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Full Name Revann. No concept of "surnames," only titles
Quote "Eggghhhhh... no."
Height 7' 2" (varies)
Personality/Behavior Quiet and withdrawn, feelings get hurt easily, will make a big show of being "insulted" over any perceived slight. Tends to glower, scowl, mumble, curse and sigh angstily.
Quirks Has anxiety problems and carries around a 'security blanket,' usually his teddy bear 'Bear.' Will fidget and shake if he doesn't have it or something in its place. Has tried to curl his hair, but it never works. Sleeps in a coffin. Will attempt to seem anything but a vampire at first; Super suspiciously specific denial, even when no one mentioned vampires. "I AM BREATHING CLEARLY I AM NOT DEAD."
Abilities Can transform into a large, monstrous bat only slightly smaller than he is. This takes a lot of energy and wrecks his clothes so he tends not to. Has the standard vampiric strength and heightened senses. Has power over shadows.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates Condescending and somewhat cruel. Expects them to treat him like a lord and will throw tantrums if he feels they're disrespecting him.
Treatment of Guests Much the same as with castle-mates, except he tends to view them as 'prey' and will stand close to them awkwardly and breathe heavily in a creepy manner without realizing he's doing it. Tends to strike at his victims while they're alone in the dark, preferring to avoid any fights and will flee if the victim struggles too much.
Full Name Scrumpy
Quote “I will show you the greenhouses if you like, but the plants haven't grown very well this year, and there's no guarantee the greenhouses will still be there because they could have blown down in a storm and no-one would think to tell me if they had, but I'll happily show you it if you don't mind my company, which most people do..."
Height 6'0"
Personality/Behavior Dour, pessimistic, and always contrary, Scrumpy has made a habit of continuously seeing the worst in any situation and being very vocal about it. In truth, she enjoys interacting with others and she finds gardening and maintaining the castle very rewarding. She wouldn't want anything to change. It's just that moping, brooding and feeling sorry for herself are the some of the only hobbies she has. Observing other people without them knowing is another favourite off-duty past-time of hers. Many an occupant of the castle has seen her still, floppy form watching them from a secluded spot. Whether it's with longing for friendship or something a whole lot more sinister isn't clear.
Quirks Considering she's a scarecrow, Scrumpy seems to be pestered by a remarkable number of crows. It's a favourite complaining-point of hers. It's possible that they are under her command, or even just extensions of her own mind... or perhaps the just really, really love her. She's also terrified of fire: let's face it, if you were made of straw and sacking you probably would be too. She has a beloved pitchfork that she will talk to if there's no one else around to grumble at.
Abilities Scrumpy's otherworldly-ravens will do anything she wants them to, and that could quite well mean attacking someone. Being an animated scarecrow, she can fall from great heights and generally get pummelled in ways human beings can't. Finally, she can use that pitchfork for more than just aerating compost.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates She will avoid Mali at all costs, finding the bubbly scientist chokingly cheerful. Scrumpy just treats Revann, Gilligan and Mr Withersby as open ears to her gripes and apparently chooses to ignore it if they begin to get short-tempered with her. She has a soft spot for Hull and even becomes a little star-struck around him, since he seems to like strange plants as much as she does. She has a serious case of triffid-envy around him.
Treatment of Guests Scrumpy will do anything a guest asks quickly and efficiently as if she's all too happy to help, even going above and beyond the call of duty, so long as she can have a good moan throughout doing it. She'll especially enjoy people who will tolerate her dreary monologuing without trying to cheer her up. While people are friendly, she won't be malicious. If they get confrontational with her or damage any of her garden handiwork, then it's a different matter...
Notes There's a greenhouse inside the castle, who's windows are overseeing the cliff (in the translucent greenhouse manner). Many of Hull's plants are in there. Scrumpy's 'skeleton' is sticks and any 'body' she has is straw.
Full Name Gilligan
Quote "I'm going to smoke if I want to and if you don't like it you can get out."
