🕷️ Kaijin | The Ashes

The Ashes, the Ghost of the past, the negativeness' Hunter
My ponysona

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

"When your mind is afire with passion and purpose, you become an unstoppable force"

BACKSTORY :
- place of origin - Virandia, Aerisa
In the lifetime, they were just a pegasus pony, an artist who was the character who was basically me, but decided to do what I luckily didn't do and because of that I wear a semicolon on my wrist.
Living for so many years with parents who don't understand otherness & problems, with disorders, with fear, in toxic relationships - it was too much. There was no one to stop them, that's why they committed suicide, but after death they got a chance to become a demon-alchemist. The scientist they wanted to be for a long time. Dee was the kid who, until high school, seriously believed they could be an astronomer & respected scientist. Unfortunately, they didn't manage to meet people on their way who would help them get to this point. Icarvis saw that potential & wanted to give D new tasks that could possibly help them with dealing with problems & low self-esteem. He also needed someone with a strong need to destroy what is bad. What made Dee's life so hard.

TRIVIA :
- prefers they/them pronouns, but uses he/him if needed too
- most of the time lives in an abandoned cathedral in Virandian not very visited forest & is an alchemist
- works & lives mostly at night (well, they're a bat)
- their main job is to protect the world from too much negative energy (it's something without soul or consciousness that circulates in nature and beings, affecting their actions & influence on others, but is invisible to the eyes of mortals - Dee sees it as dark smoke which can be destroyed by their fire), sometimes works with Nikae
- has their own luminous katana sword which was created by using alchemy (partially), because it's not in Dee's nature to create items from fire (it was expected that they would use feathers, breath and wings for destroying negative energy, but using them turned out to be too tiring, and D is not yet mastering over how they should ration their magic); katana, on the other hand, is only a medium for flames, they cannot dematerialize it like Nikae his bow & arrows, but thanks to the horns they can levitate it

APPEARANCE :
- golden insides & blood
- golden fangs & long forked tongue, can breathe fire
- light & fluffy hair
- long fluff inside the ears & on the tail root (on both sides)
- always wears opalite charm on the collar - it can be moon, star or just long crystal
- crystal horns on the head with plants growing naturally inside;
they work like unicorn horns in MLP, or rather plants inside them, which are only protected by horns; these plants glow when used, the ones on the scars also, but these are much weaker;
the plant that is in the undamaged (left) horn has the most power, because the ones on the surface are vulnerable to being torn off or destroyed by something;
plants are the body's reaction to magic
- feathers on the tail look like small wings, but act more like a bird tail - there are muscles at the roots, and they can change their position, which helps in flight control
- 2 long feathers are a source of power, they can burn with fire that only hurts those that Dee chooses; otherwise, they give a feeling of pleasant warmth & are a source of dim light
- hourglass cutie mark (symbolizes time & memory [the previous version of this character is sentimental to me]; stardust inside is a kind of ashes of my past)

TATTOOS :
- canes venatici (the hunting dogs constellation) - left side of the torso; Dee is a hunter of negative energy & loves night
- futhark runes ᛖᛈᚲ - left inner thigh; they symbolize my most important relationships
- leaves - under wings, on both sides; they symbolize the connection with nature & the magic that comes from it

INSPIRATION :
- Kaijin (ashes / 灰燼 / かいじん)
- phoenix traits - I wasn't ready to use my ponysona for around 6 years, it was too much of an emotional burden for me & a symbol of trauma;
Dee was reborn like a phoenix from the ashes & has risen like a moon in first quarter; creating a new version of them turned out to be at least mildly therapeutic