Elijah Kang

• Elijah Kang •

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**Name** Elijah Sungwoo Kang
**Nickname** Eli, Elias
**Day Of Birth** June 2nd
**Age** 18
**Nationality** Han Pyeonghwan
**Ethnicity** Korean-Caucasian

**Hometown** Stonecrest, Island of Athena
**R/S** Single, and totally looking
**Sexuality** Homoflexible
**Location** Central City, Island of Zeus
**Gender** Male
**Magic Focus** Air, Speed

## Personality

Contrary to belief, Elijah is not as self-centered as he appears. It's more of a defense to help him forget the trauma hidden in his childhood which appears elegant on the outside but terrifying on the inside. He is naturally used to attention and therefore dislikes quiet backgrounds hence his tendency to frequent at popular cafes. He himself does not enjoy speaking for the sake of it and would rather be silent yet surrounded by noise. He prefers to think inside his head despite repeatedly telling others he's a verbal thinker.

While he does believe he is entitled to many things and can be unintentionally snobby about it, he doesn't mean much harm. It's more of a technique to convince himself that he has those things and isn't dreaming. He's obsessed with perfection and has a tendency to correct the tiniest mistakes. Punctuality is one of his top priorities alongside cleanliness and order. He becomes greatly displeased by mistakes or illogical reasoning and explanations. He prides himself on his restrained creativity and what he can do under pressure.

Elijah will flaunt his status and remind others ninety-nine point nine percent of the time that he's above others, being the Gucci while they're simply basic. This is again, a defense rather than something he actually believes. If anything, he tends to view himself below others when in silence, which is why he dislikes it. Ironically enough, he limits himself from verbally transmitting his ideas to others which lead to his vague and indirect manner of speaking and addressing topics. He is extremely sensitive, hiding behind a layer of arrogance to make it seem like words do not affect him.

Shockingly, Elijah feels more comfortable under pressure rather than in a relaxed state. Riskier situations prove to make him laxer while calm areas make him tenser. He appears bossy but he is talented at taking charge and leading others. He intentionally puts out a selfish image so no suspects he is capable of caring about others' issues. He is willing to help anyone without receiving things in return (as long as the said person keeps it a secret).

His behavior towards family and close friends is a drastic contrast to his normal behavior. He becomes more conservative and his will diminishes. The only person he can comfortably talk to is his twin sister, Emily. As if someone had flipped an "ON" switch inside him he instantly becomes a regal and charming puppet, bound to the orders of society.

Elijah can be unexplainably dark and even he himself admits he has fairly dark thoughts on a daily basis. He hasn't permitted himself the title of "Depressed" despite how many symptoms he shows of it. Still convinced he doesn't deserve his life there are few times where he loses it and tries to cut his ties with reality. Ultimately, Elijah is stumbling around in the darkness with a dim candle that's ready to burn out.

## History

Seohun had never liked the Earthen world for it was too slow and troubled for his standards and the people there were sluggish and stupid. He highly considered Heathen as a higher power until he met a strong headed woman named Annaline Marisol who largely changed his view of Mirrorworld's dimensional counterpart.

She looked ordinary but held her head up like a queen and acted like a boss. There was an air of confidence about her that attracted him in ways he didn't understand. Women like her were not common and it was very hard to attain their love but after years of trials, the two made it work.

Annaline Marisol looked as beautiful in her wedding gown as she did that fateful day Seohun met her, and soon this beautiful woman was to be his wife. There had been one consistent issue Seohun had been concerned about, however. Annaline wasn't a mage which meant she wasn't aware of the Mirrorworld.

Would he take her there or stay on Earth? Originally he had been planning to stay on Earth permanently with Annaline but his plans were conflicted when the newly elected Emperor chose him to be part of his Council. Now he would be required to stay in the Mirrorworld, which meant one thing: Tell Annaline about the Mirrorworld.

He didn't know how he was going to do it but now it was his wedding day and the love of his life was standing right in front of him, ready to be bound to him as one for the rest of her life. *Trust comes from honesty, without honesty there is no trust,* the Emperor had said, advising him when Seohun confronted him about the matter, *Tell her in all honesty and if she trusts you, she will listen and believe.*

Seohun once asked him why he needed a Council when he seemed wise enough to rule the nation by himself. The Emperor told him, *One mind is not enough to rule the world, you must have multiple for multiple minds have different views and different views contribute to a developing society.*

*What view am I?* He asked.

