#aauya;

Her ears are mostly numb (vs when she was a baby when they were super over-sensitive) - however the first maybe foot and a half has varying degrees of sensitivity, with the base being the most sensitive/calming for her to be touched. Yanking on them doesn’t hurt her depending on the type of yank - like if she catches them on one of her tears it hurts vs grabbing the whole ear and pulling. i.e. pulling a few strands of hair vs an entire chunk. 

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She has also been a tinkerer all her life and tinkered with her various mobility aids and orthotics she had as a child and continued to do so into her adulthood. She’s built devices to help herself (including a pair of “boots” that act as feet and help her walk for longer periods of time on her actual feet) and help her loved ones (like Names’ hover chair and FM’s bionic bracers/”arms”) and does what she can to make the people in her life comfortable.

Regarding ENDGAME, Lady has no functional “soul” (or whatever may be considered a soul in ENDGAME), but she does have a heart.

She turned it into a space ship.

It was her first job as a Player’s apprentice... “Create a VESSEL” she was told. So her, being the pirate she was, created A LIVING SHIP. Aauya (Hu-yah), or “Bloody Heart” / “Blood of the Gods” in Aaonean (ho-NAY-an, a Marinian language). It is a dragon that is and is not a real living creature. IT IS A SHIP first and foremost, however it is also a LIVING BEING that can and will follow her wherever she is. It breathes. It bleeds. It moves. Should Lady be separated from it for too long, or Lady begin to lose what makes her herself, it begins to turn from a deep vibrant red to a sickly pale. At one point, it almost died due to the separation it felt from her (as she was stuck in Diktown’s hell bubble for eons), and would’ve taken her entire crew with it (as they were on board at the time).

Not much is known about what would happen should Aauya die, however I have a sinking suspicion it would be a symbolic death for the complete loss of Ladyette’s Self, which would have dire consequences on The Game and her status as a Player-to-be should it ever happen. Her Self requires a certain amount of Humanity to function fully, and thus, should she lose that Humanity or just her Self in general, she would become no better than Abrayarmaa. To lose one’s Self is to gain the ability to be cruel and wicked, to destroy life without thinking of it as life. To lose one’s Self is to become the antithesis of one’s Self, to lose one’s humanity, empathy, morality - all sorts of things in one go.

At least, that’s what it would mean for Lady. The loss of Self is very personal and individual, although for Players does tend to lend to their outlook on the Game. For a Player or Apprentice to lose one’s Self means they see others as just Pieces in a Game meant to be played and toyed with, and that is the last thing Ladyette wants to do.

Keeping Aauya alive and safe, therefore, is one of Lady’s top priorities. The only blessing is that most people don’t know her ship is her heart, and therefore don’t go after the ship or any of the mysterious little dragons she carries on her person. A treasure that slips right under the noses of just about everyone around her.

--- Random Aauya/Ladyette Facts ---

Aauya only truly responds in kind to Ladyette. She has her own mind and her own desires, but they all align with Ladyette’s. Her pulse runs as one with Ladyette’s magic and the two are always in sync, both movement and motivation wise. Aauya will follow The Fearmonger, Dumpling, and Names into battle, as well as find them first if she cannot find Ladyette, but she will not always obey them and can often behave as if an impudent or spoiled child, if not a feral beast.

The crew Aauya harbors are numerous (she is larger than a merchant frigate) and has been gathered over endless amounts of time from all sorts of walks of life and universes. Many are outcasts of their society, Rohians who need Purpose, rebels and rapscallions, outcast gods and deities, or followers of My’rath who have been given orders to serve Ladyette as their life’s Purpose. They are loyal to the death and will defend Ladyette from everyone - even her own spouses if necessary - and are very protective over Aauya due to knowing the ship’s very important (though not truly why it is). Mutiny has only happened once among the ship, and it led to the culling of many Abrayarmaa and Linduru supporters and the eradication of a good chunk of the crew. Since then, mutiny has not happened due to Aauya being more careful about who she allows to board her. IF YOU ARE NOT GIVEN ENTRY BY THE SHIP, YOU ARE NOT FIT TO BE IN THE CREW. That’s that. The ultimate test one must pass, even if Ladyette likes you. Fail it, and you will be left behind without remorse.

There is a graveyard located within Aauya’s ribs where she carries the dead who have passed on in their service to Ladyette, as well as many members of Lady’s ever expanding friends and family. Whether they died in battle or of old age, it does not matter; they are given proper rest there and allowed a peaceful afterlife among the Chaos Realm that My’rath has crafted himself. Ladyette’s four children are buried there, all who have died of either old age or of job-related reasons. They are given their own section of the graveyard beneath a withered old tree that occasionally blossoms as an act of comfort from their deceased souls to the parents who have long since outlived them.

Several of Ladyette’s past spouses also lie within the graveyard within Aauya’s belly, however they reside within tombs that have long since been sealed and inaccessible in respect for both their deaths and their memories. Some were gods/deities, other Forces/Guardians, others mortal. All are paid respect and revered by some of the crew who seek their guidance in the afterlife My’rath has set up for them. Some even gain godhood post-mortem due to the mythology and reverence the current living crew carries for them. It’s a fascinating phenomena, in any case.

The Hora Clepta crew (Lady’s crew) is one of the smaller of the four crews in the Pyramid, with Dumpling’s massive fleet that spans universes being the largest and Names’ single frigate’s worth of crew being the smallest. Her crew is moderate in size and large enough to man Aauya, but is not all-expansive like the Fearmonger’s or Dumpling’s. She has only a couple other ships that are a part of her “fleet,” with a couple of them having been lost to time itself due to the terrible wars the universe has waged on the Pyramid for their crimes against it. The only survivors remain on the Aauya to this day, although rumor has it there may be a couple of replicas of her original fleet out and about in the dead Boards of past Games, still manned by those who have not seen their Captain in eons but still believe in her and believe she’ll save them all one day.

Ladyette is known as Captain Rungaroven across all Boards of the Game and is almost celebrity status with her infamy. She’s often feared as the BEAST WITH A GHOST FLEET, or as the MONSTER WITHOUT A HEART. Despite these titles, most of her piracy revolves around destroying corrupt government entities and causing wars within systems that no longer work in hopes of bringing forth revolutionaries to fix their worlds. The Universe has assigned her the job of WAR MONGREL like her spouses for this reason, and she acts as the Voice of Reason among the Fearmonger’s Voice of Violence, Names’ Voice of Hope, and Dumplings Voice of Discord. Aauya assists Ladyette as being the Voice of Reason, however she’s not always very good at it since she is full of Ladyette’s impulsive nature.

Aauya can always travel with Ladyette due to the fact she can shrink down and turn into a “real” dragon, however she rarely does so by order of Ladyette, as doing so affect also affects her crew (by turning them into the “real” dragon’s organs) and Lady does not want her crew to suffer through that. Instead, Aauya has learned how to sever her scales and turn them into dragons/a large dragon instead and sends that with Ladyette instead. Her scales are worth fortunes a piece and have been occasionally sought after by poachers, pillagers, and demon hunters, however each scale also curses those who steal them. Those who do often go mad due to something threatening following them for the rest of their lives - at least until they return the scale directly who Lady, who often then severs their head as recompense.