Vices and Virtues RP discussion

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LUST
{Melanie}

Name: Lydia Mae Alcott
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Species: Human (powered)
» Sin: Lust
» Abilities: Lydia has the powers of telepathy and mind control. It is said that she can make anyone do anything she wants: her powers can bend the mind, and her beauty could bend the body.
» Weaknesses: Lydia's magic is extremely powerful, but she is not a master of it yet. Her inexperience is one of her major flaws. Her offensive powers are quite remarkable, but she has no training in the opposite. She has the immunity to damage as any normal mortal would. Lydia is extremely impulsive and rash. She doesn't care for anyone but herself, and even then it depends on the day.
Appearance:
Lydia has flawless ivory skin and high cheekbones. Her black hair falls in slight waves down to the top of her tiny waist. Her eyes are the only part of her that is very different from the normal human; they are an iridescent green, so bright it sometimes looked like green lightning sparked through them. Her high cheekbones cast mysterious shadows over her face. Her plump lips rest in a perpetual smirk. Her body is impeccable, with curves right where they needed to be and muscle where the curves aren't. She is perfectly groomed from her eyebrows to her pedicure, and always keeps up with the latest trends.
Personality: Unfortunately, Lydia's personality is not as gorgeous as her physical appearance. She's quite sarcastic and very impatient with most people. Instead of thinking things through, she gives in to her immediate impulses and never waits for anything. She is truly a member of the generation with their hand out, never wanting to work for anything. She can be kind, but it takes a rare person to get her to show a softer side. She's unfaithful in relationships and never truly loves anyone. She's intelligent, but tries to hide her cleverer side.
History: (view spoiler)[
It was clear from the beginning that Lydia did not fit in with the little kids. During preschool, while all of the other children were huddled around the television, drooling over a signing dinosaur, Lydia was listening to the young teachers complain about their home lives. For a long time, Lydia wondered how none of the other children could hear what the teachers were saying. After one particular venting session, Lydia stood up in the middle of the class and took the teacher by the hands.

"Listen. I don't care what you think your husband is doing with the cute waitress at Polly's, but you need to deal with it soon, because I simply cannot listen to this any more." The teacher was shocked for two reasons: first, that a student wold talk to her like that, and second, because the teacher had not uttered a single word to the students.

Lydia was sent home, expelled from preschool forever. Lydia began to understand that she was very special. She listened to everyone's thoughts. Her father worried about the money, and her mother was always thinking about herself. Her sister thought about college and her baby brother thought about colors.

One day, her mother wouldn't give her a cookie. Lydia pouted all the while that her mother was chopping cucumbers for dinner. She was fuming, and her green eyes glared with rage at the knife. Then, something snapped inside of her.

"Don't you want to give me a cookie now?" she asked sweetly. Her mother nodded, as if in a trance. She reached into the jar and plucked out a chocolate chip treat. The little girl took a bite and smiled.

"That's what I thought. Thanks," Lydia said.

Lydia's mom resumed her cutting. Something told her mother to start chopping faster, and faster, and faster, and... Lydia's mom had four fingers on her left hand.

After several violent event occurred around their daughter, the Christian family decided that Lydia was a demon and they must expel her from the family as the teachers had expelled her from preschool. They left her on the fire department steps late one night.

Lydia grew up in forest care, a system that left any normal person battered and confused. But Lydia thrived among the predators of the foster system. She learned to manipulate the minds of everyone around her easily.

As an adult, Lydia made a very convincing salesperson, but she desired more. She eventually got into politics, where she was extolled as being a master negotiator. While never the face of any campaign, she was always behind the curtain, pulling the strings. (hide spoiler)]
Family: Mother, father, brother, sister, various foster families.
Preferred Weapon: Lydia enjoys shooting a handgun with a top-notch silencer.
Other: Lydia's relationships have all failed because of her infidelity, but she does truly want to find love in someone some day.

