Frances Davis

When we broke up she said ‘it’s not me it’s you’ which is completely ridiculous! After all, I'm not the one who has forgotten how to smile!

-- Brian, Fran’s co-worker

Fran wants to do one thing, sleep. Unfortunately for her, she sold her soul to an old god years ago and now must try to convert others into the cult (or into fuel for the old one), or risk eternal insanity and torture. Her job is being an ‘event coordinator’ for people the cult kidnaps to their unknown island, a job she’s been quiet quitting for at least a decade. But things aren’t all that bad, she’s now unaging, can change into a lovecraftian creature called a cat of Saturn, and even sometimes gets breaks from her on-call 24 hours 7 days a week job to work on her art. 

Backstory

Frances Davis was born as the third child to Alice and Henry Davis February 26th, 1985 in Massachusetts. She grew up as a typical weird art kid, being involved in the early internet and a regular on the furry forums, sharing sparkle dog artwork. She was also into the odd and the occult, when it came to choosing an art college to attend she chose one based on the fact they had a fairly known club for dark and strange. 

She met her best and worst friends in this club, and together they discovered another side of the world they knew, they were looking for demons and darkness and found unknowable cosmic horrors and madness. Impressed by their abilities the old god they had called to earth offered them a deal; they could exchange their humanity and mortal soul for eternal life, a life that bound them to a creature of the other worlds that most closely matched their personality, or they could just go mad and risk dying where they stood. Needless to say, Fran took the first offer. She’s unclear on what exactly happened next or how long it took, she remembers bits of alien worlds, seeing time and space bend around her, being everywhere and nowhere at the same time and indescribable pain and suffering. Her memories start becoming clear again after she has mastered turning into and functioning as a cat of Saturn as well as being trapped on an island controlled by fellow followers of the old god who had gone through the same experience.  

The majority of the cult were fellow artists and creatives like her, and she was quickly accepted and eager to help her new friends and coworkers. However as the years have dragged on and the more and more innocent lives she has seen lost for the agenda of manifesting a stable portal to the city their old god lives the more and more just tired Fran has become and the more she yearns for the days where she could just lay around and draw and her biggest moral problem was debating if ‘pose stealing’ was a real thing or not (it’s not!)

Round 1 update:

During her time in Carcosa, the dimension outside of time and space where her god resides, Fran not only gained the power to transform into a Cat of Saturn but also linked herself to the god, becoming an avatar. Old Gods cannot reside on Earth without extreme sacrifice, so they will create an avatar, a human body they can possess and control for periods of time in order to give instruction to their followers. Up until now Fran was unaware of her status, assuming that she had somehow just missed every single cult update meeting and had gotten cold feet every time she attempted to leave the island. Thanks to the distance between her and the portal (and a little help from GodEater), Fran is now aware (and horrified) of this fact and the actions she does while controlled.  

Personality

Ever have a retail or customer service job that paid minimum wage and crushed you every time you had to go in? That’s basically Fran’s mood all the time. When someone asks her a question she will give a long sigh before giving the necessary reply, when someone demands help you’ll be lucky if she does the minimum. Over all she’s burnt out and wants to sleep and to just be on her own for a long time. Underneath the aura of depression is still a depressed person but people who are okay with just quietly vibing and who aren’t freaked out by the lovecraft thing are able to befriend Fran. They will see that she enjoys doing life drawing, and if you look non human enough she might ask if she can draw you (as long as you don’t make a big deal about it). Those close to Fran will also notice she tends to do a lot of cat-like things as a human such as pawing at strings and enjoying sitting in high places.