Gender: Male
God of: Space
Appearance:
For being the deity of space, it would be quite understandable to be disappointed at Caelestis' appearance. In fact, if someone had to guess what he was a god of just by going by his appearance, it'd be much more likely they'd guess something more earthy. Without knowledge of his identity though, he really doesn't look that special.
Typically Caelestis looks like a young man, approximately in his mid-twenties. He stands tall at roughly 6'6", but instead of being an imposing figure of power he just looks kind of awkward more often than not. He has quite a gangly figure, with long limbs that he looks more likely to trip over like a baby giraffe. However, despite the bumbling and klutzy movements he tends to display when feeling uncomfortable, Caelestis' movements are otherwise precise, calculated and almost graceful in a surefooted way, most easily noted if he's spotted performing some feats of free running. His build is somewhat in the middle, being neither a delicate wisp nor a heavyset powerhouse, and further highlights his tendency for high level activity through his athletic musculature. Which honestly can be pretty difficult to notice due to his clothing. His lanky limbs do tend to make him appear to have a bit of a thinner build than he actually has.
Normally, Caelestis' skin is fair with a slight tan from being out in the sun's rays, lending a soft kiss of gold to his complexion. These warm tones tie in with his hair - falling between short and medium in length, Caelestis' messy locks are a rich reddish brown, appearing to be a mahogany hue. In certain lighting, the red in his hair becomes much more pronounced, much like how the tones become more evident in polished mahogany wood. His style is typically somewhat windswept and tousled, akin to a casual bedhead caused more by unruly hair than any actual attempt at styling. His eyes are a hazel colour, containing equal parts of both soft green and nutty brown to the point it's hard to tell which is the base colour and which colour contributes to additional flecks. Shape-wise, his eyes are somewhat almond shape with a very slight upturn of the outer edges - it's hard to notice, but when alert it adds a slight mischievous air to his expression. Usually though, it's hard to notice because he more often than not looks utterly spaced out. Strangely, despite his reddish hair, the lashes that frame his eyes are very dark, seemingly drawing more from the darker brown aspects of his mahogany hair than the red hues. While quite thick, Caelestis' lashes are about medium in length.
In regards to face shape, Caelestis' face could be described as somewhat rectangular - it possesses defined angular shapes like a square face, but it slightly longer and narrower than could be classed as square. On the other hand, it doesn't quite meet the requirements for diamond, either, with his face and chin not being quite long enough to classify as that. Instead, it's somewhat in between the two. His strong, angular jaw and prominently sharp cheekbones can sometimes work against him in stark lighting, as they can cause shadows that seem to hollow his cheeks and throat to more gaunt appearances. In most lighting however, he doesn't look nearly as intimidating. His nose is long, narrow and possesses an ever so slightly snubbed tip, as well as being surprisingly straight. It would be expected to show some signs of previous breakages from either tripping over himself or being punched in the face enough, but hey, being a god does have some perks. Caelestis' lips are fairly average looking, medium thickness and a natural soft pink, though they sometimes appear darker if he has recently been habitually chewing them. Behind his lips lie his pearly white teeth, that can be flashed in a sunny smile or sometimes a more sinister, predatory grin, fairly dependent on if there's anything sinister going on with the rest of his appearance. His eyebrows are a darker hue of his hair colour, between medium and thick in a soft angle with a medium arch. Speaking of hair, a light dusting of reddish brown stubble also peppers his jaw.
Caelestis is certainly more a fan of casual wear when he's walking among humans. As in, casual to the point that there honestly looks to be nothing divine about him and is possibly frowned upon by other gods. He tends to favour outfits such as his black hoodie - a well worn item of clothing with a white star emblazoned on the chest and two horizontal white stripes banding across each sleeve around his upper arm. Whether or not he has the sleeves pushed up really depends on his mood. This is typically accompanied by black sweatpants with two white stripes running vertically along the outer side of each leg that are somewhat loose fitting, but not too loose as to risk snagging on things. He often wears a pair of flat black stud earrings and a pair of beat up and lightweight sneakers with good grip usually finish the look with a t-shirt under his hoodie. This coupled with his tousled nest of hair and his tendency to look utterly spaced out has led to quite a few humans shooing him away after a quick glance, assuming him to be something like a college drop out or stoner who's roughing it on the streets. A more scrutinising look makes it more obvious however that he clearly has the means to look after himself, and is fairly healthy. Of course, if he has to put on an appearance with other gods and reveal himself in a more divine state, he can do that. His clothing for such events typically reflects his domain, consisting of blues, purples, blacks, whites, silvers and golds, often patterned with constellations and other celestial bodies, as well as accessorised with jewellery of either gold or silver set with precious stones. Even his hair tends to be tamed, at least as much as it can be, and a celestial circlet worn to highlight his role among the gods. However, getting him to cooperate can be a difficult feat. Getting him to agree to formal wear and not look like he's just been dragged through eighty-six bushes backwards probably takes more effort than most are willing to spend on him. Hence why he tries to avoid such engagements, whether or not it "appears rude".
