Specter

> "I didn't know social life could be this fun." ~Specter

Specter is the deity of reality, knowledge, and ghosts.

## Appearance

Specter's generally in their visible human form, not because it's the most comfortable, but because it seems that everyone has a similar form. Why be too different?

### Human

In human form, Specter is average height, standing at 1.70 meters (5' 7"). They have the appearance of a young person around 20, though their body has an obvious lack of gender defining parts. That aside, Specter's skin is a dark creamy color as if tanned. Their eyes are slightly elongated at the ends, with black pupils apparently camouflaging in black irises. Their left eye, at least. Since the other one isn't visible, it's hard to tell. Specter can change the color according to their mood but does not do so often. Spec's hair is dark brown and short but curls up at the tips. Really short. Except for their bangs, half of which completely obscures the right side of Specter's face. The hair isn't apparently affected by gravity, air, or other physics. It is always in its stiff position covering the face. They mentioned this was because they did not like the covered side of their face, though exactly why is unknown.

They wore a mint green t-shirt with a pacman-style ghost decoration in the center. It was quite peculiar, as the goggly eyes would move on their own to see stuff they wanted to see. And it would occasionally make expressions. Specter wore some sort of black leggings as well; they were slightly loose and tucked into their red sneakers with white laces. Over it all, they had something that could be called a ghost coat. It was a dark red longcoat with long sleeves, but from the waist down the color AND fabric began to fade away until it was completely see-through at the bottom and nothing was visible except a very faint border. This coat was a sort of signature clothing item.

Specter didn't wear any strictly-ornamental accessories except a black choker with a lock charm on it. The pair of silver bangles they wore on their wrists were more for a self-defense purpose than decorational, but Spec loved the bracelets nonetheless. These had a couple thin chain links hanging from the border, and probably held an eerie resemblance to medievalish prisoner shackles.

**Update**
Last time Specter was sighted, they had a slightly different look.
While their color scheme remained mostly the same, a noticeable trait was that their visible eye became a light blue color. It also lost its pupil and shine. To add to this, their facial expression looked... different too. Their hair had a looser style as well.
They also made a change to their clothes. Their signature red coat was replaced by a short black cloak wrapped around their shoulders, and their googly-ghost tee by a mint green dress shirt with its sleeves rolled up. The lower part of their clothes stayed almost the same except that they now wear black boots instead of the informal red sneakers from the past.
Their bracelet accessory has apparently transformed into a sort of single silver arm guard at their left while keeping the chain links characteristic of Specter's weapon.

### Ghost

Specter's ghost form is very similar to their human form, but has some notable differences. First of all, they're now transluscent with a light white tinge and aura tinting their body (the color can change if Spec wants), and they look slightly blurry. Their legs fade away too, to the point that you can't see their shoes.

To clarify, the aura is like a wispy ethereal smoke with natural luminance that gives off a soft colored glow. It wraps around Specter and gives them that ghostly look.

### Unexistent

This one's kinda hard to explain since it's not really an appearance. Specter kind of goes into a resting state where they almost cease their existence and therefore become nearly invisible and intangible. The only way to 'see' a non-existent Specter would be to focus really hard until you see a slightly blurry spot on the air. That's them.
This form has not been used in roleplaying.

## Body and Mind

Specter's fully physical form is merely an imitation of how humans look. Therefore, they don't have any organs, blood, or soft tissue other than their 'skin'. Despite giving the sensation of having bones at the touch, this is also an external imitation since Specter does not have bones. It behaves similarly to glass when hit with enough force. Strangely enough, parts of their body can be broken off by applying extreme force, especially at the joints (much like a doll). Cracks will extend from the wound and if serious enough, cause Specter's physical form to shatter. Instead of blood, they have a dense misty substance that will drip from any wound.

Their mind is really hard to be read, as they know so much and thoughts are scattered all over the place. Please refrain from using mind reading on Specter for the sake of your sanity. Still, they can communicate by telepathy just fine.

