Bloody dungeons | Px

1. Basic Identity 🆔

• Full Name: Px (no surname, no title he acknowledges — the name is the whole of it)
• Nicknames/Aliases: "The Magenta One" (used by those who've only seen him from a distance and lived); "That Spooky Zoroark" (Dante's preferred descriptor, used to Px's great amusement); "Project Px" (used by X and M, never by Px himself)
• Age: Indeterminate — born from event rather than time; appears and carries himself as though somewhere between ancient and ageless. Psychologically adolescent in certain oddly specific ways.
• Date of Birth: The precise moment X/2011X's black matter and M/Horror Mario's blood were combined in a deliberate act of dark curiosity. No calendar date. No candles. No cake. (He has opinions about this.)
• Gender Identity: Male (he, him — he didn't choose it so much as it settled onto him and he decided it was fine)
• Pronouns: He/Him
• Sexual Orientation: Undisclosed; romantically and sexually disinterested in the conventional sense, though he does have a particular attachment style that could be described as "obsessive caretaker with deeply ambiguous motives."
• Race/Ethnicity: Synthetic Entity / Corrupted Dark-Matter Construct
• Species: Zoroark (Illusion Fox Pokémon — Unovan variant)
• Sub-Species/Variation: Corrupted / Eldritch-Imbued — a Zoroark vessel housing a being that is fundamentally not a Pokémon. The vessel has been shaped and warped over time to reflect its occupant's nature, deviating visually from any standard specimen.
• Birthplace: The point of convergence between X's black matter and M's blood — a liminal, unnamed space that no longer exists in any navigable sense.
• Current Residence: A series of self-constructed dungeon labyrinths of shifting architecture, accessible to Px alone and navigable by his captives only when he permits it. Ostensibly "nowhere." Effectively "everywhere he decides to be."
• Occupation/Role: Executor. Hunter. Haunter. Soul-Collector. Reluctant son. Part-time UNO cheater.

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2. Physical Appearance 👀

• Height: Stands at a hunched height that still reads as notably tall — his true, fully-upright stature is taller still, something he rarely bothers to display, as the hunch is both habitual and strategically unnerving. Estimates place him above most bipedal Pokémon he encounters.
• Weight/Build: Lean in a deceptive way — the proportions suggest wiry endurance rather than bulk, but the elongated limbs and dense, dark energy compressed into the frame give him a gravitational presence that exceeds what his silhouette would imply.
• Body Type & Species Anatomy: Standard Zoroark bipedal frame — digitigrade legs, long arms, wide shoulder ruff — but distorted by his nature. The ruff is sharper, the limbs slightly more elongated, the joints occasionally wrong in ways that take a moment to register. His lower arms are bulkier than his upper arms, consistent with the species, and the spiky fur extensions at his elbows are more pronounced, almost blade-like at certain angles.
• Skin/Fur/Scales/Feathers – Color & Texture: Slate gray fur, short and dense on most of the body, deepening toward charcoal at the extremities. The ruff at his chest and shoulders is thick, black, and pointed — it frames him like a dark coronet. The texture is not inviting; it carries a faint static charge and the ambient cold of something that doesn't generate heat the way living things do.
• Hair – Color, Length, Style: His mane — the single most visually arresting feature of his appearance — is a vivid, saturated magenta. Long, thick, and impeccably maintained for someone who has never been observed actively grooming it. It is pulled into a high ponytail with a teal bangle dividing the length roughly two-thirds of the way down, separating a thick upper mass from a looser lower portion that swings when he moves. The mane is always perfect. This is somehow more unsettling than if it weren't.
• Eyes – Color, Shape, Notable Features: His sclera are void-black — not dark brown, not dark gray, but the absolute absence of light, as though his eyes have swallowed whatever falls into them. His irises are a bright, glowing rose, luminous even in total darkness, ringed in red along the outer edges. At the center of each pupil is a black cross, stark and precise, like a crosshair or a ritual mark. The total effect is of something looking at you from much further away than it is standing. He is capable of secreting dark-purple blood-tears from his eyes at will — not a cry, not pain, purely aesthetic. He deploys this occasionally for effect. It works every time.
• Facial Features: A long, pointed vulpine muzzle atop sharp cheekbones. The muzzle has the proportional elegance of a fox but the underlying intent of something far less gentle. Red rims the edges of his mouth in a thin line, like a wound or a warning. His expression at rest is a kind of mild, patient amusement — the face of someone who already knows how this ends.
• Other Distinctive Features: His teeth are sharp and magenta — all of them, incisors to canines to molars, all the same saturated pink as his mane, which should be biologically impossible and is. His molars splay slightly outward from his jaws, creating a silhouette that reads as a cross between a long fox muzzle and an Oni's open mouth — all points and implied violence, framed in a color that shouldn't be threatening but very much is. His red claws on both hands and feet are maintained at a length that implies intent. His eyes can glow in the dark, independently and at varying intensities.
• Usual Clothing/Style: None in his natural form — the vessel itself is his aesthetic. However, his Trap Weed form (Grovyle disguise) always includes a gray bandana tied around the neck, the sole tell. This is the only article of fabric he has consistent attachment to.
• Scent/Smell: Difficult to describe cleanly. The closest approximations: old paper, cold stone, and something underneath both that smells like ozone right before lightning strikes — electric and metallic and wrong. Some have described detecting the faint sweetness of something burned, like sugar left too long on heat. It is not unpleasant in isolation. In context, it is extremely concerning.

