Devi D

Player name: Arma
Player contact: dajensa
Player age: 29
Characters already played:n/a

Name: Devi D
Journal: artistwithasickness
Canon: I feel Sick - Major Character | JTHM - Minor Character
Canon point: A year or so past end of issue 2
Age: Roughly 23
Reference: I feel Sick | JTHM
Personality: Devi D is a sarcastic cynic that has nearly mastered the art of pretending to be nice while silently complaining about the Man. Having been a wage slave, or what we would call customer service rep, for more than enough years to be as polite and accommodating as the situation calls for with a smile, no matter what exaggerated, sometimes creatively violent thoughts go through her head. Devi uses this unwanted skill as personal, emotional protection. Her insecurities and fears are tucked behind her sarcasm and sharp apathy and while she's capable of outputting that shiny Customer Service exterior, she rarely does. Exceptions to that rule most normally includes when she's trying to get or keep herself out of trouble.

Wholly capable of being a 'nice' person, Devi tends to find the rest of humanity dull and hardly worth her time. As the people of her world are exactly and dramatically dull, when Devi finds something new or interesting, she becomes almost childlike in her eager enthusiasm and relentless curiosity. Since this doesn't happen often, it's a rarely seen side of her but most apparent when she gets to talking about her passion of art. The more commonly seen side is that of a slightly aloof and disillusioned woman, who's been taught by the world that life isn't 'nice'.

A well trained paranoia and alertness lends Devi to remaining aloof and hopefully 'untouchable'; a direct result of a slew of disastrous relationships and the attempt on her life from her last almost boyfriend. While this prompted her to hide away in the safety of her apartment, she learned that she couldn't stay indoors and 'safe' forever. Armed with the determination to never be a victim or 'weak' again, the natural confidence that Devi carries with her is backed by a lot of hours in the dojo, and a sharp tongue that she uses to drive people that bother her away.

When in a good mood, Devi can be quite funny (or at least she thinks so) and being a generally intelligent person, she can carry on a conversation well. Having been a shut in most of her life, Devi's still got a lot of rough edges and tends to speak her mind openly and without a lot of forethought unless it's something important, using creative language to get her points across. Emphatic about things that strike her nerves or things she cares about, Devi can be just as lively and feisty as she is unapproachable and apathetic.


Skills and attributes: Nothing extraordinary - Devi does hold a brown belt in mixed martial arts.
First person sample: Link
Third person sample:Not being a drinker or one who partied until they blacked out, waking up in a new and unfamiliar place was, needless to say, startling. As soon as her eyes opened, Devi was up on her feet and alert. Confused, but alert. The calm, unwavering eyes of the old woman was a little unnerving, but as she spoke and the information she gave settled, that sensation left.

Well, she couldn’t shoot the messenger.

"'Serve some purpose' sounds an awful lot like an open ended noose of a deal, if you ask me." Sickness would have her 'serve some purpose' too, but at least these people brought warm sticky air that confirmed she wasn’t any place near San Jose anymore. Not wanting to look like a total ass, Devi didn’t repeat the questions that the woman’s answers hadn’t seemed to satisfy. Island. Gods. Right.

"And to think, I gave up church and praying all those years ago." With nothing to gain by railing against the old woman, Devi sighed, stuck her hands in the pockets of her cargo pants and headed for the door. Might as well see if anything else on the island would do a better job of sating her paranoid curiosity.

1. Player Information
Name:Devi
Username: dajensa@gmail.com, AIM- Devithegirl, Dajensa
Current characters in ToS: Angel.
Reserve: Reserve.

2. Canon Character Information
Name: Devi D
PB: Zoe Ebb
Journal: artistwithasickness
Age: 26
Appearance: Devi is 5'9 and slender, coming in at just under 130. Her pale skin contrasts well against her cropped black hair and emerald green eyes. Her normal outfit is a pair of half laced combat boots, sticking out from under baggy black cargo pants matched with a tanktop, topped off with a black leather full length trench coat with the kanji for Hell embroidered in red on the back. A matching tattoo is on the middle of her back. She holds herself in a very relaxed manner, but she conveys a sense of pride and almost superiority. Her fingers are normally stained with paint or ink.

History: Devi was born into a middle class hispanic family in an unnamed western city. Her mother died when she was very young, leaving her with her less then prepared father to raise her. Devi's life was never really normal, in grade school she accidently killed an asthmatic schoolmate after breathing chalk into his face. Devi started dating at 16, one of her first outings ending just as badly. Her date Eddie had crashed them into a tree and after a mongoose stole his brain, he pressured Devi for sex, his last words being, "Are you sitting on my face?" before he suffocated on the blown airbag. Devi's relationship issues continued throughout her high school years and into her adult life.

