[center][h1][color=6A5ACD]Serenity Gates[/color][/h1][/center] [center][s]"MEIDO INAH HEAVAHN!!!"[/s][/center] [hider=Maid In Heaven] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/tspUvW8.png[/img][/center] [color=6A5ACD][b]Name[/b][/color]: Serenity Gates, aka “Maid in Heaven” [color=6A5ACD][b]Age (Magical Girl)[/b][/color]: 16 [color=6A5ACD][b]Age (Before Magical Girl)[/b][/color]: [REDACTED] [color=6A5ACD][b]Gender[/b][/color]: Female [color=6A5ACD][b]Gender (Before Magical Girl)[/b][/color]: Fragment Of The Fearsome Greater Horror "Soth", Which Was [s]Recycled[/s] Purified Into A Female Magical Girl [color=6A5ACD][b]Appearance[/b][/color]: [center][hider=Untransformed] [img]https://i.imgur.com/2F4DfYy.jpg[/img] [/hider] [hider=Transformed (Current; Post-Reforging)] [img]https://i.imgur.com/tspUvW8.png[/img] [/hider] [hider=Swimsuit] [img]https://i.imgur.com/FwiD7c8.jpg[/img] [/hider] [hider=Old Pre-Reforging Appearance Pics Storage] Old Untransformed Pic was deleted and got lost, so idk what it was. (@_@) [hider=Old Transformed Appearance; Also Inaccurate To Her Actual Outfit Roll, So Had To Fix Anyway (TwT)] [img]https://i.imgur.com/BRaxypC.jpeg[/img] [/hider] [hider=Old Swimsuit Appearance] [img]https://i.imgur.com/EgurhVq.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/khtfOl9.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/V8PJzSp.jpg[/img] [/hider] [/hider][/center] [color=6A5ACD][b]Specialization[/b][/color]: Time [color=6A5ACD][b]Weapon[/b][/color]: [i]Hands of Compassion[/i] – A silver knife, with a tough black-colored gem embedded in its hilt, that is usually kept sheathed on her outer thigh or is simply summoned into her hand for use. Though small, it has a fine sharp edge, and can be readily magically multiplied/duplicated at will into many knives as part of it's base functions (and very cheaply too). Duplicates can also be duplicated as well. The original and any duplicates can also be recalled to her hands at will, and can be used as a means to cast her magic over long distance, acting as a ‘receiver’ for it and acting as catalysts for it. [color=6A5ACD][b]Power[/b][/color]: Tentacles - She can generate silvery tentacles on various surfaces. They have simple minds of their own, with a general sense of what she wants them to do. Can act on their own with very little direction from Serenity herself, though she can take exacting control over one of them directly to do things such as use them like how Indiana Jones would use a whip to jump over a chasm or such. Can dismiss them at will. They give no tactile feedback, but she always knows their location in relation to herself and her own body. They can also be formed on surfaces which her weapon, or its duplicates, are in contact with (or stabbed into). This allows them to even be made at a longer distance, and makes especially good use of the Dual Weapon aspect of her weapon and its duplicates in channeling her magic. [color=6A5ACD][b]Perks[/b][/color]: -Dual Weapon: Her weapon and it's duplicates are now capable of conducting her magic and acting as 'receivers' for it at even extremes distances away from her. Her weapon, and it's duplicates by extension, is/are even now embedded with a magical gem visible in its hilt as an aesthetic physical representation of this. A very useful aspect for up to very long-range remote magic use, at least, though the knife and its duplicates cannot fire a 'weak magic blast' or anything. -Sorcery: [i]Rune Magic[/i] (Removed the long ramble, simplified it to just what it is like it is a certain other magical boy's app {aka: Alex}. Yay Runes! Only notable thing to mention is she can, as I'd assume anyone can, use her magical energy to etch and form them as well as any sort of physical means like her weapon or the like.) -Environmental Sealing: At least general ambient environmental threats, like being underwater or such, aren't going to be a problem anymore. -Patron Interference: [color=violet]"I've decided! We're going to hang out and be super-best besties for, like, ever! Pleeeeease~?"