*The privileged one,* the Emperor said. *Do not feel offended. I simply need to see the contrast between the wealthy and the poor so I can create a better middle ground.*

*Heathen is so prosperous already, I hope you bring more welfare to the world,* Seohun had replied.

*I also hope so as well.* Then the Emperor dismissed him and Seohun returned to Earth, to Annaline, to think.

The day of the wedding was filled with excitement of all sorts and Seohun and Annaline were on a high of happiness for weeks to come, but their honeymoon was soon going to draw to a close and Seohun would need to return to the Mirrorworld to continue to fulfill his duties as the Council member responsible for the island of Athena.

The last day, Seohun sat his wife down and confessed about his identity as a mage. He told her of Heathen and the magic it entailed and how their children one day would have the magic as well. When Annaline laughed, Seohun thought she didn't believe him, but then she told him she knew already. One of her aunts was a mage herself and would tell stories about the world over and over till Annaline could recite them from memory.

She had married into the family, which is why she was the only mage known in the family, besides her children. Seohun was stunned but relieved. Annaline then proceeded to poke fun at her husband for not telling her about his position in the Council earlier. He just pouted childishly and they spent the rest of the day teasing each other.

Annaline had no issue with moving to the Mirrorworld, claiming that she always wanted to visit it anyway, just didn't know how. The move itself was smooth and Annaline easily adjusted despite not having any magic to use. Because of that reason, however, she was assigned extra body guards since she couldn't defend herself from magical attacks.

When Seohun discovered that Annaline was pregnant he was overjoyed, but unbeknownst to him, his wife was not. It wasn't like Annaline didn't want children, of course, she did. She had even fantasized about her children being mages like her aunt, but not for the reasons any normal mother would be. There was still the human factor of curiosity inside her, and she wouldn't deny she feared those around her with the magical capabilities.

So she decided that she would experiment. Not with Seohun, of course, that'd be rude but with her child. Annaline soon learned she was due to have twins, a boy, and a girl. She didn't want to use both of them, maybe since she seemed to have her own twisted view on the Emperor's philosophy. Contrasting the healthy to traumatized and their reactions prove for good experimental results.

Elijah Sungwoo Kang and Emily Sungwon Kang were born on June 2nd, the day the Emperor was assassinated. No one knew who or what got rid of him, just that he was dead and wasn't coming back. Quickly another person was moved into the empty office, becoming the next Empress of Heathen. She made minor changes to the Council, removing and replacing two members. She preferred not to communicate with them unless absolutely necessary which bothered Seohun who was used to the Emperor requesting to talk to him about everything, even the tiniest details about the society of the Island of Athena.

Nonetheless, he would be able to spend more time at home with his new family so maybe it was a win-win.

Annaline started her experiments behind Seohun's back with Elijah was five, having picked him as her test subject and sparing Emily the trauma. It started with the threatening, attempting to trigger his magic by putting him in dangerous situations constantly. In that year alone he had faced death so many times, he began to grow immune to the fear of death. Annaline had her results and the method would fail soon so she changed her methods to gather new information.

Seven-year-old Elijah faced extreme neglection to the point where Annaline constantly ignored his presence. A year later she added verbal abuse to the mix, which messed with his head and gave him the premonition that he was worthless. Nine-year-old Elijah faced a drastic and immediate change from abuse to over-the-top pampering which brought his current egotistical views of himself to the table, and then Ten-year-old Elijah faced physical abuse.

Elijah was told to be quiet, and in the presence of others, be perfect. He was a quiet charismatic boy on the outside, but on the inside, he was confused and lost and broken. Annaline would tell him he was her little boy and that she was proud of him and she would never hurt him and then she would beat him and call him *Worthless, a mistake, illegitimate* over and over until it was ingrained in his head and he heard her voice echoing in his head.

*Worthless... A mistake... Illegitimate... Hopeless... Weak... Idiotic... No one will save you... No one wants to save you... Why won't you die already? No one wants you... They are here to hurt you... No one would be proud of an arrogant king... You don't deserve anything you have...* colored his thoughts dark and depressing. Made him feel shallow and unwanted and stupid and unloved. So he promised himself he would make himself feel intelligent and thoughtful and loved and wanted and cared for.