Their mind is controlled by their knowledge powers: While Specter may know something, they cannot perform said thing or act on that knowledge unless they have physically (or intentionally with powers) learned it. An example would be how they don't know how to read but can learn the content of a writing by using power. But if you ask them to read it... well, Specter will be clueless.

## Personality

Specter likes to think of themself as cool.

Most of the time, they're pretty nonchalant about stuff happening around them. Specter can be rather insensitive of how others feel as their experience regarding feelings and emotions is practically null.

In fact, Specter reacts most of the time as "amused", "serious", "intrigued/interested", "a bit annoyed", and "not-happy". Laughing makes them feel "not-bad", and Aereon mentioned that Specter now smiles more than before they started to socialize.

Specter is very curious about people other than themself and objects as well.

They often find themselves eager for "interesting" people to die, cause this means they can collect the person's soul. Specter enjoys the company of ghosts but finds themself lonely a lot of the time despite not identifying loneliness as a feeling. They just feel kind of empty and not-happy.

After an unfortunate event in which Specter lost their own soul, their personality became majorly altered due to not being able to experience empathy or feelings.

## Pre-roleplay history

It seems like Specter simply came into existence out of nowhere one day. No creation story, no mortal stuff. At least that's what they say. And it's probably true.

Anyway, however Specter appeared, they simply existed there for a lot of time. Yeah. Not doing anything relevant. Just watching mortals from afar and scaring them for fun.

At some point, they decided to make a special place solely for themselves. This is what would be called a domain. Specter got into the habit of collecting human ghosts they found "interesting" and trapping them on their domain. It was during that time that Spec created a human form for themselves and watched mortals from close up.

To basically sum that part up, Specter stalked humans but did not engage in social life.

Then they met Aereon and started to become more involved in magic and powers. At that point, Specter became curious on how the other deities lived and that's where the new story comes in.

## Relationships

### Aereon

Specter's relationship to Aereon was very friendly, though she technically was her servant. They just "left her be" most of the time. They seemed to share a rather strong bond with Aereon though, thinking about her when taking important decisions and talking about sending her on various errands.
After Specter's disappearance, Aereon went off to do their own things for her own agenda. Specter knows nothing about this. And they don't know either that the power they lent her has already been used up fully.

### Ishmael

He's one of the few people they've invited to their domain, and this isn't strange considering how well they both get on with each other. It was a quick friendship established between the two, but Specter had given their trust to Ishmael fully. They were concerned for his safety, even going as far as to get protective of him and his Bushbeasts. And offering to use their powers to find out information... free of any cost.
Now, Specter doesn't know he died... and much less of the being he has become.

### Orphos

It cannot be said they had a very friendly relationship to each other. In fact, the first time they met, it seemed they were very businesslike. But Specter isn't one to make enemies or be aggressive for no reason. So, obviously, they acted quite chill around the god.

They kind of despise his drinking habits due to being unable to understand why he does that. However, Specter got an improved memory from a deal with him, so it is likely they don't think that low of Orphos.

### Galaxian Explosion

Specter had gotten to the point of considering the young deity as a very good friend and someone they can trust. They were quite fond of the young god despite not knowing much about how he feels about them. Spec mentioned that they wish Galaxian were their brother if they both had been mortal. That's quite the compliment coming from someone like Specter. They hugged Galaxian, and that's something they did only with intimate friends.

One time they chanced upon each other, Specter nicknamed Galaxian "Anime Guy" for his anime-like gestures.

### Hitan

Well, they did meet him. They didn't develop a close relationship, but their interactions weren't hostile or anything. To Specter, Hitan seemed like an interesting being.

### Silverskies

Specter attended her meeting on what to do about Epheral. They regarded this as a "business trip" and tried to maintain friendly, neutral attitudes. Specter ended up finding Silverskies rather cool and hoped they could talk more some other time.

### Vixey

Specter didn't get a good impression of Vixey and probably tried to avoid her at all costs. Mostly because they knew she was "mean" to some people they found to be interesting.

