The Librarian

The Librarian is a multiversal wanderer who found his way onto TTN. He's... Defintely a something that exists, that's for sure. While he prefers keeping to himself, he's started to become a little bit more confindient in involving himself in other affairs. Most of the time, however, he'll just stick to reading books from all across reality from who knows where. He decided that was his personality trait, and it worked rather well for making himself functional again, as he is now.

He has difficultly speaking for unknown reasons beyond physical ones. Because of this, the usage of TTN has proven extremely helpful in both communication and helping him think without his thoughts and memories to jumble things up. It's better than it was for him in the past, however. And although the device constantly requires sterilization to function due to pruskite related complications, he utilizes a high-tech TTS device to give himself a voice.

Despite being extremely old, The Librarian acts much younger than he is and generally lacks life experience.

Early Life
The Librarian long ago was a regular human named Eire Varian, born to two loving parents on November 14th 2339. It should be noted that the timeline he originates from deviates from most other timelines travellers come from quite a bit, though The Librarian has failed to find his original timeline. He theorizes that it was modified beyond recgonizability due to sheer age. Either way, his hope of finding it has been diminished to the point he has stopped bothering to locate it.

Eire took interest to engineering, studying it intensely from his teenage years. Eventually, Eire caught interest of a government organization called Cryine, and was set out to join the organization once he had finished his studies as a young adult.

Eire would go on to marry a woman named Kizun. Despite the relationship appearing initially stable, it soon turned extremely toxic on both sides. Once Kizun had their son, Padma, the two eventually ended up divorcing. Eire and Kizun had equal custody of their child and would take turns taking care of him.

As he raised his son, Eire continued his work as an engineer. Unknown to the rest of the universe, Cryine had just recently discovered time travel. They also discovered a substance dubbed "Aether" (unrelated to the megavrsal compound Aether, or he's pretty sure), which had greater ability to manipulate time. Unknown to the organization at the time, Aether also had the ability to bend reality if utilized with proper care. Though, he has noted that there doesn't seem to be any presence of it anymore - theorizing that something could have destroyed so much of it to the point it practically doesn't exist.

Aether Incident
Unfortunately for Eire, a terrible disaster struck at his work. An experiment with the substance had gone terribly wrong, attracting extradimensional attention. An unknown cosmic being from an unknown dimension attacked the organization, causing permanent damage in its reality. The attack had several casualties, and Eire Varian was among one of them.

Eire Varian had stood up to this dimensional horror to ensure the protection of those around him. Unknown to anyone else at the time, this unknown cosmic being was quite the researcher, dragging various third dimension beings into the seventh dimension in order to study the affects on them and to eventually get the results he wanted. Most of the time, the project was a "failure" to this cosmic being, as subjects would become brain dead due to the incomprehensibility of the dimension. However, the fact that Eire wasn't forced into a state of irrational fear got its hopes up, resulting in it deciding to drag him into the seventh dimension in hope that this subject wouldn't become a vegetable.

As far as everyone else knew, the man known as Eire Varian was MIA and disappeared under mysterious circumstances, as the incident was never revealed to the public due to the possibility of terrorists trying to damage reality using the substance. He was considered dead both by Cryine and the rest of the world.

(Un)fortunately, he wasn't.

The Seventh Dimension
The destination the unknown being had in store for him - or Scale, as they are referred to by TTN - was in the seventh dimension, in order to test a hypothesis.

The experience of being left alone in the dimension broke Erie's mind nearly completely. It was a dark place filled with no lights, horrifying eldritch entities, and various hazardous things that could easily kill anyone outright. He couldn't survive outside of his own multiverse, never mind out here. Unable to do anything but stare into the dimension, the natural laws in very formal terms fucked him up completely. And he's aware that's not the only thing that changed him, either. He can't remember properly, but he knows Scale did something to him in there. Tons of things, in fact. He doesn't know what, but he's highly disturbed of what he might discover in his own head.

From the entire experience, the Librarian's entire personality was basically turned into a mash of various conflicting traits with no stability. During the whole time, his entire being was imbued with the properties of the seventh dimension, resulting in them transforming him, as well as granting him various abilities. But while he was there, he couldn't move or do anything at all. He was either too weak or too scared.

