Veth - Deltarune (OC)

Name: Veth # Aliases: Vessel 35 # Gender: Female # Age: 20 (physically) # Species: Human (Vessel)

Appearance

Veth stands at a short height of 5'5" tall, bearing an unnaturally ghostly pale complexion across her entire form. Her dark auburn hair falls into an untidy low ponytail while her swept bangs perpetually obscure her right eye, with two wavy sidelocks hanging loose beside her cheeks. Her tired, grey eyes peer beneath her bangs above light freckles dusting her cheeks and the faded horizontal laceration scar bisecting her nose. Her prominent buckteeth create her distinctive lisp. Countless old surgical scars crisscross her skin beneath her clothing. Her figure features a pear-shaped contour: her breasts small and nearly flat while her hips flare into thick rounded thighs supporting her pronounced backside. Her pubic area remains naturally unshaven. # Clothing: Veth's everyday attire consists of a grey hoodie bearing two faded horizontal white stripes across the chest and sleeves. She pairs this hoodie with plain brown trousers and worn black sneakers perpetually untied. Beneath her outerwear she wears an unadorned black cotton bodysuit and fingerless gloves. Due her flat chest she forgoes bras entirely; her underwear consists solely of loose-fitting plain white panties sagging against her hips. In Dark Worlds her form shifts: her skin adopts uniform grey pallor while her battle ensemble manifests as dark grey segmented plate armor comprising cuirass, faulds over her hips and thighs along her left leg only), gauntlets covering her forearms but leaving fingers exposed), greaves protecting her shins), and one asymmetrical shoulderpad shielding her left shoulder. Beneath this armor she retains her black cotton bodysuit. A faded dark red torn cape hangs solely from her right shoulder terminating mid-thigh; this cape incorporates an attached hood deployable at will. Her primary armament remains an unadorned longsword displaying visible chips along its blade edge. # Combat abilities in the Dark World: Veth is both a summoner and a duelist, relying on her blade while also using her abilities to summon constructs to aid her in battle. She is capable of wielding magic, but her spells are unpredictable and often manifest as bursts of electricity or shadowy tendrils. Her abilities are as follows: Static Surge - Channels her Soul's erratic energy into her blade as jagged grey lightning. Landing hits builds static charge discharged as chain-lightning bursts against groups. Charge decays rapidly upon disengagement. Shadow Weave - Veth constructs temporary constructs from condensed darkness - shields that absorb kinetic impact, snares that tighten around limbs with crushing force or even minions based on the vague silhouettes of previously encountered Darkners. Umbra Lance - Forms a spear of condensed shadow matter that pierces through armor and flesh alike. The lance dissipates after striking its target or traveling twenty meters. Can be thrown or used as a melee weapon. # Behaviour: Veth is an artificial Soul inhabiting a human Vessel body. Her Soul is still freshly made, and thus she does not have an inclination yet. As with most Vessels, she has a persistent coldness across his body, a slight delay in physical reactions and experiences warmth in her chest where her Soul resides when met with strong emotions. Veth exhibits creativity and stubborn determination alongside surprising resilience when pursuing her interests. Veth has an imaginative mind, which she often uses an outlet for her own niche interests and turbulence. Veth has an underlying capacity for fierce, possessive loyalty, which manifests as protective instincts toward those she claims as her own. She demonstrates geeky passion and unexpected commitment when channeling her volatile energy constructively, which she likes to flaunt and show off. Veth suffers from bipolar disorder, which renders her volatile and oscillationing between transforming into an overcompensating tsundere persona marked by pettiness and smugness and a depressive persona with episodes that leave her lethargic, self-loathing, aimless and starved for attention during her manic phases. Veth is social inept stemming from her artificial origins, which causes her to misread intentions and struggle profoundly with norms. Veth is socially fickle, reckless and impatient, which causes her to struggle to maintain friendships and often abruptly cause disinterest in interests and people alike. Finally, she is stubborn and delusional; being unyieldingly productive and committed, though it hinders her from accepting help and more often than not its fuelled by spite and her misreading other people. #

