KEEP STUMBLING PATIENTLY
A retired detective who initially came to the train in search of their sister, Míra, only to find she had been killed by Mazin. Although they ultimately decided to spare the man’s life, unfulfilled vengeance left its mark on their heart. They’ve been floating atop waves of continuous rolling grief and misery for years, with the only sponge being preoccupation — aiding Ulises with per experiments being the most cardinal.
NAME: DEMETER DELILA ERŐS
TRAIN TITLE: SOLECISM
PRONOUNS: THEY/THEM
AGE: 35
ETHNICITY: HUNGARIAN RROMANI
PRIOR RESIDENCE: HUNGARY
IDENTITY: GAY TRANSFEM AGENDER
TRAIN ENTRY DATE: JUNE 5 2106
"neither news nor ashes"
PROJECTION
HISTORY
early life
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pre fornax
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on fornax
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post fornax
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PERSONALITY
Cerebral, abstract and self-disciplined. — Inhibited, jaded, stagnant.
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RELATIONSHIPS
ulises
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míra
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mazin
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valerie
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faris
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dalisay
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sabri
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thuyết
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olzhas
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somsak
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freya
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isel
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peixin
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marjolaine
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beatrix
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cas
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lanuola
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lusine
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omar
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APPEARANCE
FACE: Rounded square shape overall, with a prominent double chin. Nose is short and aquilined, with a sharp bump near the bridge. Eyebrows have a raised, arclike shape, and are decently thin. Eye color is a light, hazel-y brown. Amblyopia presents itself in their left eye, which tends to angle itself upward — the corresponding eyelid also falls slightly. Light eyebags and crows feet are visible, alongside natural dark undereye circles. Their visceral vision is extremely blurry, and so they almost always don their rounded pince-nez glasses. Their facial hair is extremely patchy, usually shaved down to stubble. Mustache is usually still prominent despite this.
HAIR: Colorwise, a brown midtone. Extremely wavy with well-maintained curls. The cut is a bit strange — at the forehead, they have choppy, extremely short bangs, partially limited in length by slow incoming balding. The hair at the sides near the ears are the longest portions, and flow freely to the base of their shoulders. The back is once again cut short to about chin-length, and is often extremely scruffy, sticking out oddly.
BODY: They’re the tallest person on the train, standing at 6’1. Fat with mainly lower body weight, particularly in the stomach and thighs. Body hair is fairly thick, with a notable concentration near the chest. Their forearms are heavily scarred with mild scratches, burn marks, scale-y rough regions and discolored patches that divagate from being either paler, darker and more bruiselike and vibrant.
MAIN OUTFIT: Features the exoskeleton of a simplistic fancy suit. They wear a dark grey dress shirt that features some sharpened, silvery hemming, matching the chest of the blouse which is embroidered with abstract spirals. The topmost two buttons are usually left agape. They have a dark teal tie wrangled loosely around their neck, which features yet more embroidery — this time a depiction of a burning yellow comet. This hangs out past the mouth of their vibrant orange blazer, which is maybe the most captivating part of their outfit, featuring a jagged collar and sharply serrated lapels, the latter of which are decorated with large golden buttons. A black belt mostly hides beneath this, though part of it is worn loosely, freely falling at their side and displaying the inlaid golden moon phases pattern on the interior side of itself. Their pants resemble exceptionally loose bell bottoms, and feature circular patterns resembling The Starry Night painting’s skyscape. They don dark teal heels with decently chunky undersides — they close with a clasp yet again shaped like a meteor. They’ve also got black socks on. They wear their black leather gloves near-permanently, mostly to avoid cigarette burns when smoking.
GENERAL FASHION STYLE: They follow a seminal rule of keeping things simple, regardless of overall style — many of their auxiliary garments are often solid-colored blocks of clothing with minimal patterning or texturing, with any kind of decoration being limited to miniscule bits of embroidery at the hems, pockets or sleeves. This stems from a years-long insistence on independently sprucing up their clothing, and perhaps more damningly, their usual lethargy and uninterest in working on anything for too long. Stars and circular abstract rings are their favorite thing to compose, mostly because, in their own words, "I can give up on them any time and they’ll still likely look artistic, or at the very least, decent to look at." They usually don’t like wearing things that are too flashy, keeping to compositions of majorly deep sealike tones and only ONE bright color at most — this also extends to shapes, usually avoiding overly gimmick-y clothing and elements like shoulder-pads or frills.
The most variable part of their wardrobe is honestly their shoeswear… Naturally they value a good set of work boots or a classy pair of dress shoes, but especially around train times, they’ve taken a liking to low-height heels with "any legs that aren’t too spindly and arachnid." They’re also quite fond of coats, particularly the variety that drape around their entire body and weigh them down… they simply think its cozy.
