Koeia Eridanus

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Ko
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* Current
* S11-13
* S01-10

### Alias

Ko, Pariko, Kosyl Dobawin, Frako Stein, Tobi Hiendrie, Louies Kanyan, Kitten (By Leo), Koi

### Gender

* Female (Physically)
* He/Him (Pronouns)

### Family

* Ali Eridanus
* Mako Eridanus

## Stats

### Alignment

* Chaotic/Neutral Good (Currently)
* Chaotic Evil (Formerly)

### Languages

* Common
* Abyssal
* Draconic

## Appearance

### First Seen

Session 1

**Koeia "*Ko*" Eridanus**, formerly known as Kosyl Dobawin, is 1 of 5 (currently) Nebulus Changlings in Fracture, and a Player Character that is part of The Clawbreakers as their Artificer; he is played by Pendrawlum.

He is a highly empathetic and amnesiac being of stardust who is doing his best in whatever situation he's in.

## **Appearance**

Depending on how he feels, Ko can take on a number of faces and bodies that he can shape into; However, regardless of the image he chooses it will always equal to his original mass. Though majority of his looks are touched up by himself depending on his vanity. He likes to add freckles to his face.

Currently, Ko appears as a young woman with dark freckled skin and ocean blue eyes that seem to sparkle no matter the expression he wears, there is a low-glow in his white pupils. His most notable feature, is his impossibly long, white hair that fades into a starry purple gradient that dips into a cluster of a glittery black void at the tips. Now a days, he will usually be seen with his hair tied up. Along with his knee length hair, there is an exaggerated cowlick on the top of his head that resembles an antenna.

Prior to his surgery, Kosyl's original appearance resembled closely to his brother, Ali, though appearing far younger and with shorter hair. If put side by side, he would be taller and more muscular than the other. Despite the options he has with his skin and hair colour, he keeps to the same colour scheme as his brother with the only difference beings his eyes and youthful appearance.

On the left side of his head, there is a fairly large scar that he covers up with his hair, along his torso are 28 lighter scars, majority, if not all, have a light scarring on himself have a starry black void to them that whenever someone touches them quickly fades to a lighter shade of his skin matching the scar on his head.

At the moment, as he has grown in mass and refuses to make himself taller. Adding the extra mass into his hair as much as possible and as of late, attempting to make his own working organs. So far, he has a beating heart.

### **Attire**

Originally, Ko disliked showing his skin, often trying to find clothing to patch together to hide as much of himself as possible, going as far as purchasing or stealing articles of clothing that would perfectly hide him in one go.

* As of Episode 17 and after his surgery, Ko has preferred to wear less clothing and showing more skin. A lot of The Clawbreaker's image and style influenced his current style though Milly is the one who helped him pick out a proper outfit.
* Given to him by Cypress, Ko has a tied blue bandana on his left arm. He also wears a blue string necklace that was gifted from Milly.
	+ Currently, Ko uses the blue bandana as a hair tie, while he turn the string necklace into a bracelet.

### **Other Appearance**

#### **Stress Scale**

On a dice of 100, depending on the number it lands on Ko seems to respond heavily from it:

 **91 - 100** | Full Eldritchian polymorphic meltdown.

#### **Blush**

Similar to his stress scale, Ko's every changing features are severally effective by another emotion.

 **4** | He shrinks in size.

#### **Past Faces**

* **Pariko**
* **KoKat**
* **Kosyl Dobawin**
* **Frako Stein**
* **Tobi Hiendrie**
* **Louies Kanyan**

## **Personality**

If anxiety and stress had legs, that would be Ko.

Over the course of Rule of Claw, Ko has gone through many strong personality shifts with every new memory he receives or finds. Some ranging from an aggressive approach such as wanting to be part of a fight or wanting to start combat with either a stranger or a friend to ones that causes him to panic and stress himself into a blob. Even his simple fears of being touched or his personal bubble being popped causes him to panic.

Currently, Ko exudes a very kind and gentle persona with only hints of his original personality showing through; However, thanks to the influences of Grinn, Ko has developed a more benign chaos to his step added with the advice from both Milly and Asmundr, has grown more confident in himself and allowing others to get closer to him. A lot of these new traits are intensified with an additional giggle, lack of control, and a terrible singing voice when under the influence of alcohol. However, one thing that stayed consistent, was his vanity as he often wants to appear pretty in both face and body that he shapes into, but more importantly, his inquisitive and curious nature is always there.

As of recently, Ko has displayed a very soft and motherly tone to the group and those close to them. Showing a deep care and worry for everyone, and a willingness to put himself in front of danger for others.

