Dara Shirazi

"All of it— it's all random chance. The universe. Us. An infinite cascade of chaos. A series of impossible accidents is the only reason we exist."

- Dara to Noam Born October 25th of 2104, Dara Shirazi is a protagonist of the book The Electric Heir. He was born in Carolinia, by two Carolinian citizens who died under mysterious circumstances. He is the adopted son of Minister Calix Lehrer.

Presenting Power
Telepathy: The ability to be able to hear the thoughts and ideas of others. In other words, mind reading. It's his presenting power.

Illusion: By manipulating the signal emmited by nerves, he can cast visual and auditory illusions. He also shows the ability to make them realistic, creating a false sense of touch.

Appearance
Dara has disorderly, dark brown, tousled curls falling down to his brow. He has a symmetrical face with a slim figure, and brown, smooth skin that is dotted with cinnamon-dust freckles.

He loves his fashion, designer brands are a must.

Ames quotes, “he just transforms gay boys into these drooling stalkers by existing in proximity”.

Personality
Dara puts up a haughty front, losing himself in alcohol and sleeping around. Seemingly an arrogant rich boy, he is moody and rebellious.

Beneath the looks and attitude though, is a traumatized kid that still dreams of the stars. He tends to hide his emotions, disliking emotional confrontation because of a past of not being believed.

He dreams of a simple life, “I’d like to live out on a farm somewhere. With a garden, and maybe some goats. Somewhere I can see the stars,” He had told Noam, who at first took it as a joke.

Dara is intelligent, more intelligent than some know. He is often secretive as well for he is afraid for someone to use the information aganist him, or that they will try to help him and end up making things worse.

History
T/W: Abuse, Pedophilia

After his parents died from suspicious circumstances, he was adopted by Calix Lehrer at age 4. Lehrer would take him out to the quarantined zone sometimes, a place where he would come to accomplish Lehrer’s missions in the future many times.

Dara used to love his room in Lehrer’s apartment, filled with glow in the dark stars and packed to the brim with houseplants. It's empty now, he’d torn everything down. Dara considered Lehrer a father figure, even if Lehrer distanced himself from the role. That is until Lehrer started abusing him when he was 14, sexually, physically, and emotionally. He tried telling someone but no one believed him, as Lehrer was a powerful and well regarded figure. From there, Dara's mental state spiraled down into an abyss. He drowned his emotions in alcohol and bodies. At fifteen, Gordon Ames took advantage of his vulnerability to make a move, which ended up in an affair between the two until Dara was 18.

When Noam becomes Lehrer's pupil, Dara is slightly jealous. He even admits that he was worried that Lehrer's attention would shift from him to Noam. Most importantly, Dara is afraid that Noam would find out about Lehrer and Dara's relationship. Dara then distanced himself Noam and would rarely talk to him towards the beginning. He made it abundantly clear that he disliked Noam, until he starts falling for him.

Often these two would discuss about what they believed in and it would result in an arguement, more because of Noam though. Dara was aligned to Sacha to try to help bring Lehrer down, and even tried to explain why to Noam, who refused to listen and wouldn't believe him.