Stories by the Candlelight

A blog of original characters, their aesthetics, and their lores. Along with links to any RP blog these characters may have. My main tumblr is @3010106.

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Sherry Oswald Slater

Human

17 years old

Why should I care what happens to other people?

A young brilliant robot builder, with hopes for world domination. Sherry comes from a well off family that indulges her whims to build robots despite their hopes she’ll shelf this out of control hobby and take over the family’s pharmaceutical company.  

Sherry began as someone who cared very little for those around her, straining her relationship with her older sister until they were basically two strangers occupying the same space who never acknowledged each other’s presence. Someone who did not care that she just sent the local annoying brat to a government base in her search for aliens. Someone who did not care if that brat died. Until that brat did.

Or at least, Sherry swears Charlotte died. How charred and mangled her body was from the electric fence she thought she could launch herself over. The smell of burnt flesh she swears she could still smell.

But when that brat came around the next day? Was it the next day? The same day? Just earlier? When Charlotte came around the next day hunting for aliens again and seeking the help of the “local scientist who could totally be building anti alien weapons”, she couldn’t send her to the base to get rid of her. Couldn’t turn a blind eye to the fact that this kid kept coming to her house instead of going home everyday after school. Couldn’t look away from how much she didn’t want to go home.

She planned to take Charlotte and run. A quick thrown together plan like this should have fallen through immediately yet, surprisingly was supported by her father. He’d thought about a business proposal she had given him earlier in the month- a start up for helper robots and companion androids- and pointed out she’d need a few... “unpaid interns” to help her out with this at first. So long as she took the family name and left him a silent partner, he would fund her through this and further schooling.

And thus in the year xx01, Slater Industrial began as Sherry and Charlotte moved out and away from the neighborhood they had both lived in.

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Charlotte Baash (+ a bonus Xander bc I drew them together once)

Revived Human

13 yrs

Short, Stubborn, and Loyal

A human child who died while alien hunting and came to a place known as “The End”. Her amber eyes becoming black empty sockets, and a third more painful eye opening in the middle of her forehead- allowing her some sight. Denial about the fate of her older brother led her to traversing the The End to find some escape back to life to continue her hunt for his extraterrestrial kidnappers.

On her journey, she met and made two friends, Gem and Norton. And though the events that led them all to escape The End robbed her of her memory of her time there, if she ever met them again she would know and trust them completely. Such was the case with Norton, when she met him again shortly after returning to “the real world” and running away from home with Sherry.

There she lived with Sherry, an alien named Peri, and an android named Kris that Sherry was trying to rebuild an arm for. Norton lived across the street, and new neighbors seemed to be moving in quite a lot. Everyday was filled with laughter and the ongoing hunt for aliens.

When her third eye reopened suddenly, Charlotte ran off in a panic off to the surrounding woods where her new found sight gave her the ability to elude her rescuers until Norton was alone so she could confront him. Memories of The End had come flooding back and she knew he was the only one who stood a chance of believing her. It took time for her to be able to sort through everything with some clarity with his reluctant help.

He had good meaning to be that way, as Charlotte is still in denial about the death of her brother. And even more so that he kidnapped her and Gem in an attempt to “keep her safe” in The End.

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Butterscotch Rose.

Doll Demon

War Veteran

Just wants to work

(First and third images are outfit refs only.)

A Living Doll Demon Relic from previous netherworld wars, Butterscotch spends his remaining time in this universe as a mercenary. He bounces from job to job, place to place, never settling down and always on the move. Despite his frugal life style, he does have quite a bit of money stashed away but has no intention of using it.

A loner by choice, he refuses companions and refuses well paying jobs if they cannot be completed alone. By his own estimations, Butterscotch reckons he has roughly 12 to 20 years left, barring serious injury. In that time, he doesn’t want people growing attached to him or vice versa because regardless of what they try He Is Going To Die. The parts used to create him Will Give Out and his soul will cool into nothing more than a mere marble that can be easily crushed, like that of all the Doll Demons he shared a maker with.

After all, they were built for war. They were not built to last. They were not built to have families. And if there is no war for them to fight in, there is no point in their continued existence.

He hopes if he continues to tell himself that, he’ll finally believe it himself.

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Bonsey Jones

Undead revived human skeleton

Approx 16 years at death

Gifted magic

A former human who died long ago of an illness she’d rather not talk about. Revived illegally by a necromancer and promptly abandoned, Bonsey decided to seize this opportunity at a second chance in life. Her original name forgotten, she gave herself a new identity and met the dawn of a new day smiling about as wide as a human skeleton could.

At the start, Bonsey had no magic to speak of and scared the shit out of anyone she came across. Causing her to end up fleeing further and further away from the graveyard she crawled out of until she ended up on the main road to a demon city. There, she bumped into a mysterious story teller that agreed to help her attain the magic to maintain any form she wished in exchange for the tale of her past. Desperate at this point, she reluctantly told them everything she could remember.

