The Supermarket from Night of the Consumers currently holds that trope. But welcome back!

EDIT- WOW! An out-of-context page topper AND .

Edited by KaoticKanine on Mar 21st 2023 at 12:23:26 PM

If you want to see if a trope is taken, check out the related tab and the database. Related tab also links to sandboxes, so you can see if someone is working on a deity for certain tropes as well.

Edited by SailorVenus372 on Mar 21st 2023 at 9:24:06 AM

That is how I found about the Supermarket already holding the position.

Just linked my sandbox to the trope pantheons page (I think I did it right?), thanks for the help everyone :)

Mount Volbono still has two votes.

Okay. Time for version 2 of the WKC proposal.

Leonard, God of Idiot Heroes (Wizel, the White Knight)

• Reasoning: Hoo boy. Where to even begin? Let's just say his list of failures as a result of his idiocy is so damn long that there are paragraphs to them. Worse, he never develops out of this, and one particularly egregious point near the climax is where he actually becomes the final boss due to not realizing the "five" Macguffins (one of which is with him) should NEVER be brought together, and gets brainwashed. In the end though, as he returns the Ark where he got it, he does look sad, as if realizing just how badly he had messed up. Details of his failures as a result of his idiocy can be found here, taken from his game's entry in Failure Hero.

And another from long ago.

• Grit and Flame, Co-Deities of On-Ride/On-Foot Combat
  • Reasoning: Panzer Paladin is a retro platformer, where you play as the last Paladin Unit Grit, with the android Flame as his pilot. At certain points throughout the level, you're required to eject and move Flame on her own and either clear the way, or find a station where Grit can be teleported over. While not as strong, Flame is capable enough to navigate on her own or deal with bosses (either as a Self-Imposed Challenge or when Grit is too damaged to continue).

Edited by nightelf37 on Mar 22nd 2023 at 1:30:57 AM

for both suggestions

Had to redo some parts.

Chris, Shermie and Yashiro Nanakase Orochi's Celestial Representatives of Evil People Having Loved Ones (CYS, Team Orochi, Team Awakened Orochi, New Faces Team, Orochi New Faces Team, Heavenly Kings Of Orochi; Chris: Tempo Mixer, Hakkesshu of Fire, Chris of the Flames of Destiny/Honoo no Sadame no Kurisu; Shermie: Coquettish, Hakkesshu of Lightning, Shermie of the Savagely Crazed Flash of Lightning/Are Kuruou Inabikari no Sherumī; Yashiro: Dauntless and Descisive, Hakkesshu of Earth, Yashiro Nanakase of the Parched Earth/Kawaita Daichi no Yashiro)

• Lesser Deities (Intermediate as the Heavenly Kings)
• Symbols: A Drum Set and Microphone (Chris), A Rickenbacker Guitar (Yashiro), and a Keyboard (Shermie)
• Theme Songs:
  • As Team Orochi: Bloody, Re:Bloody
  • As Team Awakened Orochi: Rhythmic Hallucination for Orochi Yashiro, Fanatic Waltz for Orochi Shermie, Mad Fantasy for Orochi Chris
• Alignment: Neutral Evil (Chaotic Evil as the Heavenly Kings)
• Portfolios:
  • Team Orochi, In General: Affably Evil, Back from the Dead, The Bus Came Back, Double Consciousness, Evil Counterparts To Team Japan and Team Ikari, Not So Harmless Villains
    • Team Awakened Orochi, In General: Awesome, but Impractical, Badass Preachers, Being Evil Sucks, Bootstrapped Leitmotifs, Driven to Suicide Via Tracheotomy (they got better), Evil Laugh, Officially Shortened Titles, The Psycho Rangers, Punch Clock Villains, Tragic Villains
  • Chris: Adorably Precocious Child (or so most people think), Dance Battler, Flash Step, Fragile Speedster, No Social Skills, Only One Name, Pint-Sized Powerhouse, Supreme Chef
    • Chris, The Destiny Of Flames: Ax-Crazy, Creepy Child, Evil Laugh, Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon, Faux Affably Evil, Hates Everyone Equally, The Host To Orochi, Jack of All Stats, Misanthrope Supreme, Playing with Fire, The Sociopath
  • Shermie: Boobs Of Steel, Casual Kink, Cleavage Window (or a Navel-Deep Neckline), Combat Stilettos, Cool Big Sis to Chris, Distracted by the Sexy, The Ditz, Dominatrix, Everyone Looks Sexier if French, The Faceless, The Fashionista, Girlish Split Ponytail, Hidden Eyes, Implied Love Interest to Yashiro, Murderous Thighs, Ms. Fanservice, Only One Name, Show Some Leg, Statuesque Stunner, Supermodel Strut, The Tease, Wrestler in All of Us
    • Shermie, The Roaring Lightning: Contralto Of Danger, Dark Action Girl, Evil Purple-head, Gendered Outfit, Power Dyes Your Hair, Power Makes Your Voice Deep, Psycho Electro, Purple Is Powerful, Took a Level in Badass
  • Yashiro: Boisterous Bruiser, Close-Range Combatant, Dance Battler, Drench Celebration, Friend to All Living Things, Hellbent For Leather, Lead Vocalist Of CYS And Leader Of Team Orochi, Mystical White Hair, Unskilled, but Strong
    • Yashiro, The Parched Earth: Battle Aura, Dishing Out Dirt, The Grappler, Super-Strength, White Hair, Black Heart, Wrestler in All of Us
• Domains: Music, Destruction, Fighting
• Superior: Leopold Goenitz
• Allies: Orochi (Senran Kagura), Gohma Vlitra
• Rivals:
  • In General: The Iluminati (Gill, Urien, and Kolin)
  • Chris: Tim Drake/Red Robin, Damian Wayne/Robin V, Cassandra Cain/Orphan, I-No
    • Orochi Chris: Fire-based deities, mainly Scorpion, Ken Masters, Dhalsim, Azula, Zuko, Sol Badguy, Sasuke Uchiha, Sarada Uchiha
  • Shermie: Helena Douglas, Remy, Rarity
    • Orochi Shermie: Lightning-based deities, mainly Laura Matsuda, Lars Alexandersson, Blanka, Rain, Sheev Palpatine
  • Yashiro: Captain Falcon, Balrog, Jax Briggs, TJ Combo
    • Orochi Yashiro: Earth and strength-based deities, mainly Tremor, Toph Beifong, Sakura Haruno
• Enemies:
  • From The King Of Fighters: Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami (two-thirds of the Sacred Treasures Team)
  • Other Enemies: Amaterasu, Susano'o (traditional enemies of Orochi), Avatar Aang, Avatar Korra, Raiden, Fujin, Liu Kang (especially when he's in Fire God mode), Kazuya Mishima, Kazumi Mishima, Jin Kazama
• Vocal Coaches: Freddie Mercury (Shermie) and David Bowie (Yashiro)
• In General:
  • The demise of Verse at the conclusion of Antonov's King of Fighters Tournament had an unforseen consequence. Verse's death had released the souls it had imprisoned, not to mention those who had been killed during the past King of Fighters Tournaments have returned to life. Among them are Yashiro Nanakase, Shermie and Chris. Having sacrificed their lives for Orochi's revival (short-lived as it was, thanks to the Sacred Treasures Team), they found themselves alive once again. The trio were greeted by their fellow Heavenly King, Leopold Goenitz, having ascended to the Pantheon before them. Thanks to Goenitz, Team Orochi's ascension was cleared and thus, the Heavenly Kings of Orochi were reunited.
  • On the outside, they appear to be your run-of-the-mill rock band. That, however, is a deception. Yashiro Nankase, Shermie and Chris are among the eight devotees of Yamata no Orochi, commonly known as the Hakkeshu (Eight Excellent Masses), with the goal of restoring balance to the Earth. Unlike a certain Titan, however, restoring nature's balance means the extermination of mankind. Aside from being musicians, Team Orochi are skilled fighters. But what makes them extremely dangerous is when their Orochi powers awaken, granting them the power of the elements, thus becoming the antithesis of Team Japan. Their personalities also undergo a major change, from being affably evil to outright sadistic. Yashiro is known as Kawaita Daichi no Yashiro, or Yashiro, The Parched Earth. While not having Earth-based powers per se, Orochi Yashiro's strength and durability increases drastically. Shermie is known as Are Kuruou Inabikari no Sherumī, or Shermie the Roaring Lightning. As the name states, Orochi Shermie unleashes the full fury of her electrokinesis. Finally, Chris is known as Honoo no Sadame no Kurisu, or Chris, the Flames of Destiny. The most sadistic of the trio, Orochi Chris uses his pyrokineses to burn his opponents alive.
  • By chance, Team Orochi's ascension coincided with a music festival, in which Iori Yagami was participating with his band. Yes, when Iori is not fighting in tournaments, butting heads with Kyo or going into the Blood Riot, he is a musician, with jazz being his specialty. Iori was slightly perturbed when CYS showed up and rocked the crowd. It wasn't enough for them to win, but a message was sent. Team Orochi was now in the Pantheon. For Iori, it meant an even bigger headache from someone other than Kyo was now coming.
  • In the meantime, when not scheming with Goenitz to being about Orochi's resurrection, they are spending their time within the Pantheon's music scene. While Yashiro is the vocalist of the trio, Shermie can also carry a tune. Shermie's vocal talents became known during the aforementioned music festival, in which both her and Yashiro wowed the crowd with their cover of Red Like Roses Pt.2, transforming the song about a daughter grieving over the loss of her mother to a girl grieving over the loss of her lover. Both Freddie Mercury and David Bowie were in attendance and despite CYS losing the competition, know talent when they see it. Hence, Shermie spending time with Freddie building her skills (both as a vocalist and keyboardist), while Yashiro spends 8 hours with Ziggy Stardust. One thing for certain, is that the next time Iori's band and CYS meet up, it will be Team Orochi that upstages Iori's band.

