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If you could choose to be an animal for a day (and still keep your identity and memories and whatnot), which animal would you choose? 

I love to test my limits! To see what kind of roles I can pull, and how well I can captivate my audience with it! I don't think there is anything better than seeing the audience really living the performance with you, on the edges of their seats. It's like creating an illusion that feels so real people momentarily believe it, and that's the best! 

I, uh, also really love to wear all sort of costumes when I perform, haha...

"You're really brave for challenging him and escaping! How do you like living in that bakery and exploring?"

He laughed. "I'm not an alien, sadly. I'm just here being me and looking for aliens! My hair has always been this color for as long as I can remember and I always look like this." He softly laughs again. "I assume an alien's smile would look like everyone else's smile, but mine looks like this!" He smiles happily.

"You're an alien...? What brought you here? Is that your natural look or do you appear human for everyone's sake. What do alien smiles look like? :)"

"Sometimes it's upsetting to know that people I visit won't smile the same again after, but knowing that I helped them be that happy just once in their life is enough for me. :) That, and sometimes I'll carve smiles into them so they will always be happy. Like me. :)"

"Do you have any idea of why you have vampire ancestors yet your lineage includes vampire hunters? How familiar in general are you with your family records and history?" 

"I have no talent nor skill in writing whatsoever; I can write essays if they are required for homework, but I'm only truly interested in consuming information. As for what I'll eventually do with it... I suppose only time will show. I might become a scholar for all I know, but I might end up never even looking at the direction of the academia."

"Your passion for consuming knowledge is amazing - i'm rather envious. Do you ever write, or is your focus only on reading?"

"It's something I feel I've acquired.. I assume so, anyway, over a long course of time. I tend not to think of those things that cannot be helped - it sends me into this sort of, uh, spiral.. like, a spiral of dwelling on such things to the point where it becomes unbearable - I tend to avoid that at all costs. There are some things on my mind, I guess.." He paused for a moment, blanking out before shaking his head and trying to keep himself present. "Ahem- uhm, I just sort of accompany myself to them.. wait for my mind to process it enough for it not to faze me. It takes a while, depending on what it is - all-in-all, it really just involves a lot of quiet thinking, or perhaps through catharsis like writing out my thoughts."

"We seem to have a bit in common, Casper, " Xaanik smiled, seeming more at peace around the virtue then he would almost any other stranger. "I have a question... Actually, I'd like your advice, if I may. I'd like to know how you manage to keep yourself seperate from the suffering of the humans around you, while still being able to care for them. Does all the injustice in the world make you feel helpless? How do you deal with things you can't change?" 

[sorry if it's not a simple question, though I think this is something Xaanik would really like to know, in character]

Ah! That's a good question.

It's not possible for an actual angel to die or be destroyed, so defective ones are isolated to the underworld instead. However, if someone goes to the effort of summoning them to Earth and keeping them there for many years, their angelic nature wanes and it does eventually become possible for them to die/be destroyed (albeit only through a special ritual). 

As angels aren't creatures meant for this plane of existence, it takes a long time for their... resonances to attune to an earthly one. But once that happens, they're no longer really angelic.... If that makes sense?

Deities don't exile defective angels directly to earth because they're often too dangerous to risk having around humans. They figure it's better to just tuck them away in the underworld where they'll have little to no contact with Earth. 

It's extremely rare for humans to be able to summon fallen angels/ashfiend, and whoever was being summoned would have to play nice if they wanted to stay on earth anyway (because they'd still need that mage's help for multiple years), so deities aren't too concerned about stopping this from happening.

Seeing as Xaanik's been on earth long enough, his powers have decayed substantially and he's technically mortal now (though it'd still take a lot of effort to kill him!)

--That's actually the distinction between a "grey" ashfiend and a regular, non-grey one -- "greys" are ashfiend who have been attuned to earthly existence.

