🍎 APPLE PIE OC: ELMA 🍎
(Note: This character design was originally adopted from the artist Mira Nur Aisah, while the name and backstory are entirely created by Kiprang).
Name: Elma
Alias: The Sweet Pie
Species: Pie Geist (a pie spirit sorta thing)
Gender: Female
Occupation: Mascot and guardian of the Happipie Bakery in Orlow
Vibe: Cottagecore / Mori Girl
Hobbies: Harvesting apples, experimenting with new pie recipes, storytelling for children, and collecting antiques.
Her Goal: She wants to turn every living creature out there into caramel and pastries so her old bakery can feel warm and lively again.
🍎 Lore 🍎
Elma was originally born inside a stone oven, created from a baker's pure wish to spread happiness. She used to be a tiny, sweet-scented fairy whose only job was to make pie dough rise perfectly.
However, when a plague and famine struck, the bakery was destroyed and the owner passed away. Elma, who was on the verge of death, ended up transforming into a fungus beneath the bakery ruins, consuming the remains left behind.
🍎 Design Chit-Chat 🍏
Her visual appearance is incredibly adorable, but it is actually just her fungal body trying to mimic her long-lost past memories.
Her brown hair look exactly like a woven pie lattice crust. In reality, they are made of billions of active fungal spores. Her snow-white bangs look like vanilla ice cream, but they are actually tangled mushroom threads caused by a high dose of sugar.
Her woven beret hat is actually a hardened outer skin layer used to cover a crack in her skull.
Her red-and-cream checkered shirt (resembling pie filling) is actually exposed inner skin tissue. Her green vest is living lichen, and the white butterfly embroidery on it consists of tiny, moving parasites.
She has warm orange-red eyes with no pupils. They are made of thick, crystallized honey and cannot blink at all.
POWERS 🍎
Thermokinesis: Elma can heat her skin up to the boiling point of sugar. She used to use this to bake pastries, but now she uses it to boil her prey from the inside out after they inhale her spores.
Caramel Touch (Cinnamon Decay): The moment Elma touches a target, their skin and flesh harden into crispy brown caramel, which then crumbles into highly fragrant cinnamon powder.
Sweet Senses: Elma is completely deaf. Instead of hearing, she detects living creatures by sensing their blood sugar levels and ground vibrations.
PERSONALITY 🍏
Elma is genuinely kind-hearted, always optimistic, generous, loves giving hugs, and enjoys sharing milk. She will happily walk up to you, waving her hand with a sweet smile.
But... because she has turned into a parasite, she sincerely believes she is just "welcoming customers" when she spreads her fungus. To Elma, the agonizing screams of humans hardening into caramel sound as wonderful as the crunch of a freshly baked pie crust fresh out of the oven. Crunch!
Fun Facts 🍎
As always, cute design, deadly storyline! Her cuteness acts as bait to keep her prey from letting their guard down.
This character is inspired by the fear of losing one's identity, and how sweet childhood memories can be corrupted by a bitter reality. The most comforting things (the scent of cinnamon and pie) are turned into a bringer of death.
Elma is not a vengeful creature. She just wants to survive and rebuild the home she lost.
By the way, the pony version in the artwork was the very first concept from the adopted design. I then asked the artist to create a human version. So, you can easily imagine her fitting right into the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom!
That's all! 🍎🍊🍌🍉🍇🍒🍍
