The Librarian

The Librarian is a multiversal wanderer who found his way onto TTN. He's... Definitely a something that exists, that's for sure. While he still prefers keeping to himself, he's started to become a little bit more confident 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
Ages ago, a normal human named Erie Varian was born to two loving parents - for the most part, anyways.. He took an interest to engineering, studying it deeply in his teenage years. He eventually became a mechanical engineer with some knowledge on the electrical aspects of it. Eventually, a government organization called Cryine scouted him in university, setting himself up a job for the organization once he had finished his studies.

During university he met a woman called Kizun, who he eventually ended up dating and then later marrying - a year after he met her. While their chemistry was initially great, it soon turned extremely toxic on both sides as they didn't quite consider that their needs were completely different from each other. Once Kizun had their son, Padma, the two eventually decided to get a divorce and took joint custody of their child, only interacting to make sure his life was safe.

As he raised his son, Eire eventually joined the organization. Unknown to the rest of the universe, Cryine had just recently discovered time travel. They also discovered a substance dubbed "aether" (unrelated to 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. It was a dangerous substance that they didn't fully understand, and part of his work was understanding such things. Although he had initially expected to just be a mere engineer, he started to get sucked into all sorts of eccentric research paths that got close to playing with reality itself, which turned out to be much more fulfilling.

Aether Incident
One day, however, he toyed with the forces of reality in a specific enough way that things went horribly wrong. The result was drawing extradimensonal attention, summing an unknown cosmic being from an unknown dimension to assault the worksite of Pluto. Erie triggered the event while trying to test out a new advanced machine to allow them to access new timelines.

Erie had stood up to this dimensional horror to ensure the protection of those closest to him: His two roommates Iris and Colby. He jumped in front of them so the two of them could flee. However, it turns out the entity wasn't just there to murder a bunch of humans. After trying to fight for a bit to at least stall for time, they ended up landing a grapple on him, disarming him and cornering him. After breaking his limbs so he couldn't flee or fight back anymore, they started to drag him away, through the machine that triggered the event in the first place to a particular destination.

As far as everyone else knew, the man known as Eire Varian disappeared under some accident while playing with theoretical cosmic mechanisims. The public did have some sense that it was caused by an entity, though not much more of the incident was revealed to the public. He was considered dead both by Cryine and the rest of the world. (Un)fortunately, he wasn't.

The Seventh Dimension
There was a single destination Scale had in mind: The seventh dimension to conduct their experiments and to achieve a goal.

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 than he did when first joining TTN, 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. While it may often seem like he cares for others he doesn't know well, in reality he often more so uses them as a mechanism to express himself and to fulfill his curiosities about their nature. He also has plenty of fascinations for the nature of reality and how things work, often having obscure knowledged wedged into his brain somewhere that he (probably) picked up from a book. 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, 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. As time has gone on, however, combined with both getting to know TTN and therapy, he's started to care more about what's happening around him. However, he still struggles with this, to the point it still causes issues. His apathy has effected nearly every single aspect of his life in some way, and it's unclear how deep the issue truly goes.

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. This idea has only been vindicated when people start to look down on him or treat him with pity, but he at least understands that not all people think that way. He knows that most people expect from him spells of insanity that will kill entire planets, and therefore would rush to crush what freedom he has left. 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 genuinely believes that he's completely insane and therefore is incapable of making any rational choices for his life. 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. Not even those trying to help him know how deep the strings of Scale's manipulations run through his veins.

Despite his multitude of issues, what has definitely kept him from falling to the side of evil is his own personal mantra to avoid malice at all costs and to help people if it's not too much of an inconvenience. This by no means makes him a moral paragon and this philosophy is partly born from practicality, but it's been enough so far to prevent him from actively hurting anyone. He doesn't think he could be heroic - heck, he's so intent on this mantra because he thinks by nature he's evil - but as long as he does no harm, it's a fine enough goal to achieve. As such he tries his absolute best to avoid killing people and always comes off as pleasant in conversation.

What has definitely kept him around is some shred of his surviving willpower. While he indeed may seem mentally weak, surviving what he did without going completely insane is a miracle in of itself. He often comes off as hopeless, but he believes in the possibility things can improve for him just enough to keep trudging on. Even when it seems like he's given up, his determination to keep trying always underlines his mind. Paradoxically, his rejection of relying on hope can be attributed to this - he's been burned into the past, and it's way too scary for him to hope on anything without feeling like it'll be shattered. Instead, he pushes himself on his mantra to keep going forward even if things are looking grim, because he has seen his life improve from rock bottom before even if it's not all that great. Of course, sometimes his way of doing so is passively waiting for things to pass, but from his experience wasting his willpower on something he can't win is a futile effort.

