@maternalmelancholy prompted: 🙌 🙌 🙌
send a 🙌 and i’ll introduce you to an NPC related to my muse. / accepting
for three emojis u get three npcs, so that’s what we’re doing here.
[tw: talks of abuse] garrett ellison is not a nice man. as it stands, he is not even a man. he’s a born werewolf from alabama running just about the most dysfunctional pack you can think of, and if you wonder why it might dysfunctional, well: it’s because garrett is a shitty alpha. he is psychologically and physically abusive. he turns people against their will and forces them to do his bidding. he doesn’t care about anything or anyone but himself and accumulating more power, and he takes pleasure in breaking lesser wolves to achieve this. his pack is small, but vicious, and definitely the brand of scary werewolves that leaves a trail of bodies and chaos everywhere they go and cause trouble for all the other wolves in the vicinity.
garrett is the man that turned logan. he did it when logan was a teenager, and all but kidnapped him afterwards. he made him go through the (insanely painful) transformation while locked in a cellar without food and water. then once logan finally turned, he had his wolves tear him apart. it was to build character, according to him, but also because logan had refused to turn when he garrett demanded him to and had made garrett wait. this was the beginning of the worst few weeks of logan’s life, which culminated in logan blacking out, and killing a few of garrett’s wolves and several humans, before promptly running away.
garrett was also injured during the altercation, which is why he didn’t immediately follow logan. but he is on his trail, for sure, and getting closer every day. he’s developed an obsession that will only leave him once he kills logan. he is the thing keeping logan awake at night.
ford rakuyama is not an npc specifically tied to a character of mine, but he is a character intrinsically tied to a larger universe of mine, mutant town, which is the main verse of characters like charles, and all my other mutants. ford is essentially the most prominent person in mutant town, there since the days of civil rights (both human and mutant), and currently, as the forgotten district’s benefactor, being essentially the man keeping the district from being bought out of existence. he’s also, essentially, inmortal, thanks to his two mutations: complete invulnerability and biological manipulation; ford remains immune to telepathic attacks and trickery of any kind, and counts with a hyperactive, regenerative healing against physical attacks due to the combination of it with his second mutation: biokinesis, i.e., the ability to control the body (his own or others’) on a cellular level, and to induce genetic alterations and physical distortions, be them positive or negative.
think of him, in the grand scheme of the verse, as the big good. ford is not the only activist figure in the district (he also counts with friends of his same age, that went through the same things as him), but he is among the most powerful. since he needs extensive biological knowledge in order to use his mutation most effectively, he’s taken to also studying genetics and the mutant genome, but since he never once concealed his status as mutant, he had to study all of this on his own, without support of a university or the government (who hates him, naturally). he started his own NGO to better research mutations and offer aid and help toward disenfranchised mutants on all levels, and the focus of his efforts continues to be mutant town itself.
on the low, he also works counterintelligence on the government, and he’s indirectly helped curb many of its plans. he’s dismantled research labs. he’s overseen assassinations,. he’s directly, through his own mutation, terminated people unfriendly toward the mutant cause. it’s no x-men, but he’s formidable.
nithael is responsible for the existance of renaud. he is also responsible for that sensation at the base of your skull that maybe, maybe, at some point not so distant from now you were misplaced into a different timeline, a parallel universe, and you don’t belong to where you are now, a remarkably similar place where everything is the exact same except berenstain is written like berenstein, just to name something.
well, he is an old one, older than time, older than anyone except the void itself and same age as the other creatures that inhabit it. he would be called nyarlathotep at one point, and he can be called as that still, but if that or the crawling chaos doesn’t roll of your tongue easily nithael will suffice.
he serves these great old ones as an emissary and representative, of sorts, to the human race and all other conscious enough to understand their insignificance and be terrified of it. nithael oversees the downfall of worlds and actively orchestrates toward said downfalls. sometimes it’s as simple as starting cults, sometimes it’s as complex as terraforming planets to better suit the gods’ needs. since his mere presence is considered toxic to the fabric of the universes he is visiting, his stay in these causes glitches. one of them is renaud. another of them is sudden, inexplicable disappearances and phenomena like natural disasters and generalized hysteria. in mild doses, the timelines clash into other timelines and you end up with things like the mandela effect.
so, consider nithael a chaos entity. whimsical, sure, but not aimless at all. he thrives on mayhem, and this makes him, in a way, the antithesis of someone like janus, who would represent the opposite end of the spectrum: order. janus and nithael clash repeatedly because of this, and since janus has stopped him from wiping out universes more than once (because by destroying civilizations you destroy their knowledge, and that’s not something he can abide, especially if their knowledge hasn’t been recorded) and nithael has gotten in the way of janus’ work by doing so more than once, you can think of them as enemies of one another.