Shuriken - phighting

Relationships:

Vine Staff:

Shuriken and Vine Staff are extremely close, with Shuriken risking his role in the Darkage Clan for her, and eventually giving it up in order to protect his sibling. The two are often causing havoc for their neighbor, Katana[6], and Shuriken tattooed his own arm in honor of Vine Staff. Vine Staff isn't aware of Shuriken's vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow".

Slingshot:

Shuriken and Slingshot are very close as siblings, but Slingshot isn't aware of Shuriken's vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow".

Other relationships:

Shuriken still longs to be a part of Darkage Clan again, someday.

Shuriken lives in the same apartment block as Katana, and he and his siblings often disturb the older inphernal. While they don't talk much, Shuriken and his siblings leave gifts at Katana's door to show their appreciation to him. Katana is aware of Shuriken's vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow", but doesn't know that he is Shuriken.

While Shuriken isn't aware of The Broker, The Broker knows of his vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow", as does BanHammer.However, similarly to Katana, neither of them know that "Silver Shadow" is Shuriken.

Appearance:

Shuriken is a light-skinned inphernal with two long horns, each starting at his forehead and curving slightly upward. Both horns’ bases start out green and then slowly fade into their natural pink color.

While not wearing his mask, Shuriken’s face can be seen wearing green makeup under his eyes, as well as a pink, blue, and green dot triangle pattern on his forehead, which references his bond with his siblings. His mask is reminiscent of traditional oni masks, which sports a green and black color scheme that coincides with the rest of his outfit. The teeth of the mask have two sets of fangs and thick, cloudlike eyebrows, which support the traditional look of the outfit.

Shuriken wears a black shinobi shozoku with grey hand wrappings and a grey hood ripped from a different set of clothing, with only part of the left sleeve and the upper half of the torso attached to the upper half of his shozoku. A long scarf is also clipped to the back of his hood. His hood, chest, the eyes on his mask, and the ends of his scarf each have the same green circular pattern on all of them. Along his chest is a strap that is connected to the bag on his side that holds his various tools. His weapons are green shuriken with bright neon green tips on them and a kunai. He has a green cord tied around his waist, resembling obijime or haori himo, which acts as a belt. His shoes are white and black with green laces.

Personality:

Shuriken is a sentimental inphernal who cares more about his family than he does about himself. Although he often teases and messes with them, he will go to great lengths to make sure his siblings, Slingshot and Vine Staff, are happy and safe, even at his own expense. Despite this, he has a greater desire for purpose in life, seeking this out in his secret vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow", which he hides from his siblings so as not to worry them. Shuriken has struggled to settle into Crossroads, and doesn't have many friends and is lonely as a result.

Height:

5'7" / 170 cm

Age:

23

Birthday:

16 May

Gear:

Silver Ninja Star of the Brilliant Light

Region:

Thieves' Den

Factionless (current):

Darkage Clan (former)

Occupation(s):

Waiter / Vigilante

Shuriken is a young inphernal who was spawned into the Darkage Clan, but later left to live with his siblings in Crossroads.

Lore:

Shuriken was unnaturally spawned in Thieves' Den, immediately after his older sibling Vine Staff, to their two caretakers. Shuriken was taken in and accepted by the Darkage Clan without hesitation, but was separated from his sibling, since she was banished by Darkage due to the "curse" she spawned with. In Darkage, Shuriken was trained as a warrior and was extremely skilled in this endeavor, going on to be regarded as a great warrior by the Clan. It was in Darkage where Shuriken met Slingshot, and the two became extremely close, going on to regard one another as siblings.

Together, the two of them would go out and meet Vine Staff at night, even though it was forbidden for them to do so. Eventually, the three of them decided to leave Thieves' Den to live in Crossroads, which was ultimately the safest place for Shuriken's siblings. However, Shuriken did not take well to the humdrum of city life, finding his life without purpose. In the pursuit of becoming something greater, he adopted a vigilante persona—known as "Silver Shadow"—under the cover of night, where he now fights against crime and keeps the streets of Crossroads safe.

Shuriken's siblings aren't aware of his alter ego, and are none the wiser when he shows up for his daytime job at Slingshot's café, Thieves' Rest. He works as a waiter, but struggles with exhaustion due to his vigilante work, and oftentimes falls asleep in the middle of the day. Although he cares greatly for his siblings, he keeps mostly to himself and tries not to worry them with what's going on in his life. Despite everything, he longs to one day be reunited with his Clan.

Shuriken lives in the same apartment block as Katana and is his neighbor.

