Profile
Name: Kiros Drake (aka "Kirudon")
Species: Cambion (half-demon) demigod
Sex: Male
Orientation: Demisexual/Heterosexual
Age: 442+ years (Immortal)
Base Height: 6'4" (varies greatly by form)
Build: Muscular - strong and sturdy but not too overly big.
Food likes: Steak, burgers, pasta (especially spaghetti & meatballs), potatoes. Strawberry, honeydew, cherry, chocolate, or coffee. Regularly drinks flavored 'coffee' drinks like strawberry frappucino, etc. Fruity alcohol like daiquiris and midori.
Food dislikes: Seafoods, any raw meats.
Favorite color: Green
Music taste: Rock or Metal
Skills or Hobbies: Woodcarving - specializes in small dragon figurines with woodburned details but can make other things. Enjoys photography and has many albums of photos from his world travels from the last few decades - he enjoys learning about many new cultures and languages. Reads or listens to news regularly, also reads books. Greatly enjoys puzzles and puzzle games of various kinds, particularly crosswords, Sudoku, Mahjong, and Tetris.
Jobs: History teacher at a college on Earth. Demon lord in Hell. Before becoming a lord, he worked in many varied low-rank positions.
Personality Traits: Protective of those he views as innocent/good regardless of species - tries to be heroic. In fact, he wants to be seen as a hero but would deny being such even if anyone said so. He wants to be liked and trusted by those around him, but fears failing to keep harm from befalling them. He tends to put on a much more intimidating/serious act around demons he himself does not trust, and will let them continue to believe in untrue rumors about him that give him advantages. When trying to intimidate, he will often take on scarier/more eldritch features (body horror).
Doesn't much like talking about himself to those he doesn't trust, but is a good listener and a caring friend. Always willing to help people out. Would do just about anything to help his students in particular if they needed it, but his assistance is available to almost anyone who would ask it of him.
He can be a little awkward at times, especially around subjects he's uncomfortable with. However, if you are a friend he's comfortable talking a lot with, occasionally he will go on about a topic he's interested in for a long time.
Negatively, if his stress levels and panic get too high, he can become more aggressive and not always make the best choices. He also tends to want to push ahead and take risks alone. Though he does not enjoy pain, one could say he cares little about his own - he's very used to it and will without a second thought take the pain of allies or innocent people onto himself to prevent their suffering, or at least dull it until they can get medic treatment. Not caring about his own injuries or (temporary) deaths occasionally inconveniences his allies.
One thing to be careful of (before the apocalypse arc) is his hatred of demon hunters. For personal reasons, he has a very hard time acting the part of a hero if he finds them...Or if they find him. Though it's less personal, he also considers demons who hunt humans as his enemy if they target ordinary people - those who target demon hunters, he will overlook unless they're being particularly nasty about it.
Powers/Abilities:
Shapeshifting - Kirudon's primary ability allows him to change all or part of himself into another shape or composition, so long as he's familiar with that thing or uses sufficient creativity in order to make it something that could exist. This does require some knowledge of anatomy and biology. In some cases, his shapeshifts are less exact to the original, more approximations. If he's spent a lot of time around a species or has one of their souls, he can be exact. His primary alterations tend to be draconic or eldritch. Scale armor, extra limbs, extra eyes or teeth/mouths, spikes, tentacles and the like are common. Adding tentacles is the fastest alteration he can make, though none of his shifts are instantaneous. Alterations as a whole are faster than full shifts - his full shifts are most commonly full dragon, humanoid dragon, or canine forms.
Immortality/Regeneration - Kirudon can be 'killed' only temporarily, and will always grow back from his indestructible heart. Before the apocalypse, it could take days to return to consciousness if he died. During the apocalypse, it only takes a day at most even when reduced down to only his heart. Any damage he takes will heal within hours. Any non-critical damage does very little to slow him down; if you're not going for the head, what are you even doing?
Death's Blood - If Kirudon's blood gets inside of a mortal body, it's fatal within 15 minutes unless wherever it got into is immediately removed. It will rapidly melt/decay the person. That's all there is to it.
Telepathy - Kirudon can speak to other beings silently, through thoughts. Eye contact is required to do so, and he can only maintain the connection for a few seconds if the line of contact is broken. In a limited fashion, he can soothe or calm minds when necessary. He can damage (usually temporarily) the minds of enemies, typically resulting in a sudden sharp headache/burst of pain or vertigo for that enemy. His advanced level of telepathy during the apocalypse has granted him the ability to absorb/reflect/transfer pain, whether to/from himself or to/from another person or people. He uses this ability often to make enemies feel every bit of damage they do to him themselves, making them less likely to be willing to fight.