Height 5'7"
Personality/Behavior He's very laid-back and cool, but far from relaxed. He runs a tight and efficient kitchen and knows how to separate high-work times from downtime. His emotional reactions are muted like his inability to make facial expressions, so it's very difficult to startle, shock, anger, sadden, or excite him. (The only exception being if his pet betta is put in danger.) Gilligan doesn't really respect rules or boundaries, but he doesn't care to break them either.
Quirks He talks to himself. Sort of. His tongue has been replaced by a parasitic giant isopod named Chum, who will talk back and chastise Gilligan for his heavy smoking habits. He also keeps a betta that looks like him in a bowl and talks to it about what he's making. His kitchen is staffed with a number of beings that look similarly aquatic to him (octopus, seahorse, geoduck, et cetera). He flares up at his reflection. He will eat absolutely anything- including guests (and isn't beyond preparing them for a meal, either).
Abilities Gilligan is amphibious and can breathe just fine on both land and in water, salty and fresh. Despite a lack of smell or taste, he's very good with the kitchen both out of habit and from Chum helping him.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates He has the food prepared and otherwise doesn't bother them. So long as they stay out of his kitchen.
Treatment of Guests Again, he makes sure they're fed and doesn't care what they do, as long as they don't trespass on his territory. He'll share smokes and smalltalk, and if someone's fishing for secrets he has no concerns about giving them away or allowing someone into locked areas. What does it matter to him what others know or do?
Notes His head frill/fin is a key to understanding his emotions. If excited or angered, for instance, it'll flare straight up. Shocked or scared, it'll press down against his head.
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Full Name Mali Patel
Quote "This won't hurt for very long and think of all the PROGRESS!"
Height 4'11
Personality/Behavior Chipper, cheerful and energetic, Mali is friendly and talkative, especially concerning her projects, although she tends to rattle off about miniscule details that easily confuse uninitiated audiences.
Quirks Is the only castlemate who can leave the castle. Her robotics are very fine tuned, but she herself is not. A bit of a clutz, she tends to entirely forget her own strenght and occassionally crushes glass vials or gives too-firm handshakes with her mechanical arm. She has a tendancy to take mental notes- and finds even the most gruesome things interesting.
Abilities An excellent scientist and engineer, able to seamlessly blend robotics with living tissue. On good days at least. Her laboratory is littered with parts and limbs, as well as dormant golems of machine and flesh.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates Mali would be the person who, upon leaving to go get Subway, would ask everyone else what they wanted and make a list to bring them something too. She can't always see eye to eye with them, being the solitary human, but refuses to let the doom and gloom around her kill her spirits.
Treatment of Guests She's ever so happy to meet new people, being cooped up in the castle all day. She's always very interested to hear news from "the outside," and certain unlucky guests might find that she's entirely TOO interested.
Notes A good word to summarize Mali is "Psychosweetie".
Full Name Wilfred Lawrence Hull, though “Hull” is enough to get his attention.
Quote "God, the suspense is killing me." And then a shrug. "Hope it lasts."
Height 5' 4". Small, stocky bulldog of a wolf-man.
Personality/Behavior He’s sort of…forcedly personable and passive-aggressive. He’d rather be working on his bigger and better projects to help guard the castle than socialize, and he’s a bit of a misanthrope – HOWEVER he also understands that someone has to do it. He doesn’t talk much, but when he does, it’s painfully obvious that he doesn’t want to be doing it. His voice is gravely.
He likes to creep up on people. Were he in an anime or a manga, he’d have LOOM behind him all the time. Despite his height, he loves to loom and see others’ reactions.
Quirks He stubbornly refuses to give up using ‘30s slang. He has several guard dogs (that superficially resemble him in varying ways), governs a small fleet of the castle's gargoyles, and a pampered cat named Wubbles.
He was formerly a botanist specializing in collecting and breeding rare and bizarre plants, and still attempts to keep up the hobby – albeit with a slightly more sinister and purposeful edge, today. There may be a triffid or two along the edges of the outer walls. But don’t worry, guests, he’d swear on his life that they’re dormant…
Incidentally, the triffid’s name is Renwick, but he would never share that with the guests.
