Chan

* Mortal
* Original

### Symbols

Will-o-Wisps, the Moon, and those fuzzy worm toys on transparent strings (worm on string for short)

### Domain

Her original domain has been lost with time; currently a roaming deity

### Followers

Indirectly all who experience emotions, memories, or whimsy, but she's made an effort to stay off the radar

## Abilities

### Magical Strengths

Control over emotions, memories, and miscellaneous elements

## Relationships

### Parents

She considers the crew at Fireon a pseudo-family

### Friends

Quite a few, but she considers Damian her best friend

### Relationship Status

N/A

Enchanted (Chan) is the goddess of emotions, memories, and whimsy

## Appearance

Chan typically appears as a 17 year-old girl of Taiwanese descent. Her hair seems to vary in length everytime someone looks at her, but no matter how long or short it always remains pitch black and dead straight. Side-swept bangs fall over her left eye, typically obscuring it from view. Both irises are black. They easily reflect the light from her surroundings which, due to the flames floating around her, means they're usually flecked with chips of bright blue. Standing at a height of 5'2 (157 cm), it can be generally agreed upon that she is a small person. Excluding some chubbiness in her legs, she's fairly normal looking. Her skin, however, is startlingly pale, a fact which has caused several mortals to mistake her for a ghost.

Previously, Chan dressed fairly casually, wearing a loose, white shirt, as well as ripped jean shorts. As for shoes, she really had no preference: anything between laced thigh-high boots or crocs would do. The teal parka she wore was almost a trademark, as while she never really changed her outfit her jacket was the most memorable part of it. White fur lined the hood, and she generally left it unzipped.

After a relevation brought on by friends (Hint: sans undertale), Chan decided to change up her outfit.

In her new outfit, her teal parka is tied around her waist. A brown croptop has replaced her white shirt, but she's kept the jean shorts. Occasionally, those pants are switched to skirts of various colors and kinds; she's still testing out the combinations. Her boots remain, though her crocs have been woefully abandoned.

Although not a staple of her outfit, there's sometimes an old-fashioned camera hanging around her neck. The photos that it takes are the kind that require rapid flailing for the film to develop, but shaking the photo actually makes it dissolve into one of her signature flames.

Recently, Chan has regained the ability to morph back into her original appearance. Her eyes change in shape and adopt rings around the pupils. Oni-like horns sprout out above each eye, marred by glowing cracks and stripes and further decorated by strings of white beads. Forming a crown around her head is a wide menagerie of flowers and leaves. Those flowers, along with her irises and her markings, are painted in vibrant colors that shift constantly. The crop top from her new appearance seems to have come from the white one she wears here, though the black pants differ. Her elongated nails make her hands appear almost claw-like, and the slight fangs in her mortal appearance are more pronounced.

## Personality

Chan is pretty down to earth. Laid back, if you will. Rarely does she seem bothered or distraught, and she only raises her voice for practical reasons, such as when trying to speak to someone far away. Even the prospect of injury doesn't phase her, though she admits that being hurt does, in fact, hurt. Her nonchalant nature does subside during appropriate moments, like when someone needs her help or when someone she knows is injured.

Ironically, despite being a goddess of emotion, she has difficulty emoting. This results in more mild expressions and a near perpetual 'poker-face'. She compensates for this by showing her emotions through will-o-wisp esque flames, which pulse with color at their centers.

Aside from emotions, she is against revealing information about herself. Prior to re-accessing most of her godly power, a subconscious barrier had been set up to prevent mind readers and other emotion deities from reading her mind. She's since removed it, but the fires flickering through her head don't seem to be an aspect of that barrier, as they're still present.

Again, ironically, Chan isn't that great at comforting other people. Especially without use of her powers. Nevertheless, she does what she can. Her usual method is to absorb the other's negativity and impart some happiness, if possible.

## Powers

### Emotion Manipulation

Chan has the power to read a person's memories and emotions through physical contact. She can also pull out the memories she finds and the emotion that accompanies it. However, since memory and emotion are tied together, removing one requires removing the other as well. Chan has a sizable "library" of emotions and memories that she pulls from when she needs to imprint a certain emotion into another person.

