Topic on Talk:Nicholas Mora

This is from a lore jam the Tigers had on the discord. I thought I should write it all down somewhere people can actually find it!

Nicholas Mora is a rather mysterious individual. Very little is known about his past or ancestry, but he possesses some supernatural powers, including the gift of True Vision, allowing him to perceive the true forms of beings escaping mortal comprehension (such as Landry Violence and Moody Cookbook, two of his old teammates). Nicholas Mora is also incapable of speaking any language besides Latin.

When it comes to personality, his is that of an infuriating trickster, enough that his current teammate Matteo Triumphant regularly flies out the window during their frequent arguments. Nicholas has turned to the hobby of puppeteering to facilitate communication in spite of the language barrier. He makes his puppets himself, and is quite adept at both crafting and manoeuvring them, often through supernatural means. Through these puppets, the old man has discovered new and exciting ways of tormenting and ridiculing his victims. When it comes down to it, Mora is a bitter, opinionated, arrogant and sadistic old coot.

Time on the Pies

Nicholas was separated from the Hades Tigers at the end of season 1. He was spirited away in a freak accident when the Book was opened, and his passage through the Lethe made him forget how to speak any language other than Latin (which he had until that point elected to use exactly because it was impractical, and thus amusing to him). This lead to him playing for the Philly Pies, who seem to collectively remember him always being on the team.

His time among the Pies was miserable: here, no one spoke Latin, nor did anyone appreciate his "humour". Due to his impossibility to communicate, both through the language barrier and his own stubbornness, Nicholas played as a pitcher during his time on the pies, a job he was terrible at. He elected to cause as much trouble and suffering as he could in retaliation to his inability to make friends, earning him an even more terrible reputation, and the ire of all his new teammates. This did nothing to improve his own mood.

Stricken with grief and loneliness, Mora became melancholy. His only solace in escaping Hades was he could finally gaze at the stars once more. In a bout of inspiration, Mora began to work on his masterpiece; it is said by some that he pulled a constellation out of the sky, and threaded its very stars into the seams of his felt puppet. Enamoured with his work, he elected to give it its own life and will, and set it free upon the world. This was said to be his one true act of love. This puppet was dubbed Frasier Shmurmgle, and the gods punished Nicholas for his wicked ways by taking away his son, dragging him through the Lethe and back into Hades. There he would remain, carrying the sins of a father he had no memory of, until his prompt incineration.