Jeptha
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The mortician
AGE
23
ETHNICITY
Caucasian/Rom
ORIENTATION
Homosexual
ALLIANCES
Resurrection men
East London Funeral ParlorMea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
JEPTHA LEACH runs the East London Funeral Parlor. Until recently the parlor had two directors. While Jeptha dealt in embalming, his partner Elias ran the business and organized wakes; an inseparable pair of devils smoothtalking the bereaved. Despite rumors of the two being romantically involved, their establishment was reputable-- yet it was only ever a cover. Beneath the floorboards they conducted experiments in the occult. And then one day Elias fell ill-- or so the story goes --and never got better. Jeptha inherited their life's work, burying his grief in research and gin.
If only he'd buried Elias.
To say the mortician went mad would be putting it lightly. Though he presents quite disarmingly, he's developed an obsession with death in his pursuit of something nightmarish; a perversion of nature and God. To the outsider he's merely strange. To those who know his true line of work, he's dangerous and insane. The longer he spends in the parlor's basement the more disturbed he becomes. Every time he sleeps he wakes up a little less himself. It's too late to stop. The forces he meddles with are dangerous, and the last person who anchored him to the world is dead.
For now.
note: I'll be overhauling Jeptha sometime because I don't like having characters with in-depth backstories based on NPCs, idk it just feels like there's less development to be had in the actual roleplayBACKGROUND
Upper class
FLORIOGRAPHY
Water hemlock
Mourning bride
Datura
i want to feel your pins and needles
TROPES
x x x x
"The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. Someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
