| Lupita Auryon A.K.A. Alpha Packbeast Moonfray |
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| Vital Information |
| Gender |
Female |
| Species |
Alternian Troll |
| Source |
AlterniaBound-1 |
| Faction |
Unaffiliated |
| Rank |
X-None |
| Function |
Alpha Packbeast |
| Groups |
Session 412 |
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| Other Information |
| Age (Appearance) |
21 Human Years |
| Age (Actual) |
10 Alternian Sweeps |
| Still Aging? |
Undecided |
| Height |
7' |
| Weight |
Unknown |
| Hair Color |
Black |
| Eye Color |
Purple |
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| Quote |
| "Dude, life is motherglubbin' rainbows, man." |
Profile
Alpha Packbeast Moonfray, or as she's otherwise known, LUPITA AURYON, is a refugee of the Troll planet Alternia. Like all trolls, she lived a harsh life growing up, but thanks to the intervention of her moirail (a special kind of life-mate) Aethra, she learned to calm herself down from the usual murderous tendencies of her blood caste. Though she is Circus in religion, a faith based loosely on Juggalo culture, she is not an avid practitioner, nor does she any longer take part in the more murderous methods of the congregational Carnival ceremonies. Instead, she believes simply that life is a bunch of miracles, or, as she refers to them, 'rainbows', and that the enjoyment of these rainbows is where one fully excels. Despite her laid back, almost 'stoner-esque' disposition, however, she is at heart like all Trolls a violent creature; she has excelled in the art of battle through use of claws and fangs, but for the sake of trying to appear a proper adult, she has branched into use of clubs for battle as well.
Powers
Species: Troll: As an Alternian Troll, Lupita is given the following boons: a slightly chitinous skin, claws on both hands and feet, fangs, a bite strength more closely akin to a crocodile's than human's. She can see remarkably well in the dark, as her species is nocturnal. She also has a hearing range that can pick up sounds outside a human's normal range, in both volume and pitch, and an almost canine sense of smell. In addition, because of where she pupated, she was granted physical adaptations to the rugged area in the form of animal-like feet, and greater climbing ability.
Caste: Highblood: Lupita is a 'highblood', or one of purple blooded cast color. This, within the trolls blood-hue driven caste system, is the socially highest color of the blood cast that can occur on land. As such this leaves her prone to greater strength, longer life, and better resilience than most of the other blood colors, but also comes with a price of lessened mental stability.
Chucklevoodoos: This is a psychic power that creates an aura approximately the size of a small room, that can cause moments of unease and fear in others. It was primarily used through history by those of her blood caste to make them seem scarier and act as enforcers to keep the lower classes subdued by fear. This fear aura can be imbued in a weaker state to objects, most often dolls and weapons. Items imbued with chucklevoodoos are referred to as jujus. A juju's influence is stronger in dreams, but normally simply will cause a slight feeling of unease while in line of sight of the object. (CONSENT EFFECT: This power can only work effectively with the other player's consent; those resistant to psychic powers need not ask or give consent to be unaffected.)
Strife: Fang Kind: Like many Trolls, Lupita has fangs; she has specialized in fighting with hers so long that for much of her life they were her primary form of strife. Her canines are long and overgrown enough that they stand out against her bottom lip. Because all trolls are expected to have created their own weapon and learned to fight with it by ten sweeps of age, her skill with Fang Kind is actually considered a disability.
Strife: Club Kind: Recently, in an effort to hide one of her more stunning disabilities (fang kind fighting) Lupita has taken to trying to learn how to use juggling clubs as a weapon, a common favorite among her blood caste, particularly the Empire's enforcers known as Subjugglators. In Lupita's case they are a pair of clubs carved out of the large femur bones of a drone she was able to take down due to a combination of luck, and her moirail's help. She is not skilled with these clubs yet, but she is learning.
Sylladex: An advanced inventory system allowing one to carry many things at once through use of storing items onto a deck of cards, known as captchalogue cards. There are different 'fetch modus', or ways the cards are fetched from the sylladex, though the most basic is the 'stack' modus, which is what Lupita uses because of being both lazy and a bad hand at most tech. Stack works on a 'Last In, First Out' principle, with one exception. If the stack is filled, the card at the bottom of the stack is forcibly ejected from Lupita's inventory in item-form.
