Age: 20
Other information: Cellmate of Zain in Platina. Demihuman with the appearance of an oni. Because of their appearance the majority of demihumans that look like him live in a village far from the walls of any city, but Razir had been living in the slums of Platina when he was arrested. Because most find his large and pointed teeth frightening, he wears a mask. In public he usually wears a wide brimmed hat to cover his horns and pointed ears. Last names are not a thing in the village he comes from, so he doesn't have one.
Bio: The eldest in a very large family that lives in a village hundreds of miles to the east of Platina. It's a known settlement to Silver, but because everyone that lives there are demonic in appearance, they tend to stay away from it out of disgust and fear. Because of this, Razir had a very different life than others in Silver and does not harbor any of the feelings of a usual Silver native and instead has a stoic and optimistic outlook on things as is common with the people of his village. Things were fortunate where he lived, and most people lived full and happy lives without much trouble.
Recently however, there have been a lot of missing persons cases. People were vanishing without any explanation or trace to suggest what may have happened or where they had gone. Knowing that the rest of the world didn't like them, his village feared that they were finally being targeted for some reason.
Determined to find an explanation, Razir set out for the capital while the rest of the village hunkered down to try and avoid any further cases from occurring. He had high hopes, as he had never actually interacted with any outsiders before and had never personally experienced discrimination. Of course, things went about as poorly as his parents warned him it would. Most everyone he approached would yell at him, throw things or hit him, or just plain run away.
What made things worse was that it was impossible to understand him because his jaw and mouth is misshapen from mutations and the dialect of Silver Common that his village spoke was thickly accented and accounted for their shared demihuman characteristics. He didn't even know that he was strange until he made it to Platina -- he'd only ever seen people that looked like him before, so why would he? As far as he was concerned, it was everyone else that looked weird. How could they even eat with such small mouths and flat teeth?
Still, he tried his best to fit in and make things work. He knew how to write, so he tried his best to cover his appearance and held up pre-written signs that asked if anyone knew how he could contact the leader of the nation. He didn't know anything about how Silver dealt with ruling over their homelands, but back at his village his dad just took of everyone. He figured that things must be somewhat similar, but his signs just made people even more confused.
Eventually a group of soldiers saw him and decided to arrest him for no other reason than the fact that they noticed what he looked like. They said something about him being suspected for thievery, but he knew it was just an excuse that they made up to justify it. He was self-sufficient enough that even without money he could find food of his own, but he did get weird looks for hunting things like squirrels and crows. It was normal food where he lived and a lot of the people in the slums were starving themselves, so it seemed pretty dumb that they thought he was the strange one...
Anyway, after getting thrown in a dungeon for a while and being treated like trash, he was eventually brought to a nicer prison located in a huge fancy building that he had never seen anything like before. His new friend in this surprisingly comfortable jail seemed to be an oddity himself, so Razir had no hesitation trying to befriend him. He has no idea why he was brought to this nice place considering he was arrested purely out of hatred to begin with, but he's a bit apprehensive because of it.
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