Buttercup

Buttercup is a character played by Cappucceetle

Appearance
Buttercup (Also known as Taloft) is a large anthropomorphic highland cow, with fluffy orange hair covering his eyes and going to his shoulders in a sort of mullet. His nose is half pink and half brown. He has a combination of human and cow teeth due to some external circumstances, resulting in sharp canines. Now sharper then average with the addition of the spark's changes. Forgoing a shirt he wears a thick leather jacket with gold buttons, jean shorts, and arm guards with bells around his wrists. He has gold earrings and a gold band on his left horn.

Flowers have started to grow on him ever since Thistle gifted him a sliver of her soul, and its mainly been small buttercups blooming on his hair, torso, and tail. Recently he has allowed wither roses to grow, with the careful pruning of the sharp thorns.

He has what many like to call 'grandpa glasses', which rest on the edge of his snout over his bangs. Underneath said bangs are dark red eyes, purple at the edges where the source has taken hold. The fur around the eyes is stained the bright blue colour aswell.

The arm guards are a dark red, with a darker red border embroidered with golden enchantment symbols at the edges. The back of the guard has a wither rose symbol on it. The bells on the guard are worn and engraved with more enchantments. Underneath the armguard lay his lifemarks, which represent the three original lives he was allotted in a previous world, now irrelevant because of the nature of Sockscraft's infinite respawns. All of his lifemarks are a deep black-red colour, and look as if they've decayed. The first lifemark, the one closest to his inner elbow, is shattered and clearly has the worst of the decay, a large slash cuts it in half.

The second has a piercing shot in the middle where cracks splinter out of, sectioning the lifemark into shards. The third and final is a wreck. Almost unrecognizable as even heart-shaped it looks as if a firework was engraved into his flesh. Gold resembling cracks shoot out from the mark and dig into his skin, a reminder of a totem used before. Before being cured of the sculk, it too grew from the lifemark in the same fashion as the totem scarring.

Previous Appearances
Before being cured of the sculk, he had a dark blue skulk growth with bio-luminescent spots peeking out of the right side of his jacket shoulder and trailing down his torso. Before he had cut it off, he had sculk growth on his horns aswell, and a strand of it imitating hair down his bangs.

During his krampus punishment for denying the sculk cure at first, he took on a Warden appearance. A deep gash in his right side glowed with light blue soul matter, ribs poking out of it at an unnatural angle. The sculk had made its way further up his neck, and trailed down his fur in strands all over his body. Something resembling a flower-crown of wither roses grew out of where his eyes would be located. The buttercups that used to be on his body were overtaken with the wither roses.

Bio
Helped found DeVille and runs the Saloon and Inn at the front of town with Clementine. Comes from another world without advanced technology along with Blair and Lottie, but hes been getting along fine enough. Previously an outlaw before sockscraft. Was born in the Nether and lived there in a Bastion until around 13-14. He knows galactic because he spoke it during that time period as his first language.

Apparently, used to be human. Apparently, also used to be 7'6 as a human. It is not the cow genetics. An acolyte of the Nether Blood god, as such hes happy to participate in violent activities and has a flurry of spirits he's dubbed 'voices' that follow him. They're rambunctious and often trail off to follow people he talks to around. They also have no hold on ethics. Due to respawning and soul issues, the voices gained the ability to possess him for periods of time without issue, he tends to use these times as a respite.

Quite good at blood magic and sigil work, even if it takes a lot out of him. Has also made a hobby out of woodcarving when time allows it. One of his many 'achievements' include Raising Someone (Shock) from the Dead using only a Section of Soul, Blood, Someone else's donated section of soul, and a necromancy sigil. He wouldn't say they're the same person anymore, but he did it.

Personality
Typically pretty chill and talkative. Not so chill anymore. He tries to not be too overbearing but its obvious he’s a big softie who cares a lot. He’s not usually quick to panic but sockscraft has fried his nerves and hes started to worry too much over the people hes attached to. Shows affection by gift giving, hanging out around people, and physical touch. Hes generous to a fault, always putting others first because hes used to being able to care for himself. He's finally getting it into his thick skull he doesn't need to put himself in danger to protect others constantly. He cares about the people he holds close dearly, particularly Blair and Lottie, seeing as hes been with them the longest. He goes out of his way to lend a helping hand to those asking for it. Hes notably oddly good with kids? Usually, at least.

If others are threatened he's a little too quick to use his axe, but hesitates to fight back if its someone he cares about, even if they're trying to kill him.

Events
Major events, in order but not necessarily one right after the other
 * Joined Sockscraft
 * Sculked by Cato after pushing his buttons too far
 * Lost final lifemark to Deep Dark and while the body respawned, the Voices inhabited it since his soul wasnt there. They sacrificed Biscotti to lure his soul back into his body
 * Made a deal with the Source, they get his eyes and many of the voice's eyes, and they don't control his body (without permission) or infect Blair or Lottie
 * Accepted the Choir after having an awful Deimos haunting and then being told Cato killed Oracle.
 * Was sent to Tartarus by Blair and Oracle for a week. The event still haunts him, but he tries not to show it. During this time period he reflected and took the steps to cure the Choir and trim back the sculk he had grown used to.
 * The Krampi offered him a cure to the sculk, he hesitated and so they punished him by making him a Warden until he did accept. Lasted 3~ days
 * During this time SEF gave him the Memory Amnesiac as an invitation to join the trio. This pushed him to accept the Cure.
 * Killed Deep Dark Sys right after being Cured

Relationships

 * Blair Rattle - Close friend, would do anything for her, even if hes become more nervous of misstepping around her recently. Maybe lets too much of what she does slide, but he'll continue to do that as long as it means shes still his friend.
 * Lottie Moon - Close friend, would be anything for her, and is generally better at communicating with Lottie than Blair at the moment.
 * Amethyst - Practically Buttercup's kid at this point, and hes always fussing over her. Reminds him to have hope
 * Oracle - Im sorry. I don't know how to fix this.
 * Calamari - A friend he trusts dearly. Values that he can tell her anything, and even if hes a monster, and least they're both monsters.
 * Cato - ...Stay away from me.

Alternate Timelines

 * In Fillet's timeline, he never returned from tartarus.
 * THE ROT. THE STAR. THE END.

Trivia

 * Trans man! Yipee! Aromantic too
 * Hates the cold and being in the cold. His natural temperature is around 103
 * Has an original Sliver of human soul, mainly cow soul, and then water imp spark
 * He has No lifemarks left.
 * Went to Tartarus and came back.
 * Has had Withering, Chaos sickness, Choir, Sculk, and the Source and has a deal with the Prey.