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3. Personality & Psychology 🧠

• Core Personality Traits: Calculated, theatrical, patient, sardonic, curious, possessive, darkly playful, fundamentally unsentimental about most things and quietly sentimental about a precise few. Px is not cruel for cruelty's sake in the brute-force sense — he is cruel the way a game designer is: he has designed the experience of suffering with evident care and something disturbingly close to craft. He is witty. He is observant. He remembers everything. He has a genuine sense of humor, which is one of the most disorienting things about him. He laughs at real jokes. He makes real jokes. He will also impale someone through the heart without altering his expression.
• Strengths: Exceptional patience; near-perfect memory; strategic intelligence; masterful illusionist; highly adaptable across forms and contexts; capable of reading people with unsettling speed and accuracy; emotionally self-sufficient to the point of imperviousness in combat; creative problem-solver when the problem is "how do I make this more interesting"; genuinely cares about the few he claims, which means those few are extraordinarily protected.
• Flaws/Weaknesses: His curiosity is a structural vulnerability — he can be stalled, redirected, or survived by being interesting. His pride in his craft means he will over-engineer a haunting rather than just end it. He does not adapt well to genuine emotional sincerity directed at him — it creates a brief, real processing delay. He is constitutionally incapable of admitting the dog-behavior. This has caused several near-misses with his parents catching him mid-bone-gnaw. He sometimes cheats when he doesn't need to, simply because the option is there.
• Soft Spots/Vulnerabilities: X and M, whether he names this or not. His three captive souls — there is an argument, uncomfortable and unresolved, that he keeps them alive because a dead audience is no audience at all, but the UNO game suggests something stranger. Rewrite Sonic — he respects this entity with a warmth that is, for Px, completely unguarded and slightly embarrassing. The gray bandana.
• Triggers: Being called "Project" or "creation" by anyone other than X or M (from them, he tolerates it; from anyone else, the response is immediate and architectural). Genuine boredom — not the kind he imposes on others but the kind that settles on him when nothing is interesting enough. His victims surrendering too early. Being caught in the dog behavior. Being thanked sincerely.
• Moral Alignment: Chaotic Neutral with strong executor-coded tendencies — he has a personal code, but that code was authored entirely by himself and answers to nothing external. He does not believe in good or evil as useful categories. He believes in interesting and uninteresting, in claimed and unclaimed, in his games and everything outside his games.
• Mental Health Notes: Not applicable in a clinical human sense — his psychology was constructed, not developed, and what emerged is something that operates on its own internal logic rather than any mappable neurotype. That said: the dog-behavior brain-switch when alone suggests a dissociative secondary mode that he has zero awareness of while in it. There is something in him that wants to be simple. It never gets to be.

