"Purple"

If there are certain subjects you'd like to avoid from Purple's list of warnings or otherwise, or you don't want tags from them at all, this is the place to let me know!

Lethal Company takes place in the Thistle Nebula, part of the Fading Nebulae, which has been populated by spacefaring humans from 'the Boat' for a minimum of several hundred years. Likely more. Either it incorporates alternate-history elements, or they reset the calendar year a long time ago, because it uses the same month and weekday names as the Gregorian calendar but had routine space travel and asteroid mining in 1951. The game is set in at least the late 2380s... by its own numbering. (And probably at least a decade later than that, but the most recent event given a date took place in 2387.) It seems to have changed less culturally or technologically in four hundred years than some places do in fifty, although there have been interplanetary wars in that time, most notably one in the 2100s that left a lot of giant robots lying around.

There's a thriving civilization spread across many habitable planets and moons, none of which the player gets to see in-game because your job is to salvage whatever valuable items are small enough to carry from industrial installations or derelict mansions on abandoned habitable to semi-habitable moons, such as those orbiting the gas giants No Service and Big Grin. Judging by how similar the biospheres of the moons you do visit are (i.e. you find the same types of monsters everywhere), they got that way by terraforming rather than evolving naturally. Most of the creatures you find on these moons are distant relatives of Earth animals that mutated at an extreme rate during the terraforming process, like the giant spiders or the four-winged corvids; some are probably of alien origin and clumsily shoehorned into Earth taxonomy; some could be a fusion of the two; some aren't biological at all, being paranormal or robotic in nature.

The supernatural has a middling amount of presence in this canon. Some of the monsters don't really make sense as living creatures nor robots unless they were deliberately designed by engineers with bizarre and impractical tastes, and one is obviously a homicidal human ghost. The Company is strongly implied to be keeping an eldritch horror in its main building, with one long-gone employee having complained in his personal logs of hearing voices from inside the building wall and being unable to remember anything between interviewing for the job and signing a work contract on the shuttle over.

The setting is apparently dystopian enough that the Company can routinely get its seasonal contract workers killed – often on purpose – without recourse from any regulatory bodies, losing their supply of new hires, or much of anything past a reputation for being a dangerous job. It may not be this bleak everywhere in the Thistle Nebula, but there are enough places where signing on with these guys looks like the best option.

FTL travel is accomplished through slipping in and out of hyperspace, an extradimensional space with exotic properties. Inside hyperspace, moving between the points corresponding to anywhere in the Thistle Nebula takes nearly no time at all, but transitioning between normal space and hyperspace delicately enough not to harm the crew of a manned spacecraft takes hours. (It's several times faster for unmanned craft but still not fast enough to work well for evasive maneuvers.) The spaceships the Company scavengers ride around in are fully autopiloted and can only visit a difficult-to-alter programmed set of destinations. They're hardwired to return to the closest spaceport with or without the crew at midnight, or if all life signs from the crew are lost before then, but apart from that the crew can choose which places on the menu they want to go in what order; the ship is programmed to tell them to turn in their quota of scrap every fourth day but can't force them to show up, although it can automatically detect that they haven't done that within the time limit and space them for it afterwards. Artificial gravity is standard on spacecraft and extremely reliable even during the realspace/hyperspace transition, so crews tend to get complacent about leaving piles of junk on the floor.

How did an Among Us impostor end up here? They bought a long-distance transport ticket, that's how. I wasn't ultimately planning to dwell on it much; Purple's far from home and most locals have never heard of their species, but they're not stranded. Being a shapeshifter, they can just as easily fit in with humanoids as with the Among-Us-canon silly little bean people. I do default to writing their Among Us experiences as having taken place among humans, especially for the crossover continuity, but beans aren't out of the question.

CHARACTER NAME: Just call them Purple. Everyone else does.
CHARACTER SERIES: Among Us with a side of Lethal Company
CHARACTER PRONOUNS: They/them (specifically plural they, not singular they) (don't worry about it)

[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired.

