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CELLAR SPIDER

Cellar Spider NAME
She/her (trans) SEX/GENDER
Original CANON
A few years after starting the blood pact. CANONPOINT

HISTORY

TRANSITION

Mila Singer knew who she was from a young age. Born to an upper middle class, relatively progressive family, supportive parents helped her start her transition throughout high school, both social and medical. Even with all the local resources made available to her, an online network of forums and social media were crucial to her formative years and self-confidence as a queer teenager, especially when Mila still struggled with being in a place where she couldn't quite fit in with her 'real life' friends. Moving away for college made all the difference, and she may or may not have chosen it based on how many of her online friends lived nearby.

COLLEGE

Such a huge change was daunting, but meeting people with common interests and outlooks in life was a breath of fresh air. Parties, relationships, pulling all-nighters, working at coffee shops, Mila continued to grow into her own person, but halfway through her degree in social sciences, decided she wanted more. She was so sure of it, in fact, that she got the attention of a multidimensional entity that specialized in picking up people's dreams and making them a reality. All she needed was to make a blood pact and work for Raíz for a hundred years, and what Mila aspired for so passionately would be hers at the other end of the rainbow.

BLOOD PACT

Unfortunately, the moment that blood pact was sealed, she would no longer remember what she asked for. She also wouldn't just be Mila anymore, but Cellar Spider. Raíz assigned her this name along with her new powers, and made it very clear that Mila — Cellar — was expected to stick to it. This time her life took a second turn that thrust her into a YA novel, complete with moving in with a bunch of people in her situation at a boarding school-esque mansion she thought only existed in movies. There was a variety in ages among other agents, both physical and chronological, and few had the patience to welcome the newbies. Great Dane was her guide and mentor for the first couple of years, but she's got a lot of work to do to catch up with those nearing a century of service.

ABILITIES

SHADOW MANIPULATION Turning shadows into solid matter. Imagine a 3D printer and the material is any projected shadow that's close enough to her, which means she can create any object that she can imagine, theoretically of any size, so long as it's reasonably proportional to the size of the projected shadow. (Tools, accessories, weapons, walls, appendages, shields, etc.) She can make these constructs disappear when she wants.

Umbrakinesis. She can make these constructs float, move, attack, etc. They're extensions of her and cannot move on their own unless she's actively making them move, similar to regular telekinesis. Shadows do not gain a life or mind of their own.

Properties. Cellar's constructs are easy to identify: they're smooth/textureless, do not reflect light and do not project a shadow of their own. They are virtually indestructible but depend on Cellar being alive to exist.

LIMITATIONS:

Proximity. She must be close enough to see the projected shadow to be able to manipulate it — so she wouldn't just be able to manipulate a shadow that's inside the castle, for example. Cellar cannot 'sense' shadows, either.

Light source. It has to be a projected shadow. No light source = no projected shadows = nothing for Cellar to manipulate. She's essentially depowered in a pitch black environment.

Status. If Cellar dies or disappears from the setting, all the shadow constructs she has not destroyed will cease to exist.

Single use. Because her constructs do not project shadows, she cannot create a shadow construct out of another construct.

PERMISSIONS

Yes. TOUCHING Yes. KISSING Yes. Cellar is pansexual. SEX Yes to telepathy, maybe to mind control. POWERS USE Yes. INJURY With discussion. death

Yes. Cellar will use her powers in a fight. FIGHT SCENES Yes. Cellar is poly. SHIPPING N/A, but I'm open to facetwin shenanigans. FOURTH-WALLING Yes. BACKTAGGING Yes. THREADJACKING Bathroom stuff, pregnancy as horror or kink, needles/piercings, slurs and negative CR based on her gender. OOC HARD LIMITS

PREFERENCES

SMUT Kinklist.

HORROR TROPES

MONSTER

DESCRIPTION

Mother Miranda from Resident Evil Village, basically! A sort-of mix of human and spider, she has two arms with extended fingers, plus six appendages at her back that can be shifted into various shapes, such as: wings for flight, spikes used as a weapon, giant spider legs to climb various surfaces, tentacles, etc. These appendages are made from the same material as the shadow abilities, but they do not have to fall under the same rules. This means that she can still use and manipulate these appendages even without any source of light to create projected shadows.

Visual references: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Mother Long Legs' (ha) behavior is seductive. She wants to kidnap the people she likes, drag them back to a nest she will make in the woods and keep them there to "take care" of them. She'll want their attention, to be complimented and eventually have sexual relations. Cellar becomes hostile against anyone who tries to take her loved ones away from her; the more the opponent is able to hold their own against her, the more extreme she'll become with her hostility until she's completely overpowered or has vented enough violence.