The Underground

Paprika’s love life is very fast and loose, so to speak. She hasn’t ever been in a committed relationship, but loves having someone else to be there for. She even had a fling with Spyke, but it didn’t work out too well in the long term.

While not romantic, he is in a very close relationship with a Salty Stinger named The Towering Babel of the Heavens’ Choir. Due to their closeness, Paprika has at times found herself entranced by the Spirhalite salt. He uses it occasionally in his mixtures, but hasn’t used it enough on his own body to start growing crystals like Babel has.

One of Paprika's reasons for doing what she does is so that she can become a near-perfect meal upon death. She's even created a plan for what to do with each part of her body whenever she dies, either of old age or by the hands of an inkfish in battle. Though he hasn't yet found a mixture that would add that perfect flavor to him, so he can't die just yet.

As an extra fun fact, Paprika is a huge fan of the song Now or Never! and has been trying to put together a group to make a salmonid cover of it. Despite his best attempts, nothing has worked out so far. She does play the bagpipes, and is quite good at it. Sadly, that's also probably why her plans haven't worked out.

Seal Form Appearance: Brown body with white “ribbons” across it, trademarks of a female Ribbon Seal. Her forehead has three thin cut-like white markings, spread like the petals of a flower above her eyes. 

Human Form Appearance: Chubby and male-bodied, with light tan skin and plenty of body hair. Has a thick, flowing brown head of hair. Wears rounded glasses, which make her brown eyes appear bigger. Also has a slightly smushed nose and a whisker-like mustache, leaning into her seal-like appearance.

Seal+Human Form Appearance: Slightly darker in appearance than human form, and slightly lighter than seal form. Has a mixture of a fur coat and strands of human hair. Her head of hair becomes even more voluptuous in this form, and her snout elongates to look even closer to her seal form. Her legs also become more seal-like, making it harder for her to walk. Her hands stay human-like, but are now webbed and have longer nails.

Scuba lives a nomadic lifestyle as a seal, though usually stays along the coasts of Scandinavia. Being a type of seal not native to the area, she’s become quite famous and many people come from around the world to try and spot her.

Her human life is a bit more modest, as she mostly tries to hook up with other guys. Not the best at it, but frequenting gay bars means she’s in a crowd of other eager romantics. While in human form, her seal skin is kept safe in a locked briefcase, which she usually keeps locked in a small underwater cave off the coast of Oslo, Norway. Of course this means unlike the original tales of Selkies, she actively and purposefully changes between her forms.

Her in-between form is only done on very rare occasion, either as a stunt to trick up the tabloids, or to simply feel good.

Extra details - Pyro has no alliances, and only works in the Deep Docks due to its love for fire. It stole Wispfire from the Thicket in order to craft their lighter and the ammunition for their flare gun. Revels in setting other bugs aflame, and keeps their charred bodies in a large firepit in its home cave.

ACT 2 - Can be found in their cave in the Deep Docks, past the simple key door. The cave is only opened by taking a wish called “Flaming Vision”. The wish itself is only unlocked upon defeating Father of the Flame and acquiring the Wispfire Lantern. Upon entering the cave, Pyro will greet Hornet and give her the task of killing a large number of bugs (25) using burning sources (anything that would produce a Seared Organ during the Huntress’s quest). Upon delivering the ash left behind by the bugs, Pyro will then task Hornet with collecting some “Intelligence”. All this requires is going back to the room where you can find Trobbio’s quill, and snatch a diary of his. Upon returning to Pyro and giving them the “Intelligence” they will give the Wispfire Burner tool.

Wispfire Burner - A Red Tool that shoots fire straight forward. Can be angled while in use, and movement is slowed down while using it. Can be instantly cancelled by a jump or a dash. Damage is dealt in a constant stream, and increases slightly with sustained fire. This tool can also be altered, much like the Voltvessels. In the second form, it deals no damage but sends out a puff of air. This airblast will knock back any projectiles and have them do damage to anything they hit. This can also send enemies of smaller sizes flying back.

ACT 3 - After defeating Tormented Trobbio, a new wish will be unlocked called “The Pyromaniac”. This is a wish from Trobbio, begrudgingly asking Hornet to track down and kill Pyro for stealing from him. Upon entering Pyro’s cave again, Hornet announces her intentions and Pyro jumps into the firepit. Diving in, Hornet finds herself in a deep room made of the bodies of charred bugs, and a boss fight with Pyro commences.

THE BOSS FIGHT

Pyro's boss fight is only one phase:

Pyro shoots a huge line of flame from their Wispfire Burner across the arena. This attack deals 2 masks of damage (1 with Magma Bell), and applies a special debuff (called Burning) to Hornet where she has small particles of flame sticking to her. Burning makes it so if Magma Bell is equipped, its protection takes twice as long to recharge.

Pyro will shoot their Flare Gun in Hornet's direction, sending a Pimpillo flying forward. They explode immediately upon contact with the walls in a large circle. This deals 2 masks of damage (1 with Magma Bell).

Pyro swings their axe at Hornet three times. If she is far and they decide to use this move, they will shoot a Pimpillo at their own feet and cause an explosion that sends themself flying towards Hornet while swinging their bell-axe in a single, large swipe. The axe swings normally do 2 masks of damage, but if Hornet has the Burning status, they deal 3 masks and remove the status. They do not count as fire damage, so are not affected by Magma Bell.

Pyro dives into the ground, and shoots out of the ceiling (if Hornet is grounded), the floor (if Hornet is in the air), or one of the walls (either in air or grounded) at Hornet with a jetpack on its back. Once it collides with a wall or the ground, it explodes in a large radius and sends the discarded jetpack as an arching projectile. The explosion deals 2 masks (1 with Magma Bell), and the jetpack projectile deals 1 mask.

When not attacking (with one exception) during the fight, Pyro will also use Airblast to knock back certain tools Hornet throws at it. It can do this during the Wispfire Burner attack, which instantly cancels the attack. Airblasted tools do 1 mask of damage. The tools it can Airblast are:

Straight Pin

Threefold Pin

Longpin

Sting Shard Projectiles (The spikes sent out if it is detonated by Hornet's needle)

Curveclaw/Curvesickle

Throwing Ring

Pimpillo

Conchcutter

Cogwork Wheel

Empty Fleabrew Bottle

Once they have been killed, their mask can be collected, as well as the Flare Gun. This isn’t a new tool, and instead can change the Pimpillo to shoot straight forward and explode on contact. These forms are toggled like the forms of the Voltvessels and Wispfire Burner.