Here's my in-progress draft for Cirno.

Is there anyone known for picking a fight with people/beings way stronger than they are? Anyone who gets picked on/bothered by relative weaklings?

Are there any sufficiently powerful deities that Cirno might foolishly challenge to a fight? More specifically, those who are known by others to be the strongest are recommended suggestions.

Anyone who has Resurrective Immortality? There might be some who have that kind of immortality due to being embodiments of nature, but more general examples of that trope are okay as well.

Cirno, Goddess of Boisterous Weaklings (Fairy of the Ice, The Strongest, Baka, Nine-ball, BB)

^{Tanned Cirno} 

• Hall: Extrovert Flaws
• Lesser Goddess (can reach Intermediate Goddess levels depending on her determination)
• Theme Song: Beloved Tomboyish Girl
• Symbol: A childish drawing of herself◊ or the symbol ⑨
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
• Portfolio: Ice Fairy, Ironically Hot-Blooded, Ice-Like Wings, Coming Back Alive As Long As She's Bothered, The Strongest Fairy (Which Doesn't Mean That Much), Boisterous Weakling, The Ditz, Has Difficulty Remembering Even Yesterday, Has Had Her Moments To Shine, Not Being As Weak As She Appears, Fragile Speedster, Weak, but Skilled, Can Freeze Her Opponent's Bullets And Use Them As Shields
• Domains: Ice, Fairies, Dumbness, Strength
• Heralds: Daiyousei, Lily White, The Three Fairies of Light (Sunny Milk, Luna Child, Star Sapphire), Eternity Larva, Clownpiece
• Allies: Cosmo and Wanda, Oberon, Titania and Puck, Tinkerbell, Jack Frost (ROTG), the Groke, Elsa, The Mob
• Enemies: Okina Matara, Odio, Sho Minamimoto, Baldi, Ghiaccio, Zote the Mighty, Dan Hibiki, Don Quixote
• Opposed by: Suwako Moriya, All frog-related deities (includes Greninja, Hypnotoad, Tsuyu Asui, Tiana and Naveen, Frog, Toad, Kermit, the Plantars, and Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright, and Marcy Wu)
• Unknown Rival to: Airy, Jorgen von Strangle
• Annoys: Jin Kisaragi
• Confuses: Kuai Liang/Sub-Zero
• Gensokyo is home to many different kinds of mystical creatures, from the fearsome youkai to powerful gods and spooky ghosts. Among them are fairies, weak magical humanoids that embody certain aspects of nature. Their lives are fleeting, but their ability to instantly resurrect themselves means that death is a complete non-issue for them. One such fairy lives at the Misty Lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her name is Cirno, and boy is she arrogant. She loves to boast about how she's the strongest and challenges others to fights often. Given how fairies are even lower than humans in the Gensokyo pecking order, this usually means a quick, humiliating defeat for her whenever she fights most others that aren't her fellow fairies. Not that it'll slow her down anytime soon; fairies don't have the best memory span anyways.
• The Pantheon, like planet Earth, has plenty of lakes around, with fish and frogs being some of the animals ones might find dwelling in the waters. One such lake, close to the House of Personality has a plentiful amount of amphibians who made their home there. One day at noon, some deities noticed that the lake has gotten strangely chilly, with mist obscuring their vision. Not only that, but some of the frogs appeared to have been frozen recently! Just what is happening here? They got their answer soon enough when someone spotted a girl with icicles for wings encasing a frog with her ice powers. Having somehow stumbled into the Pantheon, Cirno has made new residence in a place similar to the Misty Lake and was obliviously given the title of Boisterous Weaklings. Of course, when she did find out, she just bragged how she'll prove that she isn't a weakling soon enough.
• Cirno, being an ice fairy, has powers all related to the cold. She can make her surroundings colder, freeze water and other living beings, and create objects out of ice like icicles, ice cubes, and even weaponry perfect for fights. Obviously, with there being a Hall called Ice and Cold, it was only a matter of time until she made a visit to the place. There, she made quick friends with Jack Frost, who finds her fun to be around and doesn't mind her offers to duel, thus they like blasting each other with their ice powers in the sky. More surprisingly, she had no fear in approaching the Groke, whose ice powers don't faze the ice fairy in the slightest. The Groke, on her behalf, feels happy that she has made a new friend. Outside of the Hall, she has become yet another irritation in the eyes of Jin Kisaragi, who absolutely cannot stand her presence whatsoever. Any time she tries to challenge him to battle, he just tries to slice her with Yukianesa to either kill or at least shoo her away. She also became another things that angers the easily agitated Ghiaccio, upon which clashes become common between them as they both scream loudly over the now frozen battlefield. As for Kuai Liang aka Sub-Zero, he's just very confused on what to do with the ice fairy.
• Speaking of fairies, the Pantheon has no shortage of fairies living in it, with there even being a whole Hall for fairies! So what does Cirno does with this knowledge? Well, prove that she's the top dog fairy around here, obviously! So she made a grand declaration in the middle of the Hall that she will wage a great second fairy war to show that she's the strongest around. Reception was... disappointing. Most didn't really care and went about their regular business, and some merely just laughed at her comedy routine. However, a few fairies decided to "amuse" her. One Jorgen von Strangle was thought by Cirno to be an easy foe, only for her to be sorely mistaken as she was used as his punching bag, leaving her knocked out on the ground. Not out of motivation yet, she got up and challenged her next opponent, a smallish fairy named Airy. This will be an easy win-no wait, Airy just fried Cirno on the spot and left the scene. The second fairy war ended as soon as it began, with Cirno thoroughly humiliated. She won't be deterred by this loss, as she now vows revenge on the two and aims to defeat them one day... not that they care at all about that.
  • After everything's said and done, Cirno decided to seek out the other fairies and see what they're like. For starters, Puck invited her to the woods of his king and queen, to of which she quickly obliged to. Oberon and Titania find the ice fairy to be charming entertainment and after a night of what the fair folk call "fun", they accepted her as one of them. Cirno, on her part, had a really fun time with the other fairies. Cirno once tred to take Tinker Bell's title as the Goddess of Fairies and teamed up with Captain Hook to steal it. Their alliance did not last long, as the pirate betrayed her and she, with the help of Tink and her friends, got her revenge just as quickly. They since then became good friends, though Cirno's still a bit miffed over their difference of titles. Outside of the Hall, She gets along with Cosmo and Wanda and has a blast with the many crazy happenings that Timmy Turner's wishes bring. Meanwhile, a certain Mr. Crocker felt antsier than usual when they hang out. Could those fairy god parents made another fairy friend? Rrrgh! Another fairy to discover, it seems...
• One of Cirno's favorite things to do is freeze frogs and watch them slooooowly thaw. Sometimes they die, but that's no biggie- there's plenty of other frogs out there. She usually keeps to her own pond, but she isn't above flying around and freezing frogs somewhere else. Not even deities are spared from this treatment, as amphibians like Greninja, the Hypnotoad, Frog, Toad, and the Plantars can attest to being attacked by the ice fairy. Even those like Tsuyu Asui, Tiana and Naveen have been accosted by her on some occasions! Such a thing always inflames the ire of Suwako Moriya, lover and protector of all frogs, and thus whenever she catches Cirno in the act, she's quick to fire back with some extra special danmaku. Also, every time she tries to freeze the Plantars, she gets chased away by a very angry Anne, Sasha and Marcy.
• (boastful losers (Quixote, Dan, Zote))
• (picking on others way stronger than she is)
  • (some people she picked on (Saitama, Vergil, Galacta Knight))
• (resurrection) An inherit part of being a fairy in Gensokyo is that death is not permanent for them. Being embodiments of nature, they will only die should the aspect of nature that birthed them is lost. Otherwise, they will resurrect immediately and go about their business. Their near inability to die and general lack of intelligence means that the pranks they play on humans can have fatal results simply because they don't realize humans can't come back from the dead so easily.
• She likes to run a math class when she is bored and quizzes other deities on their math skills. Contrary to what others may expect, she isn't a complete doofus when it comes to mathematics, as she knows how to count and has knowledge of rounding and fractions. What is evident is that she has a bizarre sense of mathematics; when she isn't getting simple expressions completely wrong, she makes ludicrous proofs on theories and other high-end equations. And that's not getting into her awarding marks to "students" who get their answers wrong and vice versa! Such things raise the ire of Mad Mathematician Sho Minamimoto, who sees her as disrespecting her area of obsession and Baldi, who flies into a murderous rage every time anyone gets a single math equation wrong. Thus, such "classes" usually end with one of the two trying to throttle the ice fairy while she yells about how she's not an idiot.
• Whenever a festival pops by, you might see Cirno at her own food stall selling some shaved ice. Sometimes it's with a reasonable flavor like sweet bean, but other times she gets weird and sells water-flavored shaved ice. She's always confused on why no one's buying her super creative and genius ideas. Speaking of her wild adventures in selling stuff, she once made a commercial on powder milk. The health benefits it gives are... debateable and no one really bought it, but the music in the commercial was admittably really catchy to those who watched it.
• During one strange summer, the seasons started getting weird, with all four of them happening all around Gensokyo. In particular, the fairies were bequeathed a new power, making them go berserk. Cirno was no exception, and not only did this make her ego even bigger than it normally is, it even gave her a tan somehow. As it turns out, the incident was caused by none other than Okina Matara, one of the sages of Gensokyo. Her new tan was revealed to be a consequence of her supercharged rampage, and that it will destroy her if she stays in that state for too long. With the right circumstances, she, a mere fairy, managed to defeat a sage of Gensokyo, quite a shocking and unexpected feat. Some time later, she lost her tan and her summer-related powers, reverting her to her normal state. Cirno wasn't so fortunate on their next battle, ensuring that the two would remain enemies for a long while. Still, the fact she could beat such a powerful being once is an achievement in of itself. Perhaps this is a lesson to be learned; even if your opponent is obviously weaker than you, that doesn't mean that it's impossible for you to lose against them.
• Bringing up the subject of SCP-6959 with Cirno is not recommended. On the one hand, this would make Cirno believe that she has existed since the dawn of time, making her ego be even more overblown. On the other hand, her trying to comprehend the idea of a doll of her made out of strange material could also just fry her brain with ideas. The Foundation itself would be ready to contain her to find a definite answer what the deal with the Fumo doll is, but they also realize that maybe trying to solve it would be a waste of time and resources.
• Oh, and one last thing; she's referred to by some as "nine-ball", apparently originating from an instruction manual or something. On that note, she is in no way related to that other Nine-Ball, who is absolutely not an idiot and certainly not an easy foe to beat. Confuse them at your own peril.