And really, there's not much else that can be said about him. Or at least, about his human form. Those who expect the god of space to be more ethereal looking are right, at least in a way. As underwhelming as his human form can be, that's all it is - a human form.
Caelestis' true form is otherworldly. An eldritch being, his upper half of his body is somewhat humanoid, at the very least. His torso and head are much like a human's, as are his arms. Except the fact he has six arms, arranged in three pairs with the uppermost pair being located in a similar way to a normal human's arms. Each arm has a sharp, almost blade-like projection at the elbow and a similar hand structure of four fingers and a thumb. However, each digit for him ends in a sharp claw. His eyes become more angled and completely black - sclera, iris, and an indistinguishable pupil - and glossy, like pools of ink. The angles of his face become sharper and more exaggerated, adding a sort of feral air that takes away from any likeness to humanity. Likewise, his sharper jaw holds no trace of the stubble he has in his human guise, meaning there is nothing to hide the razor sharp edges. His teeth become longer and sharper, forming vicious fangs that barely fit in his mouth to the point that it's not uncommon for his upper row of teeth to be seen poking out over his lower lip. While on the subject of his mouth, his tongue is a deep violet and much longer with a forked tip. His ears are pointed in an almost elven manner, and his hair that is a mahogany hue in his human form becomes a dark scarlet instead. It seems to be slightly more wild, slightly more windswept than his human form looks normally. Protruding from his hair are two horns - although whether they're technically horns or antlers is debatable. Like antlers, they are branched and mineralised, but like horns, he does not shed them. On the other hand, unlike horns, damaged branches can grow back. These horns (or antlers, depending on who's referring to them) seem to be made from something similar to bone, though it is much whiter than regular bone, as well as being much stronger, too. They also seem to be able to radiate a faint glow, either through choice or sometimes accidentally, depending on his emotions.
From the waist down in this form, Caelestis' body resembles the long, scaled tail of a serpent. Most of the scales are a deep black, much like the gaps between stars, while the scales on his underside are a clean white hue. Unlike a serpent on Earth however, his tail ends with a white fin that fans out from his serpentine tail. It's quite similar to a dorsal fin that runs from between the shoulder blades of his uppermost pair of arms, down his back and ending shortly before the fin on his tail begins. Unlike his caudal fin, his dorsal is supported by rigid spines that can cause the dorsal fin to be lowered flat against his back or raised. Both varieties of fin share the same base colour of pristine white, and both display a strange effect every so often where it seems like an aurora effect of light ripples down from the top of the dorsal fin and down to the tip of his tail fin, like a rainbow hued aurora.
Like his tail, his upper body has a dual colouration of black and white. The front of his torso, throat and face are all a clean white like the underside of his tail, while the rest of his skin (back, arms, sides, rest of his neck, ears, scalp) is pitch black like the rest of his scales. The divide between these colours is fairly even, though in some areas, the black extends in a symmetrical pattern. Just below his ribcage, on either side there are three black extensions of the pattern. They jut out horizontally before arching up at a distinct angle. These don't extend far, and seem to almost mimic the appearance of gill slits, even though he lacks them. Another intrusion of the black pigmentation can be found as another symmetrical pair, running from halfway between his shoulders and neck, down to slightly beyond his collar bones. These coloured scales and skin appear to interact differently with light - the white scales and areas of skin can softly radiate light at will, much like stars or how the moon looks when it reflects light. On the other hand, the black regions and scales appear to have the opposite effect, almost absorbing light like Vantablack and rendering them consistently as dark as the far reaches of space that hold no stars.
