Pazuzu

GENERAL
Name: Pazuzu
Nickname: Paz, Pazu, Zoo.
Birthdate: Best not ask a primordial being this question
Age: (Appearing late twenties)
Species: Babylon demon of famine, plagues, misfortune, and childbirth.
Gender/Pronouns: Male.

APPEARANCE
Pazu’s human body is a tall, lanky thing. The demon of plague and flies is rail thin, under his clothing ribs are jutting, shoulders knitted points under flesh, and the skin seems just a bit as though its stretched over his frame. His arms are longer than usual. His eyes are a bit sunken and gray in color, his brows knit heavily over his eyes. Pazuzu's nose is quite large, sitting a bit off-kilter from the center of his face, a throw back to his beak as a demon its studded with a dark nose ring. His hair is long -reaching to his shoulders, and dark blonde. The dreads in his hair make it seem a lot darker than the bright-blonde color that it was originally. Pazuzu has a small tuft of beard that refuses to grow any longer.He usually wears a dark blue button-up, boots, and jeans. He's not into be flashy, just functional.


PERSONALITY

Your imaginations put you in a bind
Around you there's a cloud of gloom
Swallow the key, lock yourself in a room
Can't see outside of your Universe

Pazuzu is incredibly confident, one does not earn the title of “king” to early humans by quivering in the dirt. He is incredibly hard to deter when he has something to take care of, which is particularly vile when its something like famine or pestilence. He has absolutely no fear, which has lead him into traps before. He’s a bit naive when it comes to hunters. Pazuzu, was usually invoked to protect early humans from the plagues and famine Pazuzu lorded over – so he doesn't really understand why others would want to banish his rear back to the underworld (which he can just crawl out of anyway, thank you very much).

Pazuzu is rather caring. The king of flies was often invoked to protect women and babies during childbirth. He’d protect them during the birthing process, and deter illness while babies were fragile after birth. This aspect shines through as him trying to be helpful and going out of his way to protect those he travels with. This often rubs his friend Briarvale the wrong way who can take care of himself thank you very much. When he stays in a city long enough he'll do ridiculous things like volunteer with children and at hospitals, which tend to upset hunters thoroughly when they find him. 

Pazu is incredibly adventurous, despite his clashes with other demons and hunters. He’ll often take the long (and dangerous) way of doing things. He often mingles with humanity to learn new things, like basket weaving. He enjoys working with his hands, and creating – reminiscent of his old ability of creating life. He is less likely to take out his rage on a small continent if he keeps himself busy. It's a huge fear of his of going overboard and causing harm to others who do not deserve it. For a demon, Pazuzu is incredibly aware of his strength and how to keep himself in check.

Paz is incredibly expressive, he might not have two sets of wings and an eagle’s head to express with any longer – but he relishes in conversing and often goes over the same topic to express it from all angles – with a variety of hand gestures. He’s very social and will go out of his way to bother with people even if its just discussing the proper use of a crockpot. Self respecting demons usually give him a wide berth, as they don't want to be known to be friends with the guy who stops humans to tell them that the street lamps look like bio-illuminating freezepops.

Plaugebringers usually have some flies swarming in their noodle, so it makes them hard to relate with others. It takes a while for people to warm up around Pazuzu and get used to his no-bars way of communicating. If something needs hastily communicated Pazuzu may let his traveling companion Briarvale do most of the talking, this can be a huge hindrance if important information needs to be passed along quickly. Paz doesn't have the barbed tongue many other hell-dwellers seem to have, he firmly believes that his flies are more attracted by his words sweetened with honey.





HISTORY

Ignoring ignorance in fields of fiction
We lean back in the calmest position
And embrace the honesty found within our tension


The most uninteresting part of his life is serving as the son of Hanbi - Pazuzu has put his life of rotting breezes and flies mostly behind him. After the fall of Babylon he has live surface-dwelling, all but for the uncomfortable instances he's banished back to hell by some ambitious hunter. The most colorful part of his history falls within the past few years. 

A few Samhain back he was keeping tabs loosely keeping an eye on a woman well into her pregnancy with pre-eclampsia. He has been keeping the hands of Lamashtu off of the women, preventing the dark goddess to take her for her own. He never would have thought that a peryton of all things would stalk someone in his protection - and had to fight off the peryton - later he come to know as Briarvale - from taking the women as an easy meal. Inadvertently, he spoke of his morals - only inflecting misfortune and poverty on the unclean, blighting food only to be fed to those to commit the unholy. It seemed to strike a chord in his newfound friend, and neither one seemed to wantpart the other. They accidentally formed a small sort-of-family, which is occasionally accompanied by stray cats.

With one of them a demon and the other a flesh-consuming creature, they naturally have to be on the move. Pazuzu ended up stealing an RV, at every hole-in-the-wall the stopped at he'd paint something more ridiculous onto their home. There's handprints of friendly hellspawn, creatures, even humans that Pazuzu found curious at the spectacle bus all along that back bumper - as sort of a postcard memento of where they've been. Neither one of them has a driver's liscene, so its probably best not to ask how they get out of traffic tickets.

EXTRA: He has no real fighting style. He has a huge knowledge to help him through die situations brought on by the supernatural, but paired with his inability to communicate clearly and his naivety it doesn't bode well when he's outside of his traveling group.

Possessions:

The mobile nest - affectionately referred to as "The Psychedelic Jellybean".

Notable Family/Relations: Briarvale (to be played by user Pocket) the peryton – partner in crime.