Flaws
Moirail: Lupita has a moirail, a form of troll relationship that is something close to a best friend, blood sister, therapist, heterosexual life partner, and confidant all rolled in together. It is a long-term, platonic relationship, in which they both will act to pacify the other during moments of instability, share their feelings, and have someone they can vent to without the need for violence toward others. Lupita's particular moirail is Aethra Hagano. While when she is near Aethra, Lupita is a bubbly, happy, sedate individual, the more time they spend apart, the more likely she is to getting violent and unable to regain her composure. Excessive stress without Aethra around is liable to set Lupita off and cause her to wreak havoc on anything and anyone around her, including unleashing her chucklevoodoos.
Highblood's Mania: The problem with Trolls is that the 'higher' in caste, and further from red their blood color, the more prone they are to psychotic acts of violence. As a Purple, Lupita is especially prone to such things; including the whispering voices she sometimes attunes to what she should be (a feared enforcer for the empire) which constantly tell her to try and keep those of lower caste in check. When the mania builds too much, either because of improper exposure to soporific substances, or without the proper attention paid by her moirail, Lupita is prone to what she terms a 'Murder Death Kill' spree.
Dirty Mouth: If asked why she's obscene, Lupita will answer with clarity: "I'm not obscene, I have a vast vocabulary. I just happen to have some favorite words, and most of them are four letters or less in length!"
Nocturnal: Trolls, as a species, are nocturnal; on their home planet the sun burns so bright during the day that it can cause one to lose one's sight just from being out in it unprotected, not to mention severe skin burns and dehydration. Because of this, Lupita tends to be very sluggish during the day, reluctant to leave shelter, often tries to hide beneath heavy clothes when forced to be in direct sunlight.
Untrained: Lupita isn't skilled in many of the things that are considered instinctual for most purple blooded trolls, such as Chucklevoodoos and the use of melee weapons. This is a massive handicap for most trolls, especially for one of purple blood. Because of being untrained, her attempts at using Chucklevoodoos often come in the form of wild, difficult to control bursts, often only used in self defense in the face of massively overwhelming odds.
Hunted: Lupita intentionally avoided conscription when she reached the age of majority. Unlike Aethra, her Moirail, who would only be considered a draft dodger, Lupita left because of known flaws, including her lack of skill in chucklevoodoos, the fact that until the age of ten she had never picked a weapon, and that she has physical anomalies in her natural troll build. As such, if found, she would most likely be culled on the spot.
Sopor Slime: Trolls have always depended on a green goo-like substance called Sopor Slime for various things; they must rest in a recuperacoon full of it while young to ward off horrible dreams and when older they require proper exposure to it, usually sleeping in it daily, to regenerate things like teeth and broken horns. Because of this, without proper exposure to the slime, Lupita becomes even more prone to the whispering terrors in her head brought on by her bloodcaste's natural tendency toward extreme violence. It also inhibits her body's ability to recover properly after a fight, doubling her heal time if she's unable to sleep in sopor.
Culture? What's that?: Trolls are trolls; a separate species and race with their own cultures, languages and lingo, and it's unlikely that Lupita will be able to understand everything about the new world about her without mass confusion. Friends are 'cohorts', houses are 'Hives', and in troll society buckets and bucket-like objects are highly obscene, for examples of the difference.
Lupita Killed The Radio Star: Lupita doesn't use modern radios. It's both a mix of 'can't be bothered', and the fact that she's so used to just texting things or else using close-band radio that every time she's tried to use a modern radio she's managed to break it. (And Aethra is still trying to wean her off her obvious vulgarity; so it's very rare that Lupita gets a chance to mess with audio devices.)
NPCs
- ALABASTER FANG - Unlike others of her age, Lupita still has a guardian beast known as a Lusus; hers being a large wolf-cat-thing that has saber tooth fangs (one, the right, broken off in the middle) whom she calls 'The Alabaster Fang'. Her Wolfdad, as she refers to him, is one of the best wolfdads ever, and the only reason why she refuses to chase him off like she was supposed to when she she became an adult is because she feels as an 'alpha packbeast', she needs a pack to alpha over.
Other Sections
Lupita began life as all trolls do; a creeping, crawling little grub who was fascinated by bright lights and shiny objects. She somehow managed to survive culling, but when it came to pupation she erupted form her cocoon with an odd adaptation to the surrounding area she had chosen to do so in: a forested wild area lay just outside the clutch caverns, and because of this, most of her clutch came out with animal-like traits befitting the area to make survival easier on them. In Lupita's case, her misshapen feet resembled those of a packbeast, and her clawed hands were stronger than most, enabling her to scale the terrain easier. Her lusus (a large white colored parental beast) ended up being a strange land living creature similar to a mix between a wildcat and a wolf.
