Mixtape : Syrah

CIARAN

*the scars that mark my body, they're silver and gold*

chain of gold

Ciaran appears quiet and proper at first glance. He doesn't approach people first and seems very content just staying in the background. He inherited his mother's observational skills and her habit of pretending to be a wallflower, filing away all the tiny details he gets from interacting with people to use for later while giving them a false image of him being unassuming and demure. Despite his experiences, Ciaran still retains a distinct aura only a child raised in opulence could achieve. Though he is generally quite friendly and polite, it would still feel like he's keeping up his walls and maintaining a barrier between himself and the rest of the world.

*“ciaran's suffering is the true otome route” − \_ about ciaran*

While a big part of this facade is from his childhood, a good chunk is also because of how he was treated at the facility. His senses have been heightened and he hasn't been given proper training to be able to cope with the changes that came with heightened senses. He gets sensory overload when around loud crowds, strong smells, and significantly bright areas, all of which he tries to avoid at all costs. He's also heavily touch starved and fluctuates wildly between wanting tactile affection and running away from it.
Beneath his layers of self-protection, Ciaran can actually be quite playful and mischievous. Around people he likes and trusts, Ciaran would feel safe enough to actually joke around a bit and let loose from his stiff outer persona.

child of plutus

* **Annika Yang** is the youngest child of the current head of the **Yang family**, one of the two families who heads the **Primavera Conglomerate**. Though the face of class and sophistication, she is in truth spoiled sweet, naive, and a shrinking violet. She maintains the facade of being untouchable and unreachable in order to protect herself, as advised by both her parents and older brothers.
* Annika & Plutus met during a charity dinner held by the Yangs. Plutus disguised himself as a rich guest, drawn in by the opulence this certain family seemed to hold. He gets charmed by Annika and they strike up a tentative friendship. Everything ends once Annika gets pregnant and Plutus leaves her with nothing but memories and a single golden earring.
* **Ciaran Dalhwan Yang** was born to **Annika Yang** on a cold December night. It was a long and difficult labour. Annika had a weak constitution and Ciaran was already a month and a half early. While both fortunately survived, it would be a while before mother and son were considered healthy enough to be brought home.
* While Annika never told Ciaran much about his father, she did give him the earring Plutus left her. Despite his grandparents' insistence that it was 'unbecoming' of him, Ciaran had his ear pierced on the day he got the earring and wore it since then.
* Ciaran grew up with **Mirella Ahn**, the daughter of his mother's best friend Vittorino. They lived in their own personal bubble and never interacted much outside of each other. They had personal nicknames for each other (Ciaran called Mirella 'Hana' or 'Nana' while Mirella called Ciaran 'Kiki') and had their own secret code. They became more closed off when Annika died when Ciaran was 8 and only Mirella could convince him to do anything.
* His **first monster attack** was when he was 10 years old. Vittorino was taking both kids out on a walk on the beach near the Ahns' summer home when they were ambushed by a pair of Scythian Dracanae. Vittorino was killed while attempting to save the children.
* In the confusion, a demigod, who had been tracking the Scythian Dracanae, managed to grab the two children and knock them out. She brought the children to a facility belonging to the Spectre Foundation hidden in the Sierra Nevada. This would be where the pair would spend the next five years.
* The facility was run by unaffiliated demigods who run experiments on kidnapped demigod children. Ciaran was chained up, blindfolded and exposed to extreme temperatures in a systematic way. This gave him heightened resistance to extreme temperatures and heightened senses (tactile, auditory, olfatory).
* Halfway through their sixth year in the facility, a demigod stumbled upon the hidden facility. Luciella Eastwood was only barely able to escape with 14-year-old Mirella and 15-year-old Ciaran when the higher-ups of the facility made the facility self destruct upon discovery of a trespasser.
* The trio would spend the next few years on the road together. After a monster attack that lead to Ciaran and Mirella accidentally using their powers for the first time, Luciella would be the one to explain to the two about their godly heritage. Ciaran and Mirella would discover that the things their respective godparents have the ability to turn into Celestial Bronze-bladed glaives.
* Besides teaching the two teens how to fight, Luciella also helped them deal with their trauma as much as she could by being their support system outside of each other.
* Mirella and Ciaran lose Luciella when they were so, *so* close to Camp. They never expected the ambush. A demigod who formerly worked for the facility that they escaped them somehow tracked them down. The trio was underprepared, having faced a rather difficult monster a few hours prior. Luciella was struck dead just as they caught sight of the entrance to Camp. The demigod was only able to fatally wound both Mirella and Ciaran before they disappeared, seemingly more concerned about concealing their identity. By the time the pair were found and brought into Camp, they were only barely alive.

BASICS

**FULL NAME**

Ciaran Dalhwan Yang[ 양달환 ]

**AGE**

19 y/o

**BIRTHDAY**

10 December 2001

**SEX / GENDER**

Male / Male

**NATIONALITY**

Italian

**ETHNICITY**

Asian; Korean descent

**SPECIES**

Demigod

**STATUS**

Alive; single but dibbed

APPEARANCE

**HAIR COLOUR**

Black, usually dyed

**EYE COLOUR**

Gold-ish brown

**TATTOOS**

*S-PLTS-572-055* behind his right ear

**PIERCINGS**

Standard ear piercing on his right ear

**MISC MARKINGS**

Multiple scars of different sizes

**MODEL**

Jung Wooyoung (ATEEZ)

FAMILY

**PARENTS**

Annika Yang† (mother)Plutus (father)

**CREATOR**

NA

**FULL SIBLINGS**

NA

**STEPSIBLINGS**

NA

**HALF-SIBLINGS**

Other children of Plutus

**GUARDIAN/S**

Luciella Eastwood†

**SIGNIFICANT OTHER/S**

NA

**CHILDREN**

NA

**OTHER RELATIVES**

NA

INVENTORY

* A Celestial bronze glaive hidden as a gold earring, received from **Plutus**
* A Celestial bronze dagger named **Aeithalis**, inherited from **Luciella Eastwood**

POWERS

ETYMOLOGY

**GIVEN NAME/S**

**Ciaran** — Irish, "black"**Dalhwan [ 달환 ]** — 月煥, "moon; glowing, shining, lustrous, brilliant"

**SURNAME/S**

**Yang [ 양 ]** — 楊, "willow, poplar, aspen"

**MISCELLANEOUS**

NA

TRIVIA

* All experiments tested on Ciaran were exclusively body-related experiments. The most prominent and permanent side-effects are:
	+ Heightened resistance to extreme temperatures
		- When he wasn't chained up and blindfolded, he was made to last as long as he could in rooms that simulate environments with extreme temperatures
	+ Heightened senses (tactile, olfactory, auditory)
		- More than half of his time in Spectre's clutches was spent chained up and blindfolded
* Besides this, he is shown to be prone to bouts of dissociation especially when in extreme stress similar to his experiences in the facility he was held captive in. So far only **Mirella Ahn** can 'ground' him when he does. He can also be triggered by the feel of cold metal and the clinking sound of chains.