Character Name: Apophis (usually goes by "Djoser" or "Pharaoh of the Magai") Canon: IM: Great Priest Imhotep Character Info: Once there was a good prince who couldn't be saved from a cruel fate by his best friend and came back as a terribly twisted monster that threatens the world if said best friend doesn't kill him first (again).
Apophis both is and isn't that prince. He is actually the God of Darkness, who has merged his soul with the real prince Djoser's and has been taking the helm of their shared body ever since Imhotep's botched attempt of preventing Djoser from being sacrificed alive. Because of that and other reasons(tm) he shares a lot of characteristics with Djoser including the prince's memories of being Imhotep's best friend, speaking style and human habits.
Other stuff is all his own like his severe trauma of having been repeatedly rejected and repurposed as a god (he started out as a guardian deity against stuff that made Cthulhu look like a cuddly widdle puppy but then others decided that Darkness = EViL), his dislike for lies or his bad habit of being overly casual bros with just anybody he meets. Oh, and his revenge plan that includes destroying all of Creation so that he can finally escape his fate of being an eternally abused and hated scapegoat, of course!
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Personality: once a competent guardian with big moe energy and a cynical streak, nowadays swinging wildly between being unstable & hurt, a merciless sadistic villain, and a big puppy dog & real bro who just wants to do his best for others and'll be horribly embarrassed when that inevitably fails. (Like cooking. He's a big eater, but mortals need food more, so let him try to hunt and cook for you. Wait, what do you mean that's not supposed to be on fire?)
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PLOTTING! Monster Ideas: Serpens! I'm not going to do the snake tail build because he likes kicking people where it hurts too much, but one of my goals is to give him both a giant monster and a tiny pocket snake form for easier handling. Having him be weak to temperature would also be fun since he's a failed sun god with fire affinity. Vehicle Ideas: I honestly have no idea. Maybe an Ancient Egyptian Chariot with some golem magai horses (like this) that he will have to Ikea back together each time it rains? Honestly, this guy just black hole-teleports or uses public transport when he wants to go anywhere in canon, so I doubt he even knows how to drive. Game plans:
Since he'll be coming in from the end of the final fight, he's going to be a) very confused at being in a human body which he'll assume to be Djoser's real body aka. revitalized mummy, and b) scramble to pretend to be Djoser because ffffffffff Imhotep's around and he doesn't want to get locked up in solitary for another eternity again, thank you very much! (Place your bets for how long he'll actually manage to do that here.)
His feelings on the whole monster thing will be mixed because on one hand, he'll be getting closer to his real looks and he's used to the whole turning people into magai thing. He'll have fun getting first row seeing it happening to others like they made it happen to him! On the other hand oh damn, that's still Djosers body? He thinks??? How is he going to explain that he took it for a drive and crashed it right into Monsterville if the real Djoser ever shows up here!?
Desired CR: Friends, enemies, frenemies and everything in between! Apophis is actually really into making bonds with people, but he's also really scared of it because he's been hit with a mantra of "you're no part of this world! begone!" while also being actively not allowed to do that his whole life so idk if you want to touch that.
Other things I can think off: CR to get into silly shenanigans with while he's pretending to be Djoser, CR to help work through the whole turning into a monster thing with and unwantingly get attached to while dealing with his own feelings about his canon monstrous appearance, CR to push into their personalized corruption arc and have a blast while being at it, CR to be the unintentional sane man in,.... The only character types he'll antagonize by default are parental types (bc of his own 'parents'), other gods and overly lawful heroic folks.
Other: One of his canon powers is reviving the dead by connecting their souls to clay bodies. When he recruited Cleopatra this happened.
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Character Name: Apophis (usually goes by "Djoser" or "Pharaoh of the Magai")
Canon: IM: Great Priest Imhotep
Character Info: Once there was a good prince who couldn't be saved from a cruel fate by his best friend and came back as a terribly twisted monster that threatens the world if said best friend doesn't kill him first (again).
Apophis both is and isn't that prince. He is actually the God of Darkness, who has merged his soul with the real prince Djoser's and has been taking the helm of their shared body ever since Imhotep's botched attempt of preventing Djoser from being sacrificed alive. Because of that and other reasons(tm) he shares a lot of characteristics with Djoser including the prince's memories of being Imhotep's best friend, speaking style and human habits.
Other stuff is all his own like his severe trauma of having been repeatedly rejected and repurposed as a god (he started out as a guardian deity against stuff that made Cthulhu look like a cuddly widdle puppy but then others decided that Darkness = EViL), his dislike for lies or his bad habit of being overly casual bros with just anybody he meets. Oh, and his revenge plan that includes destroying all of Creation so that he can finally escape his fate of being an eternally abused and hated scapegoat, of course!
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Personality: once a competent guardian with big moe energy and a cynical streak, nowadays swinging wildly between being unstable & hurt, a merciless sadistic villain, and a big puppy dog & real bro who just wants to do his best for others and'll be horribly embarrassed when that inevitably fails. (Like cooking. He's a big eater, but mortals need food more, so let him try to hunt and cook for you. Wait, what do you mean that's not supposed to be on fire?)
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PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas:
Serpens! I'm not going to do the snake tail build because he likes kicking people where it hurts too much, but one of my goals is to give him both a giant monster and a tiny pocket snake form for easier handling. Having him be weak to temperature would also be fun since he's a failed sun god with fire affinity.
Vehicle Ideas:
I honestly have no idea. Maybe an Ancient Egyptian Chariot with some golem magai horses (like this) that he will have to Ikea back together each time it rains? Honestly, this guy just black hole-teleports or uses public transport when he wants to go anywhere in canon, so I doubt he even knows how to drive.
Game plans:
Desired CR: Friends, enemies, frenemies and everything in between! Apophis is actually really into making bonds with people, but he's also really scared of it because he's been hit with a mantra of "you're no part of this world! begone!" while also being actively not allowed to do that his whole life so idk if you want to touch that.
Other things I can think off: CR to get into silly shenanigans with while he's pretending to be Djoser, CR to help work through the whole turning into a monster thing with and unwantingly get attached to while dealing with his own feelings about his canon monstrous appearance, CR to push into their personalized corruption arc and have a blast while being at it, CR to be the unintentional sane man in,.... The only character types he'll antagonize by default are parental types (bc of his own 'parents'), other gods and overly lawful heroic folks.
Other:
One of his canon powers is reviving the dead by connecting their souls to clay bodies. When he recruited Cleopatra this happened.