Pyromancy - Kirudon's other magic is the ability to control or create fire. Though he can control any fire in his environment, that which he produces from his own magic is green. He can radiate ambient warmth (convenient in cold environments!) and is rather heat-resistant himself.
Fighting style: Kirudon grew up on the mean streets of Hell. Before people knew what he really was, he was bullied often, including physical bullying. He's been roughed up and toughened up, able to take hits easily and barely flinch. It is difficult to make him bleed without magical or armor-piercing weapons. He's not very fast - due to this, his fighting style often relies on letting opponents get close to him and striking back with force at the proper opportunity. He can use his more powerful upper body to deal blows with punches and grappling and the like, but prefers to use shapeshifting to his advantage, creating things like claws or armor, extra limbs, tentacles, etc. The tentacles can help him keep enemies at a bit further range, they can block attacks, grapple or throw, etc. He prefers not to directly use his fire magics on humanoid targets, instead using it to block paths or otherwise get enemies where he wants them to be. He would rather fight to subdue than kill, unless the situation truly warrants it. During the apocalypse, he kills more often due to necessity - it's hard to get the enemy to surrender when they outnumber your group many times over, and his allies' safety must come first. His tentacles probably cause the most deaths, as they can easily crush enemies or snap necks.
Weapons and armor: Kirudon does not typically use outside weapons or armor, as he can form his body however he likes. Occasionally (usually, when on Earth pre-apocalypse) he wears real clothes, but he is also capable of using his shapeshifting abilities to create 'clothing' out of his own body that will shift with him, which he does so nearly all the time in the apocalypse.
He has a number of outfit choices, and is most commonly depicted either in his suit, or in a long high-collared coat which is able to flow and transform with him. He has worn other sorts of coats and shirts in the past as well, typically things like button-up shirts or nice sweaters. All in all, he almost always is wearing both black and green at any given time.
Other random facts...
-"Kirudon", meaning "Lord of Death", is an illegal name to use for yourself in Hell except in his specific case. He was given this new name by Lucifer after the discovery of the identity of his father.
- His original name, "Kiros", is actually a fairly common name in Hell - it is a name with origin in their religion, essentially translates into a reminder that everyone dies.
- He fell in love with and married a young human woman in France in the 1930s, but she (and his unborn child) were killed by demon hunters. He died in this event as well, but awoke again later, discovering his immortality and a newfound hatred.
- A lot of demons were suddenly very scared because of their previous poor treatment of him when the truth came out about who his father is... Oops, not half human after all. Despite being allowed to kill them, he decided not to, though he had no problem letting them stew in their fear for a bit.
- Has a really awkward friendship with Lucifer that he's really not sure about but accepts. He absolutely knows they're going to have to fight some day because of Lucifer's whole "conquer Earth" deal, but before the apocalypse he thought it would be some time far into the future and perhaps his mind could be changed before then, not so soon...
- Not a fan of having wet hair, so he hates going out in the rain. Also hates deep water because he cannot swim (he just sinks). Even if he found an aquatic form, he'd be a poor swimmer.
- Hates being touched by anyone he is not very close with.
- Hates spiders! Especially after the Zeta situation. Might ignite them with magic to kill them. Might punch them. Might leave immediately.
- Dies many thousands of times in various different ways while training with Death, until he learns how to survive many deadly situations on his own. Because of this, years passed and he wasn't aware of the apocalypse going on.
- Loves dogs, especially German Shepherds. During the apocalypse, he has one (who he named Vesta) to help him with PTSD symptoms (which come mostly from the Zeta event but honestly he has a lot of trauma from other situations too)
- Also during the apocalypse, after a 5 year time skip past the Zeta event, he reconnects with Elaina and her hunter friends, and allies with them and others to try to help save humanity from Lucifer's armies. At this point his opinions on hunters are more dependent on the person, as he's lost most of his grudge and understands some of them better.
- During this part of the apocalypse, Kiru leads a faction of demons who support his cause and are willing to help protect humanity.
**ONLY after the time skip/during the apocalypse is it okay to ship him with Elaina!! Please do not ship them pre-apocalypse (don't have her wearing her college outfit or the necklace - she can still wear her glasses or not, that part is OK!). The relationship during the apocalypse is canon, and I love getting art of them together. It's a very sweet, slow-moving relationship focused on warm companionship and cuddles.
