Arsenic

arsenic is the original name of the tox's god.

## History (huge tw for child abuse)

arsenic's story really begeins with their predecessor, their creator.

their predecessor was a unique nonfandom entity, known for their kindness and unconditional pacifism. the beast was conditionally immortal, as well as incredibly powerful, as they had been granted unconditional control over spatial reality, bestowed upon the beast at creation by a prophesy they had been created as a part of.

they served as guardian of a small community that had grown around their house over the ages.

but one day, a being nearly as powerful came and destroyed it. said being was an evil cherub that had escaped the homestuck fandom, leading the elder beast here in their pursuit. during said pursiut they were enabled by a fathomless rage. one so deep it allowed them never to sleep, eat or rest until they ended the cherub. it was this rage that enabled them to, for the first time, break the oath of unconditional pacifism they had sworn to themself.

in the end, the beast came out victorious. but, now they were alone. no community, no freinds. they were even alone in their very nature as a being.

so, out of the draining life force of the cherub, they created two children. each was similar to them, but not a clone. just as if they were of the same specise.

but in many timelines, something happened to the beast that day. sometimes, they are possessed by the same thing that made Lady Igneous and Lord Radiant do as they did. in some, they are cursed. and in a select few, this reveled their hidden true nature.

in just one or two, nothing happened and the beast went on to raise their children well.

but in most, no matter the cause, the beast became an abusive monster. they raised the children as weapons, the worse treatment (although their treatment of the other was still absolutely abhorrent) fell on the younger. though both children were created at once, one was kept in a sort of magical stasis until the beast wished to take them out and raise them.

the elder childs escape was acheived via a game of sburb, in witch they injected themself into a version of the canon session. they quickly godteired as the page of rage, and escaped into a new universe. the beast could not reach them there. they had spirited themself and the younger away from the meteors.

the younger did similar, injecting themself into the canon sburb session. but the puppet of blood had no such luck as to godteir.

weeks after entering the new universe, the youngest was murdered. it was the dawn of their sixteenth birthday. of course, they were sent to the dream bubbles. there, their predecessor could easily get to them. the abuse only got worse

there, the youngest would meet and befreind the three gods created by the lady of blood and fires meddling. the eldest, most poweful god, upon learning of their dear freinds situation, twisted fate, the narrative itself, to give them a destined out.

from that moment on, the young beast was destined to kill their predecessor and ascend to godhood.

during the next three years, the young beast jumped with the gods to their timelines twin, one in witch their predecessor had been kind. initially, the crueler predecessor could not reach them.

but one day, as the young beast sat in their home, they heard familiar footsteps, a familiar voice, felt a familiar presence. it was then that they snapped.

the young beast got up on all fours and pursued their predecessor relentlessly through the forest they inhabited.

you see, the elder came of age as a healer. on swift feet on the battleground, as aid in times of dire need. but the younger came of age as a warrior. on blood, on guts on bones, as a killing force of nature. the elder was weak, and the younger was strong.

sure, the elder had magic, but the younger beast was so furios as to render it ineffective.

in a matter of destiny, the younger caught up with the elder and crushed their head head between their jaws, absorbing their magic.

the younger beast was now, effectively, the only beast.

the beast was now alone in a manner they had never been before, in their very nature as a being.

and so, the beast, the young godling, ascended to the heavens. leaving their very universe, their very timeline, they chose a quiet part of paradox space and began to create.

they created a race of beings in their image. among these beings, they distributed the powers of them and their family. their predecessors teleportation, healing bite and (toned down version of) reality bending. them and their siblings venom, serpentlike and komodo dragon. their ability to dissolve into millions of spiders.

a large planet, marked not by oceans to divide the new race.

life, based on what little they knew.

sixteen moons, twice the number theyre narratively ascosiated with.

the beast began to tire, the work of creating, of expending their new power taking a toll on them. their power was given by a prophecy forced a by a young god, of course it should have more of a toll on them than its original owner.

but before they could rest, the beast created one more thing. a guardian, bound to the blood aspectual burgundy planet, to watch over their creations while the beast slept.

so, they teleported into the new worlds core and fell asleep. there arsenic still sleeps, and likely will for millenia more

