriend close friends of Atlas, even thinking to himself how a friend of Atlas is automatically a friend of his. Despite this, they haven’t grown close enough to Atlas to open up to, though that can be said for most of Adham’s current and previous friendships.
=== Arron Marine ===
Currently being close friends, Arron and Adham’s relationship is like an intense game of gay chicken, except both parties are gay and are probably not too chicken enough to kiss the other. When it comes to how Adham feels, from the beginning of their blossoming friendship, they could tell that Arron felt something for him, though he only ever saw Arron as, at most, a good friend, since he was just getting to know him. 
Despite his wordless objections, Arron and Adham did have a platonic date where they stayed in A dorm’s community area to binge a show that the two of them were fans of. During the date, Adham opened up a little about his home, mentioning the financial struggles him and his family faced back in Morocco. Similarly, Arron opened up to Adham about his issues making friends with others as well as his deceased aunt. At the end of their hangout, Arron even asked him about KISS. Well, the band, that is.
The two went on to go on similarly planned platonic dates. During one of which, planned around the holidays, Arron introduces Adham to a Christmas movie, as they had never watched one previously—Home Alone. During their date, there was a thickened tension among the two, though both felt it for differing reasons. On Arron’s half, he kept getting tempted into making advances on Adham, wishing to hold his hand and kept flirting whenever possible. On Adham’s side, they were worried that, being alone with his closest friend, would lead to Arron discovering that he’s trans. During said date, which was held in Arron’s dorm, both tried to hide how they were feeling. In Adham’s case, he kept taking moments to adjust his shirt, making sure his binder was hidden from at least his friend’s angle, and couldn’t help but to keep zoning out, overthinking Arron’s occasional stares. When questioned about it by Arron, he plays it off as a joke as to not dwell deeper into the actual reasoning as to why he was acting strange. Despite the initial hurdles, the two do begin to communicate to one another after the two hold hands. although it was short lived after Arron told Adham that he had romantic feelings for him. Not knowing how to feel from the brave outburst, Adham says that they’d think about it before leaving after an awkward layer of silence had settled in.
=== Koi Gido ===
When Adham first met Koi, they knew that he was someone that they wanted to befriend. Not only because of Koi’s cold demeanor, which made it a joy to poke fun at him, but also due to the way he carried himself. Adham found himself developing a small crush on the ginger, though feelings he didn’t wish to be reciprocated or perused.
Unfortunately, the pair’s friendship was short lasted, for a few months following their first encounter, they found themselves seeing each other once again, but in the forest bellow the academy. Not expecting the company, Adham was sharpening his dagger. Not knowing of Adham’s past, Koi mentioned how Father’s Day had been a few days prior, causing Adham to act suspicious, making up excuses for missing the holiday before mentioning his distaste for the day entirely, which Koi, to his surprise, agreed with. Feeling comfortable around him, Adham opened up about the passing of his father. Koi, letting them vent, only piped in once their story had concluded, stating how his current situation with his father is similar to theirs. Adham, curious as to Koi’s past, encouraged him to elaborate, to which he did. He explained how his father was never there emotionally for him and, at the points that he was, he would act like a friend rather than a parent. Adham, confused as to how the two stories intertwined, asked Koi to elaborate, though his continuation didn’t help to cure Adham’s confusion, but instead fueled a newfound anger. They felt that it was wrong of Koi to compare loosing a father to an emotionally absent one, which he attempted to calmly explain to Koi, yet to no avail. Before his anger could cause him to make regrettable decision, Adham decided to leave, though the conversation left the two with unsettled emotions about the ordeal.
== Quotes ==
* "So, where ya' from, Atlas, the flute-playing, not emo fellow?"
* "Filthy Americans.”
== Trivia ==
* Adham Fadel was only intended to represent a portion of Angel, like his other characters, but happened to share many similar traits to him, which includes:
** Deceased father (loosing his around the same age)
** Coping skills/experience with grief
** Gender indentity (FTM & transmasc)
**Birth month (February)
* Adham's name has Arabic origin and means "black". His last name, Fadel, is also Arabic, meaning “generous" and "honorable".
* His Myer-Briggs personality type is ENTP-A and his alignment is lawful good.
* Adham considers himself a modern Muslim, meaning he upholds certain Muslim traditions and aspects, but keeps an open mindset.
* When Angel made a Dungeons and Dragons skit of his characters in Ember Moon, Adham was a fighter.
*Adham had been asked out three times before the events of Ember Moon, but rejected each person due to his belief of being unable to love someone until you love yourself.
*His voice claim contains the audio of a Cowboy Bebop meme as well as the song "Sweet Tangerine" by The Hush Sounds.
*Adham has a Youtube playlist which consist of songs that relate to him and fit his character theme.
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