Edited by Excessive-Menace on Mar 21st 2023 at 5:59:23 AM

The house of Forms of Immortality has immortal deities.

Adding to this- Touhou already has a character with Resurrective Immortality, that being Mokou (who, coincidentally, is in that listed hall). She is also definitely a step-up when it comes to challenge, so having her listed would be beneficial.

Oh, I happened upon this wonderful video for Cirno. I dunno if it adds much, but hey, it's funny.

And here's the Aya rework.

Aya Shameimaru, Goddess of Dubious Journalism (Traditional Reporter of Fantasy, Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter, Tengu Closest to the Village/Home, Crow of the Tempest/Tengu Reporter, Fabricating Newspaper Reporter, The Tengu who Scatters Autumn Leaves, The Self-Serving Tengu, The Cocktail Party Where the Walls Have Ears, Third-Rate Newspaper Reporter, Reporter of Falsehoods and Self-Righteousness, Aya Syameimaru, SHAMEIMARU, ZUN's girlfriend, Fucking Gossip)

• Intermediate Goddess (could be a Greater Goddess, actually)
• Symbol: The Bunbunmaru Newspaper logo◊
• Theme Music: Wind God Girl and/or Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
• Portfolio: Tengu, Goes Out of Her Way to Make Articles, Will Turn Anything Interesting into an Article, Immoral Journalist, Commonly Fills Her Articles with Rumours, Exaggerations and Lies, Can Capture Bullets with Her Magical Camera, Manipulation of Wind, Fastest Person in Gensokyo, Acts Really Polite During Interviews, Iconic Sequel Character, Surprisingly Hard to Outdrink, Dangerous Despite Disposition, Jerkass, Politically Incorrect Hero
• Domains: Tengus, News, Pictures, Wind, Speed
• Heralds: Hatate Himekaidou (her journalism rival), Momiji Inubashiri (who has (maybe personal) beef with Aya), Megumu Iizunamaru (her boss)
• Allies: Charlotte E. Yeager, Kosuzu Motoori, Kamen Rider Faiz
• Respects: Barry Allen/The Flash, The Murkrow Flock
• Pities: Setsuna Sakurazaki
• Rivals: Nyotengu
• Opposes: Diana Christensen, Eobard Thorne/Reverse Flash
• Opposed by: Tamie Nogi, J. Jonah Jameson, Lois Lane, April O'Neil, Sakuya Izayoi
• Enemies: Yuuki Terumi
• Comnplicated Relationship: ZUN (her creator)
• Within the Youkai Mountain lays the home of the tengu. Tengu are known for many things, but most relevant thing is that they love to gossip and write articles about the goings of the world. One of the most vocal tengu is Aya Shameimaru, who in particular likes to scoop out any and all interesting articles around Gensokyo to write onto her newspaper called Bunbunmaru Newspaper- and she'll do just about anything to get a headline.
• Was actually ascended in the past- but much like other Gensokyoan deities like Sumireko Usami, she was eventually taken out as one of the many that got removed during a massive reorganization effort. That's not to say that she left the Pantheon completely since then- she just lost access to juicier areas for her to spin a story. Smash Cut to Chimata Tenkyuu's ascension, however, and soon Aya found herself alongside most of Gensokyo in arms against Brand X for trying to profit off of their main culture- their Spell & Ability Cards. Aya's main role during the uprising was to spread the word as fast as she could, not just across Gensokyo, but also the Pantheon, delivering special editions of the Bunbunmaru Newspaper that had been written in multiple Pantheon-known languages courtesy of Kosuzu Motoori. However, when it came time to strike Brand X itself, Aya joined the fight, and with the rest of Gensokyo's top brass, they successfully take down the organization in a brilliant display of danmaku. And yet...she never accepted the reascension offer at first, unlike Keiki Haniyasushin & Kosuzu, as she felt content with what she had now- a great story to be told for years to come. But with enemies new and old cropping up for the land of fantasy since then, as well as exciting and horrifying new prosect, she finally pulled the trigger and returned to the Pantheon at large.
• To say that Aya's got some weird quirks is quite the subject to touch upon. For some time prior during her first ascension, there were rumors going abut that she was a girlfriend of sort to her creator ZUN, explaining the weird amount of exposure she got across quite a few incidents (except that time when Toyosatomimi No Miko woke up from her slumber), as well as a certain outfit from his wardrobe◊. These rumors have died down quite significantly since then, especially now that ZUN has an actual wife. There are also theories about that she takes panty shots and other naughty pictures of many deities and sells them for money . No one has really proven either of these, but many have conspired to believe that Aya was the one that helped Tsubame Kayoi gain membership into the The Seven Servants- a theory that certainly had that group's second-in-leadership's blood boiling.
• Aya is classified within Gensokyo as a tengu- more specifically, a crow tengu, who generally are relegated to information gathering. So naturally, she would, when off the clock, go around to meet some of her feathered fellows, such as Nyotengu, who isn't the most talkative to her reporter when it comes to their respective origins and societies, and instead would often get into beef with her over trivial matters, a feat very few of Nyotengu's other rivals have seemingly accomplished. She feels pity forwards Setsuna, anther fellow tengu, due of her being an outcast from her clan due of having white wings instead of black ones, to which Aya says that she totally doesn't feel like she herself is an outcast, no way. She also has a certain attraction towards the Murkrow in the Pantheon as they happen to be crows as well...but agrees that they are much better off with Marisa Kirisame, since Aya's more busy with her job. Speaking of, given the seven's (1 Marisa + 6 Murkrow) kleptomaniac tendencies, Aya firmly thinks that they would make for great front-pagers for the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, just by doing what they do normally.
• Charlotte E. Yeager, a member of the 501st (not that one), thinks rather highly of Aya, a position most don't normally take when it came to the tengu. Both happen to be speed freaks with a rather carefree attitude, and their dynamic usually is a Good Cop/Bad Cop one, with Charlotte being the good cop and Aya being the bad one. They also seem to just take life as it goes, feeling carefree about it, which has seemed to further root this strange friendship.
• Aya's pedigree as a reporter is...to put it lightly, very fluctuating. In general, her reports and headlines are generally in the range of mundane, to overexaggerated, embellished with inconsistencies and fallacies, apparently. However, this isn't always the case, really- it's just the norm for her.
  • She claims that she prides herself on only reporting the truth, but what she actually writes is not as honest. First of all, she will report on anything she thinks will make a good article- usually actual incidents that are mostly just mildly interesting happenings with different people. Secondly is that her articles are filled with rumors, exaggerations and some biased opinions, not helped by her admitting that most people only read the headlines and look at the pictures and rarely read the whole article. Due of these reasons, most people don't really read her newspaper that much unless they want to pass the time- some people even use her publications as fuel for fires.
  • She can be incredibly noisy and obnoxious when it comes to getting new stories, but she can change her behavior to be more polite to fit the situation when it comes to getting interviews. She doesn't really want to pick up fights, but don't let that excuse you from the fact that she's well over a millennium old, extremely fast, and unaware of just how strong she is. After all, despite where she stands in tengu society within Gensokyo, she is one that you do not want to mess with, regardless of your own strength. Unless you really don't want her to write articles about you, it is generally preferred to tolerate her presence than to try to drive her away.
  • Her career has had some high highs and very low lows. For instance, a high point would be a dedicated Human Village version of the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, distributed through Suzunaan; however, this establishment was challenged when Kosuzu's herald, Mamizou Futatsuiwa, conducted a smear campaign to dissuade these. A low point in her career, and I mean low, was when she tried to turn her paper into a weekly tabloid paper filled with even more falsified stories (real-world political allusions, calling out "immigrants" like the members of Eientei & Sumireko Usami, and even criticizing Gensokyo's incident resolvers) than the norm, something she admits to. It never actually got to the print as she cancelled whole thing in the fear that she was being used by Lunarians to possibly turn her lies into the truth- a suggestion heavily drilled into her by Hecatia Lapislazuli, among other things. However, a recent development involving Aya happens to involve one of her heralds- her boss Megumu, who caused a minor incident that Chimata took advantage of and hold a market at Reimu's shrine. Aya tried to expose her own boss's machinations with the coerced help of Geidontei's owner Miyoi Okunoda, but upon witnessing Megumu & Chimata's meeting afterward, though, she had a change of mind and proceeded to report it as just what it is- a minor incident.
  • Other journalists in the Pantheon generally have a negative opinion of Aya, unsurprisingly, given her reputation in Gensokyo. Tamie Nogi for instance looks up to Aya as a symbol of going after headlines, but isn't as approving of her methods. Lois Lane & April O'Neil commend Aya's strength despite being a reporter, but like Tamie, aren't approving of some of Aya's attempts at getting news. J. Jonah Jameson, who also generally has issues with bias (especially towards Spider-Man), is also disapproving of Aya for just how much she fabricates and exaggerates her own stories, so much more than him even on news regarding Spider-Man, despite acknowledging her prowess as a photographer. And finally, Diana Christensen is impressed by Aya's work, especially on the unpublished tabloid that would've made Bunbunmaru truly heinous, and was disappointed when she learned of this fact. The tengu herself, however, would rather go for a one-way nosedive into Misty Lake instead of working with Christensen.
• As stated earlier, Aya is about 1000 years old, meaning that she is quite wise- though you may not know that from seeing her firsthand. She is also the fastest being in Gensokyo, able to have sustained flight that exceeds that of Remilia Scarlet- who has managed to circle the entire Moon really fast once, a claim that Marisa boldly made and has surprisingly been backed up by other Gensokyoan deities. She is freakishly strong and potentially stronger than she thinks she is, a topic that has put the Court of the Gods into quite a conundrum.
  Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu: The topic of Shameimaru's abilities has been one that has stymied us for a while. We have conclusively decided that her previous ascension rank of Lesser Goddess is unsuitable, but Overdeity is out of the question for her. A surprising amount of us in the Court believe she should be a Greater Goddess, but the rest, myself included, would see her more as an Intermediate Goddess.
  • Her abilities to control the wind are very, very strong, and could only be even stronger with that fan of hers. The wind, to her, could even carry the conversations and rumors that are spoken up. As such, deities in the Hall of Wind and Air, as well as other air users like Wendy Marvell, Artoria Pendragon, and even Gensokyo's own Kanako Yasaka are very keen on seeing just how powerful these abilities are. They would get their wish, though, when she flew right into Kamen Rider Faiz one day as she is, per usual, hunting for a scoop. The ensuing scrap forced out quite a bit from the two, a display that certainly made headlines later that day for Aya, but they soon realized their misunderstanding and have been friends since.
  • Aya Shameimaru, is, without question or even contest, the fastest person in Gensokyo. So fast, that, according to Barry Allen (aka. the Flash), she could potentially even make contact with the Speed Force if she really puts her mind into it. With that in mind, the duo decided on a money match- 10 laps around the Pantheon, running past the main entrance of every single House (that feasibly has such), loser has to work for the other for a week. And while Aya was incredibly fast and can definitely prove Barry's theory, she ended up having to serve as a janitor for a week at STAR Labs. She disliked the experience, but at least found respect for the speedster since then, which stemmed into a disliking of his archnemesis Eobard Thorne, a disliking paid in kind.
  • The camera that Aya carries has the ability to remove projectiles caught in its flash, especially danmaku. There are two other deities that have a camera with this kind of power- those being Seija Kijin & Sumireko Usami. Nowadays, Aya feels rather neutral abut both despite having slandered and reported on them in the past, an upgrade from her previous feelings towards them. She is, of course, one of many who were horrified to learn of Seija's fate at Yuuki Terumi's hands at Suzunaan, a headline that she reported with the utmost truth and precision. She still shudders whenever she sees the front-page picture for that article.
  "You don't seem related to the incident, so without further ado, allow me to blow you into the next week!"

