Amir

## Rajesh Muthaliar

(not drawn by me, only edited)

Amir is the protagonist of Vagrant. Amir is the son of Rajiv Muthaliar and Mina Muthaliar, he used to live with his parents and his brother Raja in the country of Saltzar. He has multiple names, Amir is the name given to him by Sarah Hajjar as no one knew his real name in Alsahriqa, Rajesh is his birthname paired with the name of his elder brother Raja, in Saltzar Amir also had the nickname Rai, which was informally used by most people.

## Appearance

Amir is well-built with black ruffled, braided hair with a warm ivory skin tone.  His eyes are a very grayish black. His iris also has a white crescent that changes shape depending on his mood *(This is a design choice that the weirder characters get)*. Amir also has scars, one noticeable one on his right hand and between his left shoulder and neck, together with many lighter ones over his body. He normally wears robes and wooden Geta sandals.

## Personality

Amir was originally a playful and curious kid, but as time passed and his father dying in war he became more foul-mouthed, stubborn and rebellious.  After the Wilds Invasion that went over his kingdom, he got the jumbled memories of nearly all people in the country, this caused him to become monotone, robot-like, not knowing anything about himself and incapable of making decisions. As he develops he becomes more decisive, manipulative and confident, caused by people around him.

## Conditions

* He has the memories of nearly every human in Saltzar.
* He is the host of a spirit.
* He is the host of a blighted spirit.

## Background

From a young age Amir was a cheerful and cheeky kid that aspired to join the army just like his father Rajiv Muthaliar and become a war hero. He used to have a small group of friends that he always played with. One of them was named Devi Prasad and was often seen together with him. One day he decided to go the ancient ruins outside Saltzar, which ended up with Devi following him. After exploring for a while Amir falls down a hill into a small grotto. He continued to explore the grotto and eventually found what looked like a hidden underground lake. Some hours had passed after he fell down and was found, in this grotto he had his first interaction with **----------------------**. Since then their group of friends periodically went to their secret cave.

After his father died in war the people around Amir came to pity him and his family, because of this he got too eager to follow in his father's and brother's footsteps. This ended with him becoming foul-mouthed, rebellious and aggressive, cause of this and his mother becoming more mentally ill and abusive he ended up getting kicked out of his home. Only two of his friends including Devi Prasad stayed with him during this duration.

When the Wilds Invasion came. His mother was away and his brother came rushing to escape with Amir, but they couldn't fully escape. As Amir got caught up in the Wilds Incursion he received the memories of nearly everyone in the country.

## Relationships

### Azhar Hajjar

Azhar acts as Amir's decisionmaker when he can't as he is the most mature out of all of them. Normally Amir walks besides Azhar when traveling as its convenient for the trio. Amir normally seeks approval from Azhar when he takes his actions. At first they didn't talk a lot to each other, but as time went on then talk about the most random things. Azhar doesn't show it, but he secretly gets proud of Amir and thinks of him like a little brother just like Sarah. He is travelling with Amir and Sarah.

### Devi Prasad

Devi was his best friend when Amir lived in Saltzar. Out of the 6 friends Amir had, only two of them including Devi regularly checked up on him while he was locked inside. Before Amir was banned from going outside. Devi was normally always seen near Amir and rarely on her own. She seemed indifferent to her friends, though she did like them.

### Raja Muthaliar

Before the incursion, Amir and Raja had a healthy relationship. Raja was the role model for Amir as they were both joining the army, he also constantly talked Amir and gave him money, but besides that they didn't see each other very much. After the Wilds Incursion Raja felt like Amir was haunting him as he wanted to move on from what happened.

### Sarah Hajjar

The name Amir has been given to him by Sarah, she acts like a dependable and mature big sister figure that overly spoils him, although it isn't even sure that she's older than him. At first Amir lets her do anything she wants to him and also follows her around, but later on he resists a bit more. He also copies what she says once in a while which ends with Azhar getting harassed by not only Sarah, but also Amir. She is travelling with Amir and Azhar.

## Equipment

### Improvised incendiary

Amir always has 4+ self made incendiary grenades that he makes with anything he can find, for example: tree sap, dried leaves and peat which he ignites by compressing and increasing heat.

### Modified Geta

Amir wears a pair of wooden Geta, his right one is modified with a blade which springs out of the front, if he slides the gear,. It's poorly made and has a chance to fail as its improvised.

## Abilities & Fighting style

### Memories

Due to the many memories Amir has received, he has a lot of knowledge about travel, exploration, caving, leadership, chemistry, ect, but also martial arts, which include mostly boxing, wrestling, grappling, one handed sword and polearm styles, though he doesn't use them very well as he hasn't professionally trained before and every memory had different opinions and habits.

### Blighted spirit

Due to Amir's blighted spirit, he has heightened senses to a level higher than every day animals. He also eventually gains the ability to harden parts of body and do slight body transmutations, such as growing his nails. Unlike most blighted spirit hosts, Amir can still get poisoned very easily which is his biggest weakness, and cannot regenerate as fast as most. This is because his blighted spirit is mostly being used to manage his head and memories, so he can function.

### Spirit

Amir's spirit allows him to control the pressure he creates with his body. This means increasing the force by decreasing area of effect and the reverse. This gives him various options that he utilizes: Hitting an opponent by hitting another object, stronger punching force, ignoring defenses, make his hits slice and even compress which generates heat. By generating heat, Amir is capable of burning, melting  and even vaporizing. He uses this to ignite his incendiaries. He can also more than double his running speed and jumping strength by changing his forces of nature's directions and making them him propulse his direction. This is all difficult to perform and can be dangerous, this means he usually doesn't do this.

## Motivations & Goals

Opening up the world

Granting the wishes of the ones helping him.

## **Likes & Dislikes**

###### Prologue

He likes knights, ruins, festivals. He dislikes stables,  mushrooms, bees.

###### Later

He likes ruins, thrill, tinkering. He dislikes irrationality, mushrooms, bees.

## Trivia

* The male side of Amir's family has the trait of having the nickname Rai with their companions. Rajesh, Raja, Rajiv all start with Raj which is changed into Rai.
* The meaning of 'Rajesh' is ruler of kings, which is a hint to a few key moments in the story such as Raja's (which means king) and Amir's (Rajesh) relationship and his personality.