*holds up ‘Twelve’ and shakes them*
Y’ALL WANT SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT MY TV-HEAD-SONA?!
📺 Twelve’s pronouns are They/Them (very rarely he/him) and when they “speak” they actually refer to themselves in plural. (I.e. “We/Us”) Very “We Are Legion” but without the sinister implications.
📺 This is because they’re the embodiment of the Midnight Channel from Persona 4, which is a collective of people’s subconscious desires. Twelve spawned because that collective needed a physical form, and before Twelve’s creation the Midnight Channel was just a vast open space with individual dungeons. With Twelve, the Channel has a form, and the rest of the TV world can more easily be organized into separate parts to accommodate individuals. A “person” to populate the space.
📺 They hang out in the P4 Backlot near the entrance, often sitting on top of the stack of tvs that leads to the outside world.
📺 They’re actually quite friendly, and are mostly Chaotic Good. They’re curious about the world outside the TV and are easily enamored by animals, but they also enjoy utterly fucking with people. They’re a gremlin at heart.
📺 They don’t speak with a physical voice; when they try it comes out like TV static, or like that horrible, multi-layered “voice” you hear when skimming through radio stations. Instead, they communicate through sound clips and symbols on their face screen.
📺 When flustered, Twelve will often make a computer dial-up noise. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, and no one knows why they do that.
📺 They also tend to make the PS1 startup sound as a greeting. (Know one knows why they do this, either.)
📺 Twelve actually has a mouth. Their screen face can split open. looking like a huge, jagged crack in the glass that resembles a jack-o-lantern smile. (Description by my Wife~) It’s their only actual facial feature, since they usually don’t emote any sort of eyes. They do, however, have a fucking tongue. Why? No one knows. They sure as hell don’t use it to speak. It’s long and prehensile and looks like it’s made of thick metal cable; segments and all. They also - for some inexplicable reason - drool a watery, oil-slick-like substance that is believed to be liquid Shadow. There doesn’t seem to be a purpose for it, other than Twelve may very well be part Shadow, since they’re the embodiment of subconscious wants - which can evolve into Shadows when suppressed.
📺 Sadly, Twelve is bound to the TV world and can’t leave; every time they try, they’re dragged back by living power line cables. As of yet, they haven’t been able to properly meet any of the humans that frequent the TV world (the Investigation Team), though they would dearly love to help in the cause; Twelve wants the corruption banished just as much as the humans do, and, given the chance, would happily act as a summon-able ‘Persona’ for the Investigation Team’s leader.
📺 Twelve’s main magical element is Zio (thunder.) They also know Mudo (darkness) and Dia (heal), but usually don’t get the chance to use them.
📺 (If they had parents, they would 100% be the spawn of Kanti from FLCL and Primadonna from ‘Echo’ by CrusherP.)
