Following the tales of a group of five (plus one) self-styled adventurers, each with their own reasons to stay with the others, as well as various others across space and time. A story about personhood and its construction through experience, of enduring relationships through harrowing loss, and of the things we do (and don't do) for the sake of protection. It is also, fundamentally, about a group of friends fucking around and finding out.
Want to learn about the main characters we follow on Misona? Then read on ahead!
MEET THE CREW
Bound by circumstance, affection, and ties deeper than they know, our adventurers generally carry on their day to day lives in a partially hidden house in Griefwoods, found and renovated by 204 and Cloudy.
CLOUDY, THE PROTECTOR
pronouns:- they/them ## associated colour:- blue ## clade:- cliearch
The leader and oldest by far, the creatively called Cloudy can do many things, including repairing equipment and opening gateways to other worlds through.. uh.. unique methods.>
PERSONALITY
Excitable but also long-suffering. Can get easily carried away with their projects and pulling three-nighters to all-weekers. Not very outwardly sympathetic with others, but will listen to you. Tries to act annoyed and distant most of the time, but their heart isn’t really in it. Quick to accept change in their environment, despite grumbling about it. Softer than you’d think, they hate feeling useless and will go to great lengths to avoid disappointing the people they care about.
APPEARANCE
Cloudy, like all cliearchs, is composed entirely of clouds. They are tall and lanky, with mismatched eyes (their right pupil is shaped like a plus sign, while their left pupil is a normal circle) and a tooth gap that is frequently on display due to their propensity for smiling. They have sharper features than most cliearchs and tend to favour practical outfits over cliearchical traditional robes. Usually in overalls and a button-up, their signature piece is a collar chain with a sun on one end and a cloud on the other. Ambiently floating around them at most times are two small, thin cloud satellites, wrapping around their head and slowly spinning.
BACKGROUND
Banished from the cliearchy at a young age for crimes they didn’t commit, Cloudy doesn’t like to talk about their early life. Nor will they talk about the specifics of how exactly they met 204. There's not much about their history they like to talk about, offsetting questions about their life with jokes or just straight up refusing to answer.
NOTABLE FEATURES
Glitch
Not your average panic attack, as Cloudy has the ability to glitch out of existence under extreme stress.
Feeling Cross
Sometimes, their right eye turns from a plus sign into a cross (+ ==> x). Usually when they're aiming at something,
Cloudy The Builder
Need something fixed? Hand it over to Cloudy and watch them work their magic (disclaimer: no actual magic involved, just handiwork). They are extremely proficient at repairing or creating equipment.
Tank
Unbelievably high self-regeneration ability that allows Cloudy to keep taking hits and protect others. Works excellently in tandem with their cliearch shapeshifting.
Refractory Illumination
Cloudy can “steal” a ray of sunshine and apply it to their body where it refracts to make them look sunset coloured. They’ve tweaked this to make a passing human disguise that they use whenever they need to.
Soul Shaping
An ability unique to Cloudy, where they can interact with the souls of the deceased and sometimes turn them into tangible ghosts. This ability was used on 204.
204, [NO CONTENT]
pronouns:- he/him // associated colour:- red // clade:- ???
PERSONALITY
Enjoys irritating others, can be something of an asshole sometimes. Surprisingly perceptive and deeply enjoys mathematics. Has a storyteller’s disposition, though his voice is a little difficult to make out at the best of times, sounding like poor quality text to speech. Occasionally he’ll glitch into completely unrecognisable speech that only Cloudy and Moss can understand. Somewhat careless when it comes to self preservation, keeps breaking things (including his screen) knowing Cloudy'll fix them anyway. Good friends with Ralph.
APPEARANCE
204 is curiously robotic, with floating gloved hands and an old television for a head. He typically dresses in formalwear; his favourite outfit is a waistcoat and dress pants as well as a plain white button down. Aside from his head, the rest of his body (including his hands) is completely covered, though his hands tend to be tucked away in his pockets when he's not using them.
BACKGROUND
204 is technically Cloudy's creation, his mechanical body housing the soul of one of Cloudy's oldest friends. It's unclear whether he remembers how he died or not, though he generally doesn't discuss his life, apart from his friendship with Cloudy.
NOTABLE FEATURES
Possesion:
As a ghost, 204 has lowered sapience and can only react to basic physical stimuli, as well as "communicate" psychically with Cloudy. The more complex and suitable the body he possesses, the closer to “normal” he becomes.
Healer:
Using special cliearchical scrolls given to him by Cloudy, 204 can magically heal others.