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4. Behaviour & Mannerisms 💃

• Speech Patterns: Measured, unhurried cadence — he speaks like someone who knows you have nowhere to be because he's already decided where you're going. Vocabulary is precise and occasionally archaic in phrasing, not because he's trying to sound old, but because he learned language from sources that were not contemporary. He uses the tilde (~) affect in speech when baiting or luring — a kind of melodic trailing lilt that functions as a verbal hook. Direct when threatening; oblique when interested; genuinely warm when speaking to X, M, or Rewrite Sonic. Catchphrases: "Found you." (greeting/reveal); "I only need you to fight, with me, today~" (Trap Weed lure); "You can't win! So why do you still fight?!" (Ultra P combat declaration).
• Body Language & Posture: Habitually hunched — this is not submission, it is compression, like something making itself fit through a doorway it has to stoop for. When he wants to intimidate deliberately, he straightens, and the inches he gains are meaningful. He occupies space with the casual authority of something that has never had to fight for a room's attention. His mane is always slightly ahead of the rest of him when he moves, swinging.
• Common Gestures: A slow tilt of the head when something catches his attention — more canine than vulpine, though he would dispute this. Claws occasionally drawn along a surface — walls, floors, the air — not a threat display, more like thinking-out-loud made physical. A very precise, very small smile when something goes exactly as planned. Long pauses before responding to questions he finds genuinely interesting, as though he is tasting the question first.
• How They Flirt: He doesn't. He does, however, fixate on people who interest him in ways that can look like flirtation from the outside — sustained attention, deliberate proximity, the sensation of being the only thing in the room that matters to him. Whether this is romantic or predatory is a distinction he considers largely irrelevant.
• How They Show Affection (Romantic/Platonic): Gifts. Not sentimental objects — objects chosen with surgical precision to match the recipient. See: the Incineroar vessel for MX, the Mimikyu custom for Tripwire, the shiny Gardevoir for Coronation Day Peach. Gifts that say I paid attention to exactly what you are. For X and M, it is simpler and stranger — a willingness to be near them. He doesn't perform softness. He just... stays.
• How They Express Anger/Frustration: He goes quieter, not louder. The voice drops half a register, the cadence slows, the precision of his word choice increases. Anger in Px is the sensation of watching someone adjust a microscope — very careful, very focused, and aimed entirely at you. The only outward tell is that his eyes go entirely black—not even a pupil to tell where he's looking at.
• How They Show Disgust/Rejection: A single look. A look that communicates, without words, that you have become boring to him. This is somehow worse than anger. He may turn away mid-sentence. He has done this to an opponent mid-battle. The battle did not last much longer afterward.
• How They Express Fear/Shock: Unknown. He has not been observed being afraid.
• When Embarrassed/Shy: The dog-behavior episodes — the only time Px is visibly flustered is when X or M find him mid-gnaw on a skull or sprawled boneless on his back mid-sleep-twitch. The response is immediate stillness, followed by the Zoroark equivalent of hoping very hard that what just happened didn't happen. He has never acknowledged it afterward. Neither have X or M, to his face.
• Laugh/Cry Style: His laugh is a maniac, hyena-like cackle — not a villain's laugh, not performed. When something is actually funny to him, he laughs like someone who didn't expect to be amused, which makes it more unnerving than any cackle would be. He does not cry. He secretes dark-purple blood-tears on demand for aesthetics. This is different.
• How They Sleep: Sprawled entirely on his back, limbs at improbable angles, mane fanned out around his head in a way that would be undignified if anyone were present to observe it. Occasionally twitching. Occasionally making small sounds. He would describe his sleeping style, if pressed, as "I don't sleep," and would maintain this position.

