Evil

Player: @Drea

NAME: Lamia
ALIASES: Evil
BIRTHPLACE: The Shadow Realm
OCCUPATION: Evil
AGE: Ageless
STATUS: Single

POWERS

• SHADOWKINESIS
  

Able to manipulate and draw on shadows to create damage and harm those around her to varying degrees.

• HEMOKINESIS

Able to manipulate blood in others and cause pain or, in rare cases, aid her 'allies' by reducing their pain.

🩸 MUSIC

The Shadow Realm is host to things that should not be; very little exists there to create true light or life. It insists upon its own darkness, with a recreation of that through every facet of its being. Most that travel there are eaten alive by what's crawling around in the dark, and all that's left is a painful reminder in shadowed bones made to dance for the enjoyment of whatever cosmic entity calls that its home.

Imagine, then, a young woman coming through and persisting. She lives through a force of will and magic and gives the darkness something to truly latch onto; to grow from. Not only does this young woman survive and, in fact, escape, but she also takes along with her a shadowform given life through her. A parasite of sorts, that is a framework — a blueprint — of what the shadow realm's ruler believes to be a perfect entity of pure evil. She hitches a ride in the back of the mind of the young Autocast and detaches just as they break through to the other side, slithering out like a snake and finding purchase wherever she can to draw upon that realm's shadows. To infuse her own; to grow.

What once was merely a dark twinkle in the back of its shadowy realm was now the host's lifeblood. She exists, she chooses a name, and she goes forth to spread that evil she was created for in whatever way she can. Whether the world likes it or not.

A lot of people claim to draw power from the Shadow Realm, and many of them do, but it's far more different for Lamia; she is the Shadow Realm, as much as any being can be, and her powers are a touch more potent.

SHADOWKINESIS

Differing from the general shadow manipulation that several people with powers have been granted, Lamia's shadows come directly from the Shadow Realm, a place born of evil and with potent magic sown through every single tendril. The control which she has over these particular shadows is paramount, and it's nigh impossible for anything or anyone to intervene and stop them; though she may not be unstoppable she's very hard to deter.

HEMOKINESIS

Learned from her original host, Lamia has become fascinated with the human concept of blood. A life-force outside of shadows that pumps through the veins. She has something akin to that within her now. But it is black and thick, though she is very much able to control the blood in others to cripple them, bend them to her will, or, in the rare case of an ally, help alleviate their pain and push them beyond their limits.

SHADOW FORM

Beyond just controlling the shadows, being an actual manifestation of the Shadow Realm means that Lamia can, herself, return to that shadowed form at all. While she shows all the hallmarks of a human being when in her assumed form, dissolving away into the heart of her evil core will return her to a shadowy being of pain.

Lamia's personality is lacking — or rather, it was before she escaped the shadow realm. Now, with an entire world of cultures and people to devour observe, she finds herself developing quirks and fits in with a few tropes: Faux Affably Evil, Evil Feels Good, Card Carrying Villain, Living Shadow, Dark Is Evil.

EVIL WITH A CAVEAT

Lamia is evil and beyond the telling of it, but her player has limits. She will do evil things off screen, but never will be described as graphic depictions of animal abuse or anything of the like. As it stands, if anyone has an issue with anything she does, please tell me. (I won't write about hurting an animal ever, trust me, hard cut-off.)

SHADOWS ARE MAGIC

The shadows that power her read both as evil and magic. They are not what one would consider normal shadows and seem to have a black depth deeper than pitch; anyone with those senses can probably determine where she's from if they have any information whatsoever on the realm itself.

BLACK VEINS ARE COOL;RED EYES ARE COOLER

Her face and parts of her body are wreathed in black veins, a tell-tale sign of the fact that her blood is probably not normal. Her eyes can vary from shades of crimson to pitch black depending on what she needs and sometimes it'll shift between the two in the flick of a nictitating membrane, much like a snake or lizard.

NICE? NAH

If she's being nice, she's just testing out theories and it's all an act. She doesn't exist in a space that can promote the idea of being nice. She is, quite literally, evil. She'll have allies (minimally), she'll have minions, but I doubt she'd ever consider anyone a friend.

FOR THE MAGIC

Making her 'father' happy is a thought in the back of her shadow-formed mind, and in that she will test out many things. Poking at things like someone would a science project, only with a magical eye rather than a scientific one.