Lethal

"I have no allies, I have no friends, I have no loyalty...and you can quote me on that."

Lethal is an agonist of Noodlecraft SMP. She is an entity of darkness and corruption, and part of a species that possess magic users. She previously possessed Mara and was played by ScorcherSoldier.

Appearance
Lethal's true form is unknown. She has mentioned a few times she is an entity who can tie herself to certain spells, and attempt to corrupt those whom attempt them, however, how she looks outside of corrupting Mara is unknown.

The horns and the claws can be taken as hints towards what Lethal may truly look like, as she told The Assist that the body was changing to be more like her real form.

Corrupted Mara
Whilst corrupting Mara, her skin becomes very pale. Upon initial corruption, Mara's orange eye turned red, and her hair faded from brown to a pale pinkish-red. Her hands are also frequently covered in blood.

After three days of being in Mara's body, her hands developed into black claw-like hands, and she grew horns out of her head. Her eyes also both turned red.

Her outfit consists of a black and red robe, a dark grey shirt, black leggings, and the same golden-brown knee-high boots Mara wears.

After some time, Lethal ditches the black-and red robe, revealing her horns better.

Lethal's true form is described to be as a deep black shadow, with multiple white eyes with red pupils, and long, thin arms with clawed hands. She has sharp white teeth, and is able to regrow body parts. She lacks a proper skin for this form, however.

Personality
Lethal is very sassy, and deceitful. She enjoys toying with other people's emotions and feelings, whether through harsh truths or lies.

She's also shown to be weirdly honest and open. She willingly shared information about herself, along with who and what she is, to The Assistant.

She seems to also have a soft side. Lethal couldn't dare think about hurting Bedbun, for example, and towards the end of her time in the server she was shown to be increasingly desperate to leave Mara's body, even going so far as to exchanged herself for Buck and The Assist, and begging Pandora to kill her due to Prince Chisisi's treatment of her. However this may have also been due to Mara and Lethal's souls partially merging.

Alignment
Lethal is chaotic evil.

Backstory
Little is known about who Lethal is, what she is, or where she's from. She's part of a species of evil entities that latch onto spells, with the main goal being to corrupt the most powerful mage they can manage, without being expelled or killed. Their main motive seems to be cause destruction and chaos, whether for the wizard themselves or those around them.

Lethal first emerged in White River after Mara preformed the resurrection spell for the first time. During the three days she killed Mara's mother, killed everyone in the village, and burnt it to the ground before being forced out from the magic core inside the village's tree.

Lethal's Reign
Lethal made her return. She remerged at the crash site with a concerned anthro-fox in front of her, and a diamond axe in her hand. After wiping the blood from her mouth, Lethal took Jesper's first cannon life.

Lethal would stalk Pandora, and The Assistant throughout St.Plainswatch before catching wind of The Assist and Pandora suggesting to go to the crash site. A confrontation ensued where Lethal revealed she wasn't Mage acting weird, but instead, she was someone different called Lethal. Eventually Lethal left Pandora and The Assist along.

On the second day, Mage was originally invited to go to the feast held by Prince Chisisi, however, Mage wouldn't be present throughout the event. Lethal would lay low during the festival, only starting to get rowdy when she realized there was little chaos happening. She started pestering the Assistant. After multiple attempts, the robot tried to blow the cover on her true identity. However, everyone refused to believe the Assistant, making Lethal taunt him further.

During the event, the kid known as Ambrus, would proceed to get lost and blackout in the forest. Everyone frantically searched for him. Lethal joined the search for a very different reason. When she found the kid, with a swing of her axe, his first cannon life was taken.

Outraged, Pandora demanded to meet with Lethal. She agreed to meet Pandora, the Assist, and Ambrus on top of Mage's main base. There, Lethal revealed her name as she lined it with TNT and attempted to kill Pandora with it. However, they both escaped into the water below. Pandora would take a cannon life from Mage/Lethal. The warrior would be shocked to find Lethal still remaining in Mage's body.

Lethal attempted to make her escape, but when she became surrounded, there was nothing better to do than surrender. She was taken to a jailcell under St.Plainswatch. There, her second cannon life was taken, as Pandora needed to make sure her inventory was cleared so she would remain in the cell. Overnight the cell would become filled with signs. Some written in ink, being from what was left of Mage at the time, and some written in blood by Lethal.

