#listen if anyone actually wants the designs for the scrapped essence...👀

[the-oletus-parlor]

I don't know if anyone's asked you about this yet but, what are your abilities? What about your costumes? Are you close to anyone in the manor? Tell us about yourself!

"Oh? I haven't had to think about questions like that for a long time now so please do excuse me if I require a little assistance on the matter." Yami said quietly. "This is going to be a long post, I hope you don't mind."

This is a really,,, REALLY long post so for your sanity, I've put Yami's answers under the cut.

POV you're about to read a little over 1700 word response to an ask.

"My abilities? Oh, well." Yami put his fingers to his chest, sweating. "I'm an assist type, so I excel with helping others. I can use my ghosts to boost the movement speeds of other survivors for a short amount of time, as well as have my ghosts assist with decoding." Yami held out his hand. "Of course, the more people that get eliminated in a match, the more useful the ghosts can be. I have 4 ghosts that come into a match with me. The more people that get eliminated, the more ghosts can haunt a different survivor. They can move faster, or they can help decode faster. Depending on the survivor and their situation depends on the usefulness of the buffs. When they're decoding, they get an increased decoding buff. When the hunter is chasing them, they get the increased movement speed buff. If they get caught while they're decoding with the decoding buff... they won't get a movement speed buff. After that, the ghosts have a 30-second cooldown." He tried his best to explain his abilities in a match. "It's much simpler to see the ghosts in action than it is for me to explain it..."

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"My costumes? Well, I have the original notes for my 2 A tiers costumes, and my original S tier costume. I also know a friend of mine, Angel Drew, is creating an S tier named Chrysanthemum for his new flower-themed essence. I've seen the design for Chrysanthemum and I must say, it looks very pretty!" Yami smiled fondly as he spoke. "I also have the original lore behind the first three costumes. As for Chrysanthemum, I'm not sure what the lore behind that skin is." Yami placed his hand on his hip as he thought for a moment. "I'd have to ask Angel about it sometime..." He muttered quietly. "So I can only really provide information for the first three." Yami disappeared off-screen for but a moment, re-emerging with a small box filled with many papers. "Here." Yami spread out the papers, clipping the corresponding essences together for your convenience.

"My S tier was a costume that never really came to be, since the person who had designed it, Tomie Williams, was let go in the middle of producing the essence. As a result, the 2nd essence of Season 10 never happened. The Prisoner ended up taking the slot for essence 2 instead." Yami explained. "It was supposed to be a winter-themed essence. A new designer ended up reusing the theme for a different essence down the line, but none of the original A tiers or the original S tier were ever made. The old S tier was called Frozen Heart, and the original A tiers were Snowflake for Miss Margaretha and Snowfall for Little Robbie." Yami rubbed his head a bit. "I had some sketches of all the original designs in here somewhere... I don't know if you'd care to see them though." Yami fumbled through the numerous pages on his desk before pulling out a small piece of paper. "Here we go. Uhm, from what I remember about the design process of the skin... Tomie had me choose a theme. So, to oppose the hotter desert theme of the ongoing essence at the time, we chose a winter-themed essence. The S tier of the essence was a young, delicate boy. He had white freckles all over his face and short light blue hair. Out in the winter hills, he lived alone, confined by heavy snowstorms and the intense sandstorms and deadly heat of the neighboring country. So he's stuck in the cold surrounding atmosphere. There's a lot of world-building in the script but I'll skip over all that." He hummed gently. "In the trailer, the ending actually has a voiceover from Desolate Sand." Yami was quiet as he frowned a bit. "Our S tiers are supposed to be friends, you know?" Yami seemed bitter as he gathered the papers together, clipping them all together and tossing them back into the box, leaving his thoughts unfinished.

