#faro the flesh merchant

[rapid-artwork]

Had an idea for a character.

His name is Faro the Flesh Merchant, he used to be a handsome incubus, but he started using his shapeshifting powers to help humans who felt bad about their appearances. He doesn’t mind his new form because he loves helping humans reinvent themselves.

You can trade your unwanted body parts to him and he will give you new ones.  He is like a walking character creation screen. He carries around unwanted body parts until he can find someone new who will love them.

Bonus:

Faro says trans rights.

[reyrapidsbutgayer]

Since Faro the flesh merchant was such a big hit, I thought I would cook up an interesting little offer.

Faro has six demon friends who want to come to earth, but they need a human vessel in order to take physical form. Your Oc’s get demon powers, and the demons can interact with the human world to get into their demonic hijinks. 

It is a mostly painless process.

Let’s meet the demons! Rules for submitting OC’s below the cut.

Acari “Nature’s Quiet Strength”: A demon who loves animals, especially insects. He never stops moving, and is always doing something. He is a little awkward around people and prefers the company of animals. His aspect is ‘conservation’, meaning he protects all life and works to avoid conflict. He carries turtle across the road, hand feeds baby birds and gives pep talks to ants. He also sorts people’s recycling while they are asleep and picks up bits of litter. He prefers to act unseen, hiding in sewers and jumping from roof top to roof top. Despite his stoic exterior he considers every tiny bit of suffering the world his fault and never shuts off. He is secretly a big cry baby and loves hugs. He likes calm summer nights where he can look at the stars.

Forming a contract with Acari will grant you immense physical strength, the ability to talk to animals and control over insects and invertebrates.

Limax “A creative burst of madness”: A very bizarre demon, Limax is a creature of extremes. She overindulges in everything from food to video games to reading math textbooks. She finds people stuck in ruts in need of inspiration and uses her illusions to let them explore their own minds. Most often scientists and artists. Her aspect is ‘mire’ which means she specializes in addictions and lies, helping people turn their lives around by getting their worst aspects out of their systems. Limax is an overprotective know-it-all who is equally prone to bouts of intense energy and great lethargy. Whenever she is in one of her own ruts she loves reading math textbooks, scientific papers and news magazines. She loves consuming any information she can get her hands on.

Forming a contract with Limax will cause your best and worst attributes to come forward, granting you equal amounts of inspiration and delusion. You will also gain her abilities of illusion.

Felsic “Healthy Controlled Chaos”: A powerful demonic lord capable of great destruction and suffering. Luckily he is a big softie who is easily distracted by just about everything. His aspect is ‘impulse’ meaning he finds humans who are not enjoying life to their fullest. He helps people get over their shyness or anxiety by pushing them to the exact limit of their comfort zones. His seemingly random actions always tend to end up helping those he initially inconveniences.  The molten lava pouring from him can be formed into whatever he chooses, forming temporary constructs that fulfill their purpose before tuning into ash. Such as a car that will drive you to your location or a blender that will make you a smoothie. He might be a bull in a china shop but his actions always come from a place of kindness and those around him always benefit. He loves making artistic sculptures out of his lava.

Forming a contract with Felsic will grant you the ability to create temporary constructs. You will also become oddly impulsive, but dumb luck will keep you from harm.

Caedo “Nobility in Destruction.”: Few are as dedicated as the demonic knight Caedo. In every aspect she lives up to her aspect, ‘Justice’. She was built to kill those who did harm, but she broke free and now seeks to bring redemption. She works to reform the corrupt and the ignorant with her demonic powers. Caedo can be a bit dense and often has trouble with boundaries, but she has a good heart and a strong moral code. Her powers allow her to speed up, slow down and reverse time temporarily, often showing people glimpses of their past/present/future until they see the error of their ways. She fancies herself the helpful ghost to many a ‘scrooge’ She may come off a little cold but she is genuinely trying to put more good into the world. She has a habit of collecting bits of broken china and sea glass.

Forming a contract with Caedo will make you duty bound to help her in her crusade. Caedo will stand by you as a loyal friend and protector. You will also gain minor time dilation powers, allowing very brief visions of the past and future.

