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Here are my versions of sloth/diligence and greed/generosity!

WARNING: There are mentions of mental health issues.

Elihonuzba is a reserved and serious-minded fallen destroyer with depression and insomnia who, as his slothful self, suffers from a lack of motivation due to his jaded outlook on life. He gets bored easily when things begin to overstay their welcome or he slowly begins to lose interest in whatever is stimulating him. He’s a lover of ease - a sign of his aversion from work, having no problem with making up excuses to explain his inactivity and neglect his responsibilities. He has a fear of failure, change, and challenging situations, fueling his lack of confidence and commitment. He’s technically a master of procrastination and struggles with finding genuine enjoyment. He only puts legitimate effort into his work and relationships when his wife is around, providing him motivation and encouragement. As his diligent self, he’s careful and hard-working, possessing a great deal of self-discipline, motivation, and accountability. He has a willingness to adapt to change and a commitment to arriving and completing tasks on time. Elihonuzba is detail-oriented, reliable, and respectfully honest, and good at managing his time, prioritising tasks, and maximising efficiency.

Elihonuzba is a lanky ectomorph with a height of 6’ 8” (203.2 cm), an inverted triangular figure, broad shoulders, and a partially swollen belly. He has a short mop of thick and messy tower grey hair, and heterochromia eyes - the right is a red-lavender and the left is an amber. His delicate snow-white skin has icy blue and wisteria blushing on his cheeks, temples, and joints. He has six wings that mimic the colouration of a Eurasian griffon vulture, black claws and talons, and noticeable purplish bags under his eyes. His back is covered in ochre fur with streaks of pastel pink, brick red, and pearly white. He has upwards-facing horns that slightly curl with scarlet tips that fade into its purplish-white hue. He dons a purple ametrine solitaire on his right ring finger with a golden band underneath and Usekh collar of faience, gold, sapphire, turquoise, red beryl, obsidian, and rose glass. He’s draped in a voluminous violet-dotted toga of gold, and wears a long-sleeved, knee-length acapulco tunic with paradiso stripes. He wears ankle-length pants of extremely soft albino rabbit fur with repeating dots of jade and bright red-pink. He also has a silver girdle wrapped around his hips and fluffy celadon slippers with carnation pink bottoms. He often carries around an 8 ft (243.84 cm) rectangular cotton cushion with a creamy white pillowcase that has an alternating pattern of brown, black, pink, green, purple, and yellow stripes. Elihonuzba wields a scythe with a metallic blue blade that has a permanently sharp crescent edge. The scythe also has a wavy handle of bronze, a silk-bound grip, and a rabbit foot tied to near the sunstone-encrusted ring.

He can manipulate diligence, perseverance, endeavour, exercise, responsibility, sloth, inertia, sleep, the essence of death, destruction, and judgement, and induce fear in all sentient beings. He’s able to banish entities he views as unwelcomed from the terrace of Sloth and Eylvhraszokjumni. He’s capable of absorbing emotions, and he’s impossible to be moved by an external physical force. Elihonuzba has the ability to project a magical field the size of an average mansion that absorbs the kinetic energy of all living things within its radius, immobilising everything that moves inside. He has a mastery over all professions and jobs imaginable, an immunity to overexertion, and the ability to accelerate to high speeds. He’s able to concentrate his strength into a certain point of his body and perform an infinite number of distinct tasks in a finite amount of time.

FAMILY:

Hersudolitja (wife)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Virtue of Diligence

Sin of Sloth

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

As an Æylphitus, his name means “unto the lord are my eyes”.

He was kicked out of Eylvhraszokjumni after the monotony of his job as a destroyer and the build up of his depression and insomnia got the better of him, negatively impacting his motivation.

He rules the terrace of Sloth in Plugaboktezrin

The snail is his favourite animal

His home is located in an average-sized mountain and it’s full of comfy blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, exotic pelts, geodes, lamps, fine china, vintage alcoholic beverages, and junk food. He’s often lying on a gilded-bronze accubitum with silky pastel-coloured cloths and cotton pillows in varying shades of blue and green spread over them. In front of his accubitum is a golden coffee table with a durable glass top and legs that have sculpted dog feet. Each side of the table has a head in the middle: a lion (front); a ten-horned dragon (right); a bear (left); and a leopard (back).

