Keres Almyra

"Kahahaha! That's right! Cry, scream, beg for mercy!"

Keres Almyra (Real name Keno Almyra), known infamously as the Warm And Caring Devil Of Pure White, is the daughter of former angel-turned-demon Deyanira, and human-turned-demon Cain. She is both the niece and great-niece of Erebus, who is also her lover.

Personality
Keres is said by people to be very sadistic. She is also said to love the pain of others, and enjoys causing the pain in a very brutal manner. However, as said by her close friends, this doesn't seem to be necessarily the case. Her best friend has said that, as a child, she was very cheerful. In fact, hardly anything made her feel sad. But a certain event in her life, the loss of a lot of people close to her, led to her current sadism.

Keres, outside of her sadism, has a very flirtatious personality and is open with her sexual preferences, often to her peers' discomfort. Despite her apparent shamelessness and honesty, she can be quite innocent about certain things. She tends to easily misinterpret the old sayings of demons and takes it out of context.

As a 'true demon', Keres is extremely proud and takes her position as a 'noble' very seriously. Yet, at the same time, she has no patience or tolerance for failure and would often burst into fits of rage at the sign of an unfavorable situation occurring. Keres will not hesitate to kill any servant who disappoints her; however, she will not punish others for failing in tasks that are impossible to begin with. When she's angry, her 'inner demon voice' comes out, which is like her normal voice but with a weird echo-like effect.

Keres once looked down upon human females who are in search of a strong partner to protect them and their children. She has always considered such trivial thought to be foolish, believing all of that could have been taken care of if one becomes powerful enough in their own right without needing somebody to protect them. This may related to her father's treatment of her mother.

She has a bizarre sense of aesthetics, referring to monsters and bugs as cute. She also manages to not lose sight of Aserath, under the name Demon Slayer, because his armor is 'cute' and later offers to decorate its shoulder plate with spikes so it would be 'cuter'.

Keres shares an extremely close bond with her hellhound and has developed an ability to tell what Lyra is feeling or saying by her shrieks. Keres refusing to treat her partner like a common animal and she even said she'd only accept to marry someone if the hell-bloodhound also consents with said person.

She is the scariest demon in the world to anger as she tends to threaten people by implying that she will make Lyra eat them all with an uneasy smile on her face. When she doesn't... you better run.

There are some moments that cause her to be visibly surprised, and she also blushes at Erebus during some rare situations. She appears to grow fond of the people close to her, as she does show them her hands, after explaining that she only shows them to people she considers her family.

Keres is extremely fond of sweets, primarily chocolate, referring to it as "divine essence of the heavens".

Apparently, Keres has multiple sides to herself, all of which represent one of the seven deadly sins, including an eight one which represents melancholy.

Background
Keres was born in hell, as most demons are, to Deyanira and Cain as Keno Almyra. She lived in a household where her father was partially abusive to both her and her mother. Still, she remained cheerful, which was said by multiple people to be 'strange' for someone to grow up with this life and still keep a smile on her face.

At one point, she saw her father hit her mother when she 'disobeyed' him, and blames herself for it because her mother protected her when that slap was meant for Keno and not her mother. Afterwards, she witnessed her father raping her mother and that traumatized her for as long she lived. However, even if she saw all the horrible things he did, she couldn't hate him. If her mother married him and had Keno then that would mean he was a good person and deserved "love". But her view of love was twisted, and she was taught that 'love' can be abusive, and that it's fine to have multiple partners, as well that it's alright to have a romantic or sexual relationship with a family member.

When she was a young child, Keno began music lessons with two teachers, one of whom was Henry Mannox. Subsequently a relationship arose between Keno and Henry. Keno was increasingly repulsed by Henry's pressure to lose her virginity to him and was angered by his gossiping with servants about the details of what had gone on between them. Henry and Keno both confessed during her adultery inquisitions that they had engaged in sexual contact, but not actual coitus. When questioned, Keno was quoted as saying, "At the flattering and fair persuasions of Henry, being but a young girl, I suffered him at sundry times to handle and touch the secret parts of my body, which neither became me with honesty to permit nor him to require."

Keno severed contact with Henry, most likely in the spring. Shortly after, Keno was pursued by Francis Dereham, a secretary of the Dowager Duchess. They allegedly became lovers, addressing each other as "husband" and "wife". Francis also entrusted Keno with various wifely duties, such as keeping his money when he was away on business. Many of the people among the Dowager Duchess's maids of honor and attendants knew of the relationship, which apparently ended when the Dowager Duchess found out. Despite this, Keno and Francis may have parted with intentions to marry upon his return from Earth, agreeing to a precontract of marriage.

