Delphi Shylan

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> ### Full name
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> Delphyni Gorgo Shylan
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> ### Aliases
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> * Delphi (nickname and intimate name)
> * Veda (milk name)
> * Akeldama
> * Moth Kitten (used by Luka, Ty and Pallas)
> * Baby Claws (used by Leto and Nyko)
> * Little Tarantula (used by Jocamer)
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> ### Birth
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> October 31st, 2004 in Kacrilyon, Republic of Satharin
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> ### Age
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> * 16 (as of 2020)
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> ### Species
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> Half-Lilim (Witch)
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Black
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> * Silver (left eye)
> * Blue (right eye)
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> ### Height
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> 5'31/2" ft
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> ### Family member(s)
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> * Pallas Shylan (father) †
> * Amatis Cuerdion (mother - estranged)
> * Vivie Shylan (oldest daughter)
> * Alexius Eltanin (oldest son) †
> * Silena Eltanin (youngest daughter)
> * Nix Eltanin (middle son)
> * Gaius Eltanin (youngest son)
> * Lukara Shylan (oldest sister)
> * Syrene Shylan (older sister)
> * Tybalt Shylan (oldest brother)
> * Ziggy Shylan (nephew)
> * Vivius Shylan (younger twin brother) †
> * Aretias Eltanin (maternal younger half-brother)
> * Lukrezia Eltanin (maternal youngest half-sister)
> * Elyan Eltanin (maternal younger half-brother)
> * Mars Eltanin (maternal youngest half-brother)
> * Leto Shylan (paternal uncle)
> * Leto Shylan II (paternal first cousin)
> * Nytokris Shylan (paternal first cousin)
> * Thisbe Shylan (paternal first cousin)
> * Venere Shylan (paternal first cousin)
> * Pallas Shylan II (paternal first cousin)
> * Ayleta Shylan (paternal first cousin)
> * Dido Shylan (paternal first cousin)
> * Lorenza Shylan (paternal first cousin)
> * Myrak Denali (paternal grandmother) †
> * Marcus Shylan (paternal grandfather) †
> * Calanthe Shylan (paternal great-grandmother) †
> * James Cuerdion (maternal uncle)
> * Tomas Cuerdion (maternal uncle)
> * Shara Cuerdion (maternal grandmother) †
> * Otto Cuerdion (maternal grandfather)
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> ### Significant other(s)
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> * Alexius Eltanin (currently togethter, deeply in love)
> * Adrian Balceiro (ex-partner)
> * Rui Shephali (dated, twin flames and best friends)
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> ### Education
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> Astrahill Academy (Class of 2025)
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> ### Affiliations
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> * The Lemon Dropettes
> * House of Shylan (paternal family)
> * House of Cuerdion (maternal family; disowned)
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> “I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
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> ― Charles Bukowski
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**Delphyni Gorgo Shylan** is the second youngest child between Pallas Shylan and Amatis Cuerdion, she is the younger sister to Lukara, Syrene and Tybalt. Delphi is also the twin sister of Vivius.

Delphyni despite her injuries as a child managed to have five children named Vivie, Alexius, Silena, Nix and Gaius all through her husband Alexius Eltanin.

## Background

### Early Life

When Delphi was eight, her brother and friend became a victim of (\*&\*-\*&\*) causing the first break according to her aunt Jo, the second and third breaks came when she was violently raped by a member of her mother's family who came to Satharin to parlay the end of the (\*&\*) conflict and finally the third came when her father despite his counsellors warning dead at Hell Gates in the (\*&\*) War. This caused her to no longer talk until she completed the agoge and was claimed so around fourteen.

## Personality

Despite growing up in a higher-class environment, Delphi lacks the superficiality common amongst the nobility treating people on their actions and behavior and less on their titles and so-called great deeds. As a child when she and Tybalt would get into arguments, Delphi would run away and play with some person until he came back and apologize.

Delphi is a unique individual she is both extroverted yet also introverted, able to compartmentalize her true self and what she wants everyone to see with relative ease. She is incredibly rebellious and fickle having no qualms in acting out of spite, her former lover Adrian describes her "*A goddess of old finally achieving its greatest wish to be wrapped in flesh but it didn't rid her of her own true nature*".

