VIVI ARCHAEA.

21 years old. They/Them. Nonbinary. Western Hemisphere. Unnamed border city.

Originally very shy and reserved, Vivi has grown into a kind, albeit gloomy, person. Having met Zeraph at 15 after Seroh-Edici burned their village to the ground, he attempted to turn them into a demon, only for their scream to act as the trigger that unlocked a large majority of his memories.

After discussing what Zeraph remembered and what they should do, they formed a pact and began traveling together, aiming to find the person who both destroyed Vivi’s home and took Zeraph’s memories. Their bond has become incredibly deep since then, Zeraph teaching Vivi all he knew of magic and Vivi helping Zeraph to become a person again, after 5,000 years of being a tool of destruction.

Sometime before the final confrontation with Seroh-Edici, Vivi made the decision to turn themself into a demon, finding that they could not remove the layer of aerumna that coated their soul. While the process of turning into a demon is usually a violent, explosive event, the fact that Vivi managed to deliberately ease themself through the process gave them that much more control over their now-demonic soul, as well as the aerumna that had fused to it.

It's often difficult to parse what Vivi is thinking at any particular moment. Their personality ranges anywhere from naive and curious to gloomy and self-loathing; from teary-eyed and fiercely self-sacrificial to wise and stalwart, showing little consistency despite the control they must exert over themself for much of their life to keep the aerumna in their body in check. While Vivi's grip on their own emotions ebbs and flows like the tides, the rage that led them to be corrupted by aerumna was self-inflicted, a lion held by the jaws—a measure to ensure that when the time came to take revenge, they wouldn't falter.

Vivi's primary magic types are elemental, time, and memory, with covert studies revolving around aerumna magic. Their usage of time and memory magic are largely for the sake of regaining their status as a healer, as turning themself into a demon took away their ability to use white magic; with their current spells, they're able to quite literally reverse time on injuries and the body itself, allowing them to heal illnesses as well. Their current goal is to learn illusion magic—the most difficult magic type to learn, typically reserved for the gods.

Their tattoos were penned with enchanted ink, allowing them to manipulate their shape and position on their skin to draw sigils on the fly. However, the tattoos on their face stay largely consistent, as the tattoo on their forehead symbolizes their pact with Zeraph, while those underneath their eyes are wards against memory magic.