Inscius & Nightmare

Caelestis Dunst & Nightmare | Old as Time | Oct. 7 | Genderfluid
God of Dreams | Citizen | Music Company Owner | Pansexual
God of Dreams | Citizen | Music Company Owner | Pansexual
appearance
Insci likes to shift through genders at will, finding each to have its perks. They mainly find themselves at an appearance of androgyny, not preferring to look this way out of all of them. Throughout all forms, their hair and eyes shift depending on whether or not they are Daydream/Dream or Nightmare. Their hair color within Daydream/Dream states is white with a pinkish tone at the tips with a pastel blue color of their eyes. Nightmare turns their hair a deep shade of red, with golden colored eyes. A way to see if Insci is shifting towards Nightmare is that their eyes will change first, then their hair.
They have a tattoo along their right arm, and lack a left eye given to their companion Nightmare. They do not bother to hide their missing eye, only putting on a simple bandage if someone is really uncomfortable with it. They have standard ear piercings.
They have a tattoo along their right arm, and lack a left eye given to their companion Nightmare. They do not bother to hide their missing eye, only putting on a simple bandage if someone is really uncomfortable with it. They have standard ear piercings.
{ Insci - Androgynous }
Insci’s most common form is one that is indeterminate gender. They have a rather slender and willowy frame, with long arms and legs. Their hips are slender, their neck considered slightly long. They have almost a boney quality to them, standing at approximately five foot eight. Their clothing is rather baggy and comfortable, the way they dress themselves causing them to look rather youthful in their appearance. Their hair is a little shaggy, ending just past their ears and brushing just over their eyes. { Insci - Female }
Insci’s female form does not look much different from their Androgynous form. Their hair is generally curled and accessorised with hairclips. They adorn more makeup in this form, and adopt a more shapely figure. Their hips and bust become a few inches wider and their facial shape becomes more slender. They adorn far more feminine clothing, but still touch in their androgynous and masculine closets. Sometimes if they want longer hair, they find a wig - but since it’s often a lot of work, they will more often than not go without.{ Insci - Male }
Insci’s male form also does not look too much different from their Androgynous form. Their shoulders become broader, with a more rugged jawline. Their clothing does not change much from their androgynous form, though the tailoring of the suits change to fit the new body shape. They also generally add glasses that lack any prescription, just because they can. { Nightmare - Other Spirit }
Nightmare is apart of Insci, however seems to have a separate overall form. They only have one eye, and are seem to be made of smoke. They are just black in color with brighter accents to give them some dimension. They often float right next to Insci and are never much bigger than a standard square pillow. When Insci goes into Nightmare Mode, Nightmare’s eye replaces Insci’s missing one. The darkness spreads through the bloodstream of the god, and veins close to the surface look black. Otherwise, Insci makes Nightmare as least frightening as possible in appearance to avoid too much fright - generally in harmless forms such as cats or small birds. personality
Insci is the personification of dreams, and as such, has the personalities of all three stages. They seem to just mindlessly float between daydreams and regular dreams at will, nightmare state being a very rare state for them just as rare as nightmares are for others. Insci and Nightmare share the same personality, though Nightmare is more prone to the Nightmare portion of their personality - as one would expect.
Daydream Insci and Dream Insci are extraordinarily similar to one another, save for some few key differences.
Daydream Insci … They’re far more friendly and child-like, always munching on candy and offering it to others. They laugh at almost everything, especially to those who insult or argue with them on anything. Insci is far more kind in this state of being, willing to offer a hand to those who ask for it. Though this is not uncommon, this is not their default mental state.
Dream Insci … Similar to the daydream version of Insci, they are still pretty bubbly. They are care-free in almost every sense of the word, finding amusement even if they are held hostage with a gun to their head. They seem to take most things in stride, just watching people. Insci loves to meddle, playing with people’s words and just generally making their own amusement. This is their general state of being in some kind of balance of themselves.
