Pupa
| Pupa | |
|---|---|
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| Author | /u/Magos_Nashoid |
| Civilian name | Clarice Davis |
| Alignment | Hero |
| Affiliation | Wards () |
| Status | NPC |
Pupa is a low level minion master stationed in Olympia, Washington. She is growing in popularity among children, because of her frequent public outreach appearances, as well as a somewhat successful youtube/twitch gaming channel hosted by her and her Minions.
Character Sheet
Appearance
Clarice is a 12 year old girl, with long brown hair and bright brown eyes. She is often a bit dirty, even prior to homelessness, She typically has skinned knees, and an assortment of Band-aids from various scrapes on her hands.
Equipment and Resources
She has 2 changes of clothes, an Umbrella, a pair of handheld battery powered lanterns, a stuffed toy, and a few tattered bedtime stories. A couple of water bottles, and some old protein bars.
Skills and Specializations
She’s 12, so not much.
Mentality
Clarice is a damaged young girl, she is pretty shy with new people, and takes time to warm up completely to people. But underneath her skittish and shy exterior, is a bright and hopeful young lady. She likes playing board games and reading.
Power
Trigger type: Single Natural Trigger
Clarice has the Master projections: Mama (Queen), Papa (Soldier).
The three projections are sentient and sapient, their personalities are crafted by Clarice’s shard using her vague memories of her actual family from her years as a toddler, as well as her idealized perception of how supportive parents should act.
Clarice seems to be unable to remember her actual family and truly believes that her projections are her biological family. Evidence is unable to sway her of this opinion, and she can selectively ignore master/stranger effects that try to convince her otherwise.
Meanwhile her Projections are unable (or unwilling) to accept that they are not Clarice’s actual biological and legal family.
She cannot directly control these projections. However the projections value her comfort and desires extremely highly, and will go to great lengths to fulfill her desires when they can.The Projections are assisted in this endeavor as they can easily interpret her subconscious desires and needs via there connection to Clarice’s shard. They can sense it when she is hungry, thirsty, tired, needs attention or comforting, etc.
These projections have a limited range of operation away from Clarice. They can go approximately 200 feet from her, before they turn back and return to Clarice, when asked about this limitation they will always say something along the lines of “It is unwise to go so far away from Clarice”
The projections will ignore any attempts to coerce them to go farther than that range. And if bodily forced past that range, they will become violent and attempt to return to Clarice at all costs. If they are taken more than 10 feet past the 200 foot range they will dissolve suddenly into a biological slurry.
Following the death of any of her projections, Clarice will be unable to accept that they are dead, and will be under the impression that they are still alive and have simply gone away to go to work,.
When one or all of her projections are deceased, they will remain this way until the next time Clarice sleeps, upon going to sleep, Clarice will become comatose and unable to awake, The Projections will then reform during this time seemingly from thin air (this process takes an hour). After they are reformed Clarice will awaken, and the projections will tell her about their ‘day at work’
Backstory
Clarice’s early childhood (ages 0-4) was spent with her parents and older brother. She not have much in the way of memories about them, other than vague ideas and impressions. She would later be separated from her biological family after a car accident claimed the lives of her Mother, Father, and Brother.
Ages 5-12 would see her passed around various overcrowded foster families, the treatment was not always awful, but she would have been happier with one caring family, than dozens of extremely subpar ones. Her feelings of Isolation would go onto culminate one afternoon, when she was unfortunate enough to step in a rather large hornet ground in the neighborhood park. She had wandered off a ways away and was swarmed by the ‘bees’ as she had thought them. She sat on the ground her thick puffy raincoat pulled up over her face to ward off the stinging insects.
She cried for help, but for whatever reason the inattentive foster family could not hear her, perhaps they were busy with their other half a dozen foster children, or perhaps they could not see the small bugs from so far away and merely thought she was seeking attention. They did not heed her cries.
In that moment she felt truly alone.. Just her and the stinging insects. *Trigger
When she awoke her ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ were there to comfort her and shield her from the small bugs. She was so glad she had such a wonderful attentive famil
Queen-Mama
Name / Alias: Mama / Queen
Physical appearance
Mama is a strange amalgamation of a human woman and a Hornet of some variety (her face has a resemblance to Clarice’s biological mother)
Mentality Mama is best mother imaginable (at least to Clarice) She dotes on her daughter, and is lenient with her punishments, She loves to sing to her daughter, and likes planning out family outings.
She deeply loves her husband Papa/Soldier, and likes to write poems for him in return for the flowers he picks for her everyday. She is much more vocal than her husband, but prefers to let him take the lead in combat situations while she focuses on the protection of Clarice.
Skills She has an unnatural drive and desire to learn about a number of niche 'Motherly' skills/activities, and possesses an increased rate of learning, and heightened information retention with regard to those skills:
- Home Cooking
- Sewing/weaving/knitting
- Home Medicine
- Singing (she has a lovely singing voice, but will take time to learn to hone her natural talent into a trained skill)
Capabilities
- Mama has a much quicker 30 mph.
- Mama is can carry about 150 lbs while in flight, and 250 while on the ground.
- Her fingers are tipped in sharp claws (on par with short steel razors)
- She does Not possess a stinger like her husband.
- Her chitin provides protection on par with a stab vest.(with the exception of her unarmored face) her internal structure is decently protected from impacts and is unnaturally resilient (maybe a brute 1 or 2)
Papa-Soldier
Name / Alias: Papa / Soldier
Physical appearance
Papa resembles a Bee of an unknown variety. He is large, easily the size of a Lion (weighing about 400lbs)
Mentality Papa is a good kind man, He reads his daughter bedtime stories, and always brings his wife flowers every day, he loves football, and has a penchant for dad jokes.
He claims to works at the ‘Business factory’ but seems confused when asked about its location, Papa has stated that he is a soldier (although he declines to answer when asked which army or war)
He loves his family and is more than willing to defend them with his life. He often lets his wife take the lead when speaking to strangers.
Skills
He has an unnatural drive and desire to learn about a number of niche 'fatherly' skills/activities, and possesses an increased rate of learning, and heightened information retention with regard to those skills:
- Football (and other Team Sports)
- Automobiles
- Grilling,
- Fishing
- Camping
Capabilities
- Papa can fly with his wings at a about 20mph.
- His chitin provides protection on par with a stab vest. his internal structure is decently protected from impacts and is unnaturally resilient (maybe a brute 1 or 2) .
- He has the strength to carry 600 pounds (both in flight and on the ground)
- His limbs are not designed for punching and kicking, but at max strength he can hit about as hard as a PRT Trooper with brass knuckles.
- His mouth’s pincers are like steel blades (About on par with steel gardening shears)
- His stinger lacks a poison gland, but can still be used like a steel harpoon (as a melee weapon, not a ranged weapon) (this does not kill him when used)