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.

Sometime later, he'd discover an odd machine and place it into his pocket dimension. It had a whole bunch of crystals on it, which make him somewhat intrigued. However, forgetful as he is, it eventually got lost in the pile of stuff in his pocket dimension, and he stopped investigating it due to his own tendencies.

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.

Later, Father would send the Devil Oblivion after him, who located him in his pocket dimension and tried to lure him away. After getting frustrated when he didn't seem instantly trustworthy and declined their attempt to get him to drink tea, they decided to just grab and kidnap him, drugging him in the process. However, this so happened to piss off Scale, who ended up murdering Oblivion and kidnapping Father for setting up the scheme in the first place. This exasperated his paranoia, knowing that the entity wasn't just watching him and that he could easily be attacked at any time.

The Ink Issue
One day, Victor woke up in a strange dark wasteland filled with terrifying things and conveyed this on the net. The Librarian showed up to help him, managing to pull him out through magical effort. This created a weird portal in his pocket dimenson, with lots of static comming from it. Obviously, that was spooky.

Then the machine he had found and forgotten about earlier started moving. It moved near him and a shadowy obsidian entity grabbed him, knocking him out and doing weird things to him. Eventually, when he woke up his arm was covered in obsidian crystals, and the machine had disappeared into nowhere. When he went over to Pluto to check on Victor later, the portal showed up there and started dragging him in there. Dyugu was there and tried to pull him out, but ended up being dragged into the situation herself. Victor also got in himself.

He woke up in chains, imprisoned somewhere in the location. He got attacked by living ink, which ended up injecting his chest with the substance. He still had a connection to the net, but he couldn't escape due to being horribly weakened and attacked. As a result, he had to call for a rescue operation, which consisted of Seraphim, Squirt, and Alex. He eventually broke out of the chains, but before he could flee an ink slime grabbed him and dragged him to the bottom of a lake.

Eventually they were able to locate him, retrieving him from the lake. They confronted the entity that had trapped them, and eventually left through a portal Afol had created.

The Reaper and The Nine
While The Librarian did not show up to Ark's aid, he did watch some of what happened to keep an eye on his friends. It turned out as they went to retrieve his hat, it was stolen by an evil religious zealot known as The Regen t. Once discovering who TTN was, he crawled his way onto the net and started making all sorts of villainous statements. He was one of the prime commanders of the Nine Gods, a group of entities committed to taking over reality in lieu of the Reapers. It just so happens, then, that The Regent got a little bit attached to him.

Eventually, however, the situation took an insanely sharp turn that nobody expected to ever witness. A few members of the net had slowly deduced information on what exactly Scale was: A Reaper. This wasn't exactly good news for The Librarian, and it caused him to start to really freak out. The Regent just so happened to hear about this, and due to caring about The Librarian's well being made the snap judgment to declare war on the Reapers here and now. The Nine hatched their plan, attempting to swipe control of the megaverse under the hands of the Reaper by blocking their ability to manifest in lower dimensions. Despite being hit by waves of shock and shock, he figured that now surely he'd be able to be free from Scale.

He wasn't.

Scale kidnapped him once again, practically dragging him kicking and screaming back into 7D, forcefully putting him into a stasis. They trapped him in a seal, blocking his ability to communicate with the net. He hoped that the nine would do something, but they were uninterested. In there he stewed in both anguish and betrayal, feeling that the Nine were just using him to justify their war as a moral chess-piece. He slowly lost his sanity from being ripped away from his life, disintegrating away in there thinking nobody was ever going to come rescue him.

He was trapped for about a meta month until some people from TTN were finally able to locate him and break him out of the seal. However, in part what really happened is that Father showed up for him. She made a direct communication, and as far as he knew she was the only person who had dared to show up. After making some amount of progress in weakening the seal, that's when she was grabbed - by Scale. It turns out part of their intention was to trick her into becoming vulnerable from her soul net, and they used that opportunity to claim her completely for their own.