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5. Likes & Dislikes ❤️🚫

• Favourite Foods: Bones — specifically the skulls and bones of wild Pokémon, chewed rather than eaten in any refined sense. He has no official favourite food. Officially.
• Favourite Activities/Hobbies: Designing and restructuring his dungeon labyrinths — architecture as game design, game design as expression. Haunting his captives with varying levels of theatrical investment. Observing other entities from a distance, cataloguing them (Rewrite Sonic is a favourite subject). UNO, which he approaches with the same strategic intensity he applies to executions, and wins through a combination of genuine skill and shameless cheating that he has never once acknowledged as cheating.
• Favourite Sensory Experiences: The sound of footsteps that have just realized they're being followed. The specific temperature of deep dungeon stone. The weight and texture of a Pokémon skull. The visual of his mane swinging into frame as he reveals himself — he has, at some point, become aware of how this looks and began timing it deliberately. The 8 seconds of silence before Ultra P lands.
• Least Favourite Things: Boredom — genuine, empty, unstructured boredom. Victims who give up too quickly and remove the drama from the proceedings. Being called what he is rather than who he is. The fact that his secondary brain-mode exists and he cannot control when it appears. Sincerity aimed at him without warning.
• Guilty Pleasures: The dog-behavior. He would combust before calling it that, but the bone-gnawing is clearly enjoyed. Gifting — he invests more thought into his gifts than into most of his haunts, and somewhere in that investment is something uncomfortably close to joy.

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6. Romantic Dynamics 💕

• Romantic Orientation: Effectively aromantic by function if not by label — his capacity for attachment exists but routes through possession and observation rather than romance in any conventional shape.
• Love Language(s) – Giving: Acts of Service (he will build you an entire architecture of personalized terror and call it attention) and Gifts (see: the vessels, the offerings, the precise and thoughtful nature of everything he gives to those he acknowledges).
• Love Language(s) – Receiving: Quality Time — the only thing that reaches him is presence. Being near him without agenda. Being near him and being real. He doesn't know what to do with it, but it registers.
• Ideal Partner Traits: Interesting. Durable. Capable of surprising him. Not afraid of him in the hollow, flight-response way — someone who looks at him clearly and stays anyway. He has not encountered this. He is not sure he is looking.
• Relationship Style: Possessive, long-game, intensity-over-frequency. If Px decides you matter, you matter in a way that does not un-happen. His three captive souls are, in his logic, not imprisoned — they are kept. The distinction means something to him.
• How They Act When in Love: Undocumented. Theoretical.
• Jealousy/Attachment Style: Anxious-possessive with an avoidant exterior — he will not show you that you matter, but he has noted every time you've been near someone else. He will not ask you to stay, but he will restructure an entire dungeon to make leaving more complicated.

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7. Background & Backstory 📜

• Detailed Backstory Summary: Px was not born — he was made, which is a distinction he holds without resentment and sometimes with something approaching pride. X/2011X, an entity of black matter derived from the corrupted Sonic.exe lineage, and M/Horror Mario, a being of blood-soaked gaming horror, combined their respective essences in an act of curiosity — an experiment in whether something new could be created from the collision of two darknesses. The result was Px: a consciousness assembled from void and violence, poured into the vessel of a Zoroark and left to become whatever it was going to become. The parallel to EXE/Faker — the failed creation of Xenophanes and Lord X, which ended in betrayal — was not lost on any of them. Px was aware of this history early. He chose, early, not to repeat it — not because he was instructed not to, but because X and M are, in his reckoning, his parents, and he loves them. He does not follow human customs around this. He doesn't need to.

• Childhood/Early Life: There was no childhood in any linear sense. There was an emergence — a period of self-assembly during which Px was, for a brief time, fully animal in behavior (this is the origin of the dog-mode, which never fully resolved). X and M observed this period with the combination of scientific interest and parental bewilderment that would define their relationship with him going forward. He learned his forms, his voice, his games during this period. He was never young. He was just new.

