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Introduction

  • A cheerful dream demon that's a royal super-spy!

  • General

    • Name: Melissa Somnium
    • Gender: Female
    • Played by: VariadicEliza
    • Nicknames: Lissa, "Dream Eater", Truth Killer.
    • Relationship status: constantly looking for her soulmate.
    • Personality: cheerful, easygoing, happy-go-lucky.
    • Mannerisms: cutesy, teasing, impulsive.
    • Likes: the night, quietness, romance, kisses, cotton candy.
    • Dislikes: sudden loud noises, insomniacs, undeads, alcohol, caffeine.
    • Sexual Orientation: bisexual.

  • Physical Stats

    • Age: 47 years old, looks 20-ish.
    • Race: Somnium (Dream Demon)
    • Class: Assassin
    • Deity: Her Queen.
    • Bodytype: Slim and Graceful.
    • Height: 1.65m / 5'5ft
    • Weight: 55kg / 121lbs
    • Complexion: pinkish.
    • Hair: soft, long, straight, deep night sky color.
    • Eyes: light gold iris with no pupil.
    • Scars: only in her heart.

  • Abilities

    • Dream Walker : instead of losing consciousness, her mind is transported to the dream-plane with the possibility to invade others' dreams.
    • Dream Weaver : can twist and control the invaded dream, this is limited by the dreamer's willpower.
    • Dream Eater : Feeds on dreams, leaving the victim unable to dream and exhausted when waking up. To have the dream eaten is described as "constantly falling in pure darkness, aware to be asleep but unable to completely lose consciouness or forcefully wake up."
    • Mirror Tresspasser : can use reflective surfaces as portals, after touching one she will be aware of all aviable surfaces in a limited area, also able to see through them.
    • Soporific Touch : can inflict drowsy on a target she is currently in contact with, the effect is amplified and may be empowered to exhaustion if the target is directly kissed.
    • Exhaustion Paralysis : able to paralyze a target with at least one level of exhaustion, the paralysis strenght depends on the levels of exhaustion.
    • Exhaustion Absorption : able to drain the life energy on exhausted targets, the strenght depends on the levels of exhaustion, if used while dreamwalking on a target with high exhaustion the ability silently kills.
    • Illusion Shards : can cast magic based on illusion shards, which are sharp translucent crystals that can wound the target and inflict debilitating effects (sluggish, drowsy, weakness, minor memory loss, unfocus), but can also have positive effects for anyone besides the caster (remove exhaustion, soothe mind, sleep protection), an illusion shard materialized by a sominum becomes a dream crystal which does not fade away and can be used as a material.
    • Minor Illusion Magic : can cast limited visual and auditory illusions. That's it.

  • Character

    Melissa is a very cheerful and energetic demon, she appears as a bit of an air-head at first but in truth is more perceptive than most would think, she tends to follow her instincts and feelings resulting in a quite impulsive but teasing attitude.
    She loves to be around others and helping with any sleep related problems, but witnessing so many dreams has left her... altered. She is an hopeless romantic, constantly in search for her soulmate, her hyperactive mind always fabricating whole stories and futures with people she just met, but these thoughts don't linger as she also feels a deep envy for the "dreamers" she invades, mainly because she is unable to actually dream for herself: she never really falls asleep, instead her consciousness is transported to the dream-plane which is a "pure white hallway with many different doors everywhere, each door is different in shape and color, the doors of people I know have a plate with their name on... or at least, how I call them".
    Melissa lives in the Demon Realm, in the Monarch's Castle to be precise, she is one of the subjects of the current monarch... but not any subject, she is a Queen's Delegate, the highest rank the current demon monarch gives, with Melissa included, only four others have reached such rank, the Queen's Delegates are an extension of the demon monarch's reach, they are the elite force of the Demon Realm and each has a specialty, in Melissa's case, she is an infiltrator- a spy and assassin.
    The Queen often sends her far from the Demon Realm in places she simply cannot reach for a reason or another, to gather information, to sabotage an enemy camp, to take out an important figure or even to stalk someone, these missions are only known by very few, sometimes only by the Queen and Melissa.
    Melissa executes such missions in a most efficent manner, usually accomplishing the objective perfectly, without (too much) collateral damage, her attitude is still cheerful while undercover as long she can affort it, there have been times she was in disadvantage, about to be exposed or forced to kill... Melissa doesn't care about "honor", she has no principles while out on a mission, her mind has a single goal, she will cheat, lie, do everything in her power to make her queen happy, even if it means to be someone she naturally isn't.

  • Author's Comment

    Melissa Somnium, her character inspiration is an IRL friend: cutesy, sensible (too much), friendly (waaay too much), the extrovert that "adopted" me!

    BUT! I wanted to put my Variadic Twist on her, thus turning her into an assassin that works for a psycopath Queen, the relationship between these two characters is... special (no, they are not romantically engaged to eachother) but I'll leave that for you and your character to explore.

    Lissa is a dynamic character, she doesn't want to stay in a single location, she is supposed to stay far away from her homeland, in hostile territory, executing the dirty work for her queen with the brighest smile on her lips and her powers are perfectly designed to do so.
    I think that her powers' inspiration is quite obvious (traditional succubus) but changed to be more SFW and coherent with her role as an assassin: first studying her target by invading their dreams, then slowly but surely exhausting them by controlling and eating their dreams, then she finally ends them in their sleep, her kills are slow and methodical but with low risk and of surgical precision, still, low risk isn't zero.

  • Play Preferences

    Must Likes very much! Depends, must discuss No Thanks.
    Must
    • Session Zero
    • Character Development
    • Focus on Feelings
    • Magic System
    Likes very much!
    • Romance... Lissa IS a hopeless romantic!
    • Traveling Companion / Adventure... she is a dynamic character
    • Explicit / Smut... but we can do fade to black
    • Mystery / Undercover... that's her whole point!
    Depends, must discuss
    • Convincing Melissa to betray her homeland... I could see that happening but... you know...
      No Thanks.
    • Romantic plots with furries or similar... they aren't my thing