Pinokuni Silva

Introduction

Pinokuni, aka Pin, is a wooden marionette Automaton and Jack's best friend. He's from a far away seaside town home to various other living puppets. However, he winded up in Upon through a series of unfortunate events. Originally, after being rescued by Jack from the clutches of the giant, Pin had planned on leaving but he winded up sticking around and tagging along with Jack on his various misadventures. Currently, he works alongside Jack in Baba's Wooly Curiousities shop, often tinkering with the random trinkets he finds.

He is cursed with a spell that makes his nose glow whenever he tells a fib as punishment for his rambunctious past. A past he isn't that fond of talking about.

Personality

Pin says what's on his mind and has a very blunt way of speaking. He swears often and rarely cares who gets offended by what comes out his mouth. Apologies are far and inbetween for his own actions as his nose will just give away he isn't genuinely sorry. Regardless, he typically isn't the type to want to hurt people's feelings without good reason.

Much of this behaviour stems from his rough past where he used to run with the wrong group of people under the false belief they were his friends. He also had a very unfortunate run in with a being who stated he was "his conscience" leading to him lacking a wee bit in the empathy section. There are times others have to explain why he can't say or do something.

Thankfully, spending more time with Jack and the Briar Patch crew as a whole is doing wonders when it comes to learning more pleasant manners.

That being said, it isn't completely impossible for Pin to be chill. He can more often be found in a mellowed out state, sometimes playing with his strings or fiddling with some object he found that he is curious about. With friends, he's a good person to help with making decisions as he is very truthful, even in times where it might hurt. He also has a more mischevious side to him, especially when it comes to pranking others.

Relationships (WIP)

Jack Dorado
Pin's best bud. He wasn't planning on spawning a close friendship with someone after how terribly his last one was, nor was he even planning on sticking around after being rescued from the beanstalk. But after spending enough time with the farm boy, Pin determined he had a good, if not incredibly over optimistic, heart. He's been trying to teach him how to have a stronger back bone so others don't step all over him.

Nana Hunter
Pin and Nana's relationship is...complicated. They both see each other as friends, and treat each other as so, but they also are the two friends that roast the hell out of each other. They never take things too personally as it serves as enrichment for both their blunt personalities.

Kai Bouquet
His boyfriend and the angel on his left shoulder. Whenever Pin gets fired up and ready to beat someone's ass, Kai is typically the one who holds him back...by scooping him up into his arms and hugging him until he stops swearing. It works like a charm.

Ashe Stokes
His girlfriend and the devil on his right shoulder. They had a rocky start due to Ashe being so nonchalant with her flames and him having pyrophobia. However, miraculously, she managed to charm him with her goofy ass ways and straight forward flirtations. She is also the only one who hypes him up when he's about to do something that will lead to consequences of some sort.

Skills and Abilities

Due to Pin being an automaton, his body is merely just a vessel for his soul lying inside of him. When his body is hit with enough force, or dealt high levels of damage, his soul will begin to leak out.

In worse case situations, where Pin's body is completely shattered, Azure has to repair his body and return his soul to avoid it scattering. Whenever Pin is repaired, runs the risk of forgetting certain things as much of his soul is comprised of memories. Typically, these things are extremely minor, like knowing directions to somewhere or someone's name he met once or twice.

Nose
A spell placed on him by Azure to discourage lying. Whenever Pin tells a lie, his nose begins to glow a bright blue

Soul Possession
So long as the desire vessel has the marking of the Pulse on it, no matter how crudely drawn, and movable limbs, Pin can temporarily place his soul inside of it and possess it.

Märchen

The True Blues are blue glowing strings that can control and restrain their opponent/target. They can't be broken unless they are cut by another Märchen. In extreme cases, they can be used for slicing flesh and even bone.

Puppet King
Jokingly refered to as his "Final Form", Pin summons and possess a large four-armed marionette body. In this form, he is able to command inanimate objects like dolls, puppets, and other anthropomorphic items.

Trivia

• Pin is "numb" to some extent, lacking the nerves to feel certain sensations. Due to this, he doesn't mind the cold and can take quite the hit without backing down.
• Pin can feel varying levels of heat, including a little bit of sunlight. He tends to enjoy sunbathing due to this. However, fire causes extreme pain to him, leading to mild pyrophobia.
• Pin's cheeks glow red when he feels flustered or embarrassed.
• Pin naturally smells like toasted almonds.
• After his experience with the leviathan, Pin winded up developing thalassophobia aka the fear of large bodies of water.
• Pin's full name, Pinokuni, originally came from the merging of the Italian word "pino", 'pine', and the Swahili word "kuni", 'firewood'. Interestingly, "kuni" has several other meanings in different languages, like 'country' in Japanese and a shortened version of "kuningas", 'king' in Finnish.
• Pinokuni was the third and final name chosen for the character. The other two contenders were "Pinnochio" and "Pinolo". The first was scrapped due to being a typo I noticed too late and the latter just didn't fit his character enough.
• Pin is also the beginning of me using alternative names for Beanstalked characters so they wouldn't share the same names as the original fairy tales they were based off of. Originally, I had changed his name due to the fear of a little kid stumbling across him while trying to find the original more family oriented renditions of the fairy tale character.