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Keni Devlin
GENDER: Tentatively Non-Binary (only out to their friends and siblings, goes by any pronouns but still mostly referred to by he/him)
SEXUALITY: Pan
AGE: 16
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 98 lbs
Occupation: Student / Bus-Boy at a local Chinese Restaurant
SEXUALITY: Pan
AGE: 16
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 98 lbs
Occupation: Student / Bus-Boy at a local Chinese Restaurant
HISTORY
[CW: Parental neglect/abuse, cults]
Keni comes from the 'poor area" of an already economically struggling, isolated, rural town in the modern-day United States. It's a small place surrounded mostly by woods and farmlands. At first glance, it's rather unassuming, but there's always been something off about the place and the people in it. They're polite, but very insular. "Undesirables" that most people won't miss have a tendency to "leave town". The local pond is deeper than it should be; at times, it seems almost bottomless. Previously tame animals have turned dangerous. The people in town can turn oddly aggressive or chaotic out of nowhere. There've been odd things spotted in the woods. And there's a cult set up just outside of the town, dedicated to worshiping "Old Gods". The rest of the town claims they are eccentric but harmless. Most of the town either attempts to ignore these things when it's possible or easily "forgets" about them. But somehow, Keni and their friends often seem to end up at the center of the weirdness.
A year ago, Keni discovered that their parents had briefly been a part of the local cult, and the two let the cult do a ritual on Keni when their mother was still pregnant with them. Seemingly, what it did, was curse the kid to constantly die in horrific ways and then wake up again the next day as if nothing happened.
They've lived alone with the curse their whole life, since no one ever remembers or believes them when they try to tell people about it. And they certainly have tried. Their parents refuse to hear it anymore, and their friends can't even seem to remember the other times they told them about it. The kid has pretty much given up trying at this point, aside from the occasional morbid joke about it.
They've been trying to find out more about the curse on their own, particularly how to end it, but they've mostly just hit brick walls. Their parents supposedly remember next to nothing about their time with the cult. The few members of the cult Keni tracked down either seemingly knew as little as their parents, or have refused to give a straightforward answer. What little they learned was that the ritual was meant to bring an Elder God into their world, but something went wrong; the cult supposedly considers Keni a botched experiment. Though at least one member still seems intrigued by the groups "little fuck up", though she wasn't too interested in giving a reason why, or giving up much else in the way of answers. Except for one thing. The only way to really kill an immortal is at the hands of another immortal.
With seemingly no way to stop the curse (beyond seeking out a permadeath), Keni's come to the decision that they can at least try to use it to do some good. And the world has given them quite a lot of opportunities to put those good intentions to the test.
Around their friends, Keni comes off as a quiet, chill kid with bad impulse control and a crude/childish sense of humor. But at home, they've had to step up and start taking on more adult responsibilities since age 10. It probably doesn't come as a surprise that their parents aren't exactly great caregivers. The two are neglectful, abusive toward each other and Keni's older brother, Shane (who emancipated himself two years ago), and its forced Keni to be "the responsible one". They are their little sister's main caregiver, and are often stuck parenting their own parents, when not just avoiding them. The only time they really get to be a kid is around their friends, and even with them, things have been getting more and more strained.
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[What Keni doesn't know about what was done to them, was that the ritual did work, sort of. Just not completely, and not the way the cult hoped. Keni is a human reincarnation of a piece of an Elder God (specifically Haster/"The King in Yellow"). They have no working memory of who they used to be (though they have had nightmares about it) and none of the powers they were meant to have outside of immortality and some unintentional mind fuckery/universe bending (these usually cause all proof of their deaths to vanish from the world, both physical proof and memories, much to Keni's own frustration). The reason they keep dying is that the universe keeps trying and failing to purge them like a virus.]
[CW: Parental neglect/abuse, cults]
Keni comes from the 'poor area" of an already economically struggling, isolated, rural town in the modern-day United States. It's a small place surrounded mostly by woods and farmlands. At first glance, it's rather unassuming, but there's always been something off about the place and the people in it. They're polite, but very insular. "Undesirables" that most people won't miss have a tendency to "leave town". The local pond is deeper than it should be; at times, it seems almost bottomless. Previously tame animals have turned dangerous. The people in town can turn oddly aggressive or chaotic out of nowhere. There've been odd things spotted in the woods. And there's a cult set up just outside of the town, dedicated to worshiping "Old Gods". The rest of the town claims they are eccentric but harmless. Most of the town either attempts to ignore these things when it's possible or easily "forgets" about them. But somehow, Keni and their friends often seem to end up at the center of the weirdness.
A year ago, Keni discovered that their parents had briefly been a part of the local cult, and the two let the cult do a ritual on Keni when their mother was still pregnant with them. Seemingly, what it did, was curse the kid to constantly die in horrific ways and then wake up again the next day as if nothing happened.
They've lived alone with the curse their whole life, since no one ever remembers or believes them when they try to tell people about it. And they certainly have tried. Their parents refuse to hear it anymore, and their friends can't even seem to remember the other times they told them about it. The kid has pretty much given up trying at this point, aside from the occasional morbid joke about it.
They've been trying to find out more about the curse on their own, particularly how to end it, but they've mostly just hit brick walls. Their parents supposedly remember next to nothing about their time with the cult. The few members of the cult Keni tracked down either seemingly knew as little as their parents, or have refused to give a straightforward answer. What little they learned was that the ritual was meant to bring an Elder God into their world, but something went wrong; the cult supposedly considers Keni a botched experiment. Though at least one member still seems intrigued by the groups "little fuck up", though she wasn't too interested in giving a reason why, or giving up much else in the way of answers. Except for one thing. The only way to really kill an immortal is at the hands of another immortal.
With seemingly no way to stop the curse (beyond seeking out a permadeath), Keni's come to the decision that they can at least try to use it to do some good. And the world has given them quite a lot of opportunities to put those good intentions to the test.
Around their friends, Keni comes off as a quiet, chill kid with bad impulse control and a crude/childish sense of humor. But at home, they've had to step up and start taking on more adult responsibilities since age 10. It probably doesn't come as a surprise that their parents aren't exactly great caregivers. The two are neglectful, abusive toward each other and Keni's older brother, Shane (who emancipated himself two years ago), and its forced Keni to be "the responsible one". They are their little sister's main caregiver, and are often stuck parenting their own parents, when not just avoiding them. The only time they really get to be a kid is around their friends, and even with them, things have been getting more and more strained.
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[What Keni doesn't know about what was done to them, was that the ritual did work, sort of. Just not completely, and not the way the cult hoped. Keni is a human reincarnation of a piece of an Elder God (specifically Haster/"The King in Yellow"). They have no working memory of who they used to be (though they have had nightmares about it) and none of the powers they were meant to have outside of immortality and some unintentional mind fuckery/universe bending (these usually cause all proof of their deaths to vanish from the world, both physical proof and memories, much to Keni's own frustration). The reason they keep dying is that the universe keeps trying and failing to purge them like a virus.]
