Tory Ganassa

Tory Ganassa is a reoccurring character in the universe, either having a direct connection with the characters in story or hopping along to see what'll happen. His defining quirk is his ability to break the fourth wall and his recognition of being a fictional character, traits gifted to him by a fragment of Nyarlathotep's soul.

Tory is able to take the form of his childhood doll as both as something to comfort himself and to appear less threatening to others. In this form, he prefers to be called the name he gave this toy: Twiji. (wip)

Appearance
Tory is a half-Latino half-Italian teenager with short, messy, brown hair with a massive cowlick. His tan skin is covered in freckles and has a few scars from his time at the hospital, most noticeably a scar on his chin from intubation. One eye is permanently dead due to being soulless while the other reflects the eldritch soul fragment he's been given. He usually wears a hoodie with a fleur-de-lis on it along with baggy cargo shorts. He wears crew socks with athletic sneakers which are almost always untied.

As a doll, Twiji has periwinkle hair covering where his eyes would be and a harlequin outfit, styled in blue and orange. His jester's hat is oversized, usually trailing behind him, and on each tail is a massive bell. The doll's face has two rosy cheeks and usually a shark-like grin. His original outfit was baggy and loose, like that of a Mardi Gras doll, but he's since changed to harlequin clothes for easier mobility. He is made out of wood painted white.

Personality
Tory is very friendly and happy-go-lucky. He loves being the center of attention and putting a smile on other people's faces. If there's someone he can't make happy, though, he'll take just as much pleasure in annoying them and setting up pranks to trip them up. Tory both has gained Nyarlathotep's omniscience along with the knowledge of being a fictional character, so he views the world as one without consequence as "it isn't real anyways." He'll constantly self reference literary tropes and what'll happen next, much to the confusion of others.

Despite viewing the world as meaningless to justify his carelessness, Tory is deeply unsatisfied as he's without a soul. Stuck soulless but with enough of a fragment that he cannot naturally pass from it, Tory secretly wishes for the story to end so he can stop existing, a wish he hides away with his constant drinking and partying.

Birth
Tory was born on April 1st 1964 to immigrants Franco and Ivanna Ganassa. He was an only child as his parents had to budget due to poverty and couldn't afford more children. He lived in a multi-generational household with Ivanna's extended family and often did small jobs to help with the family's expenses, such as walking the neighbor's dog.

Cancer Diagnosis and Hospitalization
Tory soon began falling ill and missing weeks of school at a time. His family put off doctor's visits until they were able to afford a check-up. When Tory was finally taken to a doctor, he was diagnosed with leukemia at age twelve and immediately send to the local children's hospital where he would stay indefinitely. As he had gone so long without treatment, the cancer had reached Stage 3 and was likely fatal. Not wanting to burden Tory with his impending death, his parents lied to him about his health and convinced him he would be able to come home in a month. On his fourteenth birthday, he was still in the hospital and given a week to live. His parents gave him a doll they had bought at Mardi Gras a month ago as a birthday present. The doll gave him comfort as he slowly came to terms with his mortality.

Bargain with a Demon
Days before he would pass away, a strange man visited Tory's room one night. The man told him that he would be able to save Tory from his disease if he allowed the man to take something. Delirious and desperate, Tory agreed. The man then took a glowing orb from Tory's chest and left; Tory immediately started feeling better, but something was still wrong. Tory found he couldn't feel or even emote anything, left a husk of himself. Fearing for what must have happened, Tory tried to get up and follow the man, only to end up ripping out the equipment keeping him alive. Without the equipment, he was able to stay alive and came to the conclusion that whatever the man had done to him prevented him from dying. He did not want his parents to see him like this, so he chose to flee the hospital, jumping out of the hospital window and limping his broken body to the city where he would hide.

New Family
Days later, Tory's strength began to fade again. He stayed in the alley by a local coffee shop as he didn't have the strength to go anywhere else. An old man who frequented the shop noticed him almost immediately and took him in, feeding him and giving him shelter. The next day, Tory fell into a deep sleep. Before he could naturally pass as a soulless, the man fed him a small shard. Tory immediately felt overwhelmingly better, so overwhelmingly that he fell back asleep and would not wake up until nearly three months later. Now awake, he noticed that he could know information about anything by just thinking about it. Questioning the man who took him in, the man called himself Fl'ygbth and said that Tory's lack of a soul made him interested and, admittedly, his fatherly instincts kicked in when he saw how pathetic Tory was. He told Tory that what was stolen from him in the hospital was his soul, and all soulless beings will vanish after a week without it. Fl'ygbth had stolen part of the soul of a very powerful being decades ago and decide to part with the fragment so that this boy he had come to care for would live.

Over time, Tory's knowledge grew and he learned how to manipulate the fragment, gaining a few other powers such as shapeshifting, teleportation, and conjuration of small objects. Tory's quest for knowledge also gave him access to something forbidden, making him aware of being a fictional character. Learning this, Tory decided to live without inhibitions and do whatever he wanted, as none of it would matter in the end.

