Name: Kaliste Venus Proserpina.
Age: Twenty-one.
Birthday: June tenth, 1997.
Gender: Male.
Species: Undead half-demon.
Category: Citizen.
Career: Police Department Coroner.
Age: Twenty-one.
Birthday: June tenth, 1997.
Gender: Male.
Species: Undead half-demon.
Category: Citizen.
Career: Police Department Coroner.
Appearance Description: With his willowy stature, dark sclera, and weird pink irises, Kali has a very dreamy look about him. His cherry hair is usually brushed back and braided neatly into various chic styles. Ebony horns curl outward from their skull, a hallmark of his demonic ancestry. He bears the smell of blood and death as one might wear an exotic perfume. He also wears actual perfume; mmm, roses.
His garb highly depends on the day you meet him. Whatever he wears is guaranteed to be pink, gaudy, and/or silky — unless he is dressed for work. Then, he is predictably wearing a lab coat over whatever else he happens to be wearing.
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Personality Description: Kaliste is, at heart, one big dramaking who chews the scenery up like he’s channeling the spirit of every disney villain ever to exist, all at once. Demon discrimination really batters his horns.
- Positive Traits: Kaliste tends to be charming, determined, enthusiastic, and delightfully hammy in everything he does.
- Negative Traits: All the same though, his tastes lean toward morbidity and the macabre. He can be shrill, overly-flirtatious, and uncomfortably blase about personal space.
Biography: Kaliste’s story is… surprisingly mundane, for this community. His mother is a succubi, he were born and raised in Manta Carlos alongside a twin sister, and he recieved a solid education at Starlight Academy. This has ensured that he accepts weirdness with but a sideways glance and an affable shrug. After graduating, he took up a position as the police department’s newest coroner. Meanwhile, his sister works as a barmaid across town. “That’s about it, dahling.”
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Active Abilities:
- In The Flesh: Kaliste has the rather uncanny ability to resurrect dead creatures… kind of. To do so requires him to temporarily store a little bit of his own life essence inside the vessel — soul, mana, whatever you may call it — which gives him a cute little puppet to dote over and command. Keeping three vessels animated at a time makes them very woozy. Five or more, and they pass out. All vessels become inanimate when they lose consciousness or falls asleep. He likes to attach buttons over the eyes of his favorites, and often uses them as extra hands, especially during his dissections.
- Poppet Master: Kaliste knows how to craft and use a useful tool of magic — poppets. A poppet is a small figure of a person, a doll in other words, which has a magi-tactile hold over a chosen victim. Holding the poppet underwater might give the victim the sensation of drowning. Slathering a healing salve over the doll might draw the pain out of the target’s wounds. If one is creative, it could be used to create more exotic sensations too… Whatever use Kaliste decides to go with, there are limits. He cannot directly kill or physically maim the victim, truly heal the victim, nor control the actions of the victim. All he does is cause phantom tactile sensations. Whether that be pain or pleasure is up to him. In order to utilize any given poppet, Kaliste has to put a sliver of his soul inside. Thus, use of a poppet counts as having an animated vessel active — this follows all the same restrictions as In The Flesh. The materials for a poppet are; a blank cloth doll, a bit of hair or nail or such from the victim, the trappings necessary to make the doll resemble the victim, and a smidge of patience. {OOC note; this is definitely an ability I need to okay before using on other’s characters.}
- Ragdoll Regeneration: A separate ability from (but highly related to) Poppet Master. Kaliste possesses a small poppet — “Mini Me!” — sewn in his own image. It has a different use than their typical creations; self-necromancy. If he happens to die, his soul will flee to the poppet while his body slowly (and sometimes imperfectly) heals. The time it takes will depend on the nature of his death. The more whole his body is, the quicker it will go. The shortest period of time is, currently, a day. While his body knits itself back into working order, Kali puppeteers his ragdoll vessel. As the poppet, he loses his ability perform magic; his physical strength is also diminished to that which you’d expect from a cloth doll with a wire frame. Kaliste is very vulnerable during the cooldown phase. If one were to destroy the poppet containing his soul before his body was ready to take it back in, it would kill him for real. “Please, don’t bury me. It’ll take absolute ages to wash the dirt out of my hair.”
Passive Abilities:
- Attraction Action: As his mother was a succubus, Kaliste lets off pheromones that “make me seem yummy!” to those at a similar age to him. Folks with a sexual drive who happen to be about eighteen to twenty-four years old will feel a mild physical attraction when in the same room as them. The allure can be ignored, but it’s… there.
- Sleepless Soul: He also mysteriously require zero sleep to function. “Oh, I’ve died a couple times. You don’t need any naps after waking up from the Eternal Rest!”
Weaknesses:
- Holy Hydrophobia: Holy water mildly irritates Kaliste, leaving behind unseemly sunburn-like patches wherever it touches him. “Ow! What the unholy hell?”
- Light’s Blight: As a being of demonic descent, holy magics and healing spells cause Kaliste pain instead of relief.
- Contractual Obligations: Kaliste feels very compelled to follow through with any contract he signs his name under. Neglecting to fulfill any written promise he’s made causes him days of paralyzing mental anguish. Yes, this includes Terms of Service. “See! This is exactly why I read the fine print, folks.”
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Common Magical Items: Reluctantly wears an aura bracelet warning of his pheromones. Light pink, three notches.
Resources:
- Assets Undead: In terms of favored vessels, Kaliste only has a skeletal zombie-sparrow dubbed Arie. Just wait a few years, he’ll become an old cat person, but instead of cats, he’ll hoard dead things.
- Dollish Distractions:Kaliste currently possesses Mini Me and… that’s it. He’ll accumulate more poppets later, surely.
- Portable Sewing Kit: Warning; filled with sharp objects. Specifically, it holds a pack of large-eyed sewing needles, three spools of thread (blush, ivory, rose), a few yarns of fabric in those same colors, a blank poppet or two, a measuring ribbon, scissors, and a cushion of pins. All stabby things are made of well-polished iron, and all have been used as improvised weapons and medical tools at one time or another.
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Additional Information: Kaliste possesses a great plurality of themesongs.
- Likes: Small critters, challenging “projects”, affable flirtations with all manner of beings, the theatre, quiet time to cut up dead things, loud time to gossip, disney movies.
- Hates: Ugly color schemes and clothing combinations, the taste of alcohol, being ignored.
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Name: Kaliste Venus Proserpina