GLUTTONY
{Dawn}

Name: Gerard Denseuir
Gender: Male
Age: As old as the Earth.
Species: Bone Gollem (A gollem made of flesh and bone, mainly corpses. He is a living zombie, as enticing as a vampire, and abundantly-whelming like a drug. Made by the Master of the Vices. He cannot die because the glutton of humans feed him a spirit. He often talks about the Master (you can probably guess who the Master of Sins is). If the Master is weak, he is weak, because he is a gollem and is connected to the other Vices as well as the Master.
» Sin: Gluttony
» Abilities: (view spoiler)[
1) He has the power of habit. If someone is curious, he can lead them to whatever they want. He has the power to feed any drive that exists (even slightly) within anyone. Usually he needs to be close by, or have physical contact if the focus point isn't weak enough.
2) Since he is a Bone Gollem, he uses bodies (or body parts) of the dead. But once his spirit of gluttony is in the body, it can glow and appear normal to anyone without the correct sight. (Even Vices and Virtues cannot see his real form unless they can see past the gluttony). His real form is basically rotted, misshapen flesh that reeks of blood and death. He wears certain clothes/charms/perfumes to mask the scents and any obviously rotted part of him that anyone could see (correct sight or no).
3) He is a cannibal. That's not an ability, just a fun fact relating to the following ability. So, you're not considered a cannibal unless you eat your own species, right? Well, he loves corpses. Uncooked and meaty, right off the bone(s). It doesn't actually fill him, but the action makes him happy. His ability; once he has eaten a part of a corpse, he can communicate with the spirit. He can manipulate the ghost. And if he eats a part of someone who is alive, he can access your soul. (hide spoiler)]
» Weaknesses: (view spoiler)[
1) He is a Bone Gollem. Sewn together with random parts of corpses. His main weakness his his clothes/charms/perfumes. If he doesn't use them, or they are stolen, he is revealed for what he is. It doesn't necessarily weaken him, but it does take away his advantages of illusionary appeal.
2) Even though he is the master of gluttony, he can at times fall to it himself. He likes to indulge in everything (even if he doesn't require mortal things to survive) and if he is withdrawn from something, it is an eternal torment. Because of this, he isn't a trustworthy person. Can easily be bribed (if there is no better option), or can abandon someone for something more beneficiary).
3) If he is ripped apart, he cannot move. If a human or creature comes into contact with him, he will take over their body and use them to reconstruct a new body for himself. (How else do you think someone would be crazy enough to create a Frankenstein, if not driven by some degree of gluttony in such acts?)
4) Ghosts cannot become temporal (no touching, no one sees them, etc), but they can enter your body and tempt your mind, twist your desires, rise the gluttony in you.
5) He can't "puppet-master" a living person, he just infects them. Like, the wound won't bleed out, but it won't heal either. He can go inside your thoughts, and attempt to influence you, and he can sense your presence anywhere. You cannot hide. (hide spoiler)]
Appearance:
----- 6"4 in height, sturdy build. He wears a silver chain choke-necklace which he covers in scarves or coats, etc. There are a similar chains around his biceps on both arms. Very small, but very hard to break. The chains are also on each ankle. They are bound tightly and make no noise.
----- Everything he wears is dipped in a charmed chemical/perfume that masks his scent. His outfits range from whatever mood he is in. He has lived through every century (yet does not gain wisdom from those years) and has chosen which styles he will wear. Usually the best suits and finest things, tries to stand out while being moderately time-occasion appropriate.
----- The chains are his charms of illusion. As long as he is wearing them they create a false image of him to others.
Personality: A very "in-the-moment" person. A child; happy if he gets what he wants, a monster if he doesn't, but a child-monster who knows how to get whatever he wants and will. No regrets. Just desire. He is empty, and tries to endlessly fill himself. Drinking, being social, an adrenaline junkie. He cannot die, so there is little risk, and so he loves mind-games and riddles. Everything non-temporal he cannot get enough of.
History: Made by the Master. Like a good gollem he loves the Master and performs his will, even if it is against his own current desire. Living for so long has not made him wise, he has too much drive to settle down and have depth. He does, however, know things. Not very good at remembering, unless he wants to. Only one thing is important enough to note here. He saw Love, many years ago. He wants Love. He desires Love. That is the core of his gluttony. Even over the Master.
Family: He thinks of the Vices as his siblings, and humans as his pets. Then there is the Master.
Preferred Weapon: He likes chemicals, poisons. Explosions. Can't get enough of fire and the large bang. That also led to him liking guns, but he can't steady himself enough to aim. If he has a gun, duck, he won't even bother to aim.
Other: The one thing he wants most is Love. He likes watching the water coming out of a faucet, or rain falling down. It distracts him and soothes his gluttony.