Zurishalonde is a perfectionistic and strategic fallen chalkydri who, as his greedy self, has a desire to acquire more material gain and social power. He has a dissatisfaction of never having enough as he believes that he deserves more, even if it comes at someone else's expense. He lacks self-awareness and compassion, and he possesses a competitive nature to outdo others and acquire more resources. He’s an overtly self-centred expert in manipulation, and he has a strong mindset on overabundance to meet his selfish desires and need for survival. This fuels his materialistic drive, protectively keeping his personalised economic assets to himself and not sharing. The only person who he’ll vehemently and respectfully share his possessions and wealth with is his distant cousin. As his generous self, he has a willingness to give his all to less fortunate individuals as he can feel their struggles. He simply gives without hopes of receiving compensation for his good deeds, and he’s energetic and trustworthy. He gratefully appreciates everything, spreading his kindness to everyone who personally encounters him. Zurishalonde is an optimistic idealist who has the capability of meticulously matching all of his intentions and expectations to reality.

He’s 10’ 4” (314.96 cm) with a triangular endomorphic body type that has broad shoulders, a square chest, thick arms, and a bloated belly. His scaly ashen skin has a hint of green and violet, and pinkish stretch marks on his upper arms and belly. Throughout his torso, arms, and back are jade warts, and he has parotoid glands that produce poisonous secretions. He has curly circumareolo-pecto-sterno-infraclavicular chest and disperse abdominal hair in pale khaki. Zurishalonde has the head of an Orinoco crocodile, the lower half of a Dutch Landrace goat, the tail of a jaguar, and twelve purplish-red wings from his back. He has five sunburst coral bush-aloe wash eyes with teal slit pupils - two on each side of his face and one on the middle of his forehead. Out of the sixty-eight teeth that he has: five of them are pure gold, one is made from diamond, and three are solid silver.

He possesses an elaborate gold-plated Cuban link chain adorned with seven rectangular lapis lazuli, five circular black onyx, four triangular jadeite, and a turquoise lotus in the middle. He has a golden septum piercing and Nuremberg egg hanging from his neck, and his four arms have fish-scaled vambraces of gilded brass. His sharpened fingers are adorned with different rings: a silver dome; a metallic green filigree; a rose-shaped cluster of pink pearls; a red beryl signet; a jadeite solitaire; a tanzanite cocktail; a golden knot; and a bronze puzzle. Zurishalonde’s attire consists of a white collar shirt, a sprucestone tie, an orchid haze waistcoat with brandied apricot stripes, and a sea foam green business jacket. His business jacket has a left side breast pocket in margarita green, sleeve cuffs, and bronze buttons. He often carries around an antiqued brass walking cane with a rosewood shaft and a Victorian spyglass handle that has engraved leafy patterning. This cane has a removable brass ring between the handle and walking stick, and a compass that’s used as a closure for the spyglass.

He can alert all of the birds in the multiverse for a new day by breaking into song at sunrise, and manipulate the Sun’s course around Earth, bringing heat and dew. Besides the consumption of souls, he can absorb mental energy, satisfaction, happiness, and political and artistic power. He has the ability to manipulate greed, currency, economies, quality, quantity, and charity. He’s able to buy, barter, and steal absolutely everything that is tied to his deepest darkest desires and lust for material gain. Zurishalonde also has the skill to create contracts with any sentient being in exchange for their most valuable possession. He has a secret treasure trove of rare weapons and shields that only grants him access, and a monopoly over all aspects of life. He can bestow good luck and fortune, and purify a person from their sins by making them drink liquid mercury that’s tinted with his blood.

FAMILY:

Remuloktiah (distant cousin)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Virtue of Generosity

Sin of Greed

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

As an Æylphitus, his name means “my rock is sufficient”.

He was kicked out of Eylvhraszokjumni after stealing their most sacred treasures and trying to secretly hoard them for himself.

He rules the terrace of Greed in Plugaboktezrin

The toad is his favourite animal

He lives in a looming corporate building of Neoclassical architecture, residing in his exquisite and luxurious office. His desk is mounted on top of a pile of money, gold, and expensive items, and the walls are adorned with animal trophies and rare paintings. The entrance doors to his office are an emerald green, depicting two hungry lions trying to devour a flaming golden sun that’s in the centre.

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