Paper Face

"My real self is a monster."
"That's why, that's why, I hid myself."

"Behind this Paper Face."
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Yahoo~ I had said in here that I'm going to make another OC to compensate the lack of OCs for January (because I only had the idea like a couple months later lmao) so here it is!

This boi here is "Paper Face" Haze Iris Carroll! Please do call him "Haze"~
His middle name might mean the iris of the eye or the flower, I wonder which it is~~ Joking aside, he is an injury-ridden crybaby who might or might not be hiding a sinister secret behind that paper bag (hint: his right eye, guess what it is!). He is morally questionable but will feel bad if people tell him that what he had done is "wrong" even though he doesn't feel so, though later on... oops, that's a spoiler.

I haven't created any crybaby OCs since Kyouhei so I wanted to make a twist; he's only a crybaby because of the influence of others-- he's constantly told by others that he's a bad kid for his views, but if he's given a chance to reveal his real self... he's cold as fuck.
He's unable to feel happiness, sadness, anger, or even love--though that's just because he has been exposed to superficial emotions a lot... he started to think that all emotions are, well, bullshit, so to speak. And just discarded them. Though he's plenty good at faking.
That's why, the paper bag is both a symbolism and something to be taken literally.

As to his injuries, it's a mixture of being beaten up (bullying) and self-harm. One won't really be able to tell the difference between one and the other though, there's a copious amount so they just kinda merged. Also the reason he self-harmed is actually a way of taking out his frustrations; since he'll be shunned away even more if he hurts anyone or anything else, he hurts himself instead.
Also he genuinely thinks of himself as a monster, and it's not exaggeration to say that it is true--both literally and figuratively. I already explained the figurative speech... but as to the literal way, oops, spoilers.

His clothes' color scheme is actually pretty similar to Lumen's and I can't say that it's not on purpose lmao, they miiight have a connection. Oh, and also FYI, he's 13 years old. Idk how that goes together but hey, I'm just compiling facts at this point.

I actually want to make a comic for his story, but I don't know if I'll be able to finish it in my current flow of life... really.
Also, have a face close-up because he's beautiful.