Sarmenti

You can smell something rotting.

Sarmenti - the king's secret right hand.
She masquerades as a harmless court jester - but beneath her mask's perpetual smile is a cunning, but broken mind and a deadly skill with weapons.

-Was rather young when she ran away from home, with the belief that anywhere would be better than there. Then she got picked up as a "disposable asset" by the house Apostolou‬ and trained to assassinate a local Viscount who had a certain...proclivity for young girls. When she managed to both successfully kill him and then pin the murder on his ward; a young dancer...that was when the organization started paying closer attention to her.
-Most of her jobs tend to be rather straightforward, but she has been trained in; cooking, how to speak and act in high society, singing, and some other entertainment based jobs to better fit into roles that'd let her get closer to the target. Her talent in those areas tend to outweigh the target's intial wariness of her appearance.
-Usually likes to keep her whole body covered, with the only thing visible being her eyes from beneath whatever intricately carved mask she might be wearing this time. No one's entirely sure why she does this because she appears perfectly normal under her layers, but she seems to see something entirely different. If pushed, she might mention that she's "rotting" under it all.
Her usual getup includes a long coat, a highneck shirt, leather gloves, ankle-length pants, knee high boots, a hat, and ofc her mask.
-Sarmenti's personality isn't the most pleasant; which is putting it lightly. She's gotten somewhat arrogant over the years, and tends to play around with her targets longer than necessary. While she's been admonished several times for endangering missions just to play with her prey, the lack of harsh punishments and her 100% job completion rate means she probably won't stop anytime soon.
-She takes a certain pride in the effect she has others, and likes seeing their reactions to knowing they've been tricked and now they're going to die. Despite this though, she hates being tricked herself, and she can carry a grudge for a very long time over even the most harmless of pranks. She tries to hide it (since she doesn't like letting other people see they can affect her in any way), but it's pretty obvious to most people who know her.
-Has this habit of speaking in a strange and off-putting manner, where she will emphasize seemingly random syllables and sometimes substituting entire words with something similar but still a weird choice. Most people will usually write it off as Sarmenti having a different native language, or perhaps some strange eccentricity. She likes to use this to her advantage to carry secret messages, since not a lot of people pay much attention to this strangeness of hers.
-Was employed by Lacrimosa to protect Achelous from attempts on his life, which Achelous doesn't know about. He just assumes she's one of the many people Crim picked up, and treats her and her strangeness with that naive kindness he treats everyone with. Sarmenti had some thoughts initially about taking advantage of his kind nature for some small luxuries, but she's somewhat intimidated by Crim and really; Achelous really is too wholesome.
-Masquerades as a court jester, but she doesn't exactly know what she's supposed to do so she just makes really scathing songs about the other members of court while doing backflips. It'd be funny if she didn't keep eye contact with whoever she's singing about without blinking the entire time.
-Self-indulgent murder jester OC.

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