{ Of Daydreams and Sweet Nights }
Insci radiates confidence and seems to have no shame, often telling people “you can’t shame me if I have no shame”. They still munch on candy however they can be quite cynical, as they have seen the highs and lows of humanity. They care not for most lives, as people die all the time - but their realm is forever. As long as their realm remains, they don’t particularly care. Insci loves to watch people go a little chaotic, finding amusement in confusion and arguments. Not much happens in their dreamscape, nothing interesting to them anyway, so they try to keep things interesting in the world around them. Even if it means causing a little bit of trouble. Insci has gotten in trouble for making trouble a few times before, with several arrests on their record. In these mindsets, they are almost aimless outwardly. But they take their interactions for all the information they can take, finding it useful for later - especially among the gods.Daydream Insci and Dream Insci are extraordinarily similar to one another, save for some few key differences.
Daydream Insci … They’re far more friendly and child-like, always munching on candy and offering it to others. They laugh at almost everything, especially to those who insult or argue with them on anything. Insci is far more kind in this state of being, willing to offer a hand to those who ask for it. Though this is not uncommon, this is not their default mental state.
Dream Insci … Similar to the daydream version of Insci, they are still pretty bubbly. They are care-free in almost every sense of the word, finding amusement even if they are held hostage with a gun to their head. They seem to take most things in stride, just watching people. Insci loves to meddle, playing with people’s words and just generally making their own amusement. This is their general state of being in some kind of balance of themselves.
{ And Bitter Nightmares }
Nightmares are dreams too, people often forget. And as the representation of dreams, Insci is no different. Their sweet and comforting aura becomes threatening and sinister, like all of humanity's worst dreams rolled into an aura. Insci becomes cruel with a far more volatile personality as their words grow harsher. They have very little patience in this state and are prone to lash out violently at others, rarely going so far as to cause fatal damage. Within work, they become stricter and surprisingly this is the best state of being for their work since they are less distracted by others and their emotional states. Coming across as proud, blunt, and borderline rude, they can be quite the handful. When in the dreamscape and entering the Nightmare Mentality, it is best to stay out of their way. They will cause nightmares that leave people screaming in their sleep, having no mercy on those who come in their path. Nightmares are dreams too, and Insci uses this to the fullest.powers
{ God of Dreams }
As the God of Dreams, Insci has the ability to rule over the dreamscape. Their power is multiplied when on the dreamscape because they can manipulate it all at will. Whether it be giving themselves a weapon to changing the scenery, they can warp the images in people's dreams to fit their image. They can create monsters and the images of people that seem real but aren’t because the dreamscape is only temporary. As long as they are in a meditative state, they can access the dreamscape - however it takes more energy and effort if they are invading the dreamscape of someone they have yet to meet in person. Insci can also shift through people's dreams, like a photo album. The dreamscape has no real set appearance, because it is the dreams of whomever is asleep. People who do not dream or do not experience a dream that night... their dreamscape is a white slate that extends forever. People who are aware of their presence can fight back and the more resistance they have against them than the more power it takes to keep what they create. If the other person is strong enough, they can completely banish them from the dreamscape for the night or retake control of their own dreamscape because ultimately - the dreamscape is apart of the dreamer. Anything that happens in the dreams cannot physically harm the dreamer however the memory can be left there. All of their dream walking has to be done while the other person is asleep, and maybe in daydreams depending on how frequent and close contact Insci has with the person.
Majority of the time, Inscius is sent to a randomized dream. It takes immense focus to find themselves into a specific persons dream and even then the requirement of them being asleep is required. If they try to access the dreams of someone that is awake - they will be sent to another randomized dream. Because of their connection to the dreamscape, Inscius has loose connections to almost every dream. However these can be severed if the dreamer is conscious of the connection. People that Inscius has actually interacted with face to face have a stronger connection and it is even more difficult to severe the connection.