Most of their outfits do indeed follow the structure of suits, of variable formality — they quite enjoy the incorporation of fancy vests and jackets whenever possible, and often prefer wearing long-sleeved shirts. They occasionally also wear dresses and skirts, though again keep things formal, often pairing the former up with capes or cloaks and almost exclusively choosing ones of long length.
Their fashion sense, to most people, is extremely trendy and "in", if a little generic. Their humility about overdoing motifs and their structural brevity often leaves a bit to be desired, especially by people who are more fashion-conscious and critical of homogenising styles… Demeter couldn’t really care less, though. Their only concern is looking 'presentable enough' and nothing more. Except, maybe, their more homely passive desire of simply wanting to show off impressionist styles they like in their couture.
POSTURE AND MOVEMENT: A major thing to establish is that their senses of sight and hearing are slightly obliqued — considering the amblyopia in their left eye and matching deafness in the same sided ear — and so they intermittently struggle with balance. Since the former’s a congenital thing and the other was acquired in their youth, they’ve never really felt the need to adopt a mobility aid, having grown used to their internally devised system of motion that keeps their ambulation 'safe'.
What that entails, precisely… They usually walk at a very slow speed, often focusing on maintaining full, well-distributed weight on their feet. When walking in a vacant space, they’ll stick close to the walls and brush their arm across said surface to maintain balance. Railings on walls, a distinct feature of Winter architecture, are invaluable to them for this reason. In furnished rooms they’ll often grab the sides of chairs and tables as they move along, and if they have to stand, they’ll often plant their palms on the surface of such nearby obstacles for the sake of stability. They also tend to angle the left side of their body to walls, posts, or people they trust (if they’re there) mostly so that they don’t get caught off-guard by any newcomers. They’re hardly ever seen pacing around or gesturing wildly, mostly because those kinds of quick, jerky movements can quickly disorient them — it’s not uncommon to see them resting somewhere all statuesque and unmoving, suspended in motionlessness for minutes at a time.
There’s some more specific mannerisms that crop up around their face. For one, they have a habit of tilting their head away from people whilst talking to them, for the sake of either seeing or hearing them better. In the midst of bright lights, they may shut their bad eye and henceforth only depend on their opposing one for sight — this mainly happens while they’re Fornaxgazing and caught off-guard by sudden bursts of light and color, since most indoor train lighting is dull enough to not bother them.
They have a habit of messing with their glasses whilst talking — the most frequent presentation of this is them simply pushing their glasses up their nose with their middle finger joint.
VOICE: Deep and smooth, although also well-scratched up by their smoking habits. There’s a profound "gravelly" quality to their voice, but the scratchiness I’m describing isn’t really abrasive or harsh. It’s moreso just a general dulling-down of all their words. Their consonants usually 'roll' and falter, unstressedly, granting them a very soft-spoken consistency — likewise their vowels inconsistently extend themselves, with them often either hanging on them for too long. There’s often very little rise or fall as they speak, though this hardly makes them stonily monotone — due to their breathiness they actually moreso come across as permanently 'awed' or impressed. To an extent it resembles the kind of speech someone may have when they’re about to fall asleep, heh. This blanket of unfocus does lift whenever they’re very invested in a conversation or just uttering quick asides, wherein their pronounciation gets noticeably 'sharper'. The pace of their speech is often voluntarily very slow, mostly so that they can plan out their phrasing comfortably in the midst of active talk… They insist on refraining from needless repetition and restarts of sentences, finding it shameful and frustrating on behalf of the person they’re talking to. Another grievance they have with their own speech is their general sense of pronounciation, in English, at the very least — since a lot of their English was learned through reading and they didn’t have much experience speaking it aloud prior to entering Fornax, they’re prone to pronouncing things phonetically to what they deem an "egregious" extent — such as pronouncing stoic as stoick. In truth there’s rarely any actual misunderstanding arising out of their enunciation, but… they do fear embarrassment!
As implied their accent strays quite far from an Average English one… Most of their pronounciation relies on their home tongues of Hungarian and German, and so their accent is a decently thick blend of the two. It’s been watered down over the years, due to them adopting some speech mannerisms from other traingoers and also just getting to exercise their English more. The most major audible change, I’d say, is the aforementioned 'softness' of their tone.
ENVIRONMENT
train room
Their train room technically lies in Winter, though since the dawn of 2107 they’ve lived with Ulises in Spring and might as well be a resident of that district instead. Their old room is actually permanently locked from within the Fornax database, with only Ulises being able to undo this — the exact same mechanism utilised to guard off ghost’s rooms to prevent intrusion.