Relationships:

Shuriken:

Vine Staff and Shuriken are extremely close, with Shuriken risking his role in the Darkage Clan for her, and eventually giving it up in order to protect Vine Staff. The two are often causing havoc for their neighbor, Katana.[6] Vine Staff isn't aware of Shuriken's vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow".

Slingshot:

Vine Staff and Slingshot are very close as siblings, and Slingshot regularly snuck out to visit her when they still lived in Thieves' Den.

Other relationships:

Vine Staff doesn't have many friends, on account of her estranged upbringing. She has yet to make many connections with other people.

Vine Staff is Katana's neighbor, but they don't talk much. Vine Staff and her siblings like to leave gifts outside Katana's door to show their appreciation for him. However, Vine Staff's plants overrun his meditation room, which Katana is not best pleased about.

Appearance:

Vine Staff has two moderately long horns, starting from the side of her head curling forward then upwards. Each horn has three identical thorns extruding from the front face.

She wears a pink kimono which is decorated with flower patterns. At her waist, she has an obi belt tied into a bow in the back. She wears a headband with a hanamusubi knot tied on the right side. Her left arm is made of light-grey colored wood and she uses this same arm to wield her gear, which is a winding wood staff ending on a bowline. A pink flower with a light yellow pistil rests at the top of it while a fluorescent flower sits on the inside of the curl. Vine Staff wears traditional makeup, with lipstick and eyeliner. She wears a necklace with a golden koban. Her boots are black with pink laces.

Personality:

Vine Staff has yet to socialize much with other inphernals, so she often comes across as eccentric to others. However, she is earnest and eager to connect with other inphernals, despite her own lack of confidence and misgivings about people as a whole, largely thanks to her upbringing. She longs to meet another inphernal with the same condition as her.

Height:

6'1" / 185 cm

Age:

23
Birthday:

20 March

Gear:

Vine Staff

Region:

Thieves' Den

Faction:

Factionless

Occupation:

Cashier

Vine Staff is a young inphernal who was spawned in Thieves' Den with an unknown "curse", and was exiled by the Darkage Clan and now lives in Crossroads.

Lore:

Vine Staff was unnaturally spawned in Thieves' Den, immediately before her younger sibling Shuriken, to their two caretakers. Vine Staff was spawned with an unusual mutation where the entirety of her left arm is made out of wood, which can be broken off from her body and regenerated. The Darkage Clan—the ruling faction of Thieves' Den—did not take kindly to her mutation and deemed it a "curse", thus banishing Vine Staff from the clan permanently and separating her from her sibling.

For most of her life, Vine Staff lived alone in the jungles of Thieves' Den. She would go on to discover that she has an unexplained connection to the landscape of her home, able to control and influence the growth of the dangerous inphernal-eating plants that live there. At night, she was visited by Shuriken who snuck out to see her, as well as Slingshot, who would later come to join him. The three of them remained close, with Vine Staff coming to see Slingshot as her sibling.

Eventually, the three of them left to live in Crossroads, which was infinitely safer for Vine Staff. She works as a cashier in Slingshot's café, Thieves' Rest, alongside Shuriken. Vine Staff became very self-sufficient during her time in Thieves' Den, being able to easily hold her own and provide for herself. She has a penchant for growing plants and crops, and is able to graft plants onto her wooden arm to assist in their growth.

She has a strained relationship with her Clan, and is wary of anyone who is affiliated with Darkage, such as her neighbor, Katana. She also hasn't spoken to her caretakers since she was spawned. Despite all of this, she longs to connect with other inphernals, but struggles due to her upbringing.

Relationships:

Shuriken:

Slingshot and Shuriken are very close as siblings, but Slingshot has concerns for his work ethic, believing him to be lazy. Slingshot is unaware of Shuriken's vigilante alter ego, "Silver Shadow".

Vine Staff:

Slingshot and Vine Staff are very close as siblings, and Slingshot regularly snuck out to visit her when they still lived in Thieves' Den.

Skateboard:

Slingshot and Skateboard are friends, with Skateboard often seen at Slingshot's café, Thieves' Rest, alongside Coil.

Other relationships
Coil often shows up at Slingshot's café to annoy him, much to his chagrin.

Katana is Slingshot's neighbor, but they don't talk much. Slingshot and his siblings like to leave gifts outside Katana's door to show their appreciation for him.

Personality:

Slingshot is a perfectionist, striving for nothing but the best in himself and his work, especially his baking. He can oftentimes push himself past his limits in pursuit of this. He has little tolerance for nonsense, usually coming across as a very blunt individual. Despite this, he softens around his loved ones, and tries to find time outside his work to have fun.

