River

- **River** - Blaze - Blaze V2

## Description

River is a large, tall muscular hazelnut/honey brown tabby cat- fur warm and bright in sunlight but much paler in the shadows, which is conveniently where he spends most of his time.

He has thick black stripes like bands all over his body, forming mock cuffs on his wrists/lower arms and what looks like tank top straps on his shoulders. He also has a fluffy cream chest and cream toe-socks on his forepaws, as well as a black nose. He has a powerful but almost disturbingly flexible build and just about spotless posture, probably due to continuously sleeping flat on the floor for the majority of his life.

The most striking thing about his appearance is his stark, often narrowed ice blue eyes described to be somewhat like Firn's, even though they are not related through blood: sharp and brutal, like knives.

He refuses to wear any kind of symbolism of royalty, and his general expression is either completely apathetic in an unusually menacing way, or complete hostility.

## Personality

River, above all, is a bully. A charming bully at that, but still a bully. He finds it in his best enjoyment to bring others' suffering, and in this way he is somewhat sadistic, going out of his way to cause misery just for entertainment. Most of everyone in his kingdom knows him for this exact reason, and they have bruises physically and mentally to prove it. He is sharp-tongued and sharp-witted, both of which he puts to use specifically to verbally abuse everyone around him. He is also strong, which he uses to physically hurt people.

River is also a competitive, obnoxious megalomaniac. He can barely stand being less than someone (within reason) and will push and shove, even if it makes him look dumb, just to be better. He knows he'll never be great, so he is determined to be as feared and powerful in that fear as possible.

Despite being the generic childhood nightmare of every kid in the Sunken Kingdom, he is quite clever and quite charming, especially to the few that haven't heard of him. When he wants to, he can behave as about the kindest, sweetest and smoothest kid you've ever met- charisma at its finest- just to get something from you or to persuade you to do something you normally wouldn't- like convincing Charlotte mind-control was a good idea. He does it often enough that it's hard to tell if he's really trying to act sincerely or not.

## Relationships

### Christine

He had despised and actively avoided his grandmother since he found out she was his grandmother and openly insulted her when his parents eventually tried to patch their relationship. River would not give her a chance.

### Cira

River was not as close to his mother after something or another starting his absolute phobia of fairy tales. However, he still loved her very much and was very upset when he couldn't see her.

### Thomas

He clearly was very close with his father and relied on him a lot for emotional support. He was very comforted in his presence and sought his embrace out often for all worries and fears. River struggled beginning in the Sunken Palace without his father and missed him horribly.

### Ezra

River's bestest friend and closest sibling of whom he did just about everything with. Ezra was someone younger River could rely on even more than his parents, and they surprisingly rarely got into any fights, even more surprisingly, rarely any arguments. Ezra's death shook River to the core, and he blames himself for everything that happened. It is the source of the reoccurring nightmares throughout his life, his overall strife in the Sunken Kingdom, his aquaphobia, and also probably some PTSD.

### Lucy

River didn't know Lucy for much more than three years, but he was very determined to be a good big brother to her. He was very careful around her, focused on making good impressions, and was often unintentionally a pain in the butt because of this.

### Permafrost

In his life in Orange, River and his siblings idolized her, believing she had to be one of the most amazing people on the planet. River would collect magazines with her picture in them just to look at them, wondering what it would be like to be royalty like her. That was cut off abruptly when he was ACTUALLY taken in as her son and was trapped inside the palace, unable to save Ezra or even see his body for around three years, in which he was so filled with absolute loathing for her that his old self was buried in hate. It sounds a bit dramatic, but in summary, that's literally it. He abhors her more than even his grandma, and no kindness she will ever show him will break that. When he isn't blaming himself he associates her with causing Ezra's demise, which only makes his passionate ire stronger.

## History

### pre sk

He was just barely above dirt poor and lived in what is most easily described as a shack with his parents and his two younger siblings. They made a living off of selling what in the local, uh, town consisting of one gigantic black market where you could buy just about anything and get all of your money stolen right in front of your face for a pot with a skull in it.

River was under seven when he lived there, and didn't understand the manifestation of morbidity he lived in, but he was a particularly good child, if moody some times. He got along well with his siblings, especially his brother Ezra.

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## Trivia

* He is verifiably the author's favorite character for no determined reason besides she believes he's hot and continues to ignore his horrible, aggressive nature and the fact that he honestly deserves no love
* He also knows how to play the harmonica, saxophone, recorder, cello and organ because Permafrost is funny, but he generally just uses the skills to annoy people.
* He was originally... cocky (???) as well as genuinely Permafrost's son. He had one brother who Permafrost apparently sold off to Wish so that Perm could focus on making River into a killing machine. Thank gods that's not real anymore-
* He's hot 🔥
* His favorite song is apparently Paper Planes by M.I.A