Lupita and her lusus ended up living as the packbeasts of film did; her Hive was actually a hole in the ground that was carved out and built into by drones for the sake of better commune with nature. She and her woofdad would hunt together as she grew, and through the hunting and exploring they found the river near her hive was a natural estuary to the sea, where Wild Things lived, and though AB (Lupita's nickname for her lusus) would tell her not to go near the water she couldn't help but be mesmerized on occasion by the little colorful things they could find in the tide pools. Her love of colors and bright things continued even into being a sub-adult, but began to get her in trouble when she discovered that self-rendered paint looked prettier than the stuff she could order online.
She began culling neighbors - mostly those abandoned or orphaned by their lusii - for paint supplies; using their blood to decorate the walls of her hive; she began to aspire to one day be as great a painter as the Grand Highblood himself. It was this practice that, while sating her natural instinct to kill other trolls, inevitably lead to her failing in most social situations. As well her love of being visceral in the kill left her failing to learn how to use true weapons, and instead she specialized in biting and ripping and clawing things to death.
One day, chasing a particular shade of blue - cerulean - blood through the woods in the rain, Lupita slipped up. Literally- as she was trying to cross the river her feet hit a stone that was slick with rain and she fell in. She couldn't swim - had never /tried/ - and was swept away in the rainwater-flooded river to the sea itself. She was starting to drown when out of nowhere she was dragged out of the water and to the shore by a sea troll. What started out as a big blunder for Lupita, and an attempt to capture and study a vicious land troll by Aethra (the sea troll) turned into a moirallegiance - Lupita was more laid back than most land trolls, and was actually thankful for being saved. Plus, Aethra had access to choice rainbows in the water, and that made things all the more awesome.
They ended up spending a lot of time together; Lupita usually wound up pestering Aethra to show her tide pools with cute colorful things in them, and in return Lupita would handle Aethra's more… insistent suitors by luring them onto land for attacks planned by her and her lusus, who, even in her advancing age, continued to watch out for her. But age, and time, were a curse; Lupita, at half a sweep older than Aethra, was starting to worry. She had physical adaptations that made her perfect cullbait, not to mention she had never perfected any real weapons. When she hit ten sweeps old - roughly 21 years in human age - she was sure she wouldn't make it onto the adult ships. She started to grow listless, and despondent. Aethra at least had the audacity to investigate why.
And it was Aethra who came up with the answer, proving once again what Lupita had always thought about her - that she was full of miracle ideas. Aethra suggested that when the time came, they run away, avoid the drones. Aethra used her connections - something Lupita still didn't quite understand - to get them into connection with a bunch of Sufferists about to launch a ship to get trolls like her off the planet before they could be culled. This was an excellent plan, but Lupita was somewhat sad that Aethra gave up her life to do this. She has never told Aethra this.
All went well, at least until they got into space - The ship ran afoul a meteor storm shortly after departing a wormhole; and the resulting damage caused a crash landing on a planet otherwise alien to anything they, as trolls, had ever seen.
The superplanet of the Multiverse.
Like so many of her blood caste, Lupita is generally laid back, until something either rouses her anger, or she gets rather bored. Then bad things can happen (such as random acts of violence) or strange things can happen, and sometimes just really bad jokes and pranks happen. She likes to think that life is full of rainbows and miracles, though occasionally those miracles and rainbows only come around if you beat the ever loving crap out of something and then roll around in the corpse.
Some day, Lupita wants to be as great a painter as her personal hero, The Grand Highblood, who is head of all Subjugglators on Alternia; Subjugglators being the rank of trolls who keep all others in line. To do this, she seeks out all kinds of colors for her 'masterpieces', but many of the colors, back on Alternia, came from the blood of other trolls. The practice of culling other trolls for their colors was put a stop to by her moirail, Aethra, who pretty much does her best to keep Lupita in line otherwise; although even Aethra has to admit that when it comes down to it, Lupita's tendencies towards genocide can be useful in defending herself and anyone else who comes under Lupita's care.
When younger, Lupita was a fan of the 'Just After Sunset But Before Moon Rise' series of books and movies, but not because of the Rainbow Drinkers; no, she was more interested in the Packbeasts - Trolls who assumed animal-like appearances through use of pelts and furs, who would howl at the moon when it was in it's apex, and who hunted both wild beasts and trolls alike with claw and fang kind in large groups. She secretly idolized Troll Jacob Black until she found out about a movie Troll Jack Nickelson did, and from there she began to look into the /real/ Packbeasts, the ones who were horrible monsters, and she found herself in a whole new world of delight. Because of this, she emulates them; calls herself a Packbeast, wears the pelts of animals she's killed (especially a woofbeast pelt) and when she puts on face paint in the Juggalo tradition she makes it into horrible animal faces.
