Umbra Silverstein

Art by Zel

## Social

### Aliases

Penumbra (by Moon and later Mathrika)Fisher (as a "psuedonym" during the campaign)

### Relationships

* Moon (Employer)
* Coin Rattle (Fan of him)
* Sobek (Frenemies)
* Mathrika Adris (Friend!!)
* Sun Zhao (Babysits)
* Aiz (Babysits)
* Miel (Miel's emotional support cat)
* Spectra (Coworker)
* Solara (Coworker)

"You wouldn't really expect Umbra to be one of the head workers of the Crescent Corner, at least not with the disposition he has. While Moon and his casino are full of whimsy and chaos, Umbra is far more business oriented. He will not hesitate to get into any grittier parts of the job, and often takes lots of side jobs from customers of the establishment. However, this isn't to say he isn't amicable. He is rather charming, actually, it's just he takes the job seriously. I'll let you in on a secret, rumor has it he's so serious because he wants to pay back Moon for something. Maybe it's for the job he was given, but it seems like more. But don't tell him I told you."

-A patron at the The Crescent Corner

**Umbra Silverstein** is one of the player characters in the campaign Lost in Paradise. He also might've had a cameo in Conquest of Talos, and might have more in the future :)

## Appearance

Umbra Silverstein is a tan-skinned half-elf with diamond-pupiled, red eyes and long, straight, black hair tied back by a diamond shaped hairtie. He also has painted fingernails that alternate between red and black, and a tattoo of a diamond under his right eye. He normally sports a flowy white shirt kept to his neck by a silver choker and tucked into black pants, as well as silver boots. During the onsen scene in Lost in Paradise, Umbra explains that his outfit is actually just illusions from his glamorous armor.

## Personality

When working on the job, he acts fairly strict and is hardworking. Both on and off the job, he is very caring for those around him. When it comes to social interaction while off the job, he can be rather awkward, as seen with him doing poorly when first talking with Sobek and some of his more sincere interactions with Mathrika. Though this isn't always the case, as in enough conversations he holds them fairly regularly. It seems to be a matter of how confident he is in what he's saying.

He is also normally a very emotional person, but due to a magic item he wears, this aspect of himself is far more subdued, as the item limits his emotions.

## Backstory

### Early Life/Childhood

Umbra explained to Rika that for as long as he can remember, he's had unstable magic. So far he hasn't specified what kind of magic, only that it would get more uncontrollable the more emotional he was and that it was very dangerous.

It's also been mentioned that he's had a girlfriend before, though this has not been said yet in character.

### Before Lost in Paradise

I know the order of these things and more detail but others don't so I'm purposely being vague

At some point in his life he got employed by Moon at the Midnight Casino. He also at some point obtained the armor he wears and the hairtie. He works really hard (and **really** long hours) at the casino, and only occasionally takes vacations. Even when on vacation he is often still doing jobs, including the one that takes him to Chirurin and into the fray of Lost in Paradise.

## Lost in Paradise

Umbra was overlooking the mech fight, implied to have been at a party going on in the level above it. He goes down and tries asking a few questions to Sobek, who refuses to cooperate and calls him a narc. He follows her to see where she goes and ends up with the others at Aiz's workshop. He tries to keep all of the others in check during this and helps out in the fight with the mech.

When they all go on the train and have dinner, he mentions his nickname to some guards but doesn't let them call him by it, as well as mentions that he's here on a job (but doesn't elaborate on specifics). He also gives his dinner to Aiz and Sun instead of having it himself. When they are deciding who will pair in what rooms, he offers to pair with Rika when she tried pairing with Aiz, not wanting her to have any more opportunity to torment him. He stays awake in their room and Rika starts pestering him with questions, and he eventually plays a card game called "war" with her so she'll stop bothering him (after her not knowing some of the games he suggested, he said war because he figured the name would interest her, which it did).

The next morning he has to coax Sun Zhao off the roof of the engine car and they all head off to try and help solve the issue that stopped the train. After fighting the kappa they all hunker down in a candy store, and he tries to soothe Miel with his words and by braiding his hair. He also scolds the others for eating the candy there and for Rika throwing candy at Aiz, even though he also later eats some (this is because he hadn't had dinner the day before or breakfast that morning, but still). They all think up a plan to deal with the yokai in town, and while Aiz and Umbra wait for their cue they have a heartfelt discussion before it's interrupted by them hearing and explosion go off. Within the fight, Umbra manages to do little. After the fight he takes two artifacts from the guys leading the yokai and helps the others with various emotional turmoils.

That evening, back on the train, he talks with Rika more in depth on her feelings, but is very evasive about questions she asks about him in turn. After finishing talking with her, he checks up on Aiz, but Aiz insists that he's fine. When he returns Rika persists with her questions and Umbra eventually relents and opens up a bit about himself. Later that night, he even wakes her up just to ask if they are friends now, and gives her permission to call him Penumbra.

When they get to the city, Umbra heads off for a while so he can obtain his payment from collecting the stolen artifacts, and talks to Kosai on the way. Once he's back he has a conversation with Rika, and when everyone groups back up and some of the group mention going to an onsen, he says he'll cover the costs and they should try it. He gets the group a private room, and before heading in gives Aiz 100 gold, accidentally making him cry. He makes a remark about how much clearer the water is than he's used to, to which Rika questions if he drinks water, because that's also normally clear, too. He gets defensive and says that he drinks normal water like everyone else.

