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Planted on a 100-yard mound of dirt and rock spiraling through the twisting nether is the Oblivi-Inn, a seemingly innocent three-story house with a white picket fence, an inviting green lawn and a sign identifying this house as a bed and breakfast. The original name has been painted over, however, and spray-painted over it is the name “Oblivi-Inn.”
Apart from the windows, which are completely fogged up and prevent any view of the inside, and apart from its surroundings, nothing would seem unusual about this building. The inside is no different: A kitchen, dining room and living room on the bottom floor, four bedrooms and a media room on the second floor, five more bedrooms on the third floor, and 1½ bathrooms on each floor. An oddly large number for a simple bed & breakfast, but still, nothing unusual, right?
Wrong. The Oblivi-Inn is not open to business. The doors and windows are all locked and refuse to open under even the greatest of force. The front door works, but only sometimes, and even then only from the outside. Once inside, the only way out is through the pet door.
The Oblivi-Inn is actually a prison. Housed in the Oblivi-Inn at the center of the twisting nether are nine beings (and a cat) with powers between them that could reshape the cosmos as we know them. Inside, these nine beings live together, and more often than not, plot against each other as well.
Each resident is in a position of dominance over four, but submissive to the other four. It is a delicate balance, one they are always looking for ways to tip just ever-so-slightly into their favor.
DAMIEN:
The Dragon. The Antichrist. The Prince of Darkness. The vanguard of the apocalypse. Whatever you want to call him, that’s exactly what he is: the son of Satan himself. Damien was intended by prophesy to launch into motion the apocalypse. The writers of those prophesies, however, are dead, and the
current highest powers would prefer it did not come to such. Damien is innocent of sin, however, and so this isolated haven within the void was considered to be the only safe place for him until he can make better use of his influence.
That is, at least, the dominant theory. None of the residents know their true purpose for being here. Some just have better ideas than others.
Damien is incorporeal and capable of changing his form, but he has chosen, 99.9% of the time, the form of a black dragon similar to the night furies from
How To Train Your Dragon. This is presumably because Damien wishes not to forget his intended role as the dark dragon of the apocalypse, but at the same time wishes to be treated as more than such, just like the character he appears to be modeling himself after.
Or it could be because Damien is using this likeness to manipulate others into trusting him, or that the Dreamworks movie contains dark Satanic subliminal messages. Or it could just be a crazy coincidence. Take it as you will.
Relation to Ilala:
Submissive. Ilala’s automaton system and knowledge of the dark occult makes her immune to his demonic influence. That and she can beat the shit out of him six ways to Thursday.
Relation to Cupid:
Submissive. Cupid has powers granted to him by a living saint and a holy aura that prevents all dark energies from influencing him. Damien has no power over him.
Relation to Elijah:
Submissive. Damien was intended to bring the apocalypse. Elijah, in his respective dimension,
survived the apocalypse. It’s highly possible that Damien’s only motivation in negating his own role in the apocalypse is to prevent Elijah from trying to kill him.
Relation to Holly:
Dominant. Holly’s intended role was to be submissive to Damien’s. By her own nature, she is compelled to be obedient to him.
Relation to Rao:
Dominant. Rao is not immune to corruption, and on top of that, he is edible. Damien’s tolerance for Rao as a supposed friend is only in regards to the balance of the Oblivi-Inn.
Relation to the Discordant:
Dominant. The Discordant had been a denizen of Hell for long enough that he may now be considered a native resident. As such, he is compelled to obey the reigning monarchy: Satan, and by extension, his son Damien.
Relation to Trinity:
Dominant. Like the Discordant, Trinity is compelled to obey. There are "older rules" that prevent her from being
completely submissive to him, but she is still Damien’s dog, just as her father was to Damien’s.
Relation to Willow:
Submissive. Willow may or may not be immune to corruption. Damien would rather not know and will work to prevent anything bad from happening to her, a fact which Willow abuses to no end.
Relation to the cat:
Damien calls him Lucifer, with the implication that he may know something about the cat, or at least that he understands that there is more to the cat than meets the eye ("There must be," said Damien. "He wouldn’t be here with us in the Oblivi-Inn if there weren’t, right?" "Shut up Damien" said the narrator). The cat makes frequent trips to Damien’s belly, though he will usually whisper to it afterward that this is just a cover so nobody will know he knows what the cat knows they know (yeah, he is slightly crazy).
