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CESSAIR "CESS" NEWMAN (she/her/corpse on the floor): quasi-immortal sad lesbian in her twenties with a nicotine addiction. by that I mean she dies. and a lot. in various awful ways. shes got a shit father and most of my problems and shes my daughter and i love her. these are my favourite ways shes died:
drowning: a classic. thematically relevant. her second ever death at a week old. pulled herself out of the ocean again at 17 as a waterlogged corpse as the bodies of her classmates floated up to the surface around her. still has that scared-animal type expression whenever she smells salt water.
eaten by bugs: this was surprisingly okay all things considered because the bugs are a friend of hers called michael and it was her idea. michael is a mass of centipedes that eats people and wears their skin (more on him later) and she told him to do that to her while they were kidnapped together so he could get close enough to eat their captor. took her a while to regrow all her organs but michael made the death quick so it was fine!
exploded: worked with a vampire who stabbed her in the back and annihilated her body with an explosion and then dipped to go steal a very important thing. cess scraped herself back together out of spite and stole a car with half a leg still missing, put a brick down on the accelerator and called them on a walkie talkie while blasting backstabber by kesha until she hit them with the car going at ~90mph. she died again in the crash but she was fine
-being incredibly lucky getting under people's skin when she first meets them. like shes struck gold thrice (it gets people sooo mad but shes okay)
-insufferable flirting that WORKS. everyone wants her and its so unbearably embarrasing for them because you want THAT. you want that. you want little miss traumatised no ass no tits rude asf gay asf daddy issues
-being a revenant. shes the first in fucking ages and she can see ghosts, was raised by a ragtag group of them (an nyc 80s punk, an irish regency noblewoman, a spanish fighter pilot, someone who may have been a hitman or worked in a call centre in the 40s, a flock of ravens and a priest made of stained glass etc etc) they did an okay job. better than her actual father would have done
RAYMOND "RAY" MARCUI (he/fucking something maybe they idk ive got to kill my father): so sad. he’s a sad guy. in his twenties. italian. pathetic tragic boy who is very arthur lester coded (blind, yellow themed thing guiding them, close female relative died by drowning) but hes my son. aroace. trans metaphor and maybe trans if i decide that. hes so tragic please take him seriously hell cry
at 7 he was blinded by his father in an attempt to give him the ability to see magical energy. it worked but he can see fuckall but that now. and at 14 his father drowned his sister because she was protecting him the best she could from the abuse of being turned into a living weapon. he’s killed a lot of people even outside his fathers influence because it’s all he knows how to do.
after becoming possessed by the angel that used to live inside his sister and bearing the stress scars of the experience ray left at eighteen and fled to America. he’s now making his way back with one all encompassing purpose in mind: to kill his father. he meets cess on this journey and they get along like a match and petrol 2 weird freaks not understood by anyone in the supernatural community or the world? They shouldn’t work but they do. best friends after 1 week hanging out
fun things he carries around with him:
-cursed rosary. or maybe blessed. either way it won’t leave him alone (just like his catholic guilt cough cough) so he keeps it with him
-old bandages with runes scrawled over them in blood. demonic to combat the angel inside of him and he BINDS (WINK WINK WINK) with them all over his body to physically keep the divinity from leaking out of him
-triple edged golden dagger. triple edged blades are a thing and illegal under the geneva convention because their only purpose is to cause harm. this one has “veni vidi vici” carved into each of the blades. he doesn’t know where he got it from but it’s served him well enough time to keep around.
-RAGUEL: angel of vengeance. originally hosted by ray’s sister gin. after her death ray cremated her and in doing so raguel moved to him. protects and guides him to the best of the ability of a creature specifically created to carry out violent acts. I wanted to explore the idea of carrying around something in your body Too Big for a person to handle; like the divinity is seconds away from tearing your body apart and rebuilding its own true form from the remains. raguel is in every part of ray and their names aren’t a coincidence. as time goes on they begin to blur together into one being, though they still think for themselves one could not live without the other. this is so normal btw
MICHAEL (he/him/gosh this is fun isnt it): tragicially gay. like so fucking tragic. given a taste of freedom and immediately went and fell in love with a guy named aiden about it. he is a mass of centipedes that eat people and live in their skin and accidentally did this to the love of his life in a moment of panic. he refuses to leave aiden's corpse behind and still remains inside it eleven months later. he likes ABBA. hes loyal to a fault. he has a posh voice generally (takes after jude) but swears a lot more and creatively than her. hes even tragically gay. faceclaim aneurin barnard in the goldfinch specifically.
