Silas Huxley

Silas Huxley is a Jewish, Italian-American lawyer, living with his best-friend/lover in a somewhat old apartment building. He's newly 47, born September of 1900 to an absent father and the talented Ms Chiara Huxley. One of his defining traits is that he's just extremely ill but somehow still kicking, disability-coded but I've never exactly specified what exactly he's afflicted by. In reference to the former, it's subtextually cancerous; I don't think about or write this though, specifically because Silas would have and will keep the facts of his health a secret - it's integral to his character.

Silas abuses canon-compliant drugs but contests that he's dependent, saying that it helps to keep the colour in life when it's otherwise miserable. He has an obvious disregard for his own health and whether he lives or not, being hospitalised for his drug use once or twice, and as demonstrated in a few ficlets I might post at some point. Despite this he doesn't exactly encourage anyone else to use, though he might offer every now and then. And he holds the lives of his friends and family above his own. It's not that he's actively suicidal or anything, but that he believes he's already living on borrowed time and has been since his childhood; it can even be suggested that he's making up for what he lost in his childhood (that being friends, fun, whatever) so that he can die having lived the American "dream". Also his bedroom is fucking awful even though he can afford to decorate it.

Oh also so I don't forget those times he's been hospitalised he's been comatose after particular periods of exceptionally high use. These have been temporary and led to him quitting in general, particularly as they gave him temporary brain damage and affected his relationship.

Also integral to his character is the fact he's a gay transgender man. He's characterized largely as promiscuous, again deriving from him not necessarily caring for his body (in some ways he can be described as a hedonist). Anyway, his gender and sexuality he largely tries to hide from public knowledge, with him being torn between heterosexual society and the "homosexual undeerground", not wanting his law firm to suffer because he's a disgrace to society or whatever (which he knows, by the way. Silas still suffers from a lotta gay guilt). He hasn't presented as his AGAB since like, age 5, and he doesn't necessarily suffer from internalized transphobia. If he didn't transition in his teens he believes he may never have gotten the opporutunity to, as he potentially could have died in his teens.

Help that's kind of quite depressing! He's my babygirl though and like my fave OC ever, there's a lot more to him than just scrawny 5 foot something faggot... he's also my friend. He feels quite fatherly towards the other members of the group as they are all way younger than him (he's the oldest, being nigh 50, which no-one expected). His intelligence is like, insane. IQ higher than mine of 5. He just doesn't present himself as being ridiculously smart as he doesn't want to "give the game away" (he's a lawyer, after all) or baby anyone. Also being the smart one comes with a lot of downsides, so he just... lets people think he's a drug abusin' geriatric.