(as with Eudial back in The Last Oddestsey, this character will have powers that differ from her original work, and I'm not entering an OC because I'm an asshat
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Alias/Full Name
Lulu Teruno
Real Name
Tellu
Gender
Female
Species
Daimon (with human DNA, which is how she retains a human form and anatomy 99% of the time)
Physical description
"Human"
Tellu has green hair tied into buns of some sort with some hair loose at the bottom, as well as black thread-like things going across her forehead and the top of her head. She has green eyes, and pink, ball earrings. For clothing, Tellu wears a black dress with the same thread-like things going criss cross up and down her arms. A black star holds her dress and the threads together. Underneath her black dress is another layer, colored green. She also wears green tights with more thread going criss cross up and down, and black shoes.
Various Tellu related shenanigans.
Daimon
Tellu's appearance changes somewhat drastically. She retains a human-like form but her skin turns a dark bluish-grey, her hair becomes messy, turns a darker green and the buns split into four fat tendril tails. The threads going up her arms turn into bushy vines and her skirt turns incredibly ragged, consisting of the same bushy texture. Her tights and shoes disappear, leaving her nearly bare-legged. Her face becomes demonic, with small irises/pupils and a demented, fanged mouth with purple lipstick. Her ears also become pointed. Recently, she has managed to retain some control of the Daimon form; when this happens, her eyes and mouth go back to normal, though she retains some fangs.
Don't piss her off.
Wait, you're not supposed to look like that!
Personality
tl;dr version: Hard to read, very manipulative, will do pretty much anything to get what she wants. deep down, doesn't know to feel positive emotions, but wants to.
Long version: Tellu is a person who is incredibly, incredibly hard to read. Her main attitude shows a woman who is outwardly cheerful, if rather condescending. She hardly ever acts serious, and refuses to take most things as such, unless her own life, or something precious to her, is threatened. Even then, she still is a master of façade who will not show her true colours even in the face of unimaginable peril... that is, unless she loses control. When she finally does, her Daimon form is unleashed and she becomes a relentless storm without restraints or inhibitions. And if you think you could read her even then, recently she is starting to come to grips with her Daimon form, and may even fake losing control just to throw her oppressors off.
Despite this, when Tellu wants something, there is very little limit to what she would do in order to get it. If she can't kill you, or even overpower you, she'll manipulate you, or even daunt you with the current situation. Hell, if she sees it fit, she'll even become your best friend, legit or otherwise, in order to achieve her goals. However, one thing she would never do is let another take control of her life. She rebukes the idea so utterly and cherishes her individuality, which is quite hypocritical based on her origins of being a harbringer of Chaos. Perhaps the disappearance of a certain red-headed comrade had something to do with this.
Interestingly, Tellu has very little understandings of love and friendship, again based on her origins, but desires to feel it in spite of her impalpable exterior. They're also one of those things she'd do anything to get.
Powers
"Human"
In her normal form, Tellu is capable of extending long, whip-like tendrils from the top of her wrists and can wrap them around objects, and also generate some measure of electricity to them. She can generate large orbs of energy on the palms of her hands and fling them at targets, causing immense explosions (she affectionately calls this attack her "Mandragora Buster") and covering the area in a sort of thick, warm fog if she needs them to. She uses the fog if she needs to retreat, and thereupon can lower her body temperature to help with this. She can also conjure up a petal-like shield to absorb minor projectile attacks, no matter how many.
Tellu has limited power over surrounding flora and fungi, and their respective growth rates. She uses a small amount of her life energy to achieve this task. For a terrifying example, she can spread the spores of Cordyceps over a very large area, as well as causing the mycelium inside the fungus to replace the host tissue of larger organisms and zombify them... humans, for example.
Tellu is also constantly developing her potential, so when she uses her powers, she gets more adept at using them. She may even learns new abilities when the time calls for it.
Daimon
Tellu becomes truly ridiculous when in this form. She can form her own arms into giant, writhing masses of barbed tendrils which she can use to lacerate and tear apart anything she sees fit. She prefers to plunge her arms into the ground while doing this to catch her target(s) off guard, but it does leave her vulnerable since she is rooted to the spot. Even when not arm-morphed, her hands become sharp claws which can slice through some of the toughest of materials, if she needs to be in close combat. The energy blasts she gives off become even more ridiculously potent.
Despite the ferocity of the Daimon form, it actually has more mundane uses. Daimon Tellu can cause her hair tendrils to phosphorate, glowing a very bright green and illuminating darker areas for her to venture through. Thanks to her more pointed ears, she can detect different amplitudes/wavelengths, as well as the speed and direction of sound. If she can maintain control of herself, that is. She can develop more abilities, but since she doesn't call on the form that often, little has been found yet.
Weaknesses
Why purposely put weaknesses, you ask? It's never any fun if you RP with a "flawless" character! Give yourself some deficits! Earn your happy and/or awesome ending... or whichever one you prefer!
