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character information
● name: Benjamin Holt
● canon: original character
● canon point:
● age: 17

● (original) world:

content warning for cross multiverse incest between one emotionally inept demon and her morally questionable half-siblings. collaborated with barksnark with moderator permission!

the prologue

The setting of our story is a complicated one. Not one world, but countless worlds filled with countless possibilities. But in the beginning, it started with one: a world where demons ran rampant across the Earth, seducing and eating their way through the human race without care nor consequence. In desperation, they reached out for the God's that once ruled them: and their prayers were answered.

For a price, anyway.

The demons were cast back to Hell and the God's ... stayed. They ruled. They accepted only devotion. For a while, humanity accepted it. Until, of course, they day came when a group simply could not. Caught between a rock and a hard place, they called upon the Devil to set them free from the oppressive reign of the Divine. They gave her a girl and she returned her to the Earth as her own unholy Messiah.

As fate would have it, the girl would come across a boy, cast out by Baldr, burning somewhere in Romania. He would become the first new demon of the new world and the only one allowed to walk by her side.

She probably ended up regretting it, honestly.

chapter two: the young adult romance prelude

Once upon a time there was a little demon with big dreams. For a long while, those dreams mostly consisted of obtaining the Guiness world record for most participants in an orgy. A modest dream. A realistic dream. This did not change when he fell in love, but he found himself able to see beyond the temptations of flesh and booze. He found himself becoming more ambitious and more reckless, and with little to no shame, Petre Dodrescu set his sights on taking the throne of Hell for his own.

In the end, through some hard work, deception and some shady ass deals, he finally did it. All the while kind of encouraged by his sweetheart, though mostly side-eyed and slightly judged by her.

Petre, being the paranoid narcissist that he is, was not always easy to live with. Or easy to love. As such, he did what any loving Satan would do: he asked her to start a family and gave her the gift of not one, but three anti-christs. Louisa was first born, gifted with the most power of her siblings. Her fathers shady dealings before obtaining the throne and given her the surprising gift of not only ending her own world one day, but also being able to travel across the multiverse and ending all of those worlds too. Eventually. Whenever she felt it like it, really.

As a teenager, though, Louisa had no real interest in the inevitable destruction of all things. She travelled, mostly, to see new things. No people. New species. If she concentrated hard, she could anywhere. If she didn't, she often found herself circling around realities where her father existed in one form or another. In one such world, she stumbled upon Caleb and Nicholas Holt. Beautiful, charming twins who ultimately turned out to be huge assholes with god like power. Louisa fell for their charms easily and fell for their power even harder. Convincing them to use their power to travel with her was easy. Finding out that their mother was Petra Dodrescu was not. But, then, the heart wants what the heart wants and what's a little sin among monsters?

chapter three; the flipside

Somewhere out there, there's a dimension where gods are all-powerful tyrants with their very own patches of followers across civilizations. Petra Dodrescu is a tiny girl with no ambitions and when she questions what makes Mr Baldr so great, she becomes a tiny girl on the brink of death as he makes her watch her entire family and town burn to the ground. Saved by the Devil's Messiah, she becomes a nice (she isn't nice) demon (like at all) who goes around saving the world with her partner. Whenever she isn't screwing people. Or eating them.

Then she meets Santiago Holt. A man blessed by a long-forgotten goddess, what should have been an easy kill. It turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in which Petra ends up addicted to his blood. Sex is another bad idea on the menu, and when she realizes she's pregnant, the Devil demotes her back into a human and leaves her on her own. When Petra's attempts to get rid of the babies fail, she crawls back to Santiago for help. A few months later, Caleb and Nicolas Holt are born, and a few weeks after that, Santiago has prophetic dreams of his boys growing up to become incredibly powerful. The only thing that keeps them alive growing up is secrecy - if the Devil or any other deity knew about the twins, they would have been destroyed as quickly as possible - and once they are fully grown, very little can be done to stop them anymore. That's when they start to get bored.

But worry not! Here comes Louisa, the interdimentional traveling anti-Christ, looking for a good time and a pair of cute boys to devour. Things don't quite go her way when she tries it on the twins, although it does lead them to the greatest discovery of their lives: each other! The not so great discovery, on the other hand, is that Louisa's father, aka the Devil of her world, is Petre Dodrescu.

Which doesn't stop them from escalating things and having a child of their own. Diana Holt, a bratty all-powerful monster without the slightest concept of what it's like to respect anything that ever was, is, and will be. And then William and Benjamin Holt, yours truly, the idiot twins.

With their parents' powers combined in varying degrees, the twins travel with their parents and sister to various dimensions and realities. What they see and do in every world is vastly different: sometimes it's a nice, relaxed holiday, sometimes it's total chaos and destruction. Their world is the infinite expanse of the multiverse and they travel to seek out new experiences and satisfy their curiosity for adventure and for humanity. The excitement of the unknown is what keeps them moving.

