Katrika
Naga
Size: 60” from head to ground
brown hair
hazel eyes
Tail of a soft ash grey with a blue/black zigzag running down the spine like an Adder.
white underbelly scales
Katrika is a cute, young Londorean naga, who arrived to Felarya not long ago. She is reasonably attractive, her human body appears to be in its late teens ( she would be 18 by humans standards ). She used to wear a shirt in her former world but not any more, now that most of her friends go naked.
Katrika is pretty inexperienced and prone to bouts of juvenile behaviour from time to time. She is also pretty naive and trusting. Recent advents however, have taught her to be more careful judging people. She quickly developped a crush on the naga Anna. This is plainly obvious to everyone who sees them together. Katrika however still thinks this is her “little secret”. She has the particularity to write in a diary, which is rather unusual for a naga.
Katrika has also a terrible fear of great birds because of some events that happened in her childhood and is scared of Harpies at a point that sometimes puzzle her friends.
Reshaping ability
Just a few months ago Katrika was the size of a human, but due to one of her remarkable ability, she grew and is now 60 feet tall. Indeed, Katrika belongs to a rare naga species who possess the ability to “leach” magic from their environment and objects and use the energy to mutate their cells to increase their chances of survival. On her home world of Londore, her family used this ability to survive in a climate too cold for other naga species.
In practice, this ability means Katrika can re-shape her body. For example, she could flatten her tail and increase the size of her lungs and become a Sea-naga. Or she could grow a razor-sharp blade from the end of her tail as a weapon. Thus, Katrika developed venomous fangs and the ability to spray her venom like some varieties of cobras. Just for the record, she has modelled her venom after that of her good friend Nix the chilotaur and it's quite nasty.
This ability is not instant though. It takes time for Katrika to remodel her body if the changes are important, but because Felarya is saturated with magic, the process is a lot faster than in her home world. She is not quite used to all these change yet, especially having increased in size so quickly,she moves a little clumsily compared to other Nagas and often misjudges distances and bumps her head too.
Hunting habits
With these change in her size, Katrika also modified her diet. Like most Felaryan nagas she now hunts humans and nekos. Of the two she greatly prefers humans as she hold a grudge agaisnt them from her childhood. She don't tease much her preys like Crisis or Anko does, and will also release very young children and nursing mothers which puzzles some people but has lead others to accord her some measure of respect.
Once she has you in her mouth though, is a different story! She likes to hold her prey during a while and feel their desperate struggles to escape as they kick and punch against her tongue and gums. She also used her adaptive ability to hold back her stomach acids in order to delay digestion and feel the struggles of her prey trapped in her stomach for a longer period of time.
Katrika likes to hunt along the very edge of the Miragia forest which is very unstable dimensionally and often provides her with meals of lost and confused humans and animals. She can sense the disturbance caused by Felarya connecting to another world and tries to arrange to “greet” any new arrivals!
- Credits goes to Zoekin for the design and idea