If someone were to enter it, they’d be greeted with a stuffy, compact display of a dimly lit apartment that moreso resembles an office. It’s a direct model of the house they used to share with Míra, still retaining quirks from her way of dwelling — such as a dishevelled extra bed, a scattered wall full of abstract paintings and a deposit of fishing gear in an obscure corner. Of course they’ve also motioned over their own portion of that place, most distinctly, a small office portion that barely supports its own large bookshelf and desk, the both of which bear extremely untidy skins of papers, documents, booklets…
Although Ulises’ room is majorly arranged to function well as a laboratory, the 'backstage' portion that houses both her and her darling fares a bit more Demeteresque influence. They’ve mimicked their aforementioned office setup, though upon Ulises' recommendation, it’s a far larger independent room that gives them more space to breathe. This room (and part of the two’s shared bedroom) features a lot of homely wooden decoration such as ornately carved furniture, small statuettes here and there, alongside a menagerie of complicated rugs, yet more suspended, one-line shelves for more books… They’re also fond of decorative chandeliers, albeit not overly elephantine ones.
frequented areas
Despite their rejection of a Winter Distict residence, they actually do spend a lot of time visiting the so-called metropolitan areas of it. That is to say, it’s their favorite district to wander about aimlessly in, mostly because of the indulgent frequency of balconies. They’re good perches for smoking and Fornaxgazing, and they’ll often spend hours at a time just shifting between parallel outlooks…
They’re usually not too fond of going beyond the Spring District — they find Summer too constrictive and limiting, especially with regards to the lack of balconies, and Autumn feels too labyrinthine and wide to comfortably wade through.
TRIVIA
☀︎ They are ambidexterous — they taught themself to use both hands equally dominantly whilst working as a carpenter, which as it turns out, is a useful skill to develop! It came into heavy use during their detective days, though the ability did wane once they entered the train and also… their lethargic depression. Though their flexibility’s died off a bit nowadays, they’re actually trying to rebuild the ability, mostly demonstrated by them often alternating hands while lighting cigarettes.
☀︎ They specifically utilise the "Deh-meh-tur" pronunciation of their name, though this was something a lot of people missed when initially sighting their name on Fornax’s databases. One of them being Ulises herself, who opted for a more personally familiar "De-meet-er" when first talking to them. Being endeared by it, it kind of became a joke between the two of them, eventually leading to the formation of the nickname "Demi". Ulises is the only person permitted to call them that, and the only person permitted to call them by a nickname baseline, heh.
☀︎ They have a decently severe fear of needles — though it’s not to the point of like fainting if they just see one or anything, they often get anxious about anyone handling any and tend to try to visually ignore any in their periphery whenever one’s around.
☀︎ In their early 20s they managed to actually publish a handful of novellas and poetry collections, albeit restricted to local magazines and distribution, in a limited amount as well… Most of their work was actually received quite poorly due to being too pompous and self-obfuscating, indulging too heavily in meaningless surrealist imagery, those sorts of complaints. That’s not to mention the works of theirs that were wholly rejected right out of the gate. They never taught much of this reception, mostly because the majority of their works were often scattered first drafts that they actually purposefully refused to touch up and revisit in editing.
Post-train entry, they’ve actually returned to the habit of writing, mostly limited to scattered, disorganised fragments of poetry. There’s probably some unfinished manuscripts of a book or two just sitting in their old train room, though those have been completely untouched by anything besides dust for years and years.
☀︎ They know how to play acoustic guitar, very vaguely — it’s a skill they thought themself while on the train, following Ulises’ encouragement and hovering mentorship. Prior to this they were exempt from the usual custom of getting taught a 'signature instrument' because, uh, yeah, getting orphaned in your youth and having to deal with that while also raising your sister will make you focus on more important things maybe.
☀︎ Talking about their linguistic affairs is kind of difficult, mostly because they’re kind of all over the place. They’re fluent in Hungarian and were taught it as a child, albeit mixed with Rromani and some informal quaint German. The latter became a bit rusty the older they got, until they relearnt it in their mid-to-late 20s, basically approaching it as a foreign language. The Rromani they know is also a disbalanced mixture of Sinte and Vlax Rromani. Their fluency in English, as can be inferred from the accent description, is also a bit stilted especially when spoken as opposed to reading/writing in the language, but they are more or less fluent in it — reiterating that they mostly learned it through reading novels and plays. Otherwise they’re privy to bits of conversational Greek, French, Dutch and most notably, Spanish, which was taught to them by Ulises.
☀︎ Their middle name — Delila — was actually self-chosen. Its origin lies in their mother’s own name verbatim.
META
ROLE
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SUPPLEMENT
☀︎ Funnily enough their most prominent influence is probably Sasha Nein from Psychonauts? When I set out to design them I characterised them as a similar, somewhat aloof and irresponsible mentor figure to Dalisay, and although I think they’ve gotten yet more distant as time’s gone by, that 'cold overseer who still cares for the protagonist and also thinks the protagonist reminds them of themself when they were younger' basis is still extant. And also they both smoke big fucking cigars!!!!