- Tellu is, physically, incredibly frail, even in Daimon form. It's not too hard to overpower her in either state with brute strength alone... so long as you can outgambit her.
- Like most things plant-based, Tellu prefers warm habitual conditions. Anything too cold or too hot, and she becomes weaker. To append that, she has huge weaknesses to the Fire and Ice elements.
- Transforming causes Tellu to lose a significant amount of her energy when she goes back to normal.
- Most of the time, Tellu loses control in Daimon form. If she's not counter-manipulating you, you can goad her into a disadvantageous position.
- Mention anything related to Chaos or the Death Busters and her curiosity will get the better of her.
STRENGTH: 0
AGILITY: 2
INTELLIGENCE: 5
WILL: 3
Skills
1) As mentioned, in her full personality paragraph, Tellu is a master deceiver. This is primarily because her true motives are a whirlwind of mystery unless you really, really delve deep into her backstory. Her silver tongue can get her out of many situations and, if it suits her, into many as well. She could be your best friend and be plotting to use/kill you. Or both. Sadly, this works both ways. If you become important in her life and there are greater goals at stake, she may trick you into thinking she's turned against you, just to show later that she was always on your side.
2) She can concoct several medicines and antidotes from the various flora and fungi she knows of. Limited since the flora has to be near Tellu for her to do this, or that she must have the various items in her inventory.
3) Tellu can cast an infatuation on those she wants to with a mere glance; those who are stricken by such a spell are further unable to deceive Tellu, instead spilling their guts for her to hear. It does have limitations; Tellu cannot do this to beings with greater magic, plus the greater distance the target is away, the less chance it will work.
4) For some reason, Tellu is proficient with an estoc, a type of sword in use from the 14th to 17th centuries. It is primarily used as a thrusting weapon; thus, it's not good for defense, which mirrors Tellu's overall frailty.
5) Tellu can... erm... communicate with radishes. And Oddishes. Yes, you heard that right.
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INCREDIBLY CONVOLUTED BACKSTORY
Tellu is/was a member of the Witches 5, itself a subsidiary of the Death Busters. Their headquarters was located far away in space, in the reaches of the Tau Nebula. Their goal was to appropriate Earth and turn it into a outpost for their leader, Pharaoh 90.
Tellu, along with her "co-workers", Eudial Mimete Viluy and Cyprine respectively, was created for the sole purpose of being "perfect". The Death Busters took human DNA samples and planted Daimon seeds into them, which developed into the Witches 5. They had no will except the wills of their masters, and they carried out what tasks they could.
Daimons were Eldritch-like monsters that inhabited the Tau Nebula. The Witches 5 were considered "perfect" Daimons since the Daimon and human DNAs in them had merged perfectly together.
One day, Eudial of the Witches 5 went inexplicably missing. Of course, being what they were, the rest of the Witches found it no big loss and continued their duties. Being on Earth at the time, they had no idea that, soon enough, their old home of the Tau Nebula would be entirely wiped out by a glowing figure with red hair tied into long tails...
At that single moment, Pharaoh 90's sway over all his servants was broken. All the Daimons under his control went into catatonic states and died. The Witches 5, however, having human DNA in them, survived. Tellu, along with the rest of her division, discovered she had no sense of self any more; she, Mimete, Viluy, and Cyprine wandered aimlessly around the world, looking for answers. Of them, Tellu was the only one who could transform. This proved to be her saving grace when a mysterious stranger appeared before them claiming to know of Eudial's whereabouts, or someone resembling her. In order to get the information, they had to defeat him, and only Tellu could even put up a half-decent fight; her Daimon form allowed her a few minutes before she was laid in the dirt.
The figure however was impressed by her will and told them what he knew; that the Tau Nebula had been erased almost entirely from existence by a Eudial-like figure. After sitting through a cacophony of surprised yells, the figure would only say that things were about to get interesting, and advised them to prepare themselves. After that, he vanished, leaving the current situation up to the remaining Witches. However, jealous of Tellu, the other Witches abandoned her and went on their own separate journeys... so Tellu went on hers.
What was good? What was evil? Who decides what is good and what is evil? Was there even a good or an evil?
Tellu found herself asking this to herself so many times it drove her nearly to insanity, and she would spontaneously transform and reduce everything around her to timbers every so often. There was no way she could live a so-called "normal" life... not while those who were fighting the Death Busters in the first place were still vigilant. So Tellu turned into a vagrant... but one people would see quite often in different places. She would roam the Earth and commit acts that she felt fulfilling, or tried to, whether they were "good" or "evil". She no longer cared about Mimete, or Viluy, or Cyprine, or what they were doing. All she cared about was fulfilling her own needs. Whether that coincided with making other people feel better was another story.
