Su
Dr. Su Kaolla Rose Gray, MD. PhD (a.k.a. The God Eater)
There Is ALWAYS A First!
First Civilization
First Meal Of the Day
First Prime Of The ShiftVerse While Su is not the first Prime, nor the First Ward of The Shift... She IS The First Ward to be made into a Prime! She is the first person ever to be snatched up by a Prime, given a modern education and thereafter brought to her own world via The Shift to see what she'd learned. Adopted by the Prime who claims to have MADE The Shift itself, Su was "Saved" from a life of miserable human nomadism and initiated into a FAR greater destiny.
Of All Wards in the first generation of The Shift it was she who learned the most about the how the pandimensional authorities worked; so much so that she swore to become THEIR Master rather than the other way around! Now, because of that oath, she cannot be stopped.
More a force of nature than a person, yet wildly individualistic and free spirited all the same, Su is truly one of the most powerful entities on the face of Ta Mando!
.... Even as she doesn't even stand four and a half feet tall.
First Civilization
First Meal Of the Day
First Prime Of The ShiftVerse While Su is not the first Prime, nor the First Ward of The Shift... She IS The First Ward to be made into a Prime! She is the first person ever to be snatched up by a Prime, given a modern education and thereafter brought to her own world via The Shift to see what she'd learned. Adopted by the Prime who claims to have MADE The Shift itself, Su was "Saved" from a life of miserable human nomadism and initiated into a FAR greater destiny.
Of All Wards in the first generation of The Shift it was she who learned the most about the how the pandimensional authorities worked; so much so that she swore to become THEIR Master rather than the other way around! Now, because of that oath, she cannot be stopped.
More a force of nature than a person, yet wildly individualistic and free spirited all the same, Su is truly one of the most powerful entities on the face of Ta Mando!
.... Even as she doesn't even stand four and a half feet tall.
Tenets of Faith
Those who worship Su do so privately, as she has made it abundantly clear that she will not be tolerating anyone regarding her as the sort of thing she ultimately categorizes as FOOD!
However, if Su's isolated little religious movement were to have any sort of commandments they would mostly involve self determination and improvement... the breaking of conceptual rules to reach a higher level of skill, ability, potential, etc; whether alone or alongside others. Su does not care if those who believe in her get down on their knees and praise her might or not.
All she cares about is living her life to the fullest and anyone who seeks to reproduce her way of things would best follow her example.
However, if Su's isolated little religious movement were to have any sort of commandments they would mostly involve self determination and improvement... the breaking of conceptual rules to reach a higher level of skill, ability, potential, etc; whether alone or alongside others. Su does not care if those who believe in her get down on their knees and praise her might or not.
All she cares about is living her life to the fullest and anyone who seeks to reproduce her way of things would best follow her example.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
The definition of a pint-sized powerhouse, Su is a curvy, broad bodied shortstack of a woman; not even four and a half feet tall with flawless copper skin and a deceptively squishy looking body that does not give when struck.
With near floor length hair usually woven into a long braid ending with a blade of some sort, Su is an extremely flexible, agile and fast moving individual endowed with the LITERAL Eye Of The Tiger who consistently moves with a seductive, catlike grace!
While small and pitiable from a distance, closer examination shows Su to be a mature woman positively exploding with confidence and skill; an intimidating monster despite her diminutive appearance and seeming helplessness.
Identifying Characteristics
The most easily identifiable feature of The Master Of Death is her height... or lack thereof.
Like some sort of typical anime shortstack, Su is an incredibly short, curvy woman who is lost in a constant struggle to keep her assets in line.
From a distance one might be forgiven (But not by her!) for mistaking her for a particularly wide bodied child or perhaps a young, overweight Kandia teen, MAYBE even a particularly tall and well endowed Puna Tonalus.
However, once one gets closer her obviously well developed adult body becomes all too obvious; with heaving breasts that struggle against their wrappings, wide birthing hips and mature body proportions!
She's Just Short! If one gets close enough to actually meet Su face to face they'd notice that her eyes are entirely foreign; more resembling those of a big cat than a human being.
Her mouth holds perfectly white feline canines that almost seem to grow as she opens her maw wider.
With thicker, harder, pointier nails that grow at nearly ten times normal speed acting as claws, even Su's hands and feet are clearly something... beyond human; unable to wear conventional shoes without tearing through them after even light use. Even from a distance Su can always be pointed out in a crowd by her floor length black hair; most often in a braid that's been tipped with some sort of blade woven into the braid with extremely durable silk cord.
Like some sort of typical anime shortstack, Su is an incredibly short, curvy woman who is lost in a constant struggle to keep her assets in line.
From a distance one might be forgiven (But not by her!) for mistaking her for a particularly wide bodied child or perhaps a young, overweight Kandia teen, MAYBE even a particularly tall and well endowed Puna Tonalus.
However, once one gets closer her obviously well developed adult body becomes all too obvious; with heaving breasts that struggle against their wrappings, wide birthing hips and mature body proportions!
She's Just Short! If one gets close enough to actually meet Su face to face they'd notice that her eyes are entirely foreign; more resembling those of a big cat than a human being.
Her mouth holds perfectly white feline canines that almost seem to grow as she opens her maw wider.
With thicker, harder, pointier nails that grow at nearly ten times normal speed acting as claws, even Su's hands and feet are clearly something... beyond human; unable to wear conventional shoes without tearing through them after even light use. Even from a distance Su can always be pointed out in a crowd by her floor length black hair; most often in a braid that's been tipped with some sort of blade woven into the braid with extremely durable silk cord.
Special abilities
One would be forgiven in assuming that Su is indestructible, as some parts of her absolutely are! (Most specifically her skeletal structure)
However, at over five times the standard accepted mass for her size, even punching Su in her squishy looking chest is like striking a lead brick.
Her muscles, while only as physically bulky as human musculature, are several times more dense and far more efficient, weight for weight, than their mundane counterparts.
Not only does this allow her impressive raw strength but gives her the capacity to move at great speeds over land or even water if she maintains her velocity.
This even applies when she is otherwise depowered of any supernatural or pandimensional effects. The Tiger Of Tibet's body possesses a Reflective Pandimensional "Sheen" that redirects a certain portion of any force she takes to offending assailant; hands break, spears snap against her face and bullets rebound to strike those that fired them.
As a standard point of fact, it's assumed that this reflective damage resistance is typically stronger than a human can punch or kick.
Beyond even that, her ability to soak up damage is truly prodigious; with her capacity to reflect attacks entirely dwarfed by her ability to simply take them.
Even sources of damage that can pierce her flesh will find the wounds they DO impart far less severe than expected, as her extremely dense anatomy is far better at dispersing injurious trauma than the standard human form. Having actively bolstered herself over the millennia with the flesh of GODS, Su is capable of superhuman feats generally deemed impossible outside of myths and comic books!
The idea of being faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and leaping tall buildings in a single bound is not an impressive concept to her.
Her fingernails and toenails are hard like claws and can pierce through metal armor while her teeth are even more enduring, able to bite through almost anything she can get her mouth on.
The Master Of Death's senses are better than the top animals in any given field; touch superior to a mole, eyes sharper than an eagle, nose more keen than an elephant; capable of tracking and even casually deflecting or dodging lasers if she must.
She even possesses a sort of automatic danger sense that tells her whenever trouble's about.
So long as she pays attention to it, she simply can't be ambushed or otherwise caught off guard. Even if she weren't divinely bolstered Su would still have all manner of training to fall back on, specifically The Martial Art of Dag Twa.
Having, at this point, trained under hundreds of masters over thousands of years, she has learned to multiply her already truly immense strength many times over.
Capable of performing terrifying Power Blows, she can and will regularly slap her foes out of existence, sometimes throwing enemies into walls and letting them splatter like water balloons.
Just as capable of even stronger Breaking Blows, The God Eater can backhand the tops off mountains with a single swing.