### **Prior to Surgery**

Before arriving to Neridan, Ko, *Kosyl* at the time, was initially an aggressive, selfish person who was quick to anger and having no care in how he treated others, having only the desire to make himself rich and surviving through any means. It wasn't until he made the choice to kill a person, who was later or rather instantly found to be a Changeling, and having no memory of his past and only believing to be a normal Changeling himself, the death of that being that he caused greatly affected him of which followed him through his journey.

Making his way into Calladocia with the party, Ko ran through a number of a moral obstacles that weighed heavily onto his guilt and reminders of things in his past that he can't remember, all overflowing and overwhelming himself. Despite the pile up of his emotions and stress that he kept shut, it wasn't until he and the others met Saracen for the first time that everything exploded within him causing a meltdown amalgamation of shapeshifting before promptly fainting.

It was hinted by Saracen's provocation in Episode 5 that Ko suffers from dissociative amnesia, and anything that hinted to how he got to Fracture results in Ko going through another meltdown. From Episode 6 and onward till Episode 16, he starts developing headaches and more frustration in himself for not being able to remember his life; However, whenever Ko encounters a Memory Book of himself the aggressive and selfish nature of himself dips and hints of his old traits show through.

### **Post-Surgery**

It was hinted in Episode 13 and revealed in both Episode 16 & 17 from a Memory Book and Ma Lapis, that Ko has a shattered bullet lodged into the top left side of his skull and from the medical expert that is Ma, is the cause of his emotional instability, frustration, and headaches.

Thanks to the quick Surgery from Ma, Ko has started to see and remember things in a clear view and through his week in Neridan, Ko has drastically changed from who he was in Episode 1 to someone who is far more open and confident with himself who grows to be more kind and gentle to those around him. However, despite his more positive traits showing through, Ko has become more aware of his lack of memories and has developed an anxiety toward learning about himself. So much so that any sort of stress or thought about whether or not he was a good or bad person, causes him to panic.

Though, despite being easily overwhelmed by certain situations, Ko tries in confidence to tell the group his frustrations and worries, but finds it difficult to be vulnerable in front of those who he views as strong and important. Feeling inadequate and disposable if he continues to show weakness.

## **Equipment**

### **Weapons:**

* **Handaxe**
* **Light Crossbow**
* **Prismatic Blade (longsword)**
	+ It glows brightly
* **Flint Lock Pistol (1)**
	+ This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it when it's used to make a ranged attack, and it ignores the loading property if it has it. If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you make a ranged attack with it. The ammunition created by the weapon vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.

* **Flint Lock Pistol (2)**
	+ Through curiosity, Ko has fiddled with this pistol and embedding it with Ambar.

* **Fixed Musket**
	+ Rebuilt from scratch, the Musket was endowed with sigils and has become his current Arcane Firearm.

### ***His* Bag of Holding:**

Ko and his dwindling possessive nature, is wildly known to hoard and collect items and placing them into his bag of holding. A large number of items seems to be found in it and only he seems to know the dishevel organization this poor bag seems to hold. He's quite partial to shiny gems and stones.

## **Abilities**

Ko is a Level 8 Artificer with Artillerist as his subclass, what makes up for his lack of strength is his intelligence. He did; however, had a habit of breaking people's fingers.

 DEX
 CON
 INT

### **Racial**

Ko has the base abilities of any normal Changeling; however, being a *Nebulus* Changeling allows him to shapeshift on a wider scale. Having been able to change his size ranging from tiny to large so long as his shapes are within the limits of his mass.

* **Path of the Traveler**
* **Emotional Shapeshifting**
* **Average Mass:** Average shapeshifting capabilities but can be subject to emotional changing.
* **Star Tracker:** When a Nebula splits, the new nebulas can sense one another when they are close by, through passive perception.
* **Absorption & Mitosis**: When mass becomes too little or too great the Nebulous changeling can either split into two or more new Nebulas to reduce their mass so they can continue traveling, or absorb elements to gain mass: they can also absorb other Nebulas and cannibalize their atoms to gain mass. Nebulas who have split from the same original Nebula can sense when the other is near.
* **Ability Score Increase.** Either your Dexterity or your Intelligence increases by 1.

* **Change Appearance.** As an action, you can transform your appearance or revert to your natural form. You can’t duplicate the appearance of a creature you’ve never seen, and you revert to your natural form if you die.

* **Unsettling Visage.** When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the roll. You must use this feature before knowing whether the attack hits or misses.

