about

anima mundi is an original character roleplay group set in discord. in-character, it takes place in the fictional town of New Portsmouth--a small seaside town by Washington's Hoh Rainforest. the world of anima mundi is one where magic is real and most-anything is possible under the belief systems carried by average people. a wide variety of species and personalities have all been condensed into New Portsmouth's heavy atmosphere.

characters

hover over their names to see their appearances!

dakota bonaduce

publically, dakota is a retired teen idol who disappeared off the face of the earth over nine years ago. her face was featured in every magazine and critics talked about how she was well on her way to obtain an oscar. at seventeen years old and the peak of her fame, her management agency announced her early retirement with no explanation given. she has not reappeared in the public eye since.

new portsmouth locals less interested in pop culture may know dakota bonaduce as the town's local mortician, having lived in town for around seven years now. she's cheerful, cryptic, and oftentimes tries to stick her nose in businesses that don't belong to her (for better or for worse--she's become a steady support throughout New Portsmouth's recent supernatural disasters.)

even if you know nothing about dakota, you can tell that something about her is a bit off. for starters, she is supernaturally pretty, to the point where it goes from pleasant to uncanny. the second you look away from her your brain is unable to conceptualize her face. it's a blank slate with only the impression of beauty left behind. oh, and she smells like rotting jasmines, too.

dakota, though she'll try not to tell anyone, is actually a human-turned-demon cursed to maintain her supernatural beauty and life by eating human beings. she's become a talented predator and hunter, though the nature of someone once persecuted never stops. earning her trust is nearly impossible.

currently, dakota is dating celebrity chef eusébio calderón.

mika levasseur

the adopted child of tattoo artist isidore levasseur and mechanic laure levasseur, mika has been living in new portsmouth for twenty years now. most locals know the basics of her story: she was abandoned by her foster parents following a set of disturbing visions of the future they did not know how to deal with. but the levasseurs took mika in and, after a fair bit of struggle, her visions are (sort of) under control, and nowadays mika leads a (mostly) normal life.

mika tends to be washed away in a crowd. the entirety of her appearance and wardrobe are pale and dull, and her disposition makes her more likely to try and draw the least amount of attention to herself as possible. she's relatively lonely--being close to absolutely no one in new portsmouth except for her parents (it doesn't help that she has a nasty habit of destroying her most important ties aside from that).

she works with her mother, laure, at her mechanics shop, and in her spare time works as a freelance software engineer. still living with her parents and having no reason to pay rent, she spends all her money on MMOs and computer parts.

because mika is mute, her dialogue is portrayed in italics. this is a stylistic choice!

mercy bourreau

new to new portsmouth, but no less of a personality! mercy appeared one day following a series of environmental crises and set up the "house of grief", an alternative-therapy style building which claims to provide solace to its visitors.

her magic works alongside the therapy: upon being told of any emotion from a recipient, mercy is able to suppress it all into a crystal, making the subject forget both the feelings they had and the reasons behind them. she claims to be pursuing the ultimate peace of mind, which works when you embrace both negative and positive emotions enough to entirely nullify them.

her ultimate goal of the sweet nothingness does not stop her from being a terrible person in group chats and passionately hating on movie musicals when she gets the chance.