Leaving 7D
Eventually, after multiple thousands of years had passed (and probably much more), the Librarian gained enough strength to finally escape the seventh dimension. After a bit, he started to wander the multiverse, and learn about his gained abilities more. For a while, the Librarian was nothing but a wandering mass of the scattered psyche of some man. Throughout the years, however, the Librarian was able to bit by bit stabilize his mind into something that was cohesive. He eventually regained his old(?) personality.

Personality
The Librarian is highly intelligent, but ironically not that book smart. While he understands the meanings of standard terms much better, he's still a little bit lost on some topics, particularly those that have to do with history. He's often quite forgetful due to psychological and physical reasons, so that certainly doesn't help in remembering terms either. In addition, while he does understand a lot, he has a lot of issues properly conveying his thoughts in a coherent manner. Therefore it's hard for him to properly convey what's going on in his head to others (though to be fair, he's definitely not sure what happens there himself). Of course, due to being rather well travelled, one could raddle off information about one of his topics of interests and he'd instantly get the meaning.

His obsession with books are in part a manifestation of his natural curiosity for information of any type. He particularly enjoys learning how people function, and usually figures out so through perfectly natural conversations. His preferred topic for such things are long convoluted philosophical discussions, both because it teaches him about others and allows him to say what's on his mind. He dislikes hearing about things through others and instead aims for personal experience. While sometimes this gets him into a pinch, his variety of utility abilities allow him to flee to safety. Of course, as he once did with everything, he's still happy enough to just watch something interesting occur.

He's more of a emotional stonewall, in most cases anyways. This is due to his circumstances dampening his emotions, making it so that he doesn't generally experience emotions to the same magnitude of others. Although he does indeed feel, due to the much lesser strength of his emotions it's difficult to sway him as easily. He could absolutely loathe someone and yet still be able to act kindly to them - in most cases, anyways. He also fears emotional vulnerability to an extreme extent, so even for the ones he does experience to a powerful amount are ones he'll try to hide. However, as of recent due to increased emotional volatility and stress, it's become much harder for him to act with his usual stoic nature.

One of his strongest desires is the staunch one to be left alone. He has a tendency to stay out of situations that may attract attention, and gets extremely stressed out if he gets wrapped up in something that does so. While he'll move to stop things that are absolutely abhorrent, sometimes even if something bad is happening he can be quite apathetic. In fact, this desire to be left alone can be somewhat attributed to his extreme apathy, and he often has trouble caring about anything unless spurred on by others. He's gotten much better at this, but that doesn't change the fact that apathy is his nature.

Although he's very good at appearing put together psychologically, this appearance is merely an illusion he's masted through years of practice. In reality, under the surface he's a fearful and broken being who was forced through a mind shattering ordeal for possibly eons that should have killed him. He tries his best to appear stable, but sometimes either his emotions get too much for him or something otherwise neutral triggers him. He's not only shattered in this way either, but his mind seems to wax and wane. While he is a fusion of at least two types of entities, he is one of two that don't exactly function together. Under the surface he has a psyche problem, caused by the damage from being in 7D for so long. Although he can keep it together for the most part, if a traumatic situation occurs, it can cause his personality to splinter temporarily which causes him even more issues by reminding him of what happened to him. To an extent, The Librarian is still trying to hold onto his humanity, somewhat in denial of his own circumstances.

His biggest concern is people figuring out how broken he is under the surface, as he's aware of how people generally react to people who act insane. They tend to... Stop treating them like people with their own wants and needs. He knows that most people expect those in spells of insanity will kill entire planets. The Librarian thinks that people would either think of him as a lost cause, or try to help him out as a preemptive strike to prevent him from destroying entire planets; Either way, not caring about the person who has to live with the experience. While he trusts the net more than the common person, he still sometimes falls into episodes of withdrawing away from them and the world to protect himself.

