ID: A digital art reference of the character Babak Mahjoub with the background being a purple tinted train station. Babak is a brown skinned Iranian man with long black hair with white streaks tied up into a ponytail, a mole on his chin and right cheek, has two diagonal scars across the left side of his mouth, and has warped purple boteh tattoos around his neck and hands. He wears glasses, a purple hairband, a dark red scarf, a grey coat with a white shirt underneath, dark grey trousers, and brown boots. At the top half on the left shows a bust of Babak smiling and gives some of his information which say: "Babak Mahjoub, Iranian, Ghost (?), he/him." His listed personality traits are: Fatherly, Gentle, Obsessive. Other information points out the placements of his two beauty marks (or moles) and his two slashed scars on his mouth. Next to the bust shows various expressions of Babak. Starting from the furthest left to clockwise, theres a expression of Babak looking happy, next expression is him looking worried at the viewer as he starts warping, last expression is him screaming and crying in despair as his face warps from the static with pupiless eyes.

Bottom half shows a general full body view of Babak on the left, and a more 'warped' version on the right where his right side of his body is slowly turning into static. In the middle shows what his warped boteh symbol looks like, with a purple 'outline' that then turns into a greyish white which in turn becomes darker the further to the center you go. It has the added written detail of: Warped Boteh Tattoos (shifts around body, can be simplified). On the furthest right of the entire ref is a mass of static haze with the boteh patterns surrounded within it. End ID.]
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Another 'originally a TMA oc but became his own thing', Babak is a character I still want a lot to do with, maybe he can be in his own story one day when I get some other stuff outta the way.

Babak is a mysterious being and not even he's sure what he is, he doesn't remember much of his past and who he was aside from being Iranian in origin, but now roams the earth seemingly aimlessly, often appearing as any other person who you may brush past by when you're on walks and the like. He is only seen around where humans will reside, places with zero population of humans will not be visited by Babak, so he is inherently tied to humans in a way…

Despite the very strong human resemblance, there will be some odd effects when one is near Babak and his presence. Such as: The feel of tingling static, mild tinnitus, visual snow, and the imagery of boteh/paisleys in ones dreams and vision. Not all of these have to apply when around Babak and it will vary with each person, but its especially apparent in anyone who has had prior encounters with him…

Babak has a tendency to make contact with and make himself visible to anyone who has had a trauma or is going through a trauma and will appear as a 'imaginary friend'. He will always act very personable and friendly, and will attempt to even protect anyone going through a traumatic event. Those that have had Babak will then thus remember the trauma as a strange fuzzy event they can't recall entirely, and Babak as some vague friend they can't entirely recall, if there's any memory at all.

However, Babak has a tendency to then come back to these people he had previously cared for, and will revisit them as a way to see how they're doing and also as a reunion. However these often end tragically, as Babak's return often come with the resurfacing memory of the traumatic event. If one accepts Babak's presence and does not reject him, he will be very accommadating and kind, and will do his best to help you even if you are retraumatised by him. If one rejects him and tries to drive him away or pretends he's not there, he will become incredibly aggravated and unstable, becoming harder and harder of a presence to ignore and may even unintentionally become hostile as he sorrowfully cries at you to remember and acknowledge him.

As Babak becomes more unstable… his form will change and become incredibly static-like, to the point he would not resemble human at all, but more like some ambiguous haze thats made completely of static, as if his human appearances was some 'mask' for that no longer is able to hide, like a type of anchor thats now become broken...

The moral of this story is don't bottle up your trauma!!