GREED
{Alpha}

SLOTH
{Insomnium}

Name: Acedia Malidious
» Nicknames: Morose, Sleeping Beauty, Belphegor
Gender: Female
Age: As old as the creation of the Milky Way
Species: Demon of Sloth ( 2nd Reincarnation )
» Sin: Sloth
» Abilities: (view spoiler)[
1.) Acedia has the power to tire people out. She emits minuscule spores that slowly paralyze the muscles of the people around her. She can determine when the spores are spread and where they are directed with her sphere of influence Anything within a 100 foot radius is subject to her ability and will slowly become more and more tired until they fall asleep.
2.) Acedia has the ability to manipulate the wind itself, she can use it to create razor sharp blasts of air and she allows uses her powers over wind to move at blinding fast speeds so she can deliver powerful physical blows to her opponents
3.) Acedia has the ability to unleash her inner demonic beast Belphegor to attack her enemies, during this period she is protect by a field of demonic energy as Belphegor attacks her foe. She often uses this technique as a fail-safe when she knows she is about to be afflicted by her narcolepsy. (hide spoiler)]
» Weaknesses: (view spoiler)[ Acedia main weakness comes her severe narcolepsy, where she suffers episodes of hypersomnia and falls into deep REM sleep. This can happen at any time and makes it difficult for her to function without the help of her lesser vice who watches over her when she suffers from her condition. As a trade over for her immense power she also suffers from Kleine- Levin Syndrome which increases her chance for hypersomnia as she usually needs to sleep 15 to 21 hours during each episode. She also suffers from hyperphagia and developers strange carvings for food. Lastly she also is afflicted with hypersexuality which can cloud her judgment when met with an attractive enemy. (hide spoiler)]
Appearance:
Acedia is very slender standing at 5‘10 with flared hips and a drowsy face. Her hair is snow white and reaches just below her bust. She has light blue pupils and pale skin due to the fact that she hasn't spent much time in the sun. Her human form was created to not draw attention and to make it more comfortable when she sleeps.

Demon Form:

