Adham Shadhavar-Behzadi

Introductions
Adham (Add-hum) Shadhavar-Behzadi is the half breed son of the captured unicorn from the German tale of The Brave Little Tailor and an Iranian Shadhavar (a Persian unicorn). With a passion for extreme sports, adrenaline chasing, travel and an inability to stay in one place for more than a few months, he violently broke free from his destiny to become a King's captured pet and instead has decided to carve out his own path in life.

Currently a Teaching Assistant at Ever After High, Adham helps out in Geografairy classes and Ancient History Class-ics classes, acting as a guest lecturer and general assistant to the teachers who head those classes. His extensive knowledge of languages, historical cultures and expansive travel to other countries means he's the perfect person to ask about anything old, unusual or historical.

Able to appear human or Unicorn or varying degrees of both, he generally can be found tucked away in the office that he and Phoebe Fitzroy share.

Personality
Personality:

Relaxed, passionate and logical, Adham is both at once insanely chilled and intensely interested in his job and hobbies; making him an exceptional TA and a very driven individual.

Since he was small he spent a great deal of time being home schooled by his parents who were both linguists and cultural scholars – after her release from her capture after strict negotiations from the Brave Little Tailor and his new father in law by marriage, Adham's mother Margot became a university language professor who was employed part time to translate dead languages found on artifacts for the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, where his father, Bashir, was a curator brought in from Iran. Due to this he is fluent in a number of languages including English, German, Farsi, Arabic, Italian, French, Russian, Greek, Mandarin and Spanish; he is conversational in at least Romanian, Norwegian, Urdu, Icelandic, Danish, Japanese and Hebrew, possibly others. He's also excellent in Sign language, and can write decently in Cyrillic. Some say his ability with languages may stem from his unicorn roots – it's commonly believed that Unicorns are able to communicate with all people from any nation, so long as they are true of heart. As a child he spent many many hours in history museums around Berlin, and this has spawned his huge interest in other cultures and artifacts, and he's spent hundreds of hours vicariously reading about anything from ancient Vesuvian urns to golden idols found in the depths of Babalonian ruins.

In turn, he has a huge desire to travel, and boy does he travel. During the school holidays he's often seen packing up a suitcase and booking a plane ticket to the next overseas destination, and he keeps his small space in the shared office covered in world maps, books pertaining to other cultures, little trinkets from the depths of flea markets and other such souvenirs from his travels. His passport is a myriad of border stamps and his Mythstagram (yes he has one) is chock full of snaps from hundreds of different locations. However, when asked how his mother's museum is constantly being stocked with new and unusual artifacts from abroad however, he'll often avoid the question, as well as customs declarations forms.

Aside from travel and the occasional foray into booby-trapped ruins halfway around the world, Adham is a huge adrenaline junkie and is often willing to spend his weekends bungee jumping, sky diving, spelunking and mountaineering – with no straps. If it's dangerous, he's done it.

He's known to occasionally slip into different languages while giving his lectures, and he often stops to find the appropriate word in the appropriate language.

Looks/Presentation
With dusky skin, a strong physique, closely cropped beard, jet black hair with golden strands and a charming, easy smile, Adham is the definition of Tall, Dark and Handsome. He takes after his father in his looks, with his Iranian heritage all but drowning out his mother's blue eyes and silvery hair. Coming in at 6ft 2" tall (7ft" including his horn) and 178lbs, his body has to be able to take the strain of his transformations and the amount of extreme sports he's put it through. He can often be seen as somewhere in between human and and unicorn, with a full flowing tail poking out the back of his trousers, a golden horn on his forehead and a pair of curious ears perched on top of his head. You can often tell how he's feeling in how his ears are moving.

In terms of clothing, Adham favours earthy colours and simple styles, often picking golds, browns, whites, and yellows. He likes well fitted shirts and Egyptian cotton fabrics for preference.

He has an intricate black Arabic script tattoo design on his back, which spans most of his upper back from the nape of his neck to the bottom of his shoulder blades.

