Entertainer

The **Entertainer** is a member of the Blasphemous Seven. He's one of the group's commanders and Soul Hunters, although he's rarely seen altogether with the team since he went insane.

Although he doesn't really have any remarkable roles in the current team, he's actually the very first Sin to be created, and was the leader to the previous team before he went insane and had to be replaced by Vanity late on.

His Sin is Cavum (Despair).

## Appearance

The Entertainer manifests as a tall, humanoid clockwork being, with an overall aesthetic heavily resembling an automaton.

He has overall pirate themes to him, wearing clothing such as a typical long coat and pointy boots. Representing his sin themes, the lower part of his torso is exposed, showing his inner machinery with the word "**LAUGH**". While his left hand is normal aside from his sharp fingers, his right one has gigantic, sharp skinny fingers with a fully mechanical, clockwork appearance to it entirely.

His clothes also have Raven motifs, such as multiple feathers at the nigh-end of his coat, aswell as a subtle black tone to his clothing in general. He has a noticeably long neck (which can bring the Puppet Conqueror's appearance to mind) and his face is covered by an old stained mask. The mask has a traditional shape to it, but with a large, distorted smile with black lips and eyes with black surroundings and eyebrows. It's forehead has the word "**HAPPY**" engraved on it similarly to the "laugh" in his lower torso.

His appearance underneath it all is never revealed, but he seems to have extremely emaciated skin aswell as human ears, pale eyes and a mouth filled with distorted, thin human teeth. It's unknown if any of this is organic.

Much like Vanity, the Conqueror and possibly the Scream (his other half), the Entertainer doesn't have a human origin, being fully created from Baphomet himself, in fact being the first Sin to exist physically. This suggests his physical mechanical appearance is just the body he manifests in, but not his true form.

## Prior to Oakleaf

### Origin

After being sealed by an opposing force, Baphomet restarted his plan to invade **Earth** by making himself a "greater" being, believing his narcissism led to his defeat. First, he began by willingly removing all emotions he deemed unnecessary so that they wouldn't possibly cloud his judgement and ruin his schemes ever again.

Through said process, he completely removed all the emotions he didn't find necessary from his own body, such as said narcissism. Due to being made of malevolent human thoughts however, he realized a few of his emotions were mankind's sins in their beliefs. From the "sins" he separated, he specifically decided to experiment with his Despair and Envy at the same time. Both of them ultimately became semi-stable beings, however the one who actually managed to prove itself as a successful experiment first was Despair.

**Despair** developed a personal motivation of it's own as well as it's own form of physically manifesting as the **Entertainer**, representing mankind's constant need to "fill the void" with anything that surrounds their lives. All this resulted in him being deemed as the first experiment, earning him the title of "The Original" and initial lead of the group that would later become the Blasphemous Seven by Baphomet himself.

Not much is known about how the Entertainer specifically worked as a leader, though considering the Scream is basically the physical sentient manifestation of his mind, it can be presumed he wasn't only the leader but also the original team's main tactician, possibly possessing a great intellect. It's also stated he was seen as Inferno's greatest symbol and "Baphomet's Hand", suggesting he likely acted as Baphomet's replacement entirely while the real being was sealed.

### Insanity

Originally the Entertainer actually embodied all four aspects of the sin of Sloth altogether (Laziness, Cowardice, Despair and Melancholy, the Sin was mostly known by the Despair or Melancholy name rather than Sloth at the time though). However, in a rather ironic way, it's implied he couldn't really hold the pressure of having to constantly live up to being a nearly perfect symbol of his realm's ideals after (probably) centuries, and slowly fell into despair himself. This is implied to be actually something Baphomet caused with the idea of having him "fully embrace his Sin" and give him even more abilities in the process, though it didn't work in the way he wanted it to. To somehow escape from it all, the Entertainer had planned to separate his mind in two, a half that was everything he truly was and a half who was the being he was meant to be, believing he could instantly switch from one to the other when needed. However, he obviously didn't have enough experience nor control to pull something like this off with his abilities at the time, instead accidentally separating most of his sanity and mind from himself.

Everything that got out of him (Cowardice, Laziness) ultimately became "Sloth", who ended up as the physically weak but far more or less rational and actually brilliant, albeit extremely lazy "half" of the Entertainer, whereas the latter himself was left with only Emptiness and Melancholy, which meant he had lost practically all of the unusual fear his Cowardice gave him aswell as the unwillingness to do some things out of Laziness, leaving him as a really unstable being, who wasn't that intelligent but was almost devoid of any restraint overall, specially considering his Emptiness had a much larger space now, going from being a quarter to a full half and making him far more dangerous than ever.

This transformation led to him showing a massive change and multiple issues, although he still kept leading the original team for a while before it being too clear he wasn't really fit for the title anymore, having secluded himself away for a long time (as he was replaced by Vanity) to make his fellow Sins believe he had gone as far as leaving Inferno, although he was actually watching over the team through it's depths, waiting for Baphomet's call to be a part of the team again.

Possibly years later (it's unknown how much the previous Seven and their plans lasted after his fall) he was somehow recruited to be a part of the new team. It's unknown how he was specifically recruited and under what terms aside from more or less having slightly more control over his insanity of sorts now. He's not among the current team's "First Five" and is presumed to be among the last (if not the last) member to properly join.