[/color]; Cthulhu, a powerful Greater Horror, will be trying to convince her to sign up with her, ranging from running gag type antics to actual serious things in trying to help and convince her. The only downside is that Cthulhu will never be fully dissuaded now due to this perk...she's made her decision to try. Even if told no a million times over, she'll keep coming back again and again, with an eternity-long persistence. [s][color=6A5ACD]"Please! Alicia, Rachel, somebody...make the noise stop." DX[/color][/s] -Oujou-Sama: (See the "Meido" hider for the appearance pic and details.) -Sapphire Coin Perk: "Free tuition to the Overcity College of Magic, allowing a pursuit of arcane scholarship or training for a magical profession." In particular she is pursuing a proper arcane scholarship for Advanced Image Magic, aka the realm of magic encompassing Runes, Sigils, Heiroglyphs, and other Pictrogram-based magic symbols. Basically something to take her Sorcery and make those skills exceptionally stronger and far better in the end. Anything that needs to be done for this education is basically done off-screen, and she's a studious student to be sure when it comes to this. (Idk how long it will take to complete this arcane education, but still thought it'd be relevant to her to choose this option.) Yet oddly, the Sapphire coin also caused changes in her Untransformed state when it was used. Something to do with her being somewhat abnormal as a magical girl, perhaps? [color=6A5ACD][b]Patron[/b][/color]: The Beacon [color=6A5ACD][b]Patron Benefits[/b][/color]: -Perfect Life: The Beacon will ensure she has a place to stay, friends, and a surrogate family. (Gains the Fake Parents perk for free). Any close friends and family she has will fall under the Beacon’s aegis and be protected from monster attacks. -Shinespark: The spark has always been a powerful thing, but as times move forward even the strongest things can be beaten. This was Beacons answer to all those that were finding ways to subvert the Spark defenses. Alongside it's normal benefits, this upgraded Spark grants immunity to any attempt to forcibly change or control Serenity's mind, and rather than being a gentle shield it is capable of retaliating with force against the would be assailants. (Copied and edited to fit Serenity properly, because I forgot to add it in the other RP when she and others gained Shinesparks during the trial years ago irl.) -Mystic Might (her 1 free Universal Perk): Her magical prowess is stronger as a magical girl. (If for some reason she ever got kicked from Beacon it would remain as the one thing she basically keeps, if nothing else was allowed for some reason.) [color=6A5ACD][b]Patron Drawbacks[/b][/color]: (Shifted the Vow a bit to make more sense with her condition/situation and more so the event that created her, mostly just to neaten things up after I made a mess of her app back in college.) -Vow: The Vow of Humanity. A rather 'unique' vow of sorts, as rather than a personal vow she made it is more a very much permanent condition enforced upon her by agreeing to be reincarnated into a human being and made a magical girl. She cannot abandon her own newly-gained humanity under any circumstances, even if Beacon were to force her out or a black coin used on her. Indeed she is by far no longer anything of “that Horror” in personality or will or self, save for having its memories and knowledge and such lingering things that she can never ever hope to forget. -Excommunication [color=6A5ACD][b]Fighting Style[/b][/color]: She can fight up close and personal with her weapon at base, and can multiply her weapon as part of its function to make use of multiple knives at once. She can also throw her knife and/or its duplicates, using them as ranged receptors to enact her magic within a limited range of them at even very long distances. She can also makes ready use of her weapon's duplication capability, which extends to the duplicates of it in turn, in tandem with her time magic to unleash relatively cheap but punishing waves of 'bullet-hell'-type attacks. She can also make herself move faster and such by accelerating the flow of time within herself, albeit to varying degrees to which she can do this, and even slow her own time to various degrees to do something like avoid an attack or slow her own falling speed to avoid getting hurt. These acceleration of time or slowing of time effects can also be applied to allies or even enemies, albeit fellow magical girls can resist this better than monsters can in the usual manner, to affect foes. Likewise the acceleration or slowing of time can be applied to her weapon and its duplicates, allowing her to create those 'bullet hell'-type waves of duplicates knives as attacks as well as doing something like imbuing weapon attacks with greater force and speed by accelerating the flow of time for/within them specifically. She can even freeze time for specific objects/non-living targets, unless a willing and open living subject volunteered for it for some reason, to use things like