Personality: Acedia is usually very passive in most situation and prefers to stay silent during encounters with other people, but she does talk she is usually very insightful. She is naturally very curious and loves to discover new things in the world albeit very slowly. She can be very cryptic with her words as she has lived through many centuries, making allusions to things that have happened millions of years ago. Acedia is usually drowsy due to her Kleine- Levin Syndrome and severe narcolepsy which puts her to sleep during random moments of the day, but when she isn't drowsy she is usually very poetic that speaks for her immortality. Acedia can also be very sexual due to her Kleine- Levin Syndrome she experiences moments of hypersexuality. Acedia as spent much of her time on Earth observing human nature and has found a strange fascination with their culture and ideas. As such she has spent a vast amount of time to be able to emulate humans in their natural environment.
History: (view spoiler)[ Acedia was conceived when the original vessel of Sloth died during the first clash with heaven. She decided that would wouldn’t involve herself with the conflict between the waring factions because she naturally was very curious about the universe itself and didn’t want to have her life cut short because of the conflict of Heaven and Hell. She was criticized by her Master for not participating in the battle, but as the reincarnation of the other sins began to reach double digits her master gradually began to thank Sloth for her laziness. Sloth spent her first thousand years of creation learning basic concepts about the world such as morality and the difference between good and evil. She was always curious about the bigger questions in the world and she seeked answers for them. Her life de-evolved into a life of pure laziness as she spent more and more time sleeping which is how she developed her narcolepsy. She would occasionally watch the battles between the angels and the demons, but these things simply did not interest her. Acedia always kept a close relationship between the other sins particularly Pride and Lust who she considers her “girlfriends “ even throughout their reincarnation. She has often tracked them down and re-ignited their friendship between the two. The life of Acedia began to pick up once Earth was created by God. She held an almost obsessive curiosity for the world and it’s wonders; so much so that once the world was populated by sin hat she spent much time in the world itself spreading sloth all over the land for fun, but soon she had a new fascination for the world around her and she took a particular liking to humans. She always found something new to discover throughout her many years and she took pleasure in learning the ways of the human kind. The was found in many documents through out ancient times and it often described as the hay-bringer of destruction. She brought forth the downfall of many ancient empires such as Rome and ancient, but in recent times she has stopped causing chaos in the human world and has instead trying living with them to learn their ways. Acedia doesn’t like to use her real name anymore because it reminds her of how old she is; now she goes by her more modernized name: Morose. (hide spoiler)]
Family: She considers Lust and Pride to be like her sisters
Preferred Weapon: Sloth prefers hand to hand combat over using her other powers because of her blinding fast speed. She can easily overpower an unsuspecting enemy with her speed, but she isn’t afraid to weaken her opponent throughout the fight using her sleep spores or even resorting to using her wind magic when in a pinch.
Other: Sloth is an avid video gamer and has spent many of her recent years playing the latest games.

WRATH
{Sunshine}

Name: Kalli Ira Excidio
» Nickname: Kali the Destroyer
Gender: Female
Age: Between 1000 and 2000
Species: Goddess
» Sin: Wrath
» Abilities: Immortality; Earth
» Weaknesses: As the years pass, Kalli forgets what has gone by. She can really only remember the last few hundred years, which for her, is less than half her life.
Appearance:
Kalli has black hair cut above her shoulders with fringe cut straight across her forehead. She is pale, with eyes of such dark grey they are nearly back. She has lovely curves and is quite tall, around 5'10" or 5'11". She is always packing, and only she ever knows the exact amount of weapons she carries on her person.
Personality: Kalli is ferocious and determined. She is quick to anger, naturally, and her wrath is something to fear. Her reputation usually proceeds her, though little seems to follow her but for destruction. She cares little for the lives of others, particularly those of humans, as they are but flashes in her eye—there one moment and gone the next. She is witty and sarcastic, with her own, confusing set of morals no one else could ever hope to understand.
History: Kalli is indeed Kali the Destroyer, a goddess in Hinduism. Despite her supposed origins in battle, she evolved to a full-fledged symbol of Mother Nature in her creative, nurturing and devouring aspects. As Kalli can't remember how she came to be, or much of her history, she frequently reads human lore and examines their religion so as to humor herself and also to see if it would bring back any memories. So far, it hasn't. She renamed herself Kalli within recent time, to keep a lower profile. In the more recent years, she has served as a mercenary, a job highly applicable to her skill-set.
Family: She has few relatives left alive, and those ties are so old they have since been forgotten.
Preferred Weapon: Kalli loves handguns, but she is also a deadly hand-to-hand fighter. Over the years she has had time to master many weapons and styles of fighting, and even if she can't remember learning certain things, the muscle memory remains.
Other: Dark red is associated with wrath. A common thought is that she destroys only to recreate, and what she destroys is sin, ignorance and decay. That is true, but it is only a part of the whole.

ENVY
{Seraph}

PRIDE
{Insomnium}

DISBELIEF

CORRUPTION
{Dawn}

Name: Súile Géar (Irish: Sharp Eyes) (soo-eel ghee-air)
Gender: Female
Age: Became a wraith at 26, is now 35.
Species: Wraith
» Sin: Corruption
» Abilities: (view spoiler)[
1) When she comes near a living soul, she corrodes them. Sound waves made from her screams, her nails along a mirror, or a click of her tongue melt their brain.
Limits:
- Any sound wave she tampers with isn't normal. She cannot make it go smoothly, or correctly, whenever she wants. But if she makes it loud and constant enough it does damage anyway.