## Symbolism

### Design

He has multiple Raven motifs such as multiple feathers and overall black tones. This represents his sin of Despair. While the Raven has never been actually associated with the sin of Despair, it is traditionally seen as an animal associated with loss and ill omen in multiple sources, which somewhat fits with the nature of said sin.

The engraved words "**LAUGH**" in his lower torso and "**HAPPY**" in his forehead, represent how he sees mankind's Despair, people constantly trying to fill their inner void with forced happiness in the outside. He's also the only Sin alongside the Conqueror who has engraved words in his body, subtly hinting at how they were both the first Sins to exist physically.

### Story wise

He becomes the first successful attempt of Baphomet at creating a being from him, which indirectly leads to the creation of a group that would later be the Blasphemous Seven. The sin of Despair is usually considered the worst among many circles (even considered "the unforgivable one" sometimes) due to it putting all other sins in motion. The Entertainer's successful creation would ultimately lead to a group where all the beings representing each Sin would be working together. He was also the leader of it for a long time before Vanity took his place after his accident.

## Powers and Abilities

As probably expected from the very first Sin himself, the Entertainer has a wide variety of abilities, and coupled with his general unstability he's easily among the most dangerous members of the group, specially if he gets orders to actually kill a target. His main abilities are shapeshiting into someone's fears aswell as copying someone's powers once he's had enough contact with them (which can be quite ironic for a unique ability), giving him a rather versatile set of multiple abilities that wouldn't go together naturally. Considering his mild insanity and decent power, he's a great direct member for the group's invasion plan if he receives the proper orders.

**Nightmare Shapeshifting**: Exactly as the name suggests, the Entertainer can turn his entire body into a sort of strange, black gooey mess (which looks almost like petrol, but feels really cold to touch), and in that form arrange himself to look like his target's fears (a spider, rotten rodent, etc) or even a sort of physical manifestation of their insecurities. Although this has some limitations, since first the Entertainer needs to have analyzed his target for a long while to properly know any of their fears/insecurities, and while his form change is quick once he's in his "black mess" form, it's not instant and the more complex the shape is, the more tiring it is for him to keep it together. He also can't use his other abilities while in the gooey form, making him extremely vulnerable overall in case he's attacked. A form he specifically seems to like taking without copying someone's fears or issues is that of a literal Void's, referencing how he represents the "Emptiness" aspect of the sin of Sloth.

**False Future**: It's unknown how it really works since he rarely ever uses this and it's kind of an odd ability on it's own already, but he can seemingly make up visions of a twisted, horrible future for a target based on their thoughts and what they care about the most in general. He mostly uses this just for toying around with whoever he's messing around with rather than actually fighting though, making them believe he's actually predicting what will happen to them in a day, a week or even the rest of their life although he's only creating it all.

**Adaptational "Mimic" Physiology**: Despite it's old typical automaton like appearance, the Entertainer's mechanical body actually seems to be entirely made of a strange sort of unknown components reminiscent of modules that can automatically adapt themselves, absorbing the "trace" of another being's powers once they've had enough physical contact with them. The components then are able to make their own copy of the power through said "trace", more or less giving the Entertainer said powers in the process. He can mildly control, use and even combine them all almost as if they were natural powers of his, without possible unexpected effects harming his body due to the adaptation the components already did, giving him a decently versatile array of abilities. It's also unknown if this physiology has specifically much, or even anything to do with his shapeshifting ability mentioned above.

* **Plasticity**: Copied from the Clown. Just like him, the Entertainer has the ability to convert the mass of his overall body into a somewhat malleable state at will, although in this case it's due to the adaptation of his components explained above. He can alter his form in some minutes (depending on what he wants to do with it), and revert to his normal humanoid shape within a longer but still similar amount of time, all just like the Clown himself overall. His transformation into a malleable state is slower than the Clown's because he doesn't have the latter's Speed nor particular physiology, but the adaptation his own components did is enough for him to do it without much trouble anyway.
* **Fire-Fueled Flight**: Copied from the Goatman. Like him, the Entertainer can increase the pressure of Superheated currents of air around him to push himself through the air and fly, with the pressure of the incredibly hot air causing a slight trail of flame to appear behind him as he flies. Though unlike the Goatman, this ability is always the same regardless of his emotional state since he's not directly linked to the Sin of Wrath like the latter is, normally reaching average speeds no matter what. He can fly faster than that by combining this with other abilities to make up for it.
* **Flame Projection**: Copied from the Goatman aswell. He can project the flames he creates as semi solid blasts of fire, aswell as focusing it into decent beams. In a rather interesting way, the Entertainer is actually better than the Goatman himself when it comes to creating and controlling the fire beams, possibly due to the proper adaptation of his components to the ability.
* **Heat Adaptation**: A minor necessary ability for someone who can control fire. This works similarly to the Goatman's Heat Resistant skin, although in this case it's because as mentioned multiple times, his components have adapted properly so that his mechanical body doesn't get harmed to fire, preventing him from injuring himself with his own flames and allowing him to coat either some parts or all of his body in fire.