NAME: Valka
ALIAS: Harley Kessler
PRONOUNS: he/him
HEIGHT: 6ft 2in
RACE: Demon
BLOODLINE: Fire
Harley is a hot-blooded and passionate man with a charming personality. He's a smooth talker who knows how to get most people to warm to him thanks to his history as both a commander of an army, and a manager of a strip club. Despite being a fire demon he's not terribly short tempered, but he's not very willing to let go of a grudge if something truly makes him angry.
Harley is 6ft2in in his human form and over 8ft in his demon form. He has shaggy auburn hair and amber/yellow eyes. He always feels warm to the touch. He has a flame tattoo sleeve on his right arm in human form with a horned skull on his shoulder and a dragon on his forearm. He typically wears tank tops, biker jackets, jeans, and boots. He drives either a pick-up truck or a motorbike. He speaks with a Texan accent. He currently works as the owner of a strip club and will often take to the stage himself. The club also operates as a hidden brothel and he's more than willing to be a service top or bottom if his staff need a break from certain clients.
Harley used to be a demon known as Valka, and was of fairly high status thanks to his father being the Lord of Fire on the Demonic Council. He held the position of Fire General for a very long time, eventually defecting when he discovered his father was working alongside the Lord of Chaos in the first Chaos War. Due to policical meddling, he was banished from the demon world, labelled as a traitor by his father, and was forced to leave his demon life behind to live in the human world.
He can summarise his life in various losses. First was the loss of his mother when his father pulled him away from her to raise him as a perfect solider. Second was the loss of his soul-bonded partner who his father killed during the rebellion Harley lead against him. Third was the loss of his brother when Harley couldn't bring himself to kill him during said rebellion, having had him turned against him by their father. Then was the loss of his close companion, a demon hunter named Chase, the first person to show him how to live as a human, who tragically died during a hunting job when a rogue demon got a lucky shot. He's never allowed himself to grieve for any of it, and so holds a lot of negative emotion on his shoulders which he hides behind a charming and flirtatious personality. For a long while it stopped him getting truly close to anyone, afraid of losing them too.
As many demons did, Harley knew of Ted as Telleska, the Son of Love. Part of the reason for his rebellion against his father was due to the man's involvement with the kidnapping of the Sons of Love and Hope during the war. It was only many years later that Harley met Ted, being asked to train him by a close friend, and slowly falling in love with the young man. After the war was over, they met again, Harley finally making a move, and their relationship deepening slowly over time.
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