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Name: Quella Fehtan (as in, “To Quell” or end. Fehtan is based in germanic roots, but essentially boils down to “fight” or “struggle”)
Blood colour: #0634A3
Gender: Female
Symbol: basic aboriginal pictographic image of a spear. Essentially a cave-painting spear. http://imgur.com/PeRxmIp
Profile:
Quella’s a strange beast for a troll. She was raised by her pack, and never truly entered society. As such, she wasn’t brought up with troll media or the hemospectrum. All she ever saw from her packmates is that the strongest rise to the top. As the weakest member of the pack by far, she always had last pick of everything, and had to roll over for all of the members of her pack. It’s only recently, since she’s been able to best some of the weaker members of her family, that she’s been exposed to other trolls and the hemospectrum, and what she’s seen of it so far hasn’t been positive. It seems like a system where the weak can take places they don’t belong purely because of an accident of birth, while some strong trolls labor under their low blood colors. They don't deserve the positions they were given, and the hemospectrum is what keeps them there.
Due to her feelings about the hemospectrum, she often finds herself at odds with highbloods, and avoids them if she can. If it comes to conflict, then they’ll need to prove they can best her in the contest of their choosing. If they can, then it turns out they were meant to be on top anyway. If they can’t though, it just proves the hemospectrum is a shield that the weak can hide behind. She’s willing to help those she defeats improve, but not if they aren’t willing to improve themselves.
She doesn’t ever lord her blood color over lowbloods, instead expecting them to challenge her if they want to earn their place. It’s what she would do, after all. If they seem meek or unwilling to present a challenge, then she’s not very interested in them. They don’t want to improve their station in the world, then they’re just followers. Trolls with no drive or ambition are the worst of the bunch, simply scavengers to her mind. She’ll call out a troll that’s coasting on the work of others and put them back in their proper place.
Quella loves conflict. She relishes it. She’s not interested in bloodshed or hurting anyone, however. For her, it’s all about proving her superiority. Anything other than that is both dishonorable and poor sportsmanship. Her lusus wants her to deal with trolls more permanently - he’s not a fan of leaving enemies behind. Quella would rather call them rivals. Quella loves roughhousing, but doesn’t want to take it farther than that.
Quella is a very even-tempered troll. She takes both winning and losing in stride. She doesn’t understand mockery, or even how it works, so why would she make fun of another troll for their weakness? She hates it when people act above their ability, and will call them out if she thinks this is the case. Quella has immense respect for those who have bested her in a challenge, at least until she gets a chance to try again.
Quella doesn’t have a lot of spare time. Most of her time in the woods is taken up by hunting, or finding wood for a fire. She only uses what she’s been able to scavenge from her surroundings, so she has to chase down her prey herself. Because of this, she is both fast and strong, and has a good grasp of the woodlands around her hive. The small amount of free time she has is taken up with training at what she’s been bested in most recently. She’s always itching for a rematch.
The very small amount of free time she has is spent painting her hive with pictures of her exploits. She does this with a mixture of animal fat, plant dye, blood, and ashes. Quella isn’t the best artist, so her drawings are mostly pictographic. They’re just there to remind her of her triumphs, so they’re good enough for her.
Eventually, Quella plans to defeat Akurra in a fair fight. As the alpha of his pack, he is both tough and strong, but Quella is determined to take that position from him. This is the only way he will ever show her respect rather than the scorn and pity she is used to. Quella has a grudging admiration for his strength, but knows that eventually he will get old and feeble and her time will come.
Strengths:
Competitive - Quella is driven by a need to be the best at everything, and is eager to prove it. Everything can be turned into a competition with her. She’s not interested in gloating or rubbing other trolls faces in her victories, but she WILL try to prove she’s better than you.
Inspirational - Quella likes to take trolls she has beaten in contests under her wing, so that she can teach them to be better. She wants to inspire those around her so that she has a good challenge when she wants it.
Unflappable - Quella takes both victory and defeat in stride. Of course she won -- She’s the best there is. Of course she lost -- she hasn’t practiced enough yet. Nothing personal at all.
Flaws:
Blunt - Doesn’t get it when trolls are being subtle. If fact, doesn’t always get it when trolls are being anything but in-your-face. She’s really bad at lying or skirting what she thinks is the truth.