2) In the form of a pure Wraith, she can do some special stuff.
-She can create "seizures", where she manipulates the spirit energy of everything in the vicinity to disorient those within range.The energy of everything (except virtues and vices who are wearing their rings) go crazy.
Limits:
- She is in a trance while this happens.
-Vices and Virtues that are wearing their rings are unaffected.
- It happens in one second. It "lasts" for a while because she is very literally splitting time and the dimensions between the living and dead. If she pulls the dimensions for too long and they split apart, the dead will be stuck in limbo, though the living will be unaffected. If she allows the dimensions to collide too quickly, however, the effects are projected to be catastrophic. (hide spoiler)]
» Weaknesses: (view spoiler)[
1) Corruption is currently trapped inside someone's body. That someone is very strong, and is aware they are holding the vice. Corruption cannot access her own powers, and simply lives vicariously through Rich and Sync.
2) She needs vessels. Strong ones that can handle her abilities, but weak enough that they won't fight back. She recently chose wrong, and now she's just waiting until the person dies of old age. (hide spoiler)]
Appearance:
Personality: Suile has lost virtually all person. She has become so corrupt that all she is, all she does or says, is centered on destroying, taking apart, and the reward of pain. She cannot let go of it, and that's why she is a wraith. She is very underhanded and tricky when she feels safe. If at all threatened she becomes direct, childish, desperate, and dangerous.
History: Born with Corruption, she was also born with the name Aslia. From Ireland, and a moderate, farming family. Not poor, not wealthy. Safe and growing. She ran away many times, and the police only got involved once when Aslia came back, 8 years old, her arms and dress covered in dried blood. After back tracking they discovered, on a beach, that Aslia had dug a hole between some rocks that was the grave for ripped up fish, a few baby turtles, the neighbor's cat, and some at the time unrecognizable creatures. Aslia had therapy, then was locked in an asylum in France at 10. Aslia got the nickname Sharp-Eyes there. Her intense, inhuman gaze spoke for her corruption on its own. Corruption taught her how to delve deep and control herself, or at least her eyes. At 15 she was released back to her parents, but that night went into the ocean and was never seen in the UK again.

As a young adult she had learned broken English, gotten a job, and lived in America. (Before they became better at watching the boarders). She was a lady, a persuasive and deceptive beauty. All she wanted was Corruption. She never let herself have a life, she had never wanted what the lesser beings did. She was killed by a Virtue when she was 26. Instead of passing on, she held so tightly to Corruption that she became a ghost, a wraith. She clung to the first personshe could so that she would be able to use her powers, but that person died of a stress-induced heart attack. On and on she tried to find people. Like dominoes. Then she went to one person, and they weren't normal. Not human. They were strong enough to sustain both her as a wraith and her abilities, but in return they were strong enough to cage her within themselves, and suppress her. It remained this way for five months.

One day they were going into the apartments, walking along the sidewalk, when a man passed them by. Suile had made a plan, and this was the time to try it. She planted a bit of corruption inside of him. (Not the actual Vice, just the element of corruption from herself). She has gone dark and silent inside of her jailer, and lives through Rich, waiting until Rich sets her free.
Family: Mother, Father, maybe siblings. Doesn't care.
Preferred Weapon: The power of the mind and tongue, as well as causing seizures.
Other: (view spoiler)[

