Shiloh

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## Personality

* Shiloh is a patient and subtly snarky person who tends to have a flat tone when speaking. Although they won’t actively avoid it, they tend to lean towards nodding or hand signals over verbal communication. Their standoff-ish demeanor is a front as they are actually a genuinely caring person. In emergency situations, they drop the tone and become especially careful with what they say or do. Shiloh likes to admire the little things about people that build their individuality as it reminds them of the reason why they continue to put their all into their role. They are off-puttingly polite and speak eloquently. They aren’t much of a risk-taker and prefer to wait and think things through, sometimes to a fault, however, this may contradict itself if curiosity gets the best of them. Shiloh rarely ever lives in the present and it causes them to miss what could be directly in front of them, though this doesn’t stop them from being hyper-aware of the passage of time. Getting to know Shiloh is a bit difficult because of their distant nature, but as long as you don’t force them to, they’ll open up, though not in the way you might expect them to.
	+ to those who understand typology: INTJ 5w4 514 so/sp ILI RCOAI LFEV
	+ to those who don’t, just think of an unholy combo of rei (neon genesis evangelion) and raven (teen titans)

## Creation

* Shiloh’s creation was meant to be coupled with two other ocs made by musi’s/pupper’s friends and put into a group known as “Stink”. After musi started making concepts for Bloom, the character has since branched from that to produce a new version of Shiloh which does not have any relation to the Stink Shiloh.
* They originally started off as another way for musi to represent themself in a different way. However, since musi started writing them as an oc, they have been noted as a separate character. Despite this, Shiloh’s physical appearance and personality still share many similarities with their creator, so they are considered a self-insert.
* In total, Shiloh has had 5 major redesigns (including both Stink and Bloom designs) and been renamed 1 time.

## History

**Backstory summary (BECAUSE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I CAN DO THIS COMPLETELY)**

• ***Created by Eden and the other deities using “god dust”***

* Shiloh was made to be Ocellus’ royal advisor, and was created for him since he is the only deity that cannot create or control anything tangible

* Shiloh is supposed to be a “mirrored” being to Ocellus, not necessarily that they are him or the exact opposite of him, but meaning that they would act as sort of an inverted version on terms of ideals/way of thinking

• ***Worked diligently, fulfilling their role to the best of their abilities***

* They knew their purpose since they were born, and for a while, that was it.

* However, over time, they began to question the value of their job, the world around them, etc

* Basically, they learn how to be “human” through their curiosity

• ***Nightmare war begins, for the first time, Shiloh doesn’t know what to do***

* They start working harder to get everything under control, but the situation is outside their abilities.

* Shiloh is unsure what this means for the rest of the world, but they remain strangely calm, determination unwavering as they subconsciously push the possibilities of a global catastrophe to the back of their mind.

* Keep in mind that the world assumes this is an attack directed by Ocellus out of jealousy due to bad communication. They did not mistrust his power, but his character.

• ***The Sealing Ritual (here’s where the fun begins!)***

* Ocellus suggests sealing the entire kingdom away into a parallel plain of existence, which in the process would fuse everyone else in Mortis Woods (old dreamarium) with nightmare matter, but put an end to the war. (this is kinda what happens when someone has insomnulus after a while)

* Shiloh is at first mortified (woah, a human emotion!), but reluctantly agrees after some convincing

* The plan went into affect immediately, with no thought to send a message or write a final letter

* Shiloh orders the high oneiromancers to help Ocellus with the sealing ritual at the palace temple and the lower ranks + brave volunteers to try their best to prevent as many nightmare creatures as they can from leaving Mortis Woods in their stead.

* Any nightmare creatures that manage to escape will stay and continue to corrupt the waking world.

* Immediately after stabilizing the second seal, Shiloh impulsively runs outside the temple to try and catch a glimpse of the world around them one last time

• ***Shiloh’s final moments***

* While Shiloh let their guard down, a nightmare creature decided to give up on escaping and instead attacked them

* However, in the midst of all the commotion of trying to prevent anyone from leaving Mortis Woods, nobody considered the fact that someone would try to enter

* Lucille, who journeyed into Mortis Woods while sleepwalking, is suddenly awoken by the chaos, but doesn’t realize it

* She sees Shiloh, who is about to be attacked, and attempts to save them, but as she rushes forward to save them, the second seal activates.

• ***Lucille’s dream***

* Shiloh uses Lucille’s dream to impart to her a final message

* In the dream they tell Lucille that they’re grateful to her for trying, but that she could not save them

* To prevent her efforts from going to waste, she asks Lucille if she would like to help Shiloh in another way, to which Lucille accepts

* Shiloh curses Lucille with insomnulus, allowing her to see the world through a lens inaccessible to anyone else and giving her the means to be able to communicate with Shiloh and vice versa, making her the original victim to insomnulus. Shiloh reassures that it isn’t her fault

* Lucille finally wakes up, and so does Shiloh

• ***Aftermath of the ritual***

* Shiloh wakes up, in the resting/sleeping world a bit surprised and meets Ocellus. A silence wrapped in uncertainty and resenting regret follows

* Seeing this, Ocellus tries to initiate a conversation, but Shiloh refuses to speak to him and walks passed him.