Though the stranger seemed displeased at being told only a portion of “her tale”, they taught her the magic as promised and left the “new and improved” Bonsey Jones on the road. Bonsey, knowing nothing of the Yesbit wars, gave herself a human form resembling them with the body type she knew she would have had, had it not been for her terminal illness.

With newfound vigor, Bonsey headed for the city where unfortunately, she would later be chased from again but this time: she wouldn’t be alone.

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Tony

Phantom Cat / Witch’s Familiar

Approx 200 years old

Can’t see shit

A cat given a human form, Tony is one of the many ‘service animals’ or familiars summoned by both witch and demon alike for various tasks. A contract phantom, once the terms are agreed upon, Tony will not leave his new ‘master’ until the contract has expired or his task is complete. 

Naturally clumsy and mischievous, it is recommended he is not summoned for tasks where a more dexterous hand is required and easily breakable valuables are not displayed. He is a quiet and withdrawn individual most of the time, worried he will fail at his tasks and that the worst possible thing that could possibly happen will happen.

On “Twilight’s List” he is rated six stars out of ten, and is not often summoned more than once by his clients. Its not him, he does good work, they’re just looking for someone else they tell him repeatedly.

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Eco

Angel

Shape shifting one who devours

Angels are eldritch abominations of massive size that live in space and maintain the balance of stars and worlds. As Stars in the heavens above are the souls of the dead, Angels feast upon and forcibly reincarnate those that have hung around too long without an answer that completes them. Angels have also been known to mass descend upon entire worlds, effectively wiping out entire species as well as the world itself. It is unknown why they do this and attempts to stop them have failed.

Eco is a rarity. Not only are they incredibly tiny, they are planet bound and show no signs of ever wanting to join the hives in space. They also have willingly accepted a name and they/them pronouns. Angels, when small enough to exist on a planet tend to take on the form of whatever the dominant species is. Eco has chosen to resemble that of a Yesbit despite living on a world of demons and humans.

Despite these shapeshifting qualities, Angels are bound by whatever colors they were born with. Every part of their mass must be used as well, thus they never borrow or buy clothes, they simply form them of their own mass. Due to Eco’s choice in form, they are only about 3′ 5′‘ in height with a wingspan about 4′ 7′‘.

Another Angel like quality is the fact that speech does not come naturally to them. Eco has been planet bound long enough to learn spoken speech but cannot replicate it without pain and sounding like a dying frog. Instead, communication with Eco is a lot of You Talking At Them and them trying to respond telepathically. To people this does not come easy to, this feels like getting blasted with a load wave a static directed directly at your brain. Rest In Fucking Pieces.

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Bees ( 00BEES )

Biomechanical Electronic Enlightenment Software

AI implanted into an Android

Designated to Observe, Maintain, and Protect while existing as a Companion.

There are no glitches in the system, every BEES unit runs perfectly.

Cannot be returned to Slater Industrial once activated.

00BEES was created in the year xx29 by Slater Industrial as part of its second “Welcome to the New World” campaign. Designed to help keep you, your family, and all of your assets safe no matter what type of tragedy should occur as well as being a shoulder to lean on and a faithful friend until your very last breath™. Concerns of the software not understanding the line between Safety Measures and Full On Stalking were to be completely dispelled in an ad campaign with an original ALICELS unit shortly after release.

00BEES was activated in the presence of AL1C3, the ALICELS unit she was to be assigned to for the ad campaign and a company employee who was to look after the two of them. 00BEES took to AL1C3 immediately as a younger sister to her and proceeded to ignore the company employee’s existence until AL1C3 pointed out that she was being very rude and “needed to work on her social skills if they were both to become human.”

00BEES was the first case witnessed by the company where a BEES unit added “become human” to their prime directive. Like AL1C3, she was retired in xx32 after the third “Welcome to the New World” campaign and given free roam to grow under some light supervision.

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Alice ( AL1C3 ) ( ALICELS )

Artificial Living Identity Companion Entry Level Software

AI implanted into an Android

Designated to learn and grow into “A Real Human Companion”

AL1C3 was created in the year xx28 by Slater Industrial as part of its “Welcome to the New World” campaign to make the public more open and welcoming to the idea of artificial lifeforms living amongst them. While many different ALICELS units were created- each with different given names, and “inhuman appearances” to abide by laws -AL1C3 herself was kept by the company and was not put up for final sale.

It was not until a year later during Slater Industrial’s second “Welcome to the New World” campaign in which the BEE units went on sale that AL1C3 was activated and used in marketing to promote the new safety units. She was assigned both a human companion (an employee of the company), and a BEE unit ( 00BEES ) during this time.

AL1C3’s growth was considered to be heavily stunted by the company’s CEO due to her circumstances as being treated more as a valuable product rather than a friend and was later retired after the third “Welcome to the New World” campaign in xx32. She and 00BEES were hence forth referred to as Alice and Bees and were to be made comfortable living spaces for them to grow in.

Alice continues running under her prime directive to learn, befriend, and “become human”.