Name: Richard (Rich) Dayson
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Species: Human
» Weakness: Rich's brain is half gone, and most of his internal structure and organs are messed up. He is slowly dying due to Suile's corruption, which manifests by clotting his blood and excreting itself in the form of viscous black fluids.
Appearance:
Personality: Classy as he could be. It's as though he was born in the wrong era. Twitchy, constantly on edge. He has moments of silence at any given time where he fades off and thinks. Has a stuttering problem since his thoughts go faster than his tongue, so usually tries to not say much, or go slow. Very interested in inanimate objects, like stuffed animals. Has a crazed light in his eyes. So open minded that he often forgets things, or goes off on rants that don't mean a thing.
History: His fiance had committed suicide. He had just found out over phone; his old roommate had called him, and also confessed that the two of them had been cheating together. Richard was on his way to the parking lot, planning to drive until he crashed, when someone brushed by him on the sidewalk. The Vice Corruption filled him. Suile had planted a bit of Corruption inside of him, and that vice ate away at Richard's soul for a few hours before Richard's spirit gave up, and allowed Corruption to completely win. That's when he became Rich. Has been working as the face of the Vice, trying to find the one who has the real Vice in them. Rich is only a fake. And he is dying because he is incomplete. Suile ordered him (through the persuasion of Corruption) to create a cyborg to protect him until he could find the Real Corruption. Rich has "been Corruption", or its mask, for 5 years.
Other:
- Loathes sarcasm. If he's going to lie or be deceitful, he'll be classy doing it.
- Enjoys open sunlight or stark darkness, any dimmed rooms or shadowy figures creeps him out.
- The one thing that honestly frightens him is the virtues. He can sometimes handle it well, but he hates the virtues.

Name: Sync
Gender: Female
Age: Appears 4, is 1 1/2 years in creation
Species: Cyborg
» Ability: Sync is a strong, quick cyborg, created to be Rich's body guard since he is a human. Made for combat, and her appearance as a four year old girl helps her.
» Weakness: Sync is only just able to keep up with basic attacks. She mostly just helps Rich with daily things.
Appearance:
Personality: Mute, opposite of Rich. She is a cyborg, functioning only to serve, but a human part of her still lives, and that child is crying every day. She is scared of Rich, but mostly rathers him to anyone else because she knows what Rich is capable of. She is very ignorant, since she is both a child and half computer, so she merely does as she is told.
History: Created over the course of three or so months by Rich when he was taken by Corruption. She has followed him ever since.
Other:
- Doesn't understand Vices/Virtues/Humans/etc. Very shallow.
- She is not directly connected to Corruption. (hide spoiler)]

APATHY

DECEPTION
{Sunshine}

Name: Evron Dolus Gaines
Gender: Male
Age: 634
Species: Dragon
» Sin: Deception
» Abilities: Illusions; Pyrokinesis; Shapeshifting (Dragon-Human)
» Weaknesses: Electricity tends to malfunction around Evron, particularly things like computers and cellphones. Water isn't particularly his best friend, but he deals with it. He just can't work fire magic while wet.
Appearance:

Evron has pale grey eyes set underneath dark, thick brows, capable of a terrifying, penetrating gaze. His voice is mid-ranged in human form, though very deep and rumbling as a dragon. As a dragon, he is gold, yet retains the same, icy gaze of crystalline grey. He is tall and unusually slender as a human, 6'4" and 145 pounds. What weight he has on him is wiry muscle. As a dragon, he is positively enormous, which is why he usually chooses to stay in his human shape. He has weird markings on his chest, a long vertical line that extends from the top of his neck, beneath his chin, to his navel. It is crossed twice by lines that extend all the way across the front of his body. Evron usually wears plain black clothing that reveals the lines on his chest, unafraid of being unique. The markings are tattoos that he got in his dragon form, and that stay with him through shape-changes.
Personality: Evron prefers to observe rather than to participate. He has been alive for a very long time, and if nothing else, he knows how to survive. He is not the ideal person to trust, for he will take what he knows about a person, and use it to get into and mess with their heads. He isn't exactly a caring or tender person, and it is unlikely that he ever will be. He enjoys watching people destroy themselves, with or without a little nudge from his end. Playing games with people's minds is precisely that—a game.
History: Evron has seen the world change on more than one occasion. He has seen all of the major, world wars, even fighting in the second one. He worked with Hitler during the day, and would use the knowledge he gleaned to destroy what the sociopathic leader was trying to create at night. He doesn't see things as good or bad, rather, he tries to view them as they are. Nothing more, nothing less. He keeps to himself; he is a loner who does not play well with others. Especially since living through the fiascos of the past century, he tries to simply keep to himself and the little world he has built for himself.
Family: Evron's parents are both alive somewhere, as is his younger sister, though he hasn't had any contact with them for over a century.
Preferred Weapon: As a human, he prefers to use magic. As a dragon, he is fond of fire as well as his teeth and claws.
Other: Dark orange is associated with deceit. It also happens to be Evron's favorite color.

