oi_theoi | Ygin

Ygin
The Unknown, Madness, Fear, Night

❧ Played by Nishi

Appearance: It is impossible to get a clear picture of Ygin all at once. It has feminine hands, but a clenched, lantern jaw. You might see the line of a cloak, hunched and stooped, but you might also see flowing, black hair. It has a long, lizagon-like tail, and the presence of it is most often the only consistent sign it is openly in the area.
The voice is a low, genderless whisper, directly in the person’s right or left ear, inaudible to anyone else. You might sometimes hear feathers, or the rasp of scales, gurgles or scrapes. The smell is dry and papery, or wet and fetid.
Whenever Ygin is around, people will feel a tight feeling between their shoulder blades, as if something is watching them.
Characteristics: Childlike, insatiably curious, sadistic, inquisitive, ponderous, demanding, fickle, irrational and sometimes outright gibberingly insane.

Likes: Courage, terror, chimeras, were creatures, shape shifters who lose control by nature, self-awareness, emotional vulnerability, hallucination-prone people, scrying or dreaming powers, phobias, playing mind games

Dislikes: Bravado, rhetoric, scholarly learning, order, science, machinery, unflappable people, people without curiosity, obtuse people, bright lights, restrictions.

Shrine: The shrine presents itself as a dark opening in the wall. It’s large enough to walk into, but you cannot see, hear or sense anything inside.

Ritual: Getting its attention can be as simple as putting a hand in the opening, but walking entirely in is guaranteed to get an answer and quite a bit more favor.

❧ Will Take

❧ Will Give

Nightmares
Fear
Insomnia
Confessions of dangerous/shameful secrets
Maps of uncleared areas
Accounts of previously unknown animals (it doesn't have to be real as long as the character is convinced it is)
Spider silk
Porcumonkey quills
Alcohol
Spirit draining powder
Furbies (successfully caged)
Pieces of your sanity (temporarily or permanently)
A single sense (temporarily or permanently)
Destruction of lights in the dorm areas

Restoration of a single sense
Mirrors
Hand lanterns
Incense
Scented candles
Candy (Hallucinogens)
Curse removal or status effect removal
Obscuring cloaks, cowls or form/gender/identity hiding clothes
Soft-soled shoes
Mental healing I - Can give two talismans, one will restore sanity: soothe, comfort and calm. The other will sap sanity from someone else in any way the player chooses. The second talisman can be shared between multiple people in order to keep the cost low.
Mental healing II - Can devour your insanity. It's delicious.
Information on flora and fauna in explored areas
Understanding of the world (Hallucinations)

❧ Exchange Rate

Items to Units
Worth	Offering
1 Unit	Fear (a shock or start) Confession of a phobia Accounts of new animals/plants Spidersilk (per handful)
2 Units	Fear (challenging a phobia) Confession of a shameful secret Small map of an uncleared area Alcohol
3 Units	Fear (Panic attack or fight or flight terror) Insomnia Vivid nightmares Spirit draining powder Destruction of lights in the dorm area
5 Units	Fear (Paralyzing or phobia CAUSING terror) A piece of your sanity One of your senses
Units to Items
Cost	Reward
1 Unit	A small hand lantern Scented candles/Incense Candy (hallucinogenic)
2 Units	Hand or vanity mirrors Gender/form obscuring clothing Soft soled shoes Information on animals/plants in explored areas
3 Units	Curse or status effect removal Full length or wall mirrors Understanding of the world~
5 Units	Mental Health (either method) Restoration of one sense

❧ The Were

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Expectations and Powers of the Were

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[The silence stretched out in answer, deep and still. You hear your own breathing, and faint at first, but your own pulse throb in your ears...

Clammy, cold fingertips brush at your temples, sliding down your cheeks and then back up for face, covering your sightless eyes with blind, slow interest.]

you

you

i

remember

[flinches, breath shuddering as he goes to speak..he's definitely squeezing the hands he has on everyone else a little tighter]

We'd like to know some information...if possible..

