Cherri

* Naga Form
* Quetzalcoatl Form
* Mortal Form

> "Olm Akie Nelora’te, o haja."
>
> —**Cherri**

Lefkiflogia [Or *Cherri*] is a deuteragonist in **In The Forgotten Era.** He is a Vampire Harpy Quetzalcoatl, and **the God of Sleep Paralysis**.

## Appearance

Cherri is tall, having a tan-skinned human-like head with feathery ears. His hair is a light-gray color, with red tinges at the tips of the back and front of his hair. He has dull-red eyes, dark red sclera, and dark stripe markings under them. He has a ring of feathers that goes around his bust, and a white, plumed serpent body. His outer feathers of his wings are white, while the inner feathers are a bright red.

In his Quetzalcoatl form, he has a long, white serpent-like body, which is entirely fleeced. There is a red stripe that goes down his backside. He has large grey-and-red feathers that wraps around his head and tail-end, and lighter red stripe markings under his eyes.

He sometimes shifts into a sleep-paralysis form, in which he can shift in someone's dreams into a horrifying beast of his choice.

## Personality

Cherri is a calm and cautious god, he's lived through enough to know you can't live on impulse and live. He's often the only one who knows what he's doing and is basically the dad of the group. He's incredibly caring to those he likes and will fuss over the slightest injury, not for himself though. To Cherri the only wounds on himself he has to worry about are the ones on his face. He cares a lot more for others than himself, which makes his self loathing evident. Cherri has a soft spot for children.

He's a book worm and prefers reading and more relaxed activities to hunting. He actually hates eating in public, due to being a mix of multiple carnivorous creatures with the tendency to eat things whole he would much rather prefer not being looked at weird. He has good manors and is very polite at least.

Cherri inside is very broken and depressed, either not sleeping enough or over sleeping and some days not being able to drag himself out of bed. He's a pessimist and will curse his luck endlessly, as it most often then not seems as the entire world is out to get him specifically, and he's not wrong as his life is basically just a series of how much worse can it get.

## Skills and abilities

Cherri is incredibly powerful, both magically and physically. Having trained as a teen under the god Amatiri he knows his way around a fight well and is a formidable opponent. As the God of Sleep Paralysis he has a special ability to go into the garden of dreams and torment anyone in sleep paralysis, in which he can change forms to terrifying monsters so he can effectively scare whoever is his victim. He even has the to cause physical harm in sleep paralysis though he much rather not do that, and prefers to sticking to horror.

Cherri is a phoenix and thus is skilled in fire magic, in fact he has been practicing a special type of fire called "white fire" which is the strongest a non dragon can wield, it incinerates all it touches, but he's still practicing and not too skilled in it yet. Cherri's divine weapon is a pair of twin blades which are curved. He has the ability to transform into a massive quetzalcoatl due to his divine heritage, and a bat thanks to his vampiric heritage. He has a mortal form which he uses to hide in plain sight amongst mortals.

## Character connections

Wisp: Wisp is Cherri's younger sibling, they were very close when they were young but Cherri ran away from home when their father died, leaving Wisp all alone. Cherri greatly regrets this and misses his younger sibling greatly.

Akulan: Akulan is Cherri's father, he was very close with his father despite not having many memories with him as he died when Cherri was 9, which then caused him to run away from home. Still, Cherri mourns his father, and often thinks about what would happen had he lived.

Nomio: Nomio is Cherri's father, he was close with his father as a child, always flying around him and watching him do his work, or doing annoying kid things to get his attention. He misses him dearly and wishes to return home, though he doesn't feel like he deserves to.

Revera: Revera is Cherri's aunt on Akulan's side, and despite never having met he despises her greatly for murdering his father and when he was younger wanted to kill her, though this wish died out a long time ago. Now he just passively hates her.

Ni'kana: Ni'kana is Cherri's uncle on Nomio's side, Cherri finds him extremely odd but as Ni'kana had helped the boy out a few times in the past he appreciates him though he'll always be the weird uncle in Cherri's eyes.

Imagus: Imagus is Cherri's grandfather on Akulan's side, Cherri's met him once in the deepest frost while soul searching. Imagus would give him vague advice for the coming years he wouldn't understand until it happened. Cherri overall doesn't really have an opinion on his grandfather other than he's weird.

Bellum: Cherri's grandmother on Nomio's side, Cherri actively despises Bellum and even so much as mentioning her name is enough to make him visibly uncomfortable and tense as Bellum had tried to kill him in the past, but it would seem his hatred goes much deeper then that.