ILALA:
Ilala Horn, daughter of unholy occultist Balbu Horn, who had his and his daughter’s heads disembodied and preserved in jars via an unholy blend of science and magic, immortalizing themselves to avoid having to pay his dues after death. Balbu instilled his daughter with his own dark, forbidden knowledge. While Balbu met his justly deserved fate, Ilala was innocent of such transgressions and was allowed to live in isolation, where her power could be kept safely until she gained the wisdom to use it wisely.
Ilala claims to have been a human being, but may just as well have been a centaur or some other being that was only fully human from the neck up. Her head is that of a young, dark-skinned human being, in a fiberglass jar, as has already been covered.
The jar usually sits on her desk plugged into her computer, but she also has a large mechanized body she can plug herself into instead when she needs to. It was meant to channel her dark energies as well, but for it to do that, it needs an “organic battery,” so she can usually only use it to walk short distances. It has a predominantly purple color scheme, except for the protective plating around the chin, which is bright yellow, presumably because her father was killed and/or imprisoned before he had finished hers and the remaining part was salvaged off of his suit instead.
Relation to Damien:
Dominant. Ilala’s disembodied nature has increased her clarity and, by extension, her resistance to influence, and her suit makes her the resident strong-arm of the house. In a one-on-one fight, Ilala would mop the floor with him.
Relation to Cupid:
Submissive. Cupid spent a millennium learning from the universe’s greatest craftsmen. Everything Ilala’s father spent a lifetime building for her, Cupid could take apart in a heartbeat.
Relation to Elijah:
Submissive. Elijah has the means to both counter all of her forbidden knowledge, and to reduce her tech to scrap.
Relation to Holly:
Dominant. Ilala’s bulletproof, airtight jar makes her completely immune to disease.
Relation to Rao:
Dominant. Rao is small enough to fit into her suit and has supernatural powers enough to suffice as an aforementioned organic battery. Many of her schemes within the house involve trying to abduct him and get him permanently sealed inside of her.
Relation to the Discordant:
Submissive. Ilala may have forbidden knowledge, but does not have the wisdom to know that it is true. She may also have power over the forces of darkness, but she is not immune to subtle suggestions and manipulations.
Relation to Trinity:
Submissive. Ilala doesn't know why Ilala has power over Damien but not Trinity – probably some difference in classification or a technical loophole that her father never thought she would need to know about. Trinity is aware of her weaknesses and capable of exploiting them.
Relation to Willow:
Dominant. Willow could also be used to power her suit, and as the more potent of the two, she is the prisoner Ilala would much more prefer.
Relation to the cat:
Ilala calls him Spot, if for no other reason than because she thinks its cute how he scowls at it (it is a traditional dog’s name after all) Being a head in a jar limits her capacity for physical interaction. She can use him as an organic battery, but the energy yield is negligible and so only uses him temporarily when she needs more than just an occasional change of scenery.
CUPID:
Santa’s reindeer. Cupid spent a millennium learning from the greatest of craftsmen: the elves in Santa’s workshop and even did some tinkering of his own in his time off. That all changed a few decades ago, when children started asking for licensed products. The corporations came down on Santa’s workshop with a fiery vengeance when they tried to replicate their products. Now St. Nicholas gets his toys directly from the suppliers, and in exchange, he and his elves make WMDs.
Cupid is one of a few who knows
exactly why he is in the Oblivi-Inn: he petitioned the higher powers for asylum, and because he possesses a millennium worth of experience in the craft, the Inn was seen as a place where he could rest and practice his hobby in peace.
Cupid appears as a reindeer, not a shape-shifter, but able to appear anthro or feral simply by altering his posture. He spends a lot of time isolated in his room, which is filled with his creations: everything from simple windup toys to advanced inventions that would make even the work of Stewie Griffin look like tinker toys by comparison.
Relation to Damien:
Dominant. Cupid was granted immortality by a higher, holy power, which makes him immune to any and all that is unholy. Damien can do nothing to him.
Relation to Ilala:
Dominant. Ilala’s mech suit is a toy compared to some of the things he has created. He knows EXACTLY how it works and could take it apart blindfolded with one hoof tied behind his back.
Relation to Elijah:
Dominant. Elijah would probably be more than a match for Cupid, but who in their right mind would pick a fight with one of Santa’s reindeer?