Due to the severe manipulation his captor forced him through, The Librarian severely dehumanizes himself. He has trouble being active and taking reign of situations, requiring the assistance of others to tell him what he wants to do. He partly views himself as not having emotions or thoughts. Because of this, he's extremely annoyed by people who treat him in such a matter, as he absolutely despises the treatment while being unaware of his own mental conditioning. It's also possible that through some means he's picked up on Scale's manipulative tendencies - but if he has, he's definitely not aware.

Significant TTN History
[Still filling out some events in here]

Eventually, The Librarian joined TTN after hearing about it in whispers from the worlds of other travellers.

A Catlamity
The first significant interaction he had physically with any of the members of TTN was when Adryel's soul was severely damaged due to unprotected entrance into the fifth dimension. The Librarian was able to repair it - but as he didn't take his soul out of his body first, Adryel obviously ended up screaming in pain a lot. It was really hard for him to perform psychologically, because it reminded him of his time being stuck in 7D. Despite that, he kept going, ultimately knowing he was doing Adryel good - but the thought crossed his mind that the unknown being who dragged him into the seventh dimension in the first place was thinking the same.

... Unfortunately, he later learned that Adryel's soul was damaged again due to Squirt's recklessness, and that Calamity had stolen his body. He became annoyed with Squirt and enraged at Calamity, partly because of the vulnerable state it left his mind in. While the blood rage he was feeling eventually left his body, he decided in a more cold logical way that he had to deal with Calamity through whatever means he could. Since Calamity was a 7D entity, he knew that something like him had a better fighting chance

When Calamity was offering up Adryel's soulless body and said he was just going to dump it otherwise, The Librarian had heavy objections. He didn't want some unknown being to get their hands on a semi crystalline body and make some sort of weapon. The price, of course, was a soul. The Librarian didn't want to do this at first, but he eventually decided to travel to a timeline and ripped a soul out of a criminal bandit lord. Of course, he regretted it the instance after he painfully ripped it out of their body, but nonetheless made the trade. His anger towards Calamity for this only grew.

At some point, The Librarian would, with Father's help, get Adryel's soul back into his body. He ended up feeling extremely guilty because of his actions, as they were all too familiar to what had been forced upon him in 7D. Father also revealed that she suspected The Librarian was an attempt to create a third generation demon. Although he felt like that wasn't the valid explanation due to the fact he did not feel compelled to consume souls, it put the idea in his head. After all, with no knowledge of what the entity even was, it could have been the case that a Devil was responsible. He also paid witness to Lugawoo killing one of his siblings... Which is when he suspected that Lugawoo was a big more than some odd childlike entity.

Eventually, they all geared up to kill Calamity, which was performed alongside Adryel, Alex, Sera, and Antivirus. One of the things they brought were reality anchors to protect themselves from Calamity's abilities - which he didn't use, as it turns out he had been subconsciously reality warping his own body to stay stable the entire time. He figured out that he could shift enough energy to shut down Calamity's reality warping abilities, which he used to help Sera stick a reality anchor on Calamity himself, allowing them to kill him. However, knowing how his species worked, he suspected that they'd see Calamity again sooner rather than later.

After that event, he found himself becoming antiquated with Antivirus, letting him hang out in his newly formed pocket dimension. However, something strange started to happen. He started to develop a weird sickness, becoming too weak to do much physically. In addition, he'd constantly wake up low on energy reserves, struck with a gnawing hunger that would eventually go away due to his own regenerating energy reserves. Nonetheless, this left him too weak to go out and do anything.

He was strong enough to at least go outside, though, which he ended up doing so to meet Victor. He ended up placing Victor on Pluto and setting up a little house there, as well as bartering with him to obtain a vial of unknown liquid to add to his hoard.

Some General Shenanigans
Because Squirt was in his chaos state again, TNN headed to Planet Squirt to figure out some way of dealing with the issue. While he couldn't come physically, he watched the place using his scrying powers. However, Adryel would start to go insane on Planet Squirt, because his body had in fact been hit by Calamity's Bismuth crystals. Taken over by an alter ego that called himself The Captain, he helped in pinning him down by covering his bismuth arm in his own pruskite crystals.

