Celestino Torr

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**Celestino Torr** is a 3rd year in Pomefiore and Scout's cousin. He is a unique individual that decided to speak in rhymes all the time despite being too shy to show his own works. He has a certain preference for people with their own fashion sense.

## Appearance

Celes has long white hair with a small ponytail in the end. He covers his hair in an array of blue flowers and has an earring of a blue feather on his right ear. His eyes are blue and framed with long eyelashes.

His school uniform is the purple vest with the blazer hanging from his shoulders, a white dress shirt with a jabot, black silk gloves, pants and knee length dark grey high heel boots adorned with a blue flower on the sides.

## Personality

"Unique" would be the best word to describe Celes. He is a serious guy with a love for art and everything beautiful. He does not mean to, but he becomes more loquacious towards those who pique his interest. Celestino is polite and acts like a gentleman from centuries ago, matching his style.

Despite his aura, Celes becomes shy when he has to recite his own works. He gets embarrassed and stutters in an attempt to read it. If someone finds him in the middle of writing, he hides the paper as soon as possible and/or throws the person out of his room, quite literally with Scout.

Celes's speech is quite the oxymoron. Whenever he talks, he does so in a rhyme, as if he was basting an epistle, but he considers these words rather shallow, and as pretty as they are, they cannot convey his feelings completely, making it an easy way for Celes to practise and yet not turn shy.

Celestino loves beauty, and is proud to show it via his appearance, since he is unable to say it. He is also in love with theather and wishes to dedicate himself to it ever since little, time where he started to practise performing and making his feelings look like true, ability that soon made him closer to Valle, and made him the gentleman he is. Very few times has Celes lost his cool, most, if not all, by Siph, who is keen on pestering him.

## Backstory

Celestino was always an art lover. Ever since he was a kid, he enjoyed things that girls played with. His dad, however, was not thrilled with his son's interests. He wanted his son to be a man, and a man plays with toys like cars and action figures. His mom, however, thought that he was just being a kid, and that he would grow out of it. "Even I was curious of toy cars as a toddler" said the mom.

When Celes saw an opera for the first time, he was ecstatic. The clothes, the story, the way everyone cheered once it was done. He wanted to do what the people on stage were doing. His mother, once again, spoiled the thought, so as to let her kid be a kid.

Celestino's interest was piqued by other "femenine" likings, such as fashion, in which he liked among others, Ray's mother's works, and poetry. Poems were made to convey your feelings in the most beautiful way, and when you read them out loud, they had this sing-songy chime to them. And thus, Celes thought "I can do that too!" And made his first poem.

His father was very dissappointed in his son's tastes, it would've been fine if it was reading normal books, but poetry? Bride dresses? No sir. He told Celestino to stop, to engage in other hobbies, he ripped the poems his son carefully made, calling him names. Even though Celes felt ashamed, he was still drawn to them, making them in secret on diaries. His dad was busy a lot of the time, so surely he wouldn't notice...!

Even at school, Celes was considered "weird", that he was different from a normal boy, and even though he denied those claims, his classmates thought otherwise, ignoring his feelings.

It wasn't long before Celestino's father had enough. He was tired of this sorry, effeminate excuse of a "son", if he even was a man, and decided to send his son to conversion therapy. He couldn't stand the thought of a gay son. His mother, merciful as ever, wanted to give his dear son one last chance to become normal. "What about my nephew? He's really good with sports. It's been a while since our last visit."

### Time with Scout

After seeing their son, Celestino's parents grabbed him and met up with Scout's family, hoping that hanging out with a normal boy would make him become normal, and they did so by meeting in the woods, like a camping trip. This would continue for many more years. It was also the time Celes met Valle.

Celes agreed to teach Valle all he knew about theater and acting, and their meetings were frequent whenever he came during the holidays.

His parents, however, were done. The vacation came to a close and their son showed no signs of change, he even started stumbling over his words, trying to unite sentences in a rhyme whenever he was with his aunt, uncle and nephew. The dad would not wait any longer,  And Celes was sent to conversion therapy.

One day, Celes went to Scout's house as a visit for a while. Scout told him his problem and Celestino offered to teach him. They were doing quite good, and Schuhansen was slowly gaining confidence, enough to try and fly from a high place, and Celes cheered him on. Once in the cliff, Scout started to have doubts, but Celestino promised to catch him if he fell and his cousin believed in him.

This time, Scout fell on the hard ground, and Celes couldn't catch him. Adrenaline rushed through him in hopes of helping his injured cousin. Schuhansen was sent to the hospital in Land of Pyroxene after receiving first aid. He was told he could never fly again. This was all Celestino's fault. His and no one else's. He visited Scout as much as he could. He brought him flowers he arranged as he could. He recited Scout sloppy poems for his ears only, despite the embarrassment; despite the feeling of his empty stomach and the faint bile's aftertaste in his mouth that would not leave even after brushing his teeth, courtesy of the last session.

After Scout was released, Celes still felt guilty, like he didn't deserve to enjoy things, for he took away his dear cousin's chances of ever flying. He stopped wearing flower ornaments, he stopped wearing out-of-the-usual clothes, he stopped reading poems and making them and writing them with his favorite quill with his favorite cursive calligraphy. Celestino became the normal kid his parents wanted, and the sessions ended.

It was only when Celestino was 15 that him and Schuhansen finally met again after the hospital visits and had a talk, a talk about his guilt, and how Scout felt about his not-so-new-anymore handicap. He couldn't believe that his dear cousin didn't look like himself anymore. He might not be the brightes, but he knew Celes was gonna be sad forever if he lied to his heart. And to hell with what others thought!

When Celestino started NRC, he slowly started picking up his old habits again, falling in love for a second time with poetry, speaking in rhymes, joining the movie club, writing on fancy diaries with a fancy pen. Celes became himself. Even if he was effeminate, or people called him gay, at least he was true to himself, like his cousin told him to.

## Trivia

* Almost everyone calls him Celes, though he'd rather be called Celestino
* He keeps his works on different diaries he hides very well
* He uses his own feather as a quill