Gods among Men
Tory meets Derek as the latter attempts to escape The Sentinels with his friend, Bhagya. Tory helps him throughout the story and is usually there to watch what is going on. When Bhagya passes away and returns as Confusa Ultima, Tory lightens the confrontation, revealing that he and Confusa are long time friends.

Adorra Online
Tory is bribed by The Sentinels to investigate an online MMO called Adorra Online and see what's so suspicious about its AI. Tory goes undercover as a player hero simply known as Hero. He works for the Light Kingdom and is often sent on missions to infiltrate the Shadow Kingdom, something that brings him close to the Shadow Kingdom leader Elidyr. Tory accompanies the leaders throughout the story, eventually being forced out of the game when Irene suspects he's using the game as a form of escapism.

Witch of Flowers
Tory returns in a role similar to Gods among Men, harassing the supernatural characters. He takes more of a role during the infiltration of Ba'al's castle where 

Omniscience
With part of Nyarlathotep's soul, Tory has gained their knowledge of everything. His version of omniscience is "knowledge through questioning." Through this, if he thinks of something, he will know the answer to what he is thinking about, and only that answer. Should he wish to know more about something, he will have to think about everything he wants to know.

Knowledge of the Fourth Wall
Tory's quest for knowledge has given him the truth of his existence. Tory knows that his world is just a story and that none of this is real. Tory uses this information to know what things won't be of consequence and to know when certain events happen, giving him a front row seat to whatever occurs. Tory is not afraid to divulge this information as he knows no one will believe him.

Shape-shifting
Tory can control minor shape-shifting. He's not able to change his form into anything much larger than the average human, and only ever uses it to shapeshift into his childhood toy doll.

Teleportation
Tory is able to teleport him and any living being he desires in a roundabout way of mass creation, removing mass and creating it somewhere else. If he envisions a location or someone he's touching envisions a location, he can transfer their bodies to the exact location, but he must be touching others in order to move them. Letting go of him will interrupt the person's transfer and could result in the loss of limbs or worse. This will only happen in the most extreme of cases as the process is near instant.

Minor Creation
Tory is able to use a mere fraction of Nyarlathotep's creation abilities and can create anything smaller than three cubic feet. He usually uses this to create food or drink or to repair his bodies when they inevitably get damaged by his recklessness. There is no limit to what he can create other than the size and it does not exhaust him.

Fl'ygbth
Fl'ygbth is Tory's adoptive father. Tory holds him close and views him as more of a father than his birth dad, only if from the sheer amount of time they've spent together. He has over time come to call Fl'ygbth "Dad," causing the former to have to distance himself to quell his emotions.

Ivanna Ganassa
Ivanna is Tory's birth mother. She cared for Tory and gave him everything she could afford. Tory has not seen her since he escaped the hospital and she is presumed dead.

Franco Ganassa
Franco is Tory's birth father. He could not be there for him due to his long working hours, but he tried his best to support his son. Tory has not seen him since he escaped the hospital and he is presumed dead.

Confusa Ultima
Confusa is Tory's best friend. Confusa despises all humans, but believes Tory's doll form to be his true form as that is the form Tory took when they first met. Confusa will often stoop to Tory's level when they are together, Confusa allowing them to do things he deems "lower class." It is unknown why he puts Tory in such a special position, but Tory doesn't mind and thinks Confusa is really fun to hang around.

Malphas Goetia
Malphas is someone Tory occasionally hangs out with. They both like to meddle with people and often do things together as it's more efficient than doing it alone. Many establishments ban them being in the same building together as a result.

Scot Taylor
Scot is the real life form of Elidyr and one of Tory's closest friends and love interest. Scot remembers his time as an AI and struggles to get used to the real world, something Tory is more than happy to help him with. When Tory's not out causing mischief, he's usually doing something with Scot.

Ephrite
Ephrite is the demon that stole Tory's soul. Tory is desperately looking for him, but his location is one of the few pieces of information he cannot obtain with his abilities.

Prince Stolas Goetia
Tory likes to prank Stolas, usually working with Malphas to rearrange the books in his library. Stolas has vowed to leave him impaled on a spear for ten years once he catches him in the act.

Irene Martin
Irene is the head of The Sentinels and one of the few that governs Tory's case. Tory respects her but doesn't want to get too close to her, not trusting The Sentinels' reasons to document every fantasy creature.

Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep is the source of Tory's powers. Tory prefers to keep his distance.

Trivia

 * Tory knows a bit of Spanish and maybe a few greetings in Italian
 * Tory used to change how he looked, but has since come to accept all his flaws and also is just too lazy to keep up the form anymore.
 * Tory knows this wiki exists and thinks it's really funny.
 * Tory was originally a Homestuck fankid. Look at his name and look at his symbol. Come on.