her weapon's duplicates as stairs or falling objects as stepping stones or the like to get to places usually out of reach. It is a highly versatile fighting style that tries to compensate for her lower strength as a magical girl, as well as her spec's lack of easy brute offensive spell potential when compared to something like a Fire Spec, but in the process it makes her a threat for both singular and numerous enemies alike. A flexible fighter who can adapt to what is needed, either in close or at long range. Not some perfect and unbeatable fighting style, however, as it doesn't really specialize strongly in either close or ranged combat in return for high flexibility and the use of magical augmentations to compensate. Her monstrous MAG stat helps this at the very least. [color=6A5ACD][b]Stats (Untransformed)[/b][/color]: STR: 3 AGI: 3 VIT: 4 MAG: 4 LCK: 3 [color=6A5ACD][b]Stats (Transformed)[/b][/color]: STR: 5 AGI: 10 VIT: 9 MAG: 23 LCK: 7 [color=6A5ACD][b]Personality[/b][/color]: [hider=Pre-March Of The White Rabbit] An initially somewhat timid and nervous person in social situations, a guilty-feeling individual and a person who has yet to truly immerse herself in the world and “become someone”. In part she fears for her life, not wanting to just die and die again. One could call her intelligent with ease in all mundane subjects, however, which was achieved by her possessing her old self’s untold levels of knowledge that was translated over. Her memory is perfectly photographic, the kind some people in the world might have...but emphasized much more so as part of her penance. For some reason she also has a strong enjoyment of spicy foods, which make her rather happy when eating them. But in the end, she does wish to be truly ‘human’ when it comes down to it. However, her magical girl alias was merely chosen based on an manga that came to her mind as she was reincarnated and awash in all of her memories. To this end, she is a bit embarrassed...but still confident enough to keep the name at least. [/hider] [hider=Current (March Of The White Rabbit)] A girl who was once more timid and nervous person in social situations, but who is notably less so by this point in time after the little journey she's been on whilst taken away from Penrose. Indeed, she has become more accustomed to her own humanity and its value, though even then she feels a sense of deeply-cutting guilt that she clings onto about a number of things. The fear for her life has generally given way to a greater sobriety, a greater acceptance to look the idea of her own death in the eye and accept that sort of thing. Due to 'what' she once was, and the knowledge and memories of 'that' being transferred to her as she was reincarnated into a human being and then made a magical girl, she possesses both a (eerie if not creepy as to how well it works) perfect photographic memory as well as a vast and incredible intelligence in regards to mundane and magical subjects alike. Even things humans could not process can be handled by her mind...though in this sense she's inevitably unique 'aberration' who can process these sorts of things and perspectives and so forth where others simply just can't. Similarly, she is lesser-so but still peculiar in the sense that large events like wars and the like aren't so shocking and surprising to her...whereas little things about those closest to her are much more shocking revelations in turn. She's come to better embrace her passion for spicy foods, though the extent to which she can tolerate spicy heat would make most people near her sweat nervously by mere proximity. Likewise, when it comes to types of food she is generally a fan of 'American faire', though don't expect her to not have strange ideas about what to put on such foods or make them out of. With how her body burns fat, especially after her reroll, the gaining of weight has remained a foreign concept to her body despite her still understanding it and so forth. Yet at the same time she doesn't try to be a glutton. She also still won't admit that her magical girl alias based on a manga that came to her mind as she was reincarnated, all as her mind was running through all of those memories and the knowledge being reincarnated with her. Yet at the same time she sees her appearance as not just some copy anymore...it's her. She is herself, and it's how she looks. She is herself. To this end, she feels more secure in how she looks than she once did...even after the reroll. Yet despite this, the burdens and weight on her, and that sense of personal guilt, isn't suddenly overcome by this. But she has come to cope with being human, at least, and this is what she sees as a step 'in the right direction' if nothing else. [/hider] [color=6A5ACD][b]History[/b][/color]: [hider=Pre-March Of The White Rabbit] Once upon a time, a Greater Horror feared across the cosmos shed a part of itself as a scapegoat to pay for its sins. A cruel betrayal, an evil but universal entity on both sides, but even so this fragment was butchered by a blade that sought to devour all. It was smitten to pieces, and as it consciousness lingered at the end it asked “What did I do wrong? I merely wanted to see as humans do!”