The Wickerman (August Rupprecht)

by **Fox** Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:57 pm

Hollow
Adjuchas

The Wickerman (August Rupprecht) 2022-110

F A R B E Y O N D T H E S U N D O W N

Name: The Wickerman | Wicker / Wick / Fox (August Rupprecht)
Apparent Age: 2X
Actual Age: 2XX

Eye Color: Red
Height: 5'
Weight: Varies
Mask Description: The mask of a fox with red-tipped ears juts out the right side of her face & hair as if an ornament, giving way to its reality when noticed that one eye of the mask aligns with her own right eye and her unblinking red stare is reflected out its abyssal depths. Her teeth are all fanged in a sickening razor-sharp grin, punctuated with a milky whiteness that could only be the bone of her Hollow's Mask. These make up the mask remnants of her evolution through Adjuchas.

Generalized Appearance: A cherry bombshell of an initial appearance, from a distance The Wickerman seems a standard female humanoid figure with a shock of black hair that tinges into red, as if dyed at the ends. In some scenarios, she could be described as 'pretty, for a monster.' The bomb therefore comes from closer inspection, the grotesque blending of her fox's Hollow Mask with her face and the predatorial nature of her teeth whenever she opens her mouth, not to mention the words that come out. There's more to her than being roughly girl-shaped; her hands are coated in a hollow's bone to the length of her elbows as if they were gloved, ending in immaculate claw tips singed with heat. Beneath her ruddy cloak - a traveler's garb - she wears a cruel mockery of tattered feminine clothing stolen from the corpse's of victims and meals, patchworked across burn-tattered off-white flesh that displays in no uncertain terms her lack of human sensuality. A single tail, similarly dipped red at its tip like her hair and the ears of her mask, slinks from the base of her back to droop slightly below her cloak, responding to her physical attentions with poofs, thwips and wags -- the joy of a beast. Her mask eye beams red, unfeeling, while the blue of her remaining human-facing one reflects only her depravity.

In general respects, The Wickerman is a standard tale of a kitsune trickster, giving the appearance of an approachable and perhaps even amiable figure only to pull apart at the seams her monstrous nature on inspection.

Her voice has a soft, sing-song lilt when speaking, graveling as if her vocal chords were burnt and every word choked when further losing her guise of "humanity."

Spiritual Pressure Analysis: Supported by her dormant powers, The Wickerman's spiritual pressure is a malicious, chaotic, and violent force, fueled by heat that bites to burn away prey that might sneak too close to her. A searing force emits with her pressure, as if the sun was directly turned to face you, and signals her presence with steam wisping off concrete and mist bubbling across ponds. This itself might not cause notable damage to anything but the weakest of humans, but it serves still as a preceding horn announcing the wake to come.

Personality:
A fever you can't sweat out.
Miasmic. Insatiable. Horrific. A lust for the worst parts of humanity - a desire for those darkest aspects that make people tic, tic, tic, boom. A bringer of destruction and devastation without remorse, without malice, and without cause. A single sensational wish to bring every creature to its final flame until, perhaps, she too is snuffed out.

The innocence of a natural disaster. A storm to broil across the coast before dissipating into the heat haze it was born from. The Wickerman is as her name - a boogeyman to lesser Hollow, Shinigami, and mortal minds; a threat to be quelled but too swift and localized a torrent to demand reaction. She is a beast, a monster, free from the burden of sin or prejudice and entirely devoted to her own satisfactions, which happen to be the natural course of nature; both her role and victory as predator, and the nature of those weaker than her as prey. She revels in chaos and carnage, serving this nature exactly as intended from her creation. A Beast is a Beast. A Hollow is a Hollow. The Victor is the Victor, and she plays by these rules the best.

This does not mean to say she has delusions - she simply understands and respects the status quo of reality, and recognizes the existence of figures more predator than she: so she creates her own feeding grounds, carves her own ecosystem, and leaves nothing within it alive that could grow to challenge her. As much as she does out of whim, she allows out of whim due to the status she's rightfully accrued. She plays the game smart, but as with everything else ...

a game is still a game. (She is deranged and evil.)

F A R B E Y O N D T H E M O O N L I G H T

Overarching History
Creatures are birthed immoral and then cultivated by their environments to either be better - to learn empathy, remorse, kindness - or worse, to be left to the devices that nature intends its most base animals to overcome. A Hollow is an impure form of this birth, a creature that already lived a life of either morality or degeneracy only to have the choice taken from them and replaced by a single gnawing (to be taken literally) need: fill the void left by whatever means necessary. Be an animal. Claim your survival, piece by painstaking piece, and do whatever you will with those left below you as you cow for those above.

August Rupprecht was no different, but we're not here to talk about her experiences in her first life. Perhaps she was a good person; maybe she was gentle, and kind, with a loving family and devoted partner, who she did everything in her power to keep safe and happy and warm, as warm as the soft touch of her hands and sincerity of her heart. Maybe she was a serial murderer who bloodlet her victims and bathed in the rivers she ran red, with not a shred of concern for anyone else or their beloved ones. Maybe she was both. People are multifaceted.

This hasn't mattered for hundreds of years and it won't for the rest of her existence, the blackened pit of hunger and excitement its become. No actions but her own now matter - no reality has existed for August save that of The Wickerman, the monster she was born again to be. For centuries she has messily carved her place in the world of both Hueco Mundo and that of the Living, demanding her place justly recognized as a killer, a monster, a menace: a survivor. Wicker from her newborn stage of Menos quickly found her place bowing and scraping for the monsters that could devour her with a single hungry stare, all while devoting her energies to careful work in the removal of obstacles below and around her. Every morsel was to be eaten, every moment to be savored, and every pack relationship between beasts betrayed and gnashed between her hungry fangs.

She has from her birth looked out for her own place, through blood and fire and fury and despair, and has grown to enjoy the hunt, the game, and her role as an inconsequential beast of burden - a machine to kill and be killed - in this cycle of life. The Wickerman accepted long ago the lack of escape from the hole in her chest, and that no amount of depravity could overcome and fill what didn't remain. Her answer to this was to eat more, kill more, break more, enjoy more. If we are to be nothing but beasts - if our purpose in life and in death is no more than to contribute to this cycle by killing and dying and living and dying again - then we will be the darkest stain of blood splattered across the tapestry of fate.

Won't you come along with me? Nothing matters after that first bite from the apple.

D E E P I N S I D E O U R H E A R T S

Quemen a la Bruja
X X X

Hollow Ability: While no direct applications of Queman a la Bruja have been revealed, The Wickerman emits a passive searing heat that increases in intensity and discomfort the closer you get to her body.

A N D A L L O U R S O U L S

SPENT XP/TOTAL XP
0950/1000 (050 R)

STATS
Reiatsu 100
Power 40
Control 10
Agility 30
Durability 20

SKILLS
Evolution Basic
Ferocity Beginner
Cero Apprentice
Sonido Basic
Regeneration Beginner

_{through the fire and flames we carry on.}

by **Meridith** Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:25 am

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