#the deviless would be very fae coded in the au I think

[esteemed-excellency]

re: the Red Knight. Hiram appears colder and more detached than usual in Parabola. He's there to fight in the Campaigns and play at the Chessboard, hunt, or participate in a tournament every now and then, and this makes him very goal-oriented. He's available to undertake oneiropomp duties if a dreamer asks for guidance and protection, but he always needs to be alert, and he doesn't adjust his mannerism around others like he would in London. He doesn't care to compensate for his personality and his soullessness if he's not around polite society, he usually does it to make perople feel more at ease around him, but that doesn't mean he always has to care about them. The polycule and his closest friends know this, and they don't mind his seemingly uncaring demeanour. He's courteous and gentlemanly in Parabola too, he just appears to be less invested in social interactions.

His parabolan double is just like him, but with fingerkings possessed eyes. If they're both in full armour, helm included, they're indistinguishable from each other. They both hate it.

Fantasy au: he's a knight errant. No one has any idea about his code of honour or where his loyalties lie. The Red Court is always bad news and he's not to be trusted, even if he's pretty helpful most of the times. Rumour has it, he has a palace somewhere far away, but no one knows what his quest is, if he even has one, or what he's looking for. Some say he's cursed, others say he was bewitched long ago, too long ago, and he's still under a spell. Whatever happened, someone must have given him that red sash.