Clam Chowder
Chowder
Female (She/her)
Ageless, but adult
Argonaught
Ship rat Russell's oarfish, alongside several unidentified clams
Girlfailure
Lucent Measure of magical ability, unnaturally powerful and only surpassed by the Beasts themselves
Summary
The ocean is a terribly lonely thing. It has greeted the first traces of life, it has bid farewell to the first fish to make landfall. It has watched the rise of mortalkind and it will see men fight amongst themselves until there are none left standing and none left to mourn. You could stand on a boat out at sea, you could scream until your lungs bleed, and you will still be alone with none but the waves and your thoughts for company. And it was this solitude from which Chowder hails. Perhaps she was once a mortal that The Fathomless took pity on. Maybe she simply never was, created as little more than a construct by The Fathomless to shoulder the burden of its isolation.
Chowder has been around for a long, long time. She once was an honorable woman, one who served as the high priestess of the Great Beast that made her, who had fallen in love with a knight. But now her lover is rotting, with her blood on Chowder's hands, after she was unable to handle the truth and the burdens the The Fathomless shared. Several hundred years later, it is time for her to stop running and to prove to her past that she can change. And that she can apologize for all the betrayal and pain she's caused, because a hell of a lot more blood is about to be on her already stained hands if she doesn't.
Personality
Chowder is... a difficult person to get a read on. She presents herself as someone unassuming, weird yet harmless. She will make smalltalk, she will let people feel that she is her friend, but she always keeps herself an arm's length away. Beneath her crooked, uncanny smile lies a woman who cannot decide on if she is The Fathomless's perfect little lucent or if she is a horrible monster undeserving of pity and succor. She is manipulative, has no qualms with lying if that's what she needs to do, and she refuses herself to feel odd and uncomfortable feelings like 'friendship' or 'actually being happy' whatsoever—whether it's because of her religious delusions and complex or because she's punishing herself, no one can really say for certain. Either way, she is terrified of what will happen and what she will do if she lets herself grow attached to others. Beneath it all is a little glimmer of who she once was, a desire to make things right and to embrace her newfound friends. And then the jaded part of her mind decides that they're all going to die horribly anyways, that death is a mercy she cannot have, and thus the self-consuming cycle continues.
Likes
- Microwave meals
- Raw fish (they're tasty, apparently)
- Old books
- Seashells
Dislikes
- Bright sunlight
- Alcohol
- Growing close to others
- Cats
Trivia
- She is inspired by the game Dredge, alongside my love for fishing in video games and Lovecraftian horror. She also draws a lot of inspiration from Lunacid! Please go play Lunacid.
- Her favorite food is those microwave TV meals. She'll absolutely demolish a Kid Cuisine. Failing that, thawed frozen hamburgers and rotting fish work too.
- She has no blood or internal organs—or even bones for that matter. There is nothing but pale nacre in her body, even within her tail and ears where a normal Argonaught would possess blood and organs. Injury results in cracking and crumbling not unlike an old marble statue.
- She also can regenerate any part of her body, no matter how much of it has chipped and crumbled away. She will remain standing forever, or at least until the last drop of water vanishes from the universe.
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5'1" (155cm)
Scrawny
Uncanny
Design notes
- She completely lacks blood. There is not a drop of it in her body.
- Her eyes, while they don't technically glow, are incredibly reflective giving them the appearance of glowing in the dark. This includes the eyes on her tail as well.
- Her right eye has a deformed pupil. Her pupils are also white.
- Her teeth and whites of her eyes are a pale yellow.
- Teeth are somewhere between "sharp" and "rat-like"
I'll write it... eventually!
I'll write it... eventually!
