Tam Te'oma

Important Info for Commissions 

HEIGHT: 5'10 BUILD: Slender and androgynous. Sexless. Shifts between more masculine and feminine builds. ETHNICITY: White, extremely pale APPARENT AGE: 20s HAIR:  Black, usually short pixie cut. EYES: Yellow SCARS/MARKINGS: None. MAIN OUTFIT: Semi-formal or Gothic. Favourite colours are bright red and black. Vampire-chic. Prefers suits to dresses. Favours bold-coloured lipstick. OTHER IMPORTANT TRAITS: Poses like a model. Can bend in unnatural ways. PERSONALITY: Wants everything. Addict. Coy and submissive. No sense of personal space. Will do anything to feel good - drugs, caffeine, sugar, alcohol, catnip.

DEMON FORM HEIGHT: 5'10" BUILD: Six-winged, Four-legged Dragon. Can walk upright or on all fours. Long fluffy neck, tail, and ears. SKIN COLOUR: Covered in soft & fluffy down. White underbelly, White shading to Purple main body, Dark Blue claws, Cyan/Dark Blue/Purple gradient on wings and fluff. APPARENT AGE: ?? EYES: Cyan. SCARS/MARKINGS:  None. MAIN OUTFIT: No clothes. OTHER IMPORTANT TRAITS: None.

Appearance Description: 

At 5'10", Tam is tall enough to be a model for either gender, while still being within normal human range. However, their eyes are yellow and their skin is unnaturally white, smooth, and unblemished. This combined with their short black hair of varying styles can make them seem very vampiresque or gothic. Tam is always slender and androgynous, but shifts between a more masculine or feminine body shape according to their mood. Though they can sometimes appear to have breasts, they otherwise have no reproductive organs. Their general appearance could be considered striking, sometimes pretty, sometimes handsome, sometimes just different, but never average. 

The demon usually wears sassy suits and makeup, preferring deep red and black. They walk like a runway model, with more sway to hips or not depending on current body shape. Though their eyes can be very expressive, they tend to keep a neutral expression and wear emotions subtly. Tam has no concept of personal space, and it shows. When walking, their movements are fluid, and even when staying still they seem to be posing. They radiate lust and hunger, for those who can sense it. 

Demon form - Tam's demon form resembles a somewhat birdlike dragon with five down-feathered wings, the same height as their human form. Their main body is white and purple, and smooth, while the rest of them is covered in soft down that shades from cyan to navy blue to purple. They have four limbs ending in sharp talons, and a long, fluffy tail. 

Personality Description:

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Tam has an addictive personality in every sense of the word. Shallow, hedonistic, driven by their own desires, grasping, hungry, perpetually in withdrawal, and always craving more. They are completely selfish, and mostly incapable of love, empathy, or compassion. They embrace their nature, and it would be a mistake to think of them as anything human. They want what they want and don't care how people feel about it. 

Tam can be very physically affectionate, and also insistent and needy, never quite accepting no as an answer. They aren't exactly the type to force themselves on people, but will poke and prod and generally wear their target down until they give in. They are particularly attracted to people who feel no attraction for them. On the other hand, because of the nature of their feeding they are bent towards seeing people never achieve their own desires. They are chameleon-like, docile, and seemingly obedient when it suits them, as well as a compulsive, nearly pathological liar. 

They themself are never satisfied. Always feeling vaguely unfulfilled and empty, trying to fill that emptiness with a quiet desperation. Tam is a thrill seeker without enjoyment, feeling fleeting pleasure, but never happiness. 

Active Abilities: 

Custom Nullification Bracelet - While worn disables Desire's Aura ability. Can be put on or taken off at will.

Demon Form - Can switch between demon and human forms instantly and indefinitely. Talons in demon form are sharp as diamond. Can fly in demon form up to 50mph.

Lust Feeding - They thrive on feelings of unsatisfied lust and desire, not necessarily sexual. It gives them energy and nourishes them. They can feed off these and sense them within 25'. People who are fed from will feel a little dizzy, just enough to notice, only while they're feeding. If they don't feed for about 15 minutes a day, they will weaken and eventually starve in about a month. They don't otherwise need human food, although they can eat it.

Whisper Projection - Can project their whispers to anyone within eyesight they've been physically intimate with. This is voice projection, not telepathy. They must be able to see the person and whisper out loud. The person must be able to hear them.

