Darko Novak

**Darko Gordon Novak Vinko** is a Temporal Officer. He butts heads with the other officers very frequently due to his personal morals and ethics. He is one of the only two humans known in the magical world, before the timeline clash. He isn't afraid to speak when his coworkers do something he thinks is morally wrong. He doesn't have many friends, especially being a human surrounded by magical beings.

## Biography

### Background Information

Darko is from Croatia. As a teenager, he ran away with his at-the-time boyfriend, Zdeslav Lučić. They jumped country to country without getting caught until Zdeslav abandoned him and continued without him. He then found the magical world through sirens calling him to the ocean in Spain. Pièrre Beaulieu and Aurora Alfaro Vicario rescued him and he stayed in the magical world since, living with Pièrre.

He and Pièrre joined the Temporal Officers together. Darko would follow the rules until he got tired of staying quiet.

## Appearance

Darko's design is made of mostly squares and rectangles. His color palette consists of purples, browns, and whites.

He has dark brown hair that he keeps a little long and gels back for work. He has down-turned, dark brown eyes. He's short and broad in build. He has a beard that he tries to take care of and a large nose.

When at work, he wears a simple white button-up shirt and purple tie along with brown dress-pants. He also has a belt and wears black dress shoes.

## Personality

Darko is just, caring, empathetic, honest, blunt and impulsive. He's very distant, and has a dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He wants to have people know he did good, not wanting to die a nobody. He likes being alone, listening to music, and hates being in crowded, public spaces. He's sad almost all of the time, but especially when he doesn't get what he wants. He fights back when he sees injustice happen within the justice system. He wants to see the problems of the world fixed within his lifetime. He is incredibly stubborn, and it gets in the way of a lot.

## Skills

* Writing
* Cooking
* Composing
* Piano
* Guitar
* Drums
* Music

## Relationships

* Haruto Arima: He hates Haruto. He doesn't like being bothered with endless questions about what the human world was like or what it's like to be human. Along with that, they have very conflicting morals and Haruto is constantly fighting against Darko's decisions.

* Pièrre Beaulieu: Darko and Pièrre are childhood best friends. For years, he lived with Pièrre and his family. But, since he started fighting against the rules of the magical world, their friendship began slowly falling apart.

* Jorgino Etienam Gourriel: Jorgino is his boss and the head of the Temporal Officers. Darko doesn't like him and Jorgino has threatened to fire him many times. The only reason he doesn't is because he's scared of Darko outing the entire magical world to the humans.

* Jewel Baumgartner: Jewel is a graffiti artist and is frequently at Temporal Headquarters for minor crimes. Darko always lets her and Robin Hartell go almost immediately after someone else brings them in.

* Robin Hartell: Robin is a graffiti artist and is frequently at Temporal Headquarters for minor crimes. Darko always lets him and Jewel go almost immediately after someone else brings them in.

* Aurora Alfaro Vicario: Darko and Aurora are childhood best friends. She hasn't spoken much to him after he and Pièrre became Temporal Officers.

## Trivia

* Darko has generalized anxiety, social anxiety, depression and OCPD.
* Darko has agoraphobia (fear of situations one can't control), ataxophobia (fear of disorder and untidiness), atelophobia (fear of imperfection), and hygrophobia (fear of dampness and moisture).
* Darko is homoromantic-bisexual.
* Darko's birthday is January 25.

## Gallery

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