Appearance:

Short, golden hair with narrow, clear blue eyes, Rion is average height (albeit a little short) and build for one his age. He usually conveys a somber, moody look that makes him seem distant from a crowd. Not to mention he rarely ever laughs or smiles.

He usually wears collars, and colors of reds and blacks and whites. His left ear is also pierced by a silver loop earring.

Personality:

Rion doesn’t like people messing with him. Period. He rarely if ever at all tolerates people picking on or hurting him, and is known to have violent fits when they do. His temperamental demeanor doesn’t accommodate him any in anyone’s social circle, and he rarely gets close to anyone, thus he does have trouble making friends.

Rion is also known to overexerting his own limits. Occasionally he’ll be stricken with excruciating migraines that will normally leave him feeling drained, lethargic. He doesn’t let much of anything stop him, though. He’ll often exhaust himself to the point of unconsciousness without a complaint. For this reason, it’s obvious that he doesn’t hold that much care for his own well-being. He hates asking for favors, he won’t accept charity, and he’s often very dubious towards other’s acts of kindness (possibly due to what he experienced at Michelangelo Memorial Hospital).

Sometimes he can be protective over the people or things he cares about—or what few of them have existed. His failures to do so, however, have left a deep-seated scar in him that has led him to turn to other certain outlets. Rion’s morals are twisted and obscure. If you hurt him, he’ll hurt you back, and doesn’t think twice before resorting to self-defense.

Over the past few years Rion has grown attached to a plethora of illegal drugs, to the point of addiction. He seeks to get away from horror by doing so, but even then they tend to haunt him in the form of monsters and assailants.

Due to drug-related delusions, Rion has been convinced before that he is a Galerian with psychokinetic abilities, although he sometimes chooses to deny that he is anything like “them” (the other children). He’s also developed a frightening fascination with fire due to the drug, Red. As a side effect of the drugs he feels nothing, completely numbed to the dismay that he’s killed people during his long stay at Memorial Hospital...as well as his attempted escape from the facility.

Aggressive tendencies aside, Rion can also be rather mature and introspective for someone his age. Almost disturbingly so.

History:

For the most part, Rion had a pleasant early childhood, though he was always a fairly somber, overly serious kid with virtually no friends—save for a girl who was the daughter of his father’s colleague. He also sort of got along with his twin brother, Cain, though as the two got older they sort of grew further apart.

His father was a successful computer engineer and his mother a doctor, which meant they lived comfortably in a reasonably large manor.

However, Rion’s father got himself in a bind at work. Using Rion as a courier for special data when he was only seven, the boy began to experience severe migraines and horrific nightmares. He rarely ever slept. What his brother’s thoughts on this, are unknown.

Eventually something happened at work, causing his father’s colleague to flee, separating Rion and his childhood friend when they were twelve. His nightmares progressively worsened over the next few months, until he started having “visions” of dark men in black coats and hats stalking the house. The effects also caused him to lose bits of memories of his brother as well. In order to cope with the pain and unable to sleep for days on end, his father started giving him medication of shady origins from the Memorial Hospital.

Days later, someone had snuck into the manor, shot Rion’s father, and brutally murdered his mother while she had hid in the bathroom (signs that they had been viciously tortured both mentally and physically were evident after further investigations of the murders). Rion had been sleeping at the time. When woken by their screams, he hid away under the bed, dreading the force of his parent’s murderer still within the house. At one point he caught sight of the killer’s silhouette sweeping from one end of the doorway to the next, only to glide right by, as if never interested in the child’s bedroom.

Cain was nowhere in sight.

When Rion walked out, he found himself alone. His father was in the attic, buried under a pile of boxes and books. His mother had been stuffed in a fridge with a clock stuck between her teeth. The incident has left something of a mental wound on the boy.

Authorities found only Rion in the house, alone, covered in the blood of his dead parent’s. At first he refused to leave them, but then Rion went into a state of shock.

With Cain gone, Rion forgot he even had a brother altogether.

Since the long string of murders at his father’s work, Rion had been admitted into Michelangelo Memorial Hospital where he fell under the wing of a scientist (and possible colleague of his late father’s) who performed experiments on him. Suffering too much from the effects of posttraumatic stress, Rion made a suitable, submissive subject for experimentation. Due to his mental condition, there’s not a whole lot he can remember of his time at Memorial Hospital.

Within a few weeks after being there, Rion began to find himself disturbed by voices rousing him from his unfathomable nightmares. Nightmares which came to him in the night as murderous pale men in black coats and hats, coming to kill him. On top of that, he had also been convinced by the Memorial Hospital staff that his real parents were, in truth, fake.

Of the long list of drugs Rion became addicted to were Nalcon and Red. Over the three years he had spent at the hospital, Rion grew more dependant on them, the experiences and numbness they brought. Little by little he forgot his parents as well, until the only thing he had left of them were fragmented images that frequented their visits in the form of bad dreams.

Like many of the other lab rats undergoing the same treatment, Rion as well started having flashes of a supercomputer named Dorothy, otherwise known as “Mother”. Least, that’s what the other children called her.

Influenced by the heavier doses of drugs, he developed strange memories of a boy who looked exactly like him, to which Rion started believing was really dead, and had died in that same house with his parents. He created more memories involving his own brutal murder, where his killer had chopped him into little pieces and stuffed into the mattress of his own bed. In addition, Rion had delusions that he was a clone of the real Rion who had been murdered, the details becoming so grotesque and elaborate that his tale was almost convincing.

Among the foster children that had put within Memorial Hospital’s “care”, Rion, too, had been sent along with the lot to another location. However, due to improper treatment and supervision, Rion began attacking the staff members during his attempt to escape, leaving a blood-soaked trail of events behind.

For awhile, Rion had been on the run, until he was discovered by local law enforcement in a small, snowy village elsewhere in Europe. The boy had been instantly detained. Upon finding that he was by far too dangerous to others (and possibly himself), authorities deemed it unwise to send him to an orphanage among other children. Instead, they transferred him to Ravenshold Hospital in Canada, where he was checked in by a social worker. Much to his misfortune, however, some of Rion’s nightmares have managed to follow, stalking him in their dark coats and pale skin. He wonders sometimes that no matter how many drugs he takes, he’ll never have the power to ward them off.

Drugged up and profoundly troubled, reality has never quite been right for the boy.

Symptoms:

Like some of the other children subjected to the various drugs, Rion experiences migraines which will render him screaming in agony. A serious drug addict, even for one of his age. (Drug abuse.) With signs of scarring and bruises, if child abuse is not evident at any point in his life, then it’s definitely neglect. (Child abuse.)

Though Rion outwardly denies his involvement with the other “Galerians”, he is no doubt just like them, showing the same symptoms and the same delusions as the other children. In a way, that’s his method of coping with the terror he deals with daily. Deep down he believes in the things his drug-induced hallucinations tell him. (Folie à deux.)

Usually he’s pretty quiet, though sometimes he can be extremely violent when provoked, especially when it comes to subjects such as family based on having seen them murdered. (Posttraumatic stress disorder.)

Lastly, due to the drugs Rion experiences bouts of memory loss. Some are worse than others. At times he will forget people and events altogether, even twisting events in his mind to a certain degree. (Anterograde amnesia.)

Previous Prescriptions

(Injection) Nalcon, Red, D-Felon, SKIP.

(Medication) Delmetor, Apollinar. 

Relationships

(Will work on this later.)