Forgettable:
Despite his highly distinctive appearance, 204 doesn't seem to garner as much attention as he should. Blends into places surprisingly easily.
WISH, THE TRAVELLER
pronouns:- she/her ~~ associated colour:-green ~~ clade:- illiary
A pretty kitty who keeps a level head, Wish is an escaped wizard’s familiar who uses his stolen staff to cast explosive magic.
PERSONALITY
Wish is quiet and judgmental, offering rare one liners when the mood strikes, but generally content to observe the antics of the others. Has a propensity for wandering off on her own to go on contemplative walks. Is incredibly headstrong and defiant, but is oddly non-resistant to many of Moss and Cloudy’s more outlandish propositions. Gets along well with 204 due to their shared snarkiness. Surprisingly has a soft spot for Moon, though she rarely shows it. She enjoys niche human pop music and boxing.
APPEARANCE
Wish is a smoky black maine coon illiary with green eyes and a long-since healed facial scar that barely misses her left eye, but starts from a little below her nose and extends diagonally. Because of this, her left eye droops, though it is barely visibly due to her semi-permanent deadpan expression. As illiaries are generally very small, Wish is the shortest member of the group, being a little shorter than Moon and a lot slighter. Despite this, she is also one of the older characters, having hit her thirties before joining the group. She is also the oldest member who is not functionally immortal, unlike Cloudy and 204. She generally wears colourful sweaters and shorts that give her mechanical leg space to move and bend without fabric getting caught in the pinch points. When on missions, she wraps her hands in red bandages in case she needs to punch anything.
BACKGROUND
As a maine coon, Wish was highly sought after as a wizard’s familiar, due to maine coons’ natural affinity for magic and their reputation as a status symbol. However, the wizard that took her in was abusive and unpleasant, and growing up under him was traumatic for her. Finally, when she grew sick of the abuse, and aided by his old age, she beat him up and ran away, though she sustained grievous injuries in the process. Luckily, the human settlement she was in was right next to the forest Dess stayed in, and he found her lying unresponsive in the woods when he was making his usual rounds. She woke up to find her wounds being tended to by Dess, who was fickle and mostly did things for their own amusement. They, however, had contacted Cloudy, who was a better healer than them. Once they’d arrived and fixed her up, she got to talking with them and learned about their little group. After she’d heard, she grew interested in meeting them and decided to join them once she had, having nothing better to do with her time and offering her vast magical knowledge and offensive capabilities.
…Or at least, that’s what she told the group. The truth is, Dess had found her bleeding out in the middle of the woods, missing an entire leg. There was no way she could have dragged herself so far into the forest, and even if there was, there was no blood trail. How she got there, or what her true intentions were, was a complete mystery.
NOTABLE FEATURES
Enhanced Senses
As a cat-type illiary, Wish has superior senses of balance, hearing, sight and smell. Will land on her feet if thrown, and can right herself more easily than others.
Amputee
Wish has a leg missing, replaced with an advanced mechanical leg courtesy of Cloudy. It does not reproduce sensation, but she's learned to use it adeptly.
Wizard’s Familiar
That old coot was hell to grow up under, but he did give her an education the likes of which she’d never find anywhere else. Wish is extremely adept in general magic as well as support and basic healing spells. However, she prefers to take a more active role.
Fighter (Thief)
Using her stolen wizard staff, Wish primarily deals in explosive and otherwise offensive magic. Additionally, Wish is also an excellent physical fighter and an experienced boxer. Though she prefers to punch her problems when she can, she keeps knives hidden on her to inflict extra damage or to get out of a tight spot. Sometimes, Moss enchants her weapons for her.
MOSS, THE S☀N
pronouns:- any/all ++ associated colour:- yellow ++ clade:- lunagi
With their Lunagic spellbook and their extensive habit of notetaking, Moss is a wellspring of assorted theoretical knowledge and an easygoing, friendly person who’s always willing to lend a helping hand.
PERSONALITY
Friendly and considerate, though with a tendency to get carried away. Surprisingly self-conscious and reticent about certain topics. Curious. Scatterbrained, but enjoys tidying up. Secretly guilt-ridden and anxious, covers it up with trying to be as helpful as possible to everyone. Always feels like they’re never reaching their full potential.
APPEARANCE
Moss is fairly tall and thin, with four arms and insectile eyes. She also has antennae poking out from a curly mullet, and a segmented jaw she can unhinge. On her back is an elaborate, slightly raised tattoo of moth wings, which can turn into her actual wings when needed. When she is using them, her wings are brown with spirals on them, as well as fake eyes. Also, moss grows in clumps and patches all over her body, particularly on her chest and lower arms and legs. She usually dresses vaguely masculine, and is fond of sweaters and corduroy trousers, but can be found in graphic T-shirts and jeans when the weather’s hot.