☀︎ Oh also the Sasha connection is trenchant enough that I basically accept him as a voiceclaim for them, give or take a few accent tendencies haha.
☀︎ Has some DNA stemming from Tallstar of Warrior Cats fame, mostly in terms of the "going on a quest to avenge a dead family member only to eventually spare their killer" thing. Tallstar’s impulsiveness and longing for travel and solitude (at the very least in the book Tallstar’s Revenge) definitely leeched into Demeter as well.
☀︎ Significant influences are also that genre of sad gay men that people on Tumblr find profound. Notable examples being Miles Edgeworth and Kim Kitsuragi although take that with a grain of salt because MOST of my knowledge of those guys is secondhand.
☀ They have their roots in an older WIP of mine, actually: Sunny Venus. That’s a story I planned and failed to write back in like early 2020 about a detective named Demeter going to a weird town where they have to like… come to terms with the existence of a seperate dimension based on every resident’s dreamscapes, sort of having to slip back and forth between the realm of the living and the asleep to solve a mystery. I suppose some very basic ideas from that WIP got carried over into CCS, such as characters having titles and all the motifs in the outfits, and the rather closed setting, and the focus on "mystery" if you can even call anything in CCS that on a serious level, though I’d hardly call CCS a "descendent" or "evolution" or any other successive term when it comes to its relation to SV. They’re very different stories. I’d honestly call the old 'Demeter' character more adjacent to Míra, being way more explosive and neurotic… I think the major inheritance was just the hairstyle of that character haha.
☀︎ Honestly because SV has such an evaporative connection to CCS, I’ll use Demeter’s page as a soapbox for SV influences in other characters’ conduct real quick. Rana doesn’t have a direct equivalent but was Freya-adjacent and I ended up reusing her mosaic motif for the general look of the Fornax Reality; the dude named Mazin has literally nothing to do with CCS Mazin (who was nearly named Malik, by the way!) and I think it’s a very funny coincidence that SV Demeter and Mazin were meant to be partners while CCS Demeter and Mazin are anything but; Mere was actually about to get ported over into CCS wholesale as an early version of Somsak, later getting redirected into Beatrix (who inherited being Māori from it, actually, and was about to inherit its name also) and yet again getting redirected into Marjolaine (green coat wearers!); Kiran was a prototype Somsak, though I was only loosely conscious of this character as I developed him… I’m just naturally, repetitively drawn to including a mean shit kid in my stories because it’s an extremely funny character archetype to me.
PLAYLIST
☀︎ SHATNER’S LAMENT — THANK YOU SCIENTIST
☀︎ …AND THE BATTLE BEGUN — RX BANDITS
☀︎ SPRING / SUN / WINTER / DREAD — EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
☀︎ NEW SKIN — TORRES
☀︎ BEEKEEPER — KEATON HENSON
☀︎ FEET FOR HANDS — EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
☀︎ BIRDWATCHING — THANK YOU SCIENTIST
☀︎ THE RECLUSE — CURSIVE
☀︎ ,14 — THE MARS VOLTA
☀︎ THE SHELTERING SKY — KING CRIMSON
☀︎ AFTER DARK — ORANGUTANG
☀︎ WE SLEEP IN PAIRS — EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
☀︎ KALEIDOSCOPE — BADBADNOTGOOD
☀︎ 4AM — ANTEMASQUE
☀︎ JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE — RADIOHEAD
☀︎ PULASKI — ANDREW BIRD
☀︎ L’ENVOL — CARAVAN PALACE
☀︎ DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? — CHICAGO
☀︎ HOUSES IN MOTION — TALKING HEADS
☀︎ THE FURTHER SIDE — NOVA COLLECTIVE
☀︎ LIGHTS — OMAR RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ
☀︎ MARIA — ALICEBAND
☀︎ SKIN IS, MY — ANDREW BIRD
☀︎ K49 — THE MARS VOLTA
☀︎ BURY A FRIEND — NOVENA
☀︎ TERRIBLE THINGS — BRICK + MORTAR
☀︎ LETTER FROM A BELGIUM — THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
☀︎ THE WIDOW — THE MARS VOLTA
☀︎ IN THE CRATERS ON THE MOON — THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
☀︎ FAUST ARP — RADIOHEAD
☀︎ FANGS — LITTLE RED LUNG
☀︎ CONCERTINA — THE MARS VOLTA
☀︎ TELEVATORS — THE MARS VOLTA
☀︎ UP THE WOLVES — THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
☀︎ GUNMAN — THEM CROOKED VULTURES
☀︎ LAPOCHKA — THE MARS VOLTA
☀︎ MESSIAH COMPLEX I: IVORY TOWER — HAKEN