Kanzu: Kanzu is Cherri's adoptive mother, having found him in the woods when he first ran away, she didn't recognize him as the lost son of Nomio and Akulan due to her blindness so she took him in as her own. Kanzu was a comforting presence in in young Cherri's life and is responsible for a lot of his sweeter traits. She would raise him until he would go off to train with the griffins.

Amatiri: Amatiri was Cherri's teacher when he came to him looking to grow stronger. Amatiri would train Cherri relentlessly and become a mentor for him, Cherri is only as skilled as he is in combat due to Amatiri. Though Amatiri was not soft, and was always critical of Cherri's lack of bravery in facing his family again. After being stabbed in the back by his first boyfriend Amatiri kicked Cherri out of the desert due to his lack of bravery, causing Cherri to grow angry and bitter, starting a regrettable chapter of his life.

## Background/story

### Early Life

Lefkiflogia was born 407996 years ago on Dopina 20th as the God of Sleep Paralysis, he was the first god of the third generation and the firstborn of the gods Nomio and Akulan, he was welcomed into the world by the whole divine court. He was named Lefkiflogia by Nomio, but upon trying to pronounce the name his other father Akulan decided to stick to calling him by his nickname Cherri. For the first 9 years of his life he was a happy and energetic young boy, flying all over the place and playing hide and seek with his dads, even accidentally catching some buildings on fire on accident.

When he was 4 years old Cherri would get a baby sibling named Wisp, who he would adore and play with any time he could. Cherri was a very good older brother and despite being really young as well he took good care of his baby sibling. 3 years after that he got a baby sister named Umbra who he loved greatly as well. Akulan would also begin teaching him about white fire, which learning would become a great aspiration of Cherri's later life.

However his perfect life would soon come to a close upon the death of Akulan. Cherri was asleep when it happened, though he was woken up by the screaming rage of Nomio in another room who was in a rage at the news. The revaluation that Akulan had died and the anger Nomio was in was like nothing Cherri had ever seen at the time, it scared him so badly he ran away from home, and never returned.

### Lost Prince

Cherri flew as far away from home as possible, eventually passing out on a ship in the Glistening Forest where he was lost and alone for a few months in which he struggled to stay alive, resorting to stealing food as he wasn't big or strong enough to hunt on his own before meeting the Goddess Kanzu. Kanzu being as kind hearted as she is decided to take in the little snake as her own. Together they would travel throughout the world, during this period Cherri was still shy and skittish, afraid of almost everything though Kanzu would always comfort and sing to calm him.

Cherri grew very attached to his new care taker, though the older he got the more revenge was on his mind, he wanted to end his aunt for killing his father and tearing apart his family, then he'd return home without the guilt of running away in the first place was his plan. As a teenager in god years he decided to go on his own, bidding Kanzu a tearful farewell Cherri set out for the best place one could train.

### Training with the Griffins

Upon arriving at the desert Cherri sought out the god Amatiri, pleading with him to train him to become a strong and worthy warrior. It took a lot of convincing but eventually Amatiri would accept only under the promise Cherri would not once try to get out of training, and that he would not once complain. Cherri relived agreed to the terms and would start almost immediately when Amatiri flew at him with a spear, knocking the boy down easily. All Amatiri said is that he had a long way to go.

Cherri would become utterly devoted to his training, thinking of not much other then becoming stronger and challenging himself. This would negatively effect his attitude and personality, going from a scared but sweet young boy to a rude and egocentric teenager who didn't really understand what strength really meant yet still wanted it. Amatiri, his mentor seen nothing wrong with this development, in fact encouraging it, if Cherri wanted to be the best he had to fight to get it and to be respected enough to really fight he needed to be feared.

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and origin

* Cherri used to be a placeholder name, Blue grew attached. He was called Cherri because his horns at the time were red as is his eyes.

### Curiosities

* His eyes always seem to glow, even if rather faintly.
* Cherri has thalassophobia.
* He doesn't like people watching him eat.
* Cherri is a nickname given to him by his late father Akulan because his real name "Lefkiflogia" was too hard to pronounce.
* Cherri is bisexual.
* Cherri's soul color is a pale red

## Refrences/Cites

1. ↑ Akulan playing with his kids, Cherri, Wisp, and Umbra..[IMAGE BY Blue]