Skraw [Demon]

[Guest]

DOSSIER: DEMON


”Not seeing strange, just seeing red.”

BASIC DETAILS

NAME:
SKRAW

ALIASES:
SKRAWWW, Skraw the Unintelligible, The Librarian's Assistant, Vulture of Legion, Znloq (Demonic language version of Skraw, Pronounced: "Zn-luohq").

AGE:
SKRAW CANNOT REMEMBER, SKRAW JUST REMEMBERS BOOKS.

APPARENT GENDER:
MOST CALL SKRAW BY MASCULINE PRONOUNS OR "IT" IF THEY DO NOT LIKE SKRAW.

HOMESPHERE:
Tarpit Enclaves, but follows Diogenes when he is asked to.

PICTURE: DEMON:

Spoiler:

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PERSONAL DETAILS

DEMON DESCRIPTION:
The demon known as Skraw stands at almost six feet tall, however if it's spine was not so malformed, and actually straightened, the bird-like creature would be far taller. Although it is compared to a bird, there are no actual feathers that adorn its body. If not for the beak-like way Skraw's mouth protrudes outward, most would dub it as being reptilian. What appears to be a cloak garbed over the demon is actually its wings, unusable for flight, but it is still capable of moving them; Skraw simply chooses not to do so because he has some dignity about him, no matter how far off from believable that may seem. Dignity for what, you may ask? Beneath this "cloak" is the demon's true body, much smaller than its folded wings allow it to appear, appearing rather bony and being the same rotten, obsidian color as the pits it hails from. Though most don't take notice of it, Skraw also has a tail which it drags along the ground behind it. Its wings cover the extension of its spine for the most part, but not even the demon itself really notices this part of its body, having no feeling in its bulky tail whatsoever.

PERSONALITY:
While Skraw possesses the mind of a scholar, even now, since its rebirth as a demon its use of the intelligence it was gifted with has become scarce. The reason for this is because in its mortal death, the spirit of that which used to be a man was dropped within the dark ooze of the Tarpit Enclaves, tearing an already fragile psychee into shreds. Now a slave to the will of Legion, it knows not of any purpose beyond gathering information of the demon realm and inscribing its findings within the massive library within its homesphere. Insanity grips Skraw, the demon's mind far begone that of the reptilian brain, causing it severe pain within its very core when it attempts to speak in anything other than shrill, birdlike screeches, whistles, and even screams.

When roped into conversation, whether Skraw is approached or it is the one sent to do the talking, the demon will attempt to use hand gestures. If it has more time to prepare for such an encounter, it will write on slips of parchment for subjects that its conversational partner may speak upon. If it goes to the trouble of doing this, Skraw will become angered (sometimes dangerously so) if the one it is speaking with strays off the topic at hand. Most times when brought to a point of rage, the vulture demon will only stomp about and have a verbal fit, but it has been known to get even more violent at times, attacking those around it.

HISTORY:

The Tarpit Enclaves do not only consume... Sometimes they spit something back out.

Skraw has no memories left of its time as a human, though it is rumored among those who line the halls of Legion's library that the demon was once an extremely intelligent and unbelievably cunning man when living in the mortal realm. His soul purged from his lifeless corpse by his own hand, the spirit is said to have descended to the very depths of the tar of Inferis, reshaping itself over a number of decades into the form Skraw takes today. Of course, that all depends on who you ask. Some say he died of natural causes; the time, place, and means of death are never spoken exactly the same way thrice. Maybe twice, but those who tell the tales of the Unintelligible's mortal soul are usually screamed at to quieten down. The beast does work in a library, after all, so SHHHHHHHH.

What Skraw can remember is books. Lots and lots of books. Every single page and notary within the walls it dwells inside of has been memorized by the demon. After crawling its way from the tar, the monstrosity found refuge inside of Legion's domain of knowledge. Nearly as soon as it arrived, the vulture began to read. Line after line, page after page, chapters, books, tomes, encyclopedias, dictionaries; there was not a word on the shelves that Skraw missed. When Legion found the beast dwelling within, alongside his information gatherer, the faceless Archdemon decided to put the knowledge beneath insanity to use. Skraw was named Skraw that day. Maybe it was night? There's no way to tell at most times within a labyrinthine building filled with nothing but shelves of books and along its rows.

Assigned as the understudy and familiar to Diogenes, the archive keeper of the library, it has been Skraw's duty for several centuries now to gather records, double check them, dust the shelves, rewrite entire pages for simple grammatical errors... Let's just say it's never left without work to be done. When its master does leave the great halls of the library to do research and study the lands of Inferis, sometimes Diogenes allows the madman to follow along.

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FACTION:
Hell Princes

SKILLS:
- Though it doesn't appear or act so, Skraw is vastly intelligent and has a photographic memory, having memorized most writings within the library of Legion.
- Can survive within the tar pits which its homesphere is named for and which it was born.
- Skraw is able to scale walls with ease, the palms of its claws being able to become like sticky tar at will, having practiced maneuverability and speed on the bookshelves it so loves to go through.


WEAKNESSES:
- Very slow movement speed.
- Speaking in a manner in which it can be understood actually causes Skraw physical pain.
- Skraw's body, due to being born from the tar pits under Legion, is extremely flammable. A single match could be the end of it. The exception to this is its wings, which are, while still harmed by fire, more resistant to the element.

COLOURS:
- SKRAWSPEAK (Orange)
- English (Brown)
- Japanese (Indigo)
- Latin (Olive)
- Spanish (Violet)
- Italian (Darkred)
- German (Blue)
- Demonic (Red)

TRIVIA:

- If you can understand anything Skraw says, it is in more pain than your brain is, trust me.
- SKRAW SPEAKS IN THIRD PERSON WHEN, EEEAAAAAAAUUUUGHGHGHHHH... SKRAW CAN BE UNDERSTOOAAAAAOAOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!
- ALLCAPS TEXT BECAUSE IT SCREAMS EVERYTHING.

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USER DETAILS

ALIAS:
Kenny

OTHER CHARACTERS:
Lucrum and Cael

ROLEPLAY HISTORY:
Longer than Ross.

FACECLAIM:

Code:

[b]The Dark Crystal[/b] :: [b]Skeksis[/b]

CUSTOM RANK:
UUAAAAAAGGGGHHHH

[Jinhong Jangmi]

APPROVED

I love that its FC is a skeksi... <3 I love it!