A beauty & style guide to dressing like an immortal predator
Occassi bodies do not decay.
Their hearts beat so slowly they can be almost impossible to detect. Their blood appears black. Their eyes are adapted for darkness, their teeth and claws for hunting, their senses for tracking prey. They are extraordinarily difficult to kill and the few materials capable of doing so are those symbolically connected with life itself.
So their aesthetic shouldn’t simply say death, but Death made itself beautiful.
STEP ONE: THE SKIN
Winter has touched you. It didn’t win.
Where Solarite skin catches the sun, the Occassi complexion should seem almost untouched by it.
Not necessarily pale skin—Occassi of any complexion can have this quality—but cool, muted and velvety, as though warmth has been visually drained from the surface despite the unnatural heat underneath.
Use:
- Satin-matte foundation
- Fine loose powder
- Cool undertones
- Minimal bronzer
- Strategic highlighting rather than all-over luminosity
The finish should look impossibly smooth, almost embalmed. There is something slightly uncanny about a face that appears to have remained exactly the same for centuries.
THE STRUCTURE
Make the skeleton visible
Occassi have unusually dense, durable skeletons and naturally formidable physiques. So having good bone structure becomes part of the beauty ideal.
Emphasise:
- cheekbones
- temples
- jaw
- nose
- eye sockets
Use cool taupes, greys and muted browns rather than warm bronzer.
THE LIPS
Dried blood
These should look matte rather than glossy, like lips stained with either blood or fine wine.
Choose:
🍷 Oxblood
🩸 Dried crimson
🍒 Black cherry
🥀 Burgundy
🖤 Blackened plum
🤎 Deep wine-brown
You could blur the lip slightly for something more feral or keep it brutally precise for aristocratic Mortesian beauty.
The fangs occasionally showing behind it do most of the remaining work.
THE EYES
You are the thing watching from the darkness
The eye should emphasise the Occassi’s most obviously predatory feature: vertical pupils adapted for night vision.
Palette: shades of bruise
🩶 Ash
🖤 Charcoal
💜 Aubergine
🍷 Burgundy
💙 Midnight blue
🫐 Blackened violet
🤎 Taupe
Smoke the pigment around the socket rather than creating the soft pastel haze of Solarite makeup.
Then add:
Black liquid liner
Pull the eye outward into something almost feline. The aim isn’t simply a cat-eye but to make the viewer subconsciously think of a predator.
THE BROWS
Heavy. Dark. Unapologetic.
Occassi beauty favours substantial brows—a “beetle-brow” look. Use pencil and gel to create something thick, straight, dark and structured.
You should allow them to look a little bushy and unkempt at the edges, don’t over-neaten them.
STEP TWO: THE HAIR
Darkness frames the face
The classic Mortesian palette should be darker shades, like curtains framing a window.
- Black.
- Blue-black.
- Espresso.
- Ash brown.
- Deep auburn.
- Silver or white.
Styling should feel controlled and architectural:
- Severe centre parts
- Sculptural updos
- Long straight lengths
- Thick braids
- Slicked-back styles
- Heavy waves
- Elaborate pinned arrangements
Where Solarite hair catches light and moves freely, Occassi styling should make the wearer look composed. Until they aren’t.
STEP THREE: THE WARDROBE
Dress like the night has a body
Occassi clothes should be slinky, svetle and figure-hugging, revealing the architecture of its body.
Fabrics
- Velvet
- Cashmere
- Wool
- Leather
- Suede
- Heavy silk
- Brocade
You should almost know what the character feels like to touch merely by looking at them.
Colours
🖤 Black
🍷 Oxblood
💜 Aubergine
🌲 Forest green
🌑 Midnight blue
🩶 Charcoal
🤎 Dark brown
🩸 Crimson
Silhouette
- High collars.
- Strong shoulders.
- Exposed backs.
- Deep necklines.
- Long coats.
- Fitted waists.
- Gloves.
- Boots.
Clothes should emphasise length and stature, while being a lot more conservative in how much it reveals. I’d allow strategic skin because Occassi style shouldn’t be prudish but a subtle invitation for its prey to come hither.
THE DETAILS
This is where their cultural relationship with death becomes beautiful.
Embroider or mould:
🌿 Oak leaves
🦅 Eagles
🐦⬛ Ravens
🕸️ Cobwebs
🥀 Thorns
🐍 Serpents
Oak in particular is common in regal wear as wood is one of the few materials capable of harming Occassi. They’re decorating themselves with the imagery of their own mortality, which is basically the Occassi equivalent of humans wearing skulls.
STEP FOUR: THE JEWELLERY
Adorn yourself with the earth
Occassi should wear things that look excavated from beneath them.
Metals
- Silver
- Black gold
- Damascus steel
Stones
🩸 Garnet
🖤 Onyx
♦️ Ruby
🌫️ Smoky quartz
🖤 Black diamond
🌑 Obsidian
🖤 Black spinel
🌿 Moss agate
These should feel heavier than Solarite jewellery.
- Signet rings.
- Cuffs.
- Chokers.
- Brooches.
- Heavy earrings.
- Serpent bracelets.
- Oak-leaf collars.
- Black stones set into tarnished silver.
Pieces that look as though they have been inherited for four hundred years and may have accumulated an unpleasant history along the way.
BONE, WOOD & THE TABOO OF BEAUTY
One interesting tidbit about Occassi is that they are uniquely vulnerable to weapons forged from natural materials. Wood, bone and claws—materials bound to the cycle of life—can penetrate an Occassi heart, which makes incorporating them into jewellery carry enormous symbolic weight. An Occassi wearing a sharpened wooden pendant against their chest is essentially the same as wearing a loaded gun as jewellery.
THE PERFUME
Smell like something you were warned against
Occassi fragrance should be too much.
The olfactory equivalent of taking one drink too many and knowing perfectly well you’re going to take another.
TOP
🥃 Dark rum
🍷 Red wine
🍒 Black cherry
🌶️ Black pepper
HEART
🕯️ Opium incense
🚬 Tobacco
🌹 Dark rose
🌲 Cedar
🪵 Oud
BASE
🍫 Dark chocolate
🖤 Leather
🌫️ Smoke
🌲 Oak
🦌 Animalic musk
🌿 Patchouli
🪵 Sandalwood
And perhaps something faintly medicinal or narcotic underneath.
Because the Occassi bite itself contains an addictive opioid-like venom, that gives their entire sensory identity an extraordinary theme: pleasure that disables you. The perfume should initially smell gorgeous, then overwhelming, when you realise you’ve been breathing it in for far too long.
Their luxury is created through consumption.
It should smell like smoke curling through incense, the darkest chocolate, the reddest wine. Like rumpled sheets of fur and leather. Something slaughtered to make something beautiful.
THE COMPLETE OCCASSI LOOK
The quick cheatsheet:
FACE
Velvet-matte skin
Cool sculpted cheekbones
Blackened plum around the eyes
Razor-sharp black wing
Heavy brows
Oxblood matte lips
HAIR
Long blue-black hair, centre-parted and immaculate.
NAILS
Short-to-medium, stiletto-shaped and black-cherry lacquered to resemble claws.
CLOTHING
A floor-length, body-skimming black velvet gown with a severe neckline and embroidered oak leaves crawling along the hem.
JEWELLERY
Blackened silver serpent earrings.
Garnet signet ring.
Obsidian collar.
One tiny carved oak pendant sitting directly above the heart.
PERFUME
Black cherry + red wine + incense + tobacco + dark chocolate + oud + leather + smoke.
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