Cerlay Hellhound

Fullbody of Cerlay as he appears in novel.

Cerlay is one of the main protagonists/characters to the Cerberus Project novel. He serves Hades alongside his brothers Berivok and Nobisus as Cerberus. His duties include helping run the organization along side Nobisus and Berivok and to help guide souls to the Underworld & keep them from escaping. He is often known as the "Crazy Animal" for his very wild personality and erratic behavior.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Cerlay is a typical twenty three year old, skinny and often wears tight clothes or emo like outfits. He stands '5 7' just like his brothers and weighs 155 Ibs just like them too. He has rather sharp nails and often shows his fangs, making himself the most animal out of his brothers. Just like his brothers he has long ears much like an elf. His hair is blonde and very long, kept in a red bandage, making it appear shorter and look like a ponytail. It spikes to the left and covers the left side of his face. His eyes are a bright sky blue shade and often are slits when he's showing anger or is during the full moon when he's mortal and his powers shine through his blood. Cerlay loves to wear a hoodie with fur on the hood and wearing a shirt with "Punk Rocker" on it. His pants are usually skinny jeans or dark jeans of any kind and he wears black boots with white laces. He wears bandages over his arms and legs to cover the many scars and bruises he obtained from Hades when he was a child. His favorite attire is wearing spiked collars and bracelets around his wrists. His way of saying get away from me or don't touch me, but usually others like his brothers or Ayerline disregard the message. In his human form he looks about the same except his eyes are more human, his long nails and fangs are gone, along with his long pointy elf like ears. He greatly despises being human because he then would be viewed differently around others when he acts his personality out. *Who wants to see a human acting like a beast?* Cerlay, just like his brothers, can also have his canine ears and horns visible as his hellhound human like self making him a kemonomimi.

### As a Hellhound (Canine form)

When Cerlay is his canine form he continues to wear his spiked collar and the red bandage that keeps his hair in a long ponytail is then around his tail, where a yellow tip is seen. His canine form is much like a Rottweiler, but has long ears and two horns upon his head angled toward the viewer but then pointing back behind him. The canine form also has white bandages covering over his front legs and back legs. Shadowy stuff often flows around his canine form, making it look ghostly.

## Personality

Cerlay is very cold, reserved, to himself, not very talkative, enjoys showing

his fangs & hellhound eyes to others, and hates being touched or having conversations of sex towards him or around him. He is often sarcastic and barely shows interest in anyone else other then his brothers much until he meets Ayerline. He also is noted to not smile very much since he was a child, where back then he used to always smile, more so around his brothers. Cerlay is known to be the most foul mouthed of the brothers, swearing any chance he gets. Many times Cerlay will go into a trance where he is pleasing Hades sexually which is usually triggered by Hades himself (in the past) or most recently by any kiss or sexual encounter with Ayerline. No one else, not even Cerlay himself knows he acts in this trance other then Ayerline and Hades. To him it's much like a black out and he greatly becomes confused when he comes back. He often doesn't wish to bother his brothers with his problems and keeps them to himself, much noted in Chapter 1 of the novel when Berivok asks what ails him and he simply replied Nothing...I am fine. He often can be seen nagging his brother, Nobisus, about finding a way not to charge the underlings of their organization a "fee" for using the Underworld Bar as a headquarters. With Berivok he is seen to really despise his brother always having ladies around him and dislikes the smell of sex that lingers on him quite often, becoming his natural odor. He is also shown to hate how he has to do everything when Berivok joins him as he is useless to him, ditching him for bars or getting with local women. Cerlay is also known to be around childern when he visits the human world as a hellhound, treating them all like younger siblings and playing with them.

Above all around Hades he shows great disdain and hate for the God. Often teasing him, challenging him and getting on Hades nerve. He wants badly to kill Hades himself, but knows he has no power to do so and doesn't wish to anger the other Gods. Cerlay is not irrational and is quite smart given his inability to really study anything. While he and Nobisus talk of equations or other such intelligent topics, Berivok is often bored and leaves them.

The most unusual occurrence of all is how he acts and treats Ayerline. At first Cerlay acts his usual self, but he too suddenly fights with himself wanting to change. Although Ayerline consistently pushes sex onto him, Cerlay can't help but give in the teenager and do as he wants. He's used to serving and getting nothing in return. As the two become closer Cerlay finally begins to smile and suddenly is seen quite often padding Ayerline's head or ruffling his hair. When he laughed for the first time around Ayerline he was greatly confused he could even produce such a sound. It had been too long and a part of him was afraid of these changes. He sometimes reverted back to himself being reserved but Ayerline was always there supporting whatever decision he wanted and didn't push too far. Cerlay soon trusts Ayerline enough to touch him when many times before he kept reminding the teenager he didn't like such formalities and any sexual ones either. He puzzled himself when he suddenly allowed Ayerline to call him "Cerie," when he hated nicknames with a passion. He told Ayerline he may call him that so long as it wasn't around his brothers as it would humiliate him. To Cerlay, Ayerline really was like a little brother he always wanted but soon he kept seeing that the boy meant so much more to him then that.

After Cerlay's old personality was completely gone, he smiled and laughed quite often and became more passionate and caring to Ayerline. He never held anything back and always trusted Ayerline when he touched him and believed his words fully. His strange trance even disappeared and Cerlay did everything possible to continue to see Ayerline smile.

## Abilities & Attributes

    Just like his brothers, Cerlay has to wear a collar which holds his hellhound abilities inside such as super human strength, but his abilities are the most restricted out of the three of them. He often fights with his long nails and fangs and enjoys licking the blood off his hands of whatever he kills. He enjoys fresh kill but nothing like spiders or something that isn't really meat to him. He also has the ability to make fire appear by the snap of a finger and control it enough to only burn where he places it. His canine form often takes over his eyes making them glow and become slits, giving him heightened sight. He can run rather fast as a hellhound or in his canine form and enjoys a good chase. He loves hunting his prey and even so far as toying with them as his canine form. He also has the ability to heal rather quickly, but usually Hades toys with this and only certain times does it fully work for him. There was even a time when Hades tricked him giving back his hellhound powers but at the cost of still looking mortal among the humans. If Cerlay's collar was given it's full potential everything would be destroyed as Nobisus was known to confess that "Cerlay is our beast....he is Cerberus, the beast itself....the dangerous monster that guards the Underworld.", and thus not even the Gods or Ayerline would be safe from that wrath.

 As Cerberus though he has not much control over what he does as Nobisus is the powerful one of the three, being the alpha. As Cerberus he becomes the three headed dog along with his brothers and has a huge bite, sharp claws and fangs and his serpent tail can give a nice smack to anyone. In the form, fire like powers are very much present seen when Nobisus makes them create a huge fireball to lunge at their opponent or have the fire consume over their fangs or claws.