Relation to Holly:
Submissive. Cupid feels bad for Holly, and may even see her as a potential love interest. Holly is not necessarily the manipulative type, but for her, Cupid is not difficult to manipulate.
Relation to Rao:
Submissive. Rao’s small stature and youthful attitude reminds him all too much of the good little girls and boys from his time pulling the sleigh. The fact Rao’s favorite of Cupid’s creations are his most simple and nostalgic tugs at his heart like nothing else can.
Relation to the Discordant:
Submissive. Like Ilala, he is immune to demonic power, but often feels lost and alone, which the Discordant preys upon and can twist to his advantage whenever he needs to.
Relation to Trinity:
Dominant. Trinity has too many positive feelings towards Cupid; she couldn’t bring herself to do harm to him even if he wasn’t holy. Cupid believes that she is the dominant figure of the household, but also knows that she’ll do almost anything he asks of her as well.
Relation to Willow:
Submissive. Like Rao, Willow goes straight to Cupid’s heart and appeals to his greatest senses of love and innocense. She can twist him to her will without even trying.
Relation to the cat:
He calls him Schrodinger with respects to the cat’s remarkable durability. He treats the cat with love and respect for the most part, though is not above exploiting his immortality and uses him as a crash test dummy for his inventions from time to time.
ELIJAH CAIN:
Many of the Oblivi-Inn’s designers were worried about the apocalypse. Says Elijah Cain: "Big deal. Been there. Done that." What they fear, he has survived and lived to speak of. He is, quite literally, someone who fought the forces of the apocalypse and won. Few others survived, however, and so Elijah devoted the rest of his lifetime to breaking through the fabrics of reality to travel into a new dimension and teach them how they too could fight the forces of the apocalypse.
It took Elijah ten years to figure out how to travel between dimensions. The apocalypse didn’t do anything to dull Elijah’s sanity. Ten years of isolation, however, may have had a lasting impact on him. He has raw magical powers that are neither holy nor unholy – magic unlike anything the world has ever seen, but because of his wavering sanity, he was deemed a severe risk to the natural order and was placed in the Oblivi-Inn with the hopes that he would relearn how to socialize and reaffirm his sanity.
Elijah has elvish features: fair skin, long snow white hair and gold luminescent eyes, but he is actually fully human. He dresses in all black and wears what a silver(ish) pendant, the medallion of which is a Wiccan pentacle with a Christian cross imposed into the center. He actually is mentally sound. It's just that after so long alone, his social skills are lacking and his emotions go largely unchecked.
Relation to Damien:
Dominant. Elijah killed the Antichrist of his own world with his bare hands. Why should he fear any Antichrist of any other world?
Relation to Ilala:
Dominant. Whatever Ilala can do, Elijah can turn back against her.
Relation to Cupid:
Submissive. Elijah tends to see the world entirely in black and white, which is why Cupid, assistant to a saint, can get Elijah to do just about anything just by asking nicely enough.
Relation to Holly:
Dominant. Holly’s intended role in the apocalypse also guarantees that Elijah would know how to kill her as well.
Relation to Rao:
Submissive. Like Cupid, Rao can exploit Elijah’s pigheaded chivalry, black and white perspective and emotional excitability.
Relation to the Discordant:
Submissive. Elijah’s powers are dominant, but the Discordant knows how to manipulate Elijah’s sense of chivalry and unchecked emotions.
Relation to Trinity:
Dominant. Everything that was said of Elijah and Damien is also true of Elijah and Trinity.
Relation to Willow:
Submissive. Elijah, in the triumph of hope over caution, believes Willow is exactly what he has been searching for and has sworn to defend her with his life until he can bring her back to his home dimension. Willow has, on more than one occasion, deliberately endangered herself to get Elijah to attack her enemies.
Relation to the cat:
He calls the cat Admiral Soupcock Porkpie, or just Porky for short, possibly because he thinks it’s funny, or possibly because he’s nucking futs. Elijah is the only residents of the Inn who
never mistreats or exploits the cat in any way shape or form. Because of his bizarre eccentricity, however, the cat still prefers the company of others within the household.
HOLLY:
Holly, the intended white horse of the apocalypse. Nobody knows if her powers are relative to pestilence or religious conquest – the apocalypse was canceled before her powers could develop. Like Damien, she was likely placed in the Oblivi-Inn for both her own safety and that of others, and to provide her a safe location where her powers could mature and she could learn to control them.
