Payback

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Earth. Like every Inheritor, he's created by influence from Inferno, but he's actually "born" around earthly environment, and even said influence is said to happen due to actions from Earth aswell, though so far this isn't confirmed.

## Physical description

### Species

Originally just multiple crows seemingly forced into a Scarecrow, Demon and Lower Embodiment of Sin once he "mutated".

### Height

6'5 (variable through use of his abilities)

### Eye color

Has multiple eyes from the crows fused into one throughout most of his body. Main spiked head originally had the same eyes, but were replaced by brown and blue buttons once he mutated.

**"Payback"**is one of the few four **Inheritors** currently existing among Inferno. He was created by influence from the Sin of Despair, and is meant to replace the Blasphemous Seven's Entertainer once he dies as the new embodiment of said Sin or even incase the latter gets permanently removed from the team, given his mental state and how many times he's done so already.

## Appearance

### Original Appearance

Payback was originally a scarecrow and looked as such, although unusually disturbing. His body was made of an old blueish jacket and darker pants of overall the same color, but no shoes. He had an old wooden cross in his back that possibly worked as the base for his arms and the overall support for his body, alongside many old ropes tied as his joints. His hands were just multiple large chunks of straw put together, and left hanging through the ends of the jacket's arms.

Perhaps his most noticeable and horrifying feature is how his head was a larger board of wood that ended as a spike, with a much smaller crow head seemingly impaled in it, with it's dried blood going near it. He also had multiple crows (that were alive) inside all of his torso, with their beaks ripping through the jacket. He also probably had some in his legs, judging by how his pants are full of holes similar to the jacket's.

### Inheritor Appearance

Once enough corruption "mutated" him and gave him full sentience as the Inheritor of Despair, his appearance had some drastical changes but still remained generally similar to how he originally looked, as described above. All of the living crows that formed his torso fused into one distorted body, his main impaled head became much bigger and intimidating, with the beak taking a slight red tone and becoming much sharper in a clearly downwards direction. It also "fused" itself with the spike board and the rest of his body through seemingly extended, thin flesh, and the overall body with it included became noticeably wrinkly, nearly losing all of it's original feathers, which somewhat made it resemble an actual newborn crow.

Oddly enough he also gained new withered pieces of clothing, probably as a result of being created out of his nearby environment. The main head's eyes were replaced by two buttons, one being black, while the other was blue and smaller in size. His straws are covered by extremely old and tattered brown gloves, being able to take the shape of actual humanoid hands due to Payback's new abilities. He didn't get shoes but his legs now seem to end in proper tree-like roots, which somewhat allow him to both stand and walk.

## Personality

Most of the specifics in Payback's personality remain unknown yet, but it can be presumed he was the most inhuman and insane (although unlike the Sins the Inheritors aren't based on a deceased person, so what could be considered insane behavior is probably just his nature, specially since it's mostly influenced by Despair itself) of the four, as he was seen clearly trying to attack and murder Todd with use of his abilities, years before the current events in Oakleaf began.

## Prior to Oakleaf

While it's well-known Payback started off as a unusually terrifying scarecrow, it's unknown who created it or for what purpose, or if it was all just a part of the area's increasing corruption. What or how was the sinful corruption that mutated his original scarecrow body into what he's now was, or how it happened in his Oakleaf area is also unknown yet. Like the rest of his fellow four Inheritors, it's stated he's among the first of their rank to exist in decades, possibly implying the Inheritors as a whole were more or less a forgotten rank before their creation.
At a yet unknown point in time though, years before the current events of the story began, he attacked and tried to murder a much younger Todd using his abilities, and was only stopped from successfully doing so by the intervention of Patch. Having the risk of being exposed to the town, he possibly retreated and hid away to try attacking in other locations. Regardless, whether he did so due to his task of spreading Despair or simply out of enjoyment (could be both too, really) is unknown.