Name: Skel
Titles he gives himself: The Witch Doctor, The Witch Doctor, The Witch Doctor, The Witch Doctor
Name he really hates being called by: Doctor Witch, every variant of it barring “Witch Doctor”
Species: Witch (Doctor Witch) [This IS a mogekoverse character, and since Meikai is the only known sorcerer and seems to be really powerful and unique to that world, I’m hesitant to make this guy a sorcerer, thus he’s a witch. Also lets me joke around with “Witch Doctor/Doctor Witch”.]
Height: 173 cm
Likes: Medical Science, Healing magic, Cough medicine, Disinfectant, Inventing things, attention, Being recognised for the utter genius he is (really really isn’t that much of one)
Dislikes: When people call him “Doctor Witch’ or any of its variants (IT SOUNDS SO MUCH LESS COOL
), seeing his own blood, working in teams, Lack of hygiene
Brief Overview: Thoroughly believes that he’s a main character of an anime. Likes to pose and talk dramatically, but drops the act when he gets mad. Delusional, egoistic ****head who believes himself to be a powerful witch doctor and sadly enough, actually has the medical and magical power to back it up. Naming, titles and the like are all serious business to him. No one takes him seriously at all because of his personality. Has a major interest in the theory of combining his medical magic and scientific knowledge, and a mild interest in the possibility of researching into life and death. Gets better for a brief period of time and actually becomes less of a douche and more serious about his line of work. Lasts about as long as you’d expect.
Backstory: Being one of the few, if not one of the only male witches, he believed that he was someone special. When he found himself to be utterly gifted at healing magic, that’s when his ego suddenly swelled three sizes too large and when he pretty much became near-completely intolerable among the community. Having said that, he DID have a clinic/pharmacy of sorts where he would do his research and provide medical services to the residents of the witch world. Usually, he wouldn’t get many patients since everyone found him and his ego absolutely intolerable; people would only visit if it were something outstandingly serious or if they actually found his dramatics absolutely hilarious. Which was fine by him, really, since it gave him more time to further his skills in medical and scientific magic (by making up weird and probably pointless spells and inventing stuff that varied widely in their usefulness), and surely more people would come to him when they realised his talent and glory anyways.
When he started getting more patients, however, he started to get rather fed up with one thing: that they ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS addressed him as “Doctor Witch” as opposed to his true, glorious title of “Witch Doctor”. And that absolutely peeved him off to no end, ESPECIALLY since not only had he even painted over the sign he found outside his clinic, hinted rather obviously toward his patients and even outright told them to call him “WITCH DOCTOR” and not “DOCTOR WITCH”, they still did it. Eventually, this gave him an identity crisis worthy of any angsty teenager, and in the end, he decided on one thing: That he’s going to live rough in the jungle, get even more powerful, and maybe then people would start calling him by the title he deserves.
Yeah, don’t ask me how his logic works.
As such, he packed his bags, his research equipment and disinfectant and set off. In about a week, his “jungle lab” ended up looking exactly the same as his clinic back in the witch world, right down to the plumbing and potted plants. So much for “roughing it out”. Still, it wasn’t all too bad; he did end up helping the local animals, and with a near complete lack of distractions, he eventually developed patience and dedication to his work, and was able to hone his skill of healing magic to an art, and fused it with his studies of medical science to create some of his most successful inventions, such as synthetic multipurpose flesh, just-add-water universal donor blood (in red, black, pink and purple), scented candles which spread disinfectant and spells to accelerate natural restoration of HP and MP. In short, after his time in the jungle, as long as you weren’t dead, he could heal you back to tip-top condition.
…I just realised that half that paragraph also applies to those medics who heal you completely for 10G before every boss fight. Let’s move on.
Eventually, having explored nearly every different alley of healing magic, he decided to experiment taking it one step further, to attempt the reversal of what is only natural, no, not the reversal of death (yet), but the reversal of aging. As such, he eventually developed a trial potion, and just as always, he tested it on himself, trusting in his perfected healing skills to counteract possible negative side effects. Alas, his potion only managed to reverse his age by a measly five years (in the Mogeko universe, most magical beings age very slowly and won’t die of old age anyways), and its side effects? Messing up his state of mind!
Trivia:
- Is on friendly terms with the Great Witch, if you call her actually just listening to his rants and giving a bored nod every once in a while “friendly”.
- At the peak of his power, he was capable of creating a fully functional vegetable from scratch, which could last up to five days. In short, he could create a working body from raw materials, but if it didn’t have a soul, it would just end up dying and falling to pieces.
- One week after he moved out, there were rumours of someone sneaking into the old abandoned clinic and stealing all sorts of random things, such as potted plants, the chairs, soap bars, etc. On a stakeout, the Great Witch observed good ol’ Skel sneaking in and stealing his own stuff because he couldn’t really stand the unfamiliarity of the jungle. She let him do so.
- He never liked the idea of having familiars, thinking they “cramp his style”. He’s on good terms with hyenas though.