### **Class**

As an **Artificer**, Ko is usually found on the farther end of the battlefield, playing both healer and attack though preferring the latter when in combat. He will occasionally run closer to the fight if he has no other option.

* **Magical Tinkering** - At 1st level, you learn how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have thieves' tools or artisan's tools in hand. You then touch a Tiny nonmagical object as an action and give it one of the following magical properties of your choice.
* Infuse Item - At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items.
* **The Right Tool for the Job** - At 3rd level, you learn how to produce exactly the tool you need: with thieves' tools or artisan's tools in hand, you can magically create one set of artisan's tools in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. This creation requires 1 hour of uninterrupted work, which can coincide with a short or long rest. Though the product of magic, the tools are nonmagical, and they vanish when you use this feature again.
* **Arcane Firearm** - At 5th level, you know how to turn a wand, staff, or rod into an arcane firearm, a conduit for your destructive spells. When you finish a long rest, you can use woodcarver's tools to carve special sigils into a wand, staff, or rod and thereby turn it into your arcane firearm. The sigils disappear from the object if you later carve them on a different item. The sigils otherwise last indefinitely.
* **Flash of Genius** - Starting at 7th level, you gain the ability to come up with solutions under pressure. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.

Being an **Artillerist**, Ko is proficient in firearms, and prefers to be a ranged attacker.

* **Eldritch Cannon** At 3rd level, you learn how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver's tools or smith's tools, you can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you. A Small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a Tiny one can be held in one hand.

 **Protector** | The cannon emits a burst of positive energy that grants itself and each creature of your choice within 10 feet of it a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

## **Companions**

### **Dinosaurs**

* **Duck** - A playful little Homalocephale which is blue and yellow in colour, Ko seems to need him more than he believes he does and Duck seems all too happy to be able to comfort the Changeling. He seems quite protective of Ko especially when the other is crying.
* **Harriet** - An inquisitive Baryonyx that, while far too large to travel alongside with Ko, shares an equal amount of protectiveness to the emotional humanoid.

### **Other**

* **Melon** - A calico cat that comes from his necklace that was given to him by Milly, Ko brings out Melon whenever he wants and Melon will only look to Ko.

## **Quotes**

* *(Ko talking to Milly about her relationship to Asmundr)* **Ko:** "You never know where the train will be heading." **Milly:** "... Yes you do, because there's tracks."
* "Strawberries?"
* "I want all of us to swim."
* “Wat fook ya lewkin et.”
* "Cypress, I know it seems like we're just having fun, but it's good to at least rest from everything that's been happening. Ever since we got here, we've been chased and attacked; we barely had time to breathe. If we kept going at it like that we'd end up just... Tired and... who knows."
* "But that doesn't mean we're giving up, we're together all of us, and we'll help you regardless."
* "Ali is important to me, and we know nothing about him."
* "Who am I kidding? All of you can fight, and all I ever do is cry and panic and... I'm, I'm useless. "

## **Trivia**

* Ko's true name *Koeia*, is a reference to the HIP 12961 is a dim red dwarf star located approximately 75 light-years away, while his last name, *Eridanus,* is reference to a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is represented as a river and where the star Koeia is located.
* As of Episode 5, Ko has developed a fear of clowns and the dark.
* Despite his current appearance, Ko goes by he/him pronouns. He feels comfortable and pretty in the image he has now, but prefers to be called a Boy. He likes to feel and look beautiful.
* His favourite activies are fishing, star gazing, and swimming. He loves the ocean and desperately longs to be in water, and often before sleeping he'll watch the stars.
* His favourite snacks are fresh Strawberries and Cool Ranch Doritos (not together) while his least favourite snacks are seaweed and bubblegum.
* His recently found out his favourite colours are blue and gold.
* Ko is a vegetarian. He does not like the taste of meat and finds eating something once alive, uncomfortable.
* Whenever Ko wants to concentrate he'll tie his hair up or stick his tongue or both.
* He likes to pinch people's faces and loves to make gifts (only to those he's familiar with).
* The 28 stab wounds is coincidently a reference to Detroit: Become Human.
* He tends to give nicknames or drastically shortened names, to people regardless of relationship.
* A lot of Ko's former names were play on words:
	+ **Kosyl Dobawin** - To sail by the wind
	+ **Frako Stein** - Frankenstein
	+ **Tobi Hiendrie** - To be high and dry
	+ **Louies Kanyan** - Loose Cannon
* Despite being over 1000 years old, Koeia is considered a child compared to his siblings: Ali and Mako.
* As of Episode 22, Ko and Grinn are now in a relationship.