⋆ — ❝ D E A D. ✧˖ ˚「 STORAGE ; V.II. 」

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"]"There is a creature sitting on the throne, body still and eyes cold. Royalty can They hear as it rushes through his veins. Loud is his presence. Divinity is he breathing in. No wonder there are rain and thunder happening at this very moment, with the attention from those gathered around are given to the supernal being of dead seas and striking storms. Just him. Only him is even Nature is bowing to—an act of surrender.

Now, it is his turn to be heard by them all."

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"]Step by step, and step by step, and step by step. Smiling with white shines akin to Stars, despite the soreness that grips around Their limbs. Fragile flesh still burns, yet, They breathes strength. Heart beats curiosity, it drives Them to seek what lives beyond Darkness. Paint Their world from black to gold. Let Them see Life.

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"] ( A winter themed poem for my school's November/December newspaper. )

We begin to wear the warmth,
When winter decorates the world in white and gray,
Covering over our chilled skin and cracked hearts.

While winter is here to embrace us all,
Some yearns for their souls
To be tenderly kissed by the sun,
And some touches the snows
Before they find magic within them.
Love it or hate it,
Winter is here to bring us together.

How winter allows us to gather around by a fireplace
With silver smiles, and loving laughters,
And hot beverages in our gentle hands.

How winter brings such a reminder that
Togetherness is the language of home.

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"]I had a concept for an anthro character ( *eye emoji @ Asy* <3 ), so um, Imma toss the wip details over here, yeeet

[spoiler=TW for death]Some believe what he goes by is his surname as he wishes to keep his first hidden, but it doesn’t really matter in the end when Scarberry as a whole strikes a mystery to many beings.

They say he travels often, even, according to the rumors, outside of Eanmerthas. Though, specifically, he is usually seen relaxing at the bars, libraries, or coffee shops during late nights. If one decides to interact with him, he will not hesitate to greet them like they are his friend, bringing them into a light chat with great enthusiasm and offer a small, but rich dessert at appropriate time. Meanwhile, he doesn’t interfere with anyone’s business, unless it at least implies a cry for help or there’s a risk that needs to be taken for the good. He finds no reasons to get involved with someone who may not be interested in being directly associated with him, which he wholeheartedly understands. He would just prefer having people come to him than vise versa for the sake of their comfort, if it helps, and time.

Despite his outgoing and calm demeanour, he shares nothing to bare about himself, coming across as reticent and can make him appear dull at first glance. It’s not that he’s uncomfortable at the thought of sharing personal details with someone who can use it for their own benefits, but rather, he doesn’t see the worth of telling those who were never to be seen again in a blink of an eye; those he considers a temporary stop in his life. It will have to take a lot more than a first interaction to reach the personal surface of him.

Scarberry likes the silence, mind you.

So if that’s going to be the case, he won’t expect anyone to share their own personal details with him, either. It’s only fair, even though curiosity is one of his prominent traits. Regardless, he is quite an observant and clever creature who knows his book of body languages, behaviors, motives, and whatnot—thanks to the fact he gets interacted with daily. Hence, it’s often easy for him to link beings’ certain behaviors and such with another before he connects them together into who they are as whole, sometimes with few at least possible backstories that are close to their actual one.

Some even thinks he’s a psychic for that, but being an anthro sphynx, who knows at this point?

Speaking of an anthro sphynx, Scarberry is indeed what was just mentioned. He’s not as self-conscious of his appearance as he was when he was little. He grew up in a wealthy and highly respected family, the heads being Marco and Emily, however, unlike anyone of his family, he was often called a “goblin” and told he was hideous. When he got older, he found out the family he had adopted him; his previous parents, Jakob and Mary, were personally close to them and trusted they could take care of him while they were on the run, considering they were once the leaders of a deadly mafia, Iron Tooth. Apparently, four of his siblings were killed when they got captured, and Jakob and Mary managed to escape with Scarberry.

