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Dream #1: Revamped RO's Part 1!

Hestia Brandt

Pronounced (heh-stee-ah) (brand-tuh), uses she/her pronouns (AFAB), bisexual, 24 years-old, and 5'5" tall. Previously known as the character, 'MC's Best Friend'.

She has dark brown skin and wide light brown rounded eyes. Long tightly-curled dark brown hair flows down her back to her waist. It is cut into a Hime cut with straightened side-locks and a fringe. Her eyebrows are shaved off. She wears heavy makeup to invoke a sense of innocence, wonder, and courage. She describes her makeup as if "A cheery clown met a Bratz doll backstage at a show doing makeup for an 18th century porcelain doll".

Hestia's Makeup: Using her natural dewy skin as the base, she applies bright pigments in either red, red-orange, or hot pink to her skin. Her blush is in tight circles on the apples of her cheeks, on the tip of her nose, and then messily swirled across her eyes & eyelids. Tight white eyeliner is swiped across her waterline, emphasizing the roundedness of her eyes. Underneath, black eyeliner works to draw an intricate design similar to that of an upside down triangle with a large dotted point. Thick black mascara follows in order to fan out her lashes in an exaggerated look. Black eyeliner is applied again, this time on the lips, to create a small line outwards horizontally on each side of her lips. Then, to line her lips and over-line her cupid's bow. Next, An opaque sparkly lip gloss matching her blush is applied and smudged together with the dark liner. Finally, sparkly highlighter matching the rest of the pigments across her face is applied to the tip of her nose, corner of her eyes, and her cupid's bow.

Hestia prefers to wear Punk Lolita styles. Combining fluffy petticoats & bloomers with daringly high platform boots and ripped fishnets.

Off-duty: she wears short a-line dresses, primarily in black, that reach to her lower thighs with various colors & patterns accenting the ruffles that adorn her. Underneath the dress lie a petticoat, a pair of ripped fishnet tights, and her pink leopard-print thigh holster with her favorite knife 'Sacrifice'. She also wears black silver-buckled platform boots that reach mid-calf, a pink leopard-print analog watch, a few kandi bracelets with skull beads, and her iconic black bat-shaped backpack.

On-duty: she often wears black ruffled bloomers with vibrant opaque skull-patterned tights in various colors, preferring red, purple, hot pink, or yellow. As her top, she is dressed in a plaid poofy button up with a ruffled collar and puffed short sleeves. The plaid typically matches the color of her tights. In addition, she wears black & white knee-high lace-up Converse with 'Sacrifice' holstered in the top of her right shoe. She accessorizes with a dangerously spiked silver & black wrist cuff on her left arm, a skull-patterned analog watch on her right, and a few brightly colored kandi bracelets with skull beads on both arms. She also keeps her hair up in dual buns tied with large black silky ribbons. Again, her iconic bat-shaped backpack makes an appearance. This time, filled with a water bottle, a gothic-style journal with a skull-topped pen, a laminated pamphlet of Department Yggdrasil's rules & procedures for their agents, various styles of kandi bracelets, a first-aid kit with smelling salts and sterile alcohol wipes, a spare battery pack to charge her phone, and her Dad's old walkman with a few of the CD's he burned along with it.

She smells like the odd warm day in winter; sweetly smokey, with a hint of incense from prayer and a splash of a deep red merlot. And just faintly, the icy chill of peppermint swirls underneath.

She met MC whilst training under Department Yggdrasil, North America Designation, as field agents. She had always planned to join Department Yggdrasil growing up and did so as soon as she turned 18. Her Dad worked under Department Yggdrasil and she wanted to follow in his footsteps. Even more so since he had died.

