Thread:IonicOneirologist/@comment-10558422-20150313020157/@comment-4609348-20150313022129

Oh cool, thank you! That link will do for now, though I don't have much of a profile. XD;

Benny is an old original character of mine; a spider demon who runs a dimension-hopping pawn shop. Since he is a dimension hopper, I figured it wouldn't be odd to see him passing through the Skullgirls universe! His true form is a giant, bright green jumping spider (still wearing that bowler hat of his), but that would've taken up an awful lot of space as an NPC. He normally dresses much more casually in his humanoid guise, with a worn old duster and fingerless gloves, that sort of thing. His sunglasses hide it a little, but he's got four spiderlike eyes in humanoid form as well. That's also an oversized insect leg he's chewing on, not a piece of grass or anything! Here, I have a character blurb I wrote up a while back:

''This is Benny, and he is a spider demon who runs a dimension hopping pawn shop. Which is situated in an enormous clocktower on a ripped up chunk of street that just kinda floats through the multiverse. It's the last remaining piece of his home dimension. Luckily for him, he has natural dimensional gate abilities.''

''Benny is typically cool-headed and a smooth talker. He's more or less seen it all, and it's very difficult to faze him. He's closest to true neutral, but does play favorites. If he likes you, he's a pretty damn nice guy. If you do something stupid like try to steal from him, you're absolutely boned. See, he's the sort of demon that feeds on misery and other negative emotions, but that doesn't mean he can't also feed on flesh... and he's a convincing enough talker that you might not even realize you're screwed until it suddenly dawns on you that you've been webbed into the chair for the past five minutes and it's not a pen he's going through the drawer for.''

''His sense of humor is dry, sometimes morbid, and often difficult to pick up on if you don't know him well. His voice is deep and somewhat gravelly, though he speaks with a smooth, almost hypnotizing cadence. He also has a habit of referring to himself in the third person every so often.''

"Step right in, folks. Whatever yer lookin' for, ol' Benny's gotcha covered. Just mind you don't touch what you don't intend to buy... never know what's still lingerin' around on these things, take my word for it."

''Yup, he's got a pretty strict "sell it as it was found" policy, meaning that anything he gets that's cursed, enchanted, or the prison of some powerful demon or vengeful genie is going to stay that way. He'll warn his customers... if they haven't given him reason not to. He's highly resistant to curses and dark magicks himself, and rarely encounters an object that poses a threat to him.''

I invented him years ago when I needed a one-shot black market shopkeep type character for a roleplay, and he just... never left. That's about it! (I really love the whole "little shop that wasn't there yesterday" trope, so he's kinda my love letter to it.)

I don't recall if I ever made a Skullheart account, but I definitely want to be in on the NPC database, so thank you for the link! I'll go check it out. :D (And sorry if I unexpectedly killed you with tl;dr. I love talking about my dumb OCs, ahaha.)