Persuasive Whispers - Things they whisper in people's ears seem like a good idea. These are not direct commands, but suggestions, taking the form of questions. "Doesn't that cake look delicious? Wouldn't you like to be with her? Wouldn't it feel good to?" Takes a lot of effort to suggest people want things the more against their nature and the higher willpower they have, to the point of suggestions having no affect if they're something like wouldn't you like to kill the one you love? The suggestions might change how you feel about something but do not change behaviour at all. If not acted on, the feelings will fade in 15 minutes or so. Acting on a suggestion can make it harder to resist future suggestions. Must be able to whisper to target and be heard. Only works on people who understand their language and are capable of feeling desire. This can work in conjunction with their whisper projection but restrictions still apply.

Eat Me, Literally - Can shift almost instantly into and from anything consumable they have ingested. Can't shift back if they are being bitten. They can't move or talk, but can hear and feel, and any injuries remain on shifting, but regenerate at their usual rate. They remain roughly the same size (a 5'10" slice of pizza or puddle of wine). They have the same physical properties of the food, such as taste, texture, appearance, and smell, but with no nutritional content or chemical effects. All their abilities remain in this form, including the fact they can't resist anyone feeding on them.

Suddenly Alcohol - Can permanently convert any liquid they can see to an alcoholic drink that has a similar alcohol concentration to vodka and still tastes like the original liquid mixed with alcohol. Can only convert up to 12oz a day. Affects people the same as any other alcoholic drink and original liquid would affect them.

Material Mimicry - Tam can change their skin into the colour, texture, and durability of any material they've ever worn, including clothes, shoes, and accessories, as long as it's touched their skin for at least 5 minutes. Changing their skin into something like metal would grant them protection from being cut but would not make them fire-resitant, magnetic, or heavier. They can change their whole skin for about 30 minutes with a 5 minute break, or partially change for longer. Their skin will change back if they get distracted or are unconscious or sleeping.

Passive Abilities: 

Desire's Aura - Within 5 feet enhances pre-existing desires and cravings, particularly for things of a physical nature, such as sexual desire, hunger, or drug cravings. People will find themselves focusing on what it is they want unless they make a deliberate effort to concentrate on something else, and even then the mind will keep returning to it when distracted. Those affected will only be able to see the positive aspects of going after their desire, without someone else reminding them otherwise. Does not otherwise affect behaviour or generate desires that aren't there.

You Want Me - Attraction aura of sorts. Within 5' seems to be, depending on the preferences of the target, attractive, cuddly, edible, the kind of person who has what you want. They seem like the perfect victim or meal, meant to be used. Does not otherwise affect behaviour and the target must be able to sense them to be affected. Affects anyone physically present, sapient, and capable of desire.

Eat Me, Use Me - Can be fed off by anyone who feeds off energy/life/lust/emotions/blood even if they can't usually feed off demons. Feeding off them intensifies any pleasure normally gained from the act and will feel good to the feeder, even if it usually doesn't, but is half as effective (Will need to drain twice as much from them to get the normal effects). Tam will still be affected normally by any effects caused by feeding. This can easily be fatal for them, though not permanently. They are unable to resist or stop anyone who chooses to feed on them, even if they wanted to. Can be addictive for feeder, if they are the type, certainly is for Tam. People who have fed on them will notice them, be drawn to them in a crowd. This effect is mutual and fades with time, days with one feeding, but is stronger and lasts longer each time.

Open Up Aura - Anyone within 5' of Tam will have the urge to speak their mind. This only affects words on the tip of people's tongues, surface thoughts. It doesn't bring up things people have buried or aren't thinking about. It can be resisted if the person is paying attention, and is not a compulsion.

Animal Empathy - Within 10', Tam has a general sense of what animals (or shifters in animal form) are feeling. This is wants-based (hungry, sleepy, horny, cold, hot, need shelter) not neccessarily emotional and affects Tam's own desires.

Glowing Mushroom Trail - If Tam's bare feet are touching soil at night for at least 30 seconds, small mushrooms will sprout up in their footprints. These mushrooms only last 5 minutes before dissolving. The mushrooms also glow in the dark. 99% of the time they are harmless edible mushrooms. 1% of the time they are mild psychedelic mushrooms.