In order to access the dreamscape, Inscius must enter a state of heavy meditation. Their eyes must be closed or their vision blocked, with nothing but their own clothes and the floor touching them - otherwise they cannot enter. They are not very picky about where they choose to meditate however points in which they have to meditate for long portions of time (being anywhere from ten hours and above), they have a few requirements. A quiet room, little to no scent, a comfortable place to sit, and no one can bother them. However when they come out of meditation, they are disoriented. They are exhausted, prone to stumbling around and behaving like they're drunk. It takes a minimum of an hour before they're fully functioning again, due to the heavy differences between the dreamscape and reality.
species powers
{ One of the Gods }
As a deity, Insci is capable of being reincarnated. Insci is capable of surviving and escaping death by having their spirit/soul reborn into the body of another. The youngest age Insci has been seen in is approximately nine years old, and must have someone else who can take care of them. Additionally, while their body is younger, they have less control of their abilities.
However, the council may decide to transfer the title (and therefore the powers) to a suitable host. If this happens, Insci will be reborn as a human without all of the powers. If Insci desires to have their title back, they have to either earn it before the title is passed on or prove that they are more competent to the council than their replacement.
Also as a deity, their body is different than a human's. They do not need food or sleep but to maintain their body’s healthy appearance, it is necessary. Sickness does not affect them, and however they are still open to things such as addictions and mental warping. When reincarnated, they age twice as fast but still need the time to pass to show their aging process. As dreams, Insci has no real form and no real gender - their godly appearance (outside of the form they had been given when they arrived to the island) is like a ghost in how transparent it is, mixing like milk in coffee between Insci colors and Nightmares colors. As any god, they can be killed permanently by divine weaponry.
Finally, as the deity of a concept without a set image, they have no set form and change it at will. It takes a few minutes for their body to fully adjust to a new shape, a minimum of five minutes to completely shift. These bodies must be human in appearance but the coloring can vary. Their clothing and hair cannot change, and any physical markers such as scars or bruises or tattoos cannot change either. Their body will feel fatigued after having to go through the physical changes, and natural cycles such as pregnancy will force them to stay in that gender until completed.
biography
With the clashing mythologies and centuries of time to allow the memories to fade, it is unclear just how Inscius came into being along with the Pantheon. If asked, they will just smile and say; "We've always been here. Why wouldn't we be?". Each time they're asked they give a new story and it is hard to tell any truth among them, so it is best not to ask. Inscius might not even know themselves. But the following is the only consistency in the rest of their story of themselves.
A new god, Inscius spent most of their time in the heavenly plane. Much of their time was spent in meditation to control the wild new landscape, combining with the gods of prophecy and fate to give the others they left behind some kind of guidance. Centuries passed, while Inscius was in heavy meditation for most of their time. They found wars too tedious, too time consuming to bother with. Everyone was equal in their realm, everyone was at the mercy of the god of dreams - save for the highest of the council.
Their first years among the humans was chaos. Too many fuck ups, too many mistakes. Their worst one was falling in love - a rookie mistake for a new god, someone too used to immortality to remember that some had a set amount of years.
Elliot, she said she was called. It felt like a bizarre name to Insci, and they spoke of their give human name. A lovely blonde who had too much of a fascination with something that was not natural. She loved the fantasy novels in her father’s library, the sport of fencing. She was one of a kind, at least to Insci. They found themselves in her company often… Insci was clumsy, always unsure of what to do in a time where everyone was always so heavily trained in everything from movements to speech to just how they appeared. Elliot thought Insci lovely despite how odd they were in comparison to the mundane world around her. With some training and time to gain the courage, Insci approached her father for her hand.
They received the father's blessing. They danced their wedding away, laughing as Elliot showed her new lover all the new steps she learned. They stumbled over each other more often than not, her skirts always twirling around her as Insci spun her - they knew she liked the blur of the world when spun for a hair too long.
But the pregnancy was rough, and the medicine was too low to fix what had gone wrong in her body. Procedures were too new, too dangerous. Her family demanded to save the baby, who according to some superstition was to be a son. A son meant an heir. Inscius protested. If they saved the baby, there would be no wife to save. Heir be damned, they wanted to save Elliott. Even if the procedures were risky, they told them to take the risk. They begged the god of medicine to save their child, to keep them safe. But the fates had other plans.