She is currently coworkers with MC within the same designation. To help ghosts “move on” to what’s next, prevent human and ghost altercations, and for any ghost Department Yggdrasil has deemed an active threat - neutralize them. She has the power to physically & emotionally make people feel towards her like she is their ideal version of what a "home" should be. She can be the warmth of a fireplace on a snowy night. The twinkle of the stars as you look up to the night sky from your picnic blanket. The sweaty comfort of being surrounded by your friends on a nightclub's dance floor. Etc. She is drawn towards the ghosts left with the cold fear of being alone even in a crowded home. The ones left behind in your closet, under your bed, in the large suitcase you keep around because you always wanted to travel but felt even worse in the crowds out there than in here.

She is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up near the Gayborhood. She's more of a Gritty fan than a Flyers fan, but she appreciates how sports culture can become a home for so many around her. Her personality is peppy, friendly, with a sarcastic humor. And if you catch her in an off-moment, you'll catch a glimpse of the deep sadness within her heart. She also has a fiery anger that comes out when in protection of herself & those around her.

She often hands out kandi bracelets to complete strangers who seem like they need a little happiness & whimsy in their day. Even with mixed results, she continues to do so based on the positive interactions she's experienced because of it. She also kins the Sanrio character Kuromi, and her favorite colors are hot pink, purple, orange, and black. Yes, she knows black technically isn't a color in some circles, but a shade, and no, she does not care.

Possible Romance Spoilers Below!

She has been minimally sexually attracted to MC since they became friends and has deeply repressed it, only letting it show through their compliments of MC's appearance and blushing when MC is being particularly kind to others (and to her). The MC can choose whether they have held a secret crush on Hestia during their time as friends as well in the prologue of the demo.

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Dream #1: About Ghouls!

Content warning: moderately gruesome depictions regarding flesh & blood, mentions of bodily functions & fluids, mention of pedophilia (non-descriptive), mature language

"Ghouls are created when ghosts successfully overtake a human's mind and inhabit their body. In this process, the human's soul is depleted or 'consumed' by the ghost. Without its original soul, the human body fights its new host like a parasite, adamantly rejecting it and draining the body of its energy rapidly. In order to become a successful ghoul, the body must consume an equal amount of human souls until it is satisfied. This number has been noted to be between one and one hundred in numerous souls. It is impossible to know beforehand how many human souls will be needed for a successful body transfer. To consume a human soul, one must first eat the heart and brains of a human killed by their own actions. By this point, if the human's soul-anchor hasn't already appeared, it will. Once it does, than ghoul, they better quickly slurp it up like a mimosa at a drag brunch before it dissipates or else their hard work has gone to waste.

After enough human souls have been consumed, one will know based on the...

Diminished burning pain

Healing of the previous sheets of skin that were rapidly peeling off their body

Returning clear vision & hearing (unless previously impaired)

The blood & viscera forcefully expelling itself out of every crevice of their body will stop gushing down their raw skin

Following their transformation, to keep them from getting their freshly renewed soul rejected from their body, ghouls have to continue drinking human blood as their primary nutrient source for the rest of their reborn lives. Being "reborn" is the preferred term to describe the aforementioned process by most ghouls. Though, they certainly are called much worse on a daily basis. The human blood consumed can be drunk from an alive human, scavenged from a dead one, or prepackaged.

What are commonly referred to as "Vampires" in popular internationally Western media are predominantly inspired by ghouls. It is commonly believed amongst Supernatural circles that at least one ghoul severely fucked up how many humans they brought to slaughter when trying to enter their host's body, left the rest of the cattle alive, and the rumors spread from there. How the sexy aspect of all that started...who knows? Ghouls aren't ones to yuck someone's yum. Except for pedophilia. Ew.