As a child, her moods were capricious, switching from anger to glee within moments to spite. She had no concern for propriety, reveling in the death. As an adult, Delphi seemed marginally more stable, if still rather distant and a stubborn nonconformist, Adrian states that this is her shield in reality she is an empath but because she can understand everyone else's emotion but not her own she has developed a twisted personality.

She has a very sharp intuition about the feelings and desires of people, that she inherited from her grandmother Shara.

## Appearance

Delphi is considered the spitting image of maternal grandmother Shara Cuerdion, both having warm creamy skin, sharp hooded eyes, full lips and high cheekbones. According to her great-aunt Jema, Delphi and Shara shared the same dreamy, mysterious aura along with a seductive and charismatic smirk on their faces. Whereas she inherited her father's ink black hair and oval-shaped face. Due to her Lilim heritage, Delphi has pointed ears, a black tail with a tuff of black hair and vertical slitted pupils.

She was born with complete heterochromia; her left eye is bright grey almost silver, and her right eye is a pale blue. Delphi has a skinny yet womanly body, small breasts that many claimed are prefect, a robust buttock and full thighs. She also has a small, narrow waist. Delphi often wears heavy dark eye makeup and a dark nude lip.

Due to getting in fights as a child, Delphi has broken her nose twice that healed crookedly along with the assaults she suffered as a child her pelvis never healed correct as such this made her a slow walker and has never been a runner.

### Tattoos

* Her first tattoo is on her upper right arm; she has a bird being stabbed.
* The marking of Loki is in the center of her back.
* She has "Vivius" in thin cursive writing on her left hand.
* On her left calf Delphyni has a frog wearing a straw hat riding a snail covered in mushrooms.
* In between her chest and onto her stomach, she has a snake wrapped around the cross with four wings surrounding the very top.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Lilim Physiology** - Delphi is a halfblooded lilim and a witch that falls into the fifth type, as such she has a direct connection to Chaos without a filter. Delphyne is considered a Specialist and like other's her own specialization ability with is life magic being able to directly influence the life-force around her in varies means.
	+ **Accelerated Regeneration** - Like all Lilims, Delphi can heal from minor injuries and wounds with relative ease. For example, while its take's the normal human about several months to heal it only takes a Lilim about a week and a half. In Delphi's case it had a horrible effect on her as when she was a child and raped, her hips were broken and healed in place causing her body to not heal correctly and pain that often engulfs her especially when it is rainy.
	+ **Wealth of Sin** - When she was claimed and gifted the eyes of her great-grandmother, her main physical ability allows her to influence and manipulate those who come in contact, this requires her to draw her own blood that then creates numerous effects/reactions from her intended targets using the blood scent. While her secondary ability is
		- **Sensory Illusion Inducement** - With those who possess a weaker amount of mana in them to see hallucinations, but Delphyni has no control over what the person sees as she can only induce it. These purely mental and sensory based perceptive distortions are often only visual or auditory but can sometimes be tactile and even cause physical pain. They can be used as distractions, cause the target to go insane from wild sensation or even cause the target’s mind to collapse permanently.
		- **Truth Inducement** - Those who possess higher amounts of mana who are able to resist the illusions she casts, are forced to deal with this secondary ability in which the brain function decreases and will make the recipient confess their lies and not keep their secrets.
		- **Life-Force Construction** - In combination with her magic, Delphi is able to create a large avatar representing her true self at full manifestation. In her case, it is a gigantic woman with four horns wearing a red dress with armor.
	+ **Disease Immunity** - Delphi has a higher resistance to disease as she had never had the flu nor is affected by the plague.
* **Life Magic** - Delphi's main magical abilities revolve around manipulating the living, life, the life-force, and life forms. Delphyni can create new forms of life, grant life to the lifeless, animate things, manipulate the life force of the universe and those connected to it.
	+ **Life Infusion** - Delphi is capable of breathing life into inanimate objects.
* **Dragon Magic** - Delphi possesses dragon magic as well, being able to awaken a stone egg after losing her brother and her body broken in which two dragons Galatya and Celeno were born, and she claimed only one of them Celeno stating her siblings "*Galatya was for Vivius, she wouldn't accept me and was rather disappointed in me when I was alone*".
* **Ansasuken Arts** - Delphi was taught the Ansasuken Arts by Jocamer, despite not being capable of all the powers she is capable of creating a shield of mana around her that is sentent and doesn't need commands to do her bidding and use of the voice.
	+ **The Voice** - Due to being directly connected Chaos, Delphi is able to use its voice as a command when a person is ordered to do something by the use of Voice it is almost impossible not to comply. In Delphi's case because she is a direct link to Chaos, whenever she uses the Voice on someone in a repeated sense it doesn't lose its effect on the person but in her case as she uses more of the Voice the Mind may slowly infect herself and possess her.
	+ **Seal of Urna** - Is a part of the Ansasuken Arts that requires extremely delicate mana control. By storing a vast amount of mana over an extended period of time into a specific point on their body usually the forehead the user creates this seal, which manifests in the form of a rhombus-like marking. Once the seal is formed, the user's already impressive mana control allows them to perform techniques without any wasted energy. When released, the seal will either spread across the user's face or wrap around their entire body. The stored mana is then released into their body, greatly amplifying the power of their techniques. The seal will permanently remain in the center of the user's forehead, presumably so that the user can keep on benefiting from its effects.