. It had no the capability to understand, too long a lifespan and lack of certain mortal imperfections to be able to do this. Then came a light. A brilliant light that seemed to shine over so much, and offered it a chance for penance: “You are an evil being, that which should be smitten into nothingness. But for you inability to ever understand, in this one case I shall offer you compassion this day. Let your mind be shaped by mine, let your will be forged by my own. I shall reincarnate you into a human, but you shall live as a magical girl for all eternity. My spark shall glow brightly within with great light, but in return you cannot escape those memories you bear nor knowledge of your many sins and deeds.” The fragment, brought down to mortality, accepted this bargain. It was reincarnated into a human girl named Serenity Gates, and she was made a magical girl. She gained family, and friends, and was placed in a good home. It was nothing her former self deserved, she knew it to her core. But with this new life, new chance of hers, might come the chance to truly be as “human” as her former self once desired to be. [/hider] [hider=Current, March Of The White Rabbit-era History] [s]I have written this out at least twice, only to lose progress by accident despite making careful saves. So it's going to be as much a long-winded summary of things as I can manage. Cause my brain can't anymore.[/s] Recalled to Beacon HQ on a missive to meet a Council of Cardinals for investigation, Serenity was blindfolded and escorted by several armed guards as she was taken to HQ so she'd be unable to determine where it actually was along the trip there. With all the information about Penrose events was streaming back to the higher-ups, especially events regarding everyone's disappearance to Dan's dimension and events since the Inquisition's arrival, things had become a bit jumbled. So naturally, especially with any events involving the Cardinal sent to Penrose having gone on, suspicions of foul play from the one magical girl who got supposedly created from a horror was among the top issues that HQ sought to investigate by bringing her in and interrogating her. Likewise the idea of a greater horror of notable reputation having potentially placed a spy within their ranks was something that was feared by some as well (among other things). Despite this, the intention on bringing her in was basically to talk to her, and her willingness to cooperate was at least a potential good sign. Maybe. Higher-ups in the Inquisition met her on arrival, however, before dragging her off to a nearby facility separate from HQ proper. Here she basically lived for two weeks in a dark cell, with meager meals and being forced to clean the place as she was put through invasive and even painful session with Psychic girls tearing into her mind to reap her knowledge and memories and anything they could glean about what had gone on. She was treated basically like an animal, her Soul Gem used as collateral in case she 'tried anything', all in a place that held many dangerous things which shouldn't see the light of day that the Inquisition was either holding for purification or imprisoning for containment or the like. At the end of those two weeks, everything suddenly stopped. She was left alone for two days, before an actual Cardinal came down to her cell with an obscured letter in hand that bore a mysterious seal upon it. Said Cardinal then escorted her quietly out of the facility and back to Beacon HQ, where she was settled in far nicer quarters and doctored up and fed better and the like. Two more days later, she was brought before a council of a number of Cardinals, only for the one who had escorted her out to read aloud the letter that she hadn't been able to see before. In the same language as whatever being or such had contacted her and reincarnated her before contracting her to Beacon, the letter