Cutts
Realm Demon
Cutts is known as the mighty demon of 'Obsession' and his name is known around the land.
Being a demon born from a desperate man, hundreds of years ago; he now roams the land searching for something to cherish, to fulfill the lonely emptiness that has consumed his very soul.
While he normally takes on the form of a massive and terrifying dragonoid demon, he can also appear as a petite and beautiful seemingly genderless humanoid demon- wandering in search of his next obsession, seeking the next person to snare within his iron grip.
Upon capture of his newest love, he unknowingly sucks the life out of them by 'loving them too much'.
Cutts is not vicious, and is far more serene and calm than most demons appear to be, although he can be, and has been known to hold violent tantrums, enough to flatten mountains, if the object of his newest obsession escapes his clutches- he misses them hard and longs to find them again.
Cutts doesn't fully grasp the true meaning of 'love', and though he is not evil, not like other demons, eventually his excessive and warped sense of affection, quite literally 'loves his victims to death'. This is particularly worsened by the fact that he's an enormous dragonoid shape. He does his best to be as gentle as he can around others, though, mistakes do happen.
Cutts takes great interest in Astasia, feeling a connection with her he hasn't felt in many years. He can't quite place the feeling, but since she was but a mere child, he's made more than a few appearances in her life, oddly enough not trying to capture her, but merely to observe. He's appeared to her in his small humanoid form, though she was none the wiser as to who he actually was. Just some pretty and friendly, tiny looking demon, that stopped by to help her cast some magic she was practicing one time...
Cutts is often actively pursued by the powerful demon horde leader: Char, who wants to add Cutts' power to his arsenal of demons he's collected. Alone, without the aide of his horde, Char's power matches Cutts' in strength, and the two are constantly trying to capture the other. Cutts was present the day Char entered the human realm, and as Char was blind at the time, the horde leader does not know that the great power that day, had belonged to Cutts.
Cutts is yet to reveal this aspect to Char, as by doing so, would reveal his smaller humanoid side, which Cutts keeps very hidden from the rest of the world. If Char found out he has a double form, Cutts knows for certain, he would not be able to stop Char from pursuing him relentlessly until his horde consumes him.
An illness left unchecked:
It is widely known knowledge among the land, even by those not accustomed to demonic presence as Hunters and Slayers are, that demons do not get sick. They cannot fall ill. They may become wounded and infected, thus becoming inhibited, but they will not simply catch a cold, or fall ill due to disease.
It is unknown to everyone, even to Cutts himself, but Cutts is not actually a demon at all; merely a construct of one.
The combination of multiple souls, human and demon alike, transformed and melded together, by the sheer power of will and the past uses of a frantic magic spell.
His soul remains mostly human, clinging tightly to the broken soul of a long deceased (and destroyed) demon: Slea. Because of events of the past, and the use of untested magic by a desperate man in a broken state, Cutts becomes ill every 50 years or so, and is forced to go into hiding while he regathers his strength, (retreating into his small humanoid form, that he feels exposed in) He is unable to keep up a dragonoid appearance in his weakened state, despite that being his default body- or so he believes.
Once Char became too powerful for Cutts to avoid capture of the immense Horde, in his 'visible form', he retreats into his humanoid form, doing his best to avoid detection and feeling the illness creep up on him again, more violently so, lasting for longer periods of time.
It is in this form he rescues a demonoid Zerek- having just returned to the human realm after 400 years after his death, and the two flee from Char and his impending horde, finding refuge in the mountains for some time. The two at first do not know who the other really is. Cutts suspects Zerek is lying about his name (as he calls himself Akyro), and in turn Cutts calls himself Ridoku- these times are tough, after all, and one can never be too careful.
Cutts has been alone for too long and is desperate for company. He is too weak to keep Zerek with him, should he desire to leave, but Cutts clings to him as closely as he can, in fear of being left alone again, in a world that is increasingly becoming harder to hide, not to mention 'live in.
