Hendrickson

"So, shall you accept the deal?"

Hendrickson is a neutral-protagonist force of Magical Artistry. Originally a demon from Hell, he lives as True and Nyami's pet raccoon whilst making occasional contracts to various humans.

## Design

Hendrickson is a maroon-skinned individual with short and wavy black hair, black and grey hooves, black forearms and hands and black and maroon horns that curve backwards. He wears a trench coat with short sleeves and a red vest underneath. He has yellow sclera and a singular black slit for his pupil.

As Cheese, he is a brown-furred raccoon with black cheek hair, paws and feet whilst wearing a red scarf around his neck. His tail is striped brown and belly fur peach. He also has yellow sclera with black slits for pupils.

## Abilities

As a demon, Hendrickson is extremely powerful. He has access to a huge selection of curses, including but not limited to poisoning, sudden damage, rapid aging and petrification. He doesn't use his powers just for bad though, as he can summon contracts and anyone who signs them willingly must abide by their rules. The contracts normally exchange abilities or cures with sections of the signer's soul or possessions, or even guaranteeing a place in Hell or cutting their life short no matter what they do. There are no tricks he pulls with this. He is also able to shapeshift into any non-living object he possesses, which allows him to easily shapeshift into the raccoon form to be treated as a pet. He retains all his normal abilities, along with being much faster as he is a rabid animal with a soul.

## Relationships

### True and Nyami

These three have a relationship exclusively to disguise Hendrickson as a pet. Originally because Nyami wanted a pet, she went out and found the little scamp in a dumpster, unaware that it was a corpse with a demon inside. Hendrickson slowly submit to this life where he was given pets and treats, relaxing in Nyami's lap often and floating around to take a gander at True's contraptions and machinery, sometimes giving them a demonic kick.

### Andre and Canari

The two of them have sacrificed a portion of their souls to the demon in order to get their powers. He usually does a checkup on them whenever they arrive at the house to make sure their abilities aren't rampant as they aren't innate like the others'. He enjoys losing to Canari in Smash Bros and teaching Andre how to game without looking at the controller.

### Porphyria

He absolutely despises her. He wants to escape all of his demonic duties by being on the surface, and she's here to make sure he has to always care. He never took a liking to angels and knows how utterly useless she is in trying to convert a witch. The two of them clash often, usually with just words and often with magic sigil threats.

## Versions in other series

* Tarot Cards - He represents the Major Arcana 15, The Devil.

## Trivia

* Originally he was a black raccoon that just so happened to be a demon. He was then changed to a brown one with black markings all over, before having a peach-coloured face and stomach, and a demon form.
* How the raccoon corpse got in the dumpster is a mystery, as raccoons are not native to New Zealand.
* The name Hendrickson is based on a character of the same name from the manga / anime series 'Seven Deadly Sins' due to them both being demons.
* The in-universe explanation for the name Cheese being chosen is because Nyami just thought it was a goofy name for a raccoon.