SPOOF

**“** *m. sometimes. but do you think that's gonna stop me?* **”**
— **Spoof, to Onyx.**

Spoof was a character introduced in the first session of the Omphalos Project. It was executed via shotgun on the twelfth session by Zietormf.

## General Information

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## Relationships

#### Zietormf

Originally finding him intimidating to the point of actively avoiding him, Zie appearing inside of its shelter and striking up relatively normal concern over its condition forced it to mellow out about the Dim Sky member in the area. Despite being focused on keeping everyone alive and uninfected, Spoof was still weary about his presence and refused to get comfortable around him for too long, even when he wasn't actively doing anything. Finding him to not be an immediate threat, though, it continued to hang around the others, even hesitantly accepting bandages and antibiotics when he was sick. This genre of helpfulness was one of the things that kept it in the area regardless of the presence of two large faction members.

His tendency to wield and shoot firearms at people made Spoof uncharacteristically jittery, even when the weapons weren't being aimed at it. With one of their first encounters being Zie pointing a gun at Onyx in his own home, largely disregarding his presence even though he was right there, it rapidly made him anxious of setting Zie off in any notable way, and he opted for staying quiet about his personal information and keeping his head down to be as inconspicuous as possible.

As time went on, Spoof's opinion on Zie got generally better, considering him an important part of keeping the group safe due to his competence at handling the infected and extensive knowledge on how to make things. It was partially convinced everyone in the group would die if he hadn't of intervened, as frequently the bloodmoon hordes would overrun the building faster if he wasn't present. It gave him spare bullets, shotgun shells and materials that looked like they would be useful to him, and tried to learn how to make things by copying him (usually to less than stellar results). He considered Zie to be slightly unstable, concerned at how quickly he would get upset, but largely dismissed this as just being stress from being separated from his faction for so long.

The knowledge that Zie was also formerly from a cult didn't do much on its opinion of him either way at the time of finding it out, though it did make him even more cautious about telling too much about himself to anyone. Knowing the Circle was regarded as a cult and dangerous, even if he didn't agree, he kept his mouth shut and filed this information away for later in case it ever became relevant again.

When Zie started getting sick, this caught Spoof's attention in exclusively the bad way. Initially, the concept of him dying from infection was a passing thought, and it didn't dwell on it much. As time dragged on and he didn't even appear to notice how sick he was, the concept of "redeeming" himself in the Circle's eyes by ascending Zie and the rest of the group entered its mind and refused to leave, even if it wasn't fully sold on the idea. The fact it had been going against the Circle's cause for so long was something that hurt to think about, but it mused that if it could give its life for the cause, then that would at least save everyone else and its life wouldn't be for nothing. It had started observing him more than before shortly before its death, trying to figure out at what point he was weak enough to have the highest odds of successfully ascending him, but this backfired after Zie noticed and pulled it aside to talk.

After being questioned, it revealed its affiliation to the Circle, unashamed of being from the group and not particularly worried since he seemed to like it well enough, and still viewed the Circle's cause as noble even if it was unsure if unprovoked murder was correct. This blew up in its face when Zie reacted badly, opting to take it into the nearby woods and execute it after it stated that it was proud of being from the group. This action affirmed the Circle's views on outsiders being merciless and hostile, that big factions weren't able to be trusted or expected to understand anyone, and resulted in it becoming apathetic about its impending death from a mixture of shock and resignation. Despite trying not to be, it died angry at Zie, part of its mind infuriated at the fact he hadn't even given it a chance after it had spent the entire time with the cast peaceful and as helpful as it could. Just before being executed, it told Zie that "you're only helping," quietly letting itself die in hopes that at least it would make it up for doubting the Circle at all.

#### Elliot

Extremely positive, even if they didn't interact personally very much. After setting up across from the apartment he, Crow and Zie were sheltering in, it was initially worried at what Elliot was even doing out here, wondering if he was going to die after wandering away from the group for slightly too long. It quickly found him endearing and likable if troubling to focus on for too long, pointing him towards the direction of their base on one occasion and trying to keep the infected away from him if it could help it. Thought the frequency at which he actively endangered himself was absurd, but tried to keep him alive as much as everyone else did under the excuse of looking for a better chance to ascend everyone in the area.

Taking fascination with the mushrooms growing out of his body, Spoof had asked about them a handful of times during their first interactions. These questions were often clinical rather than out of concern, such as whether or not the mushrooms were edible and if he tried eating them, and often were ill-timed while much more important things were going on. He stopped asking about them quickly, finding the uncomfortable reactions from other people in the room not worth satiating his curiosity.

Spoof frequently ended up enabling his behaviors, particularly the ones relating to death, corpses and the mishandling of both. He thought the collection of bodies and skeletal remains was weird, but didn't think much of it due to the fact that it wasn't any of his business and that their area is already constantly swarming with the undead anyways. Found the others reactions to this to be overreacting and making it more of a problem than it was, but didn't say anything to not cause trouble.

