Hotategai, the Giant Lutari

The Skeleton

Nickname: Hota
Colour: Yellow.
Age: 26 Years Old.
Gender: Female.
Personality: Forceful, Self-reliant, Commanding.
Family: Dubious. Brother shrunk. Parents' status unknown.
Status: Single, interest unknown.
Roleplay: Open for both Quad and Anthro.
Trades: Raile trades poetry for art.

The Basics

Hotategai is a Giant Lutari, and hails from the South Islands below Lutari Island. The Lutaris of the South Islands are in several tribes, who tend in specialise by craft. Her clan's specialty was woven baskets, which they traded for weapons and other things. They traded with the other tribes and the Lutaris of Lutari Island. They feel uncomfortable outside of their native environment, though, and rarely leave. Hota may be the only one off the islands. The South Islands are rich with not only plants and animals, but also with spirits. The spirits take different forms and there are many kinds. One benevolent kind, for example, often appears as a Lutari capable of changing colour. Some are harder to detect. The Ocean Devils that live in the seas around the islands, for example, can't be heard by most Giant Lutaris and not at all by normal Lutaris.

The Personality

Hotategai is aggressive, confident, and often insulting. She has no regard for anyone other than herself, and she doles out insults like some a flatterer doles out compliments. They occur most often when she wants something done and goes into "captain" mode. She is a fierce and powerful fighter, and has the strength of a male Giant Lutari--in fact, she's strong enough to climb down a mast headfirst and leap about the rigging without much regard to how far down it is. She prefers force to manipulation, as that's the way things often work among pirates, but is levelheaded and practical above all. Hota is selfish, and while she maintains her sociability, she's known for being critical and cruel.

The Liked

Chocolatl
Strong Drinks
Successful Raids
A Good Storm
The Mighty 0nion

The Disliked

Heroes
Discussion of Family
Stupidity
Chocolate
Snow

The Powers

You're joking, right, mate? Hota has no powers to speak of, but she has the ability to call on the Ocean Devils for another pact. Of course, this would literally double her debt, so all she really has to rely on are her own strength and will, which she has plenty of. Now...Hota is known for one thing. Her soup. Hota makes all kinds of soups, and good ones. Her crew calls her "Hot Soup Hota" behind her back...but only behind her back. As a side note, if she tries to make anything else, she burns it to a crisp.

The Past

When Hotategai was an adolescent, her tribe was caught in a war with another tribe. During the course of the war, a shrinking curse was cast on her younger brother. The curse caused him to shrink a little bit every day until he finally disappeared entirely. She was eighteen when the curse was first cast and he was sixteen. The Lutaris in the tribe ascribed the curse to the shaman of the other tribe, and redoubled their efforts at the war. She fought as fiercely as the rest of them, but she knew it wasn't the shaman who had cursed her brother. It was the Ocean Devils. She had gone down to the coast late one night and made a pact with them, offering them a large amount of treasure in exchange for the curse. She'd thought the other tribe had enough treasure to help her pay the Devils off, but they were no richer than her own tribe. The curse did its work before the war ended, but the conflict ceased a few months after. It was revealed that the other tribe had neither the resources nor the knowledge to cast a powerful curse like that. It was then that she left, sailing to find the treasure she needed to pay the devils off as well as seeking to escape before the truth was uncovered.

She sailed to Lutari Island, where she traded for a weapon--a large macquahuitl, or macana. From there she raided a small village and used the gains to placate the Ocean Devils until she could get more. She continued like this for a while, making small raids and giving the Devils small prizes, but then she crossed paths with a small-scale pirate Uni named Woodlums. He accused her of stealing from him, and when she denied doing any such thing, he attacked. She fought back, and eventually beheaded him. Exceedingly proud, she claimed his ship as her own and renamed it The Mighty 0nion. From there, she began sailing as a pirate under a pirate flag, and has visited Krawk Island numerous times. Most of the crew is Woodlums' original crew, but she's gained a few new additions...and removed some old members who were not to her satisfaction.

The PetPet

Roman the Screal was found on a rock outside Krawk Island. Hotategai gave him some scraps of a meat pie she was eating for lunch, and he must have been pretty hungry, because he followed her, hoping to score more food. Intrigued and full, she gave him the rest of her pie. The next day she saw him again and gave him a snack again. This continued for two more days, the Screal hanging around the deck and Hota giving him the scraps from her lunches. The day the Onion set sail, he was there, hanging around the rocks. She picked him up and carried him on board, and he serves as a portable living alarm system for her. He does tend to get a bit vocal at inappropriate times, and she solves this by stepping on his head (not hard.) To him, she's a steady source of tasty snacks, so the appreciation is mutual. They've even become drinking buddies, as she'll allow him to sneak drinks from her ale at the bar on Krawk Island.

The Roleplay

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