Parentage
Adham's parents are both unicorns, albeit from different cultures and stories. His mother, Margot Einhorn, is the traditional white unicorn from the Grimm Fairytale and his father, Bashir Shadhavar-Behzadi is a Shadhavar; a unicorn-like animal from Persian folklore with a many pronged horn, traditionally seen as dark carnivorous creatures that are able to make haunting music when the wind blows through their horns. As a child of both, Adham has inherited various characteristics from each side; his unicorn form is much like his mother's, with a singular golden horn and hooves, golden accents in his hair and heavy feathering around his fetlocks, though he gains his fur colouration from his father – jet black. When angry and pushed past the point of no return his eyes turn blood red and he's driven with an insatiable bloodlust and the desire to rip into victim's flesh and feast on their meat. It's something he's not very proud of.

His parent's marriage was a passionate yet ultimately tumultuous one, and ended on bad terms when Adham was 10 years old – his father left on the request of his mother, and Adham hasn't seen him since. Adham believes his father may have returned to Iran, and this may also be a large part of why he has such a strong desire to travel – innately he's trying to find and reconnect with a part of himself he's lost and misses desperately.

Fairytale
Destined to take over his mother's role as the captive unicorn that get's outsmarted by the Brave Little Tailor, Adham has no desire to be someone's prisoner – it went against his very nature. As a result, Adham actively (and selfishly) avoided his destiny and kept putting it off until he was released from the obligation when Raven Queen destroyed the book that he had signed with all of his other fellow students when he attended EAH as a student. Due to this, he's free to pursue his career and adventures, without fear of repercussions.

Therefore, with his views being what they are, he's a firm rebel.

Margot Einhorn
Margot Einhorn (Married name Margot Shadhavar-Behzadi) is one of the main influences in Adham's life – she raised him alone and home schooled him since he was ten, and was the one who taught him the majority of his languages, as well as actively encouraging his interests in culture and ancient history. She was never well off but she made sure her son was well cared for and she often took him on business trips that took her around the world. She currently resides in Berlin and is still working in teaching and translating at the museum. Adham often goes back to visit her at the end of a long trip, and makes sure to send her a postcard from every country he goes to – her pinboard in the kitchen is full of them.

Mandy Dauntless
Adham's fellow TA, girlfriend and partner in hair-raising crime, Mandy is the perfect other half for him. Their combined love of travel and ancient haunted crypts and artifacts as her lack of fear and his sheer adrenaline cravings means they spend a lot of their time doing hair raising things that no sane people would do, including but not limited to; ghost hunting in Venice, escaping a booby-trapped tomb in Morocco, stealing a golden statue from the depths of the Colombian jungle and storm chasing a Tengu-generated tornado in the cornfields of America (don't ask how it got there). Adham is extremely fond of her, and he can often be seen bringing her lunch in between classes. They were also voted "Most likely teachers to make out in a broom closet" by their students in an unofficial poll on the mirrornet before it was taken down.

Alternate Forms
As a unicorn, Adham has the ability to maintain several different forms, primarily: human, unicorn stallion and unifaun. Much rarely seen is his unitaur form. As a unicorn he's got a velvety jet black coat and long flowing mane and tail with golden streaks, heavy feathering on his ankles as well as a single gleaming horn, golden hooves and sharp canines. He generally tends to favour a human form with minimal unicorn parts – mostly just his horn, tail and ears; it seems to be the default form his magic settles on.

Unicorn Magic
Having inherited his mother's powers, Adham has an interesting list of abilities. Able to tell who is true of heart and able to decipher lies, don't even bother trying to use the "My dragon ate my homework sir!" excuse on him – he'll see right through it, though many have amused him while doing so. He is able to purify water by dipping his horn into it, as well as curing wounds using the same method. Some people have started rumors that his blood will extend life or grant temporary immortality, though nobody knows if this is true or not; though it may be that Adham himself has an extended lifespan. He's also exceptionally good at sensing auras and presences.

Trivia

 * His favourite language to speak is French, he says it's like "Wiping your arse with silk"
 * His mthstagram profile picture is a picture of him doing extreme ironing
 * Outwith his red-meat eating tendencies as a unicorn, he's actually a pescatarian.
 * He recently found out with Mandy's help that shares his office with a very fat, very friendly nekomata which he's named Klaus; he knocks stuff off the table and stands all over the keyboard (which results in Adham's school reports looking a little...keysmashy) when he wants attention, and will only materialize when Adham gives in and gives him cuddles. He loves sitting on Adham's lap for warmth.
 * He's been known to be an extended sleep talker, and Mandy has a video of him sleeping on the staff room sofa holding a conversation in four different languages about buttered toast.