Nex O'Malley

> You better be careful when you leave this place. Your shadow's always watching...
>
> **Nex O'Malley**

## Appearance

Nex is a tall young boy in his late teens with light tan skin and semi-defined muscles. He has inky black, medium length messy hair that mats to his forehead when he leans backwards, and which helps to conceal his large, wolf-like ears that end in a small green tip at the ends. Round-rimmed green glasses allow him to see with his inky-black eyes.

He's hinted to have wolf-like traits, as stated by his father, Clarence O'Malley, and further confirmed by his ears and sharp-tipped black tail that flows behind him. He can grow sharp black claws when he absolutely needs them, and exhibits a very potent sense of smell, taste and sight thanks to his wolfish nature. Everything else about him is perfectly human.

Many people describe Nex's demeanour as having a very punchable face, which he uses very much to taunt and play with others' feelings, either in a good or bad way. He smirks with one side of his face, flashing one of his sharp canine teeth every time.

### Outfit

Nex's outfits change drastically depending on how he's feeling. For example, he can sometimes wear a baggy black T-Shirt with some sort of skull insignia on the front tucked into lightly loose blue jeans and that's it, not without forgetting a couple black chains made from Starsteel.

Others, Nex could be wearing a black turtleneck, coupled with a yellow striped scarf and a large grey overcoat, couples with grey sweatpants just for comfort, all while wearing a couple rings on his fingers, all made from the same Starsteel that his chain is made out of, one in the shape of a black and purple dragon, wrapping around his finger, symbolizing the ancient dragon: Fafnir, not to be confused with Fáfnir from Norse Mythology, and another on his pinky, which seems to move with the light, almost like it was made of its own shadow.

## Personality

Nex's personality is nothing more than complicated. Coming off as erratic, scatterbrained and crude to anyone who he first meets, the first impression is always the strongest that individuals have on him, and said individuals don't naturally appreciate his very gung-ho, no-filter way of approaching people and the situations they bring to the world.

Nex has always tackled life head on, never backing down from a challenge and always having a funny quip or thought to add to even the darkest of moments, even though it might not be appropriate for the time.

Constantly being compared to his sister Ori is something Nex has gotten used to over the years. Her academic prowess and success at such a young age has always left him reaching and attempting to crawl out of her shadow. Which might've had a say in what determined his ability..

A strained relationship with his mother has caused Nex to become very distant to relationships with his parents, and now that Shoka's no longer around, it's taken and even heavier toll on his state of mind than he'd rather admit. It seems things just keep going wrong with Nex.

## Backstory

Nex O'Malley was born to Clarence O'Malley and Shoka Cadela along with his twin sister Ori O'Malley in the very city he'd grown up inside of for his entire childhood, Manohashi City.

Growing up, Nex hadn't had it easy from his parents. His father's increasing problems with morbid obesity, and mother's tendency to leave when things got hard between the family, left Nex and his sister to be taken care of by their only and oldest sibling, Aka. She tried her best, but ultimately Nex always sought out more than he could ever hope to get from his parents, what he rightfully deserved was nothing close to what he received. So he sought out comfort in other things, just like his father.

Nex was always confused by his mother when she was around. Never letting him go and hang out with other boys, or even girls for that matter. She always kept him around her at all times, watching his every move, and when she wasn't there he would exploit that opportunity to rebel, to take back the independence he deserved..until he started to take it too far.

His father wasn't any better, he was the complete opposite. Nex's lack of attention from him due to his gluttonous binges only further enhanced his prideful urges to seek out attention in only the worst ways, because any attention is good attention.

During his early teens, Nex got into drugs to help cope with his lack of self-satisfaction as a child, as a way to feel good about himself when no one ever told him he could be. Between an overbearing mother always telling him he could be better, like his sister, and a father who never even talked to him at all, he became bitter, and angry as a result of this, eventually falling so deep down the rabbit hole he couldn't even see the light from up above..

## Trivia

* "Nex" is a word uncommonly used in Latin to describe Death, something Nex feels he's escaped many times.
	+ He also feels as if the name links him to the deity, Death, somehow, and that the god has protected him from many near-death experiences.

* Nex frequently partakes in cross-dressing, although he doesn't like anyone to know he participates in it.

* He hasn't told anyone except his closest friends that he's gay, but hopes to come out with the message soon enough to his family

* Although Nex is aware of his wolf-like nature, his father Clarence has neglected to inform him of his true race.
	+ Nex is a special breed of Hellhound, his genetics passed down from him by his father.
* Nex loves to make people laugh, and wants to become a stand-up comedian one day.