And one more thing- would you guys be okay if I added Keiki Haniyasushin to the "Honorable Xenos" folder for the Order Of Humanity, given her interaction with the God-Emperor, despite being an actual goddess herself?

Edited by PuzzarianIdeal on Mar 22nd 2023 at 12:46:05 PM

The Cutie Mark Crusaders once ran a rumour-mill newspaper (and regretted it), so she could have an interaction with them.

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s: 3 (Puzzlarian, Menace, Whirl)

Mount Volbono, the Weird Land of Weird Food

• Area: Fictional Settings
• Description: A pastel-coloured, volcanic valley filled with low-poly vegetables and blocks of Swiss cheese.
• Symbol: A cauldron on top of a volcano
• Theme song: Mount Volbono
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
• Portfolio: Weird World, Weird Food, Level Ate and Lethal Lava Land, Convection, Schmonvection, Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Italy, inhabited by anthropomorphic forks, has cyan checkpoints and Power Moons, there's a Disconnected Side Area at the peak, its music was made using kitchen utensils
• Domains: Cooking, volcanoes, low-poly pastel aesthetics
• Sacred to: Mario, Cappy, the entire House of Food
• Visitors: Yoshi, Anton Ego, Gordon Ramsay, Remy, Hercules, Teostra and Lunastra, Mung Daal Catering, many members of the Hall of Chefs and Establishments (such as Ignis Scientia and Sanji), King Dedede, Gourgeist
• Banned from entering: Bowser, Obelix, Mr. Dark, Gohma Vlitra, Kirby, Deviljho, Jabba the Hutt, Nutty
• Situated in the Luncheon Kingdom, Mount Volbono is famous for its food. The volcanic climate allows vegetables to grow to huge sizes, the ruins of the old town are covered in salt, and the foothills are covered with blocks of Swiss cheese that can be chiselled like rocks. The locals — anthropomorphic forks called Volbonans — use these ingredients to make soup, which they boil in cauldrons heated by the pink lava. This may sound like a fever dream, but their Stupendous Stew is so good that Bowser stole it to serve at his wedding with Princess Peach. Fortunately, Mario and Cappy put a stop to his plans.
• The Volbonans were surprised to learn that their homeland had been connected to the Pantheon, but they're welcoming to most visitors. Most of them live in Peronza Plaza, which is just up the hill from the ruins of Old Town. In turn, they're interested in the House of Food and can be found visiting its many restaurants. However, a few gods are banned from entering. The Volbonans still haven't forgiven Bowser for stealing their stew; Kirby, Deviljho, Obelix, and Nutty would probably eat everything; Mr. Dark might try to annex Mount Volbono into his kingdom of sweets; no-one wants to know how much havoc Gohma Vlitra could wreak using its unusual lava; and the Volbonans can't stomach Jabba's table manners. Obelix once tried to sneak in by disguising himself as a chef, but nobody was fooled.
• Mario and Cappy have taken many of their friends to visit Mount Volbono. One of them was Yoshi, who'd been there before; Mario was surprised, so Cappy pointed out there's a portal to the Luncheon Kingdom in Yoshi's house. Despite Yoshi's huge appetite, he prefers to eat invading Koopas over vegetables, so his presence was welcome.
• Unsurprisingly, many gods from the House of Food are interested in Mount Volbono. Gordon Ramsay and Anton Ego were both interested in trying the Stupendous Stew; the Volbonans were nervous that it wouldn't live up to their high standards, but breathed a collective sigh of relief when they both liked it. Remy isn't a connoisseur, but instead visited to get inspiration for new recipes. However, nobody expected Hercules to visit. He explained that Mount Volbono reminds him of Mount Vesuvius, which is sacred to him.
• Teostra and Lunastra once visited, and everyone went quiet. They watched from a safe distance as the duo prowled around like they owned the place, completely impervious to the heat. In the end, the Volbonans contacted the Monster Hunters to relocate them before they could claim it as their territory. For weeks, the lava rivers were sectioned off while the hunters cleaned up all the leftover explosive powder.
• The members of Mung Daal Catering feel right at home here. They also live in a colourful, whimsical world, and their livelihood is making weird food. On their first visit, Chowder helped himself to several cauldron's worth of stew before the Volbonans had to drag him away. In turn, many Volbonans have visited their restaurant.
• Due to the large piles of salt that are constantly blown around by the wind, amphibians, earthworms, and land gastropods avoid Mount Volbono like the plague. Earthworm Jim has another reason to never visit: it reminds him of Level Ate, a dangerous place made of food, and filled with killer salt shakers and giant forks.
• Once a year, the Volbonans hold a Cooking Carnival in Peronza Plaza. Ever since Mount Volbono was connected to the Pantheon, they've turned it into a competition where chefs from all over the Pantheon compete to create the best meals. The first year, Remy, Sanji, and Ignis were the top three.
• The Volbonans were wary about letting King Dedede into Mount Volbono due to his history of stealing food, but he assured them he'd changed since then. The main reason he wanted to visit was so his army of Waddle Dees could try the stew. It was an adorable sight to see, and many tourists took photographs of Waddle Dees sleeping around Peronza Plaza.
• Mount Volbono is also of interest to the House of Plants because of its fertile soil. The Volbonans have a trade agreement with the Hall of Miscellaneous Plants, which has a regular produce market. Gourgeist visited Mount Volbono night in hopes of pulling a prank, but despite being a ghostly jack-o-lantern, she was the one who got a fright; the Volbonans mistook her for a non-anthropomorphic pumpkin and tried to cook her. The Volbonans sent her a chef's hat as an apology, but she still hasn't returned.

