Cleaver

## Relationships

### Parents

Supposedly she was related to two art related deities. "Schédio" the goddess of Art and writing utensils and "Empódio" the goddess of loss of creativity and inspiration.Sandy and Schisto may be included in this category.

### Friends

Well she considers Galaxian and Marx to be friends.

### Enemies

unknown

Cleaver is the Goddess of Arthropods, Utensils for the arts, and loss of Creativity/inspiration.

## Symbols

Cleaver's too lazy to come up with one, though it's universally acknowledged that a cleaver is one of them even though she has nothing to do with butchering. Also some remaining scraps of legends depict her riding an insect with a giant paintbrush in hand so that probably also counts as a symbol.

## Powers

* She can summon, transform into, and control any arthropod, along with utensils of the arts.
* she can also make any of these things disappear. In extreme cases, she can make entire arthropod species go extinct.
* She can take away people's creativity and inspiration, though this has no effect on other deities.
* She can also create new version of all of these things.
* She can see through the eyes of any arthropod. When she's only observing a particular area, its fairly easy to divide her attention, however if she were attempting to see multiple areas or a large area, it would be much more difficult and could even leave herself vulnerable.
* she is able to change her size. There are limits to this ability. For example she can't just poof to the size of a single cell, and she can't grow to the size of a skyscraper, but there's a variety. extreme or rapid size changes make her very dizzy and unbalanced.
* She can partially or entirely change someone into an arthropod. This is easiest when a person's still a fetus. It can be tiring to do it to someone who's already developed completely.
* her shape-shifting can get kinda funky. She can split herself up into many different creatures and only reform as one or a few of them. And she can also swap out different pieces of her body for different pieces of arthropods. As a result, she's able to do things like "shed damage" where she turns damaged or dead cells into individual creatures, effectively healing herself from damage done to her. This ability is useless when it comes to things like cuts and when it comes to internal damage she has to puke them out, but it's very useful for keeping herself just barely out of the danger zone during a fight. She only does the bare minimum to conserve energy, as she never has any idea how long a particular fight might take.
* she is also freakishly strong if she wishes to be, thanks to the fact that bugs are freakishly strong.
* Her blood has certain magical properties, which can extend the life of any arthropod that drinks it. As a result, there are always arthropods crowded around any wounds that she has. It's probably also an ingredient in powerful arthropod related spells.

## Weaknesses

* She has no way of protecting herself from fire and even her jacket is very flammable. Sure she has a web that is slightly more fire-resistant than normal, but it only just takes longer to catch fire. This frustrates her to no end.
* She's even worse with lightning or electricity, though she complains far less about this one because she hates it when people know her biggest weaknesses.
* Some perfumes can mess with her head, either repelling her or causing her to want to get closer. She tends to get very aggressive at the mention of it.
* she has a strong dislike for the cold.
* she has a constant and insatiable hunger for sugar, which can often blind her judgement, especially if it's cotton candy. This is the easiest way to trap her.
* In her normal form, her internal organs are typically those of bugs. As a result, pesticide is another thing that can really deal a major blow to her, though her reaction time has significantly improved when it comes to swapping them out for human organs or just disappearing them all together for a few minutes ever since she got a face full of the strongest pesticides labs could produce that one time Mr. Richard kidnapped Schisto. Which she is still incredibly salty about.

## Appearance

Cleaver usually takes the form of a small girl the size of an average insect. She has the wings of a sphinx moth, tail of a scorpion, and antennae. This often changes, depending on which arthropod's appearance she’d like to have at the moment, or if she'd rather not freak people out. She has short, messy brown hair, and gray skin. She usually wears a large gray fuzzy coat that matches her skin color over a black outfit. She doesn’t wear any shoes. Her blood is usually green or blue in color. She will sometimes alter her form based on her mood. She rarely takes the form of an actual human. Sometimes she'll change into a centipede with a human face or get the mandibles of a crayfish to creep others out or just for the heck of it. She also has many different hybrid forms.

## Personality

She’s very stubborn and hypocritical. She has difficulty admitting that she cares about people and can be extremely petty. She has many insecurities that she tries to keep buried, such as feeling like she’s nowhere near as powerful as the other deities despite being pretty old, and as a result, clings to whatever power she has. Whenever the topic of powers comes up, she’ll always mention that she’s essential to life on earth. If someone were to kill her, she’d be able to bring the entire ecosystem down with her. She’s also constantly trying to attain new powers, including powers that were taken from her in the past. Whenever she’s not in a grumpy mood though, she can be pretty nice to be around. She is capable of silliness and jokes. She also depends heavily on certain people in her life, far more than she’d like to admit and she’ll cling to whatever friends she’s able to make. She’s also easily bored.

