Tempo

Tempo
Full Name	Mona Tempo
Pronouns	She/They
Species	Bogfae
Age	87
Height	185 cm / 6'1"
Occupation	Exterminator
Favorite time to prowl around menacingly	3:52am

You're running.

One foot after the other, gasping for air, your heart thumping against your ribcage - each beat like hammering on a drum, the percussion track to the last minutes of your life. You turn around, and a pair of yellow eyes, nearly glowing against the darkness, stares back at you. Before you can even think of what to do next, the figure they're attached to leaps from the shadows, face unfolded into a dripping, tooth-riddled maw, screeching like the spawn of a rusty saw and some ancient lizard. This is a monster that lives for the hunt.

... at least, during her free time.

Tempo is a freelance exterminator, and self-described 'murder monster'. Even by Bogfae standards, she's always stuck out. Her limbs a bit too gangly, her segmented face and mandibles prominent even by her people's standards. For most of her upbringing- not even in a Bogfae-native area- she was the one you were supposed to be afraid of. No amount of people pleasing or good behaviour would change that.

It wasn't until she started spending time with people who accepted her, mandibles and all, that she realized. She really liked being scary. When it was for fun, when it was on her terms. And she managed to find people who liked being scared.

On the clock, Tempo works as a freelance exterminator, specializing in Mimic removal. It's the closest she can get to being paid to terrorize- and it doesn't hurt that mimics are a common ingredient in Bogfae cooking.

Those years of living as an outcast still left their marks, though. Tempo's resolved to not let the damage she sustained go to waste, and does her best to impart wisdom on those she senses are going down the same path she did. Which is part of what would lead her to meeting a cute little Deepfae.