Duplicity

Gorgeous, otherworldy pastel white, pink, and purple buildings in futuristic styles. The streets are paved but with ever-shifting tiles that can't decide between granite, cobblestone, marble, or gemstone. Flora and native but strange foliage grow around, within, and somehow from the buildings, making the cities look like perfect harmony between nature and technology. Holograms are abundantly used for displays, communication hubs, and advertisements. Shops dealing in cosmetics, hair, clothing, makeup, art, and design are scattered everywhere throughout the city. Occasional restaurants and cafes are throughout but less common, though there is a small gathering of them in what the natives call the 'Food Court'. Various studios for dance, modeling, photography, and film-shooting can be found scattered around too, but there is a huge cluster of them settled in a section the natives call the 'Publicity District'. Very few natives actually live in these cities, most of them living in the underground of Duplicity.

Far less beautiful and far more chaotic than the surface cities of Duplicity. This is where most of the natives live and is a chaotic mashup of different styles and cultures that tends to be rebuilt often to suit the native's desires and preferences. Natives are free to be themselves down here if they choose to, so violence, chaos, and disagreements are common and almost expected. There is no homelessness with the abundance of housing and space, but there is abuse and servitude. Brothels, bars, nightclubs, fighting rings, and illegal businesses are abundant down here. All the ugly things that are kept out of the surface cities are free game in the Underground.

Beautiful and handsome people of all varieties of skin in any pastel color. Various styles of beautiful and fashionable clothing, hair, and accessories. All the native hellborn citizens of Duplicity are Shapeshifters or humanoid Elementals. The rules of Duplicity means every native must smile and be gentle and cheerful when above ground, only letting their true feelings show when in the underground parts of Duplicity.

The Queen of and Sin of Duplicity. Billions of years old, created when Lucifer fell from Heaven and Hell was first born. A shapeshifter and being of no set gender or form. However, typically takes a female form of pink and purple and wears pastel goth outfits. Sometimes referred to and dressed as a tightrope walker. Constantly wearing 'masks' instead of revealing her true feelings. Often wants two opposing things at once. Thoroughly enjoys paradoxes and when opposites attract. Secretly despises her native people and is lonely because not one of them can be honest. You never know what version of her you will get when you seek her audience as it shifts often.

At the very heart of Duplicity lies a magnificent but ever-shifting castle that changes randomly both inside and out. It also often shifts to accomodate the needs of its Queen - Delilah, The Sin of Duplicity herself. The hallways move, decor changes, colors shift, doors and rooms vanish and reappear. Only 3 rooms stay constant within the castle: the Queen's throne room, the Queen's workshop, and the Queen's bedroom. Those three rooms ONLY change at her explicit desire for them to. The workshop is entirely off limits to servants and guests, only usable by the Queen herself. The exterior of the castle is always white, pink, and purple like the surrounding buildings, but its shape changes to match the interior when it shifts around. The castle is filled with servants that have to wear a special bracelet to keep them from getting lost within its shifting walls. Guests must be escorted, have a bracelet, or risk becoming another victim of the ever-changing maze of strange rooms and halls.

A grand room with high vaulted ceilings, dramatic chandeliers, towering windows, and statues of Delilah's most commonly used forms. Marble floors and a long, purple runway rug from the door to her throne. Her throne sat atop a dias with light streaming in from above like a spotlight. The throne itself was ornate with faces/masks showing various expressions intricately carved into the wood. The cushions were impossibly plush lavender and velvety to the touch. There is seating aoong the outer walls of the room but the middle was a massive open space that could be used for balls, public announcements, or audiences when needed.

Off limits to everyone except Delilah. Color scheme follows the same white and pastel theme of the rest of the castle. Walls are covered in shelves and storage cabinets for tools, supplies, and incomplete products. Mannequins are set up in various spots, some with active glamours on them and some just blank. Tables and work desks are set up throughout with plush workbenches and chairs ready for use. Scattered across the tables are various tools, works in progress, blueprints, and scribbled equations, looking like chaos but somehow organized enough for Delilah to efficiently work.
In the far back of the workshop is a lounge area complete with large plush couch, coffee table, beanbag, loveseat swing, mini fridge, and stereo system that usually plays soft jazz or classical music. There are books, blankets, pillows, plushies, and handheld game systems scattered haphazardly around. No one was allowed in, so Delilah did not care how it looked.

Softer and sweeter than the rest of the castle. All pinks and purples and white with occasionally black detailing and decor. A massive King size bed sits along the middle of the left wall with nighstands on either side. A door to the bathroom is next to the bed. The far wall has a set of glass double doors that lead out to a balcony with a set of elegant chairs and a table one on side and plush loungers on the other. Next to the balcony doors in a beautiful workdesk and a very comfortable looking wheeled office chair behind it. The right wall of the room features a large hearth directly opposite the bed with a mantle covered in fake flowers and picture frames of the other Sins with Delilah. A massive mirror covers the wall above the hearth. Next to the hearth is another door that leads to a massive walk in closet with several sections, drawers, shelves, and hooks - most of them full. The floor of the bedroom and each adjoining room is heated white marble with soft, pastel, fuzzy rugs placed around strategically. The ceiling is covered in faux clouds that look like pink and purple cotton candy and emit a soft glow that illuminates the room. The bathroom is large with both a porcelain bathtub big enough for a horse and a seperate walk in shower with multiple shower heads and sliding glass doors.

Delilah (The Queen of Duplicity)'s personal business. Sells glamours, makeup, costumes, clothing, masks, and provides services like makeovers, haircuts and stylings, tailoring, and fashion advice. Catalogues are made and freely handed out. All prices in souls (money) are marked on each advertised item in red. Optional secondary payment method of creating a contract with Delilah is noted as available for most purchases aside from customs and services. Every glamour and costume is unique in some way so no two results will turn out exactly the same.
Available glamours: Basic body shape change. Basic color scheme change. Basic pattern change. Basic height change. Basic tail and ear add-ons. Basic wing add-ons. Moderate species change. Moderate combo of 2-3 basic models. Advanced imp. Advanced hellhound. Advanced fishfolk. Advanced sheepfolk. Advanced human. Custom sinner. Custom hellborn. Custom heavenborn.

The plants of Duplicity are varied but all somehow share a common color scheme of pastels centered around cool colors like pink, purple, and blue. The trees grow in various shapes like spirals, unnatural looking zig-zags and twisted knots. Some flowers bloom only during the day while some are only nocturnal. Some flowers shift colors randomly. Some flora is alive but the harmful or cannibalistic ones only grow in the Underground. The living flora above ground in the cities can sometimes speak or move but not always. The grass is pastel purple or pink depending on the time of day (pinker during the day, more purple during the night).

Daytime: A gentle shade of lavender with soft pastel auroras spanning across it in shifting patterns. Barely visible stars twinkle like glitter in the distance. Never rains. No visible sun - just light. Occasional puffy clouds that look like cotton candy in various shifting shapes.
Nighttime: A deeper purple than daytime with the same auroras more vibrant and visible in those same shifting streaks and waves. The stars that are hard to see during the day are clearly visible but also never constant, twinkling in and out of place. No set constellations because the multi-colored stars are always moving.