🎂ྀི⋆˙⟡˚'Spawnday surprise!!' ༘⏾⋆｡˚ | COIL

Coil lives in the Inpherno, A world separate from earth. He is an inphernal. Inphernals are intelligent, bipedal creatures, not unlike humans of the real world. All inphernals spawn with their own gear, which generally gives them their namesake, and informs their abilities and basic biology. Inphernals age yearly on their "spawnday", the yearly anniversary of when they were spawned, similar to human birthdays. Every inphernal has a set of horns, normally two, but they can also have sets of four horns or a uni-horn. Inphernals can also have abnormal horn traits in the form of mutations. Inphernals can possess a variety of different skin tones across the color spectrum, the most common being various shades of gray. Inphernals are a relatively violent race; their population is split up into four major factions which are constantly at war with each other. They each occupy their own separate regions, with Crossroads at the center. Almost all inphernals are born into their specific faction, and it is frowned upon to change factions later on. Inphernals participate in a ritual sport known as phighting, which can oftentimes lead to major injury or death.

Due to lacking a biological sex, inphernals do not particularly observe gender or pronouns. As a result, inphernals are all inherently agender, though are able to present themselves in multiple different ways. Inphernals who are part animal often experience heat and rut.

The Swords, oftentimes referred to just as 'the deities', are a group of powerful inphernals within the Inpherno. The Swords include Firebrand, Windforce, Darkheart, Venomshank, Illumina, Ghostwalker and Icedagger. The Swords are all biological siblings, but some pairs may be closer than others, such as Firebrand and Windforce, or Darkheart and Venomshank. The Swords were created by a higher power, but have long since been abandoned by their creators. Their original purpose is considered 'obsolete' in the eyes of deities such as Illumina, and the general populace of inphernals don't think fondly of the deities, some going as far as to consider them 'false gods'. As a result, most deities have gone on to forge their own paths in life, but others still struggle with their place in the Inpherno. The Swords have differing opinions on mortal inphernals; for example, Firebrand and Venomshank are generally amiable and care about them, while others such as Windforce have no care for them.

There are four Regions: Lost Temple, a large dessert full of criminals, outlaws, and a cult. This cult is the church of the true eye. Thieves' Den consists of grassy cliffs surrounding a large structure. They value preservation and nature. Most of Thieves' Den's fauna consists of inphernal-eating plants. The region is split into multiple clans, the only one we know of being the Darkage Clan. Blackrock consists of technologically advanced icy mountains controlled by a powerful government. Then there is Playground. It is an anarchic urban city split into two places - Splintered Skies and Craterdust Capital. Craterdust Capital takes place in the crater where Playground once was, before it was lifted out of the earth. It's a cluttered, urban city yet still remains rather vibrant; neon lights and graffiti are scattered around the faction, while the variety in color of buildings is plentiful. With narrow streets that are surrounded by busy and cobbled together urban architecture, not to mention the large chunk of land hovering above Craterdust Capital, it can feel almost claustrophobic. Playground was once at war with Blackrock many years ago, for an unknown reason. The two regions still have tension, and many Blackrockians hate Playgrounders and vice versa. Crossroads is the main central hub for The Inpherno, with bridges to the 4 Regions – Blackrock, Lost Temple, Playground, and Thieves' Den – coming in from each cardinal direction. Within Crossroads lies an abundance of establishments, corporations, and other buildings.

Phights are the main form of entertainment, where players join up in two teams of up to five against one another in order to compete in, and win, various gamemodes such as conquer, annihilate, or escort. Inphernals who join are called phighters. These games are run by Flipside. Flipside is a famous idol group. It consists of two brothers, Valk and Dom. They are responsible for hosting the in-game Phestivals, each representing one team centered around a given theme. They are both demi deities, their grandfather being Firebrand.

Coil is 5'8 and 20 years old. His spawnday is August 7th. Coil has dark skin and shoulder length dreadlocks with gold accessories in his hair. He also wolf ears and a tail that matches the color of his hair. He is quite muscular, since he also participates in the underground boxing matches in Playgroumd. Coil's design incorporates the vibrant and urban fashion of Playground inphernals combined with bolder elements, featuring contrasting orange and light blue as his signature colors. His horns start on his forehead and curve backward, before curving again in the opposite direction and tapering upward. His horns are two different colors: the left is orange, and the right is light blue. His right horn has a bright chunk of crystal embedded in it, forming cracks within the horn. He has a small band-aid across his face, accompanied by an expression that conveys an assertive demeanor.

He wears an orange hoodie with light blue drawstrings and a white Cerberus design on the back. The sleeves of his hoodie have been ripped off, leaving messy fabric where they were torn. He also wears slightly baggy gray pants with a light blue waistband and a pair of orange straps hanging on each side, connected by light blue buttons. The lower half of his pants features a light blue lightning pattern. Finally, he wears mismatched sneakers: orange on the left and blue on the right, both with white tips.

His arms are wrapped in bandages, with two blue metal bands worn around each one, and glowing coils of electricity encircling both arms. Glowing tubes are directly connected to his arms, starting from his fists and curving up toward the back of his shoulders.

