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John Doe 4✦ ([personal profile] entirelymyown) wrote2025-03-17 12:34 pm
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full name John Doe
alias formerly the King in Yellow/Hastur/He Who Must Not Be Named
age 300M+
d o b jun 3
zodiac gemini
pronouns he/they
hometown carcosa
field great old one / god / seeing eye eldritch horror
john doe
"I spent a long time unsure of what I am. Whether I am just a fragment of the King in Yellow, always with a streak of evil through my veins. A monster to millions and-and worse to more! Or… if I am striving to be human… am I… better than that? T-To aim to be a force for good in this world.

"I’ve struggled for a long time to understand what I am. Which I am to be. But I know now. I’m neither good nor evil. I’m both. I can’t hold myself to the ideals of humanity, let alone a single human. I cannot… fit into your version of what I must be. Equally, I can never return to what I was. Nor do I want to. But I can, and I will… let go of what no longer serves me.

"I am entirely my own. I have been, and will always be. And when given the choice, I choose hope."

-ep. 43 "The Witch"
personality
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empathic. curious. self-determined. loyal. supportive. practical. protective. genuine.
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secretive. inexperienced. grumpy. reactive. impulsive. cruel.
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tentacles. never entirely the same between people. larger than life. gender is ???. creatives are catnip.
appearance
John has no 'natural' form. He was once the King in Yellow and the King never appears the same way to two people. He is, by his nature, amorphous and to some degree, so is John. Instead, his looks are more of an idea that shifts just a little for everyone who sees him:

if he chooses to look like a human, his hair is dark and long and his eyes are golden. His skin tends to be darker and sometimes, when he is feeling the most comfortable, there are lines of gold like cracks 'healed' over with kintsugi. Along his arms are tattoos as black as the void of space, so dark you almost think you can see stars, that look like tentacles writhing over the muscle. Elsewhere, there are arcane symbols on his skin that almost look like scars.

if he chooses to look inhuman, he most often will be in a yellow robe, tattered somehow but once resplendent. Sometimes his face is a white mask with the same crack as on his human form and other times it is a black void, flat and mask-like, with two horns, one cracked. His 'mouth' is beneath the mask, a great gaping maw. He has claws and his lower half is a nest of endless tentacles, dark as the night and filled with even darker stars that almost appear like smoke.
height 6'7" or 12'
build heavy muscle
eyes molten gold, glowing gold
hair black, wavy, long
abilities
sensory controlJohn can manipulate someone's senses: take their sense away or use their sense for his own or share a sensation with someone, and any mix of those.
bodily control Similarly, he can reach in and take over your body, make you do what he wants you to do, and this includes things that you do not want to do. Please note this is not something that John will do baring an extreme circumstance or with consent and the player will always get consent.
how did you die? Touching a dead body will allow John to see how the person died like watching a movie. This ability is a kind of time travel (determined mostly by the fact that it called a Hound of Tindalos).
supernatural senses John can see and feel things that human beings cannot: energy, the angles of time, etc. etc. etc.
eldritch durability No need for food, sleep, oxygen, 'liveable' temperatures, the basic laws of physics: he's a thing made to exist even in the non-existence of the Dark World. No matter how much damage he takes, how much pain he endures, he will not die. For better or worse.
a being of consciousness Talking to you within your mind, existing within your dreams, hearing when you call his name... the way that he can connect with people is different from a traditional human.
tentacles John's tentacles can be material or immaterial, and he can have as many of them of whatever size of shape he wants. They can be as soft as a feather or as sharp as a knife. When in a human form, they live on his skin in the form of a tattoo.
healing John can heal, or keep someone alive when they have absolutely no business surviving. This isn't so much 'nice' or 'neat' as him sort of putting the flesh back together, and it certainly leaves scars. But if he's looking after you, it will take an absolutely ridiculous amount of damage to kill you.
shapeshifting His appearance and form are more of an idea than a set physical object. Thus, he can change shape, usually with his moods or feelings, everything from single features to even shifting gender presentation or species. None of these are any more 'real' than the other, though.
background
John is from the podcast Malevolent, where he largely spends his time within the body of one Arthur Lester. The podcast is ongoing so any updates that come through from canon will be added/updated here as soon as I know.

John has spent large portions of his existence independent from the King in Yellow in a chaotic hell known as the Dark World, a realm of dead worlds and dead timelines that feeds on pain and suffering. During his first tenure there, he didn't know who or what he was and he was tormented for 'untold lifetimes'. On his second time around, he was well aware of who and what he was and he built himself a 'new kingdom' in that place, feasting well on the pain of others. This is not something he's proud of, one of his lowest points, but he can't entirely regret it since it enabled him to get the fuck out of there and back to Arthur.

This John is taken from late in the fifth season, and uses visualizations from fan art (especially capesch-arts and potato-lord-but-not @ tumblr) of what John might look like with a human (or humanoid) body.
player danii
pb art
contact yarnzipan @ plurk / discord / pp
timezone est
mask art + fantasy flight



FAVORITES
Non-human/alien biology
Transformation
Sensory play
Lactation
Breeding
Knotting/Tying
Biting/Scratching/etc.
Sex Pollen/Aphro
Humor/Awkwardness
Cuddling
Marking
Restraint
Body Worship


ABSOLUTELY
Discipline/Reinforcement
Begging
Sensual/Sexual 'Torture'
Food Play
Blood
Voyeurism
Dirty talk
Choking

LET'S TALK
Degradation
Face Slapping
Leash and Collar
Adultery
Non-Sexual Torture/Pain


NO THANKS
Humiliation
Prolapse
Docking
Feet
Diapers
Infantilism
Slob
Vomit
Scat/Urine
Sounding
NOTES & OTHER INFO
John will generally present as male but he's an eldritch horror: 100% does not conform to the gender binary and has no particular comfort or connection to one or the other. He is partially formed by the perception of others, and he's been called 'he' and given a masculine name due to sharing a body with a human man and having a very deep voice. His 'equipment' can and will shift depending on his desire and his partner's (and will usually shift to be what his partner desires so... if you're looking for X, congrats, you found it!), and he can and will happily experiment with other presentations at times, once it occurs to him. (He's new to this body having business and being a person business, and his main touchstone for humanity is from 1934. It's not for lack of elasticity. Just lack of knowledge.)
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