Unsurprisingly, as soon as they're old enough to wander off, the twins often find themselves exploring worlds without the rest of their family. Prone to a lot less destruction than their older sibling Diana, they still sometimes abuse power to satisfy their curiosity, though they have yet to wreck anything to a significant level because of it. Hopping worlds feels like they're just going out for a run through the family's massive property behind the modest country house, popping back in for dinner when it feels like the day's coming to a close. They're relatively discreet; at least they have been discreet enough to not draw any further attention to the Holt-Dodrescu family. That might change one day, and who knows how that will go.

● abilities:

⇄ blood hunger: Benjamin does not require blood and human flesh to survive like his mother does, but consuming it does provide him with vitality and an immense energy boost.

⇄ fire: can create fire and withstand it; Benjamin cannot manipulate fire already created, however and cannot only create fire from his skin. ie: he cannot look an object and set it alight by looking at it, nor can he manipulate your mothers very fancy coal fireplace.

⇄ healing: will heal from virtually anything, is immune to everything, is designed to live forever even without physical form. As of right now he and his family are not aware of this.

⇄ animal hoarder: loves animals, animals love him.

⇄ empathy mind link: can feel almost everything his siblings feel and is able to communicate his own feelings across great distances to his brother, William. He can locate his brother wherever he is simply by using this ability. It is sometimes difficult to differentiate his own feelings from his siblings, though not at a level that might influence their decisions or have his own influenced.

⇄ multiverse travel: the ability to travel between all worlds, though with less precision and deliberation than his parents and sister. While alone and with his brother, it's a more random process; they have less control where they end up. Being with their family negates this and serves to anchor the twins to their parents and sister. This ability is removed for games.

● strengths:

⇄ sociable weirdo
Benjamin, at his core, is a sociable creature. He is infinitely curious about people, their lives and their relationships. As such, this usually makes him a great friend -- for however long his interest is held. While he is a careful listen and an empathetic ear, Ben's relationships can often be ... fairly one sided and not long lived. This isn't because he's callous or cruel, it's simply that he invests himself for however long he's in one place. He moves around a lot and when it comes to cutting ties with friends and lovers, he rarely has to think twice about it.

However! Because he moves around a lot, he's seen all manner of people in all manner of forms. He will befriend anyone, whether they are humanoid, beast, flesh eating monster or three headed alien. If they've got good chat, he's there.

⇄ self assured nonsense
Being the super powered, multiverse travelling boy that he is, Benjamin is confident. He is confident, sometimes, to the point of sometimes being almost arrogant. But, he doesn't believe in genuine self-depreciation, even if he might joke about it with buddies or his brother. He knows what he's good at it and he's always more than willing to show off his strengths when possible.

⇄ clear headed approach
Benjamin comes from a family of frivolous creatures who, due to their long lives and incredible power sets, tend to do what they want and end up in odd, sometimes bad, situations. Benjamin and his brother are no different and as such, he's grown up learning that keeping a clear head is the best way forward. The casino they just tried to con millions out of caught them cheating on camera? No panicking here. Mom got drunk and ended up at a sacrificial alter of a church? No problem that problem solving can't solve! In the most impossible situations and the most stressful, Benjamin can keep cool. Possibly, he has learned this great character trait from dealing with his over-emotional and temperamental sister.

● weaknesses:

⇄ jealous baby
Although a sociable boy, Benjamin is attached, specifically, to his family. Although they are not always together, they are more often united than they are apart. And while they are all inclined to their own proclivities, sometimes someone just over steps a mark. Gets too comfortable; too close to one of them. Benjamin likes to share his attention out, but he also expects his family's affection every moment of every day. If it happens to fall elsewhere for too long, he is prone to jealousy. Typical teenage tantrum jealousy with passive aggressive comments, the silent treatment and bouts of overplaying Simple Plan to make his feelings known. This, ultimately, is not really a problem as a teenager.

The problem is that he doesn't really seem to be growing out of it.

⇄ boundary crossing pettiness
With great curiosity also comes the capacity for being slightly overbearing. Benjamin is aware of others peoples feelings and sometimes, his friendliness is not also welcomed. This does not necessarily put him off. Pettily, if someone is particularly aggressive or rude about their disinterest, Benjamin (and William) will simply just keep persisting. Keep being friendly. Keep pushing the persons boundaries just to see how long it'll be before they snap in one way or another or until he gets bored and moves on.

⇄ inner asshole
Related to the tail end of above, Benjamin also has a mean streak which is primarily only reserved for the people whom he just ... doesn't click with. (And his sister.) He is no stranger to playing dirty in such cases, or hitting way low below the belt. Both with words and fists.

● skills (optional):

⇄ animal charmer - would maybe be useful when dealing with monsters, if they are of a more animal persuasion than a humanoid one.
⇄ heavy lifter - good for all those heavy weapons crates and bulking ration supplies that need carried around etc.