oi_theoi | Toskikov (DEFUNCT)

T
Denial, Consumption, Poison

❧ Played by AJ

Appearance: T appears as a human woman who would not look out of place at a brothel-slash-sushi shop. She's slender, not very tall, and the opposite of well-endowed but holds herself like a lady who knows what she wants and also what she's willing to give. She has long black hair (often worn up) and always wears red lipstick and eyeshadow. She always keeps her neck covered either by a high collar or a scarf and always wears sleeves -- often her clothing is red. It's pretty rare that she stands straight up, often she will slouch or lean or drape. There is a certain laziness to her gesture, but also a coil of power. Both her wrists and neck are scarred (in the rare event that you might see them) and there is a line of scars shaped like snake scales that goes from behind her right ear down her spine. No matter how much she eats she remains itty bitty in proportion.

She can also unhinge her jaw. It's kind of terrifying.

Characteristics: Obsessive, excitable, childish, greedy, compulsive, a great big fibber, manipulative, annoying, morbid, mercurial, fanciful

Likes: Tragedy, stagnation, obsession, compulsion, extremely bright colors, bitter or sour foods, sestinas, unhealthy relationships, corrupt piousness, polite fiction, Freudian concepts, feasts, conversion

Dislikes: Acceptance, actualization, sweets, limericks, monogamy, families where all the members are living, conditioning, education, altruism, true faith, monochrome, starvation, diets

Shrine: A salt lick with pretty pink salt.

Ritual: LICK THE SALT LICK.

❧ Will Take

❧ Will Give

tears
anger
guilt
poison (not just "don't eat the plants without getting them blessed" but like the poison sacks some animals have)
rotten things (decomposing meat or vegetables)
admissions or confessions of secrets that revolve around false identities
acts of "corrupting another" (bodily or mentally)
lamentations
teeth
tongues
stomachs
intestines
saliva
your sense of taste (for a while)
gastric juices
vomit

Forks/Knives/Spoons/Plates/utensils for eating basically
poisons and their antidotes
drinking vinegar
temporary "iron stomach" (comes with side effect of overwhelming hunger)
almonds
mace (the spice)
edible underwear
clothes made of hemp
tables/chairs -- though all of her furniture has either d-rings or restraints or weird grooves perfect for bleeding someone out in, regardless of if you want that or not.

On Memory... T also has the ability to do what she calls "help" with memories. More accurately she can bury a memory, create a false memory or attach a "false feeling" to a memory you have. So, if you want to forget your asshole father? She can do that for you. If you want to bridge the gap between two memories she can fabricate a memory that fills in the gaps, so to speak. Or if you just wanted to have a fun childhood memory even if you didn't have a fun childhood, I guess. And she can make things that you remember as being awful be remembered as AWESOME EXPERIENCES :D :D :D or the other way around. Basically if it's altering or falsifying a remembered person/event/feeling she can help you out there!

"❧ Exchange Rate

Items to Units
Worth	Offering
1-3 Units	Admissions or confessions of secrets that revolve around false identities
2 Units	--These are bonuses earned with an action-- Anger or Guilt Tears A lamentation (can also be its own offering)
3 Units	Giving up your sense of taste for a while 1 cup of tears
3-5 Units	Acts of corrupting another Acts of corrupting yourself
Units to Items
Cost	Reward
1 Unit	almonds, mace, drinking vinegar in small portions
2 Units	1 dish set (a small bowl, a large plate & a small plate) 1 cutlery set (a spork, a teaspoon, a butter knife, a fork)
3 Units	An item of clothing 1 better cutlery set (cutlery set + steak knife, chopsticks, soup spoon)
4 Units	Antidote or poison
5 Units	A table Two chairs
6 Units	Iron stomach
Note: In general for a lot of trades like dishware and forks/knives T will do a strict weight exchange. If your dishes weigh a pound, she wants a pound of intestines. It is almost always an option for items like that. Prices also vary! If you have a good relationship with her it is probably because you inflict or indulge in the emotional side of things (or do more of the 'acts' she accepts) and your general totals may be lower than those good upstanding citizen types.

❧ Vipers

No current Vipers.

Expectations and Powers of Vipers

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

He did? Wicked! What for?

Denial, of a sort.

Well, I do do that. Sometimes, if paid well.

If I want to see someone familiar as someone unfamiliar, would you be able to do that?

[ circles, chewing on her bottom lip. ]

A skill I normally grant to those who want to become mine.

I'm already someone else's.

[ makes a fffft noise ]

Well, what kind of unfamiliar? Forgetfulness? Puzzlement . . .?

I would say...

I'm not sure. They share a face with someone I know from home, and I don't want to see them as looking like that someone.

[ moves to drape on him ]

Something could be done, I suppose. It could be messy and it could be costly.

[Kind of.. stiffens. Just a little. But doesn't pull away.]

How messy and how costly? And I'll want to know in detail what the effect will be.

Isn't peace of mind important? Being happy and good and all of that wicked stuff. So to make you happy it is also important. . .?

It's important... But I don't make deals without knowing the details first. That would be very stupid, ne?

Stupid can be charming.

There are a few options. . . the whole thing, gone. To see the other differently . . . well. . . also could happen, but I make no promises on pleasantries.

It can be annoying, too.

What whole thing gone? And what do you mean by you make no promises on pleasantries?

I like things like this. [ sighs a little ] You're just trying to make it easier to be around them, right? But maybe you should give up that memory that made them who they are to you. That can happen too . . .

I'm not going to give up my memory of the person from my home. And if I give up my memory of the person that's here, things will just repeat themselves.

The best solution would be to see this person differently, and not remember them.

[ another sigh, it rasps a little ]

Mm. . . how utterly interesting. Does it matter how you see them?

Well I don't want to see them as something scary, or a monster. Something unremarkable would be best. Just as an unremarkable, unfamiliar stranger.

But you won't be mine.

[ grump grump ]

I'm somebody else's. [THANK YOU, UR'GHASTE-SAN.]

But if you love these kinds of things so much, it would be good for you, ne? Since I don't think you'll encounter this kind of situation very often.

You might be surprised. Everyone wants to be happy.

Yet somehow I don't think everyone's happiness involves this particular resolution.

Oh, is this sneaky? Behind a back? Perhaps . . . for some other reasons?

You could say that it's sneaky... Mostly though, they wouldn't care even if they knew.

So, can you do it?

It is in my power to do.

[ she sounds vaguely bored tho . . . ]

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