She was a clubber goth in her early twenties with knack for socializing and sometimes dating the weirdest people. Her next major delve into the dating world let her out to a movie and dinner with a guy who eventually ate the waiters brain. You can see where she'd become paranoid. Her last shot at dating was what drove her to being a hermit. She had gone out with a guy who had been stalking her sweetly at the bookstore, Johnny C. At the end of the night, he tried to murder her. After she karate kicked him in the face and ran away screaming, she hid in her apartment. Two weeks of screening calls from Johnny of heavy breathing, Devi worked up the courage to answer the phone, only to be greeting to the sound of a gun firing. This only caused her to withdraw more. Eventually, she was forced back outside in order to pay her rent. Socially, she only went out after that with Tenna and only if Tenna pressured her into it usually using the line, "You need to get out more."

Devi's last bookstore job is what lead to her being hired by NERVE. One of their story writers came in and saw Devi's doodles on the back of order forms and offered her a job drawing print covers for short science fiction stories. Since Devi was a slave to her art, it seemed like the perfect job and came with a decent paycheck to boot.

A week or two after Devi quit her bookstore job, she was magically dropped onto Twisted St.

(OOC NOTE: This comic (I feel Sick and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) doesn't have a lot of hard fact with it. The city was never named, nor the year. I will be assuming some things. A lot of character history is headcanon.)

Powers/Talents: Devi is a skilled martial artist and can draw on her absorbed energy to encase her fists and feet with energy, allowing her to punch and kick harder. It also boost the amount of damage she can take. Her powers have the potential to grow in many directions depending on if and how she's trained, but any energy attacks aside from the one mentioned she lacks the skill and knowledge of how to do them.

Personality: Even though she started as a hermit, Devi is mostly outgoing, now used to things keeping her interest. Devi is a fiercely independent person, too prideful to accept someone's help unless she is incapable of getting out of the trouble on her own. That pride stems from the many difficult battles and accomplishments of survival back on Twisted. Being easily bored, Devi takes to enjoying verbal and mental sparring, facilitated by her general apathy and sarcasm and loves playful banter. Devi's apathy extends to most everything, more notably the disinterest in what others might think about her or her choices. Her apathy protects her from having to face any of her own emotions and protects her heart from being hurt. The only thing that escapes that apathy right now is her urge towards survival and her passion for her art. She adapts quickly to most scenarios.

Devi is generally unaware that she has any kind of sexuality and avoids the idea altogether. Devi has had a series of odd and very unsuccessful relationships, including one murder attempt, with exception to one. That singular experience taught her to inspect someone a little closer and be open to the idea of compassion for someone else's plights. She's got a kind heart underneath all the gruffness, she's just lacked a reason to really learn about it. Being stubborn and hardheaded, Devi can be quick to anger, but unless she's forced to defend herself, it's usually just hot air. It does tend to get her into a lot of trouble though and after an argument is started, once she gets into the swing of it, the high that she gets off of the anger is something she will search out. Devi's hard to catch off guard due to her paranoia of being harmed and her over analyzation of people and things. She's not a good strategist though, letting her fists do most of the thinking when she's pissed. She can sometimes find that center of calm where her brain starts working again and it's then that she'll become more dangerous but more cautious to the destructive power of her skills.

As crass and sarcastic as she can be, she's not unfriendly and talks easily with others, finding that the interactions help her goal of general self-improvement, both socially and in fights, and also gives her some radical ideas for her art. She's got an odd and twisted sense of humor, but she's intelligent and crafty. When Devi commits to something, be it a person or a line of action, she always follows through and can be quite reliable, assuming it all meets her interests.

Why would your character be chosen? Devi is sharp and resilient. While she's not as 'pretty' as the other candidates, her sheer tenacity once she's made a decision leads her to solve problems quickly and effectively. She's also got the ambition to be strong enough to overcome anything that might get in her way. She's an angry anti-hero.

How much does your character know about nonhumans? Devi is aware of the existence of God and Satan and understands the idea of otherworldly begins. She has no knowledge of the Nysgods, I can tell you that right now.

Why this character: I've been playing Devi for 7 years. She's the first character I ever felt solid and comfortable role playing and she is my little rage child and once TwistedMuck died, the only reason we didn't continue is that I didn't have anyplace to put her. Throne of Shadows is a game where I can spread her out and see what she would have been like without the power levels she gained continually twisting her mind and allow her to develop more 'normal' relationships with people, as Twisted was in short order of sanity.

Homeworld: Ok, so Devi's not an OC. But she's not an AU and you could say after so long she's either. But what she is needs explaining.

The population of Devi's world emits a negatively charged sludge. Think Ghostbusters 2. This sludge, fueled by the ever growing negative emotions is syphoned away but objects called Waste Locks. Waste Locks are usually mundane items, but without them, the people of the world would be driven to do unspeakable acts in order to keep the balance. Waste Locks store the sludge in a pocket of the Astral Plane until it's reached capacity. Once that happens, reality combusts and is basically rebooted, with another waste lock set to do the job all over again.