In his true form, from horn tips to tail tip, Caelestis has a length of approximately twenty-nine feet. His "standing" height equates to roughly eight feet tall, and the remaining length of his tail comes in at roughly twenty-one feet. It has been noted that certain traits from this form sometimes bleed through into his human form, most typically either accidentally while channelling his powers enough, or sometimes even deliberately as a scare tactic. These traits include things such as his skin becoming a lot paler with a faint glow, his eyes turning fully black, his teeth growing slightly sharper, his tongue getting slightly longer or more purple or developing a forked tip, or the angles of his face getting slightly sharper. Most of these changes are very short lived and can be waved off as a trick of the light in most situations by those who don't recognise him in his human guise, whether it be due to unfamiliarity with what he looks like or being thrown by the scrappy clothes and appearance. On the topic of clothes, in his true form he technically doesn't wear any. He doesn't see the purpose, being an inhuman serpentine being with nothing to show and also spends his time like this in either his own realm, or in the depths of space. Besides, who's really going to be brave enough to lecture a twenty-nine foot monstrous space god about applying human customs to his inhuman form?
Personality:
Caelestis is quite an elusive entity, even by godly standards. It's probably to do with his domain being outside of what is found on Earth, making him by definition an outsider. Because of this, his social skills aren't necessarily the best. However, the Earth is such a unique planet, he can't help but be somewhat interested in it and its inhabitants. In particular, he's exceptionally curious about humanity, the dominant species. Because of this, despite his numerous trips to the depths of the universe, he still visits the planet from time to time. It's also part of what influences his human form to appear so scruffy - he's used to solitude and wants to observe humans interacting with each other normally, without the influence of them realising who he really is, nor paying him too much attention that he's not entirely sure how to respond to. In fact, there are quite a few things that Caelestis struggles with, mainly because he's a bit of a paradoxical being due to how many conflicting traits he possesses.
On one hand, Caelestis has a rather upbeat and cheerful personality. He tends to be particularly friendly towards gods who've not slighted him and humans, partially due to his overflowing curiosity towards their species. You'd think by now he'd have them figured out, but nope. They continue to bamboozle him on a regular basis. Even humans who mistake him for one of them and act aggressively towards him typically just receive amused behaviour in return, since he finds all their short lived bravado so entertaining. He's energetic and enthusiastic at times, kind of like an overgrown puppy and hardly how you'd picture an ancient deity to act around mortal humans. As such, he can come across as a bit childish and immature, particularly when he starts doing something that seems utterly ridiculous like chasing his tail and biting it before realising that yes, that is his own tail.
On the other hand, being the god of such a lifeless expanse as space makes Caelestis by nature prone to more reserved and lonesome behaviours, as if not exactly intended to be part of a social species like humans. It leads to him being rather introverted, in that as much as he enjoys the curious ways of humans, sooner or later he'll have to return to the solitude of space to gather his thoughts and recharge himself psychologically and emotionally. By spending extended amounts of time in space, it means he hasn't quite learned all the social do's and don't's of mankind, and as such can seem a bit on the socially inept side, resulting in acting in ways that may considered odd or downright rude to the human population or those more accustomed to their culture. Even though he usually doesn't mean anything by it, it can still rub some people the wrong way. Likewise his lack of understanding of social cues can make him seems a bit...off. Perhaps even a bit eerie, as he's much more feral in regards to following instincts than social norms. These more instinctive, almost animal-like tendencies can tie in with other gaps in his socialising behaviour. Being so accustomed to isolation and lack of company, he can struggle when it comes to dealing with the attentions of too many people at once. While it very much depends on how he's feeling at the time, if Caelestis starts feeling overwhelmed by too much social interaction, he sometimes falls back on instincts that function quite like a human's fight-or-flight reflex. Thankfully, he usually retains enough control to realise a god versus humans is rarely a fair fight, so he often falls back on the option of flight. Because of this, he tends to come across as being a tad skittish when overwhelmed and likely to bolt. It's only if he feels truly threatened that he may lash out. If at humans, he typically still keeps this weak and more intimidation than actual combat that could harm them.
