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#46: Starro the Cat

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That face. It speaks a million words, but also none at all at the same time.

Starro is an OG. I think the first animal character we came across in Campaign 2? And Datadog rescued her and brought her back to her Snapper Carr. You guys have heard all about Snapper... well, a decent amount but you haven't heard much on Starro!

I'll be giving a little amount because I can't do writeups like Vis. Mm mm. No way!

Anyways, Starro is... what you'd probably expect from that picture honestly and is VERY much a cat. She can be feisty, loving, caring, attention seeking, standoffish, manipulative and has a stare that will look deep into your soul.

Starroface itself has definitely turned in a meme of sorts and Scar will not hesitate to pull it out of the bag whenever Starro is near or involved in a scene.

It's good stuff.

Data 7 and Starro's relationship though has... been an interesting one. One of the first, important moments that was an interesting reveal to me was that...

Starro has a crush on Data 7! The white furred cat likes the white furred dog!

And how it came about was...

Well let's take a step back.

Campaign 1 I didn't really have Artemis explore any sort of romantics. He was still a bit too young for that so I left that to the rest of the PCs... and boy did they like doing the romantics!

Campaign 2 I definitely wanted to explore it a bit more because I was pretty much labeled as the ROMANTICS HATER in C1. And it's not that I hate it in the slightest, it's that, a lot of the romantics that I saw in C1 just weren't really my thing.

So I've brought my own Data / Artemis brand of romantics! My doggo is super affectionate, but also very rough when it comes to his love. He wants to fight, he wants to play, he wants to lick and love... but not everyone wants that. In fact a lot of characters don't want that!

This is where Pixie enters (and yes, she'll be coming later in the list...), Data 7 and Pixie staaaaarted to have some sort of relationship, but both dogs want something else from the other, they aren't really satisfied completely with each other's personalities.

Eventually Datadog wanted to make Pixie jealous, make her have to acquiesce to his manner of romance or that she might get left behind. So... Datadog went to Starro for girl advice!

This was the first time that it became apparent that Starro liked Data 7, and Data 7, with his 1 knowledge stat, was completely oblivious to her meanings and approaches. Data 7, along with a bit of Starro's planning, would end up using Rover to try and make Pixie jealous...

????

#45: Rover

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It's Rover!

So Data 7 tried to pretend that he was in a relationship with Rover, Alice's dog!

Not that Data 7 minded doing as such, he actually decently likes Rover, despite him being a complete dumbass with likely a negative knowledge stat.

Adding a side note here: Data 7 is bi. He likes both males and females. If it wasn't obvious for the rest of the players already.

Anyways, so this plan with Rover completely failed. Data 7 kept trying to get Rover to give him licks and show him different sorts of affection, but in true Rover standards, he botched it all and really the only the Pixie got out of it was that she thought Data 7 was gay and didn't have any interest in HER whatsoever.

Not exactly the take that Data 7 wanted.

Fastforward to going back to Starro for advice... and now we have her suggesting that Data 7 and Starro form a relationship, to make Pixie jealous!

And if you know Starro, this isn't her just wanting to help Data 7 out, this is her literally trying to trick him into getting close with her!

UNFORTUNATELY for Starro, Data 7 is still very oblivious to the fact as he has zero romantic interest in Starro. It's very sad... but... Data 7 still loves to be affectionate and play, so he plays along with Starro and so they made a mockery of poor Pixie, who probably... maybe... didn't deserve it. Who can say?

And so that's kind of where it left off. I believe Starro definitely does still have feelings for Data 7, but they haven't played around or done anything like that since. Perhaps she'll try and manipulate Data 7 more... perhaps we'll see something else... but in the meantime, BIG TROUBLES was just getting underway, and god, it needed an Accountant.

That's where Starro comes in. We only had a few positions in Big Troubles figured out, but Data 7 had determined that we absolutely needed an Accountant. And who better to fill that position than Starro!

Right?

And so that's how Starro became one of the first members of Big Troubles. And she dealt with the money that the organization has gained through their first mission which was finding a huge missile up on the surface of Antarctica. Starro even landed the final finishing blow on the giant undeadish penguin that was standing in their way. It was pretty epic.

We're getting around to starting the second Big Troubles mission and we may need to commission a bit of extra help. That's where Starro comes in again, she's gonna make sure we spend our money appropriately and efficiently. Because she's the accountant.

...

Here comes Rover again!

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Coming in at 45th is Rover who you have all heard a bit about already.

Rover is a good boy. But he's also an idiot. Data 7 loves to play with Rover. He'll often shrink down to a tiny size and roll around Rover, pretending to be a ball.

Rover doesn't really understand how to play ball. He'll often eventually fall over due to Databall giving him a smack or just existing is enough sometimes.

He's very loyal to Alice though, and whilst there really isn't too much to Rover himself, I still very much welcome his presence. I always have fun messing around with him and causing him exaggerated agony.

One of my favorite things is Brennus and Rover will be "playing" ball. And I'll have Data 7 roll in as a ball. Shenanigans will occur that will leave Brennus on the floor, confused, with Databall rolling off in one direction, and Rover in the other, the scene ending immediately.

Poor Brennus.

Rover is a good boy.

Hint for #44:

Both Rover and Starro were introduced pretty early on in the campaign. This character was also introduced early on!