Abilities Shape-shifting. The classic Universal look is his default look, though he can become more feral. If he is able to appear completely human, he doesn’t seem too interested in attempting it. His strengths and weaknesses otherwise are the standard traditional fare.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates He gets along quite well with the resident groundskeeper, Scrumpy. He’s been known to ‘accidentally’ leave his cat in the same room as the betta when things get too quiet. Whenever he has a spare moment, he loiters around the kitchen. This guy loves to troll the cook.
Treatment of Guests He begins quite personable, even if it is a bit forced and passive-aggressive, and his main interest is keeping them in line. Over time, though, the façade will crumble and his behavior towards them would become more bestial. Similarly with the Castle-mates, he also enjoys stirring up a few small things, here and there, for selfish reasons. After all, he’ll always be happy to test the effectiveness of that giant flytrap down that third corridor over there. Or was it the fourth?
Notes Much like Willy Wonka in behavior; as an example, if a guest were in danger, he'd flatly say, "No, stop, don't do that," in a completely uninterested tone. To quote the creator, "When he's talking, he's honestly Wonka-level weird." Continuing, "But yeah in a nutshell: Wonka was the example I used because he understands that this is an event - but he also knows that the other hosts aren't exactly the social type. Gillman and vampire either don't give a crap or are juuuust before that line into hostile. And the scientist is HAIGUISEHAI. So Hull is there forcing himself to be welcoming and social, though he really doesn't care for their well-being and is more interested in what happens too them. So it comes across as just that forced, bizarre, or passive aggressive. And Wonka is right there as an example."
Full Name Walter Withersby
Quote "I believe you will find this suite to your liking.."
Height 6' 0" (but, hunched, so seems shorter)
Personality/Behavior If you ignore his shambolic movements, creaky bones and constant popping of joints, he appears to hold something of a gentlemanly demeanor, and deliberate in almost every movement he makes (save for the obvious shaking or occasional lost limb). He is soft-spoken, won't speak unless spoken to, and indeed rather shy- and will retreat once his duty to one situation or another is done. His loyalty to the castle, however, is frighteningly clear- he refers to it with female pronouns, and does not tolerate any disrespect to the building, to the most ghastly means (which includes but is not limited to dragging someone to the torture chamber.. or worse).
Quirks He is not kind in any form or fashion, but he doesn't act aggressive- if he doesn't like someone, he'll mutter (ala Kreacher) and gripe but never repeat himself if asked to.
Abilities Walter is not the zombie you see before you (and it's guessed that he doesn't even use the same name at all times). He is a ghost empowered, a long-dead entity, that inhabits the bodies of the deceased- and can possess the castle itself, resulting in horrifying haunting, and poltergeist, activity.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates To an observant eye, Walter may be the one running the place. He allows Revann govern the castle, and gives him his space. Gilligan recieves respect for caring for the kitchen, and they rarely speak. Hull is given little direction in his protective duty, and Walter has been willing on more than one occasion to 'help along' his plants. He depends upon Scrumpy quite a bit, but avoids her. He may find her dismal prattling quite annoying. Mali may be Walter's favorite- her gruesome creations have been, on more than one occasion, 'test-run' by the powerful spook. Kitchen staff and the gargoyles are given no attention.
Treatment of Guests Sincere scruitiny at all times.
Notes Walter is the only servant, and somehow can move through the castle with no issue at all.. in fact, he seems to show up at just the right time, every time. He never seems overburdened.
Art- ~PumpkinBat
Characters- ~CindarellaPop (Revann), ~PumpkinBat (Walter), ~Nannairb (Gilligan), ~ScribblerRigby (Hull), ~HerbalJabbage (Scrumpy)
Art of Gilligan (Collab)- ~PumpkinBat and ~Nannairb
Questions? Note the group, not the artist.
