#panalkhanalazraq

AL-KHAN AL-AZRAQ

Name: Charles 'Charlie' Gano

Age: 49

Gender: cis man, he/him

Power: illusion

FC: Omar Sy

You were supposed to set an example, to be the voice of a generation, to be an inspiration to others. Your parents gave you a better chance, they fled their land for you. That way you could become whatever you wanted to be. And for their sakes, and the sake of the whole community, you’d be the best possible person. You’d be friendly, you wouldn’t cheat, you’d study every moment of the day that you could study. But you feared being a disappointment, so you hid all your failures. You’d request no second chances, you’d take responsibility for mistakes but you’d grow more and more wary that they might happen again. You had rivalries with other students, but it only made you more like them. Ready to throw someone else under the bus for your own gain. You almost do it, you almost destroy someone else’s career to further your own. Until you realise the person you’re bringing down is exactly like you. You’re fighting someone who is also trying to be an inspiration. While you were busy destroying yourself and someone like you, others took advantage, and the bright future you saw for yourself - that your parents and all your fans saw for you too - was now further away than ever. So you fled away from home, decided to start your occupation elsewhere, away from their eyes, but always in contact with them. To show them how good your life was. And your ex-wife went along with it, and your children, and eventually those illusions were real enough that there wasn’t much to lie about anymore. Except for that very small thing: you never told them you got divorced. And you really planned to explain it all to them, really, but was it so terrible that life had other plans for you? Whisking you away to some fantastical island?

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