Polly

**Apollyon,** also known as Polly, is a Devil aligned with The Industry and Syrensyr. His goal was to travel to the Hallowoods, after having woken Mort and manipulated Yaretzi into signing a contract to assist him in an assigned mission. Since then, Polly has left The Industry having realised that he was happier with Mort and Yaretzi.

## Personality

Polly is, on the surface, a rather charming and sarcastic but distant man, being both a pragmatist and a perfectionist. However, once Mort and Yaretzi get to know Polly better, he begins to question himself and shows deep seated insecurities and anxieties around his own worth outside of the rigid structure of The Industry.

## Description

Normally Polly appears as a spry, little and pretty (specifically 'delicate') man who wears a grey and purple floral three-piece suit (satin jacket and silk trousers, grey flowers in silk with purple backing) (occasionally paired with a matching fedora), with extremely white teeth and longer curly ginger hair that falls in lazy spirals. The Omen describes Polly's eyes as being the same colour as [they] are, The Omen being black feathers and embers, this can be assumed to mean that Polly's eyes are black with a fiery glow. When he's emotional (or just when he feels like it), he shows that he has horns that burn and eyes that blaze in much the same way, he is also shown to cry tears of fire, and bleed in a very similar fashion. Polly talks about having "*Bones of sorts*", the implications of which are not yet known.

The most notable about his appearance though, is that it isn't actually what Polly looks like, as Polly is a demon and thus takes on a new physical appearance depending on the world he is auditing, his appearance as described in show is his "human" disguise.

Polly is a known chain smoker.

## History

Not much is known about Polly's past, however Nikignik introduces him as "*one who was never a child*", and he is known to have been the protégé of Tiff, and previously worked in the archives of The Industry. He initially left the industry when he took on the assignment to kill Solomon Reed (technically doing this without permission). Polly had been to earth multiple times before this, and has been noted as disliking most naturalistic aspects (Birds especially), though thoroughly enjoying more glamorous things, such as art and fashion; the only one known of these known trips was during the 19th century when he'd been sent to track down a runaway ghost, and had missed his deadline by four days for "*reasons he didn't like to dwell on*". According to him he had made very few mistakes over the course of his life, one of these was the 19th century ghost, and another was a shipwreck that he'd 'missed' in the 12th century when counting up a balance, for which he'd been publicly reprimanded. At some point, rather early in Polly's life presumably, he witnessed the 'shattering' (see Demons/Devils) of Barb, while it is unknown if this was Polly's first time witnessing such an event, it has been implied that it was not the last.

## Known Abilities

* Polly can use whichever weapon he's carrying at that point to cast fireballs and other projectiles.
* He can swap souls out of their bodies
* He can use his cane to draw lines of fire, of which has been seen to cut through solid concrete
* Polly can teleport, or "step through space". He refers to this as a vorpal. The limitations of this are unknown
* Polly can summon materialist constructs. Most commonly cigarettes to feed his smoking habit, but in Episode 70 - Lines, he summoned an entire functioning carnival, replicating the one on Coney Island
* He can regenerate and self-heal when injured, this extends to re-growing limbs
* He portrays general pyrokinetic abilities, such as being able to light candles and lanterns without touching them, and his preference if lighting his cigarettes by holding the cigarette end to his lips, in a sense lighting it by kissing it.
* When Demons die all material objects, they summoned cease existing
* When Demons die their souls return to The Industry. It is possible and routine that they return to earth after this.

## Trivia

* Apollyon is the Greek name for Abbadon, the archangel of the abyss and the destroyer.
* Polly used to use his umbrella as a cane when walking.
* Polly "*Knows* [Nikignik's] *voice*"
* Polly knows Sign Language
* Polly is a practitioner in origami
* Polly does yoga
* Polly has a deep-rooted hatred and slight fear of birds
* Polly has been at the industry "since the start of [The Industries] activity" though this is assumed to only be talking about The Industry's activity on Earth
* Polly states in Episode 94 - Milestones that he has no sense of rhythm when asked by The Countess if he was interested in dancing. Polly can do many things but apparently dancing is not one of them
* In Episode 51 - Maps, within the context of discussing one's place within the universe Nikignik describes Polly as "*We go now to one who is neither small nor unimportant*."

## Episode appearances

* Episode 7 - Nightmares
* Episode 9 - Birds
* Episode 11 - Hearts
* Episode 13 - Stars
* Episode 18 - Bones
* Episode 19 - Devils
* Episode 23 - Sunsets
* Episode 29 - Strangers
* Episode 31 - Anchors
* Episode 33 - Temples
* Episode 36 - Swords
* Episode 39 - Promises
* Episode 41 - Waters
* Episode 46 - Teeth
* Episode 47 - Regrets
* Episode 54 - Roads
* Episode 59 - Friends
* Episode 64 - Stations
* Episode 66 - Morals
* Episode 70 - Lines
* Episode 73 - Retributions
* Episode 76 - Lungs
* Episode 82 - Failures
* Episode 83 - Hopes
* Episode 86 - Royalties
* Episode 89 - Terminations
* Episode 93 - Mirrors
* Episode 94 - Milestones