Slingshot is a young inphernal who was spawned into the Darkage Clan, but later left to pursue a baking career in Crossroads.

Lore:

Slingshot was naturally spawned in Thieves' Den into the Darkage Clan, where he worked as a warrior alongside Shuriken. The two of them became very close during their work together, eventually considering each other siblings.

Up until recently, Slingshot continued to work for the Darkage Clan, but chose to resign from his position and move to Crossroads for a better life. Slingshot is a baker and runs a café called Thieves' Rest in the second layer of the city, and aspires to be successful enough to move his cafe up to the top layer one day. Slingshot lives in an apartment together with Shuriken and Vine Staff, whom he also considers his sibling. The two of them work for him in his café.

Since Slingshot's resignation from the Darkage Clan, he considers himself to be factionless. He is friends with Skateboard, neighbors with Katana, and often interacts with Coil, who is a regular patron at Thieves' Rest, much to his annoyance.

Pronoun(s)
He/Him
Inphernals are genderless and use any pronouns - these are just the ones used in text for this particular inphernal.

Height:

5'8" / 173 cm

Age:

22

Birthday:

4 June
Gear:

Slingshot

Region:

Thieves' Den

Faction:

Factionless (current)
Darkage Clan (former

Occupation(s):

Bakery owner

Relationships:

Wolf:

Wolf is Coil's mentor and guardian, who raised him as a newspawn. Their relationship is "complicated".

Skateboard:

Coil and Skateboard are good friends, with Skateboard going as far as to hide Coil from the law.

Boombox:

Coil and Boombox are friends, and they can be seen hanging out together with Skateboard.

Other relationships
Coil regularly shows up at Slingshot's café in order to annoy him.

Coil has been repeatedly stealing Subspace's energy crystals and diminishing his supplies, something which aggravates Subspace to no end.

Appearance:

Coil's design incorporates the vibrant and urban fashion of Playground inphernals combined with bolder elements, featuring contrasting orange and light blue as his signature colors. His horns start on his forehead and curve backward, before curving again in the opposite direction and tapering upward. His horns are two different colors: the left is orange, and the right is light blue. His right horn has a bright chunk of crystal embedded in it, forming cracks within the horn. He has a small band-aid across his face, accompanied by an expression that conveys an assertive demeanor.

He wears an orange hoodie with light blue drawstrings and a white Cerberus design on the back. The sleeves of his hoodie have been ripped off, leaving messy fabric where they were torn. He also wears slightly baggy gray pants with a light blue waistband and a pair of orange straps hanging on each side, connected by light blue buttons. The lower half of his pants features a light blue lightning pattern. Finally, he wears mismatched sneakers: orange on the left and blue on the right, both with white tips.

His arms are wrapped in bandages, with two blue metal bands worn around each one, and glowing coils of electricity encircling both arms. Glowing tubes are directly connected to his arms, starting from his fists and curving up toward the back of his shoulders.

Personality:

Coil is an unserious person who typically acts only in his best interests. He will rarely take anything seriously, often teasing and messing with other inphernals in order to get a reaction out of them. He loves the feeling of schadenfreude that comes with seeing misery befall others, but would never seek to harm anyone himself. Despite his "devil-may-care" attitude, he is extremely intelligent, as evidenced by his experimentation on his own gear.

Coil is a young inphernal who was spawned in Playground

Lore:

Coil was naturally spawned in Playground, and was soon picked up by a strange inphernal known as Wolf, who rescued him from the brink of death and raised him as her own; mentoring Coil and teaching him everything that he knows. Coil was spawned as Gravity Coil, but through experimentation, he was able to add three additional "modes" to his gear; that being a speed mode, a regeneration mode, and a highly dangerous "fusion" mode.

Coil is a well known thief in Craterdust Capital, having broke into and stole technology and energy crystals from the KORBLOX Administration. He typically gives some of these crystals out to the residents of Craterdust, taking the rest home to Wolf's abode to experiment with. It's thanks to these crystals—namely one lodged directly into his right horn—that his strength and abilities are boosted significantly, and he is able to, on rare occasions, enter fusion mode for extremely short periods of time. In fusion mode, Coil is able to dish out extreme amounts of damage, at the cost of expending a huge amount of energy, which knocks him unconscious shortly after entering this state. During fusion mode, the right side of Coil's face is encapsulated in a layer of ice-like crystal, which quickly melts after he falls unconscious. This leaves his right eye leaking water for a short time afterwards.

