Rumi

> "Life here should be peaceful, and life after should be perfect." -*Rumi*
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Rumi is a changeling warlock/bard and one of the "Godslayers" (or main PCs) of Apotheosis. He is played by Grizzlyplays, aka Grizzly.

## Character Information

### Aliases

Anne Oriana (Previous Identity)
The Jester (Previous Identity)
Micheals and Strife (Previous Identity)
Mikey (Previous Identity)
Monos (Previous Identity)
Raoul Leblanc (Previous Identity)
Miles (Previous Identity)
Rumiracle
Elena Sqloint

### Class

Warlock (Hexblade - Pact of the Blade) / Bard (College of Swords)

### Connections

Peter Sqloint (Spouse)
Thanatos (companion & friend)
Sunny (companion fox)
Exandroth (enemy)

## Description

### Appearance

       Rumi is a tall changeling with long, white, opalescent hair tied back by the bangs, with pieces falling down his face and shoulders. He has softer, more androgynous features, and iridescent eyes with long eyelashes. Protruding from his forehead is a pair of crystal-like horns, the left of which is broken in half. Golden tattoos of the sun and other celestial bodies mark his arms. On one ear is a black and gold earring with a dangling ornament, and his wrists are covered in gold bands. He wears a black, purple, and gold coat with faint blue patterning along the edges and transparent billowing sleeves. Beneath that is a tight, sleeveless shirt with a gold collar, and a black and gold glove on his left hand. Along with that, he wears white dress pants and funky, black thigh-high boots that have gold accents and purple bottoms. Across the back of his coat is the symbol of the solstice sun, struck through with a crescent moon and has celestial patterns around it.

Rumi has a pet named Sunny. Sunny is a 3-tailed fox pup who has a sun pattern across his forehead.

## Previous Masks

    Rumi has donned many masks and lived many lives over his years, she uses these as inspiration for the stories they tell on their travels.

#### Raoul Leblanc

    Before her current form, Rumi took the appearance of a storyteller named Raoul. Raoul was a much taller and more chiseled man, with medium-length black hair that flowed over one of his bright blue eyes. On the opposite eye he wore a silver monocle that attached to his ear like a piercing; and he had facial hair along his cheek that was cut in tiger patterns. He wore a heavy and flowy black overcoat with a purple gradient on the inner fabric, growing more saturated as it went down, and an exaggerated popped collar. Underneath he wore a white striped dress shirt tied at the collar by a pink ribbon, that struggled to stay buttoned around his muscular chest. Around his waist was a belt with a fancily designed holster that carried an ornate sword that looked to be a mix of a katana and knight's sword. He wore laceless leather boots that came up to his knees, and leather pants.

#### Miles

In Apotheosis Episode 10: FATHER Rumi took the form of a black furred Tabaxi. They wore a private investigator/sherlock-esque detective outfit, had a congested/nasally voice (akin to Filipe in episode 70 of Riptide) and carried a spyglass. They have a +4 to investigation and said “whoop-de-do scooby-doo” after slapping a dead man in the face a couple times.

#### Anne Oriana

They lived as Anne Oriana from ages 0 to 14. When they were born the first appearance they took was that of their mother, Elena. They were a rosy-pink tiefling, almost cherub-like, with long white hair. They mimicked the clothing of their mother and the other people who would visit their family's bakery.

#### The Jester

The Jester, aka 'Micheals and Strife' or just 'Mikey', was the mask they donned from ages 15 to 17. This mask was heavily influenced by their father, who was a magician/criminal of sorts, leading them to have quite a cheerful and comedic personality. This mask shares many traits with another of their masks, Raoul Leblanc, and the skills/traits they picked up during their time as The Jester would no-doubt assist them in the future because of that.

#### Monos

Briefly appeared in "Episode 7: Distant Memories". The mask originally donned, following his time as The Jester, in a fight with his father.

## Background/History

Rumi, under his identity as Raoul, was a town hopper and proclaimed "gentleman thief", someone who stole only from those who he believed deserved it. He often shapeshifted, as displayed by his talk with Sunny near the end of *Episode 1: Shattered Worlds, Crossing Fates* in which he reassured the fox pup that this would be the last time he would change, they then shifted into their present form as Rumi.