Her teeth, tempered against the flesh of gods, can bite divine weaponry in half and even catch futuristic monomolecular blades with a well placed snap of her jaws! This doesn't even begin to cover how she can use her own willpower to block strong attacks before they reach her, scream boulders into nonexistence with her Kiai and completely control the function of her body; down to her individual veins and muscle fibers.
If she wishes she may fall into a deathlike state that even magical diagnosis cannot determine the truth of, wherein she uses no oxygen or energy at all and appears completely deceased.
Alternatively she may focus on a wound and heal it consciously, enhancing her already impressive regeneration by a factor of sixty. While it pales in comparison to most of her other abilities, The Professor Of Peace can bend in almost any direction and squeeze through nearly any opening big enough to fit her head.
She possesses perfect balance and can capably walk on any surface that isn't perfectly vertical.
Able to swim underwater as easily as she can move on land, she capable of holding her breath for hours even during moderate to intense activity. Perhaps most potent in her arsenal of special powers is The Mighty Roar Kiai.
Focusing her will into a single shout made solid, Su can yell with the force of an atom bomb; not merely a deafening cry but a scoff that can cascually scream boulders to dust at a moment's notice.
If given a moment to plant her feet and take a proper breath, The Master Of Death can literally shout down mountains and part seas with a scream sometimes up to thirty seconds long, pumping out the force of several hiroshima bombs with every tick of the clock.
Even then, this is largely considered a pull of the punch!
Somewhat recently she was briefly transported to a new planet, which she entirely destroyed with the force of a single Mighty Roar, creating vibrations so intense that they purturbed the star system the world had been in and forced the portal to said planet to be indefinitely closed. Finally, She's Fast...
Not Just "Pretty Fast" But A Full Blown Speedster!
At her laziest and on her worst days, Su is capable of moving faster than the human eye can track; being thrown into mountains only to tackle the offender from the opposite direction.
When she hits an enemy at full speed she can literally pass through them without getting wet, leaving a splattered mess behind her where her opponent once was.
Effortlessly, The Guardian Of The Eastern Shores can pinball her way through cramped hallways, bouncing off walls and ceilings with pinpoint precision fast enough to avoid tracking even by powerful slow motion cameras. Altogether her immense strength, speed, durability and superhuman senses allow her to do things like catch lasers, contain explosions in the palms of her hand, turn metal bricks into spheres with raw muscle power and run across huge sections of a planet in terribly short periods of time. While the real limit to her abilities is unknown, just as with all of The Guardians Of Peace, Su is considered one of the more "Reserved" of the guardians and it is assumed that she possesses far more secrets than she lets on.
For all anyone knows, she might have picked up telekinesis or self duplication in her many conquests...!
The Master Insists That She Has Never Truly Applied Herself...
However, at over five times the standard accepted mass for her size, even punching Su in her squishy looking chest is like striking a lead brick.
Her muscles, while only as physically bulky as human musculature, are several times more dense and far more efficient, weight for weight, than their mundane counterparts.
Not only does this allow her impressive raw strength but gives her the capacity to move at great speeds over land or even water if she maintains her velocity.
This even applies when she is otherwise depowered of any supernatural or pandimensional effects. The Tiger Of Tibet's body possesses a Reflective Pandimensional "Sheen" that redirects a certain portion of any force she takes to offending assailant; hands break, spears snap against her face and bullets rebound to strike those that fired them.
As a standard point of fact, it's assumed that this reflective damage resistance is typically stronger than a human can punch or kick.
Beyond even that, her ability to soak up damage is truly prodigious; with her capacity to reflect attacks entirely dwarfed by her ability to simply take them.
Even sources of damage that can pierce her flesh will find the wounds they DO impart far less severe than expected, as her extremely dense anatomy is far better at dispersing injurious trauma than the standard human form. Having actively bolstered herself over the millennia with the flesh of GODS, Su is capable of superhuman feats generally deemed impossible outside of myths and comic books!
The idea of being faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and leaping tall buildings in a single bound is not an impressive concept to her.
Her fingernails and toenails are hard like claws and can pierce through metal armor while her teeth are even more enduring, able to bite through almost anything she can get her mouth on.
The Master Of Death's senses are better than the top animals in any given field; touch superior to a mole, eyes sharper than an eagle, nose more keen than an elephant; capable of tracking and even casually deflecting or dodging lasers if she must.
She even possesses a sort of automatic danger sense that tells her whenever trouble's about.
So long as she pays attention to it, she simply can't be ambushed or otherwise caught off guard. Even if she weren't divinely bolstered Su would still have all manner of training to fall back on, specifically The Martial Art of Dag Twa.
Having, at this point, trained under hundreds of masters over thousands of years, she has learned to multiply her already truly immense strength many times over.
Capable of performing terrifying Power Blows, she can and will regularly slap her foes out of existence, sometimes throwing enemies into walls and letting them splatter like water balloons.
Just as capable of even stronger Breaking Blows, The God Eater can backhand the tops off mountains with a single swing.
Her teeth, tempered against the flesh of gods, can bite divine weaponry in half and even catch futuristic monomolecular blades with a well placed snap of her jaws! This doesn't even begin to cover how she can use her own willpower to block strong attacks before they reach her, scream boulders into nonexistence with her Kiai and completely control the function of her body; down to her individual veins and muscle fibers.
If she wishes she may fall into a deathlike state that even magical diagnosis cannot determine the truth of, wherein she uses no oxygen or energy at all and appears completely deceased.
Alternatively she may focus on a wound and heal it consciously, enhancing her already impressive regeneration by a factor of sixty. While it pales in comparison to most of her other abilities, The Professor Of Peace can bend in almost any direction and squeeze through nearly any opening big enough to fit her head.
She possesses perfect balance and can capably walk on any surface that isn't perfectly vertical.
Able to swim underwater as easily as she can move on land, she capable of holding her breath for hours even during moderate to intense activity. Perhaps most potent in her arsenal of special powers is The Mighty Roar Kiai.
Focusing her will into a single shout made solid, Su can yell with the force of an atom bomb; not merely a deafening cry but a scoff that can cascually scream boulders to dust at a moment's notice.
If given a moment to plant her feet and take a proper breath, The Master Of Death can literally shout down mountains and part seas with a scream sometimes up to thirty seconds long, pumping out the force of several hiroshima bombs with every tick of the clock.
Even then, this is largely considered a pull of the punch!
Somewhat recently she was briefly transported to a new planet, which she entirely destroyed with the force of a single Mighty Roar, creating vibrations so intense that they purturbed the star system the world had been in and forced the portal to said planet to be indefinitely closed. Finally, She's Fast...
Not Just "Pretty Fast" But A Full Blown Speedster!
At her laziest and on her worst days, Su is capable of moving faster than the human eye can track; being thrown into mountains only to tackle the offender from the opposite direction.
When she hits an enemy at full speed she can literally pass through them without getting wet, leaving a splattered mess behind her where her opponent once was.
Effortlessly, The Guardian Of The Eastern Shores can pinball her way through cramped hallways, bouncing off walls and ceilings with pinpoint precision fast enough to avoid tracking even by powerful slow motion cameras. Altogether her immense strength, speed, durability and superhuman senses allow her to do things like catch lasers, contain explosions in the palms of her hand, turn metal bricks into spheres with raw muscle power and run across huge sections of a planet in terribly short periods of time. While the real limit to her abilities is unknown, just as with all of The Guardians Of Peace, Su is considered one of the more "Reserved" of the guardians and it is assumed that she possesses far more secrets than she lets on.
For all anyone knows, she might have picked up telekinesis or self duplication in her many conquests...!
The Master Insists That She Has Never Truly Applied Herself...
Apparel & Accessories
When Su is feeling particularly normal and decides to wear anything at all her wardrobe is primarily based in comfort and practicality.