At the fact, he soon began to stop viewing his appearance lowly and gradually became confident over it. What even made him loved his appearance more was Marco and Emily told him one of the most unique things about his species was how they could get tattoos, like Jakob had, and encouraged to get some at the appropriate age. Now, he have a tattoo skeleton of his entire body, with few snakes drawn curling around certain bones, but the right side of his face, having a violet flower blooming tattooed at the center of his cross scarred white eye. It costed about six hundred dollars in total, and you bet he absolutely loves them. He can be a bit of a show off when it comes to his tattoos, but one gotta admit, they do look really badass.

The skeleton was from his own idea, as the snakes and violet flower came from Marco and Emily; Marco had snake tattoos around his wrists and Emily’s favourite flower was violets. His parents told him he shared some traits from Marco and Emily; such as how he was determined and passionate like Marco, polite and intelligent like Emily. Although, he does not feel horrible at their deaths, which is understandable he was only a newborn when everything started to fall apart, assured his parents, he still felt the need to honor them. He even decided to take Marco’s and Emily’s tastes of clothing with their suits, tight jeans, floral shirts, and flannels, and soon get used to them.

Later on, once Scarberry reached to the adult stage, he was given an opportunity from his parents to take over the Iron Tooth mafia, and as well as get a revenge on those who tore his previous family away from him and hurt him in the past. He considered it for a few days until he declined. He thought it’s not worth falling in the similar fate as them, no matter how far he goes if he chose to take the opportunity. His feelings for Marco and Emily being criminals were mixed; as much as he respected their choices of being so, because he knew things happen in life that ends up pushing people into taking the paths that are generally viewed wrong, however, the idea of violence and inflicting harm on people didn’t appeal to him.

There was something about making those around him feel loved and important that gave him a feeling he couldn’t explain what. He supposed the strongest thing anyone can do, even to honor someone, is to be kind.

His family had been supportive and loving to him throughout his life, and even did they expressed their understandings when he doesn’t wish to take the opportunity, much to his surprise. They assured him Marco and Emily would respect his decision, and Scarberry hoped so. Even if they didn’t, well, he tried not to think about it. From what his parents said about them, he doubted they wouldn’t. So instead of following after Marco’s and Emily’s path, he decided to be a traveler and help those in need, inspired by his own experiences of being bullied. He thought life was too short, and with the high amount of cash he had, he wanted to try his best making people go out in the best way he could. It’s the least he could do while he’s here and about.

As stated before, like his father, he is extremely determined to get things done and go according to plans. Otherwise, he will not hesitate to have rougher edges. Beware of the nice ones, they say. What’s alarming about him when one puts him in a bad place is how calm and steady he behaves anyway, as if he’s having your everyday conversation. One of the most important facts about him is he doesn’t use his fists and weapons, but rather does he prefer to use words and wit to achieve his goals and desires. He believes the latter is a lot more of a powerful tool to use for getting through life than violence. It can only be said than that for the sake of his challengers and himself, shouldn’t they find what else is he capable of doing with just his words when feeling mad or threatened.

Scarberry is generally a kind being who means well and doesn’t like to be considered as any harm to anyone, so it’s not easy for him to be angry. It takes more than just name-callings and pushing him around to get him ticked off, which says a lot about the person if they manage to do so. Though, if it especially involves having his loved ones be put into death calling situations out of their will, you’ll definitely get him furious the moment he becomes aware of it. One wouldn’t suggest ever doing that because there have been rumors that it happened only the first and probably last time about someone, who took his siblings as hostages, disappeared the day after they got caught, and no one but only Scarberry himself knows what happened to them since.

It’s clear he is highly protective of his loved ones and he values them more than anything. He is forever grateful he grew up in a warm and pleasant family and he can find trust and comfort in them, as well as the friends he made along the way so far. Occasionally, he sends them treats and souvenirs with a bit of cash as to express his gratitude for their good treatments to him. As much as he doesn’t like to admit, he gets incredibly sentimental and soft just at the thought of them. Unfortunately, he does have few friends who turned out to have a motive of backstabbing or using him for their own advantages. Nevertheless, he tries not to let them get into him. It’s best for him if he moves on and don’t look back. In times of reassurance, he reminds himself it’s not his fault and there are things in life he can’t have control to prevent them from happening. Besides, he have others who loves him just as he loves them.