Honorable - Quella isn’t interested in kicking trolls while they’re down. She just wants to prove she’s better than you. She’s not a plotter or a planner, and doesn’t appreciate trolls who do. (she also doesn’t usually recognise those who do.)
Self-centered - Quella doesn’t care much about how other trolls feel, or what they think about her. She only cares if they can pose a challenge, and how much fun that challenge is.
Weapon: Quella uses a spear whenever she has to fight something. It’s an old, straight branch that she strapped together with a bone point, and it’s got some teeth hanging off of cords. She’s wrapped the shaft in cord where her hands go, so it’s a little easier to handle.
Appearance: http://68.media.tumblr.com/05a844b0ca4eafaf061d61ee3e49a3a1/tumblr_o2019k4ef21t5jfibo1_1280.jpg (horns are better in first pic, has more teeth on strings & woven into hair)
Quella isn't interested in fashion. In fact, she’d run around naked if it wasn’t cold and trolls didn’t look at her funny. Instead she’s fashioned a coat and pants from the hides of her kills. Without anything to fasten her makeshift clothes on, they kept slipping off, so she found some old cloth with her blood color that had been abandoned and cut it into strips to tie everything together. She made her boots herself from hide because her feet kept getting scraped up, and she’s incredibly proud of them. Quella keeps her hair pulled back in braids so that it stays out of her face when she’s hunting.
She’s also taken trophies from some of her prey, and keeps them on cords looped around her spear and wherever else she can fasten them. She’s very proud of these, and likes to show them off whenever she gets the chance. She keeps the blood from her prey as well in order to make her hive paintings more vivid and lifelike, although it’s not as pretty as she would like.
Finally, Quella has been injured a few times by Akurra when she challenges him. When this happens, she’s been keeping plant dyes on hands. She rubs these into the wounds, and they stay under the surface of her chitin and make her blood color come out. This is how she got the markings on her face and arms. She wears these scratch tattoos like a badge of honor.
Home:
Quella makes her hive in Four Fronds, where she grew from her grub stage. It’s not really a hive, per say - Quella didn’t have the benefit of drones to do her work for her. Instead, she lives in a network of caves, moving from one to the other based on the prey around them. She has a summer cave with good ventilation, a winter cave that’s good for holing up when it’s cold, and a cave with an extra-large larder for all of her cured meats.
All her caves have a large larder for her to hang and cure captured prey, and a large firepit where she can roast meat and warm herself. She also likes to keep dried berries and some barks around, and has been carving wooden bowls for herself so she can make teas and soups. Every inch of space that isn’t dedicated to these pursuits is taken up by elaborate pictographic painting on the walls of her hive.
Lusus:
Quella’s lusus calls himself Akurra, and he leads a pack of vicious Raptor-wolfs in Four Fronds. As the alpha of his pack, he must be fast and strong, and he shows this by defeating all who try to take his place within the pack. He growls little, but it quick to both anger and attack. Akurra took Quella in because he felt some kind of strange attachment to the sad, defenseless creature, and so he let her into the pack rather than eating her like so much prey. He regards Quella with a mixture of responsibility and pity, as he knows she’ll never be strong enough to challenge him with her weak troll body. Only lately has this begun to be tested.
Akurra and his pack avoid trolls habitually, so if Quella wants him to behave and follow her into a town, she first needs to prove herself against members of the pack. If she wants to venture into troll territory, she first needs to convince him to promise he’ll behave if she can best a member of the pack. This is the only way she’s found to make him tag along without trying to eat anyone.
Akurra appreciates Quella’s competitive nature, but wants her to be more bloodthirsty with her victories. He knows instinctively that when you leave survivors behind, you encourage conflict in the future. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Quella wants, and she has to fight with him about this often and remind him that he promised he would be good and not try to eat anyone, no matter how weak and delicious they are.
Despite all this, Quella respects Akurra and his strength, and wants to best him and take his position as pack leader. Part of her competitive streak she gets from wanting to show off to her lusus, even if he does hold himslef mostly aloof from her dealings with trolls. It’s only when Quella is in danger that his protective instincts come into play.
http://kaiserflames.deviantart.com/art/Shroxx-298217310
Power: No powers
Quella's Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOvIi57bwnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYeHPFR3f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2xhNWRYBU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG4OIFLl394
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMY2CVjCZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McRRUW5Jj04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8mZge8qfPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-a7T7S9eE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lszdEZ0-74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HWnKvIj_Y
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