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Player Name: Dolly Mancer Preferred Contact: PMs and officially now on Plurk as Dolly_Mancer :3 Timezone: Central Time Current Characters in Victory Road: Calliope Macabre
Character Name: Catrina Calavera Series: OC-Changes (my comic series) Timeline: The night before Wormsmas (The worst Woozel Worm gift ever of becoming HUMAN)
Original Character Background:
- Their world (OCs): It’s a magical world called Doriene that my friend made in a region I crafted called Xana. Catrina comes from a floating city there called Estrella Del Rio which is considered the big magical capital on the Brilliant Blue River. Now in this world, everyone is born with a magical talent that is unique to the user that normally is revealed around four or five years of age (or earlier if the talent is far more active). In Doriene, the world has a pantheon of deities that like to interact with the mortal population much like the ancient Greek Gods would (They are on the same maturity level as Catrina apparently when it comes to boredom :<). It’s very much a high fantasy world, with many different sapient species living in there including a sapient plant species called the Borogoves. Most of the time when species are traveling from place to place on a journey, there are specialized magical items that aid in helping their user assume a form that would adapt to that area (say you have a normal air breathing land lover that wants to go to the underwater city of Mermari, they can rent a special item that turns them into merfolk).
There isn’t a lot of high tech there other than 2000s styled cellphones and internet, they mainly rely on magic as their main source of power here (like the flag that produces the smell of bacon). There are no movie theaters or television, so a lot of the entertainment is brought in by traveling bards and storytellers. Now back to Xana and the Brilliant Blue River, originally, the Ahuizotl population used to live inland in tree top cities before two mages ended up summoning a horrible monster that was immune to their toxins. This forced the entire population to build floating cities on the Brilliant Blue River and relocate there. The floating cities when viewed up above resemble river floral and fauna (Ventana Del Alma looks like a lily pad while Estella Del Rio resembles a little blue fish). The floating cities are like living in Venice with water roads and boats being the main form of transportation. Their crowned capital, Joya De la Corona Del Rio (or Joya for short), is the only one not shaped like flora or fauna. Instead, Joya is a crystalline domed city, resembling a royal orb while the wall-like protection looks like a crown. It is also the only floating city that doesn’t have a water road, instead there are paved roads and pathways for citizens to use.
- Their history (OCs and customizable/silent protagonists): Right over here, though gonna add the CW for dysfunctional family, implied abuse, murders, mafias, and Catrina’s Necromancy Stuff: https://gimmeeyeballs.dreamwidth.org/358.html
- For customizable/silent protagonists: Catrina is more than happy to talk (brag) about where she came from, but not so much about the bio family, that one is a sore subject. It will require some time and a bit of trust building. However, this will be something I’ll be checking with the other players first to make sure they’re comfortable if it does come up, these are pretty hard subjects.
Now the whole becoming human thing, that’s something that threw this gremlin for a loop. Catrina suddenly now has five digit fingered hands, no hand tail, no longer blue (she is so totally gonna be smearing on that blue face paint if given the chance), and suddenly going from cold blooded to warm blooded is a trip of sorts. Most importantly, no sound defect or toxic flesh (though it will come back for Fourthwall if anyone wants some sound defect tomfoolery or get rashes from hugging a toxic blue amphibian >:3) Just be prepared for Catrina to be an absolutely little pissant about it and be the greasy possum lady of fabled lore she was meant to be.
Personality: To dissect Catrina, we simply must have to break her down to the seven key personality parts that make up this opera singing necromancer: Reckless, Immature, Sarcastic, Foul Mouthed, Rude, Mischievous, and shockingly, Friendliness. Catrina is a pretty reckless person from the start or more specifically when she first managed to use her talent, sound defect, on her fellow classmate during a recital after having a clash with Catrina at age four (The kid ended up sounding like a frog during the recital and was the laughing stock for years to come). This led to Catrina learning ‘oh hey, I can do this without getting into trouble’ and pretty much used sound defect recklessly, mostly if she’s bored or if someone makes the mistake of really irritating the gnarly primadonna. This obviously bit Catrina in the butt plenty of times and inadvertently hone her skills in slipping away without being caught. This leads into the next major personality core, immaturity! Catrina ended up getting emotionally stunted at age fourteen when her brother fled the wretched Calavera household and said awful family started pouring more attention into Catrina as the replacement heir. The piles of private tutoring, the never ending opera performances, being trapped with a horrible monster baby sister, and not getting to have a lot of breaks, can do wonders for a child’s emotional wellbeing. Moment Catrina ran away from there, the sudden freedom was like a euphoric rush and Cat had no idea what to do about it. You can imagine the lovely little cocktail that was made with the already mentioned recklessness and being emotionally stunted. This was one of the many reasons Catrina was kicked out of plenty traveling bard groups in the past.