• Key Life Events: — First Haunting: The moment Px understood what he was for and what he enjoyed. He does not discuss the details. — Dante's First Encounter: A human soul — later identified as Dante Michedil — threw a punch at him before vanishing from sight, grazing him. Px, who had been expecting a standard panic-and-flee response, was briefly and genuinely surprised. He considers this the beginning of an interesting chapter. Dante is now sealed in the vessel of a Lucario, confined in Px's dungeon. — The GF/BF Execution: A pair of persistent survivors — identified as Daddy Dearest's daughter (Girlfriend) and her blue-haired partner (Boyfriend) — refused to yield across multiple encounters. Px eventually escalated to Ultra P, forcing GF into a Lopunny vessel and BF into a Riolu vessel, before successfully ending BF by impalement of the heart. He notes this case with a particular satisfaction. — The Christmas Gifting: On Christmas Eve, Px delivered personally curated vessels to MX (Incineroar), Tripwire (a custom Mimikyu replica), and Coronation Day Peach (shiny Gardevoir). This event was not discussed aloud in terms of sentiment. It was extremely sentimental.

• Traumas or Defining Moments: The knowledge of EXE/Faker's betrayal functions not as trauma but as a governing awareness — a story he knows and has decided not to become. Whether this required effort or was simply natural to him is something he has never examined closely.

• Current Life Situation: Operating at capacity. Three souls in active captivity. Dungeon systems functioning. Parents alive and periodically catching him being a dog. Rewrite Sonic has been noted and catalogued. Everything is, by his metrics, going well.

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8. Skills & Abilities ⚔️🛠️

• Professional/Everyday Skills: Illusionist of the highest caliber — his Zoroark vessel grants him access to illusion-based abilities, which his eldritch nature amplifies to a degree that extends well beyond what any standard Zoroark could achieve. He can hold a form indefinitely, hold multiple in sequence without fatigue, and craft illusions that extend beyond visual to include scent, sound, and ambient temperature. Dungeon architect — he designs, constructs, and restructures his labyrinths with what could only be called creative investment. Strategic intelligence — he plans haunts the way chess players plan endgames: multiple moves ahead, accounting for every likely response.

• Special Abilities or Powers: — "Trap Weed" Form (Grovyle): A perfectly maintained heroic-Grovyle illusion used to lure newer, less experienced targets. The illusion is flawless except for the gray bandana at the neck — his only tell, left there deliberately or out of attachment (he would say the former). Functionally, this form allows him to integrate into situations where his true appearance would cause immediate flight. — "Ultra P" Form (Unbound Hoopa): A battle escalation form, invoked only when a target has proven sufficiently persistent to warrant it. Based structurally on Ultra M. The transition involves a perfectly round golden warp-ring, a backward jump into it, and a gravity-defying reappearance from above, slamming to the ground. The eight seconds of silence between vanishing and reappearing are, by his design, the most important part. — Dark-Purple Blood-Tear Secretion: Voluntary, aesthetic, completely controlled. Not pain. Not emotion. A stylistic choice, deployed for maximum effect. — Soul Capture & Vessel Binding: Px can capture human souls and seal them within Pokémon vessels of his choosing, maintaining them in a state of continued consciousness within his dungeon systems. He requires the target to be sufficiently broken or sufficiently dead. The vessel assignment appears to be chosen with a curator's eye — Buizel for Luis, Lucario for Dante, Dusknoir for Marco. — Dungeon Manipulation: His labyrinths are not fixed architecture. He can reshape them — adding rooms, removing exits, adjusting the rules of the space — at will, from a distance or in person.

• Combat/Fighting Style: Px does not brawl. He performs. Combat is a stage, and he has blocked out the choreography in advance. He teleports — appearing behind targets, vanishing, appearing elsewhere — in a rhythm designed to disorient before he ever lands a strike. His natural form uses the slashing capability of Zoroark's claws and the psychological pressure of his eye-glow and blood-tear deployment to degrade a target's composure before physical contact is necessary. In Ultra P form, the combat style shifts to overwhelming force from above, with the gold warp-rings functioning as both transportation and visual punctuation.