Holly is, as mentioned above, a bleach white horse. After all this time, she is still herself not entirely sure what she is capable of. Neither she nor any of the other residents of the Inn are all that eager to find out. Either way, the role of a horseman’s horse is a great burden on her that she wishes more than anything she could be without.
Relation to Damien:
Submissive. Both had intended roles in the apocalypse, she as a horse, and Damien as a rider, and since they were born around the same time, the presumption is that she was meant to be his.
Relation to Ilala:
Submissive. Ilala’s jar is impenetrable, so the threat of pestilence means nothing to her.
Relation to Cupid:
Dominant. Cupid is easily swayed by Holly, so she often relies on him to fend off those that are dominant over her. She probably does care for him, but at the same time is afraid he might get sick if he were close to her and is sometimes abusive in their relationship as a means of keeping him at a safe distance from her.
Relation to Elijah:
Submissive. Whether her power is meant to be holy or sickening, Elijah could counter it either way. She actually
prefers his company for this reason; if her power is pestilence and she accidentally sickens someone, she wants Elijah to be present to stop her.
Relation to Rao:
Rao is a carrier of disease, not a victim of it. He too is immune to the threat of pestilence and has no fear at all of her.
Relation to the Discordant:
Dominant. Holly understands his nature and has no interest at all in listening to him.
Relation to Trinity:
Dominant. Though it would be more accurate to say that Trinity is passive to Holly. Holly is one for whom Trinity has a soft spot and who will gladly oblige any requests by.
Relation to Willow:
Dominant. The threat of disease is
very real for Willow, and many a scheme
against Willow have involved the threat of bringing Holly in to stand against her.
Relation to the cat:
She affectionately calls him War, possibly because he follows her around a lot. She seems to think of him as a true friend that she can speak her mind to and is by no means disrespectful to him. Talking in private to him tends to make her emotional and desire to feel loved, however, which often leads to her demanding that the cat kiss her or make love to her because, if she is indeed the horse of Pestilence, the cat’s immortality means he is the only one who can do so.
RAO:
A young rat demigod. Nobody has any real clue why he’s here in the Oblivi-Inn. It could very well be that his inclusion – maybe the very purpose of his creation even – was solely to ensure balance among the other residents. Nobody knows for sure.
Rao has two separate forms. The first is his "default" avatar, that of a young, dark-skinned boy with a rat’s pink ears and tail. He is capable, however, of turning into a seven-foot tall black rat, which the other residents have dubbed the "Verminator." Nobody really knows how he does this, or even if the Verminator is a different form of Rao or another rat altogether. All they know is that the Verminator only appears when Rao is in his room and all by himself. It could be that he can only transform then and there when nobody is watching, or it could be that he simply doesn’t want anyone to know how he does it. Again, nobody knows for sure.
Relation to Damien:
Submissive. Second only to the cat, Rao is Damien’s choice prey item. Even as the Verminator, Rao is powerless against him.
Relation to Ilala:
Submissive. His default form can be used to power Ilala’s suit, and the Verminator does nothing to her mech’s armor. Most of Rao’s schemes in the house involve trying to get the
other residents to fight Ilala for him.
Relation to Cupid:
Dominant. Rao knows how Cupid became the brilliant machinist that he is today and deliberately appeals to his nostalgia to keep him on his side.
Relation to Elijah:
Dominant. Elijah is Rao’s go-to guy; he's gullible and easily provoked to rage. Whenever Rao wants somebody beaten up, he tries to get Elijah to do it.
Relation to Holly:
Dominant. Rats are carriers of pestilence – not victims of him. Holly’s threats mean absolutely nothing to him.
Relation to the Discordant:
Submissive. The Discordant strikes fear into him like nothing else can. Even if the Discordant weren’t capable of deceiving him, Rao would likely just play along for fear of being eaten.
Relation to Trinity:
Submissive. Trinity commands a maternal authority over Rao. She mostly uses it to get him to make his bed and eat his vegetables, but she could get him to do more if she wanted to.
Relation to Willow:
Dominant. The two are the closest thing to best friends that can be had in the Oblivi-Inn and frequently caper together, but Rao is the definite ringleader of the two.
Relation to the cat:
Rao calls him Stupid. Dislike of cats is instilled into his instincts, so even though he does have some level of respect for the cat, he still feels compelled to remind him whose boss from time to time. Usually as the Verminator.