Edited by NitroIndigo on Mar 22nd 2023 at 8:09:41 AM

I'm alright with adding Keiki to the Order of Humanity.

Okay. Before the page is up, time to get these evaluated first.

Grit and Flame, Co-Deities of On-Ride/On-Foot Combat

• Potential House: Gameplay
• s:

• Intermediate God (Grit), Lesser Goddess (Flame)
• Symbol: Grit's shield and Flame's whip
• Theme Song: Panzer Paladin Theme (metal version)
• Alignment: Neutral Good
• Portfolio: On-Ride/On-Foot Combat, The Hero, Animesque, Defeating Demons With Their Spirit Weapons, Breakable Weapons
  • Grit: Humongous Mecha, Multi-Melee Master, Power Fist, Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me, Repurposed For Construction Work
  • Flame: Action Girl, Boobs Of Steel, Whip It Good, Experienced Protagonist In Rescue Work, Android, Sensual Spandex, Bright Turquoise Hair
• Domain(s): Robots, Heroes, Weapons
• Herald: The rest of Gauntlet, The Horseman
• High Priest(esse)s: Kevin, Connie, and Tom Wolf
• Followers: Moze, Titanfall pilots, Kled and Skaarl, Rell
• Allies:
• Rivals:
• Enemies:
• Additional Character Relationships: Members of the Pantheon that have various relationships (examples include Enemy Mine, Vitriolic Best Buds, Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, Headbutting Heroes, Friendly Enemy, Friendly Rival, Just Friends, etc.) other than allies, rivals, or enemies.
• Feared by/Fears:
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• Pitied by/Pities:
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• Conflicting Opinion:
• From dark deep space, giant weapons fell from the sky and pierced their way through historic locations all around the world. Upon impact, each of the weapons opened a breach in the fabric of reality and unleashed legions of gigantic demons from the Netherworld. In anticipation of something like this, the International Security Council formed Gauntlet, a science committee developing very sophisticated defense technologies. Gauntlet discovered that denizens of the Netherworld can only be defeated by their own Spirit Weapons. However, these can be corruptive to humans who touch them, so the task fell to Grit, the last remaining Paladin unit — a state-of-the-art suit of power armor to wield these weapons. And assigned as his Squire, a.k.a. his pilot, was Flame, a former rescue operations android recommissioned to fight the forces of the Netherworld.
  • Together, they put a stop to the legions of Ravenous, the mastermind behind the invasion, taking each weapon for their own use. Eventually, after defeating his eleven Weapon Keepers, they reached his Inverted Fortress thanks to one of its legionnaires, the Horseman (who was secretly in opposition to Ravenous), heralding its appearance. Along the way, Girt and Flame ran into the Putrid Paladin, and—upon defeating it—discovered that they weren't the first to storm the Tower, for the Paladin was piloted by a human Gauntlet soldier named Blaze, who was the physical template for Flame. Unfortunately, she was corrupted by the Spirit Weapon she stole for Gauntlet, thus explaining why an android was assigned to Grit; Flame wouldn't be (as) susceptible to it as Blaze was. Upon reaching Ravenous and vanquishing him, his scepter was left behind, and the Horseman confronted Flame one more time to judge her based on her choice. In one path, she took the scepter for her own, and fell to its temptation of power, defeating the Horseman, and taking the Netherwold's armies for herself. But in the canon path, she leaves it behind, or breaks it. Either way, Flame proves her resistance to the temptation of power, and the Horseman approves and departs with the Inverted Fortress. She and Grit then retire from Gauntlet to become construction workers to repair the damage done by the Netherworld's forces.
• In a game where there's something to ride while you take out foes, it's usually preferrable to stay in that ride to keep oneself as safe as possible. However, there are times when one has to get off that ride voluntarily because it's advantageous somehow. While Grit is usually the one to clash against the demons using their weapons (or just his fist), there are times when Flame has to eject in order to navigate areas that are too small for the Paladin or in the need of better maneuverability, or because it's actually more advantageous to be a much smaller target. In any case, Flame is far from useless without Grit, though she'll still count on him to make most of the tough fights easier.
• Grit and Flame were contacted via a message to Gauntlet. The message notified them of a special invitation to the Pantheon in light of their achievements in their world. As further incentive, there were offers to help in rebuilding their world so that, as well as reports of other nefarious beings threatening other worlds. Welcoming the assistance, they accepted the message, and eventually they found themselves in the Pantheon.
• Despite their skill in combat, they prefer rescue and construction work. After all, the former is what Flame was originally designed for. Of course, given all the dangerous entities in the Pantheon, Grit still has the power to summon and use Spirit Weapons, and Flame always has her laser whip ready. And unlike other mecha pilots, she's ready to eject at a moment's notice if it's advantageous to do so or if Grit's in a bind that only she can help with.
  • Speaking of Spirit Weapons, after hearing of their stay in the Pantheon, and negotiations with the Court of the Gods, with help from the Horseman, there is a room in their temple that contains every Spirit Weapon ever collected by the pair except for Ravenous's scepter. Grit is allowed to take any number of these weapons until he reaches his Spirit Burden, after which he can't obtain any more until he's no longer past that threshold. For some reason, there also existed something called a "Spirit Weapon Designer" room next to the standard Spirit Weapon room, which held a wider assortment of weapons, even some that don't look like weapons at all, like Phoenix Wright's OBJECTION! shout bubble. On a lark, at least one of these weapons is picked up per outing
  • Because of the corruptive nature of Spirit Weapons, Flame will not allow anyone to borrow them from Grit unless they're inorganic like the Autobots, and she'll still exercise caution even then; after all, despite being an android, Flame proved just as susceptible to the temptation to the dark side as any human. Of course, with additional allies in the Pantheon, Grit now has access to non-Spirit Weapons as well, which is a welcome boon.
• During one battle, Flame had an idea for using some of the Spirit Weapons as healing items when she came across a heavily damaged Mazinkaiser while transferring supplies. She tossed an Ice Pop to it and told Kouji to break it (and not against an enemy). When he did so, Mazinkaiser was greatly rejuvenated, though Flame noticed it didn't fully heal like it did with Grit. It was later speculated that it's likely from Mazinkaiser having a lot more vitality that Grit ever could, thus it had more to heal). Ever since then, healing Spirit Weapons are more often brought out.

Esplin Nine-Four-Double-Six Prime and War-Prince Alloran-Semitur-Corrass, Celestial Controller and (Former) Host of the Meat Puppet Dynamic (Esplin: Visser Three, The Abomination, Sub-Visser Twelve, Sub-Visser Seven, Visser Thirty-Two, Victor Trent, Earl of Evil | Alloran: The Butcher of Hork-Bajir, Alloran the Disgraced)

• Potential House: The house where you think your deity would fit best. Please limit your list to one or two, as it's difficult to keep profiles updated when they're in multiple houses.
• s:

