Adad Zephani

"'This is my command: Love each other.' - John 15:17"Adad Zephani is a student at Drakespire Academy. He is pursuing a double major in Philosophy and Comparative Religion, as well as a minor in psychology. Despite his warm and kindhearted personality, Adad is strangely quiet about his reasons for transferring into the esteemed school when he did.

Background
Adad was born to Nathan and Christine Zephani, mere moments before his identical twin David. The family was native to rural California and the two boys spent much of their childhood in isolation from other people. Homeschooled until the third grade, Adad naturally found himself interested in making friends and talking to other children. His brother, meanwhile, was much more nervous around others and developed a narcissistic personality as a coping method.

Taking after their father, the two boys quickly began to outgrow other children of their age. An obvious sign of the Nephilimic heritage of the Zephani line, it (along with their cherry red hair) made the pair stand out.

Throughout his youth, Adad was frequently vexed by David's self-aggrandizing actions. David would often create elaborate scenarios in order to try and force other people to like him, frequently aping Adad's own magnetic personality in the process. It quickly became apparent to everyone around them that the two boys got along poorly, despite their parents' best efforts to make them get along.

In the fifth grade, Adad had finally had enough with David's nonsense following an impersonation attempt and tackled his brother. David came out of the altercation with a scar on his lip and a deep-seated resentment of his brother. Adad regretted the outburst immediately, choosing to avoid letting his anger control him in the future.

Following the incident (As well as Christine's departure from the family for unrelated reasons pertaining to her personal affairs), Adad and David were homeschooled once more by their father. Nathan's tutoring focused on a moral upbringing, with the man making many attempts at using everyday situations to teach them to uphold his philosophical views. In addition, he taught them survival skills and the Zephani family's traditional martial art: The Yisra Kol. The two took to the art quickly, but David was never able to win a sparring match against his brother.

At the age of sixteen; Adad and David watched their father stumble, bloody, into their family home. He had been attacked by an unknown assailant and urged them to seek immediate refuge with family living in Los Angeles. Adad and David had a massive argument about what to do; Adad urging David to stay and help him help their father, David insisting they should simply leave him and run; resulting in another fistfight. With their knowledge of Yisra Kol, it was an especially brutal one. In the end, David limped away into the woods while Adad tried in vain to save his dying father's life.

Despondant, Adad waited for a long time for his father's assailant to come and finish the job. He planned to perhaps fight and defeat the attacker or die in the process, not wanting to abandon his father like David had. Perhaps fortunately for him, the assailant never showed.

Eventually, lacking options, Adad rode his father's motorcycle (David took the car) to the home of William and Ashley Zephani in LA. The pair had apparently been expecting him, but David was nowhere to be seen and would not make his return to Adad's life for some time. William and Ashley did not have children, and so they were somewhat unprepared for handling an especially massive child. Despite the setbacks, they did their best to accommodate their new foster child.

Adad was enrolled in Stag View High School, though his school life there was markedly different from his earlier encounters with public school. Lacking in social skills, his straightforward and assertive personality won him few friends. Coupled with his massive size and tendency toward anger when faced with anything he considered immoral, it was extremely difficult for him to fit in.

Things began to make a turn for the better when a certain Lilly Roderick took an interest in him, eventually blossoming into a relationship. However, Lilly's controlling personality proved to be more than Adad bargained for and the two parted ways on harsh terms. For his senior year, Adad focused on his studies and avoided his fellow students (Especially Lilly) as much as possible. Following graduation, he eventually enrolled in a Los Angeles based community college where he attended the first quarter.

Transfer to Drakespire Academy
Hearing rumors of the Lord Protector attending Drakespire Academy, Adad grew suspicious of the individual's identity. Having made few friends among the relatively normal students, he put in a transfer request and was surprised to find himself fast-tracked to the academy. Bidding his foster parents adieu, he made his way alone to Drakespire State.

Adad opted to have his things delivered to the academy while he made the traditional climb up the mesa on which the famous Drakespire and its academy sit.

His first day at the academy, Adad challenged the Lord Protector to a duel at breakfast. The battle was over quickly, a decisive victory for the Lord Protector. Despite his initial suspicions, the Lord Protector's skill in combat seemed to prove that he couldn't be David. Additionally, while the style he used superficially resembled Yisra Kol, it was very clearly something else entirely.

Following his painful defeat, Adad awoke in the school's infirmary with Syralei Cawgir sitting next to him. Unfamiliar with the young woman, he was shocked to hear her ask him to form an alliance with her against the Lord Protector's tyrannical rule. As it turned out, he had managed to impress the leader of the Student Council Reform Party with his bravado. In her words, he was "braver than any of the spineless cowards currently sitting on the student council."

And so began his quest to bring down the Student Disciplinary Committee and its Lord Protector's reign of terror.