I'm making a young woman, that much is for sure. Acid burns on her arm, scales on the other, and partnered with a giant komodo dragon-like monster, maybe.
hm. do we want to have a name for people who go out seeking that history that the preservationists are preserving? like archeologists, kinda, going out into the ruins of old cities to recover artifacts of the old civilization
being fireproof with the ability to make lava-armor for so long has made her pretty reckless as a fighter. she's too used to being mostly impervious to industrialist weapons
They're probably really fascinated by whatever plants have adapted to the harsher conditions, though I feel they don't have much natural pollution/radiation resistance, so they can't go investigate themselves as often
I'm imagining he keeps his gun when he defects and then way later when everyone finally trusts him, jun melts the gun down and reforges it into a very nice sword
Because I'm imagining the pirate queen bonded to the kraken as like... she actually was from the old days, when the monsters first started attacking, but she looks like she's in her forties even though it's been a little over a century.
I like the mental image of her being like "Yes... I too once labored under their control, at their command, in times long gone." "What was the name of this terrible bondage?" "We called it the 7-11. And they always made me work clopens! Assholes."
She was just a normal retail worker, living paycheck to paycheck, no insurance. And then a monster attack seriously injured her as passing collateral damage, probably damaging an eye to give her the classic piratical eyepatch... and her work said they wouldn't give her any financial accommodation for losing a fucking eye.
Unless there was evidence she'd tried to pursue some kind of legal action against the person responsible. It was a form letter that really didn't take the actual circumstances into account, or whether it made any sense to tell her that at all.
But at this point she'd well and truly hit the end of her rope, so she was like "fuck it", grabbed some paperwork, and went down to the coast to dive into the ocean and try to sue a squid.
Somehow they both got caught up in an attempted attack on the kraken itself and she helped it out of habit. Their bonding was basically a slow burn enemies-to-friends-and-partners-in-the-fight-against-capitalism kind of deal.
I think she's trans, so it's possible that she could have had an relationship prior to her whole squid-related self-actualization that resulted in a kid she never found out about.
She's just like "okay, in my defense, no one actually told me about this possibility... but fuck it, gonna do this shit right. Time to be the best damn grandma."
"Yes... I too once labored under their control, at their command, in times long gone."
"What was the name of this terrible bondage?"
"We called it the 7-11. And they always made me work clopens! Assholes."
"Math!"
this is my grandma, a pirate queen. and this is my dad, a magic dinosaur.