### Fallon

Specter stated that despite not knowing her well, they thought Fallon was a pretty cool person. They kind of first met when she called other deities to discuss the punishment for Alexander (an event which Specter enjoyed greatly). Apparently, Specter considered the goddess a friend. They didn't hesitate to give her tips on a certain soul-related trouble.

### Alexander

Specter didn't really have a strong opinion on him. They considered Alexander a "bad guy" due to the events that led him to try to get rid of Fallon (who was a cool person). Also, Specter had LOTS of fun with planning his punishment with the other deities.

However, after his memory was wiped, Specter seemed to have a friendlier attitude towards him.

### Chan

They found Chan's emotion reading ability very interesting. Specter was probably curious about Chan, but their relationship seemed neutral on both sides.

### Time

They didn't know each other well, but apparently had no problem talking to each other. Specter thought he was a god of cool concepts.

### Eternal

Specter appeared supportive of her, though it's hard to tell if they were being friendly or just found Eternal an interesting person.

### The Mamba

He was the last person to stab Specter before their disappearance. Specter honestly didn't know anything about the Masked One and seemed rather undisturbed by the fact that *he* had stabbed them.

### Phantom

Phantom is Specter's "child", you could say. They pretty much revived Phantom's soul and body after their unfortunate death. Some powers were fused along with the child's soul, granting them ghostly abilities and the power to freely access Specter's domain at will. Their relationship isn't super close, however.

### The Meeps

A group composed of four teens (Sunshine, Kenyon, Sollux, and August) sought out Specter to get their souls protected for unknown reasons. This is the equivalent of, well, selling their souls.

The specifics of the relationship between the Meeps and Specter are also unknown.

### Vine

Friends??? They were VERY glad that the deity gifted them Pumpky!

### Pumpky

Specter's living pumpkin pet. They were kind of close, probably, since Specter went places with Pumpky coming along.

At the moment, Pumpky is no longer under Specter's care. It misses them.

## Abilities and related

Specter has a variety of extremely powerful abilities/powers, but only uses a fraction of them. Reasons are unknown to the public as of now.

Powers below are listed in which category of their domains they fall into.

### Reality

**Teleportation**

Specter has short-distance teleportation as a default ability. The available range is any close places that are within their vision. This does count teleporting into hidden places, as long as they're in Specter's vision range.

**Crack portals**

A very specific type of portalling, used exclusively by Specter to travel long distances or between their domain and earth.

Crack portals look like a, well, a crack in the air (similar to cracked glass) that can be forced open. The other side is never visible unless the portal leads to the Place Outside Reality. Inside, it's like travelling through dark, misty fog while being tossed around. It's not recommendable for those who get dizzy easily.

A crack portal can be opened Specter if they kick or punch the air with the clear intention of opening a portal with a certain destination in mind. Or, a random one. With the random function turned on, there's absolutely no telling where users will come out (although thread-convenient places seem to be common).

**Self-healing**

A very interesting ability, to say the least. Specter may get stabbed, but because of their status as a deity, they cannot die. Instead, their body reacts to external injury much like a window reacts to being hit by a bat. If an injury is small, like a minor cut, it will heal quickly. But if a wound is something that would normally kill a person, then Specter's body will crack and shatter into nothing. The same thing happens if a piece of them is broken away.

Despite this, Specter's body will eventually reform. The reformation time varies depending on how serious their injury was.

**Direct-reality-altering**

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### Knowledge

**Basic**

Specter doesn't use this part of their powers as much, but it pretty much lets them *know* stuff that can't be learned at first glance. A common use of this is learning people's names before they say them. However... Specter constantly forgets they have this power and asks questions anyways.

**Psychometry**

An amalgamation of the reality and knowledge powers. This lets Specter "know" how recent events, objects, or people have influenced a certain object's existence in reality.

