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Name: Orias

Nicknames: Beer Cat

Breed: Maine Coon

Attached to: Athalia

Alignment: Order

Fav. Food: Beer and beer accessories

Hated Food: Beets, because they're spelled almost like beer but aren't beer. They're veggies.

Hobbies:

Drinking while watching K-POP. Orias makes no secret of the fact that he greatly enjoys watching Korean bands hopping about on stage, and rabidly follows his favorite artists every move on social media. He continually attempts to convince Atty to join him on the couch to do said watching, and is greatly pleased when he succeeds. After all, then he can continually commentate every second of what's going on in the performance.

He's even working on a blog to essentially fangirl over Taeyeon, gushing about how he likes everything she does and documenting every facet of her daily life that he can. He tends to lord this over Namielle and her food blog every chance he gets, because the object of his adoration is clearly superior and one of "love," not criticism.

This hobby was born of irony, due to him investigating what he originally derided as a pointless pursuit of stardom and sheep-like tendency to follow idols. Not wanting to be accused of debasing something without having first-paw experience, Orias watched a livestreamed concert and was hooked. Obviously, sitting on a couch watching musical performances tends to lend itself well to drinking beer as well. A common pastime is pestering Atty to take him to a live performance one day.

Working out to VHS routines from the 80s, Leg warmers, big hair and attractive women demonstrating how to keep himself in shape all with delightfully campy and cheesy effects? What's not to love? While these videos were obviously created with humans in mind, Orias devotes all of his attention to matching the exercise poses shown on his tapes and often ends up in strange positions.

As an extension, this involves a labor of love in keeping his nearly derelict VCR in working order. As a bit of a mechanical genius, Orias simply keeps building it up over time and adding enhancements. The machine can now rewind at twenty times the speed of any other VCR, pause perfectly, and even enhance the image on the screen for pixel-perfect scrutiny. After all, one must get the poses perfectly right to exercise properly.

The exercises he learns, specifically the jazzercise, is also used to test the inventions he creates on a whim. The myriad movements help calibrate his exo-harnesses and helipacks, all while keeping him balanced and on point.

(Drunken) Inventing Orias's creative genius is inversely proportional to his sobriety level. The drunker he gets, the more impressive his inventions. Given that when he's completely without drink he can tinker with limb-extension exo-harnesses and helicopter backpacks, it only stands to reason that his drunken manufacturing would be awe-inspiring in its own right.

He enjoys wearing his Extendable Limb Ambulatory Incorporated Nanotech Equipment suit, or E.L.A.I.N.E. for short. One of his more common tinkers, this invention is a harness that enhances everything a kitty could want. The ability to walk on two legs. Height augmentation, even opposable thumbs for opening the fridge for more beer! Complete with a bottle opener on the wrists and cup holder attachments for restocking trips. The drunker Orias gets, the more anthropomorphized E.L.A.I.N.E. gets in his eyes. He can often be found talking to it as though it were another sentient being (perhaps due to the nanotech features it's smarter than it looks for high-tech overalls with legs and arms).

One of his most impressive recent creations would likely be his R.A.M.M., or Roomba Assistant Manufacturing Machine. Developed as a result of a particularly spectacular binge day and Atty's subsequent anger at the pile of empty beer bottles around the house, it does just what it says on the tin. Orias was ordered to clean everything. Orias instead built a machine whose sole function was to create other smaller machines to do said bidding. While the automatic vacuums aren't especially sturdy on their own and tend to break down after one or two uses, the R.A.M.M. can synthesize a small army of them on demand (Atty's demand to clean, usually). This is what Orias calls delegation.

Orias's ingenuity tends to manifest in battle situations as well, as he can commandeer and requisition various bits of technology that may be about to be put to offensive use. A noteworthy example would be cannibalizing Atty's watch to create a focus to force light into a beam that served as an ignition source to light the rag inserted into the guardian cat's half-empty beer bottle. The run-on thought made sense to Orias, and it served the purpose of a cobbled-together Molotov cocktail. A match might have worked just as well, but what use would carrying around matches be? A kitty fanny pack just for those? It takes up precious beer space.

General heckling of his senshi. Athalia wouldn't be the first choice of partner that anyone who knew Orias would envision, nor did Orias actively make that choice out of anything but desperation. A locked cage in the pound and the first person that could understand his ravings as those of a guardian cat was purely a matter of circumstance. That said, Orias takes great pleasure in taunting his much more straight-laced human companion.

