Axel

## Physical Description

Axel is a 6'1 demon creature from Ephialtes. He has ginger hair tied up into a ponytail using a purple scrunchie and a pair of yellow goggles on his head. He also has a pair of black horns that are about 5 inches long.

His skin is golden brown and covered in dark freckles.

He wears a black shirt with a purple stripe through the middle. Axel also has a red cape along his back that covers his tattered wings, which are practically bone and unable to be used for flight. Finally, he has a flannel tied across his waist and is wearing blue jeans, paired with light up shoes.

## Personality

Axel is an awkward, jumpy homosexual who somehow manages to act confident while internally screaming. He's also the only braincell within the Nebula family.

## Backstory

### **Trigger Warnings: Cannibalism, Eating disorder, Starvation**

#### Background information

Axel's father works as a “truck driver”, hauling wood in and out of Ephialtes through a wooden minecart contraption thing (He would use this to take humans out of Ephialtes). Axel's mother works as a freelance seamstress. They both help an underground revolution by their friends to stop the Rakshasa from murdering and eating people by saving people. Most of the people from the revolution hate them after Axel was revealed to have magic because of the amount of sudden benefits they got because of it however they are kept on the team as they’re in higher society and could be used for leverage or possibly inside details, plus they would likely not have as much security watching them.

#### Axel

Axel was born, woo!!

Because of the fucked up economy of Ephialtes, Axel lived in a “house” made of rusting metal scraps leaning against eachother, with a torn dusty red tarp with the family symbol painted on it as a door.

When he was 3, Axel's mother and father sacrificed Axel's grandparents and they and Axel ate their corpses because the economy went into a recession and as such Axel's mother was getting little-to-no orders.

On Axel’s fifth birthday, Axel’s coloured eye was revealed during a tradition. With it, came an explosion of red magic which signalled that Axel was powerful and had magic. This alerted the guards and security around the neighbourhood and with the new found magic Axel had, came many benefits for the family, including higher pay and a new house, fully paid for, to accommodate Axel and his parents while they waited for a fight to the death that would happen a few weeks after Axel’s birthday.

When he turned 10, Axel’s parents told him that the food he was eating was human meat the whole time. Axel, disgusted, began to start eating as little as he humanly could and developed Avoidant/Resistant Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). He also joined the underground revolution with his parents and helped save people who appeared at night, this gave him a saviour complex later in life. At some point after this, Axel met Cesar, his childhood best friend (and crush).

Axel, just after turning sixteen, is pushed into a portal one night that Richard is entering a Ephialtes through sending both him and Richard back to the human Realm. Though during the chaos Axels foot was caught in the portal, slicing it off. Luckily, the portal acted like a laser and the wound was cauterised so he wasn't bleeding to death immediately. Though, the wound being cauterised didn't stop the pain and the first thing he did in his panic was scream. Axels panicked and pained screaming woke everyone else in the orphanage up. Thomas quickly helped in anyway he could while the hospital was called and Axel was patched up. Shortly afterwards Richard forged some documents that made Axel legally a person and Axel was kicked out of the orphanage.

Axel managed to set himself up with a nice job in a convenience store and a small apartment. After a month or so, Richard, Thomas and Henry approached him as they had ran away from the orphanage and needed a place to stay, he gladly let them stay and they soon got similar jobs to pay for their own schooling or to help around the apartment when they were no longer being actively searched for. (During this time, Axel also sleeps a lot in hope that he’ll get sent back to Ephialtes and, therefore, his family and Cesar)

After a few years Richard got an online business degree and began his own lumberjacking company. Richard hired Axel to work for this company so they could afford a house together. Then they got married, for tax benefits.

## Other facts

- Axel can sing and play the acoustic guitar.

- Axel can unhinge his jaw like a snake.

- Axel can and will consume Fabreeze.

- Axels favourite drink is water with sprinkles.

- Axel dulled down the ends of his tail and horns with sandpaper to prevent anyone from getting hurt.