Backtagging: Yeah go for it.
Threadhopping: As long as it's okay with the community it's okay with me.
Fourthwalling: I like an allusion to the world beyond the fourth wall as much as anyone but if we're in a community that has a fourth wall I'd appreciate if you didn't break it, unless you're playing someone like Deadpool who always does that kind of thing. (That said, they're not going to have an existential crisis just from watching a game of Among Us, and their canon is so plotless that it's impossible to spoiler. I think they just flat-out wouldn't believe you if you told them they were invented by Innersloth for a video game and would assume the game was a dramatization of real events from their world. Likewise Lethal Company but they'd be more confused about why a game like that exists.)
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Don't be a dick about nonbinary genders? I feel like this is covered under common courtesy but I want to reiterate it just to be clear.

[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired. With IC permissions, it's a good idea to elaborate on what other players can expect from your character if they choose to do any of the following:

Hugging this character: They're not very touchy-feely with people they don't know well, but they'll accept hugs from their friends and might offer them to someone in distress.
Kissing this character: You would have to be very persuasive to get them to take their helmet off just for you. A friendly kiss on the helmet as one might kiss a friend on the cheek or forehead would be okay from someone they knew though.
Flirting with this character: I'm not really sure what would happen if you made a sustained effort to romance or seduce them but they'll probably brush casual flirting off as banter and turn down direct propositions from people they aren't close to.
Fighting with this character: They can handle this! They're usually armed with a pistol (which looks like a late 20th or early 21st century design on the outside, but the internal mechanics may differ) and a combat knife, they have mildly-superhuman strength, and they can shapeshift. While they're a competent fighter, they generally rely on being stronger and better armed than their targets and catching them by surprise; they don't have elite combat training but wouldn't usually need it at work.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Sure, if that's the direction things are going. They can shapeshift wounds closed, so ordinary cuts and punctures don't bother them very much, and they're somewhat tougher than a human versus blunt force but not completely immune to it. They don't need much air, so strangling, drowning, or suffocating them probably won't work. Cutting or burning off big chunks of their body mass will hurt them, although maybe not as much as it does for a human being with organs and bones and a circulatory system that they can't rearrange on the fly. There may be unintended consequences for you down the line if you cut a large piece off and don't thoroughly dispose of it.
Killing this character: Throwing them from an extreme height, dropping them into molten rock or metal, or ejecting them into space will, canonically, do the trick. They do have an inconvenient habit of coming back as a ghost, in which form they have a limited ability to interact with the physical world - enough to interfere with the electronics of the ships and outposts they infiltrate, allowing them to sabotage them in the same ways as they did while alive, such as remotely locking doors, knocking out the wifi or lights, or more dangerous traps such as shutting off the oxygen recyclers or the reactor safeguards - but can't exert enough direct physical force to pick up a pen, let alone grab a weapon and kill a living person with it.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: I mean, depending on where your character's powers come from and how they function, it might not work very well on an amorphous alien shapeshifter whose biology more closely resembles a fungal colony than any Earth creature in the animal kingdom. But if the logistics of that aren't a problem, go for it.

Warnings: The Among Us side of their canon offers general violence, murder in specific, their transformations get into body horror territory pretty fast, and eating people (technically not cannibalism since they've never eaten a member of the same species, but you get the point). Eating people isn't an essential or preferred part of their diet; it's either a way of disposing of the body of somebody they killed for another reason, or a last resort when there's no other meat they can get at. I'm not the kind of writer to describe it in excruciating detail but they canonically kill people by shooting them, stabbing them, breaking their necks with their bare hands, and impaling them on a long needle-sharp tongue.
Lethal Company-derived warnings: Nothing's fundamentally changed about interacting with Purple in a setting that isn't their canon, but now their canon experiences that might come up in conversation/flashbacks/etc include encounters with giant insects and spiders, regular-sized parasitic or just very aggressive insects, giant bug larvae that act similarly to human babies, living mannequins, a couple different kinds of reanimated corpses, the ghosts of human children, humanoid monsters that throw up on you, monsters that eat you whole, landmines and automated gun turrets and other deadly traps, hunting the wildlife for food, and the horror of being an expendable cog in a vast corporate machine.

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