On dawn of the third day, Lethal used shape shifting magic to attempt to appear like a sorrowful, tear-faced Mage, to convince Pandora to let her out. Saying she was cured, and she didn't understand why she was trapped in here. Pandora said she would keep her in there for three more days, just to be safe, Lethal dropped the act.

As Pandora looked back as they left the cell, Lethal stared back in her true form.

Lethal continued to write on the signs, write books on various topics, and taunt visitors who dare came into her cell. Towards the after-noon, Lethal started coughing as if she were choking. The coughs would later be followed up by blood until the sun fully set. After the sun set, the coughing stopped, and her one blue eye became red to match the other one. She wrote on signs, claiming that Mage had stopped screaming in her head, and finally became inactive. Lethal also tore down a lot of the signs written by what was left of Mage.

Lethal was visited by Prince Chisisi. The Prince had a deal for the entity. He would aid in her escape if she could be used as a scape-goat to start a war with the Hidden Leaf Village. Lethal accepted, however, on one condition. If Prince Chi got back her axe from Pandora. The two accepted, and Prince Chi handed her a button and an iron sword.

Overnight, Lethal complained of headaches. No one listened, but Lethal knew exactly why she was getting these headaches. In the morning, two ram horns appeared on the sides of her head. Along with this, some black, demon-like claws formed from her hands. She revealed to the Assist that her true form was merging with Mage's somewhat, resulting in the horns and claws.

Day five, Lethal awoke to Ambrus wanting to talk to her. Well... not Ambrus exactly. The Beast within Ambrus did. The Beast wanted Lethal to protect the kid, as well as craft potions, with the benefit of having The Beast use it's powers in anyway she likes. Lethal, after some thought, accepted.

Later on, Prince Chisisi returned with her axe. Finally having her axe back, she waited until the jail was deserted before using the button to sneak out.

Lethal made her way to the Hidden Leaf Village, using Mage's memories to find the way. There, she destroyed two houses. The rebuilt house of Mage's vacation home, and Prince Chisis's vacation home.

Pandora discovered Lethal was gone, and followed her to the Hidden Leaf village, but Lethal escaped before Pandora could catch her. After this, she made her way back to Mage's base to assess the damaged she caused, and brew those potions the Beast wanted from her. She discovered Jack was missing, and was enraged by it.

While standing on top of the mountainous base, Jesper had ran inside the potion shop and grabbed the map and coordinates from the potion shop. Lethal jumped down to stop him, and eventually pursued in a chase. Pandora and the Assist joined the chase. Jesper got away with the map, as the Assist chased after Lethal, back to the main base.

While passing through the nether highway, Lethal was confronted by Prince Chisisi about blowing up his vacation home. Lethal explained that if they had bad blood with Hidden Leaf, why would they leave it standing? Chisisi let Lethal go under the threat of not destroying anymore of his stuff.

After exploring the highway some more, Lethal came across a small home belonging to a rabbit named Bedbun. Lethal was confused at the rabbit's warm welcome, despite everything she's done to everyone.

Lethal would be spying out Hidden Leaf again before being confronted by Pandora, Lin, Ghost, and the Assist. After burning down Bon's home, she narrowly escaped thanks to potions.

Finally thinking she was clear, she returned to her potion shop to brew more potions. There, Lethal got captured by Pandora but narrowly escaped thanks to a golden apple.

After escaping capture she took refuge near Bedbon's burrow. There, she met up with the Assist. they talked, oddly peacefully, about Prince Chisisi's actions, and their opinions. Lethal also let it slip that she cares some-what about Bedbon's safety.

Later, Lethal aided Bedbon in exploring the tunnels in their burrow and protected them from mobs. There they found two fossils. The two ended their trip- but Lethal seemed distressed. They were growing soft...why? They're a pure corrupting entity, they're not suppose to have sappy feelings over the well being of others.

Ghost and Lethal confronted Pandora about their missing horses inside a neutral-no-fighting-zone. While Lethal refused to resist the urge to hit someone, they got a few answers but not enough to bring Jack back to them.

After a few days of peace, Lethal came up with a plan. She needed her gear back, and she knew Pandora had it. Lethal also knew Pandora and Chisisi have an alliance of some kind. She teamed up with the Assist to capture Chisisi and use him as bargaining material.

Once they stuck the prince inside a cell, Lethal made her way to the empire. There, she corrupted the throne room to her liking. She also hired Buck to serve the best wine he had in stock, and then invited Pandora to meet her there.