Most cultures have some sort of creature similar to our description of the "Ghoul". From Cagayan, Sulu we have the Berbalangs, with their cat-like slitted eyes, and of whom eat the entrails of human corpses. Occasionally, they astral-project their bodies in order to flee their physical constraints, then travel by flapping through the air unseen, and ultimately consume nearby living humans' bodies from the inside-out. And from Togo and Ghana in West Africa, we have the Ewe people's adze. The adze is a small insect, such as a firefly or mosquito, or ball of light, that feeds on human's blood - eventually either consuming them or possessing them. We use the term "Ghoul" in our book as our perspectives predominantly come from an internationally Western-centered perspective. However, just like how it should be in our homes of North America and Europe, we will do our best to reflect and celebrate our diverse audiences by using additional background information and anecdotes from other cultures based on our research. Such as the ones above. Suck it monoculturalism!

Ghouls look almost indistinguishable from average humans. The only difference is their eyes. They have eyes visibly similar to corpses; cloudy with bloated pupils and an everlasting distant look. However, slap in some colored contacts and everything is groovy. Oh, and, I guess their retractable fangs are pretty distinguishable. You just have to catch them when they are a bit hungry or currently feasting.

Weaknesses include anything that can injure a human. Seriously. Sunburns, stakes, machine guns, anything. They do have advanced regenerative abilities, but no natural advancements elsewhere. Also, they are allergic to garlic. All of them. Why? It's confirmed that famous Wise Moira in 1583, when she was 38 and in the midst of the Scottish Witchcraft Act, cursed all ghouls to be allergic to garlic for as long as her lineage lives. So far, despite many ghouls' attempts on their lives, her lineage is prosperous and numerous. And rumor has it, is still in an agreement with the same daoine sith Wise Moira first got her powers from!

The curse seems to cause for ghouls: severe sneezing within three feet of uncovered garlic (skins included), toilet-shaking diarrhea upon ingestion of a quarter-teaspoon's worth of garlic, a roiling fever and raging hallucinations upon ingestion of a teaspoon's worth of garlic, and should any more than such garlic be consumed...well, good luck ghouls. Because for the next twenty minutes, they would be under a compulsory spell to tell the truth. And they physically cannot refrain from communicating the truth in their most effective way to relay the information to the other(s).

Oddly enough, consuming more than a teaspoon of garlic does not activate the additional symptoms associated with consuming garlic. But, consumption of a teaspoon or less, and one is having a sincerely horrific afternoon. Wise Moira was certainly thorough in her curse!"

Excerpt taken from A (Mostly) Not Boring Compendium of Earth's Supernatural Creatures, the Supernaturally Attuned, and their Circumstances By: Cupid's Arrow ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚ & Noel Klaas

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Dream #1: About Souls and Soul-anchors!

"A soul is the essence of consciousness combined with the vitality of life. It is the freedom to think and the freedom to live. It...also kind of looks like a giant lightning bug leashed to whatever being it's attached to.

Anything that once held consciousness has a soul. Dogs, ghosts, humans, bees, octopi, ghouls, etc. And yes, that includes dead humans in certain circumstances. More on that later.

In humans, the best way to access the soul is through the mind & heart, the central functioning organs of the human body. Usually this practice is done through any means that bring notice to one's full physical state. As when one is centered with their body or pushed physically, their spiritual state is strengthened enough for their soul-anchor to be noticed. Soul-anchors are visible to the eyes, have a melodic frequency similar to twinkling bells, and when tugged, can be a variety of weights - ranging from a feather to twenty pounds.

To induce an experienced soul-anchor, one can try exercise, meditation, drinking alcohol excessively, doing recreational drugs, and drawing on power from the daoine sith. Prescription drugs can also induce a soul-anchor to become experienced, and it is commonly due to a side effect from the medication. Such as increased serotonin or increased heart rate.

For anyone who believes they are able to see, hear, or feel ghosts, please look up Department Yggdrasil (they will be under the United Agreement on Earthly Matters) on any nearby internet device, select your country and location, and navigate to the 'Medical Care' tab. Under that tab you will find their directory, which will assist you in finding a nearby Agency medical care center or trained agents staffed in local medical networks. Whether you have money or not for their services, Yggdrasil-affiliates in this directory are required to assist you to the best of their capability, and should they be unable, refer you to another who is. Even if you are unsure, we urge you to do so as leaving the symptoms untreated can result in disastrous circumstances should you successfully induce a soul-anchor unknowingly.