Sports bras and loose shirts with pajama pants or shorts tend to be her standard when being MADE to get dressed.
Whatever she wears, it needs to keep her tits out of the way and give her ample opportunity to twist, bend, stretch and flex properly. However, when training Su doesn't mind throwing on classical gi or workout gear to get down and dirty; though seldom do these articles last through her rigorous workouts. When Su needs high performance appropriate clothing The Monastery Of Eternity has a special machine that literally sprays a skintight body glove over her; a nanotechnology suit that can turn fists, blades and even bullets!
More like a second skin, the body glove changes color as necessary to fit Su's surroundings and preserves a sense of stealth while also granting her an outfit that gives full support while providing zero restriction. Regardless of what she ends up wearing, Su almost always keeps her hair in a knee length, central braid that hangs freely with some sort of blade woven into the end.
While she does not necessarily have conscious control of her hair like her Master she is able to whip her braid around at breakneck speed; slicing and lashing out with surprising precision and strength.
Though this doesn't so much act as a third limb, it certainly acts as a proficient striking weapon in a standoff with equal foes.
Sports bras and loose shirts with pajama pants or shorts tend to be her standard when being MADE to get dressed.
Whatever she wears, it needs to keep her tits out of the way and give her ample opportunity to twist, bend, stretch and flex properly. However, when training Su doesn't mind throwing on classical gi or workout gear to get down and dirty; though seldom do these articles last through her rigorous workouts. When Su needs high performance appropriate clothing The Monastery Of Eternity has a special machine that literally sprays a skintight body glove over her; a nanotechnology suit that can turn fists, blades and even bullets!
More like a second skin, the body glove changes color as necessary to fit Su's surroundings and preserves a sense of stealth while also granting her an outfit that gives full support while providing zero restriction. Regardless of what she ends up wearing, Su almost always keeps her hair in a knee length, central braid that hangs freely with some sort of blade woven into the end.
While she does not necessarily have conscious control of her hair like her Master she is able to whip her braid around at breakneck speed; slicing and lashing out with surprising precision and strength.
Though this doesn't so much act as a third limb, it certainly acts as a proficient striking weapon in a standoff with equal foes.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Su's history is long and complicated, involving many other Primes.
Born to a loose band of wandering nomads in The Himalayas around 10,000 BCE, she had what could be called a "Normal," if primitive life until she was about eight years old.
Times were tough but she didn't desire anything more than what she had, as she had no idea there was anything more to desire than scarce plateau living and constant migration. Just after her eighth Birthday, though Su had no concept of a calendar or birthday at the time, a towering man appeared on the horizon while her band was wandering through the plateau to find a new place to set up camp.
He told them to follow him and, if they did, they would know stillness and peace.
They would forget hunger and become stable and productive!
And he took her hand and told her,
"Your Name Is Now Su.
We don't have time to remember new names so that must be your name now.
You shall call us Master." Taking her from her parents for half of every day, the stranger taught her Modern English, The Scientific Method, Cooking, Computers and... Martial Arts!
Days later the Mountain Guide brought another band to teach them of modern ways.
Mere days later her own parents attacked the stranger for his differences... and the stranger humiliated them!
He Humbled Them... without hurting them.
Su realized, in that moment, that she was not meant to remain human...
She was destined to be so much more. Soon thereafter The Stranger killed a local Tiger Goddess... for in her world, is such a distant past, lesser deities and their inspirations still wandered. And thereafter they preserved her long enough that they could consume her flesh and take her power.
Eventually, unaccustomed to the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau, her Master would fall ill and sink into a coma; bleeding from the eyes and coughing up blood, vomiting and having trouble breathing.
For just under two weeks she struggled to maintain control of the little community that surrounded the monastery... to come up with fanciful stories of her Master's meditations and hunting missions as excuses why they weren't there.
Eventually it was too much for an eight year old girl from pre-society...
She needed help.
She needed a stronger mind than her own! Her Master had told her at one point that the BRAIN did all the thinking... that it was the seat of all knowledge.
The Tiger Goddess' Brain still sat in the fridge... clumsily but functionally preserved.
And so, only a child, Su consumed the brain of a deity... and was cursed to forever fight "The Cat Mind..." the last remaining vestige of the Tiger Goddess' mental presence in her world. When her master awoke thirteen days after falling ill Su had spiraled into a neurotic mess.
There was nothing her Master could do other than try to continue on... and raise her as their own.
It was, for many years, a struggle to even get her to fight The Cat Mind... to accept the value of humanity.
She always had another voice in her ear, telling her how weak and useless humanity was...
... How pitiful and counterproductive empathy and cooperation was. Eventually her Master accepted that travel would be needed to open her mind to the beauty and importance of humanity and cooperation therein.
The girl needed to accept that the world was much bigger than she could have ever imagined.
She needed to learn that, if she wanted to be successful, cooperation was needed more than strength. So she was sent off to other Primes... to learn under them... to be humbled by them! By the time she was twenty years old she'd been all over the world; learned magic, combat, computer engineering and medical science.
While still always a bit gruff and self absorbed, Su had become a fine young woman; if admittedly an extremely short and quick to anger one... Life went by and Su grew older, more mature... dominating the primitives of her timeline as she did so.
She worked with other Primes and their students to try understanding The Shift, to involve herself more with anyone who happened to experience it.
... Until she DID experience it!
Until she became the FIRST "ShiftVerse Native" to experience the Shift itself! ... As A Fiat...
As a simple servant who understood the process of The Shift well enough to help other Primes not die right off the bat in their own new worlds...
And through this process she spent centuries teaching new people how to master their own powers... to become primes that could function in this new, wild multiverse.
For hundreds of years she watched modern folks stumble around with their powers and refuse to listen to any of her advice, so drunk on power and authority would they always become, so fascinated and predictable they would act whenever The Shift switched things up yet again. Until her turn FINALLY came.
Until she found herself with her own compound... as a Prime herself!
And in that world she stayed four centuries, reconnecting with her Master and founding a nation that would survive the test of time!
... Until, once again... The Shift took her from all that...
Again, it pulled her away and took everything she'd ever worked on. And again.
... And Again...
And Again! Eventually popping in and out of so many worlds while retaining most or even all of her abilities from each passing incarnation drove her to believe that The Shift was any individual Prime's most necessary pleasure.
The point was, so she determined, to revel in the fact that the ONLY thing that stays the same from Shift To Shift are the Primes themselves.
Otherwise the entire world eventually falls away and is left behind. So... having tasted the flesh of the gods... several times, in fact...
Su decided that she would gain enough power to dominate any world upon which she set foot.
She would attain the power to DENY The Shift if she so desired... UNTIL She So Desired!
Why did she, an entity literally made to break the rules, need to follow The Pandimensional Dictates Of The ShiftVerse?
WHY SHOULD SHE? And so world after world fell to her self interest.
To her whims...
To Her Desires! She devoured deities (If only a few) and slew others for parts so as to fuel her meteoric rise to power.
She founded entire societies built upon the foundation of studying The Shift, The Divine, The Pandimensions and all of their collective rules...
To Overthrowing The Cosmic Authority Of Things.
And each time she was yanked away from her path she started again with more understanding of how to speed through the process. Eventually she was given a warning... a simple note...
'This Is Your Last Chance...' She knew that she needed to turn back... but The Cat Mind told her otherwise.
This, she heard in her hindbrain, was the prey trying to throw her off just as her jaws closed around its throat...
Just as she was about to cross the finish line! And so she took that final step over the edge...
And found herself in Ta Mando. Now, summoned by The Enlightened of The Place Of Peace as The Guardian Of The Eastern Shores, Su is held within the Basin Of Eternity by a contract that she had little choice but to accept.
For this cycle of The Guardians is Functionally Permanent...
"An Easy Billion Years" to serve penance for her crimes against The Pandimensional Order.
