Rep is a Legendary Stygian, a Divine Child of Pain, and he's been around a long time. He was born out of one of the oldest nightmares there is: hurting, helpless and alone, a memory of pain that won't let up and wounds that don't close. The tree made him King of Pain. He'd tell you he never asked for the crown, and then he'd tell you to stop complaining and get on with it.

He's aggressive, grumpy, stubborn, competitive and very easy to irritate, and he swears like it's punctuation. He's bossy by reflex. If something needs doing, somebody should stop moaning and do it, and if nobody else will, it's going to be him. He isn't especially pleasant. He is, annoyingly, very dependable.

Rep likes people and hates people in roughly equal measure. Once he decides you're part of his life you're very hard to get rid of, and he can be jealous and possessive about it, though he knows that about himself now. He judges you on what you do, not what you say. Sorry doesn't impress him; he wants to know what you're going to do about it. He holds himself to the same rule. He's done plenty of horrible things, and his answer to that is to get back up and do better, not lie down and call himself irredeemable.

Being a Child of Pain hasn't made him gentle about it. If you're hurting and pretending you aren't, Rep will notice, corner you and make you deal with it, which feels a lot like being trapped with an angry therapist who swears constantly. He'd rather make you climb the cliff yourself than carry you up it, and he'll tell you hostile wildlife builds character. There's a point to all of it. He wants people who can stand up on their own without him standing over them.

Helplessness is the one thing he can't handle. When there's nothing to fight, fix or take charge of, he's at his worst, and if he thinks he's really messed something up, he can spiral for a long time. He does everything at full volume: works, fights, loves, hates, grieves. He's better at managing it than he used to be. None of it has gone anywhere.

Mostly, he wants the people he cares about safe, people he can trust when it counts, the occasional afternoon outside with a real sky over his head, and for everyone to stop needing him every five minutes. He's still working on that last one.

He's been changed, cursed and messed about with by enough strange powers that shape doesn't bother him much. He's a dragon when it suits him, he can switch his body between male and female without thinking it's a big deal, and his human form is a broad, red-haired brute with tiger stripes down his arms and white fur over one shoulder. His scythe floats along beside him and does what it likes in a fight.

A cold stretch of Highland coast on one side, a hot tropical island on the other, and between them a mountain of stuff that's taller than the actual mountains. Nothing in it has been thrown away. Everything's looked after, and it sorts itself. He keeps everything. People included.

Harrison · S-300 · partner
The first person Rep wants when he's frightened, and one of the very few he'll actually lean on.

Jordan · L-171 · partner
Steady where Rep is loud, and someone he trusts completely. Being close to Jordan has never meant Rep becoming any less himself.

Tracey · T-429 · lives with him
Six black wings, a crooked halo and a permanent scowl. Right now he's a Treat: he can't talk and he barely thinks, so for once Rep has to do the remembering for both of them.

Melvin · MYO-272 · it's complicated
Friends, then not, then trying again. Rep will tell you he doesn't care, while worrying about him constantly and getting furious every time Melvin makes a bad decision. They are rebuilding their trust.