What Father did for him was not useless, however. She weakened the containment enough to the point he could break out on his own, predominately via destroying the energy regulators. After lingering for a little bit to get his bearings, he eventually slipped back into the megaverse to find that the war that triggered their action in the first place was over. He deduced it to be likely that Scale fully intended for him to escape, which pained him massively and started to drive him insane from the stress of never having escaped their force after all.

Physical Info
The Librarian is much stronger than he realizes - though to be fair, his baseline view of himself is full of nothing but contempt and self loathing. The full depths of what he even is isn't something he even slightly understands, and as a result the mere act of tapping into his power is an exploration into the depths of what he is. While he initially held no interest in exploring himself, as time has gone on he's started to care about more than just surviving - and that extends to caring about what he is.

Crystanium Shenanigans
The Librarian has his own set of crystanium crystals. They manifest as pruskite of the red variety, which have a subtle glow that is invisible in full light yet can be seen in dim conditions. His pruskite is constantly decaying on its own, unable to keep itself together. However, he does know how to make small bits of it stable. It also doesn't decay as much if its in the presence of a high volume of pruskite, as it seems to help it stay together. This fact has allowed for a further understanding of crystanium by people he trusts, as the radioactive like decay breaks it up into components that can be understood. Like any other crystanium entity, he has full control over them, using them to construct objects and as a weapon.

He has a variety of uses for them in a variety of scenarios. One of his favoured uses is for combat, utilizing a pruskite pistol that shoots pruskite bullets. While it does have combat uses, since he rarely comes into a situation intending to kill he uses it more for its secondary purpose: Tracking. Because he can sense where his own crystals are, he uses it to hit enemies that would otherwise be evasive or hard to locate to keep track of them. He sometimes chooses to fire "harmless" bullets, which are reactive spikes that upon getting close to their targets shift themselves in order to stick into them but not hurt them (beyond piercing the skin).

They are also notable for damaging other variants of crystanium at an extremely efficient level, practically burning through them. While some variants do have resistance to this ability, it still inherently damages them. It also repels the entities, as most of them have a high aversion to it while its in an active state. This is an active contributor to their general distaste for them.

While his crystals are highly ineffective for defensive uses, they make for very powerful if fragile weapons and tools. He's fully aware that Scale somehow constantly obtains pruskite and uses it for their own purposes.

Keeping It Together
While he does have a default form, he can shift his body to resemble nearly anything that is either similar to his true form or to his former human form. His true form looks like a dark wyrm-like creature, with pruskite antlers and crystals sticking out of his back. He has six eyes on his face, which are purely red from the crystals of his body. While he can regulate it to not be hazardous, without him focusing some amount of energy to conceal himself he can really hurt the minds of those who view it, looking even more warped and twisted beyond that.

Without forcing himself to be contained with reality warping, he's a highly dangerous hazard as his crystanium energy can eat through anything (including reality) if not regulated enough. While he does have reality warping capabilities, it's rarely worth the tradeoff of focusing his attention off of keeping his body safe. High exposure to his pruskite (and by extension energy) is very dangerous. While it's hard to take in the amount of exposure, prolonged contact with his body for more than a half hour is enough to be at risk, suffering from a variety of side effects. It can be lethal, but only after 24 metahours in total of contact.

The Soul Issue
To call Lib's soul a mess is an understatement. A trainwreck, too, doesn't possibly describe the disaster that by some miracle can be still classified as a soul. It's stuck together by aether (some from scale and some not), crystals, sheer will, darkness, space, and who knows what else. Parts of its structure appear to be missing and replaced by the other components, which seem to just barely allow it to function. It's overall very damaged - and very powerful. His soul is near impervious from any damage coming from an external source, and even when infiltrated into its difficult to deal harm of any kind, as any spiritual wounds seem to heal themselves very quickly. 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. He knows something about it being this way and having its precise properties is very important to Scale, but in what way he can't quite understand.

His relationship with souls isn't just complicated with his own, either. He can inherently see all soulforms, capable of attacking and repairing them, with the capacity to read them as well. In order to avoid hurting anyone yet to still protect himself, he typically uses his soulform attacking abilities to cause direct yet temporary damage to his opponents, disorientating them enough that he flee. However, his capabilities go much beyond that. He can rip them out from an unprotected body with ease, and even with protection he can gradually do so. He can also permanently injure souls if he so pleases. He understands, however, on some level, that his capacity for soulform manipulation could reach even heights of mind control and domination - which, seeing as those are the exact same abilities are what the monster that ruined his life did to him, is a side of him he's hesitant to even think about.

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.