Ringmaster

### Aliases

Leader (off and on title), General of Pride, "Hero", "Greatest Sin" (Both by Inferno)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Milky White

Appearing as a highly serious and arrogant figure, the **Ringmaster** is one of the main antagonists of Oakleaf, a demon who sometimes leads the Blasphemous Seven, and who's widely known among all of Inferno, as their "Greatest Sin".

His Sin is Superbia (Pride).

## Appearance

He appears as a tall, emaciated humanoid figure with pale brown dried hair, generally skinny aspect, blank eyes and missing lips which leave all of his teeth exposed permanently. Clearly fitting to his name, he sports entirely old Ringmaster clothing, specifically resembling a Lion tamer's, with multiple black, maroon and golden tones, along with gold gloves and a bow tie.

He dons a large top hat with long white feathers and small golden chains and objects around it. All of his lower torso seems to be missing, leaving ripped clothes that almost resemble a traditional ghostly tail. He also has a pair of thin, gigantic wings completely made of seemingly golden fire. It's stated Ringmaster deliberately wanted said wings so that his appearance would be overall similar to religious descriptions of Lucifer, due to considering this the "biggest form of Pride".

## Personality

Easily fitting to his Sin, the Ringmaster is a prideful and arrogant demon who's almost obsessed with the idea of being praised and having control (he's seemingly able to put up with the Scream or Vanity leading the group though, but it's clear he would prefer doing so himself despite not really caring about the group's goals.) This goes to the point where it's implied the only reason he ever agreed to join the Seven is because of all the hope that Inferno would adore him for doing so, wanting to be a perfect being (as seen by his wide array of powers) and being slightly unable to withstand any criticism, due to being almost terrified of the idea a failure could make him lose everyone's praise.

In the surface, he's able to tone down or even hide the above-mentioned qualities and most of his instability, as well as acting as the most noble and reasonable of the Sins (so that he has more chances of being able to lead the team and getting seen as the best in Inferno). As their leader, he seems to harbor a severe God Complex and even to an extent Messiah Complex, genuinely believing he would be a better lead to Inferno than even Baphomet himself is, seeing the latter as someone who neglected his own realm and prefers to have every single being working to release him while doing next to nothing himself (which is fairly hypocritical considering while he slightly helped with plans in the Seven, he mostly got the lead position through rank and power more than anything else.)

He still seems to have some actual traits himself regardless though, since he really can be mildly smart despite his massive pride, and unlike the more insane Sins he's not completely devoid of standards, sometimes being disgusted by the Clown's manners or some of the Scream's extremist ways as a Leader.

## Prior to Oakleaf

Due to unspecified deeds in his past life, the Ringmaster was deemed a sinner, which ended up in him being judged and condemned to the upper sections of the **Pit of Sloth** among Inferno.

Within said place, he realized he was within none other than Hell itself and knew the serious degree of his situation, which made him decide to slowly begin his own redemption to escape Inferno and be able to have his soul rest.

Through his efforts, he steadily managed to surpass many of Inferno's hardest trials, even achieving to escape the torture of multiple demons through his redemption.

Unfortunately said achievements, which were considered nearly unconceivable for a mortal, caused him to slowly but eventually become an arrogant and prideful individual, ultimately damning his soul to ruin, to something worse than what originally got him in Inferno.

## Powers and Abilities

Ringmaster is easily the most powerful of the sins, holding a vast amount of abilities within him.

**"Mind over Matter":** The Ringmaster's actual ability. He gained all of his powers from the many empowering emotions others had towards him. (Fear, Respect, Trust, etc.) Originally the more of those he achieved, the more powers he obtained. Although now the abilities he gets are established and can't change, he constantly needs to "recharge" his powers through the same way he gets them, otherwise, he will be left as an average demon.

As obvious by now, this sort of warping leads to all of his powers:

**Superhuman Strength:** Surpassing that of
Chompo and the Entertainer's, the Ringmaster could lift an average car (1.4 tons) with an entire family inside, punch a hole through an average human adult's head effortlessly, and he can easily fight against demons that would be arguably in his league pf abilities.

**Superhuman Stamina:** The Ringmaster was able to travel through most of the World entirely while leaving a "burnt" trace through 3 of the World's biggest and most populated countries in his rampage. And even after all this, he was still able to leave Earth, talk properly and destroy a satellite by flying through it.

**Invulnerability:** His skin is seemingly impenetrable, or at least no one or nothing has been able to actually injure him yet. He could tear a Skyscraper in half and a Satellite to pieces both by flying through them, and do a rampage through most of the World. None of those managed to even do an actual scratch on him. It's been shown he could also resist the direct close shot of a shotgun to the chest, with only his clothes receiving damage.

**Flight:** Pride applies his body mass to the atmosphere surrounding him, making his body light enough to be capable of flying without wasting massive amounts of energy like his fellow sins do. Despite having wings of fire, its confirmed they don't actually do anything.

--- **Super Speed:** He can move at fairly incredible speeds with ease, but it only applies to his flight and despite going around almost the entire Earth, he can't reach the speed of Light or even Sound like the Wardrobe Clown does.

--- **Space Flight:** He could easily fly even after leaving Earth and in fact destroyed a Satellite by flying through it right after his global rampage.

**Superhuman Breath:** His lungs can store much more air than an average human's (Even that of an adult's), making him able to blow air with enough strength to move objects around.

## Gallery

An up close view of Ringmaster's face and detailsTodd's recollection of the ringmaster's appearence, being slightly off model