GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Asheraj
Age: Physically she appears to be in her mid-twenties. She's nearly a hundred years old, which is actually pretty young for a demon
Gender: Cis-female
Sexuality: Aromantic, bisexual
Faction allegiance(s): Although she technically aligns with Bloodbound her "loyalty" is flexible and goes according to what benefits her the most
APPEARANCE
A gorgeous woman standing at roughly 5'5", Asheraj has what is commonly viewed as the "ideal" features in Honorguard. She has a slim, supple figure and fair, unblemished skin. Her features are soft, feminine, and pleasant, the beauty of her face so staggering that she might appear unsettling to some people. Her hair, silky and inky black, is usually pinned up by various accessories and headpieces. Although she has no need for it, she often sports sleek makeup that gives her otherwise innocent and pure face a more mature, cat-like look.
However, this gorgeous human form of hers is merely just a vessel for Asheraj. Her real, demonic forms are grotesque and quite chilling to look at. Each vary in size and function, but are unique to each self. Her first demon form is animalistic in structure, with portions of her human body still visible. The second is a mix of human and monster, with razor-like fangs and tendrils capable of easily tearing through flesh. Her final form is the most humanoid out of the three, though the gargantuan size of it makes it capable of crushing an entire town. Although her demon forms are ugly, they somehow appear to be horrifyingly beautiful at the same time(then again that's also up to personal preference).
human form; click click click
demon form(first); click
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demon form(third); click click
PERSONALITY
The softness and fragility of Asheraj's appearance is often the biggest trap for people, because she is far from pure and innocent. At heart, she is an extremely terrible person with a nasty personality, which is putting it nicely.
Asheraj has quite a superiority complex, valuing her own life over everyone else's and viewing herself as one of the most superior beings in the world. As a very self-centered and self-entitled child, Asheraj wants everyone to bow down to her and admit their inferiority to her. She's vain and adores being in the center of attention, often making degrading comments about others to put herself up on a higher pedestal. She has little regard for the lives of other creatures, often killing people for her own amusement even when it is not necessary. She has no semblance of empathy within her being, trampling over others with little regard for their stories or feelings.
Asheraj hardly does anything to hide the crudeness of her nature, as she is brutally honest about the blood thirst and evil that resides within her. However, she is able to exert so much influence over others due to her cunning nature and the charismatic impression she leaves others with, only transparent to those who are extremely observant. Asheraj knows how to exploit her looks, herself, and other people for her own gain. She has an incredibly unhealthy obsession with having power and dominance over other people.
Frankly, there's a lot more nasty things to unpack about her personality but I'm too tired to keep on explaining how much of a shitty person she is sdkjnfksd
RELATIONSHIPS
Romantic interest: n/a
Previous lovers: Many, all of which are dead
Spouse(s)/lover: Open for plotting
Friends: Open for plotting
Enemies: Open for plotting
WEAPONS/ABILITIES
- Asheraj's main weapon is her brute strength— her fighting style is anything but soft or weak like her physique might suggest. Rather, it is violent and bloody. She enjoys crushing people, and I mean quite literally crushing them with her bare hands.
- Consuming the flesh of others fuels her power(the strength she acquires from a being depends on their species). She is required to feed on people regularly in order to maintain her power. However, eating other demons allows her to permanently expand the range of her power(think of it like drinking a potion that increases the baseline amount of hp you have lol).
- Asheraj's human form basically functions as a seal for her other more powerful, potent forms. Each form is triggered depending on the intensity of emotional output she is releasing. Her first form is the weakest out of the three, but is the easiest for her to use and allows her full control of her emotions. Her second form is more frantic and harder to control, a result of her intense distress or anger, but considerably more lethal than the first. Here, her emotional stability begins to tear. Her last and final form, which is irreversible, is capable of large scale destruction, although it completely strips her of her humanity and character. She essentially becomes a killing machine.
- She is capable of forming contracts with people through her blood, which is how she keeps most of the brothel workers under wraps no matter how badly she treats them. The effectiveness of her blood depends, once again, on the power and/or species of the individual
HISTORY
Upon turning eighty-two years old, Asheraj ate her father.
The way demons of her kind work is a curious, frightful thing. The more demons they consume, the larger the span of their strength becomes. After eating her father, Asheraj felt an incredible rush of ecstasy pass through her veins for the first time in her life, a feeling that was comparable to none. It was then that the humanity within her, or whatever little there had been in the first place, began to wilt away.
Borne from the blood of her father, a high-ranking and extremely powerful demon residing within Bloodbound, Asheraj was known among relatives and allies as a delicate flower. She was a tiny, fragile little girl with a soft face, fitting enough for the streets of the disgusting Honorguard faction. She grew to be a beautiful woman with a stunning smile, although there was always an unsettling darkness lingering behind her eyes, betraying her true nature as a demon. For the most part she was obedient to her father, but less because of familial attachment but more from hatred and fear of the authority he harnessed over her with his extraordinary powers. Asheraj didn't love her father, not even close, and over the years she became obsessed over the idea of overtaking him and being free from his watchful eye. Strangely enough, despite her fear of his power and her resentment combined, she still respected him greatly.
The respect shattered the day he fell for a human woman from Honorguard.
Asheraj felt a mix of disgust and pity for the poor demon, who chased hopelessly after a fragile human with a fragile smile. She realized, however, that the more her father fell for the lowly woman, the weaker he became. It hit her just then, that this was the golden chance to kill him that she had been waiting for her entire life. So Asheraj waited patiently for years, waited for the couple to pledge their love to each other, waited for the birth of her nasty halfing brother, waited for the death of the pathetic human who gave birth to him shortly after, waited for her father to fall within a pit of despair. It had been a long, long wait, but demons live for a longer time and time is fleeting to beings like them.
Before eating her pathetic excuse of a father, Asheraj had made him grovel before her like a pig, gleeful at how much it humiliated and destroyed his pride. And as she crushed her father's head with a simple clench of her fists, the sheer amount of strength she had without even eating him shocked her.
Asheraj realized, she really hadn't needed him at all.
What a weak thing the once powerful demon had became, and all because of a single human. Despite her pity and disgust, Asheraj consumed him anyways, for a daughter still loves her father no matter how pathetic he has become.
In the following years after the death of her father, Asheraj became the madame of a large network of brothels within Bloodbound and a large influencer within the faction's society. Occasionally she serves as courtesan, host, or entertainer herself for clients who interest her. She is well known as "Asheraj the Wench," infamous for her alluring, bewitching nature. Its rumored that most men or women who take up her services are either eaten or forced to work in harsh contracts under her.
OTHER if anyone is curious characters/concepts i coughstolecough are daki from kny and various abyssal ones/awakened beings from claymore
