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My Superhero City - Characters

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The parents, relations, and other loved ones of the Iridium Wonders.

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Relations of Mahvash Matten Mattiuza.

The House Mattiuza In General

The Mattiuzas are not pure hearts who converted a fiend by any stretch. Self-indulgent, heretical, and much preferring to bend the world to their whims, the House Mattiuza has been a source of maelstroms and malady and charity and blessings from its very beginning. It took a significant amount of evil to summon a daeva and inventiveness to strive as they had after all.

That said, the House Mattiuza has no world shattering ambition nor are they even are particularly interested in enriching themselves. They're wild cards, out to take from the world what they wished and give back in their own way.

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Tropes in Common

• Anti-Magic: Shirin and Vaumisa have ^note (anti)-divine protection after all.
• Biological Immortality: Both Shirin and Vaumisa have ageless, supernaturally healthy bodies, but are still quite capable of bleeding out from a fatal wound—or starving.
• The Dark Arts: Helped uncover and record encyclopedias for much of modern magery and magitek (along with mundane science).
• Evil Hero: They defend their home and beautify it and keep the roads clear for free travel, and if they can reduce casualties by poisoning every nation downstream of them, well...
• The Family That Slays Together: As soon as they 'adopted' Mahvash, she took part in the family business.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: By way of Mahvash
• Morality Chain: The normally self-absorbed bunch are all this to each other. They'd never participate in a scheme that could endanger one of them (more than usual anyway). They're usually vipers to anyone else though... The main exception being people who took care of Mahvash.
• Noble Demon: The House Mattiuza has a going thing with Mahvash and other daeva, not out of malice toward humanity or the world, but because it satisfies them. When not on the clock, they're happy to engage in steady acts of charity and kindness. They consider themselves on a permanent mission, converting for the cause and studying scripts and doctrine with more zeal than Mahvash herself has and for the same reasons as any other missionary.
• Our Phlebotinum Child: Sort of adopted. Sort of invited to cover their house. Its complex.
• The Sacred Darkness: Have this attitude.
• Sense Freak: Love experiences of all kinds, and want others to have them too.
• The Missionary: Their much and sincerely pursued loved profession.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Shirin and Vaumisa have been shamelessly transcribing and presenting these bits of knowledge for public consumption for years. After the 'brief' outbreak of madness, decay, and disaster, these things often just become knowledge. This is vindication enough for them.
• Villainous Underdog: The Mattiuza are Walking the Earth with a house patron amidst hostile, higher divinities. Shirin can boast a small if disciplined and well-organized following. Not a single government embraces her cult (openly) and Usij are just out of enemies of mankind status. Saint has skewed the hero 'job' and she has trouble finding people in the right mold, and her own top gods seem distant at times. Then again, she's being campaigning like this for millennia.
• Villainous Valour: Get through thick and thin by The Power of Love, and the determination to see each through.
• Unholy Matrimony: Shirin and Vaumisa are in it together. They never even consider betraying each other.

Shirin Bet Mattiuza

The matriarch of the House Mattiuza ^note It was sometimes much bigger than the three of them, Shirin shows herself vivacious and curious, to the point that people wonder if she's ill if they catch her willingly sitting down. Even her falling asleep tends involve her passing out mid-activity after several days awake.

Despite her mania though, Shirin is no De Terminator. She'd rather fold them and move on to something else that's fun. Many, MANY people not named Vaumisa or Mahvash have found themselves left to face the swords and spears when she vanishes on them.

All the same, Shirin usually charms the people she meets, having genuine interest in everyone's lives—even those she's just about to use as bait. In her own home, she's rather a softie, going out of her way to indulge her housemates and keep the house warm and pleasantly chaotic. (Orderly is impossible).

Vaumisa Bet Mattiuza

The patriarch of the House Mattiuza ^note It was sometimes much bigger than the three of them, Vaumisa shows himself equally as manic as Shirin, although he usually remembers social customs. He usually comes up with The Plan of the week ^note (albeit from the back, Shirin is the master of the Indy Ploy on the field) when the house isn't all off causing individual ruckuses.

Even more than Shirin, he will be no where near the action if at all possible, and while clearly caring for Mahvash's well-being, he is remarkably cavalier about sending her into extreme danger.

At home, he's solid and reliable, keeping up the House Mattiuza's connections in society and usually following through on his promises. ^note (If Shirin screwed someone he made a deal with though, he's rarely upset...)

In any case, Vaumisa is rather stuffy and always dressed up, no matter what. (Mahvash will swear she's seen him climb out of bed in a crisp three-piece suit. Shirin would say that he's entered bed the same way). He can be distant with his love of the family (and even moreso for friends), but he is also the most likely to empathize with people he inevitably harms and to try to justify his actions.

The Lords and Ladies in General

Five beings both near and up high. Time is just another direction to them, so asking their age is maddening. Not one hasn't gone backwards or left or Z in time as much as forward. They're not necessarily the mightiest though at present, that's who gets the votes from the daeva and the voting anušiya and usij. They're ancient and modern, the semi-democracy is a sign of that. There's only one of each of them, no matter what dimension one encounters them, for they span the universe.