... For Her Crimes Against The ShiftVerse Stuck in The Place Of Peace and overseen by those who understand her goals and desires for the Pandimensions ALL too well, Su has become resigned to serve out her time maintaining more basic self interests while she helps build The Place Of Peace into a proper, modern society. However...
One man... Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health... has told her that he will not let this imprisonment stand.
He has sworn that each and every one of them WILL be freed... and he will free them! And so Su waits... continuing to intermittently train Jonathan's first wife and fellow Salusar Lerato while Jonathan Mondragon works to bring order to Soteri, occasionally visiting The Place Of Peace via an ancient teleportation device called The Circle Of The World. And even as she waits... dark powers stir on the horizon beyond the boundaries of even her supernatural perception...
Born to a loose band of wandering nomads in The Himalayas around 10,000 BCE, she had what could be called a "Normal," if primitive life until she was about eight years old.
Times were tough but she didn't desire anything more than what she had, as she had no idea there was anything more to desire than scarce plateau living and constant migration. Just after her eighth Birthday, though Su had no concept of a calendar or birthday at the time, a towering man appeared on the horizon while her band was wandering through the plateau to find a new place to set up camp.
He told them to follow him and, if they did, they would know stillness and peace.
They would forget hunger and become stable and productive!
And he took her hand and told her,
"Your Name Is Now Su.
We don't have time to remember new names so that must be your name now.
You shall call us Master." Taking her from her parents for half of every day, the stranger taught her Modern English, The Scientific Method, Cooking, Computers and... Martial Arts!
Days later the Mountain Guide brought another band to teach them of modern ways.
Mere days later her own parents attacked the stranger for his differences... and the stranger humiliated them!
He Humbled Them... without hurting them.
Su realized, in that moment, that she was not meant to remain human...
She was destined to be so much more. Soon thereafter The Stranger killed a local Tiger Goddess... for in her world, is such a distant past, lesser deities and their inspirations still wandered. And thereafter they preserved her long enough that they could consume her flesh and take her power.
Eventually, unaccustomed to the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau, her Master would fall ill and sink into a coma; bleeding from the eyes and coughing up blood, vomiting and having trouble breathing.
For just under two weeks she struggled to maintain control of the little community that surrounded the monastery... to come up with fanciful stories of her Master's meditations and hunting missions as excuses why they weren't there.
Eventually it was too much for an eight year old girl from pre-society...
She needed help.
She needed a stronger mind than her own! Her Master had told her at one point that the BRAIN did all the thinking... that it was the seat of all knowledge.
The Tiger Goddess' Brain still sat in the fridge... clumsily but functionally preserved.
And so, only a child, Su consumed the brain of a deity... and was cursed to forever fight "The Cat Mind..." the last remaining vestige of the Tiger Goddess' mental presence in her world. When her master awoke thirteen days after falling ill Su had spiraled into a neurotic mess.
There was nothing her Master could do other than try to continue on... and raise her as their own.
It was, for many years, a struggle to even get her to fight The Cat Mind... to accept the value of humanity.
She always had another voice in her ear, telling her how weak and useless humanity was...
... How pitiful and counterproductive empathy and cooperation was. Eventually her Master accepted that travel would be needed to open her mind to the beauty and importance of humanity and cooperation therein.
The girl needed to accept that the world was much bigger than she could have ever imagined.
She needed to learn that, if she wanted to be successful, cooperation was needed more than strength. So she was sent off to other Primes... to learn under them... to be humbled by them! By the time she was twenty years old she'd been all over the world; learned magic, combat, computer engineering and medical science.
While still always a bit gruff and self absorbed, Su had become a fine young woman; if admittedly an extremely short and quick to anger one... Life went by and Su grew older, more mature... dominating the primitives of her timeline as she did so.
She worked with other Primes and their students to try understanding The Shift, to involve herself more with anyone who happened to experience it.
... Until she DID experience it!
Until she became the FIRST "ShiftVerse Native" to experience the Shift itself! ... As A Fiat...
As a simple servant who understood the process of The Shift well enough to help other Primes not die right off the bat in their own new worlds...
And through this process she spent centuries teaching new people how to master their own powers... to become primes that could function in this new, wild multiverse.
For hundreds of years she watched modern folks stumble around with their powers and refuse to listen to any of her advice, so drunk on power and authority would they always become, so fascinated and predictable they would act whenever The Shift switched things up yet again. Until her turn FINALLY came.
Until she found herself with her own compound... as a Prime herself!
And in that world she stayed four centuries, reconnecting with her Master and founding a nation that would survive the test of time!
... Until, once again... The Shift took her from all that...
Again, it pulled her away and took everything she'd ever worked on. And again.
... And Again...
And Again! Eventually popping in and out of so many worlds while retaining most or even all of her abilities from each passing incarnation drove her to believe that The Shift was any individual Prime's most necessary pleasure.
The point was, so she determined, to revel in the fact that the ONLY thing that stays the same from Shift To Shift are the Primes themselves.
Otherwise the entire world eventually falls away and is left behind. So... having tasted the flesh of the gods... several times, in fact...
Su decided that she would gain enough power to dominate any world upon which she set foot.
She would attain the power to DENY The Shift if she so desired... UNTIL She So Desired!
Why did she, an entity literally made to break the rules, need to follow The Pandimensional Dictates Of The ShiftVerse?
WHY SHOULD SHE? And so world after world fell to her self interest.
To her whims...
To Her Desires! She devoured deities (If only a few) and slew others for parts so as to fuel her meteoric rise to power.
She founded entire societies built upon the foundation of studying The Shift, The Divine, The Pandimensions and all of their collective rules...
To Overthrowing The Cosmic Authority Of Things.
And each time she was yanked away from her path she started again with more understanding of how to speed through the process. Eventually she was given a warning... a simple note...
'This Is Your Last Chance...' She knew that she needed to turn back... but The Cat Mind told her otherwise.
This, she heard in her hindbrain, was the prey trying to throw her off just as her jaws closed around its throat...
Just as she was about to cross the finish line! And so she took that final step over the edge...
And found herself in Ta Mando. Now, summoned by The Enlightened of The Place Of Peace as The Guardian Of The Eastern Shores, Su is held within the Basin Of Eternity by a contract that she had little choice but to accept.
For this cycle of The Guardians is Functionally Permanent...
"An Easy Billion Years" to serve penance for her crimes against The Pandimensional Order.
... For Her Crimes Against The ShiftVerse Stuck in The Place Of Peace and overseen by those who understand her goals and desires for the Pandimensions ALL too well, Su has become resigned to serve out her time maintaining more basic self interests while she helps build The Place Of Peace into a proper, modern society. However...
One man... Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health... has told her that he will not let this imprisonment stand.
He has sworn that each and every one of them WILL be freed... and he will free them! And so Su waits... continuing to intermittently train Jonathan's first wife and fellow Salusar Lerato while Jonathan Mondragon works to bring order to Soteri, occasionally visiting The Place Of Peace via an ancient teleportation device called The Circle Of The World. And even as she waits... dark powers stir on the horizon beyond the boundaries of even her supernatural perception...
Sexuality
Su Is Both Ruthlessly Sexual And Extremely Non-Discriminating!
A Resolutely Assertive Flirt, If Su Sees Something (Or Someone) She Likes, She's Shamelessly Perverse About Getting It.
Men, women and non-binary people alike all happen to fall into her sphere of interest and many believe that she doesn't even take someone's sex or gender into account when considering her options. Though she is not public about it in any way, The First Disciple Of Dag Twa is extremely interested in kink culture and exploring not only her own fetishes but the fetishes of others; delighting in bondage, suspension, role playing and some even more dubious forms of intimate relations that those in polite society might frown upon if shown.
Though all but predatory in her sexual ambitions, it is known by her many past partners that she likes to take a more submissive role behind closed doors, eager for a partner that is able to handle her as easily as she handles the rest of the world.