In the beginning, she seduced and slept with a high-profile person only to kill that person in the middle of the night, steal their near-priceless possessions and then sell/auction them off for large quantities of money, which she had no real use for and left it in the hands of needy people. She also took the body of the person she killed and threw it to a starving pack of polar bears in the steadily-melting Arctic. Committing similarly blurred-line acts, she became an infamous, nameless figure who was cursed and praised at the same time. It didn't help that she would transform every so often, but the full moon seemed to calm her monstrous side down to the point where she could think rationally even in that form, and she began to meditate in that form under every full moon.
But otherwise, she felt next to nothing. Those she met didn't regard her with anything but contempt. She brushed it off, outwardly, but being constantly rejected made her feel like shit. So she resolved to find positive emotions... any way she could. She began to look for people with whom she could connect on a personal level. She also resolved to find the figure resembling Eudial, and tear out of her the reason she destroyed the Tau Nebula.
For now, those were her purposes in life.
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CURRENT ITEMS
- Eudial plushie
- A bunch of frogurts
- Estoc of Limerick
An enchanted sword that secretes a potent acid that will fairly rapidly dissolve through even the toughest of armours.... but persists only so long as the wielder is able to continue reciting limericks. If used when not reciting a limmerick, it will just be functionally a normal non-magical sword. (currently unavailable)
- Kinetic Drain Shield
Given the massive energy required to contain the Interdimensional Horror VAjantekopethoclor the Nega-Beast of a Trillion Hunger on the energy budget of a low level salary-wizard, Eric the Lavender came up with a scheme that would make him rich and contain his world eating flatmate to his own room. This shield was sold to adventurers for a premium, and channels the energy of any high speed physical projectiles into the shield that keeps the beast in check. In return, you get the benefit of being functionally immune from any physical projectile moving at any worthwhile speed. It won't protect you from being slowly crushed though.
- Trinity Jacket
Made to billow dramatically at the slightest breeze, twice per day, if you strike a cool enough pose it allows you to enter a bullet-time for long enough to get out of the very immediate danger. Shades make the pose striking easier.
- Bracer of the Micro-Airforce
A long bulky bracer that covers the entire forearm is actually a high tech military base for a tiny race of green people. Holding your arm straight out flat allows them to launch 7 of their fighter planes to defend home-base aka you. The planes fire energy weapons which while not fatal, cause painful spasms in their targets. There are hundreds of the green people living inside the bracer, though you have no idea what they are actually doing. On the positive but gross side, they harvest your sweat and purify it to provide their water, so it won't get sweaty.
- The Sea Maiden's Bustier
This bustier is technically made of wood - it was stolen from an enchanted ship's prow of a rather busty young woman. It feels and behaves like a fabric on most ways, but is far tougher, giving some physical protection, and if it receives an impact it sounds like the wood it is made from. It also includes several more esoteric powers including the ability to walk on water, an inability to drown and the ability to talk to seabirds.
- The Bramble Lance (in Durg's possession atm)
Designed for slaying dragons and serpents, the concept of this long spear is simple - upon piercing inside a foe with it's singular slender point, foot long barbs extrude out of the end of it in a sphere in every direction, essentially guaranteeing that unless the target is particularly massive trauma that is in all liklihood impossible to survive. A regular sized humanoid would functionally become a pincushion from within.
- The Bitch Queen's Tiara
There was once a queen of the dogs-lords of Xurr who was by every metric conceivable a monster. A tyrant through and through, she had scores murdered purely just to create this tiara. Initially it appears silver, but on closer inspection it is utterly monochrome even when under coloured light. Colour will not touch it. Each black diamond on it houses the captured souls of her own puppies and uses their tormented energies to powers its abilities. It allows the summoning of shadow weapons capable of harming divine beings like Angels. It can drain life force from others to heal the wearer. It allows the wielder to fire blasts of shadow energy from their fingertips. It can turn enemies into small black kittens though it causes a massive migraine to do so. It also acts as a lifetime pass to enter some of the most exclusive demon and monster only establishments in the city.
- The One Percenter
It steals 1% of the money of every being you get within 10m of, though it seems fellow arbiters are excluded, and it only works on each person once.
- Tomaz the Wamp-Engine (taken from Prof. Vengeance)
A toy most of the time, but when offered, it will take a pint of human blood in exchange for it's services. Must be purebred human (no mutants or genetically modified types) and must be fresh from a living source. In exchange for this payment, Tomaz can take a small group of people (up to 8, which must include the giver of blood) to any location on this earth, as well as to neutral or evil aligned parasite dimensions to this one like Hells or Purgatories. It is not capable of true inter-Universal travel however.
- Interface Optimisation Shell Hand
A prosthetic hand that can split into having 15 miniature digits to allow incredibly high speed interfacing with not only digital systems, but a number of exotic instruments, tools and weapons not normally usable by humanoids. It can plug straight in to a hand slot and takes it's data straight from the brain's intent rather than connecting to nervous systems, allowing it to carry out feats more complex than the person using it could normally handle.