Specter gets knowledge on what happened or interacted recently with an object. They learn about objects and/or people that came in contact with the object. Said knowledge is limited to them seeing ‘shadows’ in their mind of size, weight, what kind of thing, force, how the object was treated, basically anything that has a capability of affecting the object’s existence. They can’t see things such as colors, exact time, or definite shape of an object. Spec knew the size and weight of the people, but didn’t know what they were exactly wearing or what they looked like. Words can’t be heard either. Colors and events would be seen if there was something, like, say, a mirror. They’d be able to ‘see’ what was reflected on the mirror.

It's a fairly simple ability if you keep in mind that Specter is a deity of reality.

**Complex**

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### Ghost/Spirit

**Body-Soul Separation**

Specter has the power to separate a person's soul from his/her/their body. This is an ability that requires a lot of energy, enough to make Specter's physical form flicker. To apply the power necessary for the separation, they'll wrap chains around the person's body so it is distributed more easily and causes less pain. The result is a ghost and a non-sentient body.

It seems that Specter can also apply this power on themself, and even program it to happen at a certain time. That may be due to the nature of their own soul.

Strangely enough, while their Body-Soul Separation technique doesn't leave behind the effects that a forced separation would, Specter's body remained sentient even after it happened.

## Weapons

Specter has chain whips, but they've never used these as offensive/defensive weapons. These are designed to complement the deity's ghostly abilities and amplify them. The chains may serve other unknown purposes.

At the moment, Specter's original chain bracelets aren't on their deity body.

## Domain

Specter doesn't really have a name for their domain, so they just call it A place outside reality. It's basically that.

The place itself has an unrealistic nature. It's never-ending, like an infinite videogame map that loads pieces as you get near to them. This may be the reason the place is non existent in true reality.

Basically, it's a really big place with random rooms (Specter knows their way around 1/2 of the place or so though). In most areas it looks like really long hallways belonging to some medieval stone castle. There's always some sort of white fog on the ground and part of the walls, these are not fully visible. The vision of anyone entering will fog around the edges, and, if the person doesn't have a large amount of magical power, their vision will become extremely blurry.

Specter keeps a lot of ghosts they find "interesting" in their domain for unknown reasons. A ghost maid that brings desired objects quickly is one of the place's inhabitants and the deity's personal favorite.

It may be relevant that to enter the place, a crack in reality itself must be opened. Such thing is near impossible without reality deity powers, and even harder to get to specter's domain this way. It can, however, be achieved.

The Place outside reality is a dangerous place for those who get lost in it, as they will probably not be able to get out. Living people who get stuck there for any reason either get turned into a spirit eventually or fade from reality over a course of time.

((PSA to any ghosts reading this: Specter's domain is actually a nice place for you to live))

## Trivia and stuff

* Specter likes collecting ghosts they find interesting.
	+ They have an especially soft spot for children. Ghost children more so.
* PoV color is maroon.
* They're one of the few deities whose origin isn't tied to mortality... or is it?
* They like to watch humans, finding their behavior "interesting"
* Specter likes memes.
	+ They like to t-pose.
	+ They can also do a lenny face expression, somehow.
* Aereon mentioned they talk with "mysterious references"
* Most of their relationships with others are neutral.
* They don't know how to read nor write, though this is probably because nobody taught them.
* Dark red is their favorite color.
* Specter like how milkshakes and lollipops taste despite being unable to eat.
* Their soul is not real?
* Fragile, please do not stab.
* Really wanted to be cool.

## Gallery

Please feel free to add pictures/drawings of Specter! They'll appreciate it a lot ;)

The Narrator's vision of Specter. Aren't they good-looking?A meme-y "reference sheet" of Specter, which includes a T-pose and a Lenny Face.Specter giving Galaxian a much-needed hug. Drawn by Specter.Drawn by the awesome artist Chan, will be updated when finished.Specter Sans, drawn by ElizaDrawn by ElizaGGaDtale Specter, drawn by Eliza!Drawn by Specter using a base