The False Savior

APPEARANCES DEBUT Twitter APPEARANCES Twitter FNF: EXEmerge (Upcoming) CREATION ORIGINAL CREATOR Shefki CREATION DATE 5 Dec 2022

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ALIAS(ES) • Shin • The False Savior • Astaroth • Toéba • The Grandson PRONOUNS He/Him ALIGNMENT ARCH-ENEMY Pandora KILL COUNT Thousands, if not more PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION EYE COLOR White (False Savior) Black (Beast Form)

Shin, also known as The False Savior, is an EXE by Shefki. He was initially created on December 5th, 2022, as a take on EXE, before becoming something of his own.

The False Savior

Shin is a God in his universe, destroying everything and everyone who comes near or enters it. He loves to watch people suffer and fall to their knees, forcing them to pray and beg for compassion. Shin is one of the deadliest beings to have ever existed, with ultimate power and numerous worlds to collect for his game. He snatches the souls of people to use as pawns in his game. Shin is a deity, but he can only do what he wants if it is within his realm. His Domain

The False Savior's world is large and expansive, with 10 levels across it, each with an "Ark", serving as an equivalent to the Guardians of Lord X. Visually, it resembles old MMORPG games like Rakion or Toram Online, filled with NPCs that exist purely to deceive the player and keep up an illusion of normalcy.

The False Savior often "tests" those who first enter his world, usually by taking the guise of a small, innocent-looking Sonic form, with blue arms and eyes kept mostly shut, either as another attempt at appearing friendly, or because he lacks them entirely. If he feels as though the player has cheated in his games, his mood will drastically sour and will almost immediately resort to cruel and violent punishments as correction (i.e. filling your stomach and lungs with starving rats).

Personality

False Savior is a very broken, demented creature. His body is inhabited by three separate beings, Shin, Astaroth, and Toéba, with Shin being the dominant personality. The 3 are joined not only in mind, but in soul. Those who interact with him for the first time usually describe him as strange or unsettling, even despite his otherwise jovial appearance. Shin is empty, doing twisted things from sheer boredom and feeling nothing in return, simply because he can. Despite this, Shin genuinely believes that he is a hero, viewing himself as a savior to the souls he tortures and brutalizes. Astaroth, the second of the 3, is the most adept in combat out of all of the personalities, acting like a "teacher" of sorts to Shin, (although mostly to annoy him).

Appearance

The False Savior is characterized by his dark, fading grayish-teal fur, gray gloves, large, pointy ears, and a broad grin with sharp teeth. He also has white irises and pupils, as well as white lines around the portions of his eyes. Finally, the flesh surrounding his neck has been torn, exposing his throat. False Savior's pupils can change often depending on which personality is in control of his body, varying from a crimson red to leaking black fluids. Shin has long, pointed teeth like that of a shark in most appearances, with thin black gums and a triangular jaw.

Shin is much taller, with a build resembling a human in a baggy costume. The flesh on his lower jaw is absent, exposing bare flesh, and his eyes are replaced with deep fleshy sockets. From the elbows down, his skin is gone and replaced with a twisting mass of dark purple tendrils and muscle woven and tied together to replace his forearms; these tendrils are covered with eyes and mouths, and bulges that suggest a skeletal structure beneath. His flesh reappears to form massive, sagging hands tipped with claws that rest at his feet, the palms of which are split down the middle. His knees are in a similar condition, ending in wide ankles and pointed flaps replacing his shoes. Astaroth's head is much more compact, with shorter ears, quills, and rounder eyes. His mouth, however, is much larger, with his cheeks going from ear to ear, revealing a massive, shark-toothed maw. His shoulders are more prominent compared to the other three, and his chest has several diagonal slashes across it. His eyes have strange, veiny structures growing out from their sockets and a red, cobbled rim around them. His legs are digitigrade, with pitch black feet.