Sarcasm has always been an integral part of Catrina, both in her quick wit for humor, persuasion, and when she starts getting combative. Being a traveling bard beforehand, Catrina heavily favored her sarcastic and quick witted disposition in attracting crowds as well as maintaining attention to the performance. However, when conflicts happen, instead of being a reasonable adult, Catrina will resort to her scathing sarcasm. This was how she functioned for a long time with her brother, they normally were sarcastic with one another when they got into conflicts and normally they’d get along shortly after. Unfortunately, that’s not how society works, at all. There had been times when her sarcasm did come in handy by accident when paired with her persuasive abilities. A prime example would be the time her group got into a blocked off city by Catrina sarcastically stating they were the Avon Ladies (the guards bought into that fully somehow.) As mentioned, Catrina has a really foul mouth and isn’t afraid to talk like that around other folks (in fact she is very gleeful to teach kids the socially unacceptable curse words if given the chance.) Cursing is like breathing for Catrina, they simply cannot stay in. This is likely also from her older brother, he too is a foul mouth and possibly a lot worse than Catrina. Other times, cursing acts like a form of stress relief for Catrina when confronted with something that wasn’t expected. Speaking of stress relief, this leads right into rudeness. Catrina has a habit of being rude initially around others she hasn’t taken a shine to just yet. Remember how she was often kicked out of traveling bard groups? This is a defense mechanism, a Catrina way of saying ‘I don’t like this and I don’t want to be hurt again, stay away from me.’
Here we get to the last two of the better traits, kicking it off with mischievousness. Now Catrina gets bored insanely easily, it’s pretty hard not to have her stay bored for longer than say two minutes. To make herself not so bored, Catrina tends to pick something pretty mundane, say a cow for example and decides ‘Hey, why don’t we make that cow sound like an alligator!’ Catrina will fully go right ahead on that and watch as the general public have a gator scare with one very confused cow. It’s not common, but if someone REALLY rubs Catrina the wrong way, she’ll use sound defect on them instead for amusement. Mischievousness isn’t entirely exclusive to boredom, no, this can extend to people Catrina likes a lot as playful teasing or poking that aren’t mean spirited in any way. We can finally get to the last part, friendliness. If anyone does manage to make friends with the devil in blue, they’ll end up finding out that Catrina is actually a pretty thoughtful friend that’ll care a lot about them. It’s not shown much, mainly because Catrina really is afraid of being hurt again with abandonment, it will take some time and patience with her. This is sort’ve why I figured the Pokemon World might be a good fit in learning the values of friendship…just be aware of what you’re getting into…Catrina, no, don’t you dare name that poor Pokemon Slaughter-Water!
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Pokemon Trainer (She’s gonna be fixated on the ghost types) Starter: Gytrash Gurt-Dog the Hisuian Zorua :3
Now to say the Hisuian Zorua Catrina received was a grease trap would be an understatement of the year as Catrina finally got to greet her horrible traveling buddy. Catrina was doing the squatch position as she observed the little crime against nature Pokemon on Route 29, finally getting away from the weirdo human claiming to be her Mother. It was definitely a very ‘good’ first impression so far as Catrina finally caught that odor coming off the Zorua.
“Damn man, you look like you were a dumpster diving champion.” Catrina remarked as she scrunched her now human nose a bit after inspecting what she had to work with.
“Zorua!” The grodiest, ghostly fox pokemon responded as if to say ’Exactly fool! I AM THE GARBAGE KING!’
“At least you’ll be hard to grip onto during battles, I guess.” Catrina conceded that this is indeed her very gross starter that would put Muk to shame, “I have just the perfect name to give yah thought! From this day forth, you will be GYTRASH GURT-DOG! Are you ready to wreak havoc on our journey!?”
“Zo Zorua Zorua!” Gytrash screeched out his little dumpster warrior cry proudly in response!
“Hell yeah Gytrash! Now let’s get more ghosts into this team!” Catrina got up from her perched position to run off with the disgusting little monster.
Picking that horrible Hisuian Zorua with her bare hands (Catrina no you need to wash them after handling this one!) Catrina takes off down the route with Gytrash in hand. Gytrash wasn’t gonna argue it either, it was a free ride and better chance to spot some garbage close by for scavenging in! Ah yes, this friendship was one made in hell for sure..Catrina why oh why can you not ever be less gremlin like?