read with disappointment in the particular facility officials who had her taken to that facility instead of bringing her to the Council as the assembled Cardinals had been instructed to. Thus the message had been sent to ensure she was freed, cared for, and treated well before the proper procedures could begin. Likewise the letter vouched for her personally on behalf of the one who had it sent, alongside describing her encounter and purification and reincarnation, which apparently was enough. From here, Serenity's memories of her transformation and reincarnation would be played out before the Cardinals, supporting the letter's depiction of things town to a 'T' and a number of surprised and solemn reactions among whatever Cardinals had been assembled to investigate her. After this, she'd be sent back to her quarters and ultimately be declared innocent the very next day by the assembled council. Once this was done, she would be cared for until she could recover alongside being assigned 'remediation classes' to try to help her adjust to being human and so forth. In this time period she would make a few new acquaintances and minor friends, as well as be allowed to roam the HQ grounds and generally be around others. People began to talk to her. People began to treat her well. Like a person. It was painful before, but at this stage was a bit eye-opening for her. It gave her time to reflect and such as well. Even time to grow a little bit. Eventually she would also be gifted in addition with both a captured Red Coin as well as a new Sapphire coin as presents during her stay. She would use these gifted coins in turn, though whilst the odd side effect of her untransformed appearance changing was one things, and her changes overall brought some familiar 'trouble' her way, she felt satisfied enough by the time she was sent back to Penrose to join the other members of her Chapter once more. ...Having been away for a good time, however, it will be up to her comrades in arms and others to give her news of what's been going on. She's barely gotten back the prior night, late, before zonking out in her bed. As of her first post, she'll be stepping into things proper once more. [/hider] [color=6A5ACD][b]Incantation[/b][/color]: (Also just neatened up Post-Reforging because it was oddly worded.) [i]“As I of Sacred Light descend, now evil’s time is at its end!”[/i] [color=6A5ACD][b]Coins[/b][/color]: [hider=Past/Current Coin Payouts] Aighosrt-Related Event Base Payout: 1 gold, 2 silver [/hider] [color=6A5ACD][b]Current Coin Total[/b][/color]: 0 gold, 2 silver, 0 bronze, 0 Black, 0 Ruby, 0 Sapphire [hider=Rolls and Stat Breakdown, and Coins Spent] [b]((Note: Coins that are [u]not[/u] noted as being 'non-character creation' ones are just the coins from character creation.))[/b] (Reason: Death, +1 silver) [s](Age – rolled 18, 18-10+8= 14, new age is 14)[/s] (Red Coin Reroll: Age - rolled 10, 10+6 is 16, new age is 16) [s](Body – rolled 1, Underdeveloped +1 [LCK] or MAG, also applies out of costume)[/s] (Red Coin Reroll: rolled 20, Overdeveloped +1 AGI or [VIT], also applies out of costume.) (Spec – rolled 7, Time +1 AGI or [VIT], +2 [LCK]) (Weapon - rolled 1, Melee, +1 [STR] and +1 [VIT]) (Outfit: rolled 3, Skimpy +1 [AGI]) [s](Red Coin Reroll: rolled 4, Skimpy +1 [AGI])[/s] [s](Power: rolled 12, Power of Friendship)[/s] (Red Coin Reroll, chosen from Red Table: rolled 19, Tentacles) [s](l perk: rolled 15, Monstrous Metamorphosis)[/s] (Red Coin Reroll: rolled 1, +1 Weapon Stat, Dual Weapon - {Second Weapon Type: Mystic, +1 [MAG]}) (l perk 2: rolled 16, Sorcery [+1 MAG]) [s](r perk: rolled 8, Get Out of Jail)[/s] (Red Coin Reroll: rolled 7, Environmental Sealing +1 [VIT]) [s](r perk 2: rolled 17, Soul Jar)[/s] (Red Coin Reroll: rolled 2, Shifted to the Red Table for free as noted in the Red Coin stuff, Patron Interference +1 [LCK]) [s](final perk: rolled 1, +1 Weapon Stat, Dual Weapon - {Second Weapon Type: Mystic, +1 [MAG]})[/s] (Red Coin Reroll, can choose from either table and even the Red Perk Table: 10, Oujou-sama +1 Any = +1 [MAG]) (free perk [from patron]: Fake Parents) [b]Stats (Untransformed)[/b]: These start at 3. CYOA options indicate if they apply out of costume as well. STR: 3 AGI: 3 VIT: 3 ([+1 [body]) = 4 MAG: 3 (+1 [sorcery]) = 4 LCK: 3 [b]Stats (Transformed)[/b]: These start at 4. STR: 4 (+1 [weapon]) = 5 AGI: 4 (+3 [3 bronze] +1 [outfit]) = 8 (+2 [1 silver]) = 10 VIT: 4 (+1 [weapon] +1 [spec] +1 [body] +1 [environmental sealing] +1 [1 non-character creation gold coin]) = 9 MAG: 4 (+1 [sorcery] +1 [dual weapon] +1 [ojouu-sama]) = 7 (+6 [3 silver] +4 [1 gold]) = 17 (+1 [1 bronze] +1 [Mystic Might] ) = 19 (+4 [1 Ruby Coin]) = 23 LCK: 4 (+2 [spec] +1 [patron interference]) = 7 (Patron – rolled 17, Beacon) (-1 Ruby Coin, used to gain +4 MAG) (-1 Red Coin, used to Reforge her. Rerolled and chose the original or new roll for: Age, Body, Outfit, Power, and all perks but Sorcery. Did not refund any coins.) (1 non-character creation gold coin used for +1 [VIT]) ((Cleaned up errors and such in her app.)) (-1 Sapphire Coin, used for: Free tuition to the Overcity College of Magic, allowing a pursuit of arcane scholarship or training for a magical profession: She is pursuing a proper arcane scholarship for Advanced Image Magic, aka the realm of magic encompassing Runes, Sigils, Heiroglyphs, and other Pictrogram-based magic symbols. Anything that needs to be done for this education is basically done off-screen, and she's a studious student to be sure when it comes to this.) [/hider] [/hider] [hider=Meido of the Meido] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/kwKrJYH.png[/img] [h3][color=FFDAB9][b]Vivanne[/b][/color][/h3] [i]Vivianne, or Vivi as she only lets her close friends or mistress call her, is the go-to magical maid who is ready to do her very best! Cooking, cleaning, sewing, anything her mistress could need is within her skillset! Er, just not fighting things. She's only human, even if magical, not a magical girl! She can appear and disappear in the blink of an eye where and when she's called upon or needed, at least, and somehow she gets her hands on the food and materials and so forth she needs for her work. Since she's tied to her mistress, she'll be around as long as she is! The eternally respawning thing is pretty cool, all part of this neat 'forever job' she has. A really long time, to be honest, but at least there'll be no old age wrinkles![/i][/center] [/hider] [hider=Serenity Header] [h3][center][color=6A5ACD][b]Serenity[/b][/color][/center][/h3] [center]Age: 16 | Gender: Female | Time Overdeveloped | Tentacles | Beacon (The Beacon) Dual Weapon, Sorcery, Environmental Sealing, Patron Interference, Oujou-sama Perfect Life, Shinespark, Mystic Might | Vow of Humanity, Excommunication STR: 3 | AGI: 3 | VIT: 4 | MAG: 4 | LCK: 3 STR: 5 | AGI: 10 | VIT: 9 | MAG: 23 | LCK: 7 Coins: 2 silver[/center] [/hider] [hr] [hider=The Eldritch Party Girl Patron] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/sKeNDZl.jpg[/img][/center] [center][h3][b][color=violet]You Rang, New Besties?[/color][/b][/h3][/center] [u]Type[/u]: Horror (Greater Horror) [u]Name[/u]: Cthulhu [u]Personality[/u]: Untold millennia of knowledge and understanding, maddening levels of raw magical power that makes even other Greater Horrors quake in fear, and a legend that even among humans is better known than many…all wrapped up in the body and personality of a friendly, super humanophile, happy, annoying, and ditzy party girl. She is happy to help her friends, enjoys finding and making new 'besties', loves to party and play about like a wild child, and beyond terrible spending habits and annoying behavior isn't honestly a threat to humanity at large. Though while this is her up front, do not be fooled...she may walk among mortals, she may sound like an idiot party girl, but when she gets truly serious or angry she is very far from something to ever want to mess with. It is there that those unfortunate will witness the true might of the lord of The Sunken City, the wrath a true eldritch horror from beyond reason, and the ire of an abomination beyond anything mortals can comprehend. Beware, beware, the might of the dread lord Cthulhu! [u]Appearance[/u]: (Current Avatar) [url=https://i.imgur.com/sKeNDZl.jpg]https://i.imgur.com/sKeNDZl.jpg[/url] (True/Real Body) [url=https://i.imgur.com/bfCjMub.jpg]https://i.imgur.com/bfCjMub.jpg[/url] [u]History[/u]: An ancient being originating from an ancient and powerful race from far beyond the stars, a malignant Greater Horror of solar scale that in its youth sought to seize the Earth in particular and create a civilization in its own image upon the land and waters. It fought off other Horrors seeking to pierce into its territory on the then-prehistoric Earth, took on the Gods, and founded the ancient city of R’lyeh from which it began to build its own civilization in prehistoric times. Despite its war against a large assembly of Deities, and in the final struggle an alien deity descended upon her as the great meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs. The end