Kakó Paidí

## Deity Info

### Deity of

The End, Childhood, and literally everything to do with snakes except for the creatures themselves

### Domain

his official domain is a magic forest, but he lost it. So at the moment he's living in a cardboard box.

### Followers

Most people think he’s actually two separate deities, Kakó, the god that according to legend, will one day end the universe, and paidí, the goddess who steals away naughty children.

### Pets

He’s always wanted a pet but animals really hate him. He’s even been attacked by goldfish

## Relationships

### Relationship Status

Nah

Kakó Paidí is the very pathetic but huggable god of The End, Childhood, and literally everything to do with snakes except for the creatures themselves.

## Appearance

He has 3 main forms, the form of a human, the form of a shadow thing, and the form of a giant wooden snake toy.

### Human form

His human form is very tall, about 6’11 when he's standing up straight (which he never is) and 6'8 when he's slouching (which he always is). This is one of his greatest insecurities and he gets incredibly self conscious when someone acknowledges his height. He’s got black hair that goes to about his chin and golden eyes. His skin is very pale. His pupils are slits, like a snake. He's very scrawny, to the point where one might even be a bit concerned about his health. He's also got lots of scars, most of which being on his heart or the center of his chest where one would usually stab someone they were trying to seal away. He wears a sort of scarf made out of shed snake skin, a brown coat with faint scale patterns, random t-shirts that are usually hidden underneath the coat, and black pants. He doesn’t wear shoes and all of his clothes look worn. In the medieval sect, his coat and shirts are replaced with a plain white tunic and a sleeveless coat with the same faint scale patterns as his regular coat. His pants also change to the pants of that time period, though he still doesn’t wear and shoes. His nails are sometimes seen bleeding ichor from how much he chews them. He’s also almost always hunched over and slouching. His voice is also very high and squeaky for a grown man.

### Shadow Form

His shadowy form is very frightening, with completely white glowing eyes. It’s vaguely humanoid, it doesn’t appear to have arms or legs, but moves around with ease. It also has what looks like roots branching out from underneath and shadowy flames that occasionally appear on his shoulders. The more distressed or emotional he is, the bigger they appear.

### Snake Toy Form

His snake toy form is one of those wooden snakes with a plastic tongue and two really derpy eyes painted on. He can move the tongue and move just how any ordinary snake would. He can alter the kind of snake he is by having a painted pattern and colors appearing on him and slightly altering his shape. He does not have any venom or special features of any snakes though, other than a rattlesnake’s rattle. In this form, he is either really big or really tiny, with no in between.

## Personality

He’s really wimpy and easily frightened. He’s super bad at most things and very clumsy. He’s also incredibly nice and really likes children. In fact, despite what the legends say, instead of stealing misbehaving children away and eating them, he actually gives them a big lecture on why they should be good children and freaks out whenever their home life isn’t the best or some kind of not nice reason for misbehaving and does his best to help them in any way he can. He also likes to give them toys. Children who ignore him or respond violently to his appearance frightens him and he doesn’t know what to do with them. He’s so nervous about interacting with people and so desperate to do it correctly whenever he does get the opportunity, that he has a binder full of pre-made speeches for all of his possible interactions. He’s also super emotional and sensitive and cries very easily. He’s also an incredibly terrible liar and his expressions are like an open book. He’s also incredibly self conscious about everything about himself. He really doesn’t like it whenever people call him by any of the myths and folktales he embodies (Like the boogeyman and santa claus) unless he’s in their forms and intentionally acting like them. Even then he really doesn’t like a lot of them because he thinks they’re all creepy.

## Powers

* He can take the form of many different characters from nursery rhymes and stories typically told to kids.
* He can teleport through shadows, under beds, and into closets
* he can summon lots of different toys.
* He can cause things, both living and inanimate, to die or fall apart. According to legend, he’s also able to cause the end of the universe, but he doesn’t know how to destroy anything larger than a bulldozer. His powers can only slightly weaken deities, immortal people, and any mortal powerful enough to just casually cross between the sects.
* He can also summon other things related to his last two spheres of control.
* He can sense and is drawn to misbehaving children, most especially kids who stay up past their bedtime.
* Though it’s extremely exhausting, sometimes he can gain the powers or abilities from characters from fairytales or bedtime stories.

He has very little control of any of these powers, especially when he's emotional or tired. Most of the time it's just things like lollipops and snake toys spontaneously falling from the sky, but every once in a while his more destructive powers will flare up. When this happens, he tends to get really scared.

## Domain

His domain is a large magical forest with an entire organized civilization of children and shadow people, but it’s so magical and so well hidden that he lost it many, many years ago. So instead he lives in a cardboard box he carries around with him. He goes through about 3 cardboard boxes a week, as the well-hidden and magical part of his domain’s description was but a small part of why he lost it: he has a bad habit of misplacing things.

## Backstory

his “mother” was a creation goddess, who at the very, very, beginning of the universe, hated the idea that she wasn’t the only deity so much, that in a fit of rage, she created “the end of the universe”, which immediately destroyed her on the spot. He was in the form of a shadowy ball of energy then. Eventually, when humans began to pop up all over the place, he gained a human form and his other powers.

Ever since, he's been wandering around, trying not to get sealed away by people who fear that he might end the world and mostly failing.

## Followers

Believe it or not, Kako has followers. These followers are an ancient but pretty small cult (to be named) that wishes for the end of the world. They believe that he is only the god of the end and their symbol is a snake.

Often times, they are the ones freeing Kako from where ever he gets sealed away, but he is afraid of them and avoids them when possible. He also doesn't like the fact that they exist and gets upset whenever the topic of them comes up, because who would ever want everything to die? Or even worse, why would anyone want him to kill anything at all?

## Relationships

Max: because most animals don't like him, Kako is deeply touched that Max not only doesn't flee in terror or try to bite him, but let's him pet him. This alone makes Kako feel deeply indebted to him. So basically just by being a nice dog, max has earned himself a lifetime supply of sausages.

Galaxian: he also feels greatly indebted to him, both because Galaxian didn't try to seal him away the first time they met, and because he also saved him from getting sealed away roughly the second time they met. And the countless other little ways he's helped him.

## Trivia

* He knows a lot about seals, not the animal, but the thing used to trap powerful creatures for long periods of time.
* And by knowing a lot about those, I mean he can tell you how it feels to be trapped by them. He doesn't actually know how they're created or anything.
* In fact, if you were to ask him how they're created, he'd typically give you an anxious look and ask "why do you want to know?"
* he doesn't like to reveal his name to strangers, but has yet to come up with a good name to tell them instead.