Edited (Misspelled 'Hisuian' and 'Estrella' and forgot to title it :x) 2025-05-03 06:37 (UTC)
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Catrina Calavera | OC
Name: Dolly Mancer
Preferred Contact: PMs and officially now on Plurk as Dolly_Mancer :3
Timezone: Central Time
Current Characters in Victory Road: Calliope Macabre
Character
Name: Catrina Calavera
Series: OC-Changes (my comic series)
Timeline: The night before Wormsmas (The worst Woozel Worm gift ever of becoming HUMAN)
Original Character Background:
- Their world (OCs): It’s a magical world called Doriene that my friend made in a region I crafted called Xana. Catrina comes from a floating city there called Estrella Del Rio which is considered the big magical capital on the Brilliant Blue River. Now in this world, everyone is born with a magical talent that is unique to the user that normally is revealed around four or five years of age (or earlier if the talent is far more active). In Doriene, the world has a pantheon of deities that like to interact with the mortal population much like the ancient Greek Gods would (They are on the same maturity level as Catrina apparently when it comes to boredom :<). It’s very much a high fantasy world, with many different sapient species living in there including a sapient plant species called the Borogoves. Most of the time when species are traveling from place to place on a journey, there are specialized magical items that aid in helping their user assume a form that would adapt to that area (say you have a normal air breathing land lover that wants to go to the underwater city of Mermari, they can rent a special item that turns them into merfolk).
There isn’t a lot of high tech there other than 2000s styled cellphones and internet, they mainly rely on magic as their main source of power here (like the flag that produces the smell of bacon). There are no movie theaters or television, so a lot of the entertainment is brought in by traveling bards and storytellers. Now back to Xana and the Brilliant Blue River, originally, the Ahuizotl population used to live inland in tree top cities before two mages ended up summoning a horrible monster that was immune to their toxins. This forced the entire population to build floating cities on the Brilliant Blue River and relocate there. The floating cities when viewed up above resemble river floral and fauna (Ventana Del Alma looks like a lily pad while Estella Del Rio resembles a little blue fish). The floating cities are like living in Venice with water roads and boats being the main form of transportation. Their crowned capital, Joya De la Corona Del Rio (or Joya for short), is the only one not shaped like flora or fauna. Instead, Joya is a crystalline domed city, resembling a royal orb while the wall-like protection looks like a crown. It is also the only floating city that doesn’t have a water road, instead there are paved roads and pathways for citizens to use.
- Their history (OCs and customizable/silent protagonists): Right over here, though gonna add the CW for dysfunctional family, implied abuse, murders, mafias, and Catrina’s Necromancy Stuff: https://gimmeeyeballs.dreamwidth.org/358.html
- For customizable/silent protagonists: Catrina is more than happy to talk (brag) about where she came from, but not so much about the bio family, that one is a sore subject. It will require some time and a bit of trust building. However, this will be something I’ll be checking with the other players first to make sure they’re comfortable if it does come up, these are pretty hard subjects.
Now the whole becoming human thing, that’s something that threw this gremlin for a loop. Catrina suddenly now has five digit fingered hands, no hand tail, no longer blue (she is so totally gonna be smearing on that blue face paint if given the chance), and suddenly going from cold blooded to warm blooded is a trip of sorts. Most importantly, no sound defect or toxic flesh (though it will come back for Fourthwall if anyone wants some sound defect tomfoolery or get rashes from hugging a toxic blue amphibian >:3) Just be prepared for Catrina to be an absolutely little pissant about it and be the greasy possum lady of fabled lore she was meant to be.
Personality: To dissect Catrina, we simply must have to break her down to the seven key personality parts that make up this opera singing necromancer: Reckless, Immature, Sarcastic, Foul Mouthed, Rude, Mischievous, and shockingly, Friendliness. Catrina is a pretty reckless person from the start or more specifically when she first managed to use her talent, sound defect, on her fellow classmate during a recital after having a clash with Catrina at age four (The kid ended up sounding like a frog during the recital and was the laughing stock for years to come). This led to Catrina learning ‘oh hey, I can do this without getting into trouble’ and pretty much used sound defect recklessly, mostly if she’s bored or if someone makes the mistake of really irritating the gnarly primadonna. This obviously bit Catrina in the butt plenty of times and inadvertently hone her skills in slipping away without being caught. This leads into the next major personality core, immaturity! Catrina ended up getting emotionally stunted at age fourteen when her brother fled the wretched Calavera household and said awful family started pouring more attention into Catrina as the replacement heir. The piles of private tutoring, the never ending opera performances, being trapped with a horrible monster baby sister, and not getting to have a lot of breaks, can do wonders for a child’s emotional wellbeing. Moment Catrina ran away from there, the sudden freedom was like a euphoric rush and Cat had no idea what to do about it. You can imagine the lovely little cocktail that was made with the already mentioned recklessness and being emotionally stunted. This was one of the many reasons Catrina was kicked out of plenty traveling bard groups in the past.