• Whatever level his host is, but Quasideity in his natural form (Esplin), Lesser God with potential Intermediate God forms (Alloran)
• Symbol: The Blade Ship
• Alignment: Neutral Evil (Esplin), Lawful Good formerly with Chaotic tendencies (Alloran)
• Portfolio: Animorphism, Collector of Forms
  • Esplin: Deconstructed Character Archetype: Evil Overlord, Was More Competent Before Infesting Alloran, Ax-Crazy, Asskicking Leads to Leadership, Bad Boss, Bigger Is Better Until It Isn't, Crippling Overspecialization As A Battle Commander, Curb-Stomp Battle On Both Ends, Master of Evil Gloating, General Failure, Hair-Trigger Temper, A One-Person Monster of the Week Through His Morphs, Powerful, but Incompetent, Shoot the Messenger, Ultimate Job Security, Wide-Eyed Idealist Regarding Enemy Mine Situations, Dragon Ascendant, Graceful Loser, Know When to Fold 'Em, And I Must Scream, Sealed Evil in a Can
  • Alloran: It Never Gets Any Easier, Has All The Morphs He Acquired While He Was Visser Three, Proud Warrior Race Guy, Warrior Prince
    • Pre-Infestation: Cynical Mentor, General Ripper, The Scapegoat, Well-Intentioned Extremist
    • Post-Infestation: The Atoner, Break the Haughty, Heel–Face Turn, Redemption Earns Life
• Domain(s): Possession, "Puppet"
• Allies:
  • Esplin:
  • Alloran: The Animorphs
• Rivals:
• Enemies: EACH OTHER, Each other's allies
  • Esplin: All allies of the Animorphs, humanity in general
  • Alloran:
• Additional Character Relationships: Members of the Pantheon that have various relationships (examples include Enemy Mine, Vitriolic Best Buds, Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, Headbutting Heroes, Friendly Enemy, Friendly Rival, Just Friends, etc.) other than allies, rivals, or enemies.
• Respected by/Respects:
• Pitied by/Pities:
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• Alloran's entire pre- and early military history isn't known, but Esplin 9466 was born in a stolen Andalite ship's modified Yeerk Pool (out of a sterile titanium-alloy tank) shortly after their exodus from their own homeworld, from the decaying bodies of his three parents, along with several hundred siblings (and one twin), as was natural for Yeerk reproduction. During "training" where new Yeerks control crippled/aged Gedds to have a sense of their future, many Yeerks actually were repulsed or sickened by it, but Esplin was hooked, and became determined to be fit and useful in order to serve the his kind, and he shortly became obsessed with possessing a host (which not many Yeerks actually feel), and studied Andalite culture, biology, and military tactics, with the dream of controlling one of their kind someday. During the gestation of the Yeerk Empire as they sampled species that would be fit for hosts (being stuck with their native Gedds for so long), he became the first Hork-Bajir Controller, and his approval of them would lead to a bid to take their homeworld and infest them all. That said, while infesting them was easy due to how dimwitted Hork-Bajir were, it proved problematic when their intelligent seer Dak Hamee and Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan, daughter of Seerow, ended up contacting the Arn, who had created the Hork-Bajir, as well as other monsters meant to keep them from the Arn. Before long, Aldrea managed to contact the Andalite fleet, and while he failed his chance to infest her, she also missed the chance to kill him then and there.
• Erstwhile, Alloran had been grilling his Prince Seerow for his mistake of giving Yeerks technology, telling them about the outside cosmos, and building Kandronas to sustain them outside the range of their own sun, which had allowed a few hundred of them controlling Gedds to steal four Andalite attack fighters and two transports, the latter of which also then went to spirit away over a quarter million more Yeerks with them before escaping into Z-Space, thus coining the law of Seerow's Kindness. Months later, his race soon picked up Aldrea's message, and Alloran—by now a Prince himself—was part of the fleet sent to the Hork-Bajir homeworld, though they apparently weren't sent as urgently as Aldrea had hoped, and even then there weren't as many sent. That was because despite what they tell the masses back home, the Andalites are struggling in the war with the Yeerks. Eventually, with things getting desperate, and the Arn getting wiped out as well, Alloran gave the order to release the Quantum Virus to wipe out the Hork-Bajir in order to thin their numbers as Yeerk hosts, but the Empire had gathered more than enough by then. This also resulted in Aldrea's desertion and getting stuck as a Hork-Bajir during her and Dak's flight and failed attempt to stop it. Esplin's squadron intercepted them during that and captured them, intending to infest Aldrea, but made the mistake of not having his own Hork-Bajir host restrained as he made the transfer, who turned the tables against his forces and pulled him out, but by the whims of fate, he managed to escape down a stream, and eventually return to the others. What remained of Alloran's forces meanwhile fled, a lost cause.
• After the disastrous incident with the Hork-Bajir homeworld, Alloran entered relevance again when he was required to bring two humans—Hedrick Chapman and Loren—who were found abducted at a Skrit Na ship on a previous mission, back to Earth (sans memories of the whole affair), and had to bring arisths Arbron and Elfangor as well, who had found those humans. However, when Arbron discovered that the Skrit Na had a dangerous artifact called the Time Matrix, they took a detour to that ship's destination; the Taxxon homeworld. At the time, Esplin was Sub-Visser Seven, in another Hork-Bajir host, and he spotted and captured Elfangor in Taxxon morph when the young aristh actively pulled back from eating a recently injured Taxxon, which most would not miss the chance to chow down upon. He tossed Elfangor over some feral Taxxons to be feasted upon, but he managed to demorph and escape. Later, Esplin would find Chapman, who essentially advertised Earth to the Yeerks (though another Yeerk, Edriss 562, would end up there while searching for a species ideal for infestation, but that's a different story). Eventually, in the midst of a skirmish between the Yeerk Empire and the Living Hive of Free Taxxons, Esplin would cross paths with Elfangor once more, and Alloran would find his way back to the then-cadet, and then hold the then-Hork-Bajir Controller hostage in exchange for a safe way off of the planet on their acquired vessel. However, Arbron would voluntarily remain behind, having been trapped in Taxxon morph during the mission.
  • Inside the Andalite-piloted ship, Esplin would secretly transfer himself to Chapman before Alloran had his former Hork-Bajir host ejected. And then when the War-Prince and aristh had an argument over killing some host-less Yeerks Elfangor passed over in his then-idealism, Esplin in Chapman took the chance to give Elfangor the chance to incapacitate Alloran during the brief scuffle. And while the young aristh went to retrieve the Time Matrix, Esplin transferred himself to Alloran, and it turned out to be all a trap of the Yeerk's making. However, Elfangor proved a quick thinker and turned the tables to get himself and the humans as far from the planet as possible and kick off Esplin for good measure. Still, with an Andalite as his host, Esplin managed to procure a lot of valuable Intel for the Empire, and was promoted to Visser Thirty-Two.
  • Thanks to a tracker on the Time Matrix, Esplin would meet Elfangor again at the Graysha Nebula, amidst the Andalite fleet, and living asteroids that swallowed up ships and chased energy. They (plus Loren) would end up using the Time Matrix at the same time, and there would be a lot of timey-wimey and dimensional fuckery, but ultimately everyone would make it out alive, and Esplin eventually reaches the rank the Animorphs know him for; Visser Three, and he would be assigned the covert mission of invading Earth, the groundwork already "paved" by Edriss, now Visser One, during her time there as a deserter before showing her results to the Council of Thirteen.
  • Eventually, Visser Three would put an end to Elfangor by ambushing his Dome Ship and fleet over Earth, killing all except Elfangor (in a space fighter) and Aximili (whose portion of the Dome Ship would sink into the ocean). He would soon find his nemesis at an abandoned construction site, and swallow him up as an Antarean Bogg. But by then, Elfangor had granted the morphing power to five human kids, who would become the Animorphs (and rescue Ax later on to join them), and be a constant thorn on his side as he made ineffective progress with the invasion, the pride of possessing an Andalite having gotten to his head, or a result of Alloran's brain influencing him, as all Yeerk hosts end up doing to any Yeerks controlling them.
  • Close to the end of the prolonged invasion attempt on Earth, after his promotion to Visser One after the previous one's execution (though the Animorphs managed to barge in and rescue her host Eva, Marco's mother), he decided it's time to start bringing the war out in the open, and started with collecting blood samples to match DNA with blood stains scattered throughout the Animorphs' battles. Through these, he discovered that most of what he and his forces thought were "Andalite bandits" were actually humans, Ax being the only actual Andalite among them. His forces even managed to acquire the Escafil Device, but while it gave them the morphing power, itnalso ultimately led to his invasion's downfall as Yeerks and Taxxons found this as a way out of their miserable existences, and the Yeerk Controlling Jake's brother Tom sought to build his own empire. Eventually, with sabotage from within, and this betrayal plot, Visser One was cornered by the Animorphs and he summarily surrendered, seeing his fate by the Yeerk Council worse than whatever punishment the Andalites will sentence him to.
  • In the end, Esplin was finally removed from Alloran once and for all, and the now-freed Andalite is indebted to Jake's group for it. He then smooths over communications with the Andalite fleet meant to destroy Earth with the Yeerk invasion. Esplin himself was locked in a special lavender Yeerk box with a miniaturized Kandrona source, a computer interface, and a voice synthesizer, stood trial for his transgressions against Earth, and wad moved to a secure facility in Kansas. As for Alloran's reception to the Andalite populace, especially regarding his...time under Esplin, that is unknown.
• In a bid to gather more allies, and someone to counter the Animorphs, someone who would know them best, The Grand United Alliance of Evil underwent a few missions to rescue Esplin, abduct Alloran for him to re-infest, officiate their ascension as a Pantheon deity, and sent him out to try and get his revenge. While the GUAE thought little of his botching of the covert invasion, they could tell that he he's really competent when he's in his element: open invasion, which he was eventually allowed to do. The reason they chose him was because what his race is all about; physically controlling their hosts by entering their brains, and since Yeerks as a whole vary in motives and alignment, they decided to ascend only him. Well, him and his most famous host body, which is a prerequisite, hence the abduction of Alloran. Even so, the scientists in the GUAE had something else just in case.
  • Along with some tag-alongs who also had some beef with them, the Visser clashed with the Animorphs and their allies in a GUAG-GUAE skirmish. Despite meeting their nemesis once more, they also knew that liberating Alloran once more should be attempted, even if it means poisoning the elder Andalite. One of their allies however did one better, and performed a surgical enough teleportation spell that took all of Alloran, took him to another nearby spot, and left Esplin hanging in the air for a while before splatting on the ground, after which the entire group made their escape.

