Occupation: The Empress’ Aid/Royal go-for
Skills: The ability to stay up until 4AM studying things no one cares about without ever really learning anything (not that he’s stupid, he just isn’t very good at research), going out in the dead of night to get “Oh, you know that thing I had that one time at that restaurant I went to”, munitions.
Likes: Books, being left alone, Lylokien.
Dislikes: Sayna, Nauru, society in general.
Personality: Stuffy old school marm on the outside, super-crazy bitch on the inside.
Story: Oh, where do we start? Azaroth was born into a very wealthy (by human standards) family and thus lived a very privileged life. By which I mean a crazy, repressed, and resulting-from-generations-of-inbreeding life. And so it built, until a certain incident caused him to run away to The Big City at age 14. Once there, he started hanging out with The Wrong Crowd and quickly joined a gang, wherein he stole things and threatened to cut people. He doesn’t talk about any of this, of course. And the period from then, until he became a member of the palace staff 6 years later is even more of a mystery.

But moving on to what you really want to know: What’s the deal with the dress? Well, you see, humans are a rather unexplained minority on Caridea; no one’s really sure how they got there. As such they suffer from rather weighty identity issues. Most just squirrel themselves away in their own tiny corner of the world. Azaroth, on the other hand, tries to connect with his Earthly herritage. Which would be fine, except that the most any Caridean human knows about their ancestors has been clouded by time, and no family’s version of the history is the same as the next. Azaroth will have none of that, no. He wants solid facts. And it just so happens that, in the depths of the city’s largest and most pointless library, there’s a collection of Earth-human literature… straight out of 19th century England, alongside a highly inaccurate book by a quack historian who thought it would’ve been a good idea to pay a visit. The big problem here? Azaroth can understand little to no English. None of the original Caridean humans spoke the language, so it can’t even be called dead. All he knows, he learned from those book. One of which included a guide to etiquette. For ladies. Azaroth hasn’t gotten to that point in his study of English. Now, how he could not know that the people in the pictures were female is beyond me, but I suppose he was desperate and thought it would do. Or perhaps it was due to the fact that there isn’t much definition between what’s mens’ and what’s womens’ clothing in his neck of the woods, and so he figured this applied everywhere. But for whatever reason, he thinks acting and dressing like a prissy lady is a very human thing. And while no one knows any better, almost everyone thinks he’s weird because of it, and most automatically assume that he’s a woman, much to his annoyance.

Relationships:
Dulche: He puts up with her, despite thinking she's incredibly annoying. He does sort of think of her as a little sister, though. An obnoxious one.
Nauru: He thinks he's an immature kid and lets him know this whenever possible.
Sayna: He hates her with every fiber of his being. Obviously, being that she's the worst boss ever, but it's more than that.
Lylokien: Oh, he quite likes Lylokien and he isn't exactly subtle about it, either.
Sitabas: Thinks she's a morbid weirdo, even though they're freakishly similar. He thinks she's just a poser.

Character History: Yeah, I really have no idea. I know he was created some time in 2003. But I think it goes something like this. I was tooling around, playing Final Fantasy X-2 one day, when I decided to draw a costume—a costume, not a character—inspired by (ripped off from) the game. So, yeah, Azaroth started out as a fancy dress. And because I liked that dress so much, I decided to work him into the story as the Empress’ aide and the straight man to Dulche and Nauru’s madness. Yes, okay, laugh now. And, yes, he’d always been a man, though at that point, I think he was just a guy in a dress, no crazy identity issues attached. Over the years I’ve added on many things to his personality, backstory, etc, but he’s never gone through any massive overhauls like Dulche has. It’s no secret that he’s one of my favorites.

Reference Images:
December 2006
Sometime 2005
Sometime 2005
March 2005
Azaroth and Nauru January 2005
December 2004
June 2004