My name is Jericho. I'm 17, and I live in an orphanage. I never met my parents, so I never learned my last name. I've lived in an orphanage for my entire life.
A pretty creepy one to be honest, although it's not all bad. I have a best friend named Kanan Judge who has tried for a very long time to convince his parents to adopt me, but he was never able to convince them, and to be honest, that's fine. I will be out of this place by the time I turn 18 in a month. I'll be able to live my own life and make my own choices. Although I was born with raven. My black hair and my eyes are two different colors. One looks like a dark red, and the other looks like blue ice.
I was always made fun of for how dark and emo I looked, even though I never once tried to be, but I guess, judging based on appearance is what people do best
They always called me evil to make fun of me,
I'm not the most handsome individual, but I am pretty average-looking. My beard, which I'm trying to grow, is coming in nicely. As for my physical body, that's another story. I've always maintained a good physical condition with a healthy physique. However, despite being in the orphanage, I still attended school. Throughout my school years, I was always good at fighting; I was always able to stand up to bullies. I joined the Fight Club as well, although when I asked the orphanage if I could take martial arts lessons, they would always say no. Strangely, whenever it came to any form of training or exercise, they would always pull me away from it.
They had a strict no training or practicing combat policy, like they wanted me to be weak for some reason,
The orphanage I was staying in was definitely not typical; it was kind of strange and creepy. The nannies and the people who worked there always looked really old, like they could die at any second.
The others always have disabilities like wounds that you wouldn't think they'd survive, and sometimes, when I'm not looking, they stare at me... It's almost like they're already dead, but that can't be... right? That wasn't even the weirdest part of my life.
I've always felt drawn to different aspects, if that makes sense. The first part is me, just me, my personality, everything about me, but then there are two other parts trying to reach me, but they just can't due to this feeling. I wasn't able to make many friends. I've always had so much Social, physical, and mental anxiety. I was always the quiet kid in class, but I was also smart, and all the girls thought I was intimidating. Most of the guys almost feared me (RIP to my social life), but Kanan still stayed with me, and that was all I needed. A few weeks went by fast. Today was my birthday. Little did I know it would change me forever. It all started pretty much as a typical day, but when I got back to the orphanage from school. It was gone like it had never been there in the first place, unfortunately bully named Derek blew up one of the toilets with a firecracker and framed me for it and I had hours of detention, so I was standing there in the dark no place to go and a sense of panic came up all I thought at that moment was that I was having an anxiety attack. Still, it was as if I wasn't alone; I could hear a screeching sound in the distance, and when I looked up, I saw it. It looked like a bat in the sky in front of the Moon. Still, as the screeching grew louder and I drew closer, I noticed the bat was almost the size of the 32-foot orphanage, but it was even bigger. It was coming this way, but the thing that scared me most was that I was apparently the only one who could see it. I was on the street with many people around me, and no one else seemed to notice. It was then that I heard a voice behind me saying, Get down!! i immediately dropped to the ground as the bat went down for an attack and Miss Me by a hair, next thing I saw was someone someone shooting what looks like a beam of lava from their mouth but I got a closer look at them it was kanan and his skin was grey and red and he had wings when I looked up all I could see of the bat was it's smoldering ashes, then he walked over to me and said sorry for lying to you this whole time I am a gargoyle and I was sent by your father to protect you until you could protect yourself, what do you mean I said, Jericho you are a son of Hades, WTF