[feels the grip tighten and just holds on, yeah this is pretty - he doesn't want to admit scary but he's nervous]

[Elliot, on the other hand, feels the prickly distinct feeling of insect legs on the skin of his ankle, making a ponderous way up his leg.]

speak

speak

[o-oh yeah he'll have none of that, slapping at his ankles, dancing forward a bit]

What the hell is that?!

[He almost moves out of his hand and Leo yanks hard- this is extremely difficult to ask and while asking for Elliot's protection would still be on his mind, he's promised to let Elliot deal with it himself, hoping he doesn't regret it - but all those fears are pretty much right at the forefront of his mind with another God to deal with and everything going on.]

We need to get Yukari back. Do you know where she is - or will you help?

[Elliot can feel it squish, sharp pieces of chitin spread out over a jelly ooze.

The hands on Leo's face are still as he speaks... and slowly move down, exploring the edge of his nose, two sliding into his mouth as he finishes the last syllable. The ... feeling isn't quite solid, a texture almost rubbery, and tasting thick, like a rice paste.]

yes

why

why

you

you did

[The fingers are unreally long, sliding over your tongue and brushing a watery fingertip across the back of your throat.]

[t-that certainly triggers choking a bit, and then his gag reflex, and he's backed into one of the others, he might just let go of the others and start clawing at his mouth now-]

[As you claw at your mouth, your fingers slide through something heavy, wet and mucousy, it sticks to your fingers in long ropes.

... And cuts through whatever hand was there. The finger in your mouth slides down your throat unimpeded.]

[He's just.. going to drop to his knees and throw that up right now. It's not a pleasant sound for all in the room..]

Leo? [and he doesn't care about the creepy crawly feelings, a hand is on Leo's back, contact still as he let go of his hand for that motion]

can see

can see

maybe

...like

[A tiny solid hand rubs Leo's back as he retches.]

[Leo can feel a warm breath brush across his ear and neck, feel the flecks of spittle as it whispers thickly to him.]

can

can you overcome it

is it important

[his voice is hoarse, still coughing up bits, and rubbing the slime frantically along the floor in the darkness, the very feeling of his fingers touching reminds him how it felt going down-]

ugh.

O-Overcome what?

[there's a cloth touching his neck, his neck cloth, the one he'd used to tie Leo, it's clean after they tried washing their clothing earlier]

you

yourself

fear

fear

its strong...

mine only

do not fear

anyone

but me

[The voice is gentle, almost cooing. Elliot can feel something hot and wet slither along his neck before the skin of his legs almost is on fire with a surge of prickling.]

if you can

i will take you

take her

both

both come back here

sit with me

beautiful

delicious

I-I can try....

[t-e-r-r-i-f-y-i-n-g-- ..and he grabs Elliot's hand again, tapping about in the emptiness, blindly]

I'll be breaking my deal with S'vx-

- will he hold me to it?

[even he pauses to answer, no amount of bravado can help when in this gods presence it seems]

I'll.. do it. [but he's gripping Leo's hand so tight, and Shepards, really what were they getting themselves into]

break

broken

[The sensations plaguing the two vanish a moment, and the silence is heavy.]

angry

probably

said you bring

didn't say to keep

...

angry

angry

mine

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[Oh he really doesn't want Elliot to go now, but damn it... He's not going to listen to that!]

We'll need to get more people... [ohgod~ he just put his hand in some of that slime from earlier - or is that his vomit- stomach turning]

Maybe Elliot, you shouldn't go.

[shakes his head, no he's coming]

I'll come. [you're his servant, he'll take responsibility for it being his life you were trying to save]

I can ask Chrono to help find people...

[go

go

return

seek the dark

i will seek you in it

[Something in the air lifts, drifting off.

You know, that for the moment, you are alone.]

Ygin

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