Otverzát “A healing purge”: Not many see eye to eye with Otverzát at first, but sooner or later they all come around to her way of thinking. Otverzát loves to see people grow and heal, especially if they believe they are unable to. Otverzát‘s aspect is ‘truth’ meaning that no one can lie in her presences. Not just little white lies but the deep honest truths within our hearts. Her abilities let her see into the past and she can help people overcome long buried traumas.  Once she has gotten a person to open up she is a deeply loyal friend. She never lies and never has ulterior motives. She is caring soul who can get a little shy at times. She enjoys playing volleyball and tends to frighten easily. Her powers can be painful at first but she ultimately brings a deep peace and lasting healing to her friends.

Forming a contract with Otverzát will render you unable to lie, but no one can lie to you. You will also gain her ability to view the past or any object or person.

Environ, “A Comforting Silence”: Environ strives be level headed and moral, and their two heads often debate with one another before they preform any action. Having two opinions on every matter lets them make better decisions, even if that makes them a little slow to act. Environ is quiet and solitary, often choosing to observe humans at a distance. Their aspect is ‘navigation’ which means it is their duty to help lost souls find a home. Environ controls shadows and can appear and disappear at will. They often follow those who feel lost and using their power direct them to places where they will be accepted and loved. They have a soft spot for children and help abused children find healthier families. Environ likes being left alone, reading books and listening to calming music. They hate obnoxious people, especially youtube pranksters and instagram influencers. 

Forming a contract with Environ will grant you a sense of direction, you will instinctually know where you need to be at any given moment. You will also gain their powers of teleportation.

CONTRACT RULES:

Submit a reference drawing of your OC with a short description of their personality and backstory, select a demon you want a contract with.

In return you can get a sketch of your OC fused with their demon. Their new appearance will be based on how well they mesh with their new demon friend.

Patrons will get first priority! 

Have fun!

[moonsdancer]

mel week: AU | leviathan (a snippet)

Once again, no time to complete this, so this is just a snippet of a dark and debauched dead-dove-do-not-eat of Mel, in which she and Silco become allies. The Amara referred to is the cool corrupt lady we met in episode 4 and 5 in the show, because I love her and of course she'd host illicit soirees with fellow corrupt business folk, and I like the idea of Silco "the industrialist" having explicit ties to the illicit financial flows in topside and abroad, although a lot of them are scared shitless of him, as they should be. Title is tentative and hopefully one day I'll be able to publish this for the three-person MelCo gang, bless.

Silco held court in the Delaunay’s den as he always did at such gatherings, a sneer of antipathy on his thin mouth, his cravat perfect and just this side of too tight, a snifter of cognac in his careless fingers and a cigar, clove-scented, in the ashtray in front of him.

He watched the room.

The illicit congregation in the mansion of Amara Delaunay, one of his most useful merchant allies, brought together some of the more adventurous business elites from topside. He’d spotted at least two council members, several steel and other resource magnates, the head of Piltover’s biggest publishing house amongst them, along with far more ambitious investors from so-called forbidden territories such as Noxus and as far off as Freljordian lands. These were the sorts that were interested in the pharmacological developments he and the other chem barons were building.

Delaunay, who had a flare for dramatics, had set the den up as something between a luxury gambling hell and a brothel, scantily clad masked creatures wandered about with coy invitation in their eyes, tables were set up with all manner of games, from piquet to poker to faro, wait staff toted teetering trays of champagne, absinthe and other liquor to offer the guests, a coiling curtain of smoke hovered in the air like corruption, sweet as the opium-laced incense the host favoured, lending a desultory energy to the proceedings even as eyes lit up with avarice and deals were struck. These were the kinds of business dealings built for the dark, for hidden passageways and clandestine corners, coded contracts negotiated in the shadows, money passed furtively between proxies under the table while you tittered over wine, cards and the groping of yielding perfumed flesh—whatever it was that appealed to your tastes.

There wasn’t much new for him here, but he’d come for the sake of business parlay, easily concluded within his first hour in attendance. And now he watched it all with an apex predator’s nonchalance. Most of the people in the room didn’t dare approach him openly, eying him warily as though a good portion of them didn’t owe him thousands and more. No matter. They were all pathetic fools who would be trodden over by the world he intended to build, one way or another. He considered them less significant than the lowliest flea, suckling greedily on the worthless carcass that was Piltover.

