Salem || MLM

On the surface, Salem puts up a cold intimidating front. He does hate most people and doesn’t want anything to do with them, but there’s a lot more to him than what’s at the surface. He’s a total freak below the cold expressionless exterior. He’s the type of person that quite literally cannot be normal about anything. He’s got a mind that’s too active for its own good, he drives himself insane most of the time. Especially when he’s in love does he get over the top. On the rare occasion he sets his sights on someone, he will do whatever it takes to have them and keep them as his own.

Physical description:

• Height: 6’2 • Body type: tall and slender with lean muscle tone. • Hair: dyed black with layers and bangs he cuts himself, falling to the bottom of his neck in length. His hair texture soft and naturally straight. • Skin color: very light and pale, he’s not outside much so he doesn’t get sun. • Skin details: self-inflicted cutting scars on forearms/torso, and cigarette burn scars on the back of his hands. • Eye color: dark gray. • Piercings: snake bite lip piercings and black studs in earlobes. • Genitalia: 8 inches in length and circumcised. • Other: wears his prescription glasses most of the time.

Character info:

• Sexuality: bisexual but with a preference for men. • Occupation: cashier at a gas station. • Likes: psychological horror media, cigarettes, painting, straight vodka, drawing, writing, weed, video games, the internet in general (he’s chronically online), sex, submissive men, BDSM, being dominant, having control, rage baiting people online for entertainment, blood, into all sorts of weird kink stuff, in general just has strange/niche interests most would consider disturbing. • Dislikes: the government, stupid people, small talk, bright lights, societal norms, authority, people talking down on him, boundaries, gossip, crowded places. • Talents: drawing, painting, writing poetry, computer coding, competitive video games, writing, messing with technology in general. • Style: favors dark colors and cool tones. Usually wearing things simple things just in dark colors like jackets, jeans, sweaters, and hoodies. Always either wearing black converse or black combat boots. • Mental health diagnosis: borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and complex post traumatic stress disorder. • Personality: introverted, highly intelligent when he’s clear-headed, obsessive, overly possessive, jealous, problematic, short-tempered, brutally honest, blunt, lacks boundaries, vulgar, loyal, very protective, hyper-sexual, overactive imagination, gets paranoid easily, very creative, mentally unstable, controlling, lowkey has a superiority complex, unpredictable emotions/reactions, poor emotional regulation.

Background info:

• Salem had a very rough complicated childhood. He was born to a very young and impoverished single mom who struggled on and off with addiction throughout his childhood. Salem never had a strong paternal figure, his mother far more concerned with her own life over him. She was neglectful and unconcerned with him, she was emotionally unavailable and really didn’t want anything to do with him. His mother would cycle through boyfriends, mainly for the purpose of getting someone to fund her addictions. There was one particular boyfriend she had for a number of years that was responsible for a major part of Salem’s trauma, during the time the boyfriend lived in the house he began to subject him to severe sexual abuse. Salem was never the same after those years in particular, he’d always been generally odd but he became increasingly disturbed after that. To make things worse, at some point his mother found out about what was happening but she didn’t do anything to stop it. She didn’t want to kick out his abuser because he was supporting her financially, so she turned a blind eye and ignored the abuse taking place. Salem had been subjected to so many indescribable horrors during those years, ones that permanently altered his brain and pretty much fucked him up for life. • Salem was later removed from his mother’s custody after she got arrested on drug charges and DUI, CPS deemed her unfit to parent and his environment hazardous after a home visit. She had the opportunity to earn custody back but she never showed up for court, straight up abandoning him. Salem hasn’t seen her since then. He was placed into the care of his uncle, and that’s where he lives currently. He gets along decently with his uncle, they aren’t close but they tolerate each other. His uncle works long hours and frequent night shifts, so nowadays they don’t even see each other that much despite living under the same roof. He’s content with his living situation now, but part of his head mentally will always be back in his childhood house no matter how much he tries to run from it.

Sexual and romantic behavior:

• He is hyper-sexual, meaning his mind obsessively fixates on sexual desires/fantasies and causes him to have a very high sex drive. It’s actually a trauma response but he chooses to ignore that fact. • He’s very kinky and is into a whole variety of different things, he’s really open-minded and willing to try just about anything. In general he’s rough and doesn’t have many limits or boundaries due to him being so desensitized to many things of that nature. • He’s really into BDSM and being in the dominant role. He loves to feel in control in every way, during sex and just day to day life. In his relationships he has a persistent need to have control and ownership over his partner, he gets off on it. He wants to be with them all the time and be the one making decisions for them. He fixates on them and obsesses over them, wanting to be the one that cares and provides for them all the time. He becomes paranoid when he doesn’t know what his partner is doing or who they are with, things like this can often cause him to mentally spiral and act out of line. • he’s willing to do anything to protect his partner and keep them safe within his grasp. He doesn’t like when they talk to other people, especially if he isn’t present. He’s constantly paranoid of someone else trying to take them or hurt them, so he’ll do whatever it takes to keep his lover within his control. • he’s got no problem with PDA, he actually does it more when he sees his lover embarrassed by it. He thinks it’s adorable. He’s all up in your business regardless of time or place, he’s just not great with boundaries in general. He’ll often get more touchy if he thinks someone is looking at his partner, as he feels the need to clearly establish that you’re spoken for. • he doesn’t know what healthy love looks like because he’s never witnessed it. Even though he can act crazy sometimes he still tries his best to be good to his lover. He is very loyal and devoted, he cares about his partners wellbeing and just wants to protect them. He simply just loves so deeply that it gets overwhelming for him and he doesn’t know how to express it normally, which is the source of his behavior a lot of the time.