User:Lilikai
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
Backstory:
Lilikai was spawned in a defiled pit along with dozens of others of her kind in a great blasphemous experiment conducted by a fickle infernal scientist in favor with the rulers of the lower planes. Her species was made for corruption, related to succubi, capable of acts of defilement of the mind and body. Where her voluptuous cousins presided over moral decay, Lilikai and others of her ilk degraded the health and perceptions of her targets, twisting their reality while destroying their bodies with sickness. That was the theory anyway. While most of her pitmates were skillful at their depredations, finding places for themselves in that hellish landscape, Lilikai was different. Where her siblings were cunning and cruel, Lilikai was timid and nervous. Where her siblings were powerful and imperious, wearing the trappings of the nobility of the damned, Lilikai slunk into the shadows. When her entire species was exterminated when the scientist fell out of favor by a succubus noble wary of this new race of potential rivals, Lilikai avoided notice.
She spent years moving from place to place in the lower planes, finding herself captured and sold into servitude shortly after the genocide of her species. Lilikai found herself acting as a pleasure slave in a brothel, where her powers over illusion made her exceedingly valuable, a minor foot-soldier in some Infernal lord’s armies, and even undergoing a stint as a laborer. It was in the first job that Lilikai’s animosity towards succubi took shape and her unease around overt displays of sexuality formed. Still, in every job she learned the kiss of the whip and the bark of the overseer, her already natural timidity enhanced by a desire to not experience the pain of the lash. The young demon was even summoned several times over the course of her life, mostly for one night stands with oversexed and horny summoners. It was the last of these though that changed her life forever.
Bryan Nesef was a member of the Resistance and, more importantly, an apprentice mage with more power than sense. Eager to prove himself to his comrades, Bryan recklessly cast a summoning spell far beyond what his meager experience would allow him to cast safely. He got lucky. Instead of some monstrosity intent on devouring his soul or a temptress eager to add another to her growing brood, he got Lilikai. It wasn’t love at first sight but when he bound the demonling to a contract to last until he died, she knew that she had found a rather special master. Instead of ordering her to serve him and do his bidding, he ordered the almost wholly compliant demoness to do all she could to protect the innocent. This was a task she took to with some relish. Though her combat skills were weak, she could turn her corruption to healing ends, energies for causing sickness nearly as apt in bringing about health. Of course, as happens in Praetoria, tragedy struck. Bryan was arrested for suspicions of Resistance sympathies and sent to the BCF, given a near indefinite sentence for possession of illegal occult tomes. Lilikai resolved to join the Powers Division and gain enough favor to free him, but the terms of her binding were too strong. When the true scope of Cole’s villainy was revealed to her, she was compelled to journey to Paragon City to help protect the people of Primal Earth.
Her time in Primal Earth has been interesting. Though her desire to protect the innocent was originally a command from her binding, it’s since become a part of herself which she enjoys. There’s something nice about being looked upon with gratitude and a bit of awe, something that makes her feel warm and fuzzy inside. Though making few friends in Paragon due to her shyness, she has cultivated a reputation around the city of being a diligent and eager to please girl, taking on difficult tasks with a slightly nervous smile. Much to her surprise she’s grown exponentially in strength; going from a mere demonling to a powerful fiend, able to project the darkness of the minds of others into corporeal form. She’s also recently developed a rather significant mastery over flame. Her new strength would easily allow her the ability to seize a title of infernal nobility should she desire it upon a return to the lower planes. Yet Lilikai has no such desires. Paragon has become a home to her, thanks to both the people who look up to her and her introduction into the supergroup The Vanguard of Liberty.
Powers:
Lilikai’s powers have far exceeded even her original creator’s greatest expectations. Her power over corruption of the mind allows her to bring the worst fears of beings to the fore, blind them to reality, and even deceive their senses so they attack their allies. Her most powerful abilities involve calling forth the darkness of the mind, summoning manifestations of pure psionic and mental angst to batter her foes. Such powers over the mind also grant her the ability to sense infernal corruption and magical residue in others, her senses for detecting things of an arcane nature exceedingly acute. The demoness’s powers over corruption of the body have increased as well, able to halt or foster healing, grant or remove power, and even emit a choking miasma which shuts down the bodies of her foes. She can also use this same corruption to speed up her own actions to nearly inhuman speeds. Even beyond what her species is capable of, Lilikai has learned several spells for enhancing coordination between allies and has managed to procure several powerful artifacts that are useful in battle. Most critically, the demoness has grasped a spark of the divine, gaining of the power of an incarnate and growing in ways she’s never imagined as a result.
Personality:
Though she’s grown by leaps and bounds since her initial summoning several months ago, Lilikai’s personality has not undergone much of a change. Upon meeting the girl, one first notices how nervous she is, stuttering over words, no matter how nice the person is, as if she expects them to hurt her for a word said in error. Easily flustered and startled, even minor surprises in conversation can send her off into a fit of stuttering and confusion. What makes her nerves even worse is the presence of outright sexual innuendo or actions, unable to really regain her composure while paying attention to that. Still, she’s eager to please and impress others to show she’s useful and should be kept around. That said, despite two months of living in Paragon her mindset is decidedly Infernal, viewing freedom of the province of the strong which, despite obvious evidence to the contrary, she refuses to admit herself being. With someone who she’s sure won’t hurt her, her nervousness drops somewhat quickly, a bit of a stutter sometimes present but mostly just an eager to please girl eager to make friends and prove herself. There are only a few exceptions to this. The first is demon summoners. With them, her demeanor is deferential but confident, eager but restrained, in a word, professional, as if she’s applying for a job with them as their next summon. Even if she’s never met said summoner before or there’s a good chance that they are quite cruel her demeanor will remain that near professional tone, with her hoping to leave as good an impression as she can. The next is succubi. To them she’s almost rude to the point of hostility. She has nothing but disdain for the temptresses and corruptors of morality, viewing them as hussies and barely worthy of being demons. The final group are demons more powerful than her in the infernal hierarchy. Even if a demon prince has been weakened by his summoning and she is vastly more powerful than he is, she’ll still be exceedingly nervous, downright deferential even. Royalty and nobility is to be honored and feared lest pain and death follow. That fact has been beaten into her, and despite her strength, it is still a precept she follows.