The bundles of emotion and memory take the form of electric-blue flames. They're reminiscent of will-o-wisps, floating without sound or heat around a colored core. The memory that they contain "plays" in the center, tinged by the color of the emotion they hold. These "emotion fires" are only visible in Chan's presence; if she moves a certain distance away, they disappear from view. However, even when invisible, they will affect the people that walk into them. One of Chan's duties is retrieving the last moments of the deceased and placing them in a more appropriate area. A graveyard, for example.

There is no absolute for the colors emotions manifest in, but they generally fall under this key:

Red - Anger

Orange - Happiness, Joy

Yellow - Amusement, Laughter

Lime Green - Disgust, Nausea

Green - Envy

Blue - Sadness, Depression

Purple - Fear

The spectrum of each kind of emotion can be represented through shades or hues of the colors above. A paler or lighter color is a more minor emotion, while higher saturation represents a stronger feeling.

### Invisibility

This was once one of Chan's passive abilities, though it has since been repurposed into a temporary spell. At some point in her lifetime, she had decided that being invisible was preferable to being chased, and this ability gradually unfolded into an aura that had surrounded her at all times. Although no longer permanent, the spell she can now cast still functions the same way,

When cast on someone, other deities can see them normally - corrupted deities included - but everyone else will be unable to. It isn't like they're actually invisible; it's more about perception. They're still there, but other people just don't notice them. The spell lulls people into thinking that there's nothing abnormal in the place where the castee is standing, and they gloss over their presence as a result. The aura is "broken" when they draw attention to themselves, either through talking or physical contact. By doing so, the other people are now aware that there *is* something where the castee is standing, and they can then be seen.

### Whimsy

Chan rarely demonstrates her powers over whimsy. Even she doesn't completely understand what her powers over this concept entail. As far as she knows, it involves manipulating what can't normally be manipulated, mostly in ways that cannot be used to then harm others. After all, whimsy involves wonder and wowing others, not blasting them with electricity. As such, she usually uses it to render elemental magic down into a harmless form. A thunderbolt can be forced into a different direction, usually dispersing into a pile of glittery particles in the process. A bundle of flames can be molded into a little troupe of fiery reindeer. Another example is air, which can be turned into a material similar to saran wrap. Chan has also discovered that she has the power to make inanimate objects "animate", though it's more like Aladdin's magic carpet levels of sentience rather than the kind from Beauty and the Beast. Her favorite party trick is enchanting a scarf and convincing it to start enveloping the other guests into a big scarf hug. The enchantment never lasts for more than a few hours.

### Regeneration

Chan's body is able to heal itself from nearly any wound. Visually, it appears like her skin is knitting itself back together, with new strands of flesh threading together to reform the surface of her skin. The more serious the wound, the quicker the rate of regeneration, with the healing slowing down once the worst of the damage is repaired. Even if her regeneration is stopped or blocked, Chan will still not die. However, pain still gets to poke its nasty little head in.

Although her regeneration is automatic, it will pause if she uses her other powers. It will also falter if she's exhausted or still in the process of being hurt.

## Relationships

#### **Damian**

Pretty damn good friends. They first met in the Fireon infirmary, after Time had found an antidote to Seitied poison. Chan pulled out one of his happy memories in an effort to cheer up Aloure. The memory she found was one of the ones with Micah. After a brief mess-up where she almost made him forget about his Wifey, she asked Damian who Micah was. The two got to know each other better from there. She grew attached to him quickly after their introduction, even if the other took some time to reciprocate that sentiment. She finds catharsis in their relationship, feeling safe in the fact that there's finally someone she can trust to protect her. Now that he's dead, she's at a loss with how to move forward.

Sike! He's not dead, and Chan feels like a fool. An absolute buffoon. She feels ridiculous for having mourned so much when, in her eyes, Damian could have just popped back whenever and woken everyone up from the nightmare his "passing" caused. The impact of emotions, especially negative ones, is very real to her, so she feels as if that period of silence hurt the people in his life in a way that was far from necessary.

