Caius

Caius was born from the feverish imagination of a dying artist, whose laboring breaths brought forth this sentient creation onto the parchment. The artist's final wish was to live on through his masterpiece, and so Caius emerged, a being of ink and pigment, with the power to manipulate the very fabric of reality to bend it to his will. Raised within the confines of his creator's studio, Caius grew to understand the world through the strokes and shades of the artist's unfinished works. When he realized that he could step out of the pages and into the real world, he was filled with a hunger to be seen as more than just a figment of someone else's imagination. He craved perfection, seeking to become the ultimate embodiment of his creator's vision, which he believed was the key to earning his respect. However, the more he tried to achieve this, the more he realized that his existence was slowly consuming the Artist's life force. Terrified of his fate, he ventured out into the world, using his powers to sustain himself by draining the artistic energy of those he encounters, all the while searching for a way to become truly real.