Upon arriving, Pandora was in shock. Lethal proposed an easy solution. She reveals where Chisisi is in trade for her chestplant and leggings. At first, Pandora tried to trick Lethal, however, she wasn't falling for it. Then, Pandora tried to get the Assist to admit where Chisisi was held, but luckily for them, the robot didn't budge.

Finally they traded, and Lethal happily showed Pandora where Chisisi was held. After they all went their separate ways, Lethal was happy with the result. The plan worked almost perfectly.

Almost.

Shortly after the situation, Chisisi and Pandora came to hunt out Lethal. Luckily, prepared ahead of time, Lethal escaped through a secret tunnel she made in the potion shop.

Unable to find Lethal, Chisisi demands Buck and the Assist be put in jail. Upon hearing this, and some reason having a heart, Lethal had emptied her inventory, minus some bread, and turned herself in.

The two were skeptical but Lethal wanted to turn herself in for Buck and the Assist, as it wasn't fair they were being punished.

She was lead into her old cell, and given some books to continue writing in. Unknown to Pandora, Lethal took the button off the wall and kept it in her inventory.

That evening, Lethal escaped to go visit Bedbon one last time. Bedbon knew it was a matter of time until Mara would be returned- and Lethal was now behaving oddly. She admitted she can't escape the body, and she might be merging with Mara herself.

The two shared a heart-felt kiss in the watch tower as the sun set. Bunny kisses are magical, and it caused Lethal to begin coughing up blood, and bringing Mage back into Lethal's head.

Lethal sneaked their way back into the jailcell, much to the confusion of others. When confronted about why, Lethal said it would just continue the endless cycle. At this point, she was likely doomed anyways.

Another day in her cell, Chisisi and Pandora came to visit. Chisisi began threatening Lethal- for how dare she put him in jail. Thanks to a button Pandora slipped, Lethal quickly escaped the jail upon fearing for her and Mage's life.

She ran out of St.Plainwatch and begged Pandora to kill her- as Chisisi would never stop hunting her and Lethal herself was wanting freedom from this world. Pandora complied.

After respawning, Lethal ran back to Mage's home town, with Pandora and Chisisi following her close behind. There they forced Lethal down next to the magic core, which temporarily lead Lethal to become inactive, allowing for Mage to reappear.

Mage suggested looking in the remains of the town's library for a cure, and they found one. Upon leaving the area, Mage seemed to have pain, and begged to be let back down into the core, but they refused, and Lethal- once again- remerged.

They walked Lethal back to St.Plainwatch where they started preforming the ceremony. Lethal, as a last ditch effort, erased Mage's memories about what Lethal had done before the entity was finally expelled from Mage.

Final Death
Lethal had retreated back to her realm for some time to attempt to heal. Eventually, through an out of body spell, Mara appeared in her territory. Despite not being at full strength again, Lethal attempted to corrupt Mara for a third time. When the mage proved to be too powerful for Lethal in her weakened state, the entitiy transformed herself into a variety of different people Mara is close to. Starting with Pandora, which proved to be ineffective due to Mara and Pandora's falling out.

Lethal changed herself and her realm into Mara's mother, Tana, and the town of White River. This attempt almost worked, if it wasn't for Mara showing Lethal the memory of her and Buck in the destroyed town of White River, burying Tana. Afterwards, during Mara's strikes, Lethal changed her face to that of; Brooke, The Assistant, Mayor Alatar, and Linguini.

Finally Lethal teleported behind Mara and formed herself to become an image of Buck, but this didn't stop Mara for long. After having a fireball launched on her, Lethal returned to her true form and charged at Mara- eventually ending in her demise after being stabbed in the stomach.

Quotes
"So you're the one who was the spy and broke little Mage's heart...interesting... I'll kill you last." - Lethal to Ghost

"I have no allies, I have no friends, I have no loyalty... and you can quote me on that." - Lethal to Prince Chisisi

"Do I look like a circus clown? Lin, do I look like Prince Chi?" "So anyway, next question." -Lethal, and Linguini

Trivia

 * Lethal's name comes from a old MLP fan-creator collab called "A Lethal Halloween" where a character with the same name is an inner demon of someone named Aurora Mage.
 * In Mara's original backstory, she hadn't existed. Mara was originally going to simply be corrupted without a specific entity. Lethal was made to make it more fun.