Axis Diametra

He's a happy-go-lucky bard that's traveling from place to place with nowhere to settle in particular, and who just so happen to keep running into various ghost problems, be it on accident or on purpose.

## Personality

Mostly laidback and casual, he'd much prefer playing on the streets and in clubs than spend his life on some sort of "boring day-to-day job". He's eager to jump headfirst into some exciting adventure or potential shenanigans, and seems to never think of consequences until they bite him in the ass. When it comes to the actual fight, he's either overconfident or skittish - depending on how well his very specific skillset is faring. Terribly afraid of unusually large bugs, much more than actual monsters.

## Appearance

He's a Yupyean toon, meaning his appearance is limited in colors and has a specific paint-like texture. He's a humanoid cat with most of his body rendered in black color, with only upper arms, feet, ears, face and tail being hot pink. His facial features are limited and only include mouth (in a :3 shape with pointy teeth) and singular eye usually positioned to whatever side is closest to the viewer. He's also got a pair of pink whiskers sticking out above his head. His usual attire consist of gray crop top with aestetic holes on the shoulders, blue booty shorts and light-pink guitar pick hanging around his supposed neck on a yellow ribbon. His other outfit, worn only once so far in games and saved up for special occasions, is a bright pink cocktail dress, decorated in glitter, and a pair of matching pink shoes. Otherwise he's usually barefoot. No matter what he's dressed in, he never parts with his guitar. His instrument is nearly his own body size, with dark gray asymmetrical angular body and strings and bridge the same pink shade as his own. The guitar lacks a sound hole and more resembles an electric guitar, but plays just fine in a wide variety of instruments with no additional equipment. The headstock and the back of the guitar is decorated with a treble clef.

## Backstory

There's little known of Axis' life pre-wandering, as much as during. What little is known is he has supposedly run away from his home, and doesn't miss it - to the point of forgetting what it was. Another thing is he sometimes experiences dissociative moments, but these are usually short lived and don't leave lasting effects. It's probably nothing.

At some point he gained ability to interact with ghosts, after which set off with a goal to listen to various undead's stories and retell them, keeping them afloat. He learned that while some ghosts do desire to eventually move on and rest in peace, others are quite happy to stay and continue their life's work in afterlife. With this knowledge he has run into Carmina Escornabois (Playing by Dice). The two have met before, when he asked for a fortune telling, so they've recognized each other on the train station. Upon learning that Carmina has her own experiences with ghosts, Axis invited himself to her farm, where he met Blue (Up-lifting Spirits).

Blue's trouble was a tough one to solve - he's lost his memories after death, and cannot rest until he finds out who he was. Axis' initial idea of settling with who Blue is now was rejected, and he ended up coming with another, much dangerous idea - trying to jog Blue's memory by reminding him of circumstances of his death (Blue's Clues). This resulted in Blue having a panic attack, Axis having to calm him down with a Calm Emotion laced song, and Carmina (rightfully so) chewing out Axis. He ended up staying overnights and paying for his blunder by helping Carmina with roof tiling. (Tiling Up Loose Ends). He left her farm next night, leaving a cryptic note in red ink.

After somewhat disastrous events on Escornabois' farm, he ended up signing up for two separate adventures. First one involved trying to prevent an arranged wedding from taking place, by bride's request (Romeow and Mewliet), which went through many different ideas with varying degree of success - from stealing ceremonial wine, to searching up groom's room for anything that could point to his infidelity, to finally ruining the ceremony by imposing as a priest and pretending to be a furious spirit. The second one was much more dangerous - the group he was part of was requested to head down to Unkani Valley's tunnels and check if the building above can be made safe, as well as to find the previous group of explorers. (Unkani Underbelly). This one ends on a rather sour note, as the root of the problem remained beyond the group's abilities to fix.

...There's something else to say about Axis, though. During his adventures, he never parted with his guitar, and his guitar seemed to respond to certain things happening to him. Moreso, on two separate occasions when he had to calm down someone (Blue and Poko), his voice seemed to change? And he'd sing, but not play? Wonder what that means.

## Shenanigans

* Playing By Dice
* 12FPS: Up-Lifting Spirits
* 12FPS: Blue's Clues
* 12FPS: Tiling up Loose Ends
* Romeow and Mewliet (Parts 1 and 2)
* Unkani Underbelly