Though she is far from the role, Su has been known to indulge in playing the part of a Damsel In Distress just to see what sort of diamonds distinguish themselves from the rough.
A Resolutely Assertive Flirt, If Su Sees Something (Or Someone) She Likes, She's Shamelessly Perverse About Getting It.
Men, women and non-binary people alike all happen to fall into her sphere of interest and many believe that she doesn't even take someone's sex or gender into account when considering her options. Though she is not public about it in any way, The First Disciple Of Dag Twa is extremely interested in kink culture and exploring not only her own fetishes but the fetishes of others; delighting in bondage, suspension, role playing and some even more dubious forms of intimate relations that those in polite society might frown upon if shown.
Though all but predatory in her sexual ambitions, it is known by her many past partners that she likes to take a more submissive role behind closed doors, eager for a partner that is able to handle her as easily as she handles the rest of the world.
Though she is far from the role, Su has been known to indulge in playing the part of a Damsel In Distress just to see what sort of diamonds distinguish themselves from the rough.
Education
Dr. Su Kaolla Rose Gray may have some of the best legitimate credentials in Ta Mando in that her academic achievements from all previous shifts DID arrive with her upon her summoning to The Place Of Peace; an impressive list of framed documents spaced across the walls of her personal study.
Having received her PhD in Wilderness Medicine from Mile Tree University in The Collective Of Independent Species, her PhD in Astrophysics from The West Coast Empire's Imperial Academy Of Higher Studies and a third PhD in Psychedelic Studies from Z'Mungi Capital Academy, Su has more than earned the right to be called "Doctor" in any setting; medical or philosophical!
She also holds several honorary doctorates in other fields, including but not limited to; Agri-Sciences, Ecology and Civil Engineering, Emergency Medicine, "Rational Universal Law" and Linguistics.
Beyond even that, The Professor Of Peace has pioneered many surgical methods while training Under the Hegemony Of Indo-European Peoples as a musculo-skeletal surgeon and in the Enlightened South American Civil Theocracy (ESACT) as an OBGYN. And all of that was from only ONE Shift!
In actuality, Su has lived many lives and died many deaths on many worlds throughout many different universes.
She, more than most other primes, has seen the dawn of civilizations and stuck around long enough to witness their falls.
She has learned from cross-dimensional teachers who have mastered skills that humanity has not yet conceived of.
She has been trained by masters of magic, champions of martial might and divine beings whose very presence would physically blast out the eyes of those who looked upon them.
Proudly, at least to those who know what she's talking about, she will boast of having experienced over sixteen-hundred Shifts; altogether counting her no less than half a million standard years of life. Much of this information is sort of lost to the aether at this point, as Su has been through so many experiences that they've started to blur together and become difficult to individually recall.
The academic knowledge, however, remains.
Still steeped in a life of research and experimentation, Su never stops learning, never stops expecting more information, never tires of cycling through her next teachers! What's more, Su's life has been one of harsh physical training under countless coaches and mentors.
When she is not researching or scheming on her next divine meal she is assuredly training; often with instructors who, while they cannot match her raw abilities, CAN teach her maneuvers and techniques she might not know. When she was freshly adopted by her Master, Su learned that Knowledge Is Power...
So she sought ALL knowledge...
For ALL Power! And now, half a million years later, she has gained so much knowledge that her power, to many, seems absolute.
Having received her PhD in Wilderness Medicine from Mile Tree University in The Collective Of Independent Species, her PhD in Astrophysics from The West Coast Empire's Imperial Academy Of Higher Studies and a third PhD in Psychedelic Studies from Z'Mungi Capital Academy, Su has more than earned the right to be called "Doctor" in any setting; medical or philosophical!
She also holds several honorary doctorates in other fields, including but not limited to; Agri-Sciences, Ecology and Civil Engineering, Emergency Medicine, "Rational Universal Law" and Linguistics.
Beyond even that, The Professor Of Peace has pioneered many surgical methods while training Under the Hegemony Of Indo-European Peoples as a musculo-skeletal surgeon and in the Enlightened South American Civil Theocracy (ESACT) as an OBGYN. And all of that was from only ONE Shift!
In actuality, Su has lived many lives and died many deaths on many worlds throughout many different universes.
She, more than most other primes, has seen the dawn of civilizations and stuck around long enough to witness their falls.
She has learned from cross-dimensional teachers who have mastered skills that humanity has not yet conceived of.
She has been trained by masters of magic, champions of martial might and divine beings whose very presence would physically blast out the eyes of those who looked upon them.
Proudly, at least to those who know what she's talking about, she will boast of having experienced over sixteen-hundred Shifts; altogether counting her no less than half a million standard years of life. Much of this information is sort of lost to the aether at this point, as Su has been through so many experiences that they've started to blur together and become difficult to individually recall.
The academic knowledge, however, remains.
Still steeped in a life of research and experimentation, Su never stops learning, never stops expecting more information, never tires of cycling through her next teachers! What's more, Su's life has been one of harsh physical training under countless coaches and mentors.
When she is not researching or scheming on her next divine meal she is assuredly training; often with instructors who, while they cannot match her raw abilities, CAN teach her maneuvers and techniques she might not know. When she was freshly adopted by her Master, Su learned that Knowledge Is Power...
So she sought ALL knowledge...
For ALL Power! And now, half a million years later, she has gained so much knowledge that her power, to many, seems absolute.
Employment
While once a world known figure of academic prowess and martial might, The Master Of Death and Cosmic Knight Of Interstellar Neighborhood C193D17-Erba, Su has now been relegated to the role of simple teacher and martial arts instructor; maintaining the training and education of The Place Of Peace's Warrior Monks while The Master takes the most promising students from her class for personal conditioning.
The Job, simply put, pays her nothing but satisfaction and was her idea of passing the time for a short "One Billion Years?!" to ensure that The Place Of Peace is never again defended ONLY by heroes on shining white horses charging from the heavens to protect them.
The First Year In Ta Mando was bad enough...
All the guardians have agreed that, though there are no weapons, The Peaceful must learn to defend themselves... So Su trains most of them, making sure that they learn the fundamentals of unarmed combat and how to disarm better armed foes.
While she is mostly doing it for the benefit of passing the time, Su appreciates her students and likes teaching the younger generations, having always had a soft spot for children and teens struggling by in life just as she once did. Now that The Circle Of The World has been used to open travel to The Place Of Peace, however seldom, Su has been assigned to guarding the entrance and building a compound of sorts to process those who seek to visit this semi-mythical territory lost from civilization in the highest reaches of the world.
Once a loose set of standing pillars, now "The Welcome Center" has begun slowly growing into something resembling a micro-community of huts and basic amenities for those visiting.
And from THIS VENTURE SPECIFICALLY, Su has become known to some high ranking Kandia as "Ta Pervus Dominar," Meaning "The Tiny Master."
By acting as the proprietor of The Welcome Center, The Master Of Death has slowly begun gathering up a small fortune from the affluent visitors that come to The Place Of Peace to please themselves that such a legend actually exists and to spend their money on foreign trinkets that can be found nowhere in the Empire Of Kanda.
The First Year In Ta Mando was bad enough...
All the guardians have agreed that, though there are no weapons, The Peaceful must learn to defend themselves... So Su trains most of them, making sure that they learn the fundamentals of unarmed combat and how to disarm better armed foes.
While she is mostly doing it for the benefit of passing the time, Su appreciates her students and likes teaching the younger generations, having always had a soft spot for children and teens struggling by in life just as she once did. Now that The Circle Of The World has been used to open travel to The Place Of Peace, however seldom, Su has been assigned to guarding the entrance and building a compound of sorts to process those who seek to visit this semi-mythical territory lost from civilization in the highest reaches of the world.
Once a loose set of standing pillars, now "The Welcome Center" has begun slowly growing into something resembling a micro-community of huts and basic amenities for those visiting.