He would make himself important and known everywhere. Not just as the Councilor Kang's son. In a way, Annaline's experiments were a success, awakening the flame inside him that keeps him motivated and persistent, but at the same time, it's the only thing still pushing him to really participate in the game of life.

By the time he was twelve he had attempted to commit suicide over twenty times but failed every one. Each time a different factor he hasn't considered stopped him. First, it was the difficulty of finding any weapons, then it was the security cameras. Then it was Emily. Then it was Annaline. Then it was bodyguards. Then it was the servants. Then it was his doubts. Then it was his hope. Then it was the flame. Then it was him. Every time he thought, *Damnit, what's so important about me that God won't let me die already? I'm worthless. I'm stupid. No one needs me. No one wants me. Why won't he just let me leave?*

*Fine,* he decided. *If these aren't enough reasons to kill me, I'll give him more reasons.* Elijah started to inflict wounds on himself, isolated himself, convinced himself no one cared. For awhile, no one said anything. *He wasn't very fond of people anyway, he's just tired, he needs privacy, etc.* Seohun was the first to figure out something was terribly wrong. He'd seen the fake smiles for months now but hadn't really registered them until now. He hadn't registered Elijah's tense shoulders and the call for help he had been silently screaming through his plastic smiles and glassy eyes.

When Elijah began wearing long sleeves in the middle of summer or when his arms and legs were covered in band-aids and bruises and wrapped in bandages, he knew something was very, very, wrong. He confronted Eli, but his son coldly pushed him away and told him he was fine. Emily picked up on the behavior soon after, but he ignored her whenever she wanted to say something about it. Despite being the one to cause this in the first place, even Annaline was concerned, even more surprisingly, from a mother's perspective. But she knew she couldn't approach him, Elijah would conclude she's lying.

Around this time, Elijah also decided he didn't like girls. Technically that was a lie, considering if he found the right one he would be just as easily attracted to her as he would be to a person of the same gender. But Annaline's abuse and Emily's ignorance (and fairly comfortable life) led to the subconscious decision.

The twins' thirteenth birthday rolled around and they were enrolled into the Academy. At first, Elijah started out as a cold and quiet person, withdrawn from everyone. People started spreading gossip soon after, saying that he was so quiet because he thought he was better than everyone else and wouldn't talk to 'peasants'. He heard them, he heard their laughter, their taunting, but they couldn't hear the dark thoughts in his head, couldn't see the pain and abuse, couldn't comprehend what it meant to not have a voice.

So slowly he molded himself into the type of person they made said he was in rumors. They pictured him as snobby, he acted snobbily, they said he was arrogant, he spoke arrogantly, they said he was too perfect, so he acted too perfect. Too perfect that no one could tell he was fake, no one could tell he was broken, no one could tell he needed help.

Slowly that became who he was and that became all he knew. Wake up, walk outside with a smile, stare at anyone he "felt" was trash, come back from class, eat, sleep. It was an endless cycle that was never going to break. It wasn't until Third Year did he find that flame that had awakened a long time ago.

The Island of Poseidon. Twilight forest. Running. Running. Running from what, he couldn't tell but he was running. And then he fell. He got up again and then kept running. And then he stopped. He gave up and fell, whispering a silent wish of death. But what he was running from didn't kill him, it revealed potential inside him.

His habit of studying amulets sprung from that experience. He interacted with ghosts and spirits of all kinds because for some reason they felt more comfortable than people who ridiculed him, the people who made the fake him that he pretends to be. The first time he claimed an amulet, it was the soul of a boy named Arcane who listened to him and comforted him. Arcane gave him an unexplainable feeling he couldn't help but feel drawn to him.

Before he realized it he was in love, but Arcane couldn't return his feelings. Not when he had been stolen away from Elijah. The sixteen-year-old was devastated and from then on tried whatever to find Arcane, in any way possible. Then he began pursuing personal dreams in secret. He wrote stories, created worlds only he understood, reflecting his struggles yet in contrast they still had happy endings which he couldn't say had the same ending for him.

He drew, designing outfits worthy of Gucci labels and Versace's popularity. He painted, creating scenes of anguish only he understood. He invested in photography, taking pictures of anything and everything happy, telling himself that one day he would have this happiness too. He sang and composed and created and created until his brain had run dry yet it hadn't yet.

He wasn't spent yet. Maybe he could save himself. Maybe he could finally be happy.

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