Even though his enthusiasm and skittishness may make him seem like he would be in a near constant state of either excited or nervous energy, it isn't necessarily the case. Compared to the rest of space, lifecycles on Earth are much shorter and everything moves at a much more rapid pace than, say, the life cycle of stars scattered through galaxies. Being more accustomed to this much grander scale of time, Caelestis can actually come off as being particularly laid back. If he's not overly excited or on edge about something, his other state is the complete other end of the spectrum of being completely chilled out and content to watch the world go by. He habitually spaces out, staring into space and letting his mind wander, sometimes to nothing in particular or sometimes down strange avenues of thought that may have some questioning if he's quite alright. In fact, it's not too uncommon to see him spacing out to a degree that makes him seem more closely related to sloths than godkind. He just doesn't see the need to be as hectic as humans when he literally has an eternity. As such, he can be a bit prone to procrastinating when in one of his exceptionally laid back moods. He insists he'll get round to whatever he's meant to do eventually. Just give him five minutes. Or millennia. They both begin with the letter 'm', so same thing, right? Sometimes he can be so laid back that he basically doesn't react to things. Even threats or yelling. This can make him seem to be either utterly indifferent and unaffected by such things, or perhaps like a bit of a doormat who doesn't see the value in defending himself from such tirades. However, all that changes if the target isn't him. While Caelestis tends to be friendly towards most people and have a default opinion that edges towards more optimistically positive, once he becomes invested in someone and actually cares about them it becomes a whole new ballpark. He gets seriously protective over the people he decides he likes, to the point that it would take a lot for him to stop giving them second chances for wronging him. If the person in question also looks and/or acts younger than him, he has a strange habit of adopting people. But as younger siblings. He's not a particularly fatherly figure, but he certainly will big-brother you within an inch of your life. Even if the person is human and ages beyond his appearance and matures more than his typical behaviour, he will forever treat them like a little sibling. With his "younger siblings" he can be quite playful as well as very protective of their physical and emotional wellbeing, and can get fairly aggressive if someone upsets them. Caelestis' bad side is not something a lot of people would want to be on. Even though in his chill moods he can be quite like his domain in a serene way, his anger reflects space's less pleasant attributes - a cold and unfeeling disregard for life that will have no second thoughts about snuffing it out, or a burning explosion like a supernova. Unlike other gods who have reasons to be invested in the planet, Caelestis' domain of space means that, other than piquing his curiosity, humanity (and life in general) ultimately holds little value to him unless he has decided otherwise.
As some might consider his personality to be vibrant and somewhat strong at times, it wouldn't be too far fetched to expect Caelestis to be a loud individual. However, quite the opposite is true. Verbally, he tends to be remarkably quiet. This stems from several factors. Firstly, being usually solitary due to the lack of consistent life in space means conversation partners are not overly common unless he's visiting humanity or other gods. Secondly, space doesn't exactly carry sound well. While his realm is a different story, his actual domain doesn't lend itself well to sound regardless of what form he takes. Thirdly, his natural state doesn't have an appropriate mouth structure, tooth alignment or vocal chord configuration for human speech. Talking in the way humans do was originally a pretty foreign concept to him, and only possible if in his human form. As such, a lot of his communication tends to focus more on nonverbal cues or soft, non-descript sounds like a gentle hum of agreement. He will talk if he has to, but he tends to keep his sentences short and to the point. However, the more familiar and comfortable he is around someone, the easier he finds it to talk to them. Once he gets talking to someone, it becomes quite evident he's fond of making jokes and has a bit of a teasing streak, but rarely is it ever backed by any truly malicious intent.
Powers:
Aside from the standard godly powerset of manipulating his own aura and teleporting to and from his realm, being the God of Space means Caeletis possesses a variety of additional powers relating to his domain. This mostly manifests in astronomical object manipulation, which he uses to carry out his role of maintaining the universe through the creation, manipulation, and - if necessary - destruction of celestial bodies. He is completely unable to create actual life or life-sustaining systems on planets, whether or not he formed them himself or he let them accrue over time by themselves in pre-existing gravitational fields. About as close as he can get to aiding life on planets is by ensuring a planet falls within a habitable zone, as well as protecting it from other astronomical objects, such as particularly large and threatening asteroids by redirecting their movement.
Other than the larger scale powers of creating things like stars and blackholes, he also has the ability to manipulate and use stardust. His main uses of this power can be categorised as creating stardust constructs and augmentation. The amount of energy it takes to form a construct - as well as the construct's stability - varies depending on its complexity, size and durability. For example, something like a simple platform isn't much of a bother, but something resembling a mechanical object would be too unstable to function. Augmentations on the other hand are applied to himself. The most commonly used one is for stardust powered flight. In the mortal world, this allows him to ignore the effects of gravity to levitate, float and fly around. In space, this allows him complete control of movement, despite the lack of gravity and air resistance generally leaving moving objects to the mercy of their own momentum, until they get caught in something else's gravitational field. It can also be used in the human world to a lesser degree to simply reduce the effects of forces on him, allowing him to make faster and more fluid movements. It's pretty easy to tell if Caelestis is using one of his stardust powers from how stardust seems to trail off him as he uses it, like little specks of light. The dust motes tend to fade out after a short while, meaning that there's typically a short but luminous trail following behind him, almost like he's shedding some mixture of light and glitter.