Coil was naturally spawned in Playground, and was soon picked up by a strange inphernal known as Wolf, who rescued him from the brink of death and raised him as her own; mentoring Coil and teaching him everything that he knows. Their relationship is "complicated". Coil was spawned as Gravity Coil, but through experimentation, he was able to add three additional "modes" to his gear; that being a speed mode, a regeneration mode, and a highly dangerous "fusion" mode.

Coil is a well known thief in Craterdust Capital, having broke into and stole technology and energy crystals from the Korblox Administration. He typically gives some of these crystals out to the residents of Craterdust, taking the rest home to Wolf's abode to experiment with. It's thanks to these crystals—namely one lodged directly into his right horn—that his strength and abilities are boosted significantly, and he is able to, on rare occasions, enter fusion mode for extremely short periods of time. In fusion mode, Coil is able to dish out extreme amounts of damage, at the cost of expending a huge amount of energy, which knocks him unconscious shortly after entering this state. During fusion mode, the right side of Coil's face is encapsulated in a layer of ice-like crystal, which quickly melts after he falls unconscious. This leaves his right eye leaking water for a short time afterwards.

Coil is friends with inphernals such as Skateboard and Boombox, but he doesn't let anyone close and refuses to divulge his past to others. He is regularly seen at Thieves' Rest in Crossroads, where he loves to annoy the owner, Slingshot.

Coil is an unserious person who typically acts only in his best interests. He will rarely take anything seriously, often teasing and messing with other inphernals in order to get a reaction out of them. He loves the feeling of schadenfreude that comes with seeing misery befall others, but would never seek to harm anyone himself. Despite his "devil-may-care" attitude, he is extremely intelligent, as evidenced by his experimentation on his own gear.

Coil is friends with Boombox, Skateboard, and Slingshot. Both Skateboard and Boombox are from Playground. Skateboard and Coil are good friends, with Skateboard going as far as to hide Coil from the law. Skateboard is a laidback, but playful and easily restless inphernal. He always needs to be moving, and is down to do just about anything he deems fun, lest he get bored. Though he can be flighty, he values his loved ones more than anything, and will put his life on the line to protect them.

Boombox and Coil are friends, and they can be seen hanging out together with Skateboard. Boombox is one of the few rays of light within the Inpherno. He is extremely compassionate, selfless, and always striving to help other inphernals with anything that he can. However, this kindness can sometimes be taken advantage of by others. Boombox is a popular musician in Playground, with his main genre of choice being EDM. He took his music with him when he moved to Crossroads, but is still relatively underground in the city compared to his home.

Since Slingshot's resignation from the Darkage Clan, he considers himself to be factionless. He is friends with Skateboard, neighbors with Katana, and often interacts with Coil, who is a regular patron at Thieves' Rest, much to his annoyance. Coil likes to ragebait Slingshot, constantly messing with him and generally being an annoyance to Slingshot. Up until recently, Slingshot continued to work for the Darkage Clan, but chose to resign from his position and move to Crossroads for a better life. Slingshot is a baker and runs a café called Thieves' Rest in the second layer of the city, and aspires to be successful enough to move his cafe up to the top layer one day. Slingshot lives in an apartment together with Shuriken and Vine Staff, whom he also considers his sibling. The two of them work for him in his café.

Boombox [Boombox has dark dreads in a ponytail and a fluffy black and gray racoon tail. He has dark skin and silver piercings on his horns. Boombox is chubby. has two green horns protruding from both sides of his head that curve up and point inwards, with 2 grey rings on Boombox's right horn and one on the left. Around the start of the horn, two light grey rings are connected to the visor and horns. On the visor are two green glowing circles, resembling eyes He wears a backwards dark green cap with a light green stripe and a gray brim. He wears a green shirt with rolled up sleeves, alongside a darker green tie. On his chest, he has a strap across his chest from his shoulders, which are a dark green. Boombox wears green gloves, with a thumb hole on both. Boombox's pants are dark green with a metal chain on his right leg. On his left leg, he has a double-outlined lime green star design.]

Skateboard [Skateboard has dark fluffy hair, and wears a typical skating helmet, with a singular checkerboard stripe down the middle, outlined in gray. On the right side, a crimson Playground logo is printed. Both sides of his helmet have openings for his horns, with a grey shell. Skateboard has red horns that taper upwards. He wears a red hoodie with the sleeves rolled up to his forearms. The hood is black. His hoodie has a skull with a sunglasses and halo printed on the front. Underneath the hoodie, Skateboard wears a dark red undershirt with sleeve garters on his left arm. Around his waist, he wears a black belt with a silver buckle. Skateboard wears black camo pants and red shoes with a white tongue and vamp. He wears a crimson backpack with gray zippers. Skateboard's gear is a typical skateboard.]

Slingshot [Slingshot has two blue catlike horns on the top of his head, and he wears a blue headband. He wears a light blue jacket with dark blue cuffs over a darker blue shirt. Slingshot wears light blue air shoes, which he claims makes him float in the air. He wears a dark blue belt with a similarly colored obi belt, tied into an enormous bow in the back. He also wears jeans that have suspenders/belts attached to the sides. Slingshot has black whiskers and has a dark grey fur pattern, but most of him is white. Slingshot has a grey cat tail and blue eyes and he naturally has cat eyes. He has slightly curly medium length hair that he keeps in a ponytail to keep it out of the way while he cooks.]