One waste lock, a wall in a house, managed to gain sentience and created a new job for the Universe. Flushers. Flushers are guardians to the waste locks and filter sludge to the lock as they go about their lives. Johnny was the first Flusher chosen and his personal insanity lead to the eventual manifestations of the Dough Boys, named so by the two styrofoam Pillsbury Doughboys that Johnny talked to. The Doughboys consumed Johnny's memories to transfer to the styrofoam and when the reboot occurred, it was them who chose Devi to be the new flusher. The Doughboys were joined into one entity that ate in Devi's mind as they tried to do the same that they had to Johnny to her.

Since the physical manifestations are chosen by the flusher, Devi unwittingly gave them a unfinished painting of hers. A painting of a little doll that was her defining piece of work at the time, that she had poured her soul into. The doll was later named Sickness.

Despite the fact that Devi was taken before this happened in canon, she dealt with the Sickness on Twisted, murdering the creation and moving the battle of her back inside her head. Devi still is a Flusher and absorbs negative energy still. Without knowing what her lock is to filter all the sludge back to, Devi is compelled to paint, the pieces holding the energy she's used, like unbreakable tupperware. Should a painting get destroyed, Devi reabsorbs that energy and must put it out in another fashion, be it a fight where her powers will drain the overall load, or another painting. Any powers that Devi has or gains will be based solely on this idea.

Past Game History: On her way home quitting her job at NERVE, Devi is sucked onto a strange street in a new world. After arriving on Twisted Street from her home world with only her backpack and her Sickness, she decided to never be a victim in this world and begins learning how to defend herself against the powerful inhabitants and dangerously unpredictable setting. She adapts quickly to the new environment and Sickness recesses for the time being. After a random battle in the UR Gym with Oblivion, a powerful Mazuko, he tempts her into power, offering her a way to protect herself and takes her soul, turning her into a Mazuko and his general. She proceeded to wreck mental havoc upon a few of her self labeled 'enemies'. After violently murdering a princess dragon named Sun and trapping her soul in a crystal, Devi went temporarily insane over the violence of her actions and split into two people, in part due to the evacuation of Sickness from her mind.

While split, the 'Evil' Devi still under contract with Oblivion was captured shortly after by a Saiya-jin named Kaldrath and taken to another world. 'Good' Devi stayed behind on Twisted and started rebuilding a life. There, in DBA, Devi came under the tutelage of Cale Satanas who taught her how to use her physical energy instead of the vast power of the Mazuko line. She developed many talents such as Ki abilities and a higher level of fighting prowess over the 7 months she was there. As Cale had bounded her to him by restricting her mazuko ability to phase into the Astral Plane, confining her to a physical form, when she was later released from the service of Oblivion, she retained the strength and power from Cale's training. Upon her return to Twisted, the Devi's merged to form a girl very different from the one that first came to Twisted's streets. Cale later returned to talk her down from being Oblivion's war general and together, they revived her soul. She was less headstrong and more open to a non-violent resolution to her problems. Free now to make her own choices and mistakes, Devi foolishly gets tricked by the Lord of Hell, Senior Diablo, into joining his ranks in the coming War. Soon after, she fell in love with Zelgadis Greywers, a chimera from Slayers and that singular good relationship. The relationship ended when Zel was sent back home in the later reality rift.

Hell is defined very specifically on Twisted Street and had a Hell Council of 7 to match the Twisted Councils' numbers. Through much plotting, it was found that Twisted's Council had been corrupted by it's many years in control of the world. Hell's Council Head, Senior Diablo (who is satan in Devi's world) lead a violent war which Devi participated against Twisted's Council head, Concordance and her loyal super AI angel companion, Guarlesia. In the end, Hell won, destroying their opponents and restoring the balance of power by later appointing another Council. Devi took one of those Council seats. Since Concordance wasn't trying to reshape the reality of Twisted street anymore, reality shifted, stabilizing the street and it's outlying areas after 10 years of interdimensional chaos. This affected everyone in some way. Many were wiped out of the dimension and sent somewhere else, or their memories were reset to the day they arrived. Devi was one of the rare exceptions, where in she retained her basic fighting knowledge and skill of near instant transmission. The reality shift was too much for the Street and it slowly started disappearing into the Void. Devi remained active, decorating the empty buildings to keep herself together.

4. Samples

First-Person: Dear Diary,

Shit just keeps getting weirder. I moved again, into another world. It's not a street or a wasteland this time. It's a temple filled with Smurfs. I keep expecting them to break out in a broadway song. Welcome to hell or something. They tell me that I'm here to be a suitor to some prince. I'm convinced he's Gargamel, either that or I dropped acid without knowing it. At least I don't feel sick.


Third-Person: Devi and Dorian on BakerStreet.

Third Sample: Twisted Log.

Please pardon the format of the log. This was a Muck Game and logs were transferred into text documents before being posted online.