Salem



Salem is an Elemental originally from Okeanos Empire.

Appearance
Salem is a petite boy with dark skin and hair. He mostly sticks out for being covered in cuts and burn marks, as well as his missing left hand. Both his body language and expression show how afraid and paranoid he is every waking moment.

Personality
Salem doesn't have much of a personality left. He's usually anxious and paranoid, believing he has go back to the "terrible place". Still, when spending time with Mitja parts of his old self show: an intelligent and witty boy.

Story
Salem grew up on the Aleae Islands together with his overprotective big brothers, always keeping an eye on their much smaller sibling. Still, at age 20 Salem got abducted by Elemental Traders and sold to a man with an oilve tree plantation to work as a housekeeper together with two other girls. Even on the plantation itself all workers shared the same fate: each and every single one of them were slaves, treated badly by their master.

Despite the bad situation all slaves got along and Salem even befriended the two other maids and one slave on the plantation, Rex. Eventually both fell in love and started a secret but obvious relationship. Wanting to take care of Rex Salem kept stealing high-class food from his master to give his boyfriend. Clumsy as he is he got caught many times, resulting in punishment. Still, he didn't give up and tried it again and again until his master was fed up by Salem's behaviour. He cut off Salem's left hand as punishment and sold him to an organisation taking in "useless" slaves to be cheaply rented to people with sick desires.

Salem spend three months there, having various people cripple both his mind and body. He already gave up on everything until he met Mitja, a poor boy desperate to exprience love and rented him for intimate services. Being delusional and overwhelmed Mitja decided to run away with Salem, who agreed to follow him anywhere to escape his current life.

Mitja
Mitja is the boy who rented Salem and believes he fell in love with him the same day. Salem sees him as a friend and is thankful for everything Mitja does for him, but can't love him back. In fear of him leaving Salem alone if he doesn't feel the same for him he pretends to be his loving boyfriend, doing anything Mitja asks for. He does feel bad about playing with his feelings though, treating Mitja with care.

Rex
Rex was Salem's first boyfriend. He misses and worries about him but knows that he will never see him again.

Papa
His pimp. He considers Salem to be his favorite rental slave and wants him back with him. He insits on Salem calling him Papa.

Trivia

 * Salem loves singing and dancing, doing it a lot for the other slaves back at the plantation. Even know he misses his old hobby.
 * Both his brothers are older, taller and wider than him. He's the smallest in his close family.
 * The way his body looks now pains him.