Department Yggdrasil actively recruits static agents as doctors, nurses, and service staff to place at various non-Supernaturally aware hospitals in order to prevent circumstances such as patients "hallucinating" their soul-anchors and being medicated for possible psychosis. Which can continuously induce a soul-anchor and leave the individual at danger for extreme fatigue and pretty much put a bright neon sign on their head saying "Eat me!" for anyone looking to consume a pretty soul.

Soul-anchors are visible to the individual experiencing their increased spiritual state, as well as anyone around them who is able to experience souls. This includes certain demi-humans & full 'Supernaturals', humans that have been born without breath and live after having no oxygen for more than 10 minutes, and humans gifted by the daoine sith can experience souls.

Soul-anchors take their name from the usage of anchors, large metal hooks, to weigh down boats in the water in order to prevent the boat from moving due to active currents. In this, the being is the anchor, the soul-anchor the rope, and the soul is the boat. Cut the rope, and the soul flows away. Well, unless a ghoul tries to eat it that is! Just kidding. Sort of."

Excerpt taken from A (Mostly) Not Boring Compendium of Earth's Supernatural Creatures, the Supernaturally Attuned, and their Circumstances By: Cupid's Arrow ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚ & Noel Klaas

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Dream #1: The Compendium's Dedication

Content Warning: Contains sexually suggestive expletives/obscenities

Image Description: A typed dedication at the front of A (Mostly) Not Boring Compendium of Earth's Supernatural Creatures, the Supernaturally Attuned, and their Circumstances by the authors Cupid's Arrow, with a kaomoji signature of an angel shooting a heart arrow, and Noel Klaas, no kaomojis.

Cupid's Arrow's dedication states "No one ever thought I would or could write a book. Well, maybe a smut book. But I’m still working on that one. To my lovers, thank you. To my haters, get fucked without a flared base. To Noel, my dear taciturn co-author who pushed himself to write this and of whom I forcefully attached myself to during this project, thank you for taking a chance on this lonely Cupid. And to you, I hope you enjoy & learn dear readers. And if you don’t, well, mention it out loud and I’ll hit you with my arrow. Smiley face. Sincerely, Cupid's Arrow, with their previous kaomoji signature".

Noel Klaas' dedication states "I thank my friends, family, and animals. I thank the times in the library with ‘Cupid’s Arrow’. I don’t appreciate the times at the bar in Mykonos, Cupid. But you helped this old man experience more than just his “furry friends” (as you put it) and his fireplace. And thank you, readers, for picking up this book. It is a necessity in this world. One I wish I had growing up. Be who you want to be on this Earth. Noel Klaas".

Their written signatures are below the dedication alongside a gold metallic ovular sticker that says "signed copy". Cupid's Arrow's signature is in red pen, with their typical kaomoji, and is swoopy, crooked, yet evenly written. Noel's signature is in black pen with large swoopy letters written in cursive in a perfect straight line.

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Dream #1: Introducing A (Mostly) Not Boring Compendium of Earth's Supernatural Creatures, the Supernaturally Attuned, and their Circumstances

Authors, Cupid's Arrow ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚ and Noel Klaas.

Image Description: A purple book cover with bright purple in the center, with it turning darker shades of purple outwards towards the end of the cover. There are various intricate details reminiscent of lace patterns in shapes similar to those of a mirror, different sorts of flowers, and a bridge. My favorite detail is that of a faerie owl couple, in clothes reminiscent of a 19th century period drama walking underneath the bridge with an umbrella overhead. The text on the cover states "A (Mostly) Not Boring Compendium of Earth's Supernatural Creatures, the Supernaturally Attuned, and their Circumstances". Additional text states the book is by "Cupid's Arrow and Noel Klaas".