Sarcasm has always been an integral part of Catrina, both in her quick wit for humor, persuasion, and when she starts getting combative. Being a traveling bard beforehand, Catrina heavily favored her sarcastic and quick witted disposition in attracting crowds as well as maintaining attention to the performance. However, when conflicts happen, instead of being a reasonable adult, Catrina will resort to her scathing sarcasm. This was how she functioned for a long time with her brother, they normally were sarcastic with one another when they got into conflicts and normally they’d get along shortly after. Unfortunately, that’s not how society works, at all. There had been times when her sarcasm did come in handy by accident when paired with her persuasive abilities. A prime example would be the time her group got into a blocked off city by Catrina sarcastically stating they were the Avon Ladies (the guards bought into that fully somehow.) As mentioned, Catrina has a really foul mouth and isn’t afraid to talk like that around other folks (in fact she is very gleeful to teach kids the socially unacceptable curse words if given the chance.) Cursing is like breathing for Catrina, they simply cannot stay in. This is likely also from her older brother, he too is a foul mouth and possibly a lot worse than Catrina. Other times, cursing acts like a form of stress relief for Catrina when confronted with something that wasn’t expected. Speaking of stress relief, this leads right into rudeness. Catrina has a habit of being rude initially around others she hasn’t taken a shine to just yet. Remember how she was often kicked out of traveling bard groups? This is a defense mechanism, a Catrina way of saying ‘I don’t like this and I don’t want to be hurt again, stay away from me.’
Here we get to the last two of the better traits, kicking it off with mischievousness. Now Catrina gets bored insanely easily, it’s pretty hard not to have her stay bored for longer than say two minutes. To make herself not so bored, Catrina tends to pick something pretty mundane, say a cow for example and decides ‘Hey, why don’t we make that cow sound like an alligator!’ Catrina will fully go right ahead on that and watch as the general public have a gator scare with one very confused cow. It’s not common, but if someone REALLY rubs Catrina the wrong way, she’ll use sound defect on them instead for amusement. Mischievousness isn’t entirely exclusive to boredom, no, this can extend to people Catrina likes a lot as playful teasing or poking that aren’t mean spirited in any way. We can finally get to the last part, friendliness. If anyone does manage to make friends with the devil in blue, they’ll end up finding out that Catrina is actually a pretty thoughtful friend that’ll care a lot about them. It’s not shown much, mainly because Catrina really is afraid of being hurt again with abandonment, it will take some time and patience with her. This is sort’ve why I figured the Pokemon World might be a good fit in learning the values of friendship…just be aware of what you’re getting into…Catrina, no, don’t you dare name that poor Pokemon Slaughter-Water!
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Pokemon Trainer (She’s gonna be fixated on the ghost types)
Starter: Gytrash Gurt-Dog the Hisuian Zorua :3
Samples
RP Sample: https://ohmyarceus.dreamwidth.org/28906.html?thread=6597098#cmt6597098
Victory Road Sample:
Now to say the Hisuian Zorua Catrina received was a grease trap would be an understatement of the year as Catrina finally got to greet her horrible traveling buddy. Catrina was doing the squatch position as she observed the little crime against nature Pokemon on Route 29, finally getting away from the weirdo human claiming to be her Mother. It was definitely a very ‘good’ first impression so far as Catrina finally caught that odor coming off the Zorua.
“Damn man, you look like you were a dumpster diving champion.” Catrina remarked as she scrunched her now human nose a bit after inspecting what she had to work with.
“Zorua!” The grodiest, ghostly fox pokemon responded as if to say ’Exactly fool! I AM THE GARBAGE KING!’
“At least you’ll be hard to grip onto during battles, I guess.” Catrina conceded that this is indeed her very gross starter that would put Muk to shame, “I have just the perfect name to give yah thought! From this day forth, you will be GYTRASH GURT-DOG! Are you ready to wreak havoc on our journey!?”
“Zo Zorua Zorua!” Gytrash screeched out his little dumpster warrior cry proudly in response!
“Hell yeah Gytrash! Now let’s get more ghosts into this team!” Catrina got up from her perched position to run off with the disgusting little monster.
Picking that horrible Hisuian Zorua with her bare hands (Catrina no you need to wash them after handling this one!) Catrina takes off down the route with Gytrash in hand. Gytrash wasn’t gonna argue it either, it was a free ride and better chance to spot some garbage close by for scavenging in! Ah yes, this friendship was one made in hell for sure..Catrina why oh why can you not ever be less gremlin like?
Re: Catrina Calavera | OC
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Re: Catrina Calavera | OC