Character Name: Orpheus Usher Raymond.
Nickname: Usher, Ori.
Age: Thirty-Four.
Gender: Male
Grade: Teacher
Subject: Poetry.
Race: Sea Monster
Play-by: Usher.
Appearance:

Orpheus is well built, muscled, with defined abs and pecs and just about any other muscle you can think of. He stands at an even 5’8, and he weighs in at 175 pounds. He’s dark in complexion, a dark chocolate skin tone that woos all the girls, and lures them in even better with the combination of his dark brown, nearly black eyes. He’s all chocolate, all sweet and spicy at the same time, ladies, and he’s all open. He works out often, dancing when he isn’t working out, and teaching before he does the remaining three. His features are expressive, a full mouth and the typical nose and facial configurations of the African American race. He can often be found with an easy smile upon his face, luring others into believing that’s all he is, playful, not outgoing, really, but calm and laid back to be sure.

His hair is often kept very short, or maybe within an inch of his scalp or so. It’s often hard to tell how long his hair really is, because it’s always in tight curls close to his skull, neat and rather easy to keep clean. Not that he really worries over that so much, keeps it buzzed close to his head, the curls an inky black color. As far as facial hair goes, he often interchanges between growing a beard, 5 o’clock shadow, and no facial hair. It isn’t every day that he chooses the same thing, so he likes mixing it up. For scars, he has multitudes. Thankfully most are so old they don’t show up very obviously against his pale skin, but if one were to look closely, they would see the multitudes crisscrossing his entire torso, his back and arms, legs too. They left nothing out when they were testing him.

The sea monster has a few main scars as well, but those are more from later on in life, a fight or two that he got into, some even from just accidents around his home. His scars are in numbers, also accounting to the fact that a lot of his scars aren’t noticeable. He has a small black star between his thumb and index finger on each hand, a black tribal design on his left shin, a break dancer on his right shin, his name, Usher, tattooed in bold graffiti on his left bicep. He’s currently working on getting a full sleeve done, as well as he has the name Tiana tattooed on his upper left calf, and a tattoo on the left side of his neck. That’s not to say he won’t get any more, and in fact probably will. He also has two piercings, one in each ear, always, when he has them in, using diamond studs. He also has the tendency to wear a multitude of accessories, a watch, odd necklaces that have meanings only to himself, and overall he always has some form of assortment of rings on as well.

Kraken Form

Personality:

• Poetic.
  • As befitting his choice of teaching subject, Usher is poetic. He sees the beauty in everything around him and never fails to appreciate it through use of words and other imagery devices. He loves putting words to feelings and thoughts, expressing them in the best of ways, even as he knows that not everything can be explained or described through words. He also strongly believes in emotions, in following his heart while also remaining true to his mind, for while he follows his emotions, which come from the heart, he also endeavors to follow his mind too, to further prevent anything happening to him, to make sure no one takes advantage of him, takes him back to that place he’d been at before.
  
  
• Romantic.
  • He’s such a hopeless romantic. Except, as a sort of odd twist, he also makes sure not to fumble blindly into just any relationship. Sure, he believes in, and hopes for a happily ever after, and he knows that the possibilities of getting one are slim, at least one that stays with him for the rest of his life, but he also knows that he’ll be happy with his mate no matter how long he would have her. Because he also believes in finding them in another life, and that when they die, he only has to wait and look before he can find them again. That’s not to say Usher hasn’t had his fair share of fumbles as far as relationships go. Being a famous artist doesn’t make it easy to find the right woman, and too many times to count he’s been fooled and tricked into thinking she’s the right one, only to discover she isn’t. But he refuses to give up, knowing she is out there, somewhere, there for him.
  
  
• Playful.
  • Some might call it flirtatious, but really, he’s playful. Orpheus is utterly playful, adoring a good joke and a good laugh, taking any chance he can to smile and brighten the day up with his crooked grin. He doesn’t often take the flirtatious way unless he’s surer of the woman, but he does like that sort of play, so long as they’re good friends, and know that he almost always means nothing of it. He’s had too many mess ups to make it mean something. So you’d more often than not find him playing some form of sport, usually basketball or a game of football with his buddies, something casual, laid back, sometimes even pool, or a game of poker or two. He doesn’t care what happens, he just knows that laughing is good for the soul.
  
  
• Sweet.
  • Usher is a complete sweetheart. He does the sweetest things sometimes, such as helping a woman cross the street should she be blind or disabled, or even to the larger things, such as helping someone financially. He’s always ready to be there for someone, ready to support them and do whatever he can for them any time of the day. He’s well known to the public as being a philanthropist, donating money to various charities around the world, though mainly focusing on the orphanages and the funds for the younger children in need of medical help or any other form of aid. He’s all too aware of what it’s like to lose one’s parents, and he doesn’t intend to sit back and watch as the days pass and kids go through what he did.
  