THE DISCORDANT:
The legendary Discordant, the tortured soul who inspired the rebellion that usurped the highest powers, reshaped the Heavens and prevented the apocalypse. The Discordant, named for his ability to disrupt the numb order of Heaven and inspire even the Messiahs themselves to rebel against the highest powers, has lost both name and history – any semblance of his mortal life whatsoever – to the prior Hell, having committed only the reasons for his damnation to memory that they may never be lost to time. The Heavens as the are now were his vision, but after centuries of corruption by the prior forces of Hell, the Discordant is twisted and corrupted beyond reason. He was likely included in the Oblivi-Inn as a last resort attempt at rehabilitating him, if not to offer him some rest and peace.
The Discordant had originally been condemned as a heretic to the sixth circle for daring to question the perfection of God’s creation (or more accurately, for suggesting that it could be better), but after the demons rekindling the flame in his tomb listened to his ideas and spread them around, he was condemned a second time for “stealing the peace” to the seventh bolgia in the eighth circle of fraud. The
real purpose was to have the Discordant’s identity stolen by the mutating snake bites, but the Discordant relented and committed to memory nothing save what the higher powers were trying to destroy.
Having spent several centuries in the snake pit, the Discordant is now a snake himself: a large black python with gold eyes and shimmering scales. He has evident fetishes for constriction and swallowing, but his
real love is for speaking. In Hell, the Discordant, devoted himself entirely to opposing the greatest of all known powers for centuries. Now he can’t help himself – it his nature to oppose and attempt to turn others against ANY kind of authority. He frequently attempts to catch people alone and whispers dark secrets to them.
You might think you are immune to the Discordant’s influence, but what makes it difficult is that, more often than not, he’s telling the honest-to-God truth. The Discordant was condemned for what he interprets to be an undeniable truth, one that he had the gall to point out and later reshaped the universe with. His faith in the truth is unyielding, and the things he tells you will often be
very difficult for you to deny.
Relation to Damien:
Submissive. Damien
respects the Discordant for inadvertently preventing the apocalypse that he would have otherwise been destined to create, but he will still assert his authority over all things Hellish to keep the Discordant from doing to the Oblivi-Inn what he did to Hell.
Relation to Ilala:
Dominant. Ilala has vast knowledge but no understanding of it. Ilala listens because she believes the Discordant can help her, and he speaks because he knows that she can help him.
Relation to Cupid:
Dominant. Cupid is lost, depressed and has many questions about what his life was all worth. As did the many millions of demons the Discordant inspired to rebellion.
Relation to Elijah:
Dominant. Elijah has power over the forces of Hell, but the Discordant was a victim instead of a native, and he has actually come to see the Discordant as a brother in arms, a relationship the latter is all too happy to encourage.
Relation to Holly:
Submissive. Holly was never told the Discordant’s story. She believes that he is a compulsive liar and so tends to tune him out and "uh-huh" him whenever he speaks to her.
Relation to Rao:
Dominant. Rao is an easy listener
and an easy prey item. He probably spends more time with Rao than any other resident, or at least as much time with Rao as the other residents will alow.
Relation to Trinity:
Submissive. Trinity also knows his story (she heard it all from her dad), knows from experience not to let him influence her and likewise only tolerates him out of pity. Most of the things he could tell her, she already knows anyway.
Relation to Willow:
Submissive. Willow has no ambitions that he could cater to nor any insecurities that he could exaggerate. Additionally, she may know things that the Discordant wants to know but does not, making Willow one of the few beings in existence that can manipulate the Discordant.
Relation to the cat:
The Discordant calls him Brother and insists that the cat can do the same. The Discordant also suspects that there may be more to the cat than meets the eye. Or he may just be crazy and tries to talk to everyone like that – who knows. The Discordant constricts and swallows him frequently, but like Damien, he insists that this is all just part of a ruse to keep the others from suspecting. Or he may just be a freak that enjoys having the cat in his belly – again, who knows.
TRINITY:
Trinity, the daughter of Cerberus, the gatekeeper of Hell. Trinity’s relation to several of the other residents of the Inn is perfectly evident, but unlike Damien or Holly, she had no intended role in the apocalypse, so the reasons for her inclusion are also not entirely known and may just be for the sake of balancing out the others.