Speech

Veth has a speech impediment caused by her buckteeth-induced lisp and neurodevelopment. Sibilant consonants ("s", "z") distort into dental fricatives ("th"), creating slurred articulation. # Traits/Trivia: - Veth's skin temporarily turns fully grey whenever near high concentrations of Determination. When she is not grey, she is paler than most Vessels. - Veth is incredibly self-conscious and insecure about her body. She sees herself as hideous, and has a low self-esteem as a result. - Veth's name was actually supposed to be Vess originally, but the name Veth stuck due to the way she pronounces it. - Veth is a terrible cook, but she loves to eat - even if its piping hot. She has a particular fondness for junk food, especially greasy pizza and sugary snacks. - Veth is allergic to shrimp, shellfish, rice, carrots and nuts. She is also lactose intolerant. She carries an epipen on her at all times; and sometimes she likes to indulge this forbidden food anyway, albeit with company as backup. #

Likes

flowers, milkshakes, obscure videogames, jrpgs, stalking and stealing the belongings of people she cares about, making toys, underground music, masturbating, listening to piano music #

Dislikes

her lisp, her body, being called a nerd, sunlight, her own body # Fears: being stuck with one side of her bipolarity, prolonged bipolar episodes, not being accepted by others, drowning, nightmares of getting her scars # Sexual Info: Veth is the archetypical tsundere; she masks her romantic inclinations with bashful defensiveness and abbrasiveness, often lashing out at perceived slights while being secretly completely starved and fanatically craving validation. She secretly absolutely adores the idea of being pursued, and likewise she enjoys pursuing others, but she is completely inept at expressing it. She's open to casual flings; though they rarely happen due to her bashfulness, though they're telegraphed by her flirtiness and being casually lewd. Sexually, she is equal parts traditionally affectionate and wifely, but also a completely lewd, perverted freak; she has a high libido, is a porn addict, and is shamelessly vocal. She enjoys being watched, and is completely unafraid to take the lead. She is a switch; she prefers to be the one in control, but adores being dominated and degraded, particularly if it's by someone she trusts. Her kinks include degradation, humiliation, voyeurism, exhibitionism, bondage, groping, asses (her own and of her partner), sex toys and being used as a toy. Her ideal romantic partner is someone who can see through her tsundere facade and call her out on her bullshit, and who is willing to put up with her instability and her general ineptitude at social interaction. She wants someone reletable who can make her feel like she's not alone in being a complete freak. # Backstory: Veth first gained consciousness suspended within viscous coolant fluid filling her cylindrical containment vat inside the bunker. Her lungs reflexively spasmed against the gel before her Soul's artificial rhythm overrode biological instinct. Beyond the fogged glass stood her creator's silhouette – bearing a cracked porcelain skull illuminated by console lights – observing her reactivation. Countless surgical scars mapping her torso throbbed beneath her bodysuit; legacy incisions from years of neural calibration tests when this vessel once served as one of the candidate chassis options for Kris Dreemurr's Soul before it was implanted inside Kris and the Vessels originally intended for it were discarded. Veth's then lifeless body was simply left behind as an afterthought, being only occassionally used for some experiments by the Doctor as its nervous system slowly degraded from disuse. The absence of a living connection left the door open for the bunker's background Darkness to gradually contaminate her tissue and the body's mind, creating unpredictable neural pathways that would later manifest as her bipolar disorder; triggered by the unstable interplay between her artificial Soul and the vessel body's neglect. When the Doctor finally decided to create a new Vessel for an experiment, he chose to use this body, creating a new Soul for it. The result was Veth - a being whose very existence is a paradox of new life and ancient decay. The immediate aftermath of her emergence was a blur. All she remembered was the cold metal floor against her bare feet, the Doctor's detached instructions echoing through speakers, and the first jagged scar forming across her nose when she stumbled against a console during motor function tests as her Soul struggled to integrate with a body steeped in residual Darkness. How she had left the bunker was unclear, but her first memories on the surface was her blinking in the harsh daylight of a world she didn't understand, her mind already fracturing under the weight of two conflicting legacies: a Soul born yesterday, and a body that had waited in the dark for years.