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Name: Orphos

Nickname: Orph, Edgy McEdgelord

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He//Him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Deity of: Deals/Tradeoffs, Wrath, Desperation

Symbols: A crow sitting atop two hands clasped in a handshake

Powers/Abilities: He can make deals. To put it simply he can do many things in exchange of another. For instance, if someone were to want to have wings, he could give them to the person in exchange for years off of their lifespan, their soul, money... anything he wants, really. He most commonly uses body parts, one of the five senses, or souls for his deals. He can also extract souls from things living or dead. He has the ability to raise people from the dead, but it comes at the cost of the lives of multiple others, and the person being revived often doesn’t come back the same. He’s hesitant to do so often, but can be persuaded. Orphos can also shapeshift into a crow.

Pets: None

Appearances: Orphos is tall and wiry. He stands about 6ft tall. Orphos’s face is elfin, with angular features and pointed ears. his skin is tanned from his travels, the stress of such misadventures putting a streak of grey in his otherwise dark hair. His eyes are round and the iris is gold, with catlike pupils. Orphos wears an open navy blue fitted trench coat with a light grey shirt underneath and black jeans with black ankle-high boots, along with a belt with scabbards on the hips for his machetes.

If he’s in his crow form, he looks like a regular crow except that some of the primary feathers on his wings are white.

Personality: Orphos is, at his best, morally grey. He'll often do the right things for the wrong reasons, and often they are for his own gain. He's a skilled liar, and uses his silver tongue to needle deals out of even the most reluctant mortal. He isn't exactly the most honest person, but he holds up his end of the deal to the best of his ability. This doesn't stop him from exploiting loopholes when he pleases, though.

Although he maintains a very misanthropic front, Orphos can, and does, get incredibly lonely. Don't pity him, this lonliness is often by his own design. His encounters with loss cause him to keep others at arm's reach so he doesn't put himself through that kind of hurt again. However, the few people he does treasure are not to be trifled with under his watch. He will do whatever it takes to protect and insure their safety, no matter the cost. This can cause him to become reckless, and you don't want to be on the recieving end of his wrath when he comes barreling through. Though he typically keeps his emotions in check, all bets are off on a night on the town, and he's almost always ready for a fight.

Theme Songs: This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race by Fall Out Boy, Sickness For Nothing by Bear Ghost, Misanthropic Drunken Loner by Days N Daze

Typically Worshiped By: Nobody in particular. Usually only people who need him will actually acknowledge his existence.

Domain: A modest little cottage in the middle of a meadow that he and Bliss live in.

Temples: Bars???

Weapons: He constantly carries two machetes with him, and he’s also been known to throw around a pistol or two.

Backstory: As long as humans have traded with one another, Orphos has existed. He represents the darker side of commerce, the seedy underbelly where the more-than-questionable transactions take place. He wandered around causing trouble until he went to a certain bar. He challenged all the patrons to a game of Simon Says in exchange for an extended life span. He told them all to jump, but stated all of them lost because he never told them to land. A single mortal was hanging from the rafters: the barkeeps’ daughter, Val. Once the whole place erupted into a brawl because everyone figured out he was combing them for his amusement, Val got Orphos out before he got torn to pieces. Their bond grew over time and they became close friends, and then more. Val’s town was very anti-deity to begin with, and did not approve of Orphos courting one of their citizens. Since he was immortal and couldn’t be killed, they went with the next best thing, and murdered Val in an effort to drive him out of town. This did the opposite: he flew into a rage and destroyed the town, then used the souls from those who had died to revive Val, who was none the wiser. Things continued peacefully for a few years until Orphos confessed to her what he had done. Val feared that she was an imbalance in the universe and it was wrong for her to still be alive, and killed herself. Orphos was devastated for a second time. His personality soured and he became more withdrawn. He continued like this for many years. Every once in a while, he would collect some souls to contact Val from the Underworld. Since she had died twice and had no wish to return to the mortal world, it became increasingly difficult for him to contact her until one time where she told him to stop and cut him off completely. Orphos was once again upset and started drinking even more heavily. During one of these sessions of intense drinking, he encountered a farmer. A bet ensued, and the end result was that a drunken deal had been struck between the two— the farmer got an immortal liver to drink to his heart’s content, and Orphos got the farmer’s seven-year-old child with a habit of kicking people’s legs, Bliss. Instead of just dumping her, Orphos decided to keep her around for emotional support and something to focus on besides Val blocking him on Instagram. He’s since been much more amiable and easier to deal with.

Crush: Eglantine Darkrose

Other: Anubis

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