Fluid Form - Their body isn't quite set, and it shifts between more masculine or feminine body types naturally, according to their mood. This only affects their hair and general physique and is purely cosmetic. Will not cause them to have any change in height. They will remain biologically agender.

Enhanced Flexibility and Grip - Can move in ways that should not be physically possible. Their bones bend rather than breaking and they can move each one as if it was a tentacle. This makes their grip nearly impossible to break for anyone of non superhuman strength, although otherwise their strength and agility is barely average.

Enhanced Smell - Bloodhound sense of smell, smelling blood and certain emotions. Can identify other hellions, and which father they have, by smell. Can be distracted and enraptured by strong smells like perfume.

Immortality/Enhanced Health, Healing - Ageless. If they die, they go to Hell and resurrect fully healed after a couple weeks. Heals rapidly, an hour or so for simple cuts, weeks to regenerate a limb. Immune to disease. Doesn't require sleep physically but does feel mental exhaustion.

Weaknesses:

Unholy - Cannot enter a church and feels gnawing pain within 10' of one. Holy water and crosses burn and will not heal without magic, can be fatal in large quantities. Can be killed permanently by holy magic and weapons. Repelled by and cannot touch any object of faith wielded by a practitioner. Even simple spoken prayers by a believer will give them a headache.

Insomniac - Unable to fall asleep naturally.

I Want You - Sensitive to any attraction aura or any aura affecting desires even if they are not the type (wrong gender/sexuality) to be usually affected. They feel the effects of these auras 5' sooner and cannot resist or shake them off.

Addicted - Is affected by the psychological effects of drugs and alcohol including withdrawal. Does get hangovers and get drunk but won't be permanently damaged physically. Are always craving and never satisfied.

Can't Catch You - In any combat/competitive situation they are always slightly slower and physically weaker than their opponent. They will always be two steps behind in any race. This can improve their abilities to superhuman levels or diminish them, even in demon form, but it only lasts as long as they're in competition and matches to the person they're competing with. They have to know they're in competition with the person and be able to see or hear them.

Just Say It - They are compelled to say whatever's on their mind when talking with people. They effectively cannot lie because they don't have time.

Light Sensitivity - Sunlight hurts their eyes and they have to wear sunglasses or be effectively blind on sunny days. Overcast is bearable. Shade is best. Their skin also itches irritatingly under direct sunlight like a rash.

Biography: 

One of the many demons born in Hell to Asmodeus, part of a fling with another powerful lust demon, Tam matured rapidly and lived a rather free range lifestyle among the Hells. They lived a fairly normal life for a demon and thrived in the lust section. But even though they were well fed, they were always seeking more. They never felt emotionally close to their siblings, even though they received a lot of attention. But they never exactly felt used, even though they knew they were.

One of their half-siblings they were raised with was Lysander Hesperos. Being roughly the same age and maturing at the same rapid rate, both discovered their respective abilities together. Tam was attached quickly, while Lysander was disgusted. When Lysander left Hell the first time, Tam followed soon after, hoping the human world would satisfy.

It didn't, and Tam returned to Hell where they would at least not starve. They spent most of their time there wandering, making brief forays into the human world to try the humans' exotic drugs. This might have continued for 1000s of years, but although they were a popular plaything in Hell, their propensity for thwarting desire eventually made them a few too many enemies.

They'd heard of Manta Carlos vaguely but had passed it off as just another part of the human world. Still, they had to leave Hell, so they figured they'd give it a try. Maybe something there would help them feel less empty.

Manta Carlos had a lot in store for them, introducing them to the concept of friendship and games that weren't just about sex. They also joined the Game of Divine Right on a whim where they gained some new abilities and made new friends. Eventually, they even tried getting a job, another new experience.

Resources: Getting a nice amount of money from their new job. Doesn't sleep, feeds off people. Still begs, borrows, steals, or sells themself to get money or other things because it's what they're used to. 

Additional Information:

January's Gift: A stick of incense that never burns out, and the smell reminds you of someone you love.

Aura Warning Bracelet: While not actually magical, Manta Carlos distributes customized bracelets for those with auras. Depending on the shape and color, people can tell at a glance the approximate range and nature of the aura of the wearer.

Bonded Regalia: Eiras, Inanimate Object Transformation - Emery, Mushroom Generation - Bertha, Light Generation - Arielle, Everything Opens - Florence, Animal Empathy - Naoji, Liquid to Alcohol - Marta, Material Mimicry