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Arlem d'Arlion Merisanne

"Sometimes you believe you're inside the world, while you're actually inside the mouth of a vast, perfect shapeshifter."
Gender: Masculine
Race/Species: Fae Majshallar
Age: A few dozen years.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral / White
Class/Profession: Priest
Power Rating: 6 or A
Description: Could be anyone, anything.
Ross-shape: A heavyset blackfurred young catgirl.
Justin-shape: A vulpan man, a humanoid fox, very much like a certain remembered fellow in another world, but with extra tails, one per priestly rank.
Spider-shape: A yellow garden spider, anywhere from normal-size to terrifying.
Personality: A mix of helpful and angry. Arlem loves reading and watching, likes teasing people mildly, and thinks people who keep their thoughts or shape to themselves are no fun at all. Arlem is responsible and will follow orders and always meet his obligations (if not always happily).
Equipment:
Dorothy - Dorothy is the Great Sword, the weapon of War. Usually just a dagger, it'll have a feathered serpent and a soaring eagle etched in the hilt, flying side-by-side, but at blows at one and another. Affixed to the hilt is an infinite chain that is affixed to something in another world. It moves freely, but does not hang, and fades away link by link. It rarely speaks, but should have a mind of its own. It kills gods. This was a gift from Ariez.
A good pair of shoes - Capable of transforming into any footwear imaginable, or folding up into bands if you have no feet.
Palette of paint - That can be applied to things it really shouldn't be able to.
Shield belt - Metal links, forcefields.
Illusionary pet
Abilities:
Mind Reader - Arlem is basically always reading the surface thoughts and feelings of people nearby. If it's in someone's head, he should be able to get to it eventually. Also includes some non-reading psionic powers.
Miracle Worker - A mix of Faith-based magic and Sufficiently Advanced Technology.
Shapeshifter - A Shallar can take on any approximately humanoid form, but Arlem can take on any form whatsoever, and shift it with much rapidity.
The mark of the spider-friend - "by authority of my queen [Al'ic'ark'thk: fifth Throne of Spiderkin], the lady of the spiders of the eternal wood"
Backstory:
The things were closing in from all around. Monsters of twisted metal and poisoned air. It would be a while before they reached the top of the keep, but it was clear there was no hope of victory. A pair of children cowered in a corner as the lords of the city argued over what to do. Blades were drawn, spells were hurled. Bodies fell. There would be an escape after all. One from which there would be no return.
Arlem remembers the sun going out, though his older sister tells him that's not what actually happened. The portal just happened to block that part of the sky.
His father Aran had died in the fighting long ago, his mother Desa just now. But everyone else was there. In the new world they found themselves in, one by one they wandered away. Seven (or five plus two) of them only were still together when the Freedom landed at the Asylum. Outcasts and exiles, from church and hive and dimension. They went their separate ways in little groups, Arlem and his sister Shaneir, Riki and Vaan and Merhin, Erel and Jon. And then the pair split. Arlem had joined HALO, a way to make up for his past failures as a hero, he hoped. His sister followed the call of an all-too-human monster, whose title shall not be put down here.
Life in HALO was not smooth. Kidnappings, mind control, lies and violence. And a few moments of heroism and actual Good among them. From the time mad plants broke the dome to the time he tried to eat fellow member Kwen to the xenomorphs of Skyside, to the destruction and replacement of the grand library, well-
Miscellaneous:
Birthday: November 12
Doesn't turn into the shapes of VIGIL members.
Often doesn't get along with Myobi, or others with condescending long-term views.