Really didn't like the Elliot-based violence, even if they technically had reason behind them. It got notably tense any time firearms were gestured at or fired in his direction, severely uncomfortable at the thought of him being shot. It also cherished the pumpkins Elliot gave it, keeping them with it to the best of its ability up until the point of its death. It considered them one of the most important things it got during its time with the cast, bringing back more pumpkins to give back to him in exchange.

Once it became clear the mushrooms were undeniably causing him issues, it became worried about his health and wished it knew enough about fungi to offer any help whatsoever. Finding his memory issues startling for how important keeping track of things in this environment was, it offered to accompany him on several outings, even if it was unable to match his energy and was largely just dragged along for the majority of the journey. Upon being confided in and asked not to tell Crow and Zie about his worsening problems, he felt extremely guilty about not being able to do anything to help, even if he was only one guy from a faction of people without proper doctors and wouldn't have been able to do anything anyways. The request reminded of the times he'd gotten people hurt and killed in the past for telling on their activities, and so he agreed to keep it a secret, one that he kept even though it would've been more reasonable to say something.

He wasn't alive to see Elliot's rapid decline. Would've been so distressed by how fast it all happened that he would've probably tried to ascend him to "spare" him from further spiraling. Could've easily been talked out of this, though, as he was consistently not good under pressure.

#### Onyx

Genuinely liked him, even if their relationship was strange and short-lived. The first cast member he met on his meandering way back to the Circle's main base, their first interaction occurred in the middle of the night while both of them were being pursued by the infected. Not much came of this, with neither of them even introducing themselves to one another during this encounter, and both of them parted ways after the building they were sheltering in quickly became overrun. It stuck with him, though, if only because he thought Onyx looked weird.

Sometime later, after setting up a temporary shelter in the area, it noticed his presence again and started watching him from nearby buildings. This ended up with it breaking into the building he was sheltering in, curious as to how close he could get to him without the other noticing and being vaguely concerned as to what someone so important was doing alone out here. The two of them got along well enough, fixing up the abandoned building and trying to defend it together against bloodmoon hordes, the weather and multiple house fires. Even after Zie threatened Onyx with a gun right in front of him due to his affiliation with the ASO, he liked him and was willing to put that fact aside since he was so friendly and seemed to denounce his own faction.

In an incident during this period, Spoof gave Onyx the last of its antibiotics after witnessing him dying of infection, having quickly grown very fond of him and continuing to prove unable to let someone die if it was within its control. This was an action that it considered extremely selfish and mentally tried to deny happening due to directly going against the Circle's viewpoints, doubly so since Onyx was from a large and well-off faction. It never properly forgave itself for doing this.

In an attempt to course correct that never properly went anywhere, it abandoned its temporary shelter and moved into the corner of his house. This was done with the intent of killing and ascending him while he slept to "make up" for saving his life, but it was never acted upon. Even if given the perfect chance to, it's unclear whether or not Spoof would've been able to do it.

After becoming more acquainted with the other cast members and relocating as a group to a different spot, it claimed its own section of a building for itself, though continued to basically live out of Onyx's new apartment with how often it was over there compared to its own area. Around this time is when the two of them engaged in consensual cannibalism, something that happened after Spoof had already began regularly drawing his blood. This appeared to be for no discernable reason other than he liked doing it and was fascinated by his biology. Nothing really harmful came this, though (besides the health and safety concerns that come from doing it in the least clean environment possible), and they continued to grow closer, with the two of them letting on details to their origins and even napping together on an occasion. This resulted in Onyx having the most genuinely positive relationship with him, even if it was weird as hell, and continued to put thoughts in his mind that maybe the world outside of his own faction wasn't the unforgiving and heartless environment it was claimed to be.

Any positive sentiment was almost instantly reversed during the lead up to Spoof's execution, having the Circle's viewpoint confirmed and dismissing all of his gained good will towards the outside world and especially large groups. Despite this, and becoming apathetic towards all of the relationships he had during his time with the group, he wished he could've at least said goodbye to Onyx before being killed.

Should Spoof have lived longer than it did, it's likely that it would've ended up opening up to Onyx about its past and doubts on its own views. He was one of the only people i it's ever met that's made it feel comfortable sharing about itself. In the event that it learned of Onyx's parasite DNA, though, it would've rapidly spiraled into uncomfortable levels of devotion towards him, regardless of how much character development it had gone through.

## Trivia

* He was 5'3", or ~160cm.
* It expressed fondness for Lady Gaga's "Poker Face".
* He was terrified of spiders.
* It enjoyed playing card games, including solitaire, black lady and holdem poker. It also had an acoustic guitar at one point or another, which it mentioned it missed playing during a conversation with Crow.
* Despite holding his weapon and doing most tasks with his right hand, Spoof writes exclusively with his left hand.
* It frequently climbed up on top of objects to sit on, particularly ones that weren't very comfortable, such as Crow's anvil or Onyx's storage and bookcases. This happened even if there was a more practical place to sit in the area.
* His favorite genre of movie would have been romcoms, if he was alive in a period where they were accessible.
* He was the first main character to die, being followed by Elliot shortly afterwards.