Inscius learned their lesson about genuine love. The baby and their wife were lost, and they went back to the heavenly plane. They spent much of their time in the dreamscape again and again. Another century passed before they came back down. New names and new faces, always just moving through. They settled on a name and face a lifetime before Manta Carlos’ creation. They had found themselves in the music industry, and slowly worked their way. The money was saved and their name slowly got out there. It was when Manta Carlos came to be more supernatural based that Inscius became drawn to the land.
They brought their name and their music, slowly growing with the times and technology. Inscius was happy there, with no need for a new name because their name was enough. Their humanoid form was enough and sometimes not even that was needed. They could meditate and control the dreamscape but still have time to do other things - like maintain their career in the music industry.
A new god, Inscius spent most of their time in the heavenly plane. Much of their time was spent in meditation to control the wild new landscape, combining with the gods of prophecy and fate to give the others they left behind some kind of guidance. Centuries passed, while Inscius was in heavy meditation for most of their time. They found wars too tedious, too time consuming to bother with. Everyone was equal in their realm, everyone was at the mercy of the god of dreams - save for the highest of the council.
Their first years among the humans was chaos. Too many fuck ups, too many mistakes. Their worst one was falling in love - a rookie mistake for a new god, someone too used to immortality to remember that some had a set amount of years.
Elliot, she said she was called. It felt like a bizarre name to Insci, and they spoke of their give human name. A lovely blonde who had too much of a fascination with something that was not natural. She loved the fantasy novels in her father’s library, the sport of fencing. She was one of a kind, at least to Insci. They found themselves in her company often… Insci was clumsy, always unsure of what to do in a time where everyone was always so heavily trained in everything from movements to speech to just how they appeared. Elliot thought Insci lovely despite how odd they were in comparison to the mundane world around her. With some training and time to gain the courage, Insci approached her father for her hand.
They received the father's blessing. They danced their wedding away, laughing as Elliot showed her new lover all the new steps she learned. They stumbled over each other more often than not, her skirts always twirling around her as Insci spun her - they knew she liked the blur of the world when spun for a hair too long.
But the pregnancy was rough, and the medicine was too low to fix what had gone wrong in her body. Procedures were too new, too dangerous. Her family demanded to save the baby, who according to some superstition was to be a son. A son meant an heir. Inscius protested. If they saved the baby, there would be no wife to save. Heir be damned, they wanted to save Elliott. Even if the procedures were risky, they told them to take the risk. They begged the god of medicine to save their child, to keep them safe. But the fates had other plans.
Inscius learned their lesson about genuine love. The baby and their wife were lost, and they went back to the heavenly plane. They spent much of their time in the dreamscape again and again. Another century passed before they came back down. New names and new faces, always just moving through. They settled on a name and face a lifetime before Manta Carlos’ creation. They had found themselves in the music industry, and slowly worked their way. The money was saved and their name slowly got out there. It was when Manta Carlos came to be more supernatural based that Inscius became drawn to the land.
They brought their name and their music, slowly growing with the times and technology. Inscius was happy there, with no need for a new name because their name was enough. Their humanoid form was enough and sometimes not even that was needed. They could meditate and control the dreamscape but still have time to do other things - like maintain their career in the music industry.
additional info
They always carry an umbrella and some kind of candy. The umbrella they carry has a sword in it's handle that was crafted by the God of the Forge - thus is considered divine weaponry. However they have never brought it up against another God that was not in self defense... And even then, they have never killed another God.
The sword in their umbrella only has one "unique" ability, and it is that it can kill one of the other gods of the Pantheon - it cannot kill any other deity outside of the council. To everyone else, it is an average sword.
They are apart of the Pantheon of Gods.
Because of their age, they knew a variety of languages and instruments. However with time, they have forgotten much. They can speak English, Spanish, Latin, and some Korean - however they can read much more. They can pay the guitar, piano, and violin.
The sword in their umbrella only has one "unique" ability, and it is that it can kill one of the other gods of the Pantheon - it cannot kill any other deity outside of the council. To everyone else, it is an average sword.
They are apart of the Pantheon of Gods.
Because of their age, they knew a variety of languages and instruments. However with time, they have forgotten much. They can speak English, Spanish, Latin, and some Korean - however they can read much more. They can pay the guitar, piano, and violin.