Alhaitham ✦

Name: Alhaitham Age: 25 Gender: Male Appearance: Alhaitham is a tall man with a well-defined build, and stands at 6'3" tall or 191 cm tall. He has short gray hair with faint green highlights at the end of the hair strands and light turquoise eyes with orange-ringed yellow pupils. He possesses a customized set of earpieces that regulate the ambient noise and volume around him that is connected via wire to his Refractive Vision, a gemstone attached to the side of his belt. He wears a diamond-patterned green vest over a tailored white dress shirt with long sleeves and a frilled collar. Over this top, he has a half cape of teal and green shades draped over his left shoulder, and he wears gray slacks and black dress shoes.

Personality: When people meet Alhaitham for the first time, they have the immediate impression that he's an arrogant genius that gives off know-it-all energy. However, they couldn't be any further away from his actual personality. Alhaitham is indeed an intelligent individual, often seen reading through various books that would be too difficult for most to read. Instead of how people view him as arrogant and being a know-it-all, he is actually just blunt and answers people's questions in an unbiased way. In truth, he doesn't really care about the specific details and motivations coming from other people, and vice versa with how he doesn't care about how people perceive him. Despite holding the position of a prominent Candelagraphos member of the Intelligentsia Guild, Alhaitham never sought for high positions of power and authority, because he hates how such titles overcomplicate things as well as having more unnecessary work that he doesn't want to do. He seeks a balance between having a leisurely life and doing just enough work (or pretending that he's doing work) to make an excuse to not interact with people. The ultimate reason why Alhaitham goes through all of this to get time to himself, is simply because it's easier for him to think and go about his life without any excess noise that would otherwise make him lose his focus. He understands that people can mistake his intense focus on his thoughts to be him outright ignoring them on purpose, and this is reinforced by how he uses his headphones to tune out the sounds around him for himself. Introverted thinking aside, Alhaitham doesn't outright ignore his responsibilities and the goodwill of the general population. Though he makes it clear that he doesn't want to get overly involved in the lives of other people, but rather point them in the direction that they think is best for them. As shown with his general dislike to titles and formal etiquette, Alhaitham puts everyone on equal value, and doesn't discriminate or show bias. He only focuses on substantial objective observations or commonly known facts of life to make his two cents known to others. One of the few things he does have an opinion on is regarding humanity and the state of human nature, which interests him to a certain degree due to how there isn't a concrete answer to a complex concept as humanity. Alhaitham sounds bluntly serious and stoic most of the time, so it's a surprise for some to see that he has a sarcastic streak with how he makes jabs at those he is close with. Though because of his tone of voice, it can be easily mistaken as not a joke, and usually results with the person on the receiving end to become upset at him. For a person perceived to be difficult to get along with, Alhaitham can be a reliable ally and friend depending on the situation, they'll just need to break through the initial hoop that is him tuning them out to focus on his academic interests. As he focuses more on this intellectual pursuits, Alhaitham is never seen being too overly social, much so to the point that he represses those unbridled and unbecoming desires within his mind.

Abilities: Alhaitham is experienced with wielding a sword, and has above average stamina compared to the average scholar from the Intelligentsia Guild. He possesses access to a personalized Curio-centric device called a Refractive Vision, which appears like a green jeweled attachment to his belt. It is connected to the custom-made earpieces on his person, and it allows his own intricate thinking to freely manipulate and materialize solidified mirrored glass fragments that can take the shape of a sword or other weaponized projectiles. As an extension of his own mental capacity, it has a tendency to tire out Alhaitham when he is to use his Refractive Vision, even if it looks like he hasn't exerted himself physically.

Backstory: Alhaitham is a scholar associated with the Intelligentsia Guild's Candelagraphos branch, best known for his tendency to avoid being involved in ongoing and urgent projects that would come up from time to time. Despite his work on enabling a highly valuable Curio that was originally from the Herta Space Station's massive collection to work for himself, Alhaitham practically has no desire to involve himself with the boastful member of the Genius Society, or even thinking about any loaded offers from the overarching IPC. As long as it does not involve any high expectations or obligations, Alhaitham typically sticks to his own routine, open to discuss academics with individuals such as Veritas Ratio for example. Currently, he chose to temporarily board the Astral Express to both avoid such needless offers from the IPC and to get some inspiration that could come out of the Trailblaze's journey. Apparently this is an ongoing habit in his strict daily routine.