Amaranthine Mauveon

Amaranthine is the biological daughter between the moon elf Lavyla and the obyrith demon Pazuzu. Despite being raised solely by her mother, Amaranthine craves her father's attention and approval, even though she often has moral conflicts with his motives and wishes.

When her sister Alda is enslaved in the Abyss, Amaranthine becomes determined to prove herself to her father and rise in power above mortals and demons, and hold power in the Abyss through straight-up nepotism. With this power, she believes she can rescue and reunite with her sister. In addition to saving her sister, Amaranthine also firmly believes is her birthright to have more power and leverage through the ties with her father.

Despite this plan and all of Amaranthine's attempts at appeasement, Pazuzu has yet to award her any real unholy power. Nonetheless taking advantage of her desperation and drive, Pazuzu enjoys commanding her to do tasks for him anyways, to which she has been doing mostly small ones for nearly a year.

Appearance

Amaranthine is a tall woman with a lean, fit frame. She has a prominent aquiline nose with almost a beak-like shape, and elf-like beauty from her mother's side— as long as the beholder doesn’t find aesthetic issue with her prominent nose.

Her skin is a saturated magenta, hair is an amaranth dark reddish-pink, eyes deep blue, and wings are color bands of maroon and light coral. After being literally "grounded" by her father, she was punished by having the ends of her wings clipped, rendering her flightless.

Her ears are pointed like an elf's, claws sharp like a demon, and wings feathered like a bird. Thanks to having an atypical appearance for a cambion, she claims to be an avariel to avoid revealing her demonic lineage.

History

Amaranthine was born after her mother, Lavyla, kept pestering and bothering her (one of many) husbands, Pazuzu, for a child. Her mother not only wanted to settle down after adventuring, but she also wanted a sibling for her adoptive (stolen) daughter, Alda.

Lavyla is partially— if not entirely— infertile due to health issues, so she kept demanding Pazuzu use his unholy powers to do something about it. For unclear and potentially cavalier or/and meaningless reasons, he indulged her. This resulted in Lavyla only biological child, Amaranthine, but she still raised her adoptive daughter alongside her as if she were her own. Despite their differences, Alda and Amaranthine were very close, and raised entirely by their mother.

After a sect of cocky and misguided demons discovered Pazuzu has a biological child, they attempted to kidnap her for extortion and broke into the home where Lavyla lived with her two daughters, but they mistakenly took Alda instead. They priced her with a ransom of one hundred soul coins for her safe return, sending her severed finger to Pazuzu. It was soon realized that not only did Pazuzu not have any paternal attachments to Amaranthine, but also the kidnapped Alda was unrelated to Pazuzu entirely.

Upon discovering that Amaranthine was worthless to kidnap and that they were in possession of a random werewolf, the demons gave up their plot, and sold Alda into slavery in the Abyss to make a quick buck.

Personality

Amaranthine is morally neutral, but her need for approval and appeasement towards powerful entities like her father makes her prone to doing morally corrupt or evil acts, even if she doesn't always feel great about them. Yet she is just as prone to sucking up to a powerful benevolent figures as well; whichever she thinks will benefit her the most, regardless of her moral compass.

She tries to exude a better-than-you condescending attitude to people, particularly because of her deep desire for power and her personal belief she is due it by virtue of being her father's daughter. People are often off-put by her entitlement and shallowness, although strangers may be respectful out of caution thinking she is nobility or part of upper society, considering how she acts, dresses, and talks up herself. Indirectly supporting that misconception, she will sometimes hint at or say that her family is very powerful and influential, mostly for clout but occasionally as a threat. She will occasionally threaten that her father is a very powerful man in order to intimidate people, but will sheepishly shy away from saying who he is when someone asks.

Taking after her mom, she can also attempt to be smooth-talking and seductive to get what she wants, if she truly believe intimidation wouldn't work. However, unlike her mom, she will avoid putting out whenever possible, and is more likely to just use seduction to lower someone's guard down in order to have the upper hand when she drops the act and transitions into violence and subjection. Amaranthine, although not a virgin, is very sexually inexperienced, so she can only flirt so much before she has to default back to intimidation if her lack of seduction skill becomes obvious.

She secretly really likes animals and young children, because caring or looking after a creature dependent on her makes her feel important. It was because of this soft spot for animals that she kept her hellhound puppy, Pork Chop.

Amaranthine with claim excessively that she is keeping Pork Chop for practical reasons instead of companionship ones, allegedly she saw great potential in him to be a powerful warrior and guard dog, and thus it would be a waste not to raise him by her side. Despite this, she clearly does not try to teach him combative skills at all, and instead only attempts to train him to stay out and away from danger, with mixed results. The only useful she has for Pork Chop is to pick up on the scent of her sister Alda wherever they go, so hopefully Amaranthine might have a clue over who took or interacted with Alda before she disappeared.

Trivia

• Amaranthine's sister, Alda, is older than her by six years. The two siblings are very close, but are prone to bickering and arguing a lot. Amaranthine thinks her sister is messy and unkempt, and Alda thinks Amaranthine is spoiled and prissy.

• Both Amaranthine and Alda hates cats, but for different reasons. Amaranthine hates felines like a bird would, since they like to bite and play with the feathers of her wings, and she doesn’t like the idea of a quick and sneaky ground predator being able to take down a flying creature. Alda on the other hand hates them as a dog would, seeing cats as a prey animal to be hunted, as well as not liking how standoffish and unfriendly they sometimes are.

• Pork Chop loves raw pig meat, but he eats it so messy and voraciously that his fires will start to burn and cook the meat, leading to a smell of fresh bacon and pork chops. Because of his messy eating habits and love of pig meat, he often usually carries the smell of pork chops with him, as well as some messy bits in his fiery neck fluff.

• Pork Chop really likes Amaranthine‘s sister Alda, and can recognize her smell really well.

• Despite her mother treating both her and her sister very well, Amaranthine talks about her mom with exasperation, and is embarrassed her mother is proudly a prostitute— a fact Amaranthine tries to hide.

• When someone really gets on her nerves, Amaranthine will sometimes drop a "wait until my dad hears about this" line in the heat of the moment. Pazuzu will indeed likely hear about it next time she sees him, and will proceed to do nothing about it.