^{phew that was a bit of a ramble sorry omg}

^{hope it answers the question well enough tho!}

Aarix He was banished to the underworld because he couldn't be destroyed, yet he spends a lot of his time later fearing or actively seeking his own death & I was wondering what the difference between destruction and death is exactly? This....is more of a worldbuilding question than a character one I feel but his profile was so in depth i couldn't think of anything else to ask lmao

"Because it is the name my mistress gave to me.  It's...It's what she called all of us.  I suppose it was more convenient for her that way...These pe-  My....Family...Call me Caileb.  That's my 'real' name, I've been told."    His speech starts out irritable-- how does anyone get a name? -- but loses confidence the more he speculates, the more he voices his own thoughts.  "But it doesn't feel right."

"I couldn't ever forget her- I don't want- I-"  He pauses to get his words straight, frustrated again at why the question is even being asked when the answers seem so obvious to him. "....I've forgotten enough."

"Awfully curious about this one.. but why is your name Innit? Also, do you think you'll ever be able to forget that mistress of yours?"

"Oh.. this." She places a hand on her left eyelid, "When I was younger, I tagged along with my brother for a mission that was meant to be quick. I was only 7 then- our target was a middle-aged businesswoman. However.. it turned out to be a day I'll never be able to forget." The light-haired girl purses her lips before continuing. "That woman was associated with the underworld. She was a demon. Brother and I almost died trying to get rid of her. When she was about to be finished off- with both of us barely hanging on ourselves, she grabbed me and gauged my eye out. Planted her own in, going off about some bull about cursing me forever. As for what it does.. It allows me to briefly search a person's memories and search a person's body in extreme detail, as detailed as how fast their blood is rushing. Honestly, it does serve me well with the line of work I do. However, the memories..." She pauses, "-I don't know. Anyways, no, my family doesn't have it. It's just me."

"That 'Ghost Eye' of yours... What exactly is it? What does it do? How did you come to possess it? Is it something that you gained through your families blood line?"

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She hums softly to herself, with a serious expression to her. "Hm... Unfortunately that isn't something I can reveal to you in full. Put simply, we seek to change the world in order to better serve our justice and to ensure that the unjust are culled from society. We believe the world is unfair and we seek to change that through our new world order." As she finishes, her expression softens and a warm smile draws to her. "As for why I like Cranes, there's no significant reason honestly. I just think they're beautiful creatures! Especially the Japanese Red Crown!"

"What kind of group this, uh, 'Baphomet's chosen' are exactly? Also, is there any particular reason you love cranes so much?" 

"I'd be overjoyed, of course! My curse has caused me nothing but trouble, so I'd be head first in action if there was a way to make it disappear, or even just stop getting worse! As for a sacrifice... I suppose it really depends; I see no reason to agree on something that is basically just as bad as having this curse on me. I'd just find something new to complain about, but my situation would still be miserable."

How would you feel if you discovered there was a way to lift your curse? what would you be willing to sacrifice in return? 

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It is absolutely terrible, i don't even like dogs that much, i smell bad and i don't have thumbs, i think dying honestly would have been better, but it's not like i really had a decision in this matter in the first place... 

but as terrible as this is,, i feel like Biscuit probably has it worse, a dumb old dog scampering around stitched up to a sickly human body's leftovers? poor thing must be so confused... 

"Who's this 'Jessie' person to you, and what do you like about her?"

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"Better now. But when I was younger I thought I wasn't gonna make it out. OCD contributed a lot to my anxiety. I deal pretty specifically with 'magical thinking' and I used to think people would die if I ever saw or touched anything dead. Couldn't eat meat for awhile until I got diagnosed. I also thought any time I said something good something bad would follow, so I washed my hair to take it back. I still feel like this, but CBT has helped me decide what's thought and what's fact. I wanna get a tattoo on my wrist as a reminder, but I'm honestly a little nervous about it.

TS is different. I wasn't diagnosed until I was around fifteen because my parents just thought I was a loud kid like everyone else. It was embarrassing for me, and of course feeling embarrassed just made me tic more. Now I'm not embarrassed about it so much and I don't know if my ticks went down because I'm not embarrassed or if it was just a coincidence.

For treatment I've tried a lot of things. I don't drink coffee and that helps. I try to ditch everything that stresses me out too. And scent therapy. It helps me relax and there are some essential oils out there with amazing properties. Last but not least I go to a few different therapists, but that's it if we're not talking medical treatment."