Profile
Name: Flicker
Entity Classification Paroxysm
Age: Mature (Appears timeless)
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 97 lbs
Species: Ethiodae (Spirit Vessel Entity)
Role: Purification & Medium “Geisha”
Appearance:
Flicker manifests as a spectral, anthro Silken Windhound — impossibly emaciated, as if her spirit barely holds form. Her white fur is marbled with grey brindle markings, draped like sorrow itself over a frame far too skeletal. Her light blue eyes shimmer with the mournful hue of forget-me-nots. Long silken ears blend seamlessly with flowing white hair that reaches her thighs, billowing in an unseen current.
Her attire is ghostly — sheer ombré fabrics fading from turquoise to cobalt, patterned with faint faces that seem to move when unobserved. Lantern sleeves and a high collar give her a ritualistic elegance, while her sarong-style skirt drifts as if submerged in invisible tides. Each step leaves behind damp, ephemeral pawprints, and she often flickers between solid and transparent, as though undecided which world she belongs to.
Personality:
Flicker embodies melancholic compassion — quiet, haunted, and gentle to a fault. She carries a deep sorrow for the souls she contains, her empathy bordering on self-destruction. Though benevolent, her moods sway like tides; within her, countless whispers of trapped souls murmur, sometimes guiding her… sometimes consuming her. She speaks rarely, and when she does, her voice echoes like the last breath of a dream.
Orientation: AroAce
Strengths:
Spirit Containment Vessel: Can hold up to six spirits simultaneously. Each spirit can lend Flicker their abilities or act through her body, but at great emotional and physical toll.
Dimensional Phasing: Can shift between corporeal and ethereal planes — passing through walls, turning invisible, or traversing between the living and the dead.
Purification Rituals: Through ancient Ethiodae chants, Flicker can cleanse corruption, banish malevolent entities, and soothe restless souls.
Weaknesses:
Corruption: Each contained spirit darkens her purity. The more she holds, the darker her fur becomes. If 75% of her form turns black, she succumbs to corruption and becomes a malevolent wraith.
Emotional Volatility: Intense emotion destabilizes her control, allowing spirits to act independently or amplify her powers uncontrollably.
Manori Dependency: Her existence is bound to a carved bone sigil (Manori). If it is destroyed or buried, she is banished back to the spirit plane.
Likes:
Rain-soaked earth and moonlight on water
Soft chanting and wind chimes
Cemeteries blooming with forget-me-nots
Acts of compassion between mortals
Dislikes:
Cruelty toward spirits or the dead
Loud, aggressive energy
Being touched without consent
The feeling of corruption creeping in her veins
Equipment:
Manori Skull: An ancient binding artifact from her dog remains. The one in possession of it may summon her and utilize her vessel powers.
Spirit Wards & Ritual Fabric: Ethereal garments inscribed with containment sigils and purification glyphs that aid in her exorcisms.
History: Flicker was not born, but summoned—woven from fragments of prayer, grief, and spectral light. She is one of the Ethiodae, spirit vessels forged in the Beyond to walk the borders between the living and the dead. Where others bring wrath or cleansing flame, Flicker brings revelation. Her duty is sacred and terrible: to uncover the causes of unrest and lead the suffering dead to peace through understanding. To the living, she is myth—a wandering phantom hound known as the Lantern That Weeps. To the restless dead, she is an investigator, a seeker of their truths. Her work begins where mortal eyes can no longer see: she steps through veils of anguish, tracing the shape of a spirit’s demise through their fragmented memories. Each recollection she absorbs becomes part of her, an echo burned into her spectral heart. Her methods are as much ritual as investigation. She communes with lingering emotions, interprets residual energy patterns in corrupted ground, and deciphers spiritual glyphs left behind by trauma. Every scene of death is a mystery to her—every haunting, a question that demands an answer. To solve it, Flicker must relive the final moments of those who call to her, feeling every pain, fear, and regret that bound them to the mortal world. This act is both her gift and her curse. The memories she carries weigh heavily; each spirit’s torment lingers in her like a wound that never closes. Her sacred duty requires empathy deeper than any mortal could endure—she must understand the dead so intimately that their suffering becomes her own. Yet in that pain, she finds truth, and in truth, release. The first memory she ever bore remains within her: the soul of a drowned priestess whose death birthed Flicker’s purpose. This First Spirit was the earliest mystery she unraveled—ritually sacrificed to calm divine waters gone wrathful. From that memory came Flicker’s empathy for the drowned and forgotten, and the eternal echo of water that follows her—manifesting as damp pawprints wherever she walks. Those who have glimpsed her describe her presence as both investigative and merciful: she studies places of tragedy as though reconstructing a case, her luminous eyes scanning unseen residues of grief. When she uncovers the truth of a death—whether through vision, intuition, or communion—she conducts the rite of Soul Reclamation, weaving remembrance and forgiveness into a final cleansing act. Her investigations are chronicled by occult scholars as both divine and forensic—spiritual detective work on a scale beyond mortality. In the records of the Libram Tenebris, she is named: “Flicker, the Lantern That Weeps” “The Hound of Still Waters” “Investigator of the Forgotten” “The Spirit Sleuth of the Veil” She does not judge. She remembers, reveals, and releases. Her every case ends in silence and the soft sound of water retreating into peace.
Notes:
- Can appear anywhere strong emotion lingers.
- Constantly “flickers” between dimensions — her name both description and warning.
- Contains an unknown guardian spirit within her, masculine in nature, that manifests in times of danger to shield her.
- While generally benevolent, she becomes unpredictable when overwhelmed or emotionally fractured.
- Her corruption level is visually measurable by the darkness spreading through her fur — a living omen of her decay.