Full Name Revann. No concept of "surnames," only titles
Quote "Eggghhhhh... no."
Height 7' 2" (varies)
Personality/Behavior Quiet and withdrawn, feelings get hurt easily, will make a big show of being "insulted" over any perceived slight. Tends to glower, scowl, mumble, curse and sigh angstily.
Quirks Has anxiety problems and carries around a 'security blanket,' usually his teddy bear 'Bear.' Will fidget and shake if he doesn't have it or something in its place. Has tried to curl his hair, but it never works. Sleeps in a coffin. Will attempt to seem anything but a vampire at first; Super suspiciously specific denial, even when no one mentioned vampires. "I AM BREATHING CLEARLY I AM NOT DEAD."
Abilities Can transform into a large, monstrous bat only slightly smaller than he is. This takes a lot of energy and wrecks his clothes so he tends not to. Has the standard vampiric strength and heightened senses. Has power over shadows.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates Condescending and somewhat cruel. Expects them to treat him like a lord and will throw tantrums if he feels they're disrespecting him.
Treatment of Guests Much the same as with castle-mates, except he tends to view them as 'prey' and will stand close to them awkwardly and breathe heavily in a creepy manner without realizing he's doing it. Tends to strike at his victims while they're alone in the dark, preferring to avoid any fights and will flee if the victim struggles too much.
Full Name Scrumpy
Quote “I will show you the greenhouses if you like, but the plants haven't grown very well this year, and there's no guarantee the greenhouses will still be there because they could have blown down in a storm and no-one would think to tell me if they had, but I'll happily show you it if you don't mind my company, which most people do..."
Height 6'0"
Personality/Behavior Dour, pessimistic, and always contrary, Scrumpy has made a habit of continuously seeing the worst in any situation and being very vocal about it. In truth, she enjoys interacting with others and she finds gardening and maintaining the castle very rewarding. She wouldn't want anything to change. It's just that moping, brooding and feeling sorry for herself are the some of the only hobbies she has. Observing other people without them knowing is another favourite off-duty past-time of hers. Many an occupant of the castle has seen her still, floppy form watching them from a secluded spot. Whether it's with longing for friendship or something a whole lot more sinister isn't clear.
Quirks Considering she's a scarecrow, Scrumpy seems to be pestered by a remarkable number of crows. It's a favourite complaining-point of hers. It's possible that they are under her command, or even just extensions of her own mind... or perhaps the just really, really love her. She's also terrified of fire: let's face it, if you were made of straw and sacking you probably would be too. She has a beloved pitchfork that she will talk to if there's no one else around to grumble at.
Abilities Scrumpy's otherworldly-ravens will do anything she wants them to, and that could quite well mean attacking someone. Being an animated scarecrow, she can fall from great heights and generally get pummelled in ways human beings can't. Finally, she can use that pitchfork for more than just aerating compost.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates She will avoid Mali at all costs, finding the bubbly scientist chokingly cheerful. Scrumpy just treats Revann, Gilligan and Mr Withersby as open ears to her gripes and apparently chooses to ignore it if they begin to get short-tempered with her. She has a soft spot for Hull and even becomes a little star-struck around him, since he seems to like strange plants as much as she does. She has a serious case of triffid-envy around him.
Treatment of Guests Scrumpy will do anything a guest asks quickly and efficiently as if she's all too happy to help, even going above and beyond the call of duty, so long as she can have a good moan throughout doing it. She'll especially enjoy people who will tolerate her dreary monologuing without trying to cheer her up. While people are friendly, she won't be malicious. If they get confrontational with her or damage any of her garden handiwork, then it's a different matter...
Notes There's a greenhouse inside the castle, who's windows are overseeing the cliff (in the translucent greenhouse manner). Many of Hull's plants are in there. Scrumpy's 'skeleton' is sticks and any 'body' she has is straw.
Full Name Gilligan
Quote "I'm going to smoke if I want to and if you don't like it you can get out."
