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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could

could... can...

[It shifts, shuddering under you. You hear an indrawn breath, air catching on something wet and gurgling.]

what is it

fear

you

what do you

fear

exact

[Something's close, leaning over you, draped... it's not touching, no contact, no proof, but you feel it, the tension in your back and skin, the warmth radiating from it.]

say

speak

it

[I AM SO BAD WITH SUSPENSE!!1 clenching his fists, one at his side and one bunched at the front of his shirt as he tries not to jitter too much]

I--I'm scared of that feeling of being too close to the Shadow world! When it's like the air turned into water and I'm breathing in darkness no matter what I do--b-because I know what comes after that is waking up to things I had no control over--that I couldn't stop myself from hurting my friends even if I wanted to--

so

so

that

yes

[There's a hand on his shoulder, light, human.]

ready?

[--still jumps slightly]

Haha--I--well if I don't do it now I don't know when I'll have the nerve to try again, so.

[If it has an answer to that it was never verbalized... instead...]

[Somewhere in the dark, you hear a wail, piteous and awful. The very world around you tremble, fine vibrations under your feet.

There's a rip, tearing sound, something, sucking, dripping.

Something wraps around your hands and bring them up to receive a single, simple gift.

Whatever it is, it's large, thumping lightly in his hands. The shuddering dual contractions of a heart.. but it's cold... slimy... one of the arteries dangling down from it wraps around your hand...]

eat

fill

take

don't run

[W-well if those sounds weren't enough to give him goosebumps--] What's--[SLIMY AND--] Oh--w--oh it's--[s-screee!! W-what if it's Ygin's?!]

U-um! Y-you'll be okay if I--uh--y-you don't need it??

Edited 2012-10-22 17:49 (UTC)

[There's a pause, curious. Something flat settles under your chin and lifts your head, tilting it this way and that, as if examining you... before letting go again.]

mine

strong

different

this

eat

[Okay. Okay... s-squishes the heart thing in his hands involuntarily--AAAAA--o-okay--DON'T THINK ABOUT IT--

--TAKES A BITE AS HARD AS HE CAN >8U]

[sjshaksdhasswallowitswallowitswallowit ;o;]

[Maybe its how cold it is, that it doesn't seem to have a taste...

Maybe it's how slick it is, that it seems to go down so easily...

But after a moment, you can feel its heartbeat in your throat, in your stomach, your own echoing it as the heart in your hands shudders.]

[It settles, heavy in your stomach. You can feel it seeping out, digesting ... cold running through your veins, out through your arteries, stretching your capilari- It stops.

As if in response, your stomach clenches and twists violently hungry. Starving in a way you've never felt. Your mouth fills with saliva and your jaw aches...

A scent fills your nose, delightful, delicious... it's full of darkness, and you want more.]

[rocks on his feet slightly at the sensation--then eagerly wolfing down the rest of the heart, no longer minding the texture or the fact that it's still beating. What doesn't end up in his mouth starts to simply melt into his skin]

[It fills you. Through every vein, every tissue, every pore of your skin goes slightly cool. You see your flesh ripple, arms cover with black, liquid shadow, run along your arms and sharpen your fingers into claws. It coats your legs and forms enormous, taloned paws...

You feel your heart stutter... and stop.

The moments pour on as it continues to race through you, headless, as if your simple, frail biology had nothing to do with how much it could fill you.]

[Your heart restarts with a hard, painful beat. Blood rushes through your system again and you realize you feel faint, sick and headachy... Warmth runs through you again... you realize you can feel the th-thud of two heartbeats.

But most of all, you feel full. Complete.

... And achingly yourself at the same time.]

[A simple black disk hangs at your neck, a base relief of a row of teeth subtly etched on its surface.

The darkness, smelling familiar and safe, seems to be waiting for something.]

[--a command? He thinks of the Kokuchi and the way their arms end in long, scythe-like blades, all dark shadow with no glinting sheen from the way it absorbs light, but still deadly sharp]

[Your heart th-thumps, shadows well up through you, rushing upwards eagerly and out. The smooth out, rippling into the blade, exactly as you imagined it.

Somehow you can see it... your arm, enshrouded in even deeper darkness... Almost bright in the void.]

[Startles himself bad enough to drop it almost as soon as it's formed]

--Whoa!

[You are returned to a simple normal darkness.

A hand spanning at least your length pats you ever so gently.]

good

yours

deep

remember

remember

don't run

[shivers, shakes, adrenaline hitting, a crazy thrill of excitement coursing through him. He nods his head quickly]

--I'LL DO MY BEST!

T-thank--... [s-scrubs at his eyes with one fist]

[When you drop your fist and open your eyes...

You're kneeling in the shrine area of the common room, a few feet outside of the hole in the wall.]

[Stands there looking at the hole for a bit... Wipes at his face again and heads off to sneak back in to his apartment before it gets too late.]

Ygin

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PRETEND THAT WAS YGIN'S ACCOUNT

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NIGHT OF 86