She will often seek the approval of people she likes, unless the people she like happen to ideals polar opposite to hers, in which case things get messy and her hypocrisy kicks in.

She also doesn't handle betrayal that well.

## Temple appearance

Cleaver's temples are few and far between. Rarely they are constructed to last longer than a small request or prayer. The only offerings she usually accepts is food. She does, shockingly, listen to the prayers she receives, and delights in doing the exact opposite of what the person wanted, unless what they wanted was a sort of petty revenge, like infesting an ex's house with spiders or turning their enemy's unborn child into a arthropod demigod. This last request rarely happens, as most people wouldn't stoop that low.

## Domain

Cleaver's domains, like her temples, are all temporary. Usually they are some kind of human sized cocoon or a tangle of webs in front of the entrance of a cave, usually not meant to last longer than a week. She's the kind of deity who jumps around and rarely stays long enough to do anything of significance. This is mostly because of the angry mobs she tends to attract. People tend to fear her. Not enough to leave her alone, but enough to get a big mod of people with torches and pitchforks going to drive her away. This not only does some damage to her self esteem, but really angers her.

## Backstory

Not much is known about Cleaver. Not even Cleaver knows much about herself. Sure, there are plenty of stories that mention plagues of insects, man-eating crayfish, and nightmarish parasites, but nothing mentions her directly, almost as if mortals were never aware of her existence or she was purposely removed from the stories. In fact the only story that has mentioned her is the the stone tablet found in the Tomb of two deities that were murdered. The tablet actually tells how Cleaver got jealous and ate them to steal their powers.

Based on occasional hints she drops sometimes though, many years ago she tried to destroy humanity and as punishment, some deities put a curse on her that severely reduced her power and blocked a lot of her memories. It can also be safe to say that she is almost as old as earth itself.

It can also be confirmed that 500 years ago, Cleaver came across Schisto, whom she decided to resurrect as a plague of locusts after he was torn to pieces by an angry mob so that he could eat all their crops. To her endless disappointment, that was not what he did. He's been her assistant ever since.

## Relationships

Schisto: She relies on him for everything. He cooks her food, he (mostly) keeps her out of trouble with the other deities, he tries to make peace between her and the humans, and to sum it up, is basically her dad. She might even die for him if she had to choose his safety over hers.

Sandy: Despite having technically raised Sandy, Cleaver isn't close to her demigod at all. She, being the introverted creature that she is, doesn't even think anything wrong with it and is perfectly happy to leave Schisto to do all that parenting mess while she does whatever she does when she's hiding for no reason.

Galaxian: she has deemed Galaxian "okay." She doesn't like his insistence on not-murder and fair punishments that doesn't involve death of any kind, but due to realizing that he is probably even more stubborn than she is, she has learned to resolve any murder-related arguments quickly with compromises. Of course that doesn't mean she will go entirely through with the compromises and may just do something entirely different behind his back, but it does mean that she at least listens to him. She considers him a friend.

Marx: Cleaver definitely likes them. She's almost guaranteed to side with them on conflicts and is even more prone to murder and violence, especially towards humans, when she's with them. Probably an effect of the robot deity's own violent nature rubbing off on her.

Ark: Of the entire fight with him, the parts she probably enjoyed the least were getting punched in the face with his fire fist and getting electrocuted at the end of it, both of which being things she is definitely going to be incredibly salty about in the future. Still, she's not at the point where she'd refuse to talk to him or attack him on sight, as in her eyes, they were simply on opposing sides and he didn't actually try to do anything permanently damaging. Or at least, that's what she believes.

Ash: As with Ark, she is most definitely going to be salty about that fight in the future. She didn't like being set on fire and she's still incredibly irritated by the fact that his blood is liquid fire because she'd been incredibly delighted at finally managing to damage him, and even poison him at that. Not because she hated him or anything, but because she hadn't been able to really do anything to him throughout the battle while he was cutting off her limbs left and right.

## Fun Facts

* Cleaver often forgets that loss of inspiration and art utensils are under her sphere of influence
* Cleaver would probably be a lot more powerful if she remembered that loss of inspiration and art utensils are under her sphere of influence
* Cleaver constantly switches between the opinion that "Humans are evil and must die" and "Humans are interesting" and constantly contradicts herself (like saying she hates humans then turning around and making Schisto her assistant or deciding she wants to murder someone but then suddenly adopting a demigod.)