Achlys

Readers' discretion is advised.
Mentions of **manipulation**, **kidnapping** and **character death**

*“Everyone thinks the gods abandoned us, but I don't. No, this is a punishment.”*
— Achlys to Sanic in the Midnight village.

**Achlys** officially joined the AstralSMP on 10/22/2021, in the middle of season one.

She was found by Opia when looking at the Moon Goddess shrine built above the Midnight village. They soon became friends and went on to plan the kidnapping of Adder with Arrow, to help Streamless. However Achlys left the group after seeing the plan was falling apart.

## Biography

#### Appearance

Achlys is a tall, dark purple-gray anthropomorphic unicorn. She has darker markings along her muzzle, ears, back, shoulders, arms and legs, as well as lighter grayish-purple markings that outline the darker ones. Her tail is long and has a fluffy end, which gradients from black to purple. She has a long, slightly curved horn that gradients from her dark grayish markings into a soft purple, long black hair with purple highlights, and hot pink eyes, with long canine like teeth.

She is always seen wearing a dark purple jean-like jacket, with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows and dark blue jeans that end with purple wrappings, and has a dark belt with two straps.

#### Appearance in the Dark

Achlys' appearance in the dark isn't too different from her normal appearance, expect her lighter grayish-purple markings turn into a bright purple, along with her purple hair highlights, which turn pink, allowing her to glow in the dark. Her eyes also change into a black, blue, pink and white swirl, to confuse others. Achlys' horn also changes into a lighter tone.

## Personality

Achlys' personality is a bit complicated, but it's easy to summarize it as her just being a confused soul. She can be seen as scary due to her size, and can come off very mean and aggressive. But she can be surprisingly gentle and caring once you get to know her, even going out of her way to defend those she cares about, even if it puts her own life at risk. Despite helping in the plan to kidnap Adder, she never made any attempts to physically harming the child, even going out of her way in making the basement childproof so Adder wouldn't be able to hurt herself, and providing the child with food and water. Achlys is also known to hold a lot of rage and a lot of grief, often blaming herself for a lot of events that have happened and for how many people got hurt, regardless if because of her or not.

#### Background

Achlys grew up in a small highly religious village, far from Midnight. Her grandfather believed that she would be the one to bring the Moon Goddess back, so he kept her inside the majority of time, making her study books and scrolls and preforming various rituals and ceremonies.

Achlys hated all of it as she didn't want to be the "chosen one" her village made her out to be. She wanted to do things like the other kids in her village, have fun. But, she would sadly never get a chance to be like the them because during a ceremony, raiders robbed the village of its riches, killing everyone on sight and the village to the ground. Achlys was one of few survivors from this ordeal, but thanks to waking up alone she believed that she was the only one who survived, this feeling later strengthened when she searched through the remains, finding no one.

She later ventures out to find other villages, in hopes of finding shelter. Though, other villages around this time did not take too kindly to outsiders, therefore she would either be chased away or casted out by the villages. Whenever she got to stay in a village, that village would end up being raided. This lead her to be untrusting of people and believing nowhere was safe.

This fills Achlys with rage, which she directs at the Moon Goddess, believing her to be the cause of everyone's problems. She sets off to go find the Moon Goddess, not to bring her back like her home village wanted, but instead to kill the god, thinking that it would solve everything going on. Through her travels she would eventually stumble upon Midnight, chosing to camp outside the village border.

## Major Events

### Arrow's Party

While Arrow was gathering up the members of Midnight to go to a party he planned, Achlys waited at her house for Opia to arrive with Adder, so the plan with Streamless could get set into motion.

## Relationships

  Vincent | positive
  Opia | negative
  Arrow | negative
  Adder | neutral-negative

## Items

  Achlys' Sword

## Trivia

* Achlys was originally supposed to be a quiet guard character, who wouldn't say much and just follow what they were being told.
* Achlys name means "Death-mist" or "mist-over eyes". It was picked because Achlys is a character who is blinded by past events and vengeance.
* Achlys' glow in the dark factor was inspired by Opia. Their friendship name is "Glow Buddies".
* Achlys and Vincent were originally not related, for she was planned to have no remaining family at all, but this was changed later when Vincent was created
* Since Achlys is in Midnight, she is in her glowing appearance more often than not
* Achlys is bisexual