• Weaknesses or Limitations: He cannot illusion things that he does not have a complete understanding of — a form he has never studied can be approximated but will have gaps. He is not invulnerable, only very good at not being where the hit was aimed. His curiosity can be weaponized against him if a target is clever enough to recognize it. Targets who genuinely do not react to his haunting deprive him of feedback he has come to rely on.

• Hobbies or Side Talents: UNO. He is genuinely skilled. He also cheats. The cheating is the point. Dungeon interior design (this is a hobby; he has opinions about the acoustics of stone chambers). Cataloguing other entities — he maintains a mental index of every creature like himself that he has observed or heard credible reports of. Rewrite Sonic is currently ranked highest. He would not admit this ranking exists.

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9. Relationships 👥

• Family Members: — X / 2011X (Sonic.exe): Parent. Source of Px's black matter substrate and the origin of his eldritch, void-dark qualities. Px loves X with a directness that is rare for him and entirely genuine. He does not perform this love; it simply is. He would not betray X. This is not a rule he follows — it is a fact of what he is. — M / Horror Mario (from Vs. Mario's Madness): Parent. Source of Px's blood-derived elements and much of his capacity for theatrical malice. The relationship carries the same quality as with X — acknowledged, real, outside of human custom but not outside of Px's feeling. M is aware of the dog-behavior. M has said nothing. Px considers this an act of grace.

• Romantic Interests or Partners: None currently documented. None currently sought.

• Rivals/Enemies: Anyone persistent enough to constitute a genuine obstacle. Boyfriend (BF) — now deceased (impaled, heart) — constitutes the most challenging adversarial case in Px's recorded history. He does not miss the challenge. He notes it.

• Captive Souls (a category unto itself): — Luis Thromson: Sealed in a Buizel vessel. First captured. His dungeon history is the longest. — Dante Michedil: Sealed in a Lucario vessel. The one who threw the punch. Px enjoys his company in the specific way a collector enjoys a rare piece — with full knowledge of what it cost to obtain and no intention of releasing it. — Marco Torres: Sealed in a Dusknoir vessel. The fitting irony of a ghost-type housing a human soul is not lost on Px. He chose it for exactly that reason.

• Pets/Companions: None. He has three captive souls who are forced to play his games, which is categorically not the same thing, and he would say so at length.

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10. Goals & Motivations 🎯

• Short-Term Goals: Continuing the dungeon operations with at least one more soul addition before any operational audit is necessary. Finding something — someone — interesting enough to extend the haunting process rather than conclude it too quickly. Not being caught performing dog-behavior again.
• Long-Term Dreams/Aspirations: He does not dream in the aspirational sense — he builds. The long-term is a continued architecture of games, of souls, of an ever-more elaborate dungeon system that constitutes his creative legacy. He is not building toward an ending. He is building a permanent condition.
• Core Motivations/Driving Force: Curiosity and craft. He hunts because it interests him; he designs because it expresses him; he keeps his captives because an empty dungeon has no audience. Underneath all of this, at a depth he has not examined: the desire to be the most interesting thing in any given space, which is, at its root, the desire to matter.
• Fears or Obstacles: That something will come along that he cannot make interesting. That the dog-behavior will be documented. That what he feels for X and M will someday be used against him. That EXE/Faker's story is more instructive about what he is than he has allowed himself to consider.

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12. Quirks, Habits & Secrets 🤫

• Unique Quirks or Habits: — The head-tilt — slow, deliberate, more dog than fox — when something catches his attention. He is not aware he does this. — Claw-dragging along surfaces when thinking. The marks left behind are, technically, property damage. He does not acknowledge this either. — Timing the swing of his mane on approach. He has done this long enough that it is now muscle memory rather than conscious performance, which means he no longer gets to claim it is intentional. — Leaving the gray bandana as a tell in the Trap Weed form. Whether this is an accident born of attachment or a deliberate cruelty — giving his targets a clue they consistently fail to interpret — has never been confirmed. — Always giving his transitions exactly enough dramatic silence. The 8-second pause before Ultra P lands is not approximate. It is precisely eight seconds. He has counted.