• Applies to both:
  • Due to events, and strong opposition, Esplin inhabits the temple alone, while Alloran hangs out with the Animorphs, which is only a bit awkward given he had been their enemy for the longest time. And given that Alloran won't be willingly around as Esplin's host, the GUAE managed to create a brain-dead Andalite copy of the Andalite War-Prince (in exchange for Esplin serving the GUAE), and it fortunately has the morphing power as well, thus skipping the need for planning an infiltration to the Treasury's Maximum Security Wing to steal the Escafil Device. However, there turns out to be another restriction. While they won't lose their "roster" upon dying, just like with the Animorphs, Esplin's host and Alloran have to go to sleep until morning for any newly acquired creature to be "saved" permanently there. If they die before then, then that acquired creature is lost. This is meant to disincentivise reckless acquiring and actively exploiting the revival system for this purpose.
  • Both fear skunks ever since getting sprayed by one (Cassie in morph) during the "Dapsen Logging" incident. They had underestimated the Earth animal, to their peril. They also both look down on the disabled, Alloran due to Andalite culture branding vecol as disgraceful, and Esplin due to Yeerk mindsets judging host bodies by physical capabilities and the minds they possess.
• Exclusive to Esplin:
  • In Esplin's temple is a Yeerk Pool for him to soak up Kandrona Rays, which Yeerks need for sustenance every three Earth days, or else he will die. With his new default host body being brain dead, he doesn't have to worry about having to restrain it like with Alloran. However, with the Pantheon having a couple of creatures much better than Andalites, he's looking to acquiring restraints for such things when he infests them.
  • Speaking of infesting, some people wonder how do Yeerks infest hosts via entering the ear. At least for humans, there is no direct passage connecting the inside of the human ear to the brain; the Yeerk would have to chew, melt, or in some other fashion penetrate several layers of tissue to reach the inside of the skull, which would undoubtedly prove fatal. Esplin for his part isn't providing answers.
  • That said, the rules of life and death in the Pantheon work differently, so suicide of his future hosts is an option for them, not to mention their allies, who are more willing and/or able to fight him and his monstrous morphs head-on. Most Greater Deities are off of his list for this reason since most of them are too powerful to contain/keep from committing suicide. This means those like the Z-Fighters, the Avengers, and the Justice League are not to be messed with (Batman was Crazy-Prepared to even account for a brain slug like him, and Iron Man's AIs knew to disable him if was ever compromised like this, not to mention Tony himself being quite the mental annoyance).
    • As for those who use Transformation Trinkets, now that's another story. The only issue is what might happen to Esplin when this host transforms. Will he be "safe" inside the brain? Or will the energies vaporize him if they don't merely armor the user? He'll also have to pick the solitary ones since most Henshin Heroes come in teams, and they would stop at NOTHING to retrieve their abducted teammate, and fight them if need be.
    • One other obvious candidate is Ben Tennyson, with all the various aliens he can turn into. The only issues are keeping Ben properly restrained when he needs to feed, and the question of what would happen to Esplin if he makes Ben transform. Will he be transposed to the new form's brain, or will it destroy him? What if he transforms into something that doesn't have a conventional organic brain like Upgrade, Goop, or Echo Echo? Would turning him into Alien X keep him inside Ben, or will he end up outside with all three of its personalities (Serena, Bellicus, and Ben himself)? And given how Ben doesn't get the alien he wants to turn into sometimes, it's also possible that the Omnitrix might do this on purpose to screw Esplin over. He may have to settle with trying to acquire his transformations instead, assuming they can be done at all for some of them.
  • His private quarters has only a computer console (since Andalites don't need to sit), and adorning the walls are all sorts of torture devices he's collected around the galaxy, including an iron maiden (human-shaped cage with spikes) from Earth.
  • Due to his experiences with the Animorphs a.k.a. the "Andalite bandits", Esplin is extremely paranoid, always wanting every living organism in an area verified or killed before he discusses any plans (and to go elsewhere if that isn't feasible). In fact, shape-shifters in general are a sore spot for him, despite being one himself through his Andalite host.
  • One thing that can be counted on is that whenever Esplin shows up in his Andalite host, there's always an aura of malevolence emanating from him. Given that Andalites can convey emotions to others just like Elfangor did to the burgeoning Animorphs before his untimely death, it's likely that this is how that occurs, and because he either doesn't know how or doesn't bother with "turning it off". At least he seems to have stopped using his thought-speak in "public broadcast" mode since that's how the Animorphs figure out some of his plots.
  • In regards to other species, as his own kind has done, Esplin uses five Classes. Class 1 is for those that just plain cannot be infested, Class 2 for those that can but suffer from severe drawbacks, Class 3 for those that cannot be bred quickly, Class 4 for those who are too strong to take one, and Class 5 for those who can be bred quickly and cannot resist infestation.
  • Unlike the Animorphs or Alloran, Esplin has no restraints whatsoever in regards to whom he acquires his morphs from. Because of that, he's gotten some bigger and badder morphs, and his share of extra foes as a result of that.
    • All the creatures hunted by the Monster Hunters have drawn his interest, except the Deviljho, given its Horror Hunger is reminiscent of Taxxons, and he's not testing if that hunger is just as powerful. This also gets him in the crosshairs of the Monster Hunters when they mistake him for their usual quarry. And even if he breaks their usual behavioral patterns, there are those too stubborn to call off the hunt, and one time he was forced to demorph, they were rightly peeved, and willing and even able to hunt an Andalite.
    • Kaiju like Godzilla are another tantalizing candidate for acquiring (though not infesting since they're too big, and holding them down during his feeding period is highly impractical). Actually reaching one and getting close enough to touch them is a challenge in and of itself, though.
  • Dislikes maple and ginger-flavored instant oatmeal, given it's addicting to Yeerks. Sure, it can circumvent the need for Kandrona for a time, but it driving the Yeerk crazy is not worth it for Esplin.
  • Unlike other Evil Overlords, when he's backed into a corner with zero fallback options and zero chances of making a comeback courtesy of underlings or allies, Esplin's perfectly willing to surrender without a fight, just as he had in the finale of the invasion of Earth when the Animorphs and a traitorous subordinate corner him separately, whereas most would be Defiant to the End or be Ain't Too Proud to Beg. It's a trait inherent in all Yeerks, where they surrender when obviously defeated, and they find it bizarre for anyone to fight past the breaking point, and making last stands. There are those in the GUAE who wish to stamp out that line of thinking, especially if this means he'll sabotage others in order to stay alive.
• Exclusive to Alloran:
  • Having been a host body to Esplin for several Earth years, and subject to every atrocity he's done, Alloran strongly opposes all forms of mind control. The trauma has had to go through is too much for nearly any being to
  • Not having acquired any other birds yet, Alloran's default flying morph is the kafit from his home world. When asked if Esplin somehow infiltrated it and acquired the bird, Alloran scoffed at the thought; he had acquired this prior to his infestation. After hearing where that ridiculous assumption came from, he chided Ax for coming to that conclusion.

Edited by nightelf37 on Mar 22nd 2023 at 4:28:28 PM

Why isn't Visser One in Esplin's list of aliases?

Also, I might suggest Tom once Mount Volbono gets approved, and he'd definitely be on Alloran's pity list. Are you allowed to have two in-progress profiles reference each other?

Alright, so I've got 4s for Zoombinis and I believe it's been three days since.

Does that mean I'm good to post the official thing?