* Shiloh goes back to the palace and locks themself in their room. Upon looking at their reflection in the mirror, they realize that their face is gone.

*Extra Notes About the Sealing Ritual*

* There are actually 2 seals and one spell that are being brought up during the sealing ritual: the spell gives all the spirits of Mortis Woods a physical form, the first seal that will evenly split the nightmare curse to them + any other souls tied to Mortis Woods, and another seal that will trap all of Mortis Woods into a separate plain of existence (the sleeping/resting world)
	+ This is because you cannot seal a physical curse away into a non-physical form. These spirits now have a physical form, but are still spirits at the core. Still dead.

* IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ANY SPIRIT WHO DIES AFTER GAINING A PHYSICAL FORM AND BEFORE THE SECOND SEAL CAN ACTIVATE IS PERMANENTLY DEAD. THERE IS NO AFTERLIFE FOR THEM AND THEY WILL DISAPPEAR FOREVER.
	+ Thankfully, it’s harder to kill physical spirits vs living people due to their forms not having any specific weaknesses. The only way to kill them would be to destroy their entire form (ex: eating them, crushing them, etc).
* The reason why Lucille didn’t get sealed along with the rest of Mortis Woods is because she doesn’t “belong” to the Woods. Mortis Woods is supposed to be like the underworld, a place for the dead that can be reached by the living on earth, but that the dead cannot escape from. Because Lucille isn’t dead, her soul doesn’t belong to Mortis Woods and thus cannot be sealed along with it (since the seal is specifically places on Mortis Woods and not just the surrounding area).

## Relations and Affiliations

***Admon***:

* Estranged/Ex-friends

***Eden***:

* Aunt-nephiece relationship

***Mr. Maverick/Ocellus***:

* Works for him; mentor-student relationship / one-sided father-child during the present story (rip ocellus)

***Lucille***:

* odd strangers; have met before on one occasion: when Lucille attempted to rescue Shiloh during the *Sealing Ritual*

***Viper***:

* complicated; knows him and thinks well of him, but not very close

## Abilities and Weapons (SLIGHTLY OUTDATED)

***general abilities*:**

* jumping pretty high (the same distance you can throw a ball)
* teleport (this works like in batim 2 but can be done in bursts)
* future vision (has to be standing still and can’t multitask. they can cancel this ability any time)
* hallucinations (see “*the sand bag*” at the bottom of the category)
* knife
* regeneration (see “*the ghost clot*” at the bottom of the category)

***abilities exclusive to dreamorium*:**

* spear-thing (all royal advisors have one but shiloh’s can’t exist outside of the dream world)

* shapeshifting (this only really changes mass, not stats)

* teleporting 2.0 (same as before but there is no cooldown)

* hallucinations 2.0 (this time, due to being able to than using an item; shiloh can see the hallucinations too)

*the sand bag*

* made of a type of powder that quickly turns into a gas when touched by skin. the powder is yellow but turns into a mix of purple and blue in gas form. shiloh carries this substance around in a bag. to use it, grab a small amount of the powder. once it sublimates, shiloh waves the gas wherever this person breathes from. after inhaling, the gas takes its affect immediately. the powder does not have any dangerous properties (this does not change in gas state either). shiloh is immune to the powder due to it’s main hallucination-inducing property basically just being the oxygen from dreamarium. the most reaction shiloh would have would just be a need to sneeze, if they can still do that at this point.

*the ghost clot*:

* if shiloh gets an open wound that’s big enough, they can use their “blood” to grow a temporary organ or limb. as the blood hardens, the limb’s movement will get slower and slower until it stops moving. any blood used for the limb after it hardens will be lost, so shiloh has to be careful not to die from blood loss. this applies to organs as well. shiloh can retract the blood back at any time as long as it hasn’t hardened yet. the speed of retraction depends on the current state of limb/organ

## Trivia

* Shiloh doesn’t make noise when they walk in the waking world but does in dreamarium. They also don’t have a shadow at all.
* They keep a straight face through almost everything. It’s very difficult to get a good reaction out of them, even by surprising them. However, it isn’t impossible…
* They don’t like people touching them and are a bit of a germaphobe. They won’t show this however.
* Shiloh knows sign language
* They have a complicated relationship with puzzles
* Shiloh was originally named “Pygmy” after a type of goat, but that was changed a few years after starting concepts for Bloom.
* Shiloh has a bad habit of staring. Whether it be off into the distant or straight into your soul, expect them to stay that way for a bit. Reasons vary on why they do this.
* Shiloh is aroace.