And so, when the woman walked in—nay, glided in, undulated, in a shimmer of gold and ivory, he noticed. How could he not?

Even the most soused amongst them noticed her. She was the sort of woman one couldn’t help but take note of. She moved about the room, greeting some of the guests with a charming familiarity, she kissed Amara on the cheeks, nuzzled that daft twit Hoskel on his liver-spotted pate, ran her elegant fingers down Salo’s foppish blouse with a flirtatious ease.

He’d never seen her at one of these before but clearly, she was very familiar with the goings on.

He was giving a pretense of nodding off when she made her way to him, seating herself on the closest chaise with sinuous grace.

“May I have a light?”

In almost any other case, Silco would outright refuse or ignore such a request with a cool indifference.

But against his most natural instincts, he flicked his gilt lighter and held the shivering flame just below her mouth. Her lips cradled her cigarette, plush and perfectly painted in a sultry plum colour, her golden freckles glittering in the dim light, there was something effortlessly sensual in the way she lit the end, a whiff of floral and mint from the spume of smoke, inhaled, her eyes lifting up to meet his head on. He would tolerate her presence if for no other reason than that she was the very first person to openly approach him in this party and she didn’t shy away from looking at him in the eye.

“Much obliged. I’m Mel Medarda.”

“My—.”

“Oh, I know who you are—Silco.” She said his name with a distinct relish. “Industrialist, investor, crime boss, ruthless fiend—I’ve read all sorts of things about you. Still unsure which ones are fabrications and exaggerations and which ones skew to the truth. All I do know,” she said, tapping the end of her cigarette in his ashtray and then tipping her head to the room. “Is that they’re all desperately afraid of you.”

“And yet you’re not,” Silco said, a measured calculation in his gaze as he cast it over her. Curious.

“No, not at all. I’ve met far harsher monsters than you in my time.”

She was a mystery. Not on the surface of it. The gold shimmering across her bronzed skin spoke of wealth, the confidence in her shoulders and the way she looked at him head-on with nary a trace of intimidation bespoke power. She seemed the embodiment of everything that Piltover stood for privilege, prosperity, pomposity all set in a perfect resplendent form. But there was something about her, something else.

There was also a troubling twinkle in her eye as she watched the berth Piltover’s most enterprising kept around him, as though she found the performance of fear and trepidation rather amusing.

“I think we both want the same thing.” The smile on her face was sly as a fox, on the edge of feral, and Silco couldn’t help but be a little piqued by it.

“And what’s that?”

“To see the top-city burn.”

[youngcroissantturkeyworribler]

I love him.

Had an idea for a character.

His name is Faro the Flesh Merchant, he used to be a handsome incubus, but he started using his shapeshifting powers to help humans who felt bad about their appearances. He doesn’t mind his new form because he loves helping humans reinvent themselves.

You can trade your unwanted body parts to him and he will give you new ones.  He is like a walking character creation screen. He carries around unwanted body parts until he can find someone new who will love them.

Bonus:

Faro says trans rights.

[burningcomputerpersona]

Yasss

Had an idea for a character.

His name is Faro the Flesh Merchant, he used to be a handsome incubus, but he started using his shapeshifting powers to help humans who felt bad about their appearances. He doesn’t mind his new form because he loves helping humans reinvent themselves.

You can trade your unwanted body parts to him and he will give you new ones.  He is like a walking character creation screen. He carries around unwanted body parts until he can find someone new who will love them.

Bonus:

Faro says trans rights.

[vivyper]

This is terrifying but I love it so much

Had an idea for a character.

His name is Faro the Flesh Merchant, he used to be a handsome incubus, but he started using his shapeshifting powers to help humans who felt bad about their appearances. He doesn’t mind his new form because he loves helping humans reinvent themselves.

You can trade your unwanted body parts to him and he will give you new ones.  He is like a walking character creation screen. He carries around unwanted body parts until he can find someone new who will love them.

Bonus:

Faro says trans rights.