A couple years after, she experienced her first rape attempt by a fellow demon; which turned out to be one of the people she considered her 'friends'. After this, she was filled with so much rage that she killed him in revenge. Though it's not stated what happens after, her parents died somehow and she grieved for days in her bedroom. But when she came out, she was... different. She was less cheerful, but she wasn't sad. In fact, her cheerfulness almost seemed fake, somehow. Jest to say, the event that killed her mother changed her for the worst. Her hatred of humans grew to escalated proportions, and when she meets a certain human, her past comes to haunt her again. Her mother died from an incurable illness, though was actually killed by her father, and she killed her father upon finding the information out.

Through unknown circumstances, she ended up becoming the God of Darkness, Erebus', sister. It's implied they share some of the same racial blood, but not all of it, making it impossible to determine if she truly was his biological sister. It's eventually revealed that they lied to everyone; Erebus and Keres were not technically related (though he is technically her great-uncle and uncle at the same time). They fought during Erebus' conquest of Hell and Erebus had barely managed to defeat Keres. They agreed on a deal that they would rule together as 'siblings' and would lie to hell. Though they showed mutual hatred towards each other at that time, it's pretty clear that he has had feelings for her, but for how long? Even he's not sure.

One of Keres' first lovers after Francis was a demon male. Who he was was uncertain, but he was later killed by her mother's 'assistant' or 'underling', who would later become one of her other lovers. It was deemed that the demon male was dangerous and had potentially life threatening for Keres, which is why he was killed.

Another one of her lovers was a pleasant village girl who she met while on a walk one day. The village girl, noticing that Keres was starving, gave her an apple and Keres thanked her. They became somewhat acquainted, and later were together. Keres then met this demon guy while she was still with the village girl. He was absolutely obsessed with her, and was a completely loyal and devoted, if obsessive and possessive, partner for Keres. Though they had an affair, she severed ties with both of them eventually.

Soon after, she began having an affair with a vampire prince who was destined to already wed someone else. He was a flirty fellow, and was deeply mesmerized by Keres' beauty. The affair lasted for a couple months, and it was a relationship filled with lust (though said vampire prince was deeply in love with Keres, and was lustful as a result of his vampirism). Though they never actually had sex.

While still being with said vampire, she met a human knight. She described him as a 'foul little thing', though she did start falling for him. They had an affair together and, when the knight saw her with the vampire, he made them sever their ties by himself as he didn't wanna see Keres with someone that wasn't him.

At one point, her brother signed her up as the position of a prostitute. It was weird, but she didn't see anything wrong with it. It was only to gain information, after all. While working as one, she met this guy who already had multiple women doing sexual favors for him. He was a rich nobleman, and Keres liked the sound of that. She did all sorts of things for him, but she didn't expect what would happen next.

The man had locked her up in the basement of his mansion, making her hang from chains while being completely exposed. There, he proceeded to rape her. However, he only managed to insert it into her and not actually rape her. He would've succeeded in doing so completely if it wasn't for the fact that his house was raided by the villagers. They set Keres free and she killed the nobleman with her markings--- Lucifer's Markings. This caused severe mental trauma on Keres, and it's implied she still hasn't fully recovered.

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Powers and Abilities
Corrupted Blood: Keres possesses an addictive, corrupted blood that led fellow demons to kill and betray just for a taste of it.

Demonic White Light: By raising her hand, Keres can generate rays of blinding white light usually from her palms which apparently destroys anything she wants.

Demonization: Keres can transform other beings into demons. Usually, humans are most common in the transformation, but other beings can also become demons as well. She normally does it by biting the victim anywhere on their body, and through the bite, blood drips from her fangs into their blood stream. The transformation takes about 24 hours to complete, and can only be undone by Keres herself.

Devine Power Immunity: Keres is immune to all divine powers and effects, making her be able to withstand angelic power and go toe-to-toe with deities. The reason for this is her connection as being Lucifer, an archangel's, vessel, and as being, on technicalities, the granddaughter/great-granddaughter of God himself.

Energy Drain: Keres can drain energy from individuals by biting them. She can drain physical energy from a target or group, making the affected physically weaker or causing them extreme fatigue, while gaining their strength and stamina, even to the point of death.

Immortality: As she is a true demon, Keres can live forever, and she can heal/regenerate from any injuries, even if her entire body is destroyed. Keres is the only true demon left alive after she killed her father, Cain.

Invisibility: She's able to remain invisible without being detected.