Nothing is above heckling, whether it be workout routines, choice of food, clothing styles, or sleep schedule. It takes a particular amount of fortitude to hang about Orias for any extended period of time.

Additionally, Orias takes his free time quite seriously and is often a sponge for activities he thinks look entertaining. This leads to him attempting things such as DJing to amusing results.

Virtues: Loyal: Despite his rampant hedonism and somewhat devil-may-care nature, Orias is actually fiercely protective of those he considers his friends. While one might labor to believe it given the cat's laissez faire attitude toward Athalia, he considers the senshi his closest friend and is even willing to give up his precious beer in defense of the man. Those who prove themselves as trustworthy and genuine tend to wear through the layers of the Mauvian's skepticism and earn a mostly stalwart comrade in return.

Clever: When presented with a problem, Orias can quite often solve it. Whether it be how to make improvised weaponry on the fly or how to craft a multi-armed harness for holding more beer at once while supplying opposable thumbs, this trait is only magnified proportionately to his level of drunkenness. Under his taunting and laid-back demeanor lies an agile mind, and though he often uses it selfishly there are many occasions to where his friends benefit as well. If feeling particularly benevolent, he might even invent something particularly tailored to someone else. He's considering offering his prototype mechanical typing paw overlays to Nami for use on her computer, as he developed them with her in mind.


Flaws: Blunt: Despite being raised with intimate knowledge of social niceties and the norms of high society, Orias is often crass and crude in his demeanor. This earns him more ire than it does friends, but he considers being true to himself more important. In his eyes, it's honesty. To others, it's often rude. That said, at least Orias can be relied upon to speak his mind and let others know where he stands.

Selfish: Orias is quite self-centered, often thinking of himself rather than others. While this is somewhat relaxed around close friends, he'd stop to think twice about helping passerby in need unless a reward he's interested in was evident. This manifests in a very noticeable manner in relation to one of his greatest gifts: his ingenuity. Nearly every single one of Orias's marvelous inventions are created for his sole benefit, and them helping anyone else is just happenstance.

Challenge: "I'm way too sober for this."

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : CAT FORM

Face/Ears: Long tufted ears with a slightly contoured, narrow face.

Body: Adult, weight varies from slim to pudgy based on beer intake and how many 80s workout videos he's jazzercised along to.

Fur: Long fur with a tabby coloration, golden star

Eyes: Amber

Star Color: Golden

Accessories: Various inventions, from a multi-armed harness with opposable thumbs for holding beer and opening the fridge to a helipack for increased mobility. His treasure is a ragged bandana that ties about his head when well and truly sauced.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : HUMAN FORM

Eyes: Pale amber with a very slight slant

Hair: The same dark grey as the stripes in his fur, wild and voluminous. He tends to leave it in a bedhead spiky style.

Face: Slender with slightly prominent cheekbones due to a usually low weight

Star Color: Gold

Clothes: Typically wears a medieval beige tunic, completely open and untied, with slate breeches and plain clogs. When forced to be presentable and fancy, he will wear a much dressier attire of a slim black vest over a white long-sleeved blouse with open, flowing lace cuffs. Full length dark trousers with a long sash and polished leather open toe/heel footwraps complete the ensemble. Rarely Orias can even be convinced to comb his hair back into a sleek style.

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Hey, Wave!

I like how creative you've gotten with Orias already, so to follow up on Sami's comment, before any of the inventions can come into play or be ICly referenced, they will need to be sent to The Space Cauldron mule for staff approval. The hobby of 'Drunken Inventing' is fine but pending approval of the inventions you want him to utilize, the hobby may need to be rewritten to adjust to any changes that need to be made to ensure the inventions work with our in-game rules. As long as you don't use the inventions or reference them ICly until they are approved, you can play Orias as you have outlined here! If you want to use any of the inventions you have included, please send a description of them, their functions, features, and potential drawbacks to the mule so we can get them approved for you!

And, since Orias is stamped, if you are interested in participating in the Mauvian ORP we have going on, you can go throw him in! While previous rolls can't be made up, you can still throw him in if you like!

Have fun, and I look forward to working out the details of his Mauvian inventions so he can keep crafting! (We will also work to get some more information on Mauvian invention guidelines up in the information thread soon to help with future inventions and approvals!)