Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20190317025237/@comment-32460917-20190719030915

Speaking of corruption I’ve got some hhh stuff for Ephemeral

Let’s start with the design-oriented ones

-Ephemeral’s appearance contrasts a bit with Chan’s original form

-Her eyes are rainbow colored, his are entirely monochromatic

-Her clothes are monochromatic, his clothes are eye scorching colors

They share some similarities though, with the basically white skin and colorful accessories. Chan’s got all those flowers and the lines on her skin and Ephemeral’s just got a lot of weird things, like aviators and hair clips and stuff. He likes to collect clothes off of mortals too and add them onto his mess of an outfit

Now onto the hh

-Ephemeral has the same emotion-trading power as Chan, except for the fact that it isn’t ‘trading’. What he takes can’t be given back. He can also only take positive emotions, and the emotion that he takes doesn’t last long

-His main goal is just to stay happy. His body vehemently rejects any negative emotion - including pain - which is why he couldn’t handle his own body when Chan was first corrupted

-Right now he’s able to live by basically living off of Chan’s happiness. In the area he’s in, emotions are muted enough to where they don’t affect him too much, but happiness is still happiness to him

-Especially since Chan was hanging out with Damian, she was a lot more positive than usual so Ephie was thriving

-Except now he’s dead and Ephemeral is desperate for Chan to start feeling happy again

-The CD part comes in with how he tries to maintain happiness.

-Obvious solution would be to take other’s happiness. However, since it always fades away, he’s constantly looking around for new victims

-Negative emotions can negatively affect other people, and he’s also heard that doing positive things for other people can benefit one positively, so he also tries to cheer other people up. His method is less about long-term recovery though and more about just making the person smile. Again, a shallow form of happiness

-Like Chan, Ephemeral’s face is frozen in one expression: in his case, it’s a smile. His version of Chan’s color-codes flames is a series of black cards

-He can draw different expressions on these cards to substitute for emotions. Since he doesn’t really feel as much as Chan does, the things that represent his emotions have to be changed manually by him

-It’s not manual in the sense that he has to look around for the right card though. As long as the card he wants is in his possession, he can mentally swap it with the one he’s already holding. On the outside it looks like the drawing on the card is the only thing shifting

-He draws the faces of other people on the cards too. When he puts one of those up to his face, the people looking at him will hallucinate and think he actually looks like that person. The strength depends on how realistic Ephie wants it to be (could range from appearance only to both appearance and voice)

So here comes the hhhhhhhh

-I was thinking about how Ephemeral could mess with people like Micah and Damian

-Ephie has access to all of Chan’s memories, and that extends to all the people who’s memories she’s seen

-ex: Damian and Calidi

-He definitely has a card with Damian’s face drawn on it. Damian was close to Chan (he refuses to call him her best friend though, cause he’s her best friend) so he’s been trying to use it to cheer her up

-That leads to the first hh scenario with Micah. Entirely headcanon since I can’t think of a scenario where Ephie could get his own body

-Unless someone sends his consciousness into Chan

-This would take place before Micah learns about the truth ofc

-Ephemeral can see how much Micah is suffering and he wants to try and help. Chan hasn’t seen Micah’s memories yet so he can’t impersonate Melody or Hester but he can impersonate this guy’s boyfriend

-Seeing Damian probably just makes Micah’s mental state worse though. Obviously, since Damian’s dead and just seeing his face doesn’t change that

-Ephemeral doesn’t get it though. Shouldn’t a person feel happy to see the person they loved? So he questions whether or not Micah actually loved Damian

-As long as the person’s happy, it doesn’t matter to Ephie how he gets there. So he keeps trying to cheer Micah up using Damian’s face

-You can imagine how well that might go