Lupita is somewhat easily irritated by things she doesn't understand, or by people talking too much. One of the ways Lupita can be sedated is, oddly enough, through belly rubs and through horn scratches; two things Aethra applies mass quantities of when she needs to be shoosh-papped back into submission. Another thing that irritates Lupita is humans, mostly because of the culture difference, but she's willing to work with them as long as they don't step on her buttons (major ones being her weird feet and her oversized fangs, as well hard criticism of any painting she's made.)
Lupita is, at the time of this app, unaffiliated; she and Aethra might end up in a faction if people drag them in; they might not. Honestly it's easier to have her unaffiliated because I can't decide where to put her and it'd probably take some involvement in the Multiverse on a whole for her to figure out where she belongs anyway.
Alternia is a planet similar to Earth in structure only in that life may successfully live on it; though the life on Alternia is highly alien, and it's one main race is nocturnal because of the extremely bright intensity of the sun which burns red in color. Alternia has two moons, one green, one pink. Years on Alternia are called 'Solar Sweeps', and they last for about 2.16 Earth Years, and what humans call a month is a 'Perigee'.
The main race of Alternia is a human-like species called trolls; their difference in anatomy is mostly insect-like in that they bleed in different colors (and use a hemocaste societal structure), and their young are a type of caterpillar, or 'Wiggler', which pupates into a pupa, or sub-adult; the total length of time from Wiggler to Pupa/Sub-adult is one solar sweep. Trolls reach adulthood at 10 Solar sweeps. Trolls have slightly chitinous gray skin, claws on both hands and feet, shark-like teeth which self-replicate, and horns upon their heads. They are nocturnal; their night vision is greatly enhanced, and depending on the 'blood caste' of a troll they may be gifted with greater strength, or mild psychic ability. Trolls must sleep within a substance called 'Sopor Slime' that is generated by the Mother Grub and by pupates during cocooning, to stave off their natural tendencies of violence and to dull, for at least a day's sleep, the mental instabilities they are all prone to. They are a violent race that lives and breathes war.
Once inhabited by trolls of all ages, events have in the past taken place which resulted in Alternia becoming the home planet of only the young and those deemed worthy of living on the planet among the brood caves where the Mother Grub lays her eggs, and where wigglers hatch, pupate, and then go through trials shortly after pupation. If not culled in the trials, a pupate troll is then adopted by a creature known as a lusus naturae, and the two then rise to the surface of Alternia, where building drones construct them a hive in which to live. The relationship between Lusii and their trolls is akin to that of a bodyguard, guardian, or caretaker (lusus to troll) and a zookeeper or animal tamer (troll to lusus). A troll's lusus will almost always bear the same color of blood and eyes as their patron troll.
Troll Sub-Adults are then expected as they grow to learn troll culture through school-feeding, as well as to learn how to fight, how to kill, and must create their own first weapon before they reach adulthood. At the age of 10 Sweeps, Imperial Drones of the Condesce (empress of the trolls) will land and approach those of that age and clutch for conscription to the Adult ships far off planet. Many are culled during Conscription Day, as it is called, if any abnormalities are detected, ranging from physical alterations through detected substance abuse or lack of sufficient skill in battle. Anyone who survives conscription will be eligible to pick an adult name and begin training for a proper 'job' (class) that they can work in for the rest of their natural lives, serving the Alternian Empire.
(Alternia Bound follows an Alternia bereft of the presence of the Sgrub game found in Hivebent or the presence of Sburb in Homestuck, though originates from the same source theme as both.)
- <3 indicates flushed feelings. This is what humans would consider traditional feelings of love.
- <3< indicates caliginous feelings. There is no exact analogue in human terms, but essentially it constitutes a potent form of arch-rivalry combined with physical attraction.
- c3< indicates ashen feelings. Essentially this is a strong inclination to mediate in the turbulent relationship of another pair.
- <> indicates pale feelings. In human terms it is a form of platonic love similar to that felt by siblings. It is also a pacifying relationship, for one or the other.
<3 - None
<> Aethra Hagano (lernaeanSophistry) - Together since each were five alternian sweeps old, Aethra is the brains to Lupita's brawn in most situations. She is perhaps the only person capable of pacifying Lupita when she's hit the deep end of the Highblooded Mania.
c3< **- None
<3<** - None