After being at the onsen, he gets the group rooms at the inn before heading out to talk to Kosai about the job he was offering. He eventually does agree to take it, and heads back to let Rika know he'll probably be out all night working on it, to which she insists on coming with and that she won't get tired during it. He agrees on the condition that if she does happen to get tired they'll head back so she can get sleep.

They both get the info from Kosai and dress up for the event. He helps them sneak Aiz in and they end up dancing together. Then they hatch a plan together to get intel, Umbra sneaking invisibly into the meeting and writing down what they say. He sneaks back out after the tiger in the room starts stalking him and recounts what he learned. Then when the explosion happens he gets Rika out.

They both are worried about the others and wait around the safety perimeter, hoping to see either of them, and eventually he tells her she should go back and rest, and he'll tell her if anything happens. He gets her to write her name in his book and when the message gets sent across the city talks with her. He rushes away when the yokai start spreading out, and runs into Taro.

He is the one to make a call to his employer, Moon, to save some people from the war, including Rika. He then goes with Sun and Taro to initially free Kosai, and then Aiz when he hears that Aiz was seen walking around the demiplane (not knowing that Aiz was there willingly). He does the bare minimum in cooperation when they get caught, and only starts helping more when he realizes Aiz is okay and both he and Sun want to help the yokai. He creates the part of the plan where he'd try to stabilize the demiplane by holding the orb Blackwood was in possession of.

Turns out, he is not well equipped to do that and nearly dies a couple times while trying to. They all try to retreat, but black out. When he comes to, he finds his legs are Not Okay and his hairtie almost is off. He has to be carried to safety and he rings up Moon again.

## Later History

He has to get surgery for the leggies

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## Relationships

### Moon

Moon is Umbra's boss. He is one of the two people that Umbra has given express permission to call him Penumbra, the other being Mathrika. During Lost in Paradise, Umbra occasionally uses his book to talk to Moon.

During the epilogue, it's shown he has a good relationship with Moon, and that they both care for one another. He also deeply trusts him, as shown in his response to the question "do you trust me?" being an unhesitating "always". He also ends up confessing the reason why he apologized earlier to him was that he didn't mean to worry him or be a burden, instead wishing to try and "repay everything he's done for him".

### Spectra

Taught Umbra how to dance. He thinks they don't take their job seriously enough. They tease him, including about taking his job too seriously.

### Coin Rattle

Coin Rattle is one of the many patrons at the Midnight Casino, but caught Umbra's attention with the amount of money he was making and the nature of the jobs. He respects that his style seems to be more Robin Hood-esque.

### Sobek

The two have a strained relationship. Sobek was immediately distrustful of Umbra due to the questions he was asking her, and he has gotten frustrated over her uncooperativeness, even now still calling her "Periwinkle" because she never gave her name to the group. Despite this, they both are able to converse relatively fine, Umbra even joking with her after finding out the person who gave him the job was in fact working in the government.

### Mathrika Adris

Umbra initially wasn't very fond of Mathrika. She came across as immature and he didn't appreciate the mean stuff she would say and do towards Aiz. He often offers to hang out with her just to keep her away from him, and when the two were in the same room he often scolded her. After the fight with the kappas and artifact holders, he noticed her guilty response to the carnage she caused, and empathizes with her. He later talks to her about it, and she is confused as to how he seems so knowledgeable about how she was feeling. They both open up to one another about feeling bad about how they feel like they hurt people without being able to control themselves, and Umbra even asks if they are friends now, and shows more care about her well being, such as when he doesn't want her coming with him on his second job because he knows she needs to sleep, unlike him. He also shows companionship with her by letting her write her name in his tome and officially call him Penumbra, which so far the only other person to be allowed to do both things was Moon.

### Sun Zhao

Umbra shows care for Sun and is one of the people who are more likely to be helping inform them about things they don't know or understand, though the winner of that is by far Aiz. He also seems to be one of the few who were willing to try Sun's creation of carmelized squirrel, though offput by the squirrel looking burnt.

### Aiz

From the start Umbra showed at least basic respect to Aiz, honoring the rules he gave the others before letting them into his workshop. As time goes on he shows more care for him, doing things insisting he drink a healing potion even though he was fine or giving him 100 gold. While waiting during the second kappa fight, they discuss things like how they hope the fight goes and a little about Aiz's past. Aiz asks if Umbra is going to betray him, in which he says he doesn't plan to, and then Aiz tells Umbra that "if [he] dies, to find a letter hidden under [his] bed in the workshop and give it to a woman named (I forgot the name apologies) at the orphanage near there". This shows the level of trust between them. They also slightly bond over being insecure of other people seeing them unclothed, though that is much more apparent for Aiz, who refused to turn around at all while in the onsen bath.

### Miel

He initially doesn't interact with Miel much when he first shows up. He later shows far more care when he sees how panicked they got from the kappa fight, trying to soothe them with words and braiding hair (the hair part might sound a bit odd, but Umbra did it because tugging at his own hair is a personal soother, so he thought it might help). After that, he is far more alert about how Miel might be feeling/doing.

## Quotes

* LiP

*Lost in Paradise*

* "Sometimes all it takes it one good person to change someone's life."

*-said to Aiz while waiting in the second kappa fight*

* "Okay so turns out I actually *was* working for the government."

*-said to Sobek on the return to the candy store*

* "Hi. Um, are we friends now?"

*-said to Rika in the train car*

* "I want to use my magic for good, for *once*."

*-said to Moon as he chooses to stay*

* "Guess I'm just quirky like that"

*-to that blondie*

## Trivia

* His name came from attempts at making characters whose names were Among Us references. A friend suggested the name "Sir Umbra Silverstein" (abbreviated to S.U.S.), and the name stuck.