Pali - Guardian of Pain

The ever sadistic and twisted Guardian of Pain, Pali is one of the Guardians that inhabit the world of Alanoth, having been sent there by the Ancients after causing her share of trouble.

A violent outsider to the traditional guardian and a sadistic psycho by all accounts, she roams the land tormenting anything she can find to sate her pleasure for pain, breaking either their mind or their body into pieces. Whether a hapless and innocent hatchling or one of the most infamous factions of the entire land, Pali considers them all fair game and is more than willing to break them apart or treat them like common prey.

Appearance
Standing tall at 30 feet and 6 inches, her scales are a lightish brown with red patterns adorned on her body, spines dotted around her backside, strange looking horns on her head, and four spikes on her tail.

Her body is made of a fake flesh, like most guardians based around ideas in particular, notably being made up of scales which are made of a mix of keratin and the material her horns are made of, so they're relatively stronger than mortal scales

Unlike fellow Guardians like Nera or Petra, she's got a fair amount of Sko within her. This grants her various powers like disappearing into black smoke, She's not twisted enough to be fully immune to the Pitch Plague but it affects her a little different than most Guardians, turning her even more twisted and cold.

She's also one of the few Guardians to have an anatomy, where as Guardians like Nera or Petra are mostly made of their element, Pali has an anatomy, something she takes full advantage of when encountering hapless travelers, she can create a red hagfish slime as a digestive element but she's also known to drink acid in order to speed up her prey's pain, even if she's hurt herself. Any prey she takes that perishes within her are absorbed into her essence like any other Guardian, doomed to be part of her for eternity.

Personality
"Y'know what makes for a good wake-up drink? A human flailing around in a scalding hot cup of tea. The screams freshen it up, like a wedge of lemon." - Pali in a nutshell.

As her surtitle implies, Pali is known for being a sadistic and cruel creature, taking great pleasure in breaking the various living creatures found around her.

She is a Guardian looked down upon by others, being a sadistic creature who enjoys torturing anything below her, carrying a dark glee as she does so, the sole exception being her pet Beryl. She generally prefers keeping her victim alive as long as possible to draw out the torture. even if they want to die she'll drag it out as long as possible. She'll also go after anything, regardless of how old or young they are, and no matter what, if they aren't dead, they'll wish they were dead after dealing with her.

She's not the most emotional Guardian, she has a deep enjoyment for torment and torture, gaining a sick pleasure in mentally destroying anything she comes across and playing with several means of breaking a mortal in two. She's known to speak about the dark and twisted topics in a casual tone.

She notably doesn't enjoy her OWN pain, however she's not adverse to doing so if it means creating more pain in somebody else, drinking acid in particular being one such example, she enjoys the fear but doesn't like pain inflicted upon her.

She typically kills all of her victims, but if she despises them beyond all anger, she leaves them horribly disfigured in her own way of being so

Abilities
"Pali closes her eyes and delves deep into the human's mind, searching for his worst nightmare and bringing it up. His screams were pained, but when that nightmare ended, she injected a memory of her torturing him, then played that back in his head. His screams could be heard for miles, shrill and torturous." - Pali breaking some poor sod apart. She's capable of reading minds, a trait shared by all Guardians, capable of reading a creatures base thoughts and emotions, forcing her way into a victims psyche, tormenting the poor creature, manipulating them to cause immeasurable pain, she does have a boosted mind compared to most, capable of causing pain with her mental powers, including blunt brain explosions and instilling nightmares, hallucinations and heavy illusions, which often affect intelligent and powerful beings best, one such example making it seem like it's shifting Pali's location a few feet in a different direction, so they don't hit where she is. She has to work at peoples deepest thoughts more than someone like Nera, but on the flip-side she's not as weak to mental attacks like she is.

Beyond this, she has extensive knowledge on various torture methods, from cutting off oxygen, brushing sand into victims in the desert, tossing them around, emitting loud painful screeches, including a high frequency sounds that instill an agonizing sensation in her victims, breaking their neck.

She's also incapable of instilling fake memories into a victims mind, either to torture them or manipulate them on some level, such as forcing a Draknovi to drop their weapons if need be.

Finally she can also limit a beings senses, such as touch, sight, hearing and smell, forcing her victims to wander the world lost, she mainly uses this to further destroy and break her victims mentally, depriving them of vital senses when they need them most, but she can also use this for more mundane purposes, like stopping Beryl's throat muscles reflexive actions to stop hiccups.

