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[naturalgreed]

▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: Len
CONTACT: tsundereban | Len#1781 (Discord)
OVER 18? Yes.
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Himeko Inaba (Kokoro Connect)

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Echidna
CANON: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
CANON POINT: Volume 13, right after the end of the first chapter.
AGE: Died at 19, physically in her mid-20s, but also she's been dead for 400+ years and 'existed' in the tomb for that amount of time.
BACKGROUND: Wiki.

PERSONALITY:

"My name is Echidna... Or perhaps it would be better to call myself the Witch of Greed?"
— Echidna, volume 10

In a word, Echidna is greed. She is the embodiment of the word, as she has an insatiable curiosity that terrifies even Subaru right down to the very core, ("—but the sight of this girl injected overwhelming fear into Subaru's soul, the likes of which he had never felt before. Even his first encounter with the White Whale had not struck him this way.") and it is both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness.

Echidna presents herself as a rather straight-forward character: she is the witch of greed, someone who wishes to know things that she doesn't know, in order to sate that curiosity. Basically, if you're looking for the person who describes the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat', you're looking right at her. While she might have a rather terrifying demeanor that might scare off most, there is also something rather strangely captivating about her as well. She is described quite often as 'black and white' because of the clothes she wears, and while one might expect a Witch such as herself as cruel, even evil, she is not entirely that.

However, this does not mean that she is selfless. No, it is the opposite; selfishness drives all her actions, as everything she does is for the sake of greed, for the sake of being able to know everything, especially those things that she does not know.

While she might be a witch, she also does consider herself as a woman - even describing herself as an 'innocent maiden', something that can be seen as slightly contradictory, given how dangerous she is, as well as the fact that she even pours tea made with her body fluids.

Another thing to note is that while she does see herself as a woman, she is also self-aware of herself as the 'witch of greed' and how her status as a witch isn't necessarily a likable one. She is even able to self-reflect on the fact that she winds up speaking way too much when her interest is caught onto something, something that she describes as a "troublesome nature as a Witch".

Her true nature is truly terrifying; as while she can reflect upon things, she puts a wall between herself and that reflection. Because the truth is as such - while she may have a keen interest in everything she doesn't know, her problem lies in the fact that everything she does and says is simply lacking. They are actions done with her knowledge and understanding of things - but that's it. Her actions are pure logic and reasoning through and through and she struggles with not only being able to comprehend other people's emotions, but properly conveying them herself, as shown as she's told bluntly just that to the point where one would expect to get angry at the accusation, but she doesn't even change her expression or bat an eyelash. Certainly, Echidna might be seen as a "monster beyond human knowledge, beyond human understanding", as described by Subaru after she tells him that she simply wished to see the result of the 'pact' she gave to Beatrice - even if that meant that result was death because of this as well.

While Echidna comes off as rather personable in spite of her inability to comprehend human emotion, that does not mean that she cannot feel genuine emotions; something that is seen as her hatred towards both Satella, the Witch of Envy as well as Emilia, someone who clings way too much onto Subaru.

All in all, Echidna is a simple girl, one drowning in the word 'greed'. A cruel witch who is willing to help those who have a sufficient 'greed' that can satisfy her - as she is willing to use others as her personal 'lab rats' simply by observing and allow others to use her in return if it means being able to sate her needs. And while she might struggle in comprehending human emotion and nature, that does not make her without emotions (as she can have anger, fear, and even fluster) in spite of leaning more towards logic and reasoning - she simply is just rather inexperienced, and it's for that reason why even with her massive amounts of curiosity, seeing someone with such intense emotions is even enough to potentially terrify even a witch like her.

POWERS/ABILITIES:

First and foremost: I will be noting various nerfs in this section; if there are any that do not work out or would like to communicate with me for gameplay purposes, I am willing to work things out with the mods!

• She has the authority of Greed - and as a Witch, she is able to share that authority to those who are potentially compatible with them through her body fluids. However, this can cause someone incompatible to potentially die to it, and even those who are compatible to it will feel immense pain when devouring it. For the purposes of this game, I would like the nerf the negative effects of this so that the effect only happens with player permission (OOCly) and at will - meaning that sometimes, ICly the character might get the negative effects and sometimes they won't, all up to the player's discretion.
  
• As a Witch, she has presence - just the way she speaks and her aura can be read as terrifying than a lot of monsters that can kill several men in less than thirty seconds. Again, I will be nerfing this to an at will ability and at the discretion of others - basically, with player permission. (I'm also willing to have this nerfed out entirely, as murdering someone with just the sheer presence is quite overpowered, just let me know if that's necessary.)
  
• She can invite people into her dreams as a way of a 'tea party' - time passes in this space differently than reality due to it being a dream. The only two ways for someone to break free of it, which is to have someone physically wake them up or for her to release them herself. This ability doesn't affect the physical body, just simply the 'soul'. In this space, she can recreate memories of anybody who's in it and even create scenarios based on other character's memories.
  
• Magic-wise, she has the ability to utilize all six elements (fire, water, wind, earth, yin and yang) and is rather skilled in all of them. In terms of what this means: she is able to utilize all the elements as she pleases as long as she is aware of the proper incantation and can potentially learn how to do magic outside of that due to her nature as the Witch of Greed.
  
• She can create spirits from scratch - something that will be nerfed so that 1) it eats up a lot of her chroma to attempt this and 2) she cannot create any spirit that has a personality that would deem them to become their own applicable character.
  
• She can also create pacts with other people (with permission, of course), as long as there is proper compensation, which is essentially an equivalent exchange. A pact would allow her to communicate with someone telepathically as well, but only on her part.
  
• She also can transfer her soul to another body or even an item, but for gameplay purposes, I'll be nerfing it so that it can only have a limited time usage dependant on how much chroma she has; it will also leave her physical body vulnerable as well.

INVENTORY: Nothing but the clothes on her back and a necklace which would normally contain the souls of the other dead witches, sans Envy. The necklace itself will be empty upon arrival in game.

MOONBLESSING: Cordis.

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