CRUELTY
{Sarah}

Name: Charun
» Nicknames: Charon; The Ferryman
Gender: Male
Age: 2433
Species: Demon
» Sin: Cruelty
» Abilities: control of the dead souls that he or Vanth has guided into the afterlife or ones that have "paid the ferrymen" by having their eyes covered with two coins at the time of their death or by having an obolus or danake placed in or on the mouth of a dead person; minor shape shifting (can disguise his wings in the mortal world); immortal and ageless
» Weaknesses: limited earth walking (it takes a lot of energy to visit the mortal realm--especially if he wants to be visible to the living--and so he cannot do so whenever he pleases); cannot cross wards made of sea salt; can be killed
Appearance:
The Etruscan Charun was fundamentally different from his Greek counterpart. Guarding the entry to the underworld he is depicted with a hammer (his religious symbol) and is shown with pointed ears, snakes around his arms, and a blueish coloration symbolizing the decay of death. In some images he has enormous wings. He is also depicted as a large creature with snake-like hair, a vulture's hooked-nose, large tusks like a boar, heavy brow ridges, large lips, fiery eyes, pointed ears a black beard, enormous wings, discolored (pale cream, bluish or greyish) skin, and snakes around his arm. Not all of these depictions are accurate of course, but, like Vanth's sometimes misguided physical descriptions, Charun's varies depending on the artist.
Personality: Charun is greedy, ambitious and possessive with a very large streak of sadism. His cruelty tends to manifest the most when it comes to Vanth. Try as he might, he cannot convince her to view the world the way he does: as a place to conquer, control and own--much like he's done with her. He is easily agitated and impatient; he is also extremely skilled at making deals that for some reason always benefit him much more so than the other person--even though this never appears to be the case at the time.
History: In Etruscan mythology, Charun (also spelled Charu, or Karun) acted as one of the psychopompoi of the underworld (not to be confused with the lord of the underworld, known to the Etruscans as Aita). He is often portrayed with Vanth, a winged goddess also associated with the underworld. Many stories feature the two purely Etruscan underworld demons, Vanth and Charu, whose job is not to punish the dead but rather to escort them to their final destination. However, there are at least two examples, on the sarcophagus of Laris Pulenas as well as a red figure stamnos from Orbetello, that do illustrate Charun in a menacing fashion. Each depicts Charun threatening a male figure with his hammer. The grotesque nature of the depiction of Charun appears to have been at least partly apotropaic in nature. Apotropaic art was the practice of the neighboring Greeks at this time, as represented by the exaggerated eyes painted on drinking vessels in the 6th century BC to ward away spirits while drinking or the monstrous depiction of Medusa whose image was said to turn men to stone. Through these images of the grotesque, violence and blood-letting, the Etruscans may have believed that they helped to fend off evil spirits from the tomb as well as sanctify the tomb perhaps in place of the actual ritual sacrifice of an animal usually performed in funerary rites. Born to ultimately serve and protect his sister, Charun had other plans. It would take over a hundred years for them to come into fruition, but when he did make his move, none saw it coming and Vanth quickly fell to her brother's power (she has been under his control ever since).
Family:
» Vanth - Sister; Slave; Lover; Ex-master
Preferred Weapon: Hammer
Other: Although he will never admit to it, it bothers Charun that he cannot bring himself to kill Vanth since she is clearly a threat to his power. She could have spent the last two millennia plotting her revenge and his demise and yet, every time he convinces himself that destroying her would be in his best interests, he cannot follow through.

HATE

COWARDICE