Trinity’s form is that of a large, three-headed, all-black Doberman. She has decided that she is the guardian, like her father before her, and tries to act as the combined boss and parent figure whenever possible. Some regard her readily as such, while others simply humor her. Her three heads all share the same mind and personality, though she sometimes plays her three heads as individuals whenever it suits her advantage.
Relation to Damien:
Submissive. Damien is the son of Satan himself, and is, as such, her prince. Even though she technically acts as his babysitter, she is still compelled to obey him.
Relation to Ilala:
Dominant. Ilala knows much. Trinity is a native of Hell, but her father was also created by divine power. In that sense, Trinity is of both holy and unholy origin, which leaves even the darknest of Ilala’s secrets largely inapplicable to her.
Relation to Cupid:
Submissive. Cupid has a holy aura that she cannot disrupt, and even if he didn’t, she could never bring herself to do harm to one of Santa’s reindeer.
Relation to Elijah:
Submissive. Elijah is opposed to Damien, her master, and as such, she is also opposed to him. She respects and admires him, but everything that is true of Damien and Elijah is still also true of she and Elijah.
Relation to Holly:
Submissive. Unlike Damien, whom she feels compelled to obey, she instead feels sorry for Holly and cannot bring herself to oppose her.
Relation to Rao:
Dominant. Rao is young and Trinity makes for an effective parental figure. Trinity can get Rao to do anything just by staring him down (which, with three heads, she does quite well).
Relation to the Discordant:
Dominant. Part of the reason she plays her three heads as individuals is so she can see how
others respond to them as individuals. The Discordant specifically went so far as to suggest to one of her heads that it could overthrow the other two; she hasn’t taken him seriously ever since then.
Relation to Willow:
Dominant. Trinity also appeals to Willow as a maternal figure and can get her to do what is asked of her simply by putting a cap on how much she asks of her.
Relation to the cat:
She calls him Casca and hints that it has something to do with his past life. She is one of the few residents with whom the cat regularly converses, both of them being the quintessential cat and dog of the sitcom family. Trinity has sort of a big sister relationship with him, which is to say that she sometimes treats him with respect and other times treats him like a chew toy. He’s been inside Trinity more times and in more ways than any other member of the family.
WILLOW:
Willow, the name given to the tree spirit of a sapling from the Tree of Life. Nobody knows what happened to the original Tree of Life or the spirit of it, but Willow, being just a baby at the time, was innocent and needed to be isolated. While the capacity of the original spirit and the consequences of eliminating the Tree of Life were understood, it is unknown how much influence the sapling has on the natural order. For that reason, it too was placed in isolation.
Willow is also incorporeal, and likewise represents herself via an image that is already familiar with her kind, namely the forest spirits as they were depicted in
My Neighbor Totoro, with the exception that her form is about the height of the average six-year-old human, and her fur was deliberately colored a light shade of pink to avoid gender confusion.
Willow, being a tree spirit, has very little understanding of the outside world, society or expressionism, and as such is very much the baby of the household. There are a lot of things she is still learning, but planning, scheming and defending herself are not among them. Those she has already mastered.
Relation to Damien:
Dominant. Damien has concerns about Willow possibly having the same relation to the universal order that her mother had, so he will defend her from attackers even if Willow had provoked them.
Relation to Ilala:
Submissive. Willow is one of Ilala’s two targets to power her suit. Additionally, Ilala’s technical skills are completely alien to the tree spirits. Ilala’s mech suit is what a forest spirit’s closet monster would look like.
Relation to Cupid:
Dominant. Willow appeals to everything Cupid appreciates: his sense of goodness, his connection with nature, and his sleigh-pulling nostalgia. He will do anything for her.
Relation to Elijah:
Dominant. Elijah sees Willow as a force of good and is equally loyal (and gullible) to her.
Relation to Holly:
Submissive. The threat of pestilence is very real to a forest spirit. Holly can send her fleeing in terror just by looking at her the wrong way.
Relation to Rao:
Submissive. Rao is the closest (physically) to her age, so the two are friends for the most part, but since Rao knows a little compared to Willow’s nothing at all, he is the leader of the two.
Relation to the Discordant:
Dominant. The Discordant wants to know a lot about her. She doesn’t know the answers, but he apparently thinks she’s playing hardball with him. He wouldn’t make any moves against Willow unless he knew what could happen as a result anyway.
Relation to Trinity:
Submissive. Trinity appeals to Willow as a maternal figure, which allows her to get results that Damien and the Discordant have never been able to replicate.