Height 5'7"
Personality/Behavior He's very laid-back and cool, but far from relaxed. He runs a tight and efficient kitchen and knows how to separate high-work times from downtime. His emotional reactions are muted like his inability to make facial expressions, so it's very difficult to startle, shock, anger, sadden, or excite him. (The only exception being if his pet betta is put in danger.) Gilligan doesn't really respect rules or boundaries, but he doesn't care to break them either.
Quirks He talks to himself. Sort of. His tongue has been replaced by a parasitic giant isopod named Chum, who will talk back and chastise Gilligan for his heavy smoking habits. He also keeps a betta that looks like him in a bowl and talks to it about what he's making. His kitchen is staffed with a number of beings that look similarly aquatic to him (octopus, seahorse, geoduck, et cetera). He flares up at his reflection. He will eat absolutely anything- including guests (and isn't beyond preparing them for a meal, either).
Abilities Gilligan is amphibious and can breathe just fine on both land and in water, salty and fresh. Despite a lack of smell or taste, he's very good with the kitchen both out of habit and from Chum helping him.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates He has the food prepared and otherwise doesn't bother them. So long as they stay out of his kitchen.
Treatment of Guests Again, he makes sure they're fed and doesn't care what they do, as long as they don't trespass on his territory. He'll share smokes and smalltalk, and if someone's fishing for secrets he has no concerns about giving them away or allowing someone into locked areas. What does it matter to him what others know or do?
Notes His head frill/fin is a key to understanding his emotions. If excited or angered, for instance, it'll flare straight up. Shocked or scared, it'll press down against his head.
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Full Name Mali Patel
Quote "This won't hurt for very long and think of all the PROGRESS!"
Height 4'11
Personality/Behavior Chipper, cheerful and energetic, Mali is friendly and talkative, especially concerning her projects, although she tends to rattle off about miniscule details that easily confuse uninitiated audiences.
Quirks Is the only castlemate who can leave the castle. Her robotics are very fine tuned, but she herself is not. A bit of a clutz, she tends to entirely forget her own strenght and occassionally crushes glass vials or gives too-firm handshakes with her mechanical arm. She has a tendancy to take mental notes- and finds even the most gruesome things interesting.
Abilities An excellent scientist and engineer, able to seamlessly blend robotics with living tissue. On good days at least. Her laboratory is littered with parts and limbs, as well as dormant golems of machine and flesh.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates Mali would be the person who, upon leaving to go get Subway, would ask everyone else what they wanted and make a list to bring them something too. She can't always see eye to eye with them, being the solitary human, but refuses to let the doom and gloom around her kill her spirits.
Treatment of Guests She's ever so happy to meet new people, being cooped up in the castle all day. She's always very interested to hear news from "the outside," and certain unlucky guests might find that she's entirely TOO interested.
Notes A good word to summarize Mali is "Psychosweetie".
Full Name Wilfred Lawrence Hull, though “Hull” is enough to get his attention.
Quote "God, the suspense is killing me." And then a shrug. "Hope it lasts."
Height 5' 4". Small, stocky bulldog of a wolf-man.
Personality/Behavior He’s sort of…forcedly personable and passive-aggressive. He’d rather be working on his bigger and better projects to help guard the castle than socialize, and he’s a bit of a misanthrope – HOWEVER he also understands that someone has to do it. He doesn’t talk much, but when he does, it’s painfully obvious that he doesn’t want to be doing it. His voice is gravely.
He likes to creep up on people. Were he in an anime or a manga, he’d have LOOM behind him all the time. Despite his height, he loves to loom and see others’ reactions.
Quirks He stubbornly refuses to give up using ‘30s slang. He has several guard dogs (that superficially resemble him in varying ways), governs a small fleet of the castle's gargoyles, and a pampered cat named Wubbles.
He was formerly a botanist specializing in collecting and breeding rare and bizarre plants, and still attempts to keep up the hobby – albeit with a slightly more sinister and purposeful edge, today. There may be a triffid or two along the edges of the outer walls. But don’t worry, guests, he’d swear on his life that they’re dormant…
Incidentally, the triffid’s name is Renwick, but he would never share that with the guests.
