hell naw Thats My Essence

Echo-of-Thalor (Echo): (he/him, but if he'd had room to grow, I think she's an egg. Probably pansexual if given time to explore) Son of Duke Thalor and Dutchess Misty, promised at birth to be the Silvershade family's prophet of wealth and power. Raised by an an old as dirt elf woman who's swayed his family into her old-gods cult. Echo is the supposed OG base-person beneath the surface of their shared system. Mute, meek, visibly expressive, and a savant on the piano. Would have been a terrifyingly powerful bard with the right encouragement. After lots of terrible things in his life all surmounting to back to back colossal failures, completely out of his control, Echo shut himself out from reality entirely and no longer fronts. He and Riley are the same person, though neither accept that until decades later. They became distinct personalities from each other when Echo was still younger than 10.

Riley: (he/him but ultimately pretty gender fluid in the most masc presenting way; homoflexible) The supposed first in the system to be born. Stoic, detached, monotone, cold and distant from others for the sake of self-preservation. He likes bugs, people watching and drawing. Though, these are things he enjoys sparingly (aside from people watching). He considers himself the caretaker of the system, and ultimately responsible for their collective well being. Named himself as a distinct, separate entity from Echo long after he'd already recognized himself as a separate mind. He took his name from a passing by conversation between drunks while he/Echo was laid out in an alleyway puddle halfway to death. Purposefully has no last name until he eventually takes Merit's in marriage. When they ran from home after being accused of their father's murder, Riley was the one to get them out of town and survive alone in the woods until he made it far enough out to sneak his way onto a ship at a port town a few days away from his old home by road. When they needed money or food, with no other options, Riley was the one willing to just take what they needed.

Born-under-Starlight (Star): (she/her ; straight) the only fem in their system, and second born. Star is confident, selfish, manipulative, and hypersexual--and at the same time empathetic, wise and musically talented. She likes to talk a lot of over-confident smack, like the ultimate brat princess she is, but she can't stand violent confrontation or the sight of too much blood. Her roots come from Echo/Riley having been assaulted between one of Echo's big drinking benders to Forget the Horrors, and that experience gave way to Star who took on the brunt of that trauma. Though, she didn't deal with it well in the beginning, instead trapping Echo/Riley in a fucked up relationship with their abuser for some months before inevitably being ditched. It wasn't until after this that Star became the person she is now. Before Riley meets Merit and becomes a part of his pirate crew, Star was the main source of their income through sex work while on the run from their family.

Darien Slade: (he/him ; asexual) Third born, and favorite of Echo's. Darien is loud, chaotic, attention-seeking, egocentric, narcissistic, and most of the time unpredictable. He was given his name from one of Echo's favorite action adventure books, because he otherwise wouldn't have named himself like the others. He was born from a joined psychotic break between all three of the other egos at the time. They'd been beaten down collectively so much at that point that the pressure of it all eventually caused them to pop. Darien is the full embodiment of their rage and demand for justice. He hardly recognizes himself as his own being outside of these intense and strong emotions whenever he fronts. He doesn't find his identity for SEVERAL years, long after Riley and co meet Merit even. This is because he's often shut out or sequestered in favor of either Riley or Star, because he leaves them exhausted, dirty, over-strained, dehydrated and ratty assed. Though, time and healing does allow him to grow eventually. His fighting prowess and lack of concern for the well-being of those he hurt--ironically-- earned some of his family's respect back. Enough so to earn him a spot working for his aunt and the family's private militia. Though, this era didn't last long when his father turned up dead with him in the room.

Flight of a Dead Crow (Crow): (he/him ; xenosexual) Fourth born while they're well into their circumstances after having run from home. He's a loner, manically OCD, hyperfixates easily, logical, problem-solving, and fully detached from their other egos and previous life. He's deeply more concerned with the present and future far more than the rest of the egos, and is deeply annoyed when tasks get procrastinated because of all the switching and shifting-priorities. He's obsessed with their shared condition as a concept and is the sole reason they have any grasp of what's going on beneath the surface of their condition at all--which does have to do with the old gods and weird torturous experiments their past caretaker put them through. He's obsessed with the occult and the study of patronage to a multidimensional deity to the point of being a lil monster fucker.