He’s a bit of an optimistic person, resilient also. Even when he’s going through his toughest times, he at least eventually sees the light in everything, reminding himself he’ll get out of the mess and everything will be alright in the end. He doesn’t like to dwell on the negative sides and think of the worse scenarios. He shares these sort of thoughts to those who are dealing with their struggles. Though, there are some who refuses to believe him or take his support, he can hope the best for them, and with his head always kept high, he wishes they can find inspiration in his strength. To see people be plagued by distress and hardship saddens him, and he feels pathetic when he comes to acknowledge there’s nothing much he can do but to have faith, which it’s rare of him to believe in that way.

Many people are either inspired by or afraid of him; inspiration comes from his benevolent and resilient attitude and mindset while fear comes from his appearance and the fact some senses a kind being like him holds such a powerful and mysterious energy. He finds it more amusing than anything at the fact he would even come off as intimidating, but he pays no mind to such thoughts and hope just a single little chat with those people would convince them otherwise. Don’t always judge a book by its cover, he’d say.

As good as Scarberry is, of course, goodness brings flaws. With his kindness and respect towards most people, he doesn’t like to see the bad in anyone, unless they show it. It puts him in a spot where he’s over-trusting and makes him an easy target for people to manipulate him. He’d rather be used on than to constantly label people as being bad, but that’s the thing: he hates to think that the world is filled with dread and criminals. There’s this belief he will forever stick to in mind that people can change for the better anytime and anywhere, no matter what situations he would go through.

Because of his heart being too big and constantly full of love, he tends to be passive with whatever happening directly to him. He always feel he’ll die one day because of his kindness. Though, perhaps, his death will count for something. At least that's what he wants to believe.

As it's been mentioned before, he can be a little prideful over his tattoos, however, with his experiences of being bullied, it can be considered as a coping mechanism to not let the doubts of his appearance get to him.
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[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"][align=center]( THE EMBODIMENTS PT. I )


Void / Akhil — Darkness / Duncan — Life / Alpha — Death / Omega


Nature / Florian — Time / Horatio — Famine / Huarwar — War / Sloane


Pestilence / Desdemona — Space / Cosmo — Balance / Atalante — Fate / Booker


Fire / Aidan — Water / Mortimer — Earth / Silus — Air / Meifeng


Sky / Ciel — Weather / Sonora — Beast / Makatza — Chaos / Casimir

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"][align=center]( THE EMBODIMENTS PT. II )

 
Wisdom / Hakim — Memories / Sitala — Sleep / Louam — Dreams / Roya


Language / Rose — Art / Meraki — Intellect / Tomoyo — Healing / Milo


Fashion / Naomi — Cooking / Bellamy — Magic / Taika — Athletics / Mandla


Hunting / Hunter — Trades / Mercer — Agriculture / Yiorgos — Messenger / Scout


Traveler / Saira — Center / Middleton — North / Norton — West / Weston

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"][align=center]( THE EMBODIMENTS PT. III )


East / Aston — South / Sutton — Past / Damian — Present / Damien


Future / Damion — Continuity / Amarantha — Mortality / Claeg — Eternity / Aeturnus


Inevitability / Ahuk — Interval / Hurriya — Oblivious / Akuji — Unknown / Velius


Love / Daryl — Peace / Ines — Beauty / Elysian — Mercy / Dayaljot


Health / Alexis — Justice / Mackenzie — Truth / Miyu — Fortune / Jesse

[Devilad]

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Hatred / Atol — Fear / Phobus — Ugliness / Kennedy — Retribution / Alastor


Affliction / Malady — Corruption / Ubel — Deceit / Dolios — Misfortune / Miss


Home / Querencia — Oath / Giselle — Fertility / Amelia — Domesticity / Raymond


Light / Lumi — Star / Astra — Sun / Sola — Moon / Luna

[Devilad]

[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"]Reserved for one more just in case buT GOD, WHAT AM I DOING TO MYSELF SJDJKD

[marsy]

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