Vireo Umemo

## Appearance

He has long and messy dark brown hair, and light lilac eyes although sometimes they appear to change to light blue. Vireo has pointed ears, although he sometimes hides them in his floofy hair. He has pale skin and a sprinkling of freckles across his face. The Queen was a bird shapeshift, and she had wings and some feathers, and so he inherited those, there are some little brown feathers unevenly gathered around his hairline, forming it and spreading a little outwards before fading into his hair. They match the color of his hair. He's very self-conscious about these but he hasn't tried to pluck them out yet. There are also some little patches of feathers on his arms, which he usually keeps hidden. They are very sensitive though and will hurt pretty badly if tugged on or pulled. He usually wears black pants and a dark green top, always long-sleeved to cover up his feathers, and sometimes a black cloak. Vireo usually wears dark tan boots with a dagger hidden in each one. He would carry daggers and knives in his cloak too, but the two daggers were all he could afford before he ran out of money.

## Personality

He's quiet and not used to talking to people, but he is confident in his own skills (somewhat at least). He's intelligent but kind of depressed, and he has trouble sleeping without memories and nightmares haunting him, so sometimes he doesn't get any sleep for days. Vireo would rather sit and watch people than interact, and he won't engage in a conversation unless he finds the people in it interesting and really worth trying to talk to. He used to be very joking, but that has slipped over the years of being alone, and it's turned into nervousness. He has a fear that he will waste away in the shadows and never be remembered or important to anyone. Sometimes he gets so sad that he will stay in the trees and sit and watch the normal people talk and laugh and smile and wish he was like that. Normal, without this attachment of a traitor, criminal or prince. He wishes he had company but is too nervous and scared to go up to anyone and start a conversation so he stays in the shadows and watches, forever wishing he could.

## Backstory

He was banished from Umemo for trying to help a supposed 'murderer' (Assana) and even though he was only 12, not helping the Queen when she was in danger by calling the guards or stepping in himself and is therefore considered a traitor, and he is no longer regarded as a prince. He tried to find her, but she disappeared and he gave up, wallowing in his own failures. Vireo witnessed it when an assassin snuck into the castle and killed the Queen (his mother) when he was 12, and it still haunts him to this day. He blames himself that he didn't call the guards in time or he didn't step in a save her. (Hint hint, he'll still be worth a ransom) Vireo is the Crown Prince (unless someone else makes another from Umemo) but he was still kicked out thanks to his very, very strict father. The reason he hasn't gotten rid of the feathers on his head and arms is that they remind him of his mom, and every time he looks in a mirror or looks at his arms, he can see the feathers and then that reminds him of the Queen, and then he gets flashbacks.

## Character Relationships

### ~Assana {Phaonestra}~

He tried to help her but he was exiled, and he always wonders what happened to her. WIP

## Random facts

* Theme song: King - Lauren Aquilina
* He's right-handed
* Bird Boy is actually what I thought of him as first before coming up with an actual name