||ROLE||
The Healer's Assistant

||NAME||
Camael Romero

||NICKNAME||
Cam, Cammie, "The Romero boy" by the townsfolk

||AGE||
18

||GENDER||
Male

||SEXUAL ORIENTATION||
Questioning? Not sure yet. Neither is he.

||FAMILY ORIGIN||
Esten

||CURRENT RESIDENCY||
Fervenstah

||FACE CLAIM||
This very specific picture of Ryan Hassain

||APPEARANCE||
Bronze skin and deep, warm eyes. Thick and dark curly hair that sticks up when he wakes. Sun freckles are speckled across his cheeks and shoulders. On the shorter side, but still convinced he'll go through another growth spurt. He's often seen with scribbled notes on his hands and arms to remind him of certain tasks he has to do.

||PERSONALITY||
An energetic and naive boy who wants to prove his worth as a healer. Asks a lot of questions and is impressed very easily. Will surprise people with a sudden stroke of genius when he's in his element.
Prone to knocking things over with his elbows and tripping over his own untied shoelaces, which is not a very good thing when you're working with delicate herbs and equipment.
He'll remark things out loud that are rather obvious, not because he thinks it needs to be known but because he reflexively states what he observes. Sometimes this unintentionally leads him to a revelation.

||LIKES & DISLIKES||
He likes running where he's not supposed to and feeling the wind in his hair. Often seen playing with the dogs in the street and giving them treats. Practically worships the famous healers of Fervenstah's past and tapes pictures of them up on his bedroom walls. Hates essay writing, the shopkeeper's repugnant son (who is the same age as him but at least a foot taller and likes to rub it in his face), and root vegetables.

||HISTORY||
Camael grew up in a small part of Esten where everyone knew each other. He has 3 brothers much older than him who are all incredibly smart and pursued fancy degrees in law and business. Camael had a normal childhood spent playing outside with the neighbors and making mud pies and potions out of mud and flowers. He was never a very extraordinary child; the only exception was his peculiar sense of smell, which could sniff out almost anything.

Unlike his brothers, Camael never got the best marks in school, but his passion for learning made up for it. His professors always found it hard to stay angry with him when his genuine curiosity was so...genuine. Nevertheless, passion doesn't do much when you're failing your classes, so Camael had his fair share of detentions over the years.

And then came the day his mother fell ill. His brothers had grown distant and were taking care of their own families. His father, a factory laborer, worked long shifts and was getting older by the day. And so Camael, the boy with the infinite tardy slips and dozens of failed exams, made a promise to himself and began to study. (When he received the sealed letter congratulating him on being chosen as an apprentice, they all cried.)
Camael's dream is to find a cure for his mother's illness, bring his family back together again, and simultaneously become Fervenstah's next greatest healer (with a cool robe and staff, if possible).

||THEME||
"The Beach" by Alexandre Desplat, from Little Women (2019)

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