And from THIS VENTURE SPECIFICALLY, Su has become known to some high ranking Kandia as "Ta Pervus Dominar," Meaning "The Tiny Master."
By acting as the proprietor of The Welcome Center, The Master Of Death has slowly begun gathering up a small fortune from the affluent visitors that come to The Place Of Peace to please themselves that such a legend actually exists and to spend their money on foreign trinkets that can be found nowhere in the Empire Of Kanda.
Accomplishments & Achievements
While Su's long life has been full of many accomplishments, those she considers highest have earned her the primary title in Ta Mando of "The God Eater!"
Su considers True Deities to be the highest of prey, the finest of meats, the most delicious of dishes.
More than that, she's explicitly very choosy about her choices, having only consumed nine deities before and biding her time carefully in Ta Mando for her "Double Digit Dinner."
Shortly after she was adopted by The Master she had a taste of the local Tiger Goddess for the first time... and she LOVED it!
And when she could... she ate more. Since then The God Eater has grown methodical about her meals, so here is a list of those she has consumed in order. (With Years/Worlds)
The Cave Tiger Goddess Of Proto-Lhasa ~ 10,000 BCE, Earth
Golden Yak God Of The Tibetan Plateau ~ 550 CE, Earth
The Shadow Eel Of The Great Z'Mungi River ~ 283 AF, Earth
The Old Goat Of The Desert Cliffs ~ 864,000 PD, Endridge
The Cosmic Deer Of The Saturn ~ 12,823 HE, Hands Of Fate Station, Saturn High Orbit, Sol System
The High Polar Bear King Of The Endless North ~ 223 Of The 6th Era, New Vinland, Freya, Vanir System
The Eared Pheasant God Of Loxo ~ 1st Year Of "The Present Age," Loxo, World Of Eon
The Leopard Of Forever ~ 24th Of Yarula, The Wildlands Of Bujabalu
The Ivory (Woolly) Rhino Of The Greatest Steppe ~ 75,000 BCE, Earth A Couple Honorable Mentions!
Deep Valley Wolf Of Peace: Spared For A System Of Personal Boons ~ 1632 BCV, The Place Of Peace, Ta Mando
Western River Dragon Come To Harrass Her: Claimed To Be A God... Was Not. Completely Devoured ~~ 1632 BCV, The Place Of Peace, Ta Mando Su has grown SO obsessed with wholly consuming entire animal deities that she's developed numerous methods of preserving their bodies before they discorporate or otherwise find a way to spoil, as all deities do quite quickly if allowed.
Su considers True Deities to be the highest of prey, the finest of meats, the most delicious of dishes.
More than that, she's explicitly very choosy about her choices, having only consumed nine deities before and biding her time carefully in Ta Mando for her "Double Digit Dinner."
Shortly after she was adopted by The Master she had a taste of the local Tiger Goddess for the first time... and she LOVED it!
And when she could... she ate more. Since then The God Eater has grown methodical about her meals, so here is a list of those she has consumed in order. (With Years/Worlds)
The Cave Tiger Goddess Of Proto-Lhasa ~ 10,000 BCE, Earth
Golden Yak God Of The Tibetan Plateau ~ 550 CE, Earth
The Shadow Eel Of The Great Z'Mungi River ~ 283 AF, Earth
The Old Goat Of The Desert Cliffs ~ 864,000 PD, Endridge
The Cosmic Deer Of The Saturn ~ 12,823 HE, Hands Of Fate Station, Saturn High Orbit, Sol System
The High Polar Bear King Of The Endless North ~ 223 Of The 6th Era, New Vinland, Freya, Vanir System
The Eared Pheasant God Of Loxo ~ 1st Year Of "The Present Age," Loxo, World Of Eon
The Leopard Of Forever ~ 24th Of Yarula, The Wildlands Of Bujabalu
The Ivory (Woolly) Rhino Of The Greatest Steppe ~ 75,000 BCE, Earth A Couple Honorable Mentions!
Deep Valley Wolf Of Peace: Spared For A System Of Personal Boons ~ 1632 BCV, The Place Of Peace, Ta Mando
Western River Dragon Come To Harrass Her: Claimed To Be A God... Was Not. Completely Devoured ~~ 1632 BCV, The Place Of Peace, Ta Mando Su has grown SO obsessed with wholly consuming entire animal deities that she's developed numerous methods of preserving their bodies before they discorporate or otherwise find a way to spoil, as all deities do quite quickly if allowed.
Morality & Philosophy
To call her "Basically Good" would be functionally describing Su well enough for traditional conversation.
While she cares nothing for those that attack her, Su GENERALLY tries to help the pitifully mortal humans when it's convenient for her and will go out of her way to protect those less powerful if she feels such protection is needed.
If The Guardian Of The Place Of Peace sees someone with potential she will try to take them under her wing and train them; understanding all too well that she was once like them.
As someone who has readily established herself as a teacher of the people, Su also understands that she exists to foster a new generation who, like her, might one day rise up and become Primes as well.
While she'll seldom admit it, this fills her with purpose and pride, keeping her going from Shift To Shift without falling into apathy and disgust at the pandimensions and their twisted forms of functionally eternal entertainment. At the same time, The Master Of Death is mostly motivated by self determination and personal interest.
She believes in taking care of problems on her own and encourages others to take charge of their lives and get what they want for themselves just as she has.
She will, of course, help those directly in danger but it does not serve her to go on a great quest to find Random Village Girl #4's lost brother in the mountains.
THOSE sort of quests MUST be undertaken by the claimant!
Su can help Random Village Girl #4 train to rescue her brother... in a surprisingly short amount of time, at that... but The Teacher will NEVER walk The Student's Path for her. And, of course, that applies equally to her philosophy on knowledge.
Su believes that MOST knowledge should be dispersed more or less freely.
Knowledge is power and she desires ALL the power by attaining ALL the knowledge... so she understands exactly how crippling it can be without it.
She hates the idea of the strong witholding power and knowledge from the weak, of the haves staring down and laughing at the have-nots.
... Of The Council Of The Pandimensions Lording Over The Primes...
Over All Of The Lower Dimensions... If nothing else, Su will work to overthrow the status quo and tip the balance of power in any situation toward the roots of society, toward the greatest number.
Having personally slain many a dictator, she will gladly overthrow entire empires just to give the people access to schools, libraries, universities and a clean public water supply.
She will encourage them to take charge, to fight for their right to knowledge and power, to cast away their chains and become their own representatives! ... WHILE being sure that all remember who stirred them to action and taught them how to throw off their oppressors!
If The Guardian Of The Place Of Peace sees someone with potential she will try to take them under her wing and train them; understanding all too well that she was once like them.
As someone who has readily established herself as a teacher of the people, Su also understands that she exists to foster a new generation who, like her, might one day rise up and become Primes as well.
While she'll seldom admit it, this fills her with purpose and pride, keeping her going from Shift To Shift without falling into apathy and disgust at the pandimensions and their twisted forms of functionally eternal entertainment. At the same time, The Master Of Death is mostly motivated by self determination and personal interest.
She believes in taking care of problems on her own and encourages others to take charge of their lives and get what they want for themselves just as she has.
She will, of course, help those directly in danger but it does not serve her to go on a great quest to find Random Village Girl #4's lost brother in the mountains.
THOSE sort of quests MUST be undertaken by the claimant!
Su can help Random Village Girl #4 train to rescue her brother... in a surprisingly short amount of time, at that... but The Teacher will NEVER walk The Student's Path for her. And, of course, that applies equally to her philosophy on knowledge.
Su believes that MOST knowledge should be dispersed more or less freely.
Knowledge is power and she desires ALL the power by attaining ALL the knowledge... so she understands exactly how crippling it can be without it.
She hates the idea of the strong witholding power and knowledge from the weak, of the haves staring down and laughing at the have-nots.