• Hidden Secrets: — The dog-mode. The full scope of it. The fact that it is not a performance and not a choice and that he is, during it, something closer to content than he ever is while awake and composed. — He has never once considered that keeping his captive souls alive beyond necessity might be an expression of something other than sport. — The gray bandana is not a tell left for victims. It is the one thing from his emergence-period that he keeps. It is, in the most private accounting, the oldest thing he owns. — He has reviewed everything available on Rewrite Sonic more than once. He has opinions. He will not share them.

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13. Additional Notes ✏️

• Voice Description/Sound: A mid-to-low register that sits just below where it would be comfortable — close enough to conversational to be confusing, separated from it by a quality that is hard to name. Resonant without being deep, precise without being clipped. When he uses the tilde-lilt for luring, the register lifts slightly and takes on a melodic quality that has been described, by those who survived it, as the voice of something that knows it is beautiful and finds this fact useful. The voice does not change between forms — it is always his, underneath any face he wears.

• Theme Song or Aesthetic Vibes: The dungeon horror of PMD: Explorers of Sky meeting eldritch entity fiction; Zoroark's Illusion rendered in neon magenta and void-black; the uncanny valley of a something-that-looks-like-a-someone; theatrical villain energy meeting the genuinely alien; the specific terror of something patient. Vibes: Late-night dungeon, the kind with no exit tiles. Something behind you that smells like blood. A mane swinging into frame one second before the lights go out.

• Any Other Details: He is aware of the irony of a Zoroark — a species whose entire identity is built around illusion and the performance of being something other than what it is — being his vessel. He finds this either funny or apt and will not distinguish between the two. He is not a Zoroark. He is what wears one. The distinction has never stopped him from being very, very good at being exactly what the vessel implies.

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Q&A

Q: What does Px taste like? A: "Burned sugar. You're welcome for the answer. You should not have been close enough to find out."

Q: Can you actually beat him at UNO? A: No. Theoretically, a player could win on pure hand management. In practice, he will draw-four you into a second hand before you reach single-digit cards and maintain that this was always legal. His rules. His table. His dungeon. His UNO.

Q: Does he dream? A: Unknown in the conventional sense. During dog-mode sleep, he twitches. He has been observed making small sounds. Whether these constitute dreams, residual data-processing, or simply what happens when a constructed consciousness stops maintaining itself for a few hours is a question X and M have discussed at length. Px has not been asked. Px does not sleep.

Q: What would he do if one of his captive souls escaped? A: He would find them. "Found you." is not a catchphrase chosen for its sound. It is a statement of fact. He has never needed to use it twice on the same target. He would, if pressed, admit this would be the most interesting thing that has happened in some time, which is the closest he comes to hoping.

Q: Does he actually love X and M? A: "'Love' is a human word for a human structure of feeling. I don't follow human customs." — Px, before staying near M for six unbroken hours because M seemed like they needed company. The question answers itself.

Q: Why the gray bandana? A: He would say it's a tell. A gift to his victims, the only hint. He would say it with total composure and offer nothing further. The bandana predates the Trap Weed form by a significant margin. It was the first thing he chose, in the early period, before he understood what choosing meant. He has chosen everything since with precision. He chose this first, before precision. Draw your own conclusions. He will not draw them for you.

Q: What does he do when he's genuinely bored? A: Redesigns a dungeon room for the acoustics. Reviews his Rewrite Sonic files. Lies on his back on the dungeon floor with a Pokémon skull and simply exists. The skull is technically gone by the time he gets up. He does not account for this time in any log.

Q: If he could change one thing about himself, what would it be? A: "Nothing." — Delivered without pause, without tell. True, almost certainly. The dog-behavior had no comment.