Character Database

Entry X - Sly?

So, rather than an entry of a new character, this is more of a revisit to my first and main character Sly, as well as some information about the character.

So, much of the character is the same but I want to go into detail about some things with her/him, the character being of both genders after all.

Sly, though a semi-immortal being still has emotions, still has feelings and frequently makes similar mistakes, this being due to her immortality being through rebirth, death, rebirth, a constant but vicious cycle that isn't good for her, in each death her memories fade, very few being kept at the point that she currently is, leaving her to make the same mistakes, make the same blunders, make the same fatal errors ...
As a character her temperament and personality often change between each life, sometimes very similar and sometimes radically different, albeit she does tend to lean more towards certain behaviours more frequently than others, for example, it's very rare that she's born with a hostile temperament so she'll rarely turn evil, though when she does she often wields her power to the fullest, able to devastate continents, worlds and at her extremes, even universes.
For her power, she wields darkness itself as her main element though through all her many, many lives has learned to take control of many other elements from fire, ice, water, poison and many others; As such she's become a brutal being to fight against when she's wielding all the power she has, each form having power differences, her highest form (We'll call it that anyway) having a nearly unlimited level of power, certainly enough to reap havoc throughout an entire universe.

One form of the character that you wouldn't want to meet is her undead form, something that was originally only a small concept and I didn't have much idea behind, though these days I've put more thought behind it. These days it's caused to occur when she perishes with excessive hate or anger in her heart, pure rage fills her form as she's perishing and causes her spirit to cling to the body, becoming heavily vengeful and a heavy threat to anything around her ... It ... As it is in this form, it no longer speaks other than a few words occasionally, these words often sounding gargled yet ear piercing too. In her undead form she wanders near aimlessly, attacking and brutalising anything in her way, the undead form itself is gruesome to look at, most of the flesh having melted off her bones leaving a zombiefied dragon carcass walking around attacking anything and everything it sees fit, able to wield only a few elements but still able to cause more than enough damage, able to wield poison, purple fire, darkness to an extent and sound itself, able to use sound to, in some cases, cause creatures heads to literally explode if they don't shield their ears.
As such, this form tends to linger towards the top on the scale of how dangerous her forms are, as though her other forms are powerful, none are quite so hell-bent on destruction.

As a character Sly tends to be lighthearted, often frisky and playful but is also shy and quiet much of the time, she tends to wander the land she's in from place to place, usually without a goal. As said before though, her personality can vary significantly, her most dangerous times being when she turns hostile against everything if she's born with a dark influence (Not necessarily from the outside, it can just be how she was born that time), that and when she becomes protective, something that doesn't often occur due to the rarity of her having a more dominant outgoing behaviour, though when it does happen, she can reign all hell upon those that fight her.

So Sly has many abilities, from shadowstepping, a form of teleportation, mind reading, something she rarely does and can actually block against happening to her, she can swim at high speeds, run at high speeds, fast enough that if she hits into something it can cause severe damage to her, or just knock her out if she's lucky.
She can do things like heal others using her own health, form plants on her back though rarely the need arises for something like that as the plants feed from her life-force. Some of her more useful abilities are things like universe travelling allowing her to pass between them, giving her a fresh start if the need arises, something that also allows her to find a new universe should she encounter the ending of a universe or something that would cause one to become uninhabitable.
Though her wings are nearly always tattered, this being a result of the rebirth cycle, one of the tolls it has taken on her body, when she has the power she can form wings of darkness or fire for a time, allowing her to fly as long as she can sustain them.
The blades and her wings and tail can be very dangerous, made of an unknown mineral that can slice through near anything, though she prefers to avoid using them, often wishing she didn't have them as they can cause harm to the ones she cares about, though when needed she can use them as weapons, even able to coat them in an element if the need was to arise, able to burn creatures from the inside if she was to stab the creature with her tail while imbued with fire, able to poison them, freeze them and many dangerous things like this.

As a character Sly is overpowered as hell, don't get me wrong on that, that's why she's able to die, she's not fully immortal, she'll be reborn yes but she can die over and over again, each death usually takes between 5 and 5000 years for her rebirth, sometimes leaving huge gaps in time where she simply isn't there.
There are many things that balance the character from her lack of memories locking her out of many abilities, her body actually altering form slightly locking her from some abilities and her behaviour simply making her non-hostile in most situations leaving her generally attempting to avoid violence, often preferring to simply knock out a foe if she is forced to fight so she can instead flee.

I do wonder, what do you think of Sly as a character? I missed many details here I know, some filled in in the original posts about her in this book while others I just prefer to keep a secret, she's always learning after all.