... Of The Council Of The Pandimensions Lording Over The Primes...
Over All Of The Lower Dimensions... If nothing else, Su will work to overthrow the status quo and tip the balance of power in any situation toward the roots of society, toward the greatest number.
Having personally slain many a dictator, she will gladly overthrow entire empires just to give the people access to schools, libraries, universities and a clean public water supply.
She will encourage them to take charge, to fight for their right to knowledge and power, to cast away their chains and become their own representatives! ... WHILE being sure that all remember who stirred them to action and taught them how to throw off their oppressors!
Taboos
While she has particular exceptions to this, Su generally insists upon only eating animal form deities.
She has no desire to eat "People."
In Her Words, "I Don't Like The Idea Of Eating Something That Looks Too Much Like Me..."
For the right price and on the right day, however, experiencing some truly nasty hunger pangs... she could certainly be convinced to sink her fangs into more... anthropomorphic entities. Less ironclad is The Master Of Death's distaste for killing the innocent.
While certainly able to kill a child or end a loving family if she legitimately believed it had to be done to save the world, able to slay a hero if it meant ending a universe destroying power, Su has no desire to hurt people or cause suffering and torture to those otherwise undeserving of pain and loss.
Pitiable humans, she reasons, already have so many problems that they are powerless to change.
They struggle by, just as she used to, just to find a safe place to sleep, to feed themselves and maintain social ties to their peers.
The LAST thing the common folk need is for Deities and World Changers to stomp around in their little neighborhoods, bringing untold destruction and trauma to those that cannot even fathom what is going on, let alone stop it.
Though she finds herself regularly disgusted at the fact that she used to be one of them... a small but statistically significant part of Su feels sorry for all the troubles that regular people have to suffer through.
And so it is beyond her consideration to hurt those that don't deserve it.
She has no desire to eat "People."
In Her Words, "I Don't Like The Idea Of Eating Something That Looks Too Much Like Me..."
For the right price and on the right day, however, experiencing some truly nasty hunger pangs... she could certainly be convinced to sink her fangs into more... anthropomorphic entities. Less ironclad is The Master Of Death's distaste for killing the innocent.
While certainly able to kill a child or end a loving family if she legitimately believed it had to be done to save the world, able to slay a hero if it meant ending a universe destroying power, Su has no desire to hurt people or cause suffering and torture to those otherwise undeserving of pain and loss.
Pitiable humans, she reasons, already have so many problems that they are powerless to change.
They struggle by, just as she used to, just to find a safe place to sleep, to feed themselves and maintain social ties to their peers.
The LAST thing the common folk need is for Deities and World Changers to stomp around in their little neighborhoods, bringing untold destruction and trauma to those that cannot even fathom what is going on, let alone stop it.
Though she finds herself regularly disgusted at the fact that she used to be one of them... a small but statistically significant part of Su feels sorry for all the troubles that regular people have to suffer through.
And so it is beyond her consideration to hurt those that don't deserve it.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Su is motivated by a dangerous combination of personal desire and loose but definite loyalties.
Her inherently catlike nature means that Su is easily distracted by her own whims, led astray at times by a perpetual curiosity that gets her into trouble more often than not.
Her most regular and stable goals almost all involve her temporary entertaining herself in some way and, when she cannot find a necessary and tangible benefit to doing something, she will probably refuse to take part altogether. That being said, Su is just as loyal as she is frivolous and NEVER goes back on her word; motivated to do the right thing by others as was beaten into her by her Master in her youth.
Valuing kept promises and good work ethic, The Master Of Death regularly finds herself driven by the option to help others succeed or improve even if it might not be entertaining or directly beneficial to her present plans.
Still, even by her own words, this ultimately ends up helping others create a world wherein she will be more comfortable anyway. Regardless, Su is most driven by what she can foreseeably accept benefits her specifically.
Her most regular and stable goals almost all involve her temporary entertaining herself in some way and, when she cannot find a necessary and tangible benefit to doing something, she will probably refuse to take part altogether. That being said, Su is just as loyal as she is frivolous and NEVER goes back on her word; motivated to do the right thing by others as was beaten into her by her Master in her youth.
Valuing kept promises and good work ethic, The Master Of Death regularly finds herself driven by the option to help others succeed or improve even if it might not be entertaining or directly beneficial to her present plans.
Still, even by her own words, this ultimately ends up helping others create a world wherein she will be more comfortable anyway. Regardless, Su is most driven by what she can foreseeably accept benefits her specifically.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Despite her being "Basically Good" there is a major disconnect between Su and the needs and concerns of "Humans."
She seems, at times, entirely unable to understand the struggles of normal people on a practical level, often oblivious, insensitive or even callous around the problems of those she considers "Lesser People." Indeed, despite having all manner of credentials in speechcraft and teaching, Su is a horrible diplomat and has a hard time putting herself in the proverbial shoes of others; often misunderstanding the motivations of others and/or making people uncomfortable with her direct, sometimes aggressively flirtatious nature.
Despite the fact that The Master worked very hard to teach her TRUE modern compassion, she came from too primitive a background to really grasp the modern concepts.
Instead, her most gentle and maternal of gestures could be seen by some as "Dudebro Locker Room Pep Talks" while her less tactful attempts at peacemaking and encouragement sometimes devolve into threats and ad hominem attacks to intimidate her interlocutors into compliance.
She seems, at times, entirely unable to understand the struggles of normal people on a practical level, often oblivious, insensitive or even callous around the problems of those she considers "Lesser People." Indeed, despite having all manner of credentials in speechcraft and teaching, Su is a horrible diplomat and has a hard time putting herself in the proverbial shoes of others; often misunderstanding the motivations of others and/or making people uncomfortable with her direct, sometimes aggressively flirtatious nature.
Despite the fact that The Master worked very hard to teach her TRUE modern compassion, she came from too primitive a background to really grasp the modern concepts.
Instead, her most gentle and maternal of gestures could be seen by some as "Dudebro Locker Room Pep Talks" while her less tactful attempts at peacemaking and encouragement sometimes devolve into threats and ad hominem attacks to intimidate her interlocutors into compliance.
Virtues & Personality perks
Having come from a wandering band of nomads, having been built up essentially from nothing, Su puts almost all of her value in the virtue of Self Determination, the practical benefits of individual training and the capacity for all to improve themselves no matter the circumstances.
If only in response to someone showing them the way, anyone might make more of themselves and build a new life where they can thrive and do good for the world at large. Suitably, Su is a sucker for helping those that she thinks will actually improve from it.
While often a rough sort of individual who may seem a bit callous, she is loath to turn people down on a chance to make their own lives better with their own two hands... and believes that nearly all people who DO get a hand in the world would do better for the cosmos as a whole, just as she feels she has.
If only in response to someone showing them the way, anyone might make more of themselves and build a new life where they can thrive and do good for the world at large. Suitably, Su is a sucker for helping those that she thinks will actually improve from it.
While often a rough sort of individual who may seem a bit callous, she is loath to turn people down on a chance to make their own lives better with their own two hands... and believes that nearly all people who DO get a hand in the world would do better for the cosmos as a whole, just as she feels she has.
Vices & Personality flaws
From her obsession with devouring deities to her general contempt for "Humans," Su has a pool of personality flaws just as deep and diverse as her strengths.
Having started her entire life outside of mainstream humanity by eating the brain of a tiger goddess, she has always had to compete with "The Cat Mind;" the last vestiges of that first deity she consumed.
While The Master was able to simply cull the remnant personality of the goddess with sheer force of will, Su was young and uninitiated when she consumed the brain of a deity.
Because of that, the personality of The Mountain Tigress has become a permanent companion from world to world... a distraction the likes of which has driven her at times to the very edge of her mental limits.
Over several dozen centuries, however, she has mostly gotten The Cat Mind under her control.
While it exists and she must share her mindspace with it... she has long since made it into her pet.