Abilities Shape-shifting. The classic Universal look is his default look, though he can become more feral. If he is able to appear completely human, he doesn’t seem too interested in attempting it. His strengths and weaknesses otherwise are the standard traditional fare.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates He gets along quite well with the resident groundskeeper, Scrumpy. He’s been known to ‘accidentally’ leave his cat in the same room as the betta when things get too quiet. Whenever he has a spare moment, he loiters around the kitchen. This guy loves to troll the cook.
Treatment of Guests He begins quite personable, even if it is a bit forced and passive-aggressive, and his main interest is keeping them in line. Over time, though, the façade will crumble and his behavior towards them would become more bestial. Similarly with the Castle-mates, he also enjoys stirring up a few small things, here and there, for selfish reasons. After all, he’ll always be happy to test the effectiveness of that giant flytrap down that third corridor over there. Or was it the fourth?
Notes Much like Willy Wonka in behavior; as an example, if a guest were in danger, he'd flatly say, "No, stop, don't do that," in a completely uninterested tone. To quote the creator, "When he's talking, he's honestly Wonka-level weird." Continuing, "But yeah in a nutshell: Wonka was the example I used because he understands that this is an event - but he also knows that the other hosts aren't exactly the social type. Gillman and vampire either don't give a crap or are juuuust before that line into hostile. And the scientist is HAIGUISEHAI. So Hull is there forcing himself to be welcoming and social, though he really doesn't care for their well-being and is more interested in what happens too them. So it comes across as just that forced, bizarre, or passive aggressive. And Wonka is right there as an example."
Full Name Walter Withersby
Quote "I believe you will find this suite to your liking.."
Height 6' 0" (but, hunched, so seems shorter)
Personality/Behavior If you ignore his shambolic movements, creaky bones and constant popping of joints, he appears to hold something of a gentlemanly demeanor, and deliberate in almost every movement he makes (save for the obvious shaking or occasional lost limb). He is soft-spoken, won't speak unless spoken to, and indeed rather shy- and will retreat once his duty to one situation or another is done. His loyalty to the castle, however, is frighteningly clear- he refers to it with female pronouns, and does not tolerate any disrespect to the building, to the most ghastly means (which includes but is not limited to dragging someone to the torture chamber.. or worse).
Quirks He is not kind in any form or fashion, but he doesn't act aggressive- if he doesn't like someone, he'll mutter (ala Kreacher) and gripe but never repeat himself if asked to.
Abilities Walter is not the zombie you see before you (and it's guessed that he doesn't even use the same name at all times). He is a ghost empowered, a long-dead entity, that inhabits the bodies of the deceased- and can possess the castle itself, resulting in horrifying haunting, and poltergeist, activity.
Relationships with Other Castle-mates To an observant eye, Walter may be the one running the place. He allows Revann govern the castle, and gives him his space. Gilligan recieves respect for caring for the kitchen, and they rarely speak. Hull is given little direction in his protective duty, and Walter has been willing on more than one occasion to 'help along' his plants. He depends upon Scrumpy quite a bit, but avoids her. He may find her dismal prattling quite annoying. Mali may be Walter's favorite- her gruesome creations have been, on more than one occasion, 'test-run' by the powerful spook. Kitchen staff and the gargoyles are given no attention.
Treatment of Guests Sincere scruitiny at all times.
Notes Walter is the only servant, and somehow can move through the castle with no issue at all.. in fact, he seems to show up at just the right time, every time. He never seems overburdened.
Art- ~PumpkinBat
Characters- ~CindarellaPop (Revann), ~PumpkinBat (Walter), ~Nannairb (Gilligan), ~ScribblerRigby (Hull), ~HerbalJabbage (Scrumpy)
Art of Gilligan (Collab)- ~PumpkinBat and ~Nannairb
Questions? Note the group, not the artist.
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what gargoyles ? Like ones on a roof or some others?