#### **Mockingjay**

Chan is pretty much a permanent resident of Mockingjay's current home, the Fireon tower. It's unclear as to whether or not she actually has a room though, since she's usually found sleeping on various floors and surfaces. Damian once found her dangling from a chandelier. Her living situation is further complicated by the fact that she tries to keep most of the attendants from seeing her and they are thus shocked when they bump into her in the halls. Nevertheless, Chan considers MJ a good friend, even if recently, she's been avoiding the tower. Chan sends her frequent status updates; not of her, but of everyone else. She's aware of Damian's and MJ's previous relationship, but fears jeopardizing her friendship with both if she were to bring the topic up. She's content to act as a bridge between the two of them, though as of late that pesky death business has made things more than awkward.

#### **Marx**

Her first exposure to the toaster goddess involved a showdown between the aforementioned bathrobe TV, Atrophy, and a scared group of mortals, so it's safe to assume that she thinks Marx isn't a very good person. Additionally, Chan can't seem to remember her name, calling her either "Max" or "Mark". Sometimes "Charles".

#### **Galaxian**

Chan's relationship with Galaxian is comparatively recent, but it developed quickly due to the fact that he had a tendency to pop up everywhere. Ample time for interaction! She's amused by the fact that he calls her "Chan-chan". Partially because the honorific '-chan' is typically used for cutesy people, but mostly because he's literally just saying her name twice in a row. A bit of distance has grown between them though, as a result of both Damian's death as well as the struggles Galaxian faces on his own end.

#### **Chanty**

They're... related? They know each other, and the reason for their nicknames is partially due to their shared name. However, Chan refuses to elaborate on the nature of their "friendship".

#### **Skylar**

Although not very close, Chan likes Skylar a lot. She views him as a very whimsical person and, since she's a goddess of whimsy, finds him fun to watch.

#### **Micah**

Chan knew of Micah long before meeting him. The catalyst of her friendship with Damian was a memory of him even, and she only grew more curious as she and the snake-man became closer. She finally got to see "the wife" for the first time recently. It was unfortunately preceded by Damian's death, and even though that 'death' was faked, the subsequent fallout made it hard for her to approach Micah; especially since he sticks around "Min-Jin" nearly 24/7.

**Yoon**

The circumstances and duration of their meeting weren't exactly pleasant, but having had some time to think to herself she's concluded that Yoon is a pretty swell guy. She wouldn't be opposed to meeting again in a happier time.

**Ephie**

Deities are supposed to fear or despise their corrupted counterparts, but Ephie is such a dingus that she finds it hard to even fathom the idea. He first appeared before she decided to go invisible and, as is expected of a CD, took over her body. To her surprise, the prospect of floating comfortably in the void - no pursuers, no responsibilities - was a wonderful break from everything that had led up to that point. Unfortunately, Ephie was even more of a weenie than she was so when her pursuers turned their sights on him, he all but begged to be let back in. She reluctantly obliged, after which he was reduced to a sleepy inhabitant of her head, occasionally interjecting with inane thoughts or useless advice. Even that changed once Singularity came along, who's help allowed Ephie to regain control. He was allowed a little bit of mischief, as a treat. Chan is still unaware that he helped recorrupt Senshei.

## Trivia

* She's a fan of enchantments that are kind of pointless or just kind of pretty, as evidenced by the whole whimsy aspect of her magic
	+ The mystery of her length-changing hair is another one of her enchantments. This one is just to mess with people
	+ The snowglobes she enchants are a bit more heartfelt. Those who hold them can project their memories in a kaleidoscopic display
* As part of her effort to blend in and avoid attention, she shifted from her original appearance to her usual, more mortal-looking one. It used to be the only appearance she could have
	+ While she's now free to experiment and turn into weird things - as deities are wont to do - she mostly just makes small changes that probably didn't need magic to do: for example, magically putting her hair in braids
* Chan's original appearance is more demonic in appearance than her mortal guise. It also more clearly compliments Ephie's appearance, with monochromatic clothes and hair and colorful markings and features compared to her CD's colorful clothes and hair and monochromatic skin and eyes.
* Thanks to a surprisingly helpful CD (Singularity) she's managed to get rid of the Seitied magic that had been clinging to her. Along with that, she was able to offload enough negativity to get Ephie out and kicking again, with the added bonus that he wouldn't have to deal with that Seitied poison thing either.
* While Ephie can access her memories, she can't access his. Her powers over memory and emotion rely on physical touch which, given that she and her CD currently cannot both be in the physical world at the same time, she can't do with Ephie.

## Gallery

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