Race: Scorpion Chimera, heavily based on wig monsters from John Dies at the End (the book, not the movie. please don't see the movie unless you've read and actually enjoy the book. omg please)
Natural Ability:Randovenom
Carrol's tail injects a venom that causes his victims to gain one strange, usually very wacky "otherworldly power" for a very short time. This power will last a grand total of thirty seconds while Carrol is a student, and graduate to a full minute when he does.
If a character is stung, their player will roll for their effect on the appropriate table under the spoiler. The table used is dependent on Carrol's grade, not the character's.
year one
1: You can draw remarkably well. Too bad all that comes out is hedgehogs. 2: Your skin breaks out in large polka dots in a color of your choice. 3: Everything smells like wet werewolf. 4: Your fingers don't work.
year two
1: Everything smells like wet werewolf. 2: You can draw remarkably well. Too bad all that comes out is hedgehogs and rocks. 3: Your skin breaks out in large polka dots in a color of your choice. 4: You can't stop the strong rainbow beam of light that's shining out of your eyes. 5: Your fingers don't work. 6: Clean, fresh water pours out of your mouth (or comparable orifice) for the duration of this effect. It doesn't hurt, it just kind of happens.
year three
1: You can't stop the strong rainbow beam of light that's shining out of your eyes. 2: You can draw remarkably well. Too bad all that comes out is hedgehogs, rocks, and anime eyes. 3: You can identify all of the ingredients in any one baked good by taste. (Technically, this lasts thirty seconds, but since you can only do one, the time limit isn't really helpful. Also, you don't know how much of a thing is in what you're tasting, only that it's in there.) 4: Clean, fresh water pours out of your mouth (or comparable orifice) for the duration of this effect. It doesn't hurt, it just kind of happens. 5: You can't stop dancing. 6: Everything smells like wet werewolf. 7: Your fingers don't work. 8: Your skin breaks out in large polka dots in a color of your choice.
graduate
1: You can identify all of the ingredients in any one baked good by taste. (Technically, this lasts thirty seconds, but since you can only do one, the time limit isn't really helpful. Also, you don't know how much of a thing is in what you're tasting, only that it's in there.) 2: Your skin breaks out in large polka dots in a color of your choice. 3: You can't stop dancing. 4: You may speak any language in the known universe. You kind of understand the translation of what you're saying because of this, but you don't actually understand the language itself, so if people speak it back to you, you're unlikely to comprehend unless they're just repeating what you said. 5: You can draw remarkably well. Too bad all that comes out is hedgehogs, rocks, anime eyes, and the poop emoji. 6: Your fingers don't work. 7: You can't stop the strong rainbow beam of light that's shining out of your eyes. 8: Clean, fresh water pours out of your mouth (or comparable orifice) for the duration of this effect. It doesn't hurt, it just kind of happens. 9: Everything smells like wet werewolf. 10: Instinctively, you know everything there is to know about archery. You're sure that if you had an arrow in your hands right now you could curve that s**t like Wanted and kill everyone in this place. Now, if only you could find a bow... (This roll has no actual effect on the character's archery skill, it just makes them think they're really good at it.)
Randovenom does not work on Carrol himself. It will never be used in a situation where it might grant someone an unfair advantage or mess with a meta or for any other game-breaking reason. In fact, I doubt it will be used on player characters very much at all, and certainly not without permission.
Natural Form: Without his pin, Carrol shifts into his natural form, a golden retriever-sized, seven-legged scorpion chimera.
A hand formed. A human hand, pink and the size of a baby's. Stretching out from behind it, instead of a human arm, was something like an insect's leg. It was a foot long, springing out to length before our eyes like a radio antenna. Something like a shell took shape. I saw an eye, red and clustered like a fly's. Another eye, this one with a round pupil, grew in next to it. Then another eye, yellow with a black slit down the center. Reptilian.
The thing grew and grew some more. It grew to the size of a rabbit, then a small dog, then stopped when it was about a foot-and-a-half high and maybe three feet wide, probably the same overall mass as Molly.
The finished creature seemed to be assembled of spare parts. It had a tail like a scorpion curling up off its back. It walked on seven—yes, seven—legs, each ending in one of those small, pink infantile hands. It had a head that was sort of an inverted heart shape, a bank of mismatched eyes in an arc over a hooked black beak, like a parrot's. On its head, no kidding, it had a tuft of neatly groomed blond hair that I swear on my mother's grave was a wig, held on with a rubber band chinstrap.
What was strange about it, or rather, what was stranger about it was that the two sections of its body—the hindquarters and the abdomen—were not connected. There was a good two inches of space between them and when it turned sideways you could see right through the thing. But it moved in unison, as if they were connected by invisible tissue.
-JDatE hardcover p. 109)
Personality: happy, sociable, curious, talkative, easily overwhelmed, short attention span when things count (and a remarkably long tolerance for monotonous tasks)
Likes: talking, being vulgar, playing games, destroying things Dislikes: being still, being quiet, vegetables, cleaning, politeness, sports
FEAR Ability:
Not Here (The Mind) Carrol's physical form appears to flicker in and out of this world, making him harder to see, and therefore hit.
Physical Description:
Eye Color: One brown human; one yellow reptile; one red insect; one glowing blue... something.
Hair Color/Style: Carrol's hair is bright orange and looks like a long, peppy, gravity-defying combover. At first glance, one might think it's held on by the rubber band tied under his chin, but the hair is actually attached to his scalp. So's the rubber band. The rest of his head is bald, except for, of course, his eyebrows.
Skin Color: Dark grey/black. Shiny like a bug's exoskeleton.
Clothing Style/Colors: Generally baggy, teenage things. He doesn't wear shoes.
Extra: He has a thin scorpion tail and a two-inch gap below his ribcage. Any clothing he puts on sits like regular clothing for about ninety seconds before it splits as well, at least for as long as he has it on. Sticking things in his torso gap causes Carrol discomfort at first, then pain if the object isn't removed within several minutes. Carrol cannot move the lower half of his body away from the upper half. His body functions as if it was all one piece. There's no magic holding it together or anything. It's just like that.
Carrol is fairly lanky with relatively thin limbs compared to the mass of his torso. His hands and feet are the size and color of a pasty white toddler's. He is 5'5" in student form and about 23" at the shoulder in natural form.
He regularly wears some sort of stocking cap or sock on the end of his tail to remind him not to use it. And braces. His teeth are a mess.
Family:
Anna Behrig - a wig monster and Carrol's mother. Presumed dead, though don't tell Carrol that. Or do. He still won't believe you.
Joel Healy - a revenant. Carrol's father. He's somewhere, though uninterested in dealing with his son.
Marcy Healy - Joel's sister, Carrol's aunt, also a revenant. Aunt Marcy is technically Carrol's guardian at the moment, but prior to being accepted at Amityville, Carrol mostly slept on or near school grounds anyway. Marcy never really looked for him very hard.
artifacts and learned abilities
c class artifact
Jingling Bell: A neat little cat bell on a collar.
Status Effect A clear ringing bell which calls forth a ghostly cat for twenty minutes. It can be pet but cannot be hurt. Battle effect: Heals 5 HP to all friendly participants per battle/RP.
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