As well as these more noticeable powers, he possesses some more passive abilities. Most noticeably, the fact he can live quite happily in space. While in space, he can completely ignore the gravitational pulls of celestial bodies. He also seems utterly unaffected by the extreme temperatures - neither the frigid depths of space nor being next to a blazing star seems to get much of a reaction from him. He also apparently isn't bothered by the lack of air in space, and he doesn't have any issue with the variability of light intensity in space. But these passive abilities aren't entirely unique to him. Caelestis has the ability to seemingly cast enchantments, so people can temporarily be afforded protection from their surroundings in space. Of course, the protection they gain isn't quite on par with his own natural resistances, and the granted resistances are only temporary, but it's at least something he can do to prevent a human from immediately dying if he decides they need to visit outer space. Another passive ability he has is like a very basic form of telepathy. He cannot read minds, nor can he speak directly into one's mind. However, what he can do is essentially psychically projecting his thoughts. He is only capable of this in his natural form, as it solely facilitates communication due to how he is incapable of human speech, and not everyone can understand the more animalist sounds he can make. The only real differences between this and natural speaking it the fact there is an almost echoing quality to his voice, and his mouth doesn't physically move when talking this way. Likewise, he also has the ability to create wormholes through space, but due to the size of them, he can only really open them in his realm or in space itself. They're typically used to let him travel around from one end of the universe to the other in a flash.
One other rather obvious power is his ability to shift between his natural form and his human guise. Since his true form is a little bit different from what humans interact with on a daily basis, he doesn't like appearing that way in public. The drawback of using his human form instead is that some of his powers are weaker. This is partially to do with the fact some of his power is invested in maintaining his human form. His abilities get closer to their original strength if he's in his human form in space, but on the surface it's a different story. His astronomical object manipulation take the hardest hit, with anything he creates being much smaller and more controlled, meaning they are much less able to cause catastrophic accidental damages than if he created a regularly sized version at his full strength. This stops him from being a colossal risk by virtue of him just being a bit ditzy, possibly to the relief of other gods who have more invested in the planet. Likewise, his control over objects such as asteroids is also diminished. He can call upon small meteoroids that burn up in the atmosphere to create meteor showers from time to time, but in the case of something much larger (like an asteroid) heading for the planet, it takes a great toll on him to redirect it if he's on the planet and in his human form. To redirect an asteroid away in this state would be a complete last resort if he was somehow unable to return to space.
Servant/Experiment: TBD
Sexuality: Panromantic Asexual
Crush: Currently N/A
Other:- His name is pronounced like "Kay-less-tees". If he's familiar with an individual, he's usually fine with them calling him Cae (pronounced as "Kay") instead. The more comfortable he is around someone, the more he'll tolerate nicknames from them.
- A few variations of his title (as used by humans) exists, but he doesn't really keep track of them.
- Caelestis' realm is like a middle ground between Earth and space, in that it's not like any environment on the surface, but at least it has a fairly breathable atmosphere and some semblance of gravity. However, it's rather intricately linked with how he feels, meaning the landscape is highly variable and can shift right under your feet, seemingly defying any laws of physics that should exist.
- Somewhat related to the previous point, the ever changing nature of his realm and learning how to navigate it even in his human form has taught Caelestis how to run and jump between different surfaces with skill. So when he found out humans have a similar hobby of free running, he was understandably delighted. As such, he sometimes can be found just running with a group of people who are none the wiser to his identity. It might be kind of considered cheating though since he's a god.
- Surprisingly, Caelestis has better control over his glowing in his human form than his natural form. This is because as a human, his glowing trait only slips through when either he does it deliberately, or when he's using his powers a significant amount that results in the power maintaining his human form to weaken ever so slightly. His natural form on the other hand, while also glowing can be caused deliberately, it is also linked to his emotions, particularly strong ones.
- Caelestis can hear people who wish on shooting stars. It's mostly just dull background noise he's barely aware of, but sometimes he does listen to them. While a lot of them are ignored, sometimes the sincerity of one will move him enough to try his best to grant their wish, even if it means pestering another deity if it is completely outside of his control. He's not always successful.
- The K-T extinction event may or may not have been caused by a massive asteroid. Caelestis may or may not have had something to do with said asteroid. He regrets nothing.