"Let's see... ah yes, Ghost Boy. It's my first A-tier and my personal favorite. It was part of Season 13." Yami hummed gently. "It was run alongside the 2nd essence of the season. Even though my skin is called Ghost Boy, the essence is actually known as the Art Essence. The S tier of the essence belongs to the Animator, Ruth Valden. It shares the same name as their title, Animator. Ghost Boy is one of the A Tiers of the essence. The other A tier is called Art Collector, and it belongs to The Ripper. There's an additional A tier that they sold in the store for a limited amount of time named Art Critic for the Painter as well." He put his hand to his chin, shaking his head. "And basically, the story behind the Art Essence is basically, a popular animator tries various things to bring inspiration to the world around him but fails multiple times. One day he draws up a set of sketches of a character he planned to use for an animation, a ghost boy. While working, he wonders what he could give to bring his creation to life. And so the Animator spends days working on this animation when he runs into one of the A tiers from a previous Halloween event. I think it was Spector? The one for the Postman. Spector offers to bring Ghost Boy to life, and while at first Animator denies, he ends up caving in due to curiosity. Meanwhile, the Art Collector is lurking, looking for new rare pieces of art to collect. And what is rarer than a living animation?" Yami explained the storyline to the best of his abilities. Interesting to note, the "Ghost Boy" leaned into a more animated cartoony style. "There is a whole backstory for Ghost Boy in the animation as well, where he opens a portal to the ghost realm, flooding their world with spirits, good and bad alike. Unfortunately... Spector had THAT carry over when he brought Ghost Boy to life too..."

"My second A tier is part of one of the most recent essence." Yami was quiet for a moment. "Ran side by side with essence 3 of season 18. The S tier of this essence was for The Child, Arbor, and it was called Sunshine. My A tier was called Found. The other A tier was called Beauty, for the Geisha." He seemed unsure for a moment. "I think it's called Beauty anyways..." He shook his head in response. "Basically, the closet Hidden opens leads to another world, where this essence takes place. The Source of Evil has a key that opens this door, one Hidden stole from her. On the door is that essence's opposites. SoE opposes Sunshine, Hidden opposes Found, Horrendous opposes Beauty. I can't give away too much of the lore of this essence because Mod Ghost said she might make that essence's storyline into an event." He shrugged a bit.

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"My friends? I don't really have any friends if I'm honest, besides Angel and maybe Miss Woods. Everyone here is just kind of, intimidating." Yami rubbed his arm nervously. "I know I should be more open to the others. I can't even begin to tell you about the number of letters Victor's sent me trying to be my friend. I open them and I read them and I want to be his friend but every time I think about it... I freeze up. And I chicken out. I can't help it. Of course, I also have some letters from Andrew that I... am too afraid to read. Why read letters from someone who's told you that they hate you anyway..." Yami facepalmed a bit, looking down as the ghost that usually chilled on his hat got off his hat, floating across the desk, pushing a sealed envelope towards Yami. They picked it up, dropping the letter in Yami's hands. "I already told you Tomie. I'm not opening the letter. You know how I get around Andrew... being faced with him in letter form isn't going to be any different." Yami threw the letter into the trash can at his bedside.

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Yami's full title is "The Funeral Parlor Director" but we all call him the Funeral boy.

If you couldn't tell, Yami and Andrew have a rough relationship due to some incredibly bad timing and frustrated Andrew moments. Yami has the impression Andrew doesn't like him, which isn't ACTUALLY true. Andrew's been trying to apologize to Yami for a very, very long time now. But Yami's deathly afraid of him.

Frozen Heart's Creator, Tomie, and the ghost on Yami's hat, Tomie, are two different Tomies.

Yami's 6'6ft. He's pretty tall.

His birthday is January 1st.

The flower on Yami's hat is supposed to be a Red Dahlia. While they are a known symbol of both strength and power, in this specific case, they represent betrayal and dishonesty.

Everyone has their set few characters they do matches with. For example, Victor and Tracy usually get paired together for matches, Mike, Margie, and Demi get paired together, Patricia and Fiona get paired together a lot. Yami tends to get paired with Helena and Naib for a lot of his matches. He also gets paired up with Victor and Andrew quite a lot, funnily enough.

Yami has quite a soft spot for the stars. So when he got an anonymous gift with an A-tier accessory themed after the moon and stars... he was a pretty happy funeral boy. Now if he READ THE MASs OF LETTERS HE WOulD KNOW WHO SenT IT TO HIM-

Yami's the oldest of 2 siblings. He has a little sister named Amy. She likes rabbits :D

If I had to ship Yami with anyone,,, mmmm hehehehe

Yami needs a hug... like desperately. He also gives really nice hugs too actually

POV You started writing this at 12pm and it's suddenly 5pm.

#mod ghost #idv #idv oc #idv oc askblog #idv funeral director #anon ask #mod answers #yami answers #*screams in Ghost has too much time on her hands* #about yami #long post #someone make Yami read the 100's of letters he had for the love of god. #listen if anyone actually wants the designs for the scrapped essence...👀 #*proceeds to talk to the void like the stupid idiot i am*