art credit: 2,3 → nessicake
6 → ashcap
catsovi e viciro / catsovi e enoc
age: immortal, appears mid 20s
nicknames/aliases: cirovi, chaska, wretch, chainlord, con, (lord) blackguard, cat
origins: enoc, sachra circa ~800 years before the present
otherworlder: the suffering
appearance: (also) 5’10”, on the slim side, pale blue eyes. has a mark branded onto his forehead (see last picture above), and that same mark sans the inner circle branded on the inside of his right wrist. at one point has full vision in both eyes, later goes completely blind, later regains sight in just the right eye.
personality:
catsovi is: vicious, self-serving, and distant. he doesn’t take any particular joy in fighting or killing but those are the only two things catsovi knows how to do. in fact, he gets antsy when he isn’t preparing for that next battle and on a subconscious level, he is constantly on the hunt for a new opponent to fight.
catsovi has little, owns little, and is beloved of few: he’s lost all contact with his family, doesn’t make friends, and has effectively cut all ties with his past. the only thing he does have for certain is his pride, of which there is quite a lot, and which is easily wounded. the surest way to provoke catsovi into making rash and stupid decisions is via humiliation.
bariyan says that there is quite a lot more to catsovi that is simply overshadowed by his surface evil, and claims that there is something in catsovi worth saving. this is an observation that has not been successfully replicated in anyone else’s eyes.
relationships:
catsovi makes enemies easily, but few archenemies or obsessed nemeses or even rivals. he may have a lot of hatred in him, but it is all impersonal. catsovi hates because it makes killing easier, and he kills because that is what he has been doing all his life. so: he dislikes satero e ankhar simply because satero is a horrible person and doesn’t deserve to live, and he dislikes blackened for exactly the same reasons.
his relationship with corosa e ankhar is slightly more complicated as corosa was the one who released him from slavery, and looked after him afterwards. in fact, at one point catsovi liked and respected corosa. however, soon after that corosa started to deteriorate and became something that catsovi found intensely disappointing, to the point that catsovi has tried to disassociate himself completely.
d and catsovi have a very straightforwards relationship. d is incredibly distant from everyone and probably cares not a whit one way or another, and catsovi hates d. for nebulous reasons that catsovi himself can’t identify: mostly the fact that d’s very existence simply makes catsovi’s skin crawl. in fact, the same goes for ro, though since her personality has given catsovi no reason to dislike her, he is only wary of her instead.
bariyan e kodhi is a conundrum in catsovi’s worldview.
he is the one and only person that catsovi trusts and loves and holds dear, and also the one and only person who values catsovi at all. catsovi would certainly kill for bariyan, but catsovi also kills for himself and for no reason at all. but bariyan would and has killed for catsovi’s sake, which is quite a lot, coming from bariyan.
however, bariyan and catsovi hold a very different set of morals and beliefs. this is frustrating for both of them. catsovi thinks that bariyan is weak, and bariyan thinks that catsovi is simply horrifying. but bariyan also thinks that catsovi is redeemable, and has his heart set on proving to the world and to catsovi that there is some good in him.
catsovi, for his part, is doing his very best to prove bariyan wrong. and as with most of catsovi’s actions, he is motivated solely by his pride.