Toéba's most defining characteristic are his glowing red teeth and eyes, as well his massive eye sockets stretched to meet his forehead. Toéba is the tallest of the three, and his ears are much wider and bend like horns. His flesh is much more wrinkly, and his chest boasts a large spiral twisted into the shape of an X, bleeding black ichor from it's center..

Abilities

•	Mind Manipulation: Making his opponents fall into his trap and making them unable to escape, in which he'll then use his hands and place it on your face, making it easy for him to turn you into his pawn. It will burn, but after all the excruciating pain, your mind will be his to control, meaning that you're his very own pawn that has now joined his game.
•	Super Strength: Even in his Sonic form, Shin is capable of feats such as decapitating Knuckles by flicking his finger.
•	Real World Manifestation: Shin, outside of his game world, can manifest as either an illusion of his sonic form, or as a crudely-made sonic doll. The illusion is just an echo, and can't actually hurt you. He may be friendlier in this form, but is never to be trusted. The doll form, however, is an actual threat and can hurt you.
•	Hallucination: His hallucination will become a reality only if he either hits you or scares you. If one of his tricks either hits you or scares you, then it will physically hurt you even though his tricks are not real. It's easy for him to just watch you get tired and fall, striking everywhere while he's ripping your intestines and eating them as you watch in agony.
•	Aberration Shroud: An aura of darkness follows Shin wherever he goes, leaving a trail of monstrosities with humanoid traits. When in his Sonic form, they can be heard as whispers around him, only becoming visible when in his true form.
•	Hell Blast: This beam is unique to other EXEs that could also do this ability, but it's different because if he manages to blast this on you, you will explode, burn, and then melt. After that, your soul will be his to keep and he will use you for his game to rule the entire universe.
•	Mimicry: Shin can mimic voices, even if he isn't taking the appearance of the person he is mimicking.
•	RUN: If you see him say this, you'll have to run by any means necessary until he gets tired. He will follow you until he successfully kills you. If you're out of breath, he'll appear right behind you, rip your whole head off and devour it. But if anyone manages to escape him, then you'll only restart and experience the same thing in a loop. The other option involves you leaving, but he'll just wait for another victim to come.
•	Shape-shifting: He can shape-shift into anybody he wants, but with only one rule: he gets to have only have six of his opponent's powers to use in battle, and when he wants to shape-shift again, he must wait a 15 minute cooldown. 


He can use any part of his body to consume his victims.
•	God/True Form: This is his most powerful move that he has. When he's about to die or lose, he'll use this immediately to kill his opponent, or the player, and become something no one has ever seen before. He has the ability to stop time and can stop you. It doesn't matter if you're either faster or a god, because you can still be frozen in his time stop. When you're frozen in his time stop, he'll immediately run towards your soul and zoom right through, making you die. Once he kills you, you'll be sent to where no one can find you. He also has infinite abilities when he uses this power.

Trivia

•	He may have a ton of power and abilities. He may have a ton of invulnerabilities. But he has one weakness, that being distractions.
•	Shin's laugh sounds like Nobuhiko Okamoto.
•	Shin's upcoming appearances in EXEmerge have Pico as the playable character in his week, while Boyfriend fights Toéba in the song Stained Red, ultimately meeting his demise at the former's hands.
•	Design wise, Astaroth has stayed the most consistent since his creation, while Shin's appearance has changed the most.
•	Shin's D-Sides design uses Mighty as a base, but also gains the attributes of Ray and Fang.
•	The many different eyes and mouths that are scattered across Shin's twisted limbs may actually be yet more victims that he's absorbed into his body, judging by this picture.
•	Toéba has six fingers, taking inspiration from the Xenomorph.
•	Shin has appeared as a sleep paralysis demon in real life during episodes suffered by Shefki at least 4 different times, even before the character's current design was made.
◦	These episodes would often involve Shin stabbing him until he died, with Shefki feeling physical sensations whenever Shin cut him.