Relation to the cat:
Calls him Princess Puffy (and the cat will kill you if you tell anyone). As the name would imply, the cat is her playtime partner. She puts him through all the usual child-on-animal cruelty like playing dress-up and tea party with him, but she also has some more. . . Unconventional ways of playing with him too. Trinity, who routinely eats the cat, is her maternal figure after all. The cat therefore knows what it’s like being inside a tree spirit too.
THE CAT:
He doesn’t really have a name. He’s sure he had one once, but he doesn’t know what it is; only that none of the names he has been given by the residents are it. If pressed for a name, he will introduce himself as Casca, the name given to him by Trinity and the one that he hates the least.
At first glance, the cat may appear to be submissive to all nine of the other residents, as he is powerless, no different from an ordinary house cat. Near as any of the other residents can tell, the cat has only three powers: the ability to talk (which he seldom ever uses), and the ability to leave the house via the pet door in the front hallway (which is a sore spot for many) and the ability to survive whatever games or stress release they subject him too (which they make frequent use of).
The reality is that venturing outside allows the cat’s true powers to be amplified. Outside, he can take the form of a human-sized anthro cheetah who is both physically fit and a capable sorcerer, defending the Oblivi-Inn in a blend of physical prowess and raw magical energy that would make even Cloud and Sephiroth blush. His powers enhance the further away from the house he gets; even the cat himself does not know his fullest potential.
The reason he does not know this is because the house that suppresses his powers with its proximity is also the source. He could leave, but if something happened to the house or any of its residents in his absence, his powers would fade altogether and forever. He considers himself the appointed guardian of the house, as he is completely incapable of fighting back any of the residents, much less lording over them, and his powers only increase to whatever level is needed to get him back to the house as soon as possible.
Only Trinity knows this secret, which she discovered when she stuck one of her heads out of the pet door one day and saw him fighting off a giant demon clown (which she is
not embarrassed to say that even she found terrifying to look at). She still doesn't treat him like an equal, but she does secretly respect and admire him.
WHAT IS THE OBLIVI-INN DOING IN THE PARK?
Nobody knows for sure. The Oblivi-Inn usually orbits around the dark void, but every now and then its path will cross with something else which the cat must deal with. The Park, with its uncanny ability to attract otherworldly inhabitants, may occasionally draw the Inn out of the void to it just as it does so many other off-world immigrants. So every now and then, the Oblivi-Inn that usually floats through the endless void, will suddenly find itself firmly planted on the grass in the Park.
Usually the cat will fight with his every last breath to keep anything that ventures too close away from the Inn, but since there are a lot of people here who do not have power that could compete with the residents trapped on the inside, he might permit some to come and go for as long as he is here.
Part of the reason being that he’s curious to see if he’s the only one that gets shrunken down every time he sticks his head through it. The door can be opened by non-residents, but if asked, the cat will generally state that the pet door is the only way, if only out of curiosity to see how it responds to other people passing through it.
PROFILE / PREFERENCES:
As you’ve probably guessed, this is an experimental profile. I probably could register all the characters individually, but I’d rather not for a bunch of characters that may not have any life at all beyond the concept of the Oblivi-Inn.
Most of the slider bars are one-size-fits-all for the characters, with most of the exceptions being obvious enough in regards to their nature (Ilala, for example, is obviously not available for yiff since she has no exposed body parts). Beyond the obvious and that which is mentioned in the sliders below, there are a few simple rules regarding activity within the Oblivi-Inn.
1) You may not defeat the cat in combat and seize control of the Inn for yourself. This is the game-ending scenario.
2) You may not attempt to permanently disrupt the balance of the Inn. Any plans to do so must be doomed to failure from the start.
3) Nobody with the capacity to dominate any of the characters may enter the Inn unless their powers have been sealed by the cat first. The cat will otherwise not allow it.
4) Except for the cat, nobody else residing in the Inn may be allowed to leave.
5) The cat
can be eaten, adopted and/or abducted and taken away from the Inn, but only with the understanding that removing the cat from his territory will activate his God Mode. If you do this, you forfeit your right to complain.
These rules only serve the purpose of continuity. Characters can enter into multi-session stories with any character(s), at least so long as they do not influence the balance of the household. I am more than open to ideas, so if you have any, please feel free to share them (though unplanned roleplay sessions are equally appreciated too).