Invulnerability: True Demons cannot be harmed or killed by conventional means. Keres withstood would-be fatal injuries such as numerous stabbings and prolonged torture with little reaction.

Lucifer's Markings: Since True Demons ae the closest beings to their creator, they have received his powers through markings on their bodies (though, in Keres' case, due to being a vessel for Lucifer, she was given all of his power as it slowly built up over the years). The part of the body that bears these markings is dependent on the person, and so is the color of the markings (for Keres, they're red and are on the back of her hands), but one thing is clear; it gives great destructive power to it's bearer--- at the cost of consuming the bearer bit by bit. Essentially, it's a double edged sword. After the locks on her heart, which were keeping Lucifer in, broke, she lost this weakness, however, and could use his power as much as she wanted.

Natural Weaponry: Keres possesses natural weaponry, including claws, fangs, horns, a tail, etc., and knows how to use them.


 * Claw Extension: Keres has the unique trait of extending her nails in the blink of an eye.
 * Horn Protrusion: Keres can generate horns on her head, which can be used offensively.
 * Powerful Bite: Keres has a particularly strong bite because of her sharp fangs. Her fangs are superhumanly strong and, at lower levels, can rip open a human's neck and leave huge bite marks on the corpse of the victim she has fed on. She can even bite through hard metal, rock, and even hard jewels, like diamonds, all of which she could bite through like paper.
 * Prehensile Tail: Keres can grow a prehensile tail adapted to be able to grasp or hold objects. Her tail can be used to hold and manipulate objects, and in particular to aid arboreal creatures in finding and eating food in the trees.

Molecular Combustion: Simply by touching an angel, Keres was able to make them combust into dust. She was also able to turn a man to dust with just a wave of her hand.

Pyromancy: Keres can create, shape and manipulate fire, the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products, flame being the visible portion of the fire. Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the color of the flame and the fire's intensity will be different.

Regenerative Healing Factor: Keres possesses a phenomenal regenerative healing factor that allows her to heal from all physical injuries effortlessly in the blink of an eye.

Super Strength: As the highest class of demons, True Demons are incredibly strong, more so than humans, ghosts, monsters, reapers, demons and even angels. Even while looking rather young and weak, Keres slaughtered grown men with her bare hands.

Temporal Rewind: Keres can rewind time to a few seconds, minutes, hours, days and years into the past and alter it. This method of time travel rarely entails any paradoxes (such as the grandfather paradox) if Keres rewinds herself parallel to time.

Thermokinesis: Keres can emit great heat through her skin, resulting in severe burns to whatever she touches. She could control the intensity of this power.

Wing Manifestation: Keres has and is able to manifest wings that can grow out of her body allowing flight. It also protect her from rear attacks and re-grows for quick getaways.

Poison Manipulation: Keres can create, shape and manipulate poisons and poisonous substances. For the sake of clarity: poison, toxin, and venom are terms for any substance that injures the health or destroys life when absorbed into the system: poison is the general word, toxin is a poison produced by an organism (plant, fungus, animal); it is especially used in medicine in reference to disease-causing bacterial secretions, venom is especially used of the poisons secreted by certain animals, usually injected by bite or sting.


 * Vermin Bane: An original spell created by Keres during her fight against the insect demon two hundred years ago. It's a powerful spell that forms a white mist of gas where if any insects were to enter its range, they're killed by it. This type of magic was developed with the sole purpose of repelling the insects used by that individual. The spell is effectively a counter-measure to insects while it doesn't cause any slightest harm to other organisms.

Trivia

 * The name Keres means 'Evil Spirits'. The name Almyra means 'Princess'. And the name Keno comes from the Old Germanic name Kuonrat, which means 'Bold Council'.
 * According to the creator:
 * Keres likes: Sweets, Chocolate, Lyra, Bugs, Her mother, Music, Causing pain, Her children, Her friends, Monsters, Erebus (to some extent), Freedom
 * Keres dislikes: Her father, Her hands, Herself in general, Rape, Humans, Her past, Erebus (to some extent)

Quotes

 * "Oh, look-a cute wittle caterpillar! Here, witty-bitty caterpillar..."
 * "*Giggles* Well, I would love to see Lyra's child one day. Wouldn't that be magical?"
 * "Getting hurt makes you stronger and wiser and sad and cold-hearted..."
 * "Rest assured... I will stop on the verge of death so I can enjoy it many times... It's wonderful, isn't it?"
 * "Freedom isn't living without rules. It's just living with your own rules."
 * "I don't care if you're going to tell everyone what I did to you, but don't forget to tell them what you did to me."
 * "My, you do have quite an attractive screaming voice."