Scarlet Delilah Bellamy
The Basics
Aliases: Anaho (Anastasia Collectively)
Gender: Transgender, She/Her (They/Them collectively)
Ancestry: Kitsune/Kumiho (Sclaraverse)
Birthday: January 10
Age: 18 years
Profession: High School Student
Sexuality: Bisexual Polyamorous
Height: 5'2", or 157cm
Tails: Three (Romance, Adventure, Murder)
Description
Scarlet shares the same body as her headmate, May - she is a young woman with the slender frame of a gymnast and noticeable curves. There is however a certain hardness to her heart-shaped face, as if some great pressures and concerns have worn and molded its curves. Her eyes shine with a ruddy ochre in contrast to May’s cerulean blues, and her hair is a fiery red-orange hue. A series of thin, self-inflicted nail scars mark the tops of her forearms and sides of her waist.
As a kumiho, May and Scarlet have a set of three fluffy vulpine tails that extend from the base of the spine. Most of these match the same orange hues of their hair. However, the middle tail is instead a warm, charcoal black - a visible mark of their consumption of the Yokai of Violent Ends. Their canines are also longer than average, lending their smile a fanged appearance.
Scarlet’s taste in clothing tends to be a bit more masculine and practical than May’s does. She favors jeans, shorts and t-shirts, occasionally wearing flannels in colder weather. Attire that hides May’s self harm scars are less of a concern to Scarlet, but she tends to do so anyways out of respect for her headmate. She is also never seen without a chunky ivory bracelet on her left wrist, though she does not like to wear jewelry otherwise.
Personality
Stubborn and terse, Scarlet is an opinionated young woman who insists she knows what to do and knows it better than anybody. She is pragmatic, prefers to keep her feelings to herself and has little patience for moral scruples or petty drama. This does not make her entirely impersonable; she still craves company and can have a playful, almost mischievous side once she’s opened up to someone.
Scarlet prioritizes the safety of herself and people close to her above all else, and will go to any length to ensure it. She does her best to counter her more callous instincts and be conscious of emotional needs as much as physical ones.
History
Scarlet is a headmate of May’s, a second personality that coalesced around her fey self during the Riverside invasion as a means of compartmentalizing the trauma she experienced. She has largely kept watchful but dormant since then, only fronting in situations where their life was in mortal danger. It was Scarlet who murdered Natalia in Moth Park - a grisly but necessary crime in her eyes, as May was starving and she had no choice but to intercede or allow the both of them to die.
Unfortunately, Natalia’s murder drew the attention of a terrible spirit, the Yokai of Violent Ends. The Yokai developed an obsession with the Anas and began to pursue May, threatening her family. Between it and other pressures, May reached a breaking point. She attempted to run away in a suicidal desire to spare those she loved from suffering for her sins, only to be cornered by the Yokai. Scarlet watched in horror as the spirit broke May down and convinced her to let it become a part of them, unable to force herself to the fore and take over. When the yokai entered her and May’s shared headspace, Scarlet killed and devoured the entity out of vengeance and a desperate desire to spare May from its mental presence.
When May’s friends finally found her, May panicked and retreated into herself, forcing Scarlet outwards and bringing her existence as a separate personality to light. Since then, Scarlet has begun to come out of her shell and embrace seeing herself as a full person, working with May to find a healthy and harmonious balance between the two of them.
Further Information
Equipment
Binding Bracelet - May and Scarlet are never seen without a chunky bracelet of ivory and brass on their left wrist. The center bears a large amethyst gem produced by a dragon that is toxic to spirits and causes discomfort to fey and immortal beings upon contact. The bracelet was commissioned from the Fourth Tower to keep their cannibalistic hunger in check, but weakens their fey abilities. In addition they can now sate their cravings by feeding upon an animal each month, but must be the one to make the kill.
Haz'Wehrs Family Sword - One of May and Scarlet’s most treasured possessions is a remarkably well-maintained longsword, plated in silver with a crossguard hilt and an inscription in a flowing foreign script above the leather-wrapped ricasso. While it has no magical properties, the blade is of incredibly sentimental value - it once belonged to Anastasia's father, and was passed down his family line over successive generations. Now, it is the only thing they have left of him.
Abilities
Daughter of the Fox Fey - Scarlet is in greater touch with the Anas’ shared fey self than May, and can manifest it to a greater extent. She can shift into a three-tailed fox form and conjure three aetherial flames at will. In addition, she can lengthen and sharpen her nails into honed claws. In addition, the laws of reality are weak for fey beings like her... and sometimes, small things seem to go Scarlet’s way against all odds. Gravity is weak and sometimes seems absent, eyes miss her in a crowd. While May is also capable of this, Scarlet can consciously will it to occur.
The Hungry Shell - As a kumiho, May and Scarlet cannot naturally generate new tails from life experiences like most kitsune. Instead they are haunted by a cannibalistic hunger to consume manifestations of fellow fey in the material world, stealing the concepts associated with them to manifest new tails. While it can be kept at bay with the livers of ordinary humanoids, the effect lasts longer when they have made the kill herself, and only results in a new tail if the victim is a changeling or otherwise feytouched. The hunger is more than psychological - if not sated, she will eventually starve.
Cthonic Nature - As a kumiho, May and Scarlet belong to a class of fey known as psychopomps, which interact with the fey underworld and bad dreams. They are capable of lucid dreaming and dreamwalking, and can enter and exit the underworld through the dreams of others. However, this connection to the underworld renders her infertile.
Duplicate - Since events in Moth Park led to May and Scarlet briefly being split between two forms, the two of them have gained the ability to split into two separate bodies. This enables both of them to be physically present at once. Neither of them prefer to be in this state for long though, feeling in some way hollow or “off” with the other’s mental absence.
Practical Expertise - Scarlet is defined most as being capable, able to handle whatever she needs to in order to keep the group safe. As such, she quickly picks up new skills and is swiftly adept with most tools and weaponry. She is fairly skilled with swords in particular, having picked up swordsmanship training from May's lessons with Wenomir.
Expert Murderer - when May accepted the Yokai of Violet Ends into her, Scarlet attempted to kill and consume the spirit as a means of destroying it for good. In doing so, Scarlet managed to absorb the majority of its powers. She now has an instinctual knowledge of everything to do with murder - the quickest ways to deliver a killing blow, how to stalk a target, who people are least likely to notice the absence of and how to best dispose of a body afterwards. It is not a skillset Scarlet is particularly happy to have.
Misc Info
Scarlet is part of a system, meaning that she cohabitates a body with other personalities. The only “headmate” she currently cohabitates with is May Anastasia Bellamy, although the consumed Yokai of Violent Ends can be brought to the surface to internally converse. The two of them are still negotiating how to share a body and relay experiences when the other is not present. When referred to as a collective, the two of them prefer to use their former shared name of Anastasia, or “the Anas”.
May and Scarlet have unequal levels of memory sharing between them; when May is in control, Scarlet tends to remember the experiences that have occurred since her last appearance, witnessing much of it as if in a dreamlike state. May, however, is entirely dormant when Scarlet is in control, and remembers none of what she experiences. At the moment, neither have established ways of communicating beyond lucid dreams and third parties. With time and effort, this may change.