💀 * [ avan jogia + demiboy + he/they ] —— have you met salem kothari? they are a twenty-six year old senior currently studying criminology. they live on keating house, and word around campus is that this leo is passionate + charismatic, as well as impulsive + obsessive. i wonder if they’ll make it out alive. a lone mattress in an empty apartment, salt-water taffy and binging true crime documentaries. [ ooc: opossum. 18. she/they & est. ]
— i’m back AGAIN w another muse. this is salem and he’s 100% the best. he’s a goober. but without further ado, lemme tell u about them. he’s still a wip bc i made him on a whim, but this is the bare bones. also this is shitty bc i’m Tired and don’t know how 2 write
TW; parental death, eating disorder, depression
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𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 : salem jay kothari 𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗦 : sully, sal, moth - man 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 : demiboy 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗦 : he / they 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛 : august 4th, 1995 𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 : six foot and three inches 𝗦𝗘𝗫𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 : pansexual / panromantic 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗡 : fargo, north dakota
salem was raised by his grandmother due to his parents dying in a car accident pretty young. he didn’t get to know them, but he wishes he did. they were both detectives with a love for cold cases. his mother was a sucker for the salem witch trials; and thus that’s how salem got their name.
from what he’s learned from his grandma, his parents were always on the move. living out of a backpack and traveling from place to place. they were private detectives that liked to deal with the supernatural ( think ed and lorraine warren ), and his grandmother has a lot of their creepy knick - knacks from their findings in her house
from a young age, salem loved to soak up knowledge. they loved reading every book their hands could get on, and watching crime docs or reading true crime books was how their days were spent.
salem was a very smart and bright kid, excelling greatly in his academics. he graduated high school with honours and as his classes valedictorian. it was very easy to like salem, pretty much everybody in the school was his friend. he was the kind of person you could easily strike up a conversation with while you sit together awkwardly in the library together, and he’d make you feel at ease because of that. we all knew that kind of kid in our school
despite being a great kid with tons of dreams, salem had their own demons. struggling with an eating disorder and a deep depression, salem honestly didn’t even think they’d make it to the end of high school.
but their push was in their grandmother, and she was what gave salem the strength to keep going; especially when she started to get sicker. salem knew he had to get his shit together, it was like a slap in the face by reality.
and so salem strived and he strived for a scholarship here to holloway. his grandmother told him he could never do it, that it seemed insane to even try. but he got the scholarship, and with a little bit of money in his pocket, he resides in keating house. but he likes to bring joy to all of his dormmates and the entire campus. pushing his demons down and keeping that persona for the cameras.
he had never been outside of fargo, and so leaving home was... super scary. it was more than scary, actually. downright terrifying. but his grandmother hushed him and held him, and told him she would always be with him. and she was always just a cellphone call away
salem owns a bunch of those weird baseball caps. like the ‘women want me, fish fear me’ ‘bigfoot is real and he tried to eat my ass’ ‘in dog years, i’m dead’ he LOVES collecting them. he’s got a hat for every occasion
speaking of bigfoot, salem is a hug believer in shit like that. aliens, cryptids, ghosts—EVERYTHING. moth - man is his boyfriend
he’s got the energy of shane madej from buzzfeed unsolved ( ahem where is his ryan bergara ??? )
he’s currently studying criminology and hopes to one day be a forensic science technician
when the m*rders started happening here, salem took it upon himself to start investigating shit. he wants to get to the bottom of all of this and it just !! intrigues him so much. he hopes he can make his parents proud of him by showing interest in this kind of stuff
he has a bearded dragon named chibs, because he’s a sucker for sons of anarchy. they love that show so damn much
sends a lot of his money back home to his grandma, and works as a barista at the local coffee shop on his off - days
also likes to play volleyball in the warm seasons, and hockey in the cold seasons. can get a bit competitive if you play against him or with him. takes everything a little too seriously
LOVES to make impulse buys. that’s how he got all his damn baseball caps
travels across campus with his trusty skateboard, you can never ever see them without it tbh