However she's incapable of making portals so she's confined to the planet, given it's highly unlikely Petra or anyone else would be taking her off the planet.

In direct combat she's fairly melee focused, slamming her tail into her foes, vivisecting them with the bladed appendages on her tail, crushing into them with her feet, biting them, or notably swallowing them whole, generating a vicious red alien sludge to ruin her victims, she's also known to drink acid which hurts herself in the process but she can deactivate her taste sensories.

Relationships
Pali releases the hug and lowers her eyes, raising them after a couple seconds. "Whatever happens, whoever wants to hurt you, I won't let that happen. I was once an uncaring, unloving beast, but when I saw you dying on the forest floor, I felt a tug... So I saved your life. When I had seen you curse the purple charlatan so many years later, that tug returned, and after a lifetime of feigning feelings I recognized that tug as love. I may have only had you for a couple days, but you feel like a family pet already, and that's why I'll never let you fall to another's claws" - Pali and Beryl Finding Beryl alone after being attacked by a mulberry colored dragon who beat her to near death, leaving her in the woods to die. In an uncharacteristic moment of kindness, Pali took her in and healed her up, Finding her insatiable lust to destroy the dragon who hurt her adorable, she helped her find the culprit behind her injuries, a Draknovi Administrator by the name of Fal'Niir, a master of disguise who intended to use Beryl as a distraction, the two proceeded to kill him, but having nothing left to chase after, Beryl fell under her wing, where she gained the confidence to discover other things to fight for.
 * Beryl

Nicknaming her Berry, based on her blueberry color scheme, she keeps Beryl like a close pet, finding her never ending edgy demeanor and her lust for violence endearing, giving her a spiky collar to mark her as such, albeit Beryl either not noticing or not minding given her feet already have several of those as is.

The two remained close, traveling all over the land of Tanzanite ever since then, with Pali often teaching the buffoonish blueberry new things every other day or so, being one of the few creatures Pali doesn't torture and break apart like a kid playing with ants, albeit she's not adverse to instilling some memories in Beryl to mess around with her. "''Pets are supposed to be stupid. Mine happens to have my personality..." - Pali's understated description of Beryl.''

Beryl's naturally good at finding violence, and while she's a buffoon which a perchance for the cutting edge, she's at least decent in a fight, She's a dumb, aggressive fighter, kinda like a dog that looks like you, which is part of why Pali likes her as much as she does.


 * Petra

"Unfortunately, I know who that is. Pali... She is the tavern bathroom shit stain on this universe; her joy being the pain of others, and her powers accompanying that. You are lucky to live after witnessing such a monster." You can tell she wasn't the type to curse, but such an immense venom was lain into the one she spoke that you knew she meant every syllable of it.

The two have never gotten along the best given irreconcilable ideological differences. Given Pali's unstoppable pleasure toward breaking and torturing any life she comes across, Petra's naturally got a few issues with her, A violent outsider to the traditional guardian, this is a viewpoint shared by Nera as well.

Pali meanwhile isn't known to care what they think about her and her unhealthy and violent tendencies, though she is fairly snippy about the fact that they can leave Alanoth while she's incapable of doing so

Backstory
Left behind in the world of Alanoth by the Ancients after causing trouble in her birth Kenos, the ancients leaving her with a body, living alone on what they perceived as a backwater and useless planet, Pali wandered around, one of the first things she did being vivisecting and tearing apart a small rabbit, watching it squirm around in horrible pain, a memory that she looks back upon fondly.

Eventually while traveling near Obelisk Lake, she encountered a battered and broken blue dragon, beaten to near death. Feeling something for the poor creature, she took her in and healed her, Finding her insatiable lust to destroy the dragon who hurt her, she helped her along in her quest for vengeance, they discovered who was really behind it, a Draknovi Administrator. After slaying the slick serpent and without anything left to chase after, the Blueberry fell under her wing, where she gained the confidence to discover other things to fight for. the two remained fairly close since then, traveling the land of Tanzanite essentially terrorizing the populace, from the weak and hapless to high ranking troublemakers like Draknovi or the Gales Order.

Trivia

 * She originally had the title of "Guardian of Violence" complete with a different design, before that was changed later on.