They are named in human legends, for they do visit and visit things upon humanity and the other peoples of creation. And for the most part, they're quite approachable. They speak Avestan among themselves not Black Speech ^note Before encountering humans, they had no need to talk simply directing their will on others and being understood and do not consider it a trouble to simply adopt the language of the person speaking to them.

They tend to look humanoid by default because, the human Iranians were the first sapient beings they encountered. None of the daeva have a 'natural' form. That they are the collective top rank of a group of eldritch abominations actually doesn't make them dangerous in the way one would expect. They're usually happy to do favors for free. What could they want from the people asking after all? They're just as happy to do what they want though, and while they may consider you in the equation, they've also encountered uncountable permutations of 'you' and you may not even be their favorite.

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• Ahriman: The Chief / the King of Kings. Not being a human monarch, with power dependent on a delicate balance of pomp and ceremony, he or she tends to be fine with either one. Or his guards do. Given the modernizations, he's also a politician, balancing among the daeva practicing godhood, those interested in revenge against this species for one thing or another, and the infinite ways they want to 'have fun'. His personal project is of course, replacing the old creation with his own. Making a universe compatible with his people is a very popular initiative. Progress, depends. Snapping creation out of existence and replacing it with stuff not allergic to his followers would not amuse the ones being gods or the ones who want revenge or playtoys. Politics saves creation... Aside from the mood swings, the man personally is quite suave and patient, able to speak to each of his own very personally and bluster the group into action. There are several reasons, like that one, that the daeva have had just one king since the outset.
• Nasu: Sweet in her own way, and either utter, unholy ruin or the instant rejuvenation of worlds. The daeva often talk of what people what do with that kind of power. Nasu, she finds all lacking overall... and can be distracted with a leaning tower of pizza boxes the next. An incarnation of pollution and a very creative one, given her time and lack of any barriers. Unique among the daeva, she regularly creates things under her own power, entire sapient races and the amoebas that eat them alive within hours, only to do it with slightly different hairstyles or sun positions to see different playthroughs. Tends to favor manifesting as a redheaded middle adult with three concentric, rune-scribed halos. Or an opaque dust bowl.
• Aeshma: Big Fun. No really. He was Ahriman's 'ambassador' to Odin for ages and one of the few to drink Thor under the table. (Which Thor repaid in the rematch). And he loves people. He loves their passions and dreams and will encourage everyone to follow them. Everyone. And remind them to let nothing stand in their way. Compromise and verbal altercations are... okay, but nothing compares to the decision of a fight. Everything eventually comes down to the last argument, and Aeshma rewards those who use it and prepare for it. Even against him. His bitterest enemies are free to become drinking buddies in his slice of heaven. He loves all sides in conflict and moves pieces here and there, like in any RTS. His own anušiya certainly don't sit around. They're fighting a good fight somewhere. That last bit is important: a good fight. Aeshma is not fond of fighting just because. That's Nasu's territory. He tends to appear as a giant of a man in shiny armor, a middle aged bureaucrat in uniform, a sans-culotte, or even a man in street clothes and dusty from rioting.
• Jahi: The First Lady to the daeva and their own. Whore Queen to the Yazata and other enemies. Is not one to show off her power, at least actively. In fact, she's usually working to tilt things in the most effective and efficient way possible, and for that is the most bureaucratic, favoring anušiya both number savvy and that she can pull out of their shell or a funk. That's just first though. She gets to alot more. Jahi loves everyone and everything and works to show it. She also has alot of the infinite multiverse to cover and alot of time and space to put effort into. She's seen where infinite timelines go and creates infinitely many more to help everyone and everything to their 'most beautiful' outcomes. Yes, this means she'll intervene to keep canyons carved by ancient rivers from developing lopsided unless say, a group 25000 years in the future will use the location for a beautiful ceremony or it awes couples for centuries or becomes the mating grounds for particularly pretty archaea, etc. Even more than Ahriman, she's always at work, trying to uplift and delight the unending peoples and even objects that exist, could exist, and have never existed. Is the least likely to tell, or for her followers to tell about her, that she works In Mysterious Ways. Though the explanation might not help. Is certainly not distant and usually answers or reaches out to her people directly. Unless this'll produce a less lovely result. Yes, there's a myth she and the chief had sex. Neither one of them will confirm or deny for reasons from bemusement to amusement. She certainly proudly takes credit for daeva doing that with humans. Naturally, Jahi appears as the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. Its for your sake but if you let yourself go...
• Areshko: The least visible of the group, and one of the few openly and purely elected on the basis of power alone. He's a very simple daeva. He wants to be good enough? To whom? Hmhm. And it's never good enough. And he'll empower anušiya to gather good things for him but the deal tends to end there. He's loath to show himself to any followers or other daeva and can spend centuries adjusting a picture on the wall. But he still wants to seek out perfection. Tends to not appear at all. And will usually look like the being addressing him if excessively polished.