Who is H? (About post)
( art by robinkasznia )
The Basics
Name: Hieronymus Lethe Zografi
Aliases: Hieron or H; Unnamed Artist;
Gender/Pronouns: nonbinary transmasc; they/them
Species: Human (Mutant)
Planet of origin: Pluto
Sexual/Romantic Orientation: pansexual demiromantic
Age: 30 something
Birthdate: October 29
Relationship status: Single, eyyyy
What do they look like?
Height: 5”11
Build: Lithe but soft
Skin Tone: Olive
Hair: dyed dusty pink/purple. Naturally dark brown. Graying.
Eyes: Magenta due to designer space drug that leaches pigment from the irises
Identifying Marks: Magenta eyes, full sleeve tattoo of white scales on right arm, scarring on left ribcage; sharper than normal pre-molars (behind the canines)
Clothing: Either eye searing color or all black depending on the day.
What are their vibes?
Personality: Extroverted, hedonism-lite, “eccentric”, manic at times, distracted often. Death positive.
Current Goal: Always just surviving, dealing with their ‘gift’, making rent. Long term goal is to be a well-known, respected, and successful contemporary artist. By any means necessary.
Best Quality: Good listener, easy to talk to. Creative to no end.
Worst Quality: They can be selfish at times because they’ve always had to look out for themself. With their powers they can also be extremely manipulative and have and will hurt people.
Fears: Being alone, unknown, or abandoned. That they may turn out just like their father.
Alignment: Chaotic neutral
What can they do?
Occupation: starving artist/art broker and authenticator/art critic under a pseudonym
Hobbies: Painting, gardening, reading, recreational drinking and drug use
( Note: H’s mind-reading is a conscious and voluntary ability and they will not intrude upon other people’s thoughts or tickle their brains without the express consent of that person. No meta-gaming here. )
Abilities: H is a special kind of psychic being called a cognitophage, or slangily, a “Mindeater”. Think vampire but instead of sucking blood they derive sustenance and Very Necessary brain chemicals from the human conscious and subconscious. Powers include the usual mind-reading and ESP (H gets psychic imprints from touching things and hears the internal monologues and surface thoughts of the people around them; though they’ve tuned most of it out to be white noise except when they are actively ‘hunting’), They also include mind-alteration in the form of memory deletion, dreamwalking, and skill transfer where they can ‘steal’ the ability of another person for a short period of time. They can make this skill transfer permanent if they sleep within a 12 hour period of stealing said skill.
H, however, tries to be as ethical as possible with their unusual needs and mostly feeds by ‘priming’ people in conversation to think thoughts that they won’t miss or by having them read a book and eating the memory of that book. H rarely does anything deeper unless requested or in self-defense.
Skills: Skilled art authenticator; art prodigy from a young age; light espionage; mixology; stunt driving (stolen); space pilot skills; more skills to be added.
What's their deal?
Hieron was raised by a father who really had no business raising a child. They spent a lot of their formative years in galleries and studios, breathing in paint-fumes and secondhand smoke. Besides spending more time in museums and the houses of the neo-riche on Pluto than any child should, they managed to complete school up until their junior year of high-school, where they dropped out to take care of their increasingly disturbed and erratic father.
They left Pluto at age 19 after a violent falling out with their father and headed towards Mars to scrape together a new life and make it big as a famous artist; a decade later, that hasn’t happened yet, but they’ve had a few close calls.
Hieron’s psychic abilities didn’t manifest until their early twenties and they spent a good deal of their twenties learning how to deal with the sudden onset of what they call ‘mindhunger’, and managing a whole new set of senses with very little guidance. Over time, and after a lot of mistakes, they seem to have gotten a handle on their abilities which now prove to be more of a minor nuisance than something that has completely ruined their life.
Hieron survived on Mars for some time as a struggling artist, but truly found their calling in the Martian black market for artwork. They were taken in by the Diamandis crime family and given work as a personal art authenticator and information broker due to their abilities. However, as the years went on, they were asked to do more and more they didn’t agree with, including getting involved in Martian politics and covering up heinous murders by erasing the memories of witnesses. They had to get out.
Fortunately, it’s easy to escape a bad situation when you have the ability to erase everyone’s memories of you.
They escaped back to Pluto, where they learned that their father had passed away and summarily left everything he owned, including the house Hieron grew up in, to Hieron in a misguided attempt to atone for what he’d done to drive them away.
So now they live in the house they grew up in as a working artist, doing commissions and writing articles for art publications and on occasion making themself available as arm candy to their patrons. Living their best life where they can.
