Character(s) Lydia's Library of Lovelies

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This is intended mostly as a catch-all for collating character details that I want to keep organized, either to reference in single roleplays they are developed or adapted for, or to re-use outside of a specific containing roleplay.

If I have a character here that is part of an active roleplay, I may spoilerify certain details about them that have not been revealed in-fiction, especially if they are lore or deeplore heavy.

Some of these have never been part of a truly active roleplay, and some have been part of more than one. I don't necessarily have the stamina to put every character I have developed in here because I have a lot, but I will add to this as it becomes sensible to do so.

Certain details may be tied to their original source rp and aren't necessarily applicable in all settings they might be adapted to.

 

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Name(s): Priya (+ Cog)
Height: 5'10"
Eyes: red
Hair: Black
Distinguishing: Full synthroid body (Priya), with a hovering sphere orbiting her head (Cog)
Explorer, Bounty-Hunter, Engineer
Background: A former freelance mechanic in a hub-station who earned her keep repairing damaged systems on docked ships, who experimented part-time in cybernetic engineering, making a helper named Cog, a synthetic android with a spherical metacortex. After suffering a mortal wound following an explosion on her ship, she was able to upload her consciousness into a new metacortex, implanted into Cog's body, with Cog's AI serving as a spare brain and sounding-board for ideas. A sort of side-kick and conscience. She then used her status as the first sentient synthroid to take on dangerous jobs, as she could easily withstand a variety of harsh atmospheres, even the vacuum of space, and repair her body with her engineering skills if she got damaged.

 

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Name: Maya Callistria
Height: 5'10"
Eyes: Unknown
Hair: Long, white-gold
Age: 26
Distinguishing: Maya wears various eye-coverings on account of her loss of her ability of sight, at the age of 7.
Role/Profession: Priestess of Tae, the Deity of Acceptance

General Appearance/Description: Maya is a young woman clad entirely in white robes, wearing a brass circlet with a semi-translucent black half-veil that descends to the bridge of her nose, covering her eyes. She has a mature figure, and some of the younger acolytes of Tae look up to her as a quasi-maternal figure, even if she doesn't fully embody that role in every aspect of herself. She lives in a room to herself within the grounds of the main Temple of Tae, which she is familiar enough with the layout of to not need any help moving around in or performing daily tasks.

Devotion: As a priestess of Tae, Maya conducts herself in accordance with the teachings of Acceptance in its many forms. The core tenets of this faith are threefold: Acceptance of the Self, Acceptance of the Cosmos, and Acceptance of Others. This does not mean impassivity, as Tae is not a deity of inaction, but rather, of gradual but measurable change. From Acceptance stems Duty, which is informed by the status quo, striving towards a better world without upsetting the way of things as they are. The hungry are fed, the poor are given alms, the sick are given care, the displaced are given shelter, but otherwise little action is done by the Tae-followers to alter the course of the world's affairs.

 

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((Note: this character is extremely lore-rich and a lot of details may constitute actual spoilers for role-plays involving her, so reader discretion is strongly advised))

Name: Penumbra (Mistress of Murk)
Age: Late 20s (only in appearance as human-like avatar, actual age unknowable)
Gender: Female
Race: Ascended Slime
Height: 5'11" but variable
Weight: Unfathomable

Spoiler: Lore (surface)

Penumbra is a shapeshifting meta-slime of godlike power. She appears as a completely pale-skinned human female of considerable beauty with long silver hair and dark eyes, wearing a full-length black gown made of her own murky ooze. She is able to consume and absorb beings, and her very touch induces the corruption and decay of mortal creatures.

Spoiler: Lore (shallows)

Penumbra is a True Outsider, a being originating in another reality who escaped the clutches of an Eldritch World-Gazer who turned her own reality into a Legend in its collection of intriguing stories. She managed to survive and burrow her way into another world, the one she finds herself in currently.

Spoiler: Lore (Depths)

A rare mutation in the ancient past of the reality she was born in allowed for the formation of an abberant slime, which was able to divide and re-combine to double its effective power, rather than merely halving and doubling to stay even. After doing this an unknown number of times, it attained consciousness and sapience, and began consuming living creatures to adapt and learn, starting with insects, rodents, small animals, moving up to forest creatures, beasts of burden, and eventually humans. It continuously redoubled its power even as it learned the fundamental survival techniques and intellect of the beings it devoured, until it eventually began eating entire forests, villages, cities, and even dragons.

It soon lost its obscurity and anonymity that had kept it from being destroyed in its infancy, and was dubbed Umbra for the shadow of corruption it cast over all the land it subsumed.

In order to quell the existential threat of this creature with infinite potential for growth and destruction, a pure and virtuous holy-woman, Lady Penelope the Pure, made a sacred pact to willingly give her mind, body, and soul up to Umbra, by diving from the peak of a cliff into the murky sea that was Umbra, known as Shadowmere. So pure and incorruptible was Penelope's Undying Light that her immortal soul remained untarnished by decay even as her body was fully assimilated and devoured.

Rather than die, Penelope lived on as both warden and prisoner of Shadowmere, and every time Umbra attempted to redouble its power by dividing, Penelope's light would smite one of the two halves, keeping its growth in check and preventing it from growing any more powerful except by consuming other creatures, a limited avenue of growth compared to its infinite potential for recombination.

From this perverse yet majestic fusion of the two beings, the entity known as Penumbra (as a fusion of the names of the entities that had given rise to her) was 'born'. She took on the visage of Penelope, though with all color drained from her complexion, enrobed in the vestiges of Umbra.

She served for a time as an obscure shadow-general of the Demon Queen of her world, using the overt and well-known threat of the Queen to remain unrecognized, until her reality folded in on itself and it was only by diving into Shadowmere itself that Penumbra was able to outlast her world.