### Possessions

* **Katoptris** - Delphi's main weapon if need for defense is Katoptris, a Vaner steel weapon.
* **Armbands** - Despite not liking titles, she does wear the armbands marking her rank of status in Satharin which depicts the chimera with the symbol of the seven stars.

## Etymology

* Delphyni is a variant of Delphyne which means "womb" (*δελφύς*), and probably arose by back-formation from Delphi. In Greek mythology, Delphyne is the name given, by some accounts, to the monstrous serpent killed by Apollo at Delphi. Although, in Hellenistic and later accounts, the Delphic monster slain by Apollo is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the earliest known account of this story, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (6th century BC), the god kills a nameless she-serpent (drakaina), subsequently called Delphyne.
	+ Delphyni means "split womb" in Vanerian.
* Gorgo is most likely derived from Greek γοργός *(gorgos)* meaning "grim, fierce, terrible". However, it's also possible that the name is derived from the Greek verb γοργεύω *(gorgeuō)* meaning "to move rapidly, to hasten", which itself is related to the Greek noun γοργία *(gorgia)* meaning "agility, nimbleness, mobility". Another possibility is a derivation from the Greek verb γοργόομαι *(gorgoomai)* "to be spirited", which itself is related to the Greek noun γοργότης *(gorgotēs)* meaning "liveliness, vigour" (sometimes it's erroneously translated as "rapidity").
	+ Gorgo has several meanings such as "fierce", "nimbleness", or "to be spirited" in Vanerian.
* Shylan is the variant of the Chinese name of Shilan which has several meanings such as "seasonal orchid", "seasonal mountain mist", or "stone orchid", along with several other meanings.
	+ Shylan comes from the Old Vanerian saying *T'Shai Shy'lan* which means "children of the chimeras". The saying was in reference to the bastard child born to slave the Ancient Vanerians captured and raped.

## Trivia

* Delphyni is associated with the number "18" which is in reference to the tarot card the Moon.
	+ She is also associated with the Four of Cups.
* Her milk name Veda means "*knowledgeable*" both in Sanskrit and Vanerian.
* From the time Delphi was seven to thirteen, she didn't talk using either sign language or body language.
* According to Databook(s).
	+ Her hobbies are gardening, spending time with Celeno, model building, designing and creating new outfits.
	+ Delphi's favorite smell is gasoline.
	+ She is allergic to peppermint.
	+ Delphi's favorite meal is white potage curry udon with stir-fried vegetables.
		- Her second favorite meal is dahi vada with ginger garlic masala and apricot chutney.
	+ She dislike's anything too gamey.
	+ Delphi is a fan of 70's post-punk, 80's dream pop and alternative rock.
	+ Her most treasured item is her sewing machine.
* Delphyni doesn't use deodorant or perfume and only takes bubble baths.
* She snores like a drunk sailor with a breathing problem.