Mephisto is not ambitious and doesn't have any great plans for the future, but he's become a de facto leader of the freaks.

While he's not literally the demon Mephistopheles, nor is Mephisto his real name, he knows the imagery works with people and so he plays it up big time. He's kind of a little shit that way. He loves nothing more than performing an act and watching the reactions he can get out of people, but he's not mean-spirited. Mostly he's playful, curious, and bemused by normal people. At heart he's good-natured and down-to-earth; and though he can appear and act imposing when he wants to be, he would never really hurt anyone.

He isn't actually interested in sex or romance, but that won't stop him from making dirty jokes and flirting with absolutely everyone he comes across, just for the fun of it.

In his humanoid form, Mephisto is generally... human-shaped (brown or gray skin), with a floppy black mohawk, pointed ears, goat horns that curve slightly back, tiny bat wings (he makes them small in this form to be out of his way), and a lion's tail. He has red-orange eyes and can be drawn with slitted snake eyes and/or a black forked tongue, or the normal human sort. He has three parallel claw mark scars winding down and around his left arm from his shoulder down to the inside of his forearm.

He can breathe and manipulate fire. He can't fly with the wings in tiny form.

On the job, he wears a vest and a cape or a long vest-type coat (regardless, some shiny fabric in gold, blue, and red)-- or no shirt at all-- with loose belted cream-colored pants and tall black boots. Off duty, he wears tank tops and jeans or shorts or something else casual-- he lives and works on the beach.

He's a simple man, and dicking around arcades and boardwalk and performing for people really are his primary interests. He's kind of a homebody and not much interested in traveling.

He hates the winter because Coney Island shuts down; he lives for the crowds, the smells, the thumping bass, people having fun.

i'll write more here later but I'm tired zzzzz

In the show, Mephisto is the inside talker (emcee) who introduces the show and each act, and hypes up the audience.

His act is to eat and breathe fire, and to do fire manipulation tricks-- both the kind that real, human fire eaters do, and... enhanced tricks thanks to the fact that he's not actually limited by torches and a bucket of alcohol.

He's charismatic and charming, and always has the crowd eating out of his hand.