result was not the Horror’s death, but rather her main body being put into a hibernation-like sleep before being interred within R’lyeh and sunk deep underwater/underground beneath what is now in modern times the South China Sea. Down there her lingering people slithered, at least the scant remnants of what once a people, along with other strange creatures, some early 'prehistoric humans', and even some aliens that had migrated to worship her with great reverence. From beneath the waves Cthulhu slept, though far from ‘actually dead’ Cthulhu's mind began to wander about and examine the planet as it changed. She became ever the more curious about humans, proper ones especially, as they rose up and dominated the planet by modern times. She even over the years visited some humans in their dreams to speak to them, and talk to them to try to understand them. Her curiosity in time grew into affection, and from an affection into a deep-seated and genuine love of humanity and its civilization upon the face of the Earth. Though among those she talked to was included a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft]‘certain dreamer’[/url], who took what he’d learned about Cthulhu’s ‘embarrassing edgy teen years’...and then published it with some twists, removals, and embellishments to become a famous author. The Greater Horror was an amount offended by this, especially as it began to cause a rise in 'crazy cultists', but also ultimately decided that she had to step in more directly. To better ‘be’ among humans and appreciate them, she projected her mind and had it take on a human-shaped avatar/container! Though despite becoming a sort of caring patron of humanity, even if from the sidelines on occasion, she also ended up a rampant humanophile and ditzy ‘party girl’ who’d help magical girls and even other groups like the deities she once fought so long ago. What a twist. [u]Resources[/u]: Being a Greater Horror and the legendary Cthulhu, she had continued to accrue a wealth of resources that she is capable of providing or drawing upon. This includes an immense amount of wealth, magical girls/boys, magical coins, genuinely good followers, spawn, and other such general resources. Though this also does in the end include ‘pesky pseudo cultists’ who arose due to the work that ‘certain dreamer’ and one or two other ‘crazy a-holes’ whom she holds a very special loathing for even now. [u]Additional Info[/u]: -She still talks to properly sane humans, having connections in the mortal world, and even has some legitimate worshippers out there she does give some guidance to in order to keep them from ‘acting like lunatics’. The Sunken City itself is also a magical hub of activity for many of those who work for her or as her magical girls/boys especially. It is ultimately a full-fledged city down there, of course, though there is a solid party culture that rises up when Cthulhu herself visits with her avatar. -She 'allows' many other patrons to help her ‘clean up the crazies’ (as she puts it), those crazy cultists who use the knowledge 'a certain author' learned from her and used for his own stories, as they pop up. Because after a long time of trying to suppress them (with great exasperation at the task), ultimately, is a task that became too bothersome. These only also ever increase her irritation with 'that dreamer' who she holds 'slandered her and created stupid cultists who make my life hard and make me look bad' with his writing work in the end. Yet she still does perform ‘cleanup work’ from time to time, naturally, as a way of trying to keep things semi-orderly....unlike when she's goofing off and doing things anywhere else in the world otherwise. It's safe to say her name and existence are a controversial matter as a result of both her past and all of these things on top of that. -She has also worked with the local Beacon Branch in Hawaii a few times, which is considered the one 'unofficial' way she's worked with Beacon at all, though if anyone at the branch is asked about her or the “Honolulu Beach Vacation Party Incident” one will mostly get empty stares and long sighs among other such responses. It goes without saying, though, that Cthulhu is banned from Beacon HQ in general (regardless of this incident or not, even well before it). -Her avatar's presence is not itself actually maddening or harmful to others, but even “The Infinite Abyss” has been annoyed to death by her to the point of considering her becoming literal ‘anathema’ to it. [s][color=violet]"Cthulhu fhtagn r'lyeh~"[/color][/s] [/hider]