For years, she had prepared to steal from an extremely powerful and famous, religious family known as the Holy Family, a group beloved by most people across the country but who had turned a blind eye to the less fortunate. On the Day of Choosing, Rumi, still in their identity as Raoul Leblanc, put this plan into action. He easily managed to sneak through the front gates and past the door of the Holy Family's mansion, after convincing the guards that there was trouble behind Atlouse's cathedral.

He attempted to deceive another guard by pretending to be plague-ridden, when this didn't work he opted to tell the guard his plan instead. The guard then ran into the hallway calling for guards, Rumi taking this opportunity to continue her mission. Rumi eventually managed to get to a barred door in the basement of the mansion. As they entered, they came across a room full of tomes on either side of the statue of a man, standing valiantly with a sword in his sheath. The sword seemed to call to Rumi, and upon taking it, the weapon fused with his other sword and formed a beautiful hooked harp-sword (pictured in his official reference). As he held it, Rumi saw visions of the future- visions of love, pain, hope, and adventures with two other individuals at his side.

He was confronted by one of the sons of the Holy Family, Arboth, but managed to prevent any fights by casting Suggestion to make the son stand down. As he exited, Rumi noticed panic in the Atlouse cathedral, some saying that the high priest had been stabbed. As he made his way up the roof of a building to get a view of the town, he watched chaos began to erupt as he looked down upon his blade, the sky pitch black as if in eternal twilight.

## Relationships

### Peter Sqloint

*Main:* Relationship between Rumi and Peter Sqloint

Peter admired Rumi since their first meeting, as Rumi showered Peter with affection and talk of their "fated meeting" and how he was "perfect" since laying eyes on him. Since Rumi saw Peter in his visions of the future as one of the individuals he would come to travel with, he became quickly attached to him. Peter had, allegedly, never been given positive affirmation in his life prior to meeting Rumi, and thus was often overcome with emotion at Rumi's praise towards him early-on in the campaign, crying from it. As time passed, he transitioned to simply being more shy than overwhelmed, however.

The unwavering support and praise from Rumi in part caused Peter to fall in love with him over the course of the Apotheosis, culminating in Episode 11: Treachery when Peter (and Exandroth, by extension) admitted under Rumi's Zone of Truth spell and later *again* that he was in love with him, to which Rumi proposed they "bang right now" (they did). Rumi also said that he was in love with Peter while in the Zone. While the extent of his truthfulness regarding this was unknown, as he passed the save and was able to lie as normal in the Zone, Grizzly later confirmed in Apotheosis Just Rolled Episode 12 that Rumi really *does* love Peter. Rumi seems to care about Peter a great deal, as evident by not only his support of him but also in other, smaller things such as his jealousy towards Thanatos for gifting Peter a rock, to which Rumi felt the need to one-up him and gift Peter with a piece of his already-broken gem horn, as well as Grizzly's note that Rumi is now "constantly" holding Peter's hand, just because.

## Trivia

* Rumi's Religion would be called Ruminism, and his worshipers called Ruminists, as said by Grizzly.
* Rumi's name is short for "Rumiracle", as confirmed by him in Episode 11: Treachery.
* Grizzly describes Rumi as being "neither male nor female", in Episode 11: Treachery.
* The name of their Tabaxi form was revealed in the Just Rolled With It for Episode 10 of Apotheosis.
* Their favourite instrument is the harp, as confirmed by Grizzly in his Discord

## References

1. ↑ Grizzly confirming any pronouns for Rumi are fine
2. ↑ Grizzly answering how old Rumi is
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Grizzly's tweet sharing Rumi's official design
4. ↑ Clarification on the spelling of Sunny's Name
5. ↑ Grizzly wrote a doc of all the 'masks' their character wore, which he then shared via the Apotheosis QNA.
6. ↑ Rumi's Religion

## Art References

1. ↑ Rumi fanart by Saturn\_Digital\_
2. ↑ Raoul Leblanc fanart by \_beejuice