Calliope

## Description

A short androgynous person usually in heavy black clothing and a black wolf mask. They tend to move erratically and lean towards more animalistic gestures. In the few conversations they've had the appear to be obsessed with the idea of keeping people safe "forever" and needing to be useful to people. They firmly believe if you don't serve somebody, you're better off dead.

They have cannibalistic tendencies, though they appear to be still testing this.

## Story

They had always had a hidden deeper side that manifested in hunger. They spent most of their life keeping it deep inside, hiding from it, but lost and alone in Los Santos, they found the urges more than they could take. They attempted to vent some of it by grabbing Claire Turner, but were unable to get her. Instead they grabbed Ryka Shade, who called 911 while in the car. Interrupted by Jack Marrow, they attempted to rush him with a knife and was shot down. After falling out of a helicopter, they were left in a coma for a week. Once they woke up, amnesiac and sick, they were promptly sent to jail with the news their sister Kitty was dead.

There they met Smiles, who questioned them about everything they knew about Kitty's death. Once he was satisfied he had everything, he told them he had been told to kill them by Kitty. They offered their life to him, but instead he chose to befriend them, giving them the name Calliope. In return for Calliope's loyalty, Smiles offered to help them find a purpose, a task, starting with finding out all about Kitty's death and who did it, and to remember exactly why they were in jail.

They ended up very good at this, finding it out with 24 hours, including the fact that Jack Marrow was the one who pulled the trigger. Smiles was pleased by this and encouraged them to dig deeper. Calliope asked Jack to meet up with them, and during a hike discussed their mutual history from Jack's point of view, including his feelings of happiness than despair at having killed her. Calliope reported all of this to Smiles, then asked permission to kill him, eager to prove they were just as useful as their sister. Smiles was more than willing to allow this. While preparing for this, Calliope spent quite a bit of time up north, stalking locals and torturing them with a machete, though they could not bring themselves to kill. They began to sign with a pawprint in blood, to show the wolf had been here. Cecil agreed to allow Calliope to visit Smiles in return for May leaving the Yakuza. They did not expect this to be allowed, and began pondering a proper gift for their mentor.

Calliope was given the ashes of Kitty and Kimi by Pillbox. Knowing the grave would be desecrated, they attempted to find a hidden place to bury them. While searching, they were interrupted by Ryka finding them. They had a long conversation where they reassured Ryka that they were a "reformed dog" now and no danger. Ryka suggested a place to bury Kitty and Calliope promised to reward her by the next time making it so nobody could ever hurt her again.

Calliope drew Jack to the underground construction site, where they met him dressed first as Kitty, mimicking their sister to put him off balance. But not using a mask was too distressful for them, and they switched to an outfit based off Smiles'. While mocking Jack they tortured him and cut off his right hand. Taking his right eye they ate it in front of him. They finally killed Jack with a stab wound, then in a panic ran away. Confused and scared, they called Smiles later on to get reassurance. During the call Smiles consented to "learning what it was like to be Calliope", and would eat human flesh like they did. Calliope did not sign Jack's murder because they did it for Kitty and Smiles, not themselves.

Later that night they openly ate the raw meat they had gathered from Jack, even offering to other people, though nobody accepted it.

Llanzo called May randomly to complain about a woman being racist to him. May told him she couldn't do anything, but had a friend who could, pointing him to a small barn up north. There Calliope met them, taking the woman Juniper Rose. They questioned her deeply, finding out she was an abused woman just trying to escape. They chose to save her by taking a few bites from her then killing her, allowing her to live inside of Calliope as a "ghost, safe from harm."

After being arrested for Hunter's torture, Calliope took offense to Damian Summers telling May to speak, hearing it as a deal that she would get a lighter sentence if she vocally responded to questions. While hunting for meat to cook for Smiles, they hunted somebody down in front of the PD and removed the tongue. They nailed it to the station with the note "SPEAK DAMIAN" under it.

During the visit with Smiles, Calliope gave him a box full of food, including human meat cooked as a slow roast, and a small box with a hidden compartment in it. Calliope attempted to offer the meat to the five officers with them, but they refused to take any. Smiles was unable to open the box, but texting Calliope, they walked him through it, revealing the bones of Jack they had taken much earlier.

While driving around, they happened upon Claire alone and convinced her to join them on a ride up north. There they revealed a secluded abandoned house and told her about how they was fixing it up for their "Master" and that one day he would join them there, and that once they failed him, they would be buried in the woods behind it, thus serving him both in life and death. Claire attempted to ask who this master was, but instead Calliope tortured her by cutting her hair, taking her ring finger, and carving the pawprint into her back before knocking her out.

They used the bones they took from Claire to make a necklace, and finding they liked having her walking around with their signature on her, decided to attack their two other Obsessions, people they considered dear to them for various ranging from first friend to shared history and a one-sided relationship. They picked up Anna-Mae Harper on her birthday, dragging her to an abandoned bar, where they confronted her about her drug use and told her only they were allowed to hurt her, before attacking her. After leaving her injured, they quickly changed clothes and met her at the hospital to comfort her as May.

They found Ryka Shade again in the woods. After a long conversation about how Little Ducks keep getting hurt they lured her to the abandoned tattoo shop in Palento Bay, where they started to torture them in the same way as the other two. Halfway through they were interrupted by Mercy, who called them interesting and claimed to only want to watch. Flustered and angry at losing control, Calliope hit Ryka far harder on the head than intended, and attempted to give her medical aid before fleeing with Mercy. Afraid of the other serial killer, they submitted to her and gave her their number.

Since then Calliope has been missing.

## Relationships

### Victims

* Ryka Shade (failed)
* Two Locals In Palento Bay
* Jack Marrow †
* Juniper Rose †
* Claire Turner
* Anna-mae Harper
* Ryka Shade

### Rivals

* Damian Summers
* M3rcy

## Trivia

- Smiles was the one who named them. Before that they told people they did not have a name and offered to allow them to give them one. Ryka called them 'Wolf".

- Several times they have introduced themselves as "Cawl-oh-pay" instead of "Kuh-lie-oh-pee". This is an error on the roleplayer's part, not the character.