However, General Maricela would attack everyone present, taking Alex captive. The Librarian in his severely weakened state was not able to do much to defend her, which made him... Rather upset with himself. Determined, he swiftly helped mount a plan of attack with the net, figuring out multiple distractions to set up in order to retrieve Alex. He got into a fight with her, resulting in The Librarian ending up rather badly injured as they fought. He warped out near the end of the battle, that being the worst conflict he had ever found himself in. The fight consumed quite a bit of his energy, resulting in his soul falling into a more unstable state. Father transferred some of her energy to The Librarian, however. It wasn't much, but it was rather appreciated.

There was a situation where Father attempted to use his 7D crystals for an experiment. This, however, resulted in triggering him, as he viewed the use of the crystals as using him. He was extremely upset that Father had failed to inform him beforehand. This resulted in him overriding control over the created prototype, blowing up Father's lab. There, however, those who went there later ended up encountering a certain someone - and he was horrified, realizing that the scaled entity who kidnapped him still was lurking in the shadows, watching over him constantly.

Powers and Abilities
[This is out of date, I didn't edit it to include the reaper reveal yet but it's not contradicting, just missing some info]

The Librarian is much stronger than even he realizes, and definitely is not tapping into all of his potential. Perhaps because doing so would remind him too much about his experience... That, and he doesn't need to tap into all of that power to be left the hell alone.

The Librarian has quite the aptitude for manipulating the dimensions. To the Librarian, the other dimensions are things he can always clearly see, save for 7D. Due to this, he can travel through them with relative ease, and look into the locations of other dimensions without being physically present. Of course, this ability can always be interfered with, though typical dimensional blocking methods.

He has the ability to change forms, though using anything other than his true form causes a strain on his mind. He can only maintain a different one for so long. The more of a departure it is from his true form, the more stress it puts on his mind. Instead of having any "real" physical limbs, the Librarian summons limbs on a "as needed" basis. He can comfortably control eight limbs at any time. Anything above that is possible, but strains the Librarian quite a bit.

7D Crystals
The Librarian's being is rather odd, as although he shares some of the traits of 7D beings, he doesn't have them exactly. These traits come from being left in the seventh dimension for an extremely long time. He doesn't really fit into the category of any dimensional being. In fact, his body is simultaneously made out of multiple dimensions.

Due to his strange condition, the Librarian's physical form isn't truly physical. Although able to exist properly most of the time, he doesn't really exist, at least in the way one should. He has discovered that the reason why he's more stable than he theoretically should is due to the fact he had been subconsciously reality warping himself into stability. He can't utilize his reality warping abilities without losing focus on himself, which can have really disastrous consequences.

The 7D crystals he create have an unstable property to them, constantly decaying radioactively. He himself is practically a living 7D nuclear core. Because of this, they're hazardous to stay around. He tries to make sure he doesn't leave any laying around by accident, as he fears someone will try to use him. He gets extremely upset if someone tries to use them without asking.

Soul Problems
The Librarian's soul is quite screwed up and doesn't function properly, resembling a puzzle that has been put together incorrectly yet was forced through the holes to stick together. It's kept together by his sheer willpower to keep things together and make it appear that everything is fine. However, due to its forcefulness, his soul is slowly accumulating more damage in its current state. At a glance, it does have similarities to the soul of a demon - though the affliction on his soul is definitely something else. There's a strange energy both around it and occupying it. His soul is extremely impervious to exterior damage and is difficult to harm. A portion of his soul is missing, but it functions seemingly just fine. He believes its sorry state is a result of both mental trauma afflicted on him during his time in 7D and modifications done to it by his captor.

The Librarian has an aptitude for manipulating souls. He can attack them directly, but also repair them. He mostly uses this ability for defensive purpose to ward off attackers typically by causing direct but temporary damage to the soul, but it can go deeper than that. He can also read souls, though how in depth he can read them depends on circumstance.

Misc Info

 * He has a cat called Tiger that he accidentally infused with his pruskite crystals because she snuggled with her too much. She's currently out and about because that gave her the ability to teleport, because normal cats legally cannot exist in TTN.