Janus

**Janus** is the god of doorways and destiny, though he has several other titles. He is an eccentric and picky god. Janus feeds on memories, though he prefers to feed on happy memories.

## Appearance

Janus appears differently every time he is summoned and his "default" appearance has not yet been revealed. When summoned by Lavi, Janus takes the altered form of an amusement park mascot called Door the Cat. His most notable feature is his double-sided face. His head spins around and shows a different face depending on whether he is implanting memories or prophecies. Each face has diamond-shaped eyes and small red circles resembling blush underneath each eye. When his eyes are open, there are three eyelashes on top of each diamond and a yellow slit resembling a cat's pupil within. When his eyes are closed, a downwards-pointing semicircle with three downwards-pointing eyelashes appear in each diamond. There is also a yellow shape reminiscent of a keyhole between each face. Between the eyes of one face is the Greek letter alpha, and between the eyes of the other face, the Greek letter omega. Door does not have a mouth. His head is large, round and white with rounded ears growing from the top. When feeding on memories and implanting memories into people, Door's pupils and alpha symbol glow blue. When feeding and implanting prophecies, his pupils and omega symbol glow blue.

Door wears a small black top hat with a white ribbon and yellow rose between his ears. He wears a large red bow tie around his neck. Door is dressed in a black dress coat with two pointed coattails, white cuffs, and yellow cufflinks. Underneath the dress coat, he wears a white pointed dress shirt with ruffles going down the middle. He also wears black high-waisted trousers with two horizontally-positioned yellow buttons on the front and black dress shoes. Door wears an armband on each arm; the left armband is red with the number 65 on it, and the right armband is yellow with the number 300 on it. Door also wears white dress gloves. There appear to be human wrists underneath the gloves. After eating Lavi's memory of winning a spelling bee, Door pins the medal from the event to the left collar of his dress coat.

## Personality

Janus appears friendly and cheerful at first, but is truly conniving. He is eager to bargain with those who enter his domain for their happy memories and knows which offers his targets cannot refuse. He is picky about the memories he wants to consume, but once he finds one that he wants, it is difficult to persuade him not to ease his craving with it.

When Janus shows himself as Door the Cat, he asks to be addressed not by Janus, but simply "Door." This implies Janus' desire to act out the role of whichever form he has taken. This and other qualities drive Kai to describe Janus as eccentric.

Janus will not meet with other gods and only allows humans into his domain.

## Abilities

### Feeding

Janus feeds on people's memories, though he prefers to feed on nostalgic memories. After Janus feeds on a memory, his target will permanently lose all recollection of the event. In exchange, Janus will offer someone else's memory or a prophecy of the future. The process of losing and gaining memories is shown to be dizzying and/or painful for Janus' targets.

### Omniscience

Janus seemingly has intimate knowledge of everyone's past and everyone's future. He is shown to have access to people's history even without feeding on their memory, as demonstrated when he modified himself and his domain to look like an amusement park from Lavi's childhood without ever meeting her, and when he hinted at Kai's secret past before taking his memory.

### Shapeshifting

Janus is able to change the form of himself and his domain to match a happy memory from someone trying to summon him, but it is possible he can simply change these to his whim. When he appears as Door the Cat, Lavi mentions that he does not look exactly the same as the mascot she remembers from her childhood, so it seems that there are limits to his abilities to change his own form.

## Trivia

* Janus describes his overall vision of the future as an artery that constantly swells and changes pathways.
* Door the Cat is inspired by a genetic condition common in cats called polychephaly, which results in the growth of two conjoined faces on one head in utero. He also seems to take inspiration from fancier designs of Mickey Mouse.
* The numbers on Janus' armbands, 300 and 65, are meant to represent the number of days in a year.

## Gallery

Janus as Door the Cat from a raised perspective.Janus introducing himself as Door the Cat.Janus' pupils and alpha symbol glowing blue as he deals in memories.Janus as Door the Cat rotating his head to reveal his other face.Janus' pupils and omega symbol glowing red as he deals in propechies.