SEN, ibraheem "gold" n.

If anything, Gold is fairly sure his nickname would be his true name. Ibraheem after all, is not a name he is familiar with. He has not been called anything but Gold for the past nine years, and to be called by his real name (if what Idris suggests is true) is a strange feeling. Besides, he prefers 'Gold' above anything else.

fourteen.

male

pet. {he might have been born a feral but he only spent a few scant years in the outskirts before the HHS took him in. Now, he is quite content serving Master Nicholas--anything else seems strange and foreign.}

demisexual. {He's too busy right now to worry about something so silly as romance. But if he had to like anything? He's fairly sure it'd be Nicholas. Does that make him Nicholas-sexual? Gold doesn't really know...but that sounds about right....

Either way, Gold is definitely too busy to worry about romance...but if someone nice were to come along well, Gold isn't adverse to trying to start up a romance. As long as they don't get between him and Master Nicholas of course.}

ja'far, magi (young)

A rather quiet individual, Gold is more prone to worried frowns then smiles and is single minded when it comes loyalty. He tends to be overprotective of his friends, guarding them with an almost fanatical fervor and as such, is sometimes teased about this. He is fairly good-natured, with a sense of humor that is buried somewhere deep down beneath his quiet exterior.

He dislikes fighting but isn't afraid to start one if it means protecting those he considers friends. He constantly fears that Nicholas, both his master and perhaps his best (and currently only) friend, will get tired of him, and as such, he tends to try to be more protective than usual (sometimes smothering the other boy in the process without meaning to) as if he can somehow prolong what he fears to be the inevitable.

He is loyal to a fault, often putting other's wishes above his and does not value his life as much as he should. He tends to have more of a means justify the ends sort of mindset, and is not afraid to dirty his hands if he believes the outcome will be worth it.

Coupled with his somewhat gullible mindset and his stubborn nature, this causes his morals to be somewhat loose.

Standing at a rather meek 5'4", Gold has a fairly thin build. Not prone to bulking up, he is rather limber, and in the nature of most snakes, is much stronger than he looks.

He has pale hair, almost white in color along with golden eyes that oft times look green in his more pensive moments. Scales dot the sides of his cheeks and along his neck, as well as down his spine. There are also scaled patches on his hands, arms, legs and feet--most of the same soft white-gold hue as his hair.

Gold doesn't know much of his history-most of what he remembers are events of the past few years. Everything before that? A blur. Still, from what Idris, his so called brother has told him, Gold was born to two feral cobras in the outskirts and it was on his fourth birthday, when Idris had been out, that a hybrid collector had attacked.

Apparently, Gold was lost during the panic, and picked up by the hybrid collector and taken to a local humane society. Gold vaguely remembers something like that, so he supposes Idris is probably telling him the truth.

After all, he has a blurry recollection of being in a building for a while-apparently exotic breeds took longer to adopt (special permits or so Gold thinks) but Gold is fairly sure he was adopted a year after he was put on display by the Goldsbloom family in the hopes that having a cobra would give them an edge in the pit fights.

Unfortunately, once they was found out that Gold hadn't had his venom sacs removed from his mouth and as such, was still quite venomous, he was found to be too much a danger during the spars, much less the fights themselves, and within two years of his adoption, he was sent back to a hybrid shelter, this time the HHS. Besides, who really wanted to see a spar where the fighter spat at someone? Most didn't really.

After that, Gold is pretty sure he was set up for adoption once more, and once it became apparent that few were willing to adopt a cobra, there were talks of him being euthanized as he was taking up space and the HHS couldn't spend more money on him then they had to. Gold had heard rumors after all, and as such, became a little panicked. Nobody wants to be euthanized after all. Least of all Gold. Of course this of course was all halted by a meeting that Gold felt changed his life forever.

Because that was when Nicholas walked in, peered in his cage, and without a bat of an eyelash, threw a tantrum right then and there that he be allowed the rights to Gold. And as abrupt as it might have been, Gold can't help but remember the gleam in the other boy's eyes as he overheard the attendants of the HHS murmuring about his fate moments before moments before the impromptu fit. And so, whether Nicholas is aware of it or not (though Gold's fairly sure that the other boy is aware of it) Nicholas saved his life. And whether the act was intentional or not, well he's got Gold's loyalty forever even though he was only ten when it happened.

Besides, Nicholas is the one who named him, who gave him purpose. And shouldn't Gold be thankful for that?

cerasri

oscar goldsbloom, lionel tablot, & xerxes