The Zoombinis, Co-Deities of Logic Puzzle Roadblocks

• Demideities
• Symbol: Themselves, with varying legs, hair, eyes, and nose color
• Theme Song: Zoombiniville
• Alignment: Neutral Good
• Portfolio: Waddling Heads, Mix-and-Match Critters, Searching For A New Home After Theirs Gets Taken Over by the Bloats, Must Solve Logic Puzzles At Every Turn To Progress, Can Survive Various Life-Threatening Falls Without Suffering A Scratch
• Domains: Puzzles, Logic, Migration
• Hearlds: The Boolies
• Allies: Professor Layton, The Smurfs, Robin, Abe, The ChuChus, Link, Kosmo & Nova
  • Admired By: Sherlock Holmes
  • On Good Terms: Papyrus
• Enemies: Corrupt Corporate Executive Deities, Amanda Young and Mark David Hoffman, The Coachman, The Aryan Brotherhood, GLaDOS
• Fear: The Glukkons
• The Zoombinis once lived peaceful, happy lives on their home of Zoombini Isle. Each differed in some manner, be it a different-colored nose, quantity/style of eyes, hairstyle, or feet. However, these differences mattered not to these industrious, determined creatures. All this changed one day when the Bloats arrived. They promised that their changes would ultimately bring further joy to the Zoombinis. Instead, they almost ended up a Slave Race to them. This was when the Zoombinis began their escape plan: they would flee the island they once called home and journey to a new land to settle down. This journey proved successful and from there, they founded their new home: Zoombiniville.
• A group of sixteen Zoombinis were exploring the area near Zoombiniville one day when they found a door. Said door could only be opened if they lined each other up based on their feet. They passed the test with flying colors and discovered, on the other side, lied the Trope Pantheon before their very eyes (or "eye", in some cases). Professor Layton, impressed by these being's ability to overcome seemingly-randomly-placed logic puzzles, vouched for their ascension into the Pantheon, which they would earn their title: "Co-Deities of Logic Puzzle Roadblocks".
• One of the first groups to greet the Zoombinis were The Smurfs. The latter shares the strife of adventuring and avoiding the clutches of those who wish to abuse them, and thus became fast friends. Abe also has the respect for the Zoombinis. He empathizes with their need to escape from an oppressive regime, which he had to do on multiple occasions already. Similarly, the ChuChus also had to flee their homeworld in search of new ones at the hands of an enemy. These common allies have helped the Zoombinis not feel alone in this new location. Kosmo is also in a similar boat to the Zoombinis, having to solve all manner of puzzle to put his love, Nova, back together.
• Professor Layton quickly grew an interest in the Zoombinis upon hearing about their escapades. A solver of often-arbitrary puzzles himself, he decided to assist them in whatever trials the Pantheon would offer. For example, when one path gave way into a mysterious light grid, it was Layton who was able to solve what needed to be done. He helped the Zoombinis cross the chasm using unusually strong bubbles, being careful as to not guide them the wrong way. An unusual experience, but one that strengthened the bond between the two.
• Robin happened upon the Zoombinis upon observing them in a peculiar pickle. They were trying to find a way to activate a water pump so they could being cultivating a garden but said pumps could only be activated based on matches of their varying anatomy. Using his cunning intellect, Robin strategized a way that each in the group could organize themselves and make their way through the system without losing anyone. Nobody knows why this pump had such a convoluted system of operation, but this interaction revealed yet another ally for the Zoombinis to lean on.
• Link also finds himself enjoying the company of the Zoombinis. His quests have seen him, and his many incarnations, solving all manner of unusual puzzle. Some of the Toon variants recall their quests and having to solve some peculiar puzzles, some of which involved the varying anatomy of the Anouki. Other variations are reminded of the fairies which aided them on their journeys. Regardless, Link has offered up his arsenal of weapons and equipment to assist these new allies however necessary.
• Sherlock Holmes is sometimes seen observing the Zoombinis' actions. While not actively involved in assisting them like others, he is curious about how their everyday lives seem to resemble a bunch of puzzles. His current theory is that it is some sort of game, a game won by guiding all the Zoombinis to their destination. He appreciates their escapades and means of teaching others the way of logical thinking.
• When Crazy Dave caught news that the Zoombinis ascended, he immediately went over to see if it was true, with plants in hand. To his relief, he saw a bunch of blue WaddlingHeads, as opposed to the undead on ice-cleaning machinery. It turns out he accidentally blocked one of the "o"s on the welcome pamphlet with a finger, hence the confusion. He quickly apologized for this blunder and went back to his usual business.
• Papyrus, upon seeing the Zoombinis, enjoyed the opportunity to meet some new monsters in the Pantheon. As part of their started relationship, he decided to make some puzzles for them to solve. They were supposed to be incredibly challenging and brain-wracking, but instead they ended up being incredibly easy to solve. One of them involved a path that could only be taken by those with orange noses, which he revealed while walking back, needing to wear one to avoid the failure condition. The Zoombinis themselves don't seem to mind his silly escapades.
• A few Zoombinis have taken up jobs in the House of Food. Specifically, they act as waiters, providing people with what they ordered. Given their experience serving pizza to some hungry trolls, their skills transferred over well, and made them popular among some of the pizza-loving deities as well. It certainly helps that, unlike the trolls, people here tend to say exactly what they want the first time, so no trial-and-error is needed here.
• Given their previous history, Zoombinis are not fond of those who mistreat their subordinates, let alone enslave them. They are leary of The Coachman who, despite his promises of fun on his Pleasure Island, is known for turning his patrons into donkeys before selling them off to work in salt mines. They are especially bothered by the fact that, like the Bloats and their takeover, he got off completely scott-free. Similarly, The Aryan Brotherhood, infamous for their own slavery and policing of culture, hits far too close to home for the Zoombinis, given their own holidays were slowly cancelled at the hands of their own oppressors.
  • Though, compared to those two, The Glukkons seem far worse an entity to deal with. The concept of having to work under a tyrannical industry, selling off your own workforce as foodstuff, such actions for the Zoombinis made the Bloats look like saints in comparison. They dare not be near them out of fear of how they might abuse them.
• Amanda Young and Mark David Hoffman decided to test this personally by setting up a death trap for them. Each room was specifically designed in such a manner that at least one Zoombini will be forced to take the blow. It took some outside intervention by some of the smartest minds in the Pantheon to get them out of this predicament. Angered by this result, the two now plots their revenge, a new death trap without any sort of all-survival loophole.
• Upon hearing about their arrival and puzzling escapades, GLaDOS got the ideas of many tests she could perform on the Zoombinis. These range from seeing how Zoombinis can handle Aperture Science Weighted Cubes, going through portals, problem solving their way to a button, whether their noses allow them to be affected by deadly neurotoxins, et cetera. Needless to say, she is not allowed near the Zoombinis for the sake of their life. This especially held true after the Young and Hoffman incident.
• Sometime after their discovery of Zoombiniville, some scouts were sent to check on their previous home of Zoombini Isle. During their time away, the Bloats had ransacked the island, leaving it in a state of ecological dismay. The source of its degrade was tracked down to a lack of moths to pollinate the flowers, thus depriving the local fauna of food. While some Zoombinis have already left to restore the island to its natural state, some have asked the Pantheon's denizens to assist in the cause as well. They are also recruiting some of the insect deities to come over and move the process along. So far, Team Snakemouth and Barry B. Benson have agreed to assist in this project, the latter knowing what a lack of pollinating insects can do to the world already. Captain Planet and his Planeteers have also joined the cause for restoring the island to its former glory.

Edited by aa1205 on Mar 22nd 2023 at 12:03:42 PM

Since you got the 4th three days ago, I believe it's now okay to post the official thing.

@ Excessive: Mr. Satan started out as a Boisterous Weakling. While he is strong among regular humans, he still pales compared to many other fighters in Dragon Ball.

Scrappy-Doo has a habit of being provoked into trying to fight whatever bad guy he comes across.

Gebura was formerly Kali, a Color Fixer renowned for her strength and how she used it to protect other people. One of her passives for the Red Mist's keypage in LoR is simply called "The Strongest". While her strength has waned, Gebura's still very strong and has the experience and cooled temper to make up for it. Don't imagine she'd want to entertain Cirno, though.

Could mention Zamtrios, a shark-like Amphibian that not only makes its home in arctic environments also has an affinity with ice, even forming armor out of it. She'd have better luck with its Tigerstripe subspecies, which live and deserts. They forgo the ice, but compensate with greater control over its vanilla counterparts' ability to inflate themselves.

@ Puzzarian: Mr. Krabs once got into publication and goaded Spongebob into writing fraud stories of various people in Bikini Bottom. Karma catches up to Mr. Krabs when after threatening to take Spongebob's spatula away if he doesn't continue reporting, Spongebob exposes Mr. Krabs in the press resulting in a mob taking their money back.

Edited by CrownlessMimic on Mar 22nd 2023 at 1:01:59 AM

Any more thumbs for Mount Volbono?

Hip-hip, Zoombini! Hip-hip, Zoombini!

First page done. Before I get started with Doc Hudson proper, may as well suggest a few more ideas:

Federation Force - Oddball in the Series

• Reason: Metroid Prime Federation Force plays unlike any other game in the longstanding Metroid Series, Prime or otherwise. There is no large, sprawling map, a mission-based structure is used instead, powerups are assigned as applicable modifications as opposed to being collected on the field, there is a large emphasis on cooperative multiplayer, the visuals involve super-deformed models, and you don’t play as Samus Aran, but instead as a member of the titular Federation Force, on a mission to investigate what's been going on in the Bermuda System.

The Rumor Weed - Gossip Evolution

• Reason: An Anthropomorphic Personification of the very concept. The Rumor Weed spreads, and is spread by, the sharing of rumors and gossip. In its debut episode, Larry-Boy And The Rumor Weed, its spread is caused when Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot confide their belief that Larry-Boy's butler, Alfred, is a robot. This rumor took the town by storm and caused the weed(s) to spread and its source Mother Weed to grow to gargantuan size. It was only Junior coming clean about the situation that the Rumor Weed was stopped in its tracks.

Also thinking about getting a Sandbox started. May need some help on that.

Edited by aa1205 on Mar 22nd 2023 at 6:27:56 AM

The weed

I was looking for the god of Evil Chancellor when I found a link in Gunter Prozen's profile for Jafar that send me to Other Creatures where he doesn't seem to be. Does anyone have any idea which house Jafar is in?

Jafar is in Fantastic Races.

Edited by Excessive-Menace on Mar 22nd 2023 at 4:03:21 AM

Thank you. Now I have fixed the link. I will try and find the Evil Chancellor deity so I can make him Cacofonix's enemy.