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player info

NAME: Nubl
CONTACT: gucky
AVERSIONS: Watersports/scat. Pregnancy as horror or kink - this includes breeding, impregnation, oviposition, birthing, etc.

character info

CHARACTER NAME: Cellar Spider
CANON: Original, Blood Pact.
CANON POINT: 2025, four years after starting the Blood Pact.
POWERS:

SHADOWS AS 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. 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, 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.

TOKEN: A small flashlight that fits in a pocket, a butterfly knife.

details

SUMMARY:

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.

Parties, relationships, pulling all-nighters, working at coffeeshops, 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 that she got the attention of a multidimensional entity that specialized in making dreams a reality. All she needed was to make a blood pact, work for Raíz for a hundred years, and what she aspired for would be hers.

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 at a boarding school-esque mansion. 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.

Cellar's done fetch quests, fought monsters, and is pretty sure she's seen it all. She hasn't, but there'll surely be an apocalypse any day now.

CALLING:

- As much as she loves people, she also loves to be loved. Cellar is an attention and affection seeker. Compliments, physical contact, she wants it all. A
- A social butterfly, she wants to be liked, sometimes to a fault; there are often things she will do for others while neglecting asking them to do the same.
- She wants to live her truth and not care about what others think.
- She also wants to have strength and power — she fantasizes about being the most powerful person in the room, and when she isn't, she wants the most powerful person to be willing to bend to her and be devoted to her, usually in a romantic way.

VALUES:

- She strives for the pursuit of happiness and the freedom to live your life according to your true self, surrounded by those you love.
- You don't have to be alone, and she wants to extend that sense of belonging to as many people as possible. She's often described as the party girl who wants to make sure everyone else is having fun.
- At the same time, after years of working for an otherworldly being and becoming desensitized to violence, she has come to believe evil is occasionally necessary to accomplish your goals.
- She will fight for her friends and isn't shy about being biased in their favor, sometimes to a fault.

FLAWS:

- She's very biased. Her worldview is very selfish because of this: it's okay if you've fucked up, so long as you've been good to her. That other guy she doesn't like who did the exact same thing, though? Fuck them.
- She cares for others and neglects her own emotional health.
- She thinks that in order to be liked, she needs to be positive, needs to be a source of fun and happiness, otherwise she'll be abandoned or not interesting.
- Cellar gets competitive.
- Cellar can be physically violent and verbally abrasive.

FEARS:

- The fear of abandonment reigns supreme when you place so much focus on getting attention.
- Isolation — having experienced it while growing up.
- She fears being rendered powerless, the worst possible blow to her ego.
- Embarrassment and humiliation make her angry.
- Rejection (romantic and platonic) weighs heavily on her insecurities.
- The idea of being locked in a room without a single light source causes her anxiety, in part because she would be losing her powers in that environment.
- Cellar also fears perma-death — Raíz can bring back any of her agents that die, so the idea that Cellar won't be able to rely on her to come back would upset her greatly.
- There are also fears related to her being a transwoman, but as transphobia and bigotry are not a narrative path I want to pursue, I would rather just reference it here.

MOTIFS:

- Spiders
- Shadows
- Bright colors, majority pink and yellow
- Large spaces (mansions, a la Xavier Institute or Umbrella Academy)
- Power given to her by an eldritch cosmic horror

BONDS:

GREAT DANE — Her mentor. A boomer in the body of a teenager, he taught her everything she needed to know to work for Raíz. Cellar teases him but she admires him a lot, too.
SABER TOOTH — A very bad man who she's been playing a 'will they won't they' game with for years. He saved her life in a mission gone wrong.
WOLF SPIDER — Her big brother figure. Scrungly man.
NEON TETRA & DEVON REX — More brother-figures, considers them genuine friends.
MOON JELLYFISH — A spoiled but not rotten rich girl, gossips and flirts with Cellar a lot.
RAÍZ — The big boss, the manic pixie cosmic horror, the puppeteer behind everything that happens in the Blood Pact. She's also really pretty.

SERVITOR:

Mother Miranda from Resident Evil Village, basically — a sort-of mix of human and spider, this servitor 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, drag them back to a nest she will make and keep them there to "take care" of them. She'll want their attention, to be complimented and seduced. She 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 and defeated. A stab through the heart or by severing her head will suffice, but you'd have to get close first.

Mother Long Legs represents Cellar's sexual nature, the desire to be desired, the humiliation she feels from being rejected, and her desire to be powerful. The spider-y motif represents her name and the way Cellar often uses her shadow powers to create spider-leg appendages on her back. The servitor is all her dreams come true and amplified until they become a nightmare.