Queen Demonica

Queen Demonica Lilitha Tenebris, also known as the Shadow Queen, is the main antagonist of Wilted Memory, an alternate universe series based on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. 
She was an immensely powerful demoness, hailing from a noble house of her own, who took the kingdom of Briarthorne in her own hands a thousand years ago, overthrowing the influential Belrose House. To many in the present day, she was known as a tyrant, a conqueror, who set her heart on taking over the world. But perhaps, records from people who were there during her silent reign of terror had something else to say about her. 
She shares many similarities with her canon counterpart, but overall has a more complex personality and a different design. 
== Physical appearance ==
Demonica has a tall stature and a slightly muscular, fit, hourglass-shaped figure. Her complexion is a pale lilac that fades to a darker shade at her ears, arms, and legs, and she has very long, straight, dull lavender hair. She has brilliant scarlet eyes with cat-like pupils, a trait of her species. She has carnivorous teeth, as do all demons, with two upper canines especially pronounced much like a vampire's. She presents four ears, all pointed and tapered at the ends in a similar manner to the ears of an elf, as well as a long, tapered, dark purple tail.
She tends to wear dark-colored— mostly a deep purple shade—and intricately tailored royal dresses with gold gilded jewelry such as chokers, circlets, and bracelets studded with rubies and garnets. She also often wears faux rose-shaped ornaments in her hair.
In her Awakened form, she gains two pairs of dark purple horns, the larger curved inward and the smaller pointed up. She also gains an extra pair of arms, and three pairs of raven-like black feathered wings.
== Personality ==
In her youth, Demonica was a free-spirited young lady, always having adventures to seek out knowledge, especially of the world beyond her reach. She was incredibly passionate about learning the arts of magic as well as reading in general.
As she became older, Demonica became an elegant but very stoic demoness, rarely showing great emotion even if she’s happy or angry. She spoke in a deep, almost calming tone of voice. Despite this, she had a terrifying way of words, often using brutal words of honesty to her advantage. 
Even as the miasma took over her form and mind, Demonica retains her stoicism, though she became increasingly obsessed with her magic studies and usage that she resorted to stealing magical items. As queen, her cold and mysterious demeanour conveyed the image of a powerful and tyrant-like monarch who is not to be messed with. 
The combination of her stoic personality, her ability to manipulate shadows and dark magic, and her dark purple dresses were what earned her the nickname "Shadow Queen". 
== Biography ==
===Before the cataclysm===
Demonica was born as the youngest daughter of Lady Invidia and Lord Abaddon Tenebris, with her older sisters being Hersilia and Naenia. 
Nobody knows much about how her early life was, but as with many demons of her kind, Demonica may have spent her childhood and adolescence strengthening her inner magic. She was also a curious sort and had always wanted to know what the worlds outside her home were like. This became the driving force of why she decided to enter the mortal world, specifically in Briarthorne.
Sometime later in her adulthood, Demonica has a child, whom she named Vivian. She also frequently babysat two other young demons of other noble families— Inverna and Marilyn— after Vivian’s birth.
Demonica arrived in Briarthorne disguised as a Bloomsprite, so that nobody would ever suspect her of being an entity of supernatural origin. She takes Vivian, Inverna, and Marilyn— with her on her journey. She became very entranced by many royal artifacts in Belrose Palace that she sensed held so much power, that she would study them closely and see what they would give her. Eventually, the miasma accumulating from an unknown source caused her demon instincts to kick in full swing, and she would begin stealing things behind the backs of the royal family and palace staff.
Demonica had used many disguises, ranging from a courtier to a priestess. She would use them to their advantage when it came to stealing powerful artifacts, including the Crystal Stars. Upon hearing about these seven star-shaped crystals that were kept all over the queendom’s reaches to ensure peace throughout for eternity, she went on a quest to take them all, so that she can use their powers to her advantage. Eventually, she took two dragons, one a steed kept in the palace and the other a stray she came across during one of her ventures and used her mind-control techniques to influence them more. They were eventually tasked to bring the Crystal Stars to her, while at the same time intimidating those wherever they went. 
Over several weeks, Queen Floribunda sent a patrol of Royal Guards to search for the mysterious thief across the palace, only for the disguised Demonica to escape every time, using disorienting and illusionary spells to ward off the Guards. Even Floribunda herself was puzzled to see how difficult it was to catch her, but she had a gut feeling that whoever she was, she was much, much worse than the usual thief. 
Knowing that Demonica took the stars and used their powers to become more powerful than ever, it was too late. She had taken the position of power away from the House of Belrose, becoming Queen in Floribunda’s place. Not many outside the palace knew that Floribunda was swiftly overthrown, replaced by a powerful demoness noble, until several cryptic letters were sent out.
Over the course of Demonica’s short reign, the Briarthornians lived in fear of what their new queen would do to them if they were to disobey, even though Demonica herself wasn’t behind a lot of the nastiest things that happened in the queendom, such as the creation of the Pit of One Hundred Trials and its own dragon, but Inverna, who eventually becomes referred to by many as “Beldam.” Even so, they knew that she had possession of incomprehensible power, and knew that she was someone not to be messed with.
Four individuals, each coming from reaches around the land and eventually knighted by the once-queen Floribunda, arrived in Belrose Palace in search of Demonica to take her down once and for all.
While exposed to the Crystal Stars’ heavenly power, this rid Demonica of her immortality, and made her vulnerable to mortal attacks. This gave Queen Floribunda and the four heroes the opportunity to destroy her physical form, reducing her to a mere spirit. Floribunda used her magic to create a crypt deep in the Palace’s basement to trap the demon’s soul inside, separate from the crypts of her own family, and used one thousand talismans to ensure that she will remain there for a millennium.
===Modern age===
TBD
==Tattle Log Entry Ideas==
===Postgame===
“That’s Demonica Tenebris. She was formerly the Shadow Queen, usurper of the Briar Throne. Gosh, I remember when we had such an intense battle against her. Now she’s out and about in New Briarthorne doing… community service. I think it’s best if we don’t bother her, even if she is free of all the miasma that turned her evil.”
==Trivia==
*Demonica's name is a portmanteau of "demon" and "Veronica". It is also based on the given name "Monica". 
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