originally met aiden when jude (more below u might wanna read about her first sorry) told him to try and get closer to cess (22 at the time) because revenants don’t come around all that often and someone might snatch her up and experiment on her or whatever. so michael starts dating cess’ neighbours friend in order to get closer to her (NEED you to understand that pre this arc (clocktown stars arc) cess has like 1 friend. at least 1 living friend) but oh no. he’s catching actual real feelings. which fae are NOT supposed to be able to do
tries to play it off all subtle cause if jude finds out she’ll probably kill him or something so he needs to keep this UNDER THE RADAR. so he fae proposes to aiden. which is just very seriously telling him his name but it’s the least under the radar thing anyone has ever done ever.
so aiden gets marked by a hellhound which is a fucking death sentence because I can’t let myself have nice things. if you find it the first day you get it and you know exactly what it is and you have unlimited funds you might survive half a year tops. but the mark allows a hellhound to make physical contact with a thing that isn’t hell as long as the mark is active, which is as long as the host is alive. but tbh suicide is better than having your soul dragged down to hell for the rest of eternity to be used as a chew toy for various creechurs
michael doesn’t realise what’s happened until it’s too late and the hellhound is in aidens flat already. he’s frantically trying to calm him down and keep him quiet and checking all over for it as the growls grow closer and closer until he instinctively and accidentally burrows down aidens throat and consumes him. bro imagine if you had a boyfriend and he was secretly loads of centipedes and then he fucking are you wouldn’t that be crazy lmaooo
but because michael got there first to kill aiden, the hellhound can no longer touch him and so it leaves. this means aidens ghost will be floating around somewhere, and if you want to find a ghost there’s only one weird lesbian to befriend. not ideal to be wearing her acquaintance’s body while you do so, but michael would have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of this body at this point.
LIGHTNING ROUNDDDD!!!!!!!!
ELLIOT (he/him/fuck off): transmasc witch. in his forties. aroace. scottish. short king. trained butcher. uses playing cards as spells. terrible person. joined a cult in his twenties to get educated on witchcraft and as soon as he was done he blew the place to hell and decided to kill himself. cess went back in time to save him from dying. he has unfortunate fatherly attachment to her. friends with jude in college. amputated his own leg once but nbd
ANDROMEDA "ANDY" (she/he/whatever ive got bigger things going on): butch transbian texan werewolf. the yum to elliot's yuck. deaf. also in her forties. wears low cut skinny jeans and about a million holsters. genuinely the most gorgeous woman youve ever met and shes a werewolf what else do you want
WAR (stay away from me.): the physical manifestation of all the violence and anger in the world. he hates herself after so many years of existence and is currently on a meaningless journey to kill himself. unfortunately on this journey she comes across cess and her boundless optimism and zest for life despite her tragic and bloodstained past and inherently violent existence and decides he wants a piece of that. learns to become something other than what humanity’s blight, because cess said she could.
GINEVRA “GIN” MARCUI (she/her/im dead who cares): rays sister. also the daughter of a prostitute and a mafia boss. irish. she however is a lot more suited to the mafia lifestyle than ray is. she’s a fucking angel of death. when her father tried to drown her he had to shoot her in the stomach three times to keep her down while ray (14) was forced to watch, and even then she kept breaking the surface again until their father shot her in the head. sometimes she appears as an ominous, unstoppable spectre dripping blood and water onto the ground as she tears through whichever bitch hurt her baby brother again. a bad sister and parental figure though. childhood fucked her up too. cess thinks she’s so unbelievably hot (she’s right)
JUDAS "JUDE" (she/her/:)): trans lesbian. also also in her forties. the most born in the wrong generation person youve ever met. she has a lot of thematically relevant tattoos. shes got a missing eye from a scar splitting the left side of her face that SHE DOESNT KNOW HOW SHE GOT. to be fair to her due to a deal she made with the fae she lost all memories and her name in return for power she doesnt know the reason she wanted in the first place. techinically michael is her identured servant but hes more like her weird sad son. she loves him a lot :)
DANTE (she/her/actually who fucking cares. murders you): most gorgeous beautiful black woman ever. demon in the lust circle. got her name from jude when they met. meetcute was when someone attempted to feed jude to her to appease her to make a deal but dante hit it off with the weird nerd who sounds like shes walked out of bridgerton. married her, took the name she was using and now they have a detective agency jarthur-style and recruited all above weirdos and perverts into it. found family trope you are cocaine to me