  
• Calm/Shy.
  • He doesn’t actually go out there and socialize all that often because he wants to, surprisingly enough. The sea monster is actually quite shy, believing himself better off on his own, with only a select few friends and confidants. He’s very laid back as well, which contributes to his not really getting out there and doing more. He isn’t quick to anger, would rather avoid confrontation, even though he’s well versed in the ways of fighting dirty and using the environment to his advantage, but he doesn’t like using those skills.
  
  
• Loyal.
  • As sweet and shy as he is, this man is loyal until the end. Being saved as a child and nursed back to health proved to him what loyalty truly meant, and for that he will never forget the woman who did save him, and he will never forget what it means to truly be loyal. Without hesitating he’d give every last breath in his body to take care of someone, to keep someone he cares for safe, even if it were some random citizen, he would die knowing that he’d done well, and that he’d saved a life, though his own was forfeit. Other than that, really you don’t want to cross the line of his family and those he includes as part of his family.
  
  
• Knightly.
  • As loyal as Usher is, he’s just as knightly, putting others before himself, ensuring their happiness before his own, even as he strives to be his best, do his best in order to best achieve those goals. He doesn’t believe in giving up, nor does he believe in the word impossible. Now, he isn’t necessarily old time knightly, but he does believe in good morals, in good and bad, in doing good in order to have a good life. Well, he could be called superstitious as well because of it, as he sure does believe a veritable hoard of things, folklore and tales spun to explain the unexplainable, and he doesn’t mind that being gallant is one of them.
  
  
• Actor.
  • Despite everything known about him, Usher knows that his public appearance means everything to his career. As such he’s kept his slate clean, spotless even, despite his numerous relationships, those are expected, and in all such cases he was never really the culprit in them, despite numerous people saying otherwise. He’s learned over time to exude confidence, to believe in himself in order to show others that he can be that hero figure they look up to, he can be that celeb that won’t fail, won’t fall from his mighty, high pedestal.

History:

Usher was born as all krakens were, in the sea, although one difference started his life off and showed he was determined to have trouble. His mother’s pregnancy was a painful one, carrying her children through the long gestation carefully, determinedly, but in the end, she lost all five children except for him, the sixth, and last child. His parents had almost given up by the time he came, and when he did he became their world. Because of their loss, his parents coddled him, spoiled him and kept him close, being extremely careful with where he went and who he was with, because they knew the dangers of the world, and knew that he wasn’t going to last long if he ended up going out on his own somehow.

He wasn’t very old, perhaps eight or nine in human years when he was out paroling for food with his parents, and they found the oil spill. A massive tanker had been so foolish as to hit against a roaming iceberg, and scraped a massive hole in its side, spilling oil everywhere. Thousands of fish and other aquatic animals were sickened, hundreds died, and his father was poisoned, taken down by the poisonous oil, lost forever because of the effects of careless humans, thus marking the beginning of his life of turmoil and pain at the hands of humans. He and his mother managed to escape, because his mother had saved him, but couldn’t get to his father in time.

Usher and his mother swam away then, becoming even more reclusive, even more careful and restricting to his chances at freedom and excitement. So one day, when his mother was napping, he made his escape, thinking only to go out, explore a little. Well, he came too close to the surface, and was spotted. Thinking he was a giant squid, the researchers that had happened to be out on the ocean that day captured him in a net and dragged him in, only when they pulled a sopping wet adolescent from the water, they knew he was no ordinary boy. Thus began his life of testing. He was tested on for years, until he was thirteen, when a guardian angel, his guardian angel, came and rescued him.

By that time he was underweight, massively so, weakened and constantly oozing blood from dozens upon dozens of wounds that were far bigger in his true form. The femme that rescued him took him up to heaven, nursing him back to health even as he grew to learn about kindness for the first time in over five years. He grew to love heaven, loving the atmosphere and lack of all those bad emotions, the anger, the hate, the violence, everything was gone. But one day, his savior, a woman named Tiana, told him he had to leave, that he couldn’t stay, and he would forever describe it as: “I saw a glimpse of heaven, but I was told I couldn’t stay.”

After leaving heaven, he retreated in on himself, going to school and making his way through life, beginning his singing career in choirs and then eventually forming a quartet at his high school, gaining higher and higher recognition until he got a record deal, and found himself making albums. He’s been doing so for a good long time now, and he plans to do so for a good while longer, making money and being the best he can be for his mother and father, for Tiana, his angel. One thing he retains from his youth however, is when in times of great stress, he withdraws into himself, and is a selective mute, though there is no exception around humans and doctors, he just doesn’t talk.

Not long into his singing career, he kept it up, but took up a teaching job in Atlantis, before transferring a few years later to Cry High, hoping to continue his singing career as well as teaching, something he enjoys doing greatly.

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