Im in an exaltedy mood bc I both saw and posted secret santa stuff and I've been meaning to ask but pls pls tell me about Bites
Ok OK i’ve been waiting to answer this ask for ages: I Bite The Feet of Kings is the Full-Moon Caste Lunar I’m currently playing. Her iconic form is a leafcutter ant soldier/major worker. Back in her mortal life, she used to be a potter in the city of Lathe, (the one in the far Southwest that’s carved out of a petrified primordial), but then she fell ill and was ostracized from her community. She was eventually taken in as a soldier by the Vermillion Legion for several years but was eventually left to fend for herself when she couldn’t keep up; Luna visited her at the peak of her desperation, as Luna is wont to do, and granted her exaltation, granting her the form of an ant and guiding a nearby leafcutter colony to take her in as one of their own (and she like lived as an ant with them for several years before she even realized she could turn back into a person, lmao). As of game start, she’d become the vigilante guardian of an independent fortress-town of outcasts and ex-slaves, and was content to live on the outskirts as their mysterious guardian for the foreseeable future…and then the rest of the party led a demon pirate ship to her home and then unintenionally kidnapped her, so things have gotten more complicated. She’s extremely aloof to other people and goes out of her way to be as grating and rude as possible in social situations; she’s decided she’s kind of done with human beings as a whole and instead prefers to spend her time with other social animals. All the forms in her library are taken from creatures that live in packs, hives, herds, or other tight-knit groups. She considers these animals all the support she needs, and the fact that she’s been dragged kicking and screaming into working with other people again is something she never shuts up about. She is basically the living embodiment of “i’m going to make it everyone else’s problem”.Also she carries a size five battlegroup of ants around in a huge gaara-style gourd and fights by whacking people with a big (extremely magical) stick she stole off a dead body that was probably hers from the past