BACKGROUND
No one knows where Moss came from, not even him. Lunagi were supposedly extinct, yet here was one living and breathing and with a spellbook mostly written in Lunagic that didn’t even look that old. He’s been with Cloudy and 204 since he was about eight years old and he doesn’t even know why he specifically sought them out. He’s curious about his past, sure, but he’s a bit too preoccupied with his present life to give it much thought.
NOTABLE FEATURES
Mage:
Not officially, but Moss does the most spellwork in the crew. Even more than Wish, who prefers to punch her problems if she can help it. Enchanting others’ weapons, dealing lasting elemental damage to enemies and protecting the crew from elemental magic as well, Moss rarely engages in hand-to-hand combat. However, they do keep a dagger hidden on them in case they find themself unexpectedly unable to use magic for whatever reason.
Glamours:
A collection of cosmetic spells that can tweak how a person looks that Moss can use to hide their more nonhuman features, in quests where it may be useful to pass as human.
Memory Magic:
Any magic that tampers with the mind is exceptionally dangerous, though that doesn’t negate the fact that lunagi were masters of memory magic and the preservation of memory past death. While Moss doesn’t dare to try any of the memory spells in their spellbook, they still have access to it if they choose to use it.
Wingaway:
As a lunagi, Moss has access to moth wings that they can fold away when not in use using a wingaway spell, stamping a magic symbolic representation of the wings on their back. They can fly with them, or use them to improve their balance.
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RALPH, THE VILLEIN
pronouns:- he/him }{ associated colour:- purple }{ clade:- skeleton (ostelle)
Wielding a scythe in stereotypical skeleton fashion, Ralph is a novice bounty hunter who meets the gang through following a hit put on Moon.
PERSONALITY
Even quieter than Wish, Ralph is content to listen unobtrusively to most conversations. Gets tired easily, but keeps on top of everything that needs to be done. Despite his intimidating appearance and job description, is surprisingly harmless. Gentle and very good with animals.
APPEARANCE
Ralph is a cowboy through and through, with a gold fang and a cowboy hat with holes cut for his large, spiraling horns. He’s a skeleton of average height with a tail that has detachable venomous spikes that he can throw like daggers. As a bounty hunter, it serves him well to have a signature feature, so he dresses in all purple. He nearly always wears a long coat that ends at knee level, along with purple denim and authentic cowboy boots, spurs and all.
BACKGROUND
Raised in the harsh deserts of the smaller continent, Ralph grew up in a small oasis with his deoston, who encouraged him to go out and seek his fortune as a young adult. He ended up becoming a bounty hunter, and the rest was history.
NOTABLE FEATURES
Damage-Dealer/Ranger:
Crow Communion:
As an ostelle, Ralph is gifted with a heightened relationship with the flora and fauna of Misona. Specifically, he is excellent at communing with crows and is also quite fond of them. He can summon them to act as an information network for him and extend his sight and hearing.
Wilderness Expert
As a farmer, Ralph has extensive knowledge on plants, the soil, and all things agriculture.
Gamer
Clumsy in most other parts of his life,Ralph possesses an uncanny skill and precision when it comes to certain types of hand-eye coordination.
MOON, THE ASSASSIN
pronouns:- she/they ** associated colour:- gray ** clade:- merperson (selkie)
Spending all her time on land under a finely misting umbrella, the veiled princess of the underwater kingdom of Closea seems aloof and unapproachable. However, Moon chafes against her royal background and frequently runs away to join in on the gang's adventures.
PERSONALITY
Softspoken until they get excited, but always feel a little distant. Worries about everything, takes responsibility for other’s wrongs. Can ramble on and on about things they like if they feel safe and comfortable. Will cook for you. Will cook so much food for you.
APPEARANCE
Moon is short by human standards, standing something a little over one hundred and sixty centimetres. She, as a member of the royal family, has both a humanesque and a seal form, though both retain features of each other. When human-passing, she has light pink curly hair that falls a little past her shoulders and middle-tone brown skin. She also wears her seal skin coat as a trench coat, as well as the veil customary for nonhuman royalty. As a seal, she appears as a ribbon seal, with the same markings on her skin as on her coat. Under her veil, she has a scar that looks like a burnt Lichtenburg figure, from an electrocution accident when she was very young.
BACKGROUND
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NOTABLE FEATURES
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