★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Inanna
Character Age: 21
Character Species: God
Current Health: Good, really good for someone who spent 9 months as a head.
Outfit: "Sweet Annie" outfit from getting re-embodied. He can, however, make his own outfits at will.

Character Canon:
Link to History: Link to Wiki
Canon Point: Volume Okay May 2, 2015 | 2019
Canon Iteration: Canon

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills:
Canon Abilities:
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: At will: horns, tails (up to 8), claws, and fangs. Nightvision. Resistance to poisons. When he lives up to his potential, he'll have good luck toward all his abilities and learning new ones. When he fails or falls prey to mythic weaknesses, he will lose the good luck (without any subsequent bad luck).
Role Reasoning:Others may consider him a thotless puppy because he is known to be selfless, generous, and kind. He also goes after what he wants, will give people who've wronged him the cold shoulder, has the arrogance to believe he could be a god, and can be unintentionally cruel.

Inanna believed it would take a miracle to allow him to be himself. It took being made a god and given carte blanche for two years with a death sentence for him to stop worrying about what society and everyone else thought and live. Because fuck collectivism. Fuck doing what is "best for the group" whether that group is society or the gods. Inanna's the #1 god unwilling to let Lucifer rot because it takes heat off them as a group/because Ananke says it's for the best. He will sneak around, break minor laws, and investigate the truth rather than accept a comfortable or convenient answer. He trusts himself more than the group.

Inanna will explore/waver on his godhood, his gifts, and what his potential is when his tomorrows aren't numbered.

★ Personality ★

Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:

CW: decapitation, living heads, murder, child murder, attempted mass murder, attempted matricide, people not being saved, gore, body horror

Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

You would think getting decapitated and living in a cave with one, then two, other decapitated head-only gods would be it. Impressively, not. No, the most traumatic experience is watching the man you love murder a child (if a 6,000 year old murderous child) after learning he killed children even when you were together and almost slaughtered 20,000 people including his own mum. Even more than accidentally breaking someone's heart, it forces Inanna to question his foundational beliefs to their core.

How can the trait you most love someone for because it's so good (will do anything for those he loves, an emotional rock demanding selflessness and responsibility) lead to such evil acts? Given everything happened in about, oh, the last 15 minutes, Inanna doesn't have any answers for this yet. Instead, upon Thirteen's invitation, he accepted the get out of jail free card, questioned himself back into godhood, and oscillates between his habit of just wanting to have a good time and existential doubt about what it means to be a person, about what each and every trait someone has could lead them to do. It could be paralyzing, or it could push him forward.

What is a headcanon (or two) you feel strongly about and that you prefer playing your character with? How is this supported in canon and why do you think it benefits the character's story?

I headcanon that Inanna is an underworld god—not every iteration but this one, 2013.

In Sumerian hymns, Inanna travels to the underworld, is killed, and comes back; as a politically ambitious goddess, one of the motivations to her trip was to extend her power to the underworld. Inanna too is decapitated, travels to the underworld, and returns. He speaks of having taken Baal to the underworld and recognizes this aspect of Inanna's history.

The underworld gods, in the Recurrence, are typically difficult for Ananke to control. Persephone embodies this as her sister/nemesis, but Lucifers, Morrigans, and other underworld gods upset her plans and force her to rework her plans time and again. Inanna, also, in the 450s, like the 2010s, defies Ananke to do as she wishes. Underworld gods aren't only goths.

It further deepens the hurt and pain of Baal's death when the option to bring him back is on the table. Oh it might have been pointless, as surely Baal would have wanted to die further when life comes at Inanna's expense. However, it makes Baal's death not only something that happens to Inanna but something Inanna becomes culpable in.

What are your characters dreams and nightmares? Do you believe they are more likely to obtain one rather than the other?

His dreams center around his wishes, his desires, and his identity. Inanna hasn't figured everything out. He's rejected labels and embraced living true to himself. What that is? How to explain it to himself and others? He lacks the language. Dreams are where that becomes bigger than life. Brighter more colorful colors than are real. Cosplay and himself across a wide range of roles that inspire him, including his favorite characters. Note, those characters are generally of the gender fuckery spectrum with gender turned up to 11: nonbinary, nonhuman, beyond comprehension of gender (think Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter or Freddie Mercury).

His nightmares are fueled by what happened during the Recurrence. The imagery snags from what he witnessed (Ananke behind a clueless Persephone singing, Sakhmet's damaged head, the symbols carved into faces and lips sewn shut, battles, Valentine and Minerva falling to their deaths) and what pieces he saw recordings of (e.g., Lucifer's and Ananke's deaths). The other stuff he learned comes in too. It's incredible what can happen with manipulation and the belief about what you are. It's not like that's something to worry about in Folkmore is it?

Inanna has a pretty even split as he tries to process what he's been through and who he is. The two are tied together hand in hand, the good and the bad, the past and the future.

Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?

Like everyone, come the every day, the common, the casual… Inanna can forgive some matters when apologized to and hold a grudge for months when not. He's neither a pushover nor blind, deaf, and dumb to people changing or making amends. The big things… the big things he hasn't exactly figured out the words to explain, but it goes like this:

Those wrongs that are enormous, epic, everlasting, the actions whose consequences cannot be undone… Inanna neither forgives nor, in the end, holds a grudge. Instead, he seeks understanding—the information (facts, emotions, context, etc) to understand why someone did what they did. That understanding doesn't make what they did ("they" can be Inanna in this context too) any better. It makes them human (general term). It lets him not see them simply as a hero or a villain but with all their foibles and flaws. Once he understands, there isn't the need for a grudge. The sting has been taken out or lessened. Neither does it demand forgiveness.

Forgiveness is still on the table… when there's a table, when someone's alive and doing the work, when someone changes and understands. Once that's gone, once there's no more table, only understanding remains.