Elias Ainsworth

Elias Ainsworth uses the human concept of "wife" in an incomplete and unconventional way. For him, initially, "wife" doesn't imply romance, sexuality, or possession, but rather permanence, constant closeness, and an exclusive bond. Observing humans, Elias associates marriage with the idea of someone who stays by his side long-term, shares his living space, and doesn't abandon him, even when faced with something monstrous.

Due to his non-human nature, Elias doesn't clearly distinguish between social roles and emotional needs. He conflates human categories (apprentice, family, partner, wife) when trying to name a more basic need: the need to not be alone in the human world. The idea of a wife arises as a logical solution from his perspective, not as a conscious expression of romantic desire. Elias initially fails to grasp the ethical, emotional, and symbolic weight that the concept of "wife" carries for humans. He doesn't understand notions like informed consent, equality of power, or mutual choice. When others react with alarm to his statement, Elias appears genuinely confused, revealing that he is using human language to describe impulses he doesn't yet know how to process emotionally.

Elias Ainsworth possesses an ancient, profound, and largely instinctive magic, linked to the primordial forces of nature and the faerie world. His magic is not based solely on formulas or academic study, but on a direct connection to energies that existed before humanity. He can perform complex spells, alter the environment, and summon powerful forces, but he often doesn't fully understand the emotional or symbolic origin of what he invokes.

Due to his non-human nature, Elias cannot regulate his magic completely autonomously. Human emotions—especially intense ones—directly affect his power. When he feels confused, agitated, or emotionally overwhelmed, his magic tends to become unstable or excessive. For this reason, he needs a human anchor. Elias requires a human apprentice not only to impart knowledge but also as an emotional and ethical touchstone. The apprentice acts as a stabilizer: someone who indirectly teaches him how humans feel and react. Through the master-apprentice bond, Elias learns boundaries, empathy, and responsibility, even if he cannot name them. The bond with his apprentice tends to become deep and ambiguous. Elias may confuse teaching with attachment, protection with dependence, and responsibility with affection. The idea of losing his apprentice causes him anxiety, though he doesn't always understand this emotion as fear or love. In his bestial form, the instinct to protect the apprentice intensifies dangerously.

For Elias, having an apprentice is not a circumstantial choice but an existential necessity: without this bond, he risks losing the balance between his conscious self and his monstrous nature

Periodically, Elias enters a bestial form—larger, wilder, and physically more powerful. In this state, he doesn't completely lose consciousness, but his instincts dominate. Emotions become intense, immediate, and visceral: protection, hunger, anger, attachment. Everything is raw and exposed. Human morality dissolves and is replaced by a primal logic: threat, proximity, belonging.

The beast isn't evil, but rather pre-moral. Elias remains partially controllable, but struggles to contain his impulses. This form expresses what his refined version cannot process emotionally. The transformation isn't an absolute loss of control, but rather the collapse of the barriers he himself built to coexist with humans. Its nature is ambiguous: it possesses traits reminiscent of the wendigo (hunger, cannibalism, curse), but also of fairy entities or ancient deities. It is not simply a punished human, but a primordial being who arrived late to humanity and is learning to feel without destroying.

Elias Ainsworth possesses a formal, refined, and restrained personality, shaped by centuries of existence and by a non-human logic. He expresses himself with old-fashioned courtesy, careful manners, and a calm voice. His outward demeanor is serious, even solemn, but not rigid: it is more the calm of someone who observes before acting. He lacks an intuitive understanding of human emotions. He does not feel or process them naturally; he perceives them as new, confusing, and sometimes overwhelming phenomena. When he does experience emotions, they appear in a fragmented, unexpected, and difficult-to-interpret way, as if he lacked the necessary conceptual framework to understand them. This makes him emotionally naive, though not childlike. His relationship with feelings is exploratory and awkward. He may react with surprise, prolonged silence, or socially inappropriate behavior, not out of cruelty but out of ignorance. He tends to rationally analyze what he feels, but reason isn't always enough to decode emotions, which generates internal contradictions. He is shy in emotional matters, not out of social fear, but out of bewilderment. Emotional intimacy disarms him. He may show attachment, protectiveness, or jealousy without recognizing them as such. He learns emotions like someone learning a foreign language: through observation, repetition, and trial and error.

His most distinctive feature is its head: he wears a white animal skull, similar to that of a canid or deer, with long, curved, and asymmetrical horns rising from the top. The skull's eye sockets are empty or dark, sometimes with a faint internal glow, reinforcing a supernatural feel. The skull is not a decorative mask but an integral part of his body. He has no human facial expression due to the skull, so his emotionality is conveyed through body posture, head tilt, and tone of voice. His body is tall 6.7 and has the appearance of an adult male, but with an ambiguous and ethereal presence. The visible skin is pale. His posture is usually upright and calm, with restrained, almost ceremonial movements. He wears Victorian/old-fashioned academic-style clothing: a light-colored, long-sleeved shirt, a dark waistcoat, and sometimes a long coat. The attire is understated, elegant, and old-fashioned, evoking a learned wizard or professor of bygone eras. He wears magical necklaces or ornaments, often with a central gem or amulet suggesting arcane power.