NAME; Elijah Maddock
TRUE NAME; Malthus (Halphas)
AGE; centuries old; appears ~35
GENDER; Male
HEIGHT; 6’1”
WEIGHT; ~180 lbs
SPECIES; Demon
OCCUPATION; Stealing souls, making promises, forgetting he’s supposed to be an insurance salesman.
LOCATION; Boston; anywhere he’s summoned
APPEARANCE; A man of disarming smiles and striking green eyes, Eli comes across as clean-cut and respectable, with a certain amount of rugged charisma reflected in a crooked nose and relaxed features. His clothing often reveals a preferred combination of function, comfort, and fashion; Eli is not above taking pains to look good, and can often be found in pressed shirts and blazers, dressed down or up as appropriate.
He often wears reading glasses.
PERSONALITY; Eli is kind of a crappy demon. Personality flaws and cardinal sins have manifested all wrong to create a creature of hell oddly disinterested in big-picture goals like
world domination and
the apocalypse; Eli mostly wants to sit around and get people to do things
for him, and his powers are well suited to that task. He is horribly vain, egotistical, and lazy; a hedonist at heart with just enough drive to get what he wants, and little else. So long as his needs are met, the demon comes across as easy-going, even gentle, and prone to light-hearted humor. Evil for evil’s sake is not usually in the cards.
Eli has an almost innocent charm about him. He finds humans and human things
fascinating, but this is often twisted into a parody of true naïveté; snuggies are just as amazing as the way skulls burst open. It’s all the same sick source of amusement, because Eli largely sees humans as a resource for entertainment – but with the condescending affection of an arrogant caretaker looking after a stupid, if hilarious pet. His
demon-ness may not manifest in the kill-everyone, humans-are-meat sort of way, (because that sort of mentality sounds like a little too much effort, really), but he’s certainly detached emotionally from what he views as a lesser species. Eli presents as oddly cheerful, dangerously intelligent (if occasionally awkwardly misinformed), and difficult to faze for both of these features. He takes everything in stride and appreciates appearing in control.
Not being bound by conventional morals, his preferences at any given moment tend to be based more upon what pleases him than any sort of right or wrong – Eli chooses to make deals with humans because it’s
fun, just as he may choose to let you live because you’re a
curiosity. Humans are like toys, and they’re meant to be played with and not simply broken.
He is, otherwise, rather pleasant – for a demon.
-Has a weird obsession with arts and crafts, and is absurdly good at them.
Absurdly. He will make you a macaroni card Mona Lisa, and you will like it.
-Eli seals every deal made with a Polaroid. He scrapbooks his contractual records. Despite being covered in rickrack, his bookkeeping is meticulous and precise – and
fantastic.-
Eli is not a good person. He is lazy and self-absorbed and may come across as naïve or even sweet,
but he knows it, and has no problem using it to his advantage. Those facts make him easy to manage, but don’t mistake his gestures for kindness. If he’s helping you, he’s probably only helping himself – or worse, it’s because you’ve made yourself
interesting.
HISTORY; Malthus was moderately successful in hell; he was good at procuring souls and good at giving orders – but a little
not so good at taking them. He did his thing for a few centuries, because what else do demons do but command armies and con people, but it was pretty boring and hell kind of sucked. Humans clearly had all the nice shit (there are no iPhones in hell) and other demons tended to have giant sticks up their asses, so when a botched summoning by some teenage girls left Mal and Caim free and clear on earth, he leapt at the chance to take some time off. Because bureaucracy sucks, and free will sounds kind of awesome.
He has spent the time since pretending to be a human (poorly), meddling in other people’s business, living in Boston? with Seamus, and generally being a honey badger. Sometimes, when he remembers that he has a job, Eli sells insurance. He is, unsurprisingly, very good at it.