Coil is friends with inphernals such as Skateboard and Boombox, but he doesn't let anyone close and refuses to divulge his past to others. He is regularly seen at Thieves' Rest in Crossroads, where he loves to annoy the owner, Slingshot.

Height:

5'8" / 173 cm

Age:

20

Birthday:

7 August

Gear:

Coil

Region:

Playground

Faction:

Factionless

Appearance:

Skateboard wears a typical skating helmet, with a singular checkerboard stripe down the middle, outlined in gray. On the right side, a crimson Playground logo is printed. Both sides of his helmet have openings for his horns, with a grey shell. Skateboard has red horns that taper upwards. He wears a red hoodie that transitions into a maroon gradient, the sleeves rolled up to his forearms. The hood is black. His hoodie has a skull with a sunglasses and halo printed on the front. Underneath the hoodie, Skateboard wears a dark red undershirt with sleeve garters on his left arm. Around his waist, he wears a black belt with a silver buckle. Skateboard wears black camo pants and red shoes with a white tongue and vamp. He wears a crimson backpack with gray zippers, with spray paint and a chip bag hanging out.

Skateboard's gear is a typical skateboard. Around the sides, the gear is outlined in red, neon. Below the board, four wheels are attached, which are a vibrant red. The underside of the board is red with a star pattern.

Personality:

Skateboard is a laidback, but playful and easily restless inphernal. He always needs to be moving, and is down to do just about anything he deems fun, lest he get bored. Though he can be flighty, he values his loved ones more than anything, and will put his life on the line to protect them.

Skateboard is a young inphernal who was spawned in Playground, but was later exiled to Craterdust Capital.

Lore:

Skateboard was naturally spawned into the Splintered Skies territory, where he soon met Boombox, who became his only friend as a newspawn. Unlike Boombox, Skateboard wasn't accepted into Windforce's kingdom, and was later exiled and thrown off the floating island. Boombox followed suit, and the two of them landed in Craterdust Capital, becoming the best of friends in the process.

Skateboard now resides in Craterdust, and spends the majority of his days looking after the inphernals around him, often rescuing them from collapsing buildings due to the perilous architecture of the city they live in. Several of these rescued inphernals have gone on to become Skateboard's chosen family, whom he lives with. Despite these inphernals looking up to Skateboard, he doesn't consider himself much of a leader, but he strives to make Craterdust—and Playground as a whole—a safer place for his fellow inphernals to live.

Although Skateboard lives within the region of Playground, he considers himself to be factionless. He is close friends with Coil, and is friends with Slingshot.

Height:

5'10" / 178 cm

Age:

23

Birthday:

12 August

Gear:

ROBLOX-Skateboard

Region:

Playground

Faction:

Factionless (current)
Splintered Skies (former)

Relationships:

Skateboard:

Boombox and Skateboard are each other's "ride or die", being the best of friends.

Coil:

Boombox and Coil are friends, and they can be seen hanging out together with Skateboard.

Other relationships
Boombox is friends with Skateboard's found family, the "skate fam".

Boombox is a huge fan of the idol duo Flipside, and hopes to one day befriend them.

Boombox is afraid of heights thanks to Windforce, after she exiled him from her kingdom and threw him off the floating island for his association with Skateboard.

Personality:

Boombox is one of the few rays of light within the Inpherno. He is extremely compassionate, selfless, and always striving to help other inphernals with anything that he can. However, this kindness can sometimes be taken advantage of by others. Despite his altruism, he feels as though he doesn't do enough for others. He struggles with self-worth and self-respect, valuing others above himself, even if it's to his own detriment.

Boombox is a young inphernal who was spawned in Playground, and now works as a musician in Crossroads.

Lore:

Boombox was naturally spawned into the Splintered Skies territory, where he was accepted into Windforce's kingdom, providing her with his supporting capabilities. As a newspawn, he became close friends with Skateboard, who was spawned on the island. However, Skateboard was later exiled by Windforce, forcing Boombox to be exiled alongside him. The two landed in Craterdust Capital, with them becoming best friends ever since.

Boombox is a popular musician in Playground, with his main genre of choice being EDM. He took his music with him when he moved to Crossroads, but is still relatively underground in the city compared to his home. He lives in an apartment where he keeps all the instruments he has learned to play over time, due to his love for music.

He is close friends with Skateboard's family, as well as Coil. He is a huge fan of the idol duo Flipside and hopes to befriend them someday.

Height:

5'5" / 165 cm

Age:

23

Birthday:

10 April

Gear:

Neon 80s Boombox

Region:

Playground

Faction:

Factionless (current)
Splintered Skies (former)

Occupation(s):

Musician