River Alvarez

Successor of Peter Pan

### Secret Heart's Desire

"I have no idea. I had no plans before I was given this legacy, I just wanted to get through High School. Now... who knows."

### My "Magic" Touch

"I have no "magic touch" if you will. But, I guess you can call being able to find my way through new areas a special thing?"

### Storybook Romance Status

"I had never considered romance *ever*. But that was before I met CJ. She somehow has made me change my mind... It's confusing yet intriguing."

### Oh "Curses!" Moment

"Before getting with CJ, and before knowing who she was, I was a blubbering mess. It was so embarrassing!"

### Favourite Subject

Magicology - "Though I don't have any magic, I need the class because of my destiny."

### Least Favourite Subject

Grimmnastics - "Despite my legacy, I am very bad at physical activity."

### Best Friends Forever After

Almira Alvarez, AJ Charming, and CJ Hook

**Rivera Zulimar Alvarez**, stylized as **River Alvarez** [*he/him*, *they/them*] is the 16-year-old successor of **Peter Pan** the British fairy tale *Peter and Wendy* written by J.M. Barrie.

At the time of the **Rebel Movement**, River is attending his **Legacy Year** of Ever After High and currently rooms with Alexander Jupiter "AJ" Charming. Wanting to keep out of the Destiny Conflict, River sides with the **Neutrals**. While he does not care about the conflict, River wants to make his family proud, but also doesn't like the idea of succeeding someone else while they could be making their own path.

His birthday is February 5th, making him an Aquarius.

## Characteristics

### Personality & Traits

How are they like? Character Strengths? Weaknesses?

### Physical Appearance

In terms of appearance, where Almira got their father's looks, River inherited their mother's features. River is a slim and slender teenager with white hair, kept in a slanted cut fashion, with faded red and orange highlights, sharp blue eyes, and a slight tanned skin tone.

## Fairy Tale - *Peter and Wendy*

### How Does River Come Into It?

River was chosen by the Storybook of Legends to become the successor to Peter Pan, as the man "never grew up" and thus had no heir.

### Opinions on Destiny

River is indifferent about his destiny. He is fine with their destiny but also want something else. He is confused about everything at this time and can't think much of anything else. However, a certain someone might have made them think more about their thought on their destiny.

## History

### Before Attending Ever After High

#### **Childhood & Preadolescence**

Born in Barcelona, Spain River was born to Gregorio and Malina Alvarez, the twin brother of Almira, and the older brother of Bolivar, Catalina, Diego, and Marcelino.

At birth, River was identified as female, and spent the next twelve years as a female. They spent the ages of 11-12 trying to figure out what they were and trying to do it before telling their parents. At the age of thirteen, River came out as transgender, identifying as a male. To their surprise, Gregorio and Malina were super supporting. They had noticed River becoming more distant and closed off, and also spotted that they had started avoiding dresses and skirts. They were just waiting for him to tell them. At that moment, River told them his new name *Rivera Alvarez*, which got shortened to River. Out of his siblings, Almira was the first to call River by their new name (mostly due to the others not being quite old enough to understand, but overtime they started understanding).

The next two years, River went through the treatments as their new person. Unfortunately, they were unable to go through top surgery before they started at Ever After. They agreed with their parents to wait until they graduated to do it.

A few days before his 14th birthday, River received his Acceptance letter for *Ever After High* notifying him as the successor of *Peter Pan*, the Boy Who Never Grew Up, following Parker Pan not having a child to succeed him.

At first, River was unsure about it, but after talking it over with his parents, he agreed. At the same time, Almira received her notice of being chosen as Mr. Smee's successor, as she calls it, *Mrs. Smee*.

### *Attending Ever After High*

#### **Freedom Year**

Entering his Freedom Year, River was paired with Alexander Jupiter Charming, one of the many Charmings . To his surprise, AJ (as he preferred to be called), was unlike any of the Charmings River had run into.

A couple months into the year, River learned something about AJ, after discovering his roommate had called his older brother, Liam after a hard day. Though shocked, River took it with ease, and soon become someone AJ could trust.

### *After Attending Ever After High*

#### **Post-Graduation**

After graduation, River undergoes his gender surgery, with CJ being right by his side. A year later, he goes with CJ on the quest to find her late father's personal ship, *The Burning Phoenix*, which had been hiding for nearly eighteen years.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Parents

River is the oldest son and child of Gregorio and Malina Alvarez, the owners of *Alvaro* a Spanish-resturant.

He has a good relationship with his parents, their bond becoming stronger following him coming out as trans.

#### Siblings

River is the oldest of six siblings, consisting of him, Almira, Bolivar, Catalina, Diego, and Marcelino, in that order.

River and Almira are twins, fraternal twins, Bolivar is three years younger than them, followed by Catalina a year and a half younger than him. Diego and Marcelino were a pair of surprising twins to Gregorio and Malina, they were born when River and Almira were eight.

#### Future children

River goes on to marry CJ, and together, they have four children: daughters, Mayra and Isabella, and sons, Dallas, and Jaiden.

### Friends

#### Quinn Sp'ades

As a fellow Spanish speaker, River gets along extremely well with Quinn.

### Acquaintances

#### Finlay Starkey

River has an interesting relationship with the next *Gentleman Starkey*, Finlay. They don't like each other, but they also don't hate one another. This is most likely due because they both like (crush-like) CJ.

### Pets

#### *Genesis*

As a gift, Rivera's parents gifted them with a Phoenix chick. Rivera named it "**Genesis**".

#### Nieva

During Animal Calling, a female Arctic wolf came to River and he named it **Nieva**. Nieva is a snow-white wolf (the signature color for the arctic wolf) with a heterochromia, her left eye being blue and her right eye being amber-gold.

### Romance

#### CJ Hook

***Ship Name: Forbidden Romance***

River first met CJ during Student Orientation, her cat, Archie, had escaped from his traveling box and made CJ run to chase him. River's phoenix, Genesis, was able to catch him and return him to CJ. River then learned that CJ was the daughter of Captain Hook, the person his

## Trivia

* River is a female-to-male transgender.
* River identifies as **biromantic demisexual**.
* His Mirror Blog name is: **@riveralvarez**.
* River's birthday is in reference to when the story *Peter Pan* first came out; February 5th.

### Notes

* In the original planning, River was nonbinary, with the name Rosario. Two years later, River was created being a female-to-male transgender.
* Originally, River had the nickname of Dallas, but was later changed.