MYO-7081: Ilai

he/they

Personality

Ilai may act cold and indifferent towards everyone, but deep down in his heart of hearts, he is also cold and indifferent. Despite his greed horns, Ilai is very prideful, though his confidence isn't unfounded. He's smart and he's good at almost anything he picks up, and very aware of it; he also doesn't hesitate to look down on those that aren't. He may not seem the part, but he absolutely will go out of his way to insult others.

But, even deeper down, beneath the calm, uncaring demenaour he puts on, Ilai is a masochist and a freak. He doesn't sleep around or casually date - he simply can't. If he is to be with someone, he wants to, needs to, possess them completely, in body and soul; yet he is too prideful and emotionally constipated to ask for such a thing, nevermind discuss or express it in a healthy way. As soon as someone catches his eye, Ilai forces as much distance between them as possible, or that twisted desire will gnaw at the inside of his ribcage until it consumes him whole.

Fortunately, Ilai is incredibly picky. That, combined with his standoffish nature, means that very few are in danger of being liked by him, and even less of getting close enough to like him back. Perhaps, one day such a soul will cross his path...

History

Ilai was raised by Ipos - a demon that can see the future, among other things. He convinced Murmur to let him raise a few buns on a whim, and to avoid getting bored of them, tried to make them into his seers and priests/priestesses. Unfortunately, succubuns don't have much talent for magic, so not much came of it. Ipos didn't abandon those buns only because he had promised Murmur to Try His Best, but never strove to repeat that experiment again.

Ilai himself, brought up to be a seer, was a favoured child while in Ipos' care on account of being supremely talented (in every area except predicting the future).  Perhaps if they had been brought up normally they may have ended up an acceptable person, unfortunately Ipos' simultanious praise and disappointment of them, as well as the way he treated the other, "lesser" buns, warped their personality into what it is today.

Ilai, for his part, could tell others thought there was something wrong with him when he acted however he wished or shared his true thoughts and oppinions. Therefore, when he was released into Burrowgatory, he took it as a clean start, never letting anything show. Introduced as a seer and dropped off at the Church, he spend a few months gathering his bearings, then quickly moved on to darker pastures.

Nowadays, Ilai works in Burrowgatory's underbelly as an assassin, occasionally debt collector or bodyguard, though he is still known as The Seer. Rumor has it he's partially or fully blind, though Ilai himself will never confirm or deny anything.

He's occasionally tortured by horrible visions of a future that holds only death and destruction, but he doesn't let it bother him. After all, Ipos himself has said Ilai has no talent for fortune-telling or prophesying, and such a powerful demon can't be wrong.

His littermates were few to begin with, and over the years they have all died one by one in unfortunate accidents. Surely, it's a coincidence.

Design notes

can draw more or less star motes around him, but the one between his horns should always be there