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➢ Personality

• As a baku, Yume has a sort of "orange and pink" morality going on. He understands how humans feel, what their general codes are, but he has no understanding of why they think this way. In turn, though, he doesn't expect them to ever understand his own way of thinking, finding most attempts more amusing than anything.
  
  
• He does feel touched if they're really trying, though, and he has more than a few human friends he "keeps around" because of their efforts. He knows they feel unsure, like they might not be fully safe, but while he'll gladly creep them out further... he wouldn't steal their important dreams from them. Unimportant ones, other things, certainly, but he'll leave what they hold dear completely alone.
  
  
• He doesn't, however, feel anything at all for the "husks" -- as he's heard them called and taken up calling them -- that he leaves behind. In his eyes, if a human is willing to pay for his assistance over and over, then that's their business. Who is he to tell them no?
  
  
• The way he acts comes off as very "uncanny valley", though there are very few humans who could actually realize that, or what's wrong with him. To most, there's just something... a little off about him, not quite right, but that's all that it is. If one has him around long enough and tries hard enough, though, they can figure out the problem. Yume comes off as too perfect. For a human, imperfection shines in everything, but Yume -- mimicking what humans want -- has no such imperfections in him. His smile is perfectly charming, perfectly friendly, perfectly warm, his voice is perfectly kind, perfectly sultry, perfectly alluring... his movements are perfectly graceful. Perfection oozes out of everything he does, and his very being is too perfect because of it. It has that trace of being just a mimickry, of being an act.
  

➢ Abilities

• Being a baku, he can easily slip into people's dreams, and just as easily manifest in the real world. He doesn't seem to have any restrictions on this at all.
  
  
• Dreams that are taken through deception or force have a taste so bitter that Yume calls it "agonizing"; in addition, it causes him physical pain to swallow these. As such, he vastly prefers seduction and preying on vulnerabilities to get humans to give them up willingly.
  
  
• He's suspected of being able to shapeshift. The "suspected" is because he very much is a baku, but his appearance is totally human... and he's not telling if that's not his real one or fabricated. The fact that he can change it at will inside dreams gives evidence to this, but he either can't or doesn't do it outside of dreams, muddying the waters even further.
  
  
• He can eat dreams and nightmares, and needs to for food. However, he also has the ability to eat metaphorical dreams, such as one's dream for the future, and even eat "color itself" -- or more accurately, one's "concept" of a color. If this is offered up to him, the person will lose the ability to see or even visualize the lost color, no matter what happens. Someone who gave up "blue" will see all blues as grey, and while they know they once did know what blue looked like, they won't ever be able to recall it, because their memories will be stripped of the color too.
  
  
• He uses his incense to compress dreams into a more easily devourable form, and to charm humans a bit. The incense has two distinct smells. The first smell is sickly sweet, like someone made sugar itself into a scent, but the smell paired with it is something immensely nostalgic to the person smelling it, mimicking some scent they have a positive connection with.
  
  
• He can manifest and craft dreams perfectly, to a point that the person dreaming the dream will feel that it's actually real and happening (though he can tone it down so it's obviously a dream instead). He rarely ever does this, mostly because there are very few people who are willing to pay the price... and for good reason. Yume is more than willing to be at someone's beck and call, creating perfect dreams for them and fulfilling whatever fantasy they want to have inside of these dreams, but the cost for such a thing is immensely high. For a few nights, he might only take a color, or a few good dreams, but the more and more someone asks for it, the more he'll take. The way he can craft the dreams perfectly -- and realistically -- means that humans with an unpleasant life can become very quickly addicted to it, and he won't make any move to stop them. He's left more than a few people behind devoid of all nightmares, all dreams, and all colors, nothing more than living husks that can't make dreams for their future or see anything but in black and white.