## Looks

arsenic is an eight foot tall skeleton monster with purpleish grey cat ears, and ram like horns originating from in between said ears. their head is, depending on wether theyve absorbed their predecessor's magic or not, either bean shaped or shaped like a generic predator skull. they have purpleish grey markings above their mouth and eyes. the ones over arsenic's mouth are meant to resemble the sillougettes of upward facing fangs, while the ones above their eyes are filled in spirals, with a line connecting the bottom of the outermost curve of the spiral back to their eyes. after attaining their predecessor's power, these markings glow bright purple. they also have snakelike fangs they can move back and forth in their mouth. their pupils are filled in diamonds.

arsenic has skeletal bat wings and a long tail that ends in a purpleish grey poof of fur. their fingers and toes end in claws.

they wear a perpetually slightly filthy bright purple hoodie (or, in the tox interpertation, cloak) with a zipper made of gold. said hoodie is shorter than their torso (its not a crop top, just a function of arsenic's height), leaving a length of spine exposed. they also wear black pants.

## Personality

arsenic is interesting. they are semiferal, and share ceirtain behaviors (nothing violent twoards other sapients though) with wolves, dogs and cats. they are incredibly strong willed, and form strong opinions about the world around them, especially people. once arsenic has an opinion, nobody can change it but them. arsenic is also incredibly loyal, if not a bit overprotective. once you make the beast a freind, they will remain so until the very end of time. however, this means they also have the capacity to metaphorically short circuit should they realize some of their loyalties contradict.

they do have the capacity to drop loyalties, but to get them to do so requires a truly heinous act (or a slow erosion of their patience and loyalty via thousants of repeated acts of cruelty).

like their creations, arsenic is an extremely social being. they must have loyalties and freindships, and theyll pick and choose what parts of themself to show if it means getting loyalties to fill the gaps where old ones lay.

due to trauma from their predecessor's abuse, arsenic also has DID.

### Alters

#### Luna

* Animal alter
* Dog
* she/her
* Unknown. She's been here for a long time
* A nice dog
* She's an unnatural shade of silver with a blue collar. Its tag changes shape with the phases of the moon. Shes specifically a plott hound

#### Solis

* Animal alter
* Wolf
* he/him
* Unknown, but he formed at the same time as luna
* Cold and aloof
* An unnatural shade of yellow. He has a marking on his forehead shaped like a sun

#### Lupus

* Persecutor
* Arsenic
* it/they
* Arsenics oldest alter
* Everything arsenics predecessor wanted them to be. A weapon, a wolf. It has a mind of its own, but pretends not to to please its creator. It doesn't know that said creator can no longer get to arsenic/is dead
* Presents itself as arsenic with no wings, wearing stone armor, and with a decapitated wolf head instead of their skull. Inspired by the song lion by hollywood undead and the hollow knight from hollow knight.

#### Hollow

* fictive/internal self helper
* vessel
* they/it
* one of the youngest alters. split from another alter along with eliphas
* thk from hollow knight faitive
* given the fact that arsenic primarily operates within dice and i's multifandom lore, which includes both hollow knight as a video game and hallownest as an actual location, they count as a faitive

**eliphas**

* gatekeeper
* wizard
* he/him, they/them, any neopronouns, **🧙/🪄** or ⭐/🌙
* one of the two youngest alters, split from another alter along with hollow
* personality unknown
* arsenic needed a gatekeeper BAD

## Relationship

OG!arsenic- predecessor

k!arsenic - sibling

deadpica thlaat - freind, changer of destiny

muse thlaat - freind

fae thlaat - freind

luna - alter

solis - alter

lupus - alter

hollow - alter

## misc

* arsenic is an obligate eater of rotting corpses because their predecessor ate them willingly and - suprise suprise - was a dick
* arsenic can eat white bread (due to building up an immunity) and things that are objectively not food (due to reasons that need reworking)
* arsenic is capable of growing a beard
* arsenic is capable of, and regularly does, both sleep and stay awake for extended periods of time. the longest for both is half a year
* arsenic has REALLY terrible vision. they cant really even see shapes, just colors
* arsenic has extremely heightened senses of smell and hearing
* arsenic carves bones as a hobby
* up until the part of puberty where arsenic became an obligate corpse eater, they were a vegitarian. not out of any ethical concerns, they just dont like meat