Even still, the very foundations of her personality have been shaped by it.
Proactively controlling The Cat Mind so that it does not control her has deeply changed her... forcing her at times to become more monster than human and imparting her with memories and experiences she never desired to have. From a time before written law and a culture barely said to even exist, a growing Su had little in the way of societal norms to follow except for what The Master taught her; generally what was germane to living life and/or strictly practical academia.
There was no need for job qualifications, safety regulations, HR Mediations, PR Failure Mitigations and plenty of need for Pharmaceutical Medications!
The idea of seclusion and personal space was not a concept her culture had much practice with and the idea of... biological activities being private affairs was completely alien.
So Su, while growing to appreciate the values of indoor plumbing, modern cuisine, firearms, martial arts, electronics and reading... did not precisely pick up on all that stuff about patience or cultural norms or sexual harrassment...
Suffice to say the gal is HANDSY!
She unashamedly flirts with anyone she finds attractive regardless of their public marital status, casually gropes men and women alike whenever given the opportunity and regularly reduces people she finds attractive to sexual objects sculpted by the universe itself for her own pleasures.
While not actually mean spirited, Su has seldom shown remorse over her poor behavior in public... at least with the normal people she interacts with; seeming incapable of understanding why her perverse actions are wrong in almost any context. (With Exception) While she understands that Humans and other Normals are squishy, Su doesn't really seem to understand how easy it is to wear them out or drive them to their breaking points; mental or physical.
While seen by some as the best martial artist in The Place Of Peace and applauded for her near constant training, she's also regarded as the most heartless of tutors and the destroyer of mentally unready students.
She has "little time for booboos or owies" and reguarly tells her students to give up martial arts and leave or casually injures normal people and then ridicules them for needing medical assistants.
Pain and injury have become so foreign to her, along with mainstream humanity, that she has a hard time understanding it or having any empathy toward those who experience it.
What's worse, Su's general contempt for Normals fuels her dismissive personality, sometimes refusing to believe the little people really need what they ask for... or perhaps believing that they will only become weaker if she gives them everything they say they need...
So she says, Su only teaches the Normals so that they might stop being so pathetic to look upon... so desperate and weak... so much like SHE once was.
For what she was, to her, was a pathetic and helpless little creature that barely deserved to live. And she thinks the same of all Normals.
She Is No Longer Human...
And Never Again Does She Want To Be... Nobody should, in her mind, ACCEPT being so weak as a Human.
While The Master was able to simply cull the remnant personality of the goddess with sheer force of will, Su was young and uninitiated when she consumed the brain of a deity.
Because of that, the personality of The Mountain Tigress has become a permanent companion from world to world... a distraction the likes of which has driven her at times to the very edge of her mental limits.
Over several dozen centuries, however, she has mostly gotten The Cat Mind under her control.
While it exists and she must share her mindspace with it... she has long since made it into her pet.
Even still, the very foundations of her personality have been shaped by it.
Proactively controlling The Cat Mind so that it does not control her has deeply changed her... forcing her at times to become more monster than human and imparting her with memories and experiences she never desired to have. From a time before written law and a culture barely said to even exist, a growing Su had little in the way of societal norms to follow except for what The Master taught her; generally what was germane to living life and/or strictly practical academia.
There was no need for job qualifications, safety regulations, HR Mediations, PR Failure Mitigations and plenty of need for Pharmaceutical Medications!
The idea of seclusion and personal space was not a concept her culture had much practice with and the idea of... biological activities being private affairs was completely alien.
So Su, while growing to appreciate the values of indoor plumbing, modern cuisine, firearms, martial arts, electronics and reading... did not precisely pick up on all that stuff about patience or cultural norms or sexual harrassment...
Suffice to say the gal is HANDSY!
She unashamedly flirts with anyone she finds attractive regardless of their public marital status, casually gropes men and women alike whenever given the opportunity and regularly reduces people she finds attractive to sexual objects sculpted by the universe itself for her own pleasures.
While not actually mean spirited, Su has seldom shown remorse over her poor behavior in public... at least with the normal people she interacts with; seeming incapable of understanding why her perverse actions are wrong in almost any context. (With Exception) While she understands that Humans and other Normals are squishy, Su doesn't really seem to understand how easy it is to wear them out or drive them to their breaking points; mental or physical.
While seen by some as the best martial artist in The Place Of Peace and applauded for her near constant training, she's also regarded as the most heartless of tutors and the destroyer of mentally unready students.
She has "little time for booboos or owies" and reguarly tells her students to give up martial arts and leave or casually injures normal people and then ridicules them for needing medical assistants.
Pain and injury have become so foreign to her, along with mainstream humanity, that she has a hard time understanding it or having any empathy toward those who experience it.
What's worse, Su's general contempt for Normals fuels her dismissive personality, sometimes refusing to believe the little people really need what they ask for... or perhaps believing that they will only become weaker if she gives them everything they say they need...
So she says, Su only teaches the Normals so that they might stop being so pathetic to look upon... so desperate and weak... so much like SHE once was.
For what she was, to her, was a pathetic and helpless little creature that barely deserved to live. And she thinks the same of all Normals.
She Is No Longer Human...
And Never Again Does She Want To Be... Nobody should, in her mind, ACCEPT being so weak as a Human.
Personality Quirks
Su, when she isn't talking or focusing on something social, is almost always whistling some sort of tune; such that she doesn't even seem to notice most of the time.
She, of course, picked this up from The Master; who similarly whistles everywhere they go.
At the very least, Su is incredibly practiced in the art and can create all manner of pleasant AND unpleasant noises just by blowing air through her lips.
Generally she keeps her musical meandery to bird song and actually recognizable music... or sound effects. However, from time to time she goes out of her way to create the most obnoxious and unusual of noises; clicks, trills, animal calls, whistles, chirps and all manner of other ridiculous sounds.
While she insists that such exercises keep her in proper form, she DOES seem to get more than a bit of amusement out of driving her fellows insane with the most obtrusive noises she can manage.
She, of course, picked this up from The Master; who similarly whistles everywhere they go.
At the very least, Su is incredibly practiced in the art and can create all manner of pleasant AND unpleasant noises just by blowing air through her lips.
Generally she keeps her musical meandery to bird song and actually recognizable music... or sound effects. However, from time to time she goes out of her way to create the most obnoxious and unusual of noises; clicks, trills, animal calls, whistles, chirps and all manner of other ridiculous sounds.
While she insists that such exercises keep her in proper form, she DOES seem to get more than a bit of amusement out of driving her fellows insane with the most obtrusive noises she can manage.
Hygiene
Su is the sort who "Cleans Up Real Good" but otherwise tends to avoid taking care of herself extensively; often focusing on self improvement, study and work to the detriment of her hygiene and appearance.
At best she'll take a shower on any given day "If I Remember." However, when she DOES have a proper spa day, The Master Of Death goes all out and makes sure to give herself a proper treatment!
With a fondness for saunas, steamrooms and hot baths, Su likes to occasionally let her hair down and relax in lavish sanitation; going through a long and somewhat labor intensive cleaning ritual every week or so to evacuate, sweat, rinse, shampoo, condition, exfoliate, scrub, moisturize and otherwise go through the entire process of getting AS clean and relaxed as possible. Even though she doesn't like wasting the time on it, The Tiger Of Tibet might be convinced by the particularly persuasive to EVEN allow dedicated servants and servicefolk to pamper her as one might do at a modern spa.
Even so, she seldom spends time enjoying her newfound cleanliness before throwing herself back into her work and dirtying herself up promptly thereafter.
At best she'll take a shower on any given day "If I Remember." However, when she DOES have a proper spa day, The Master Of Death goes all out and makes sure to give herself a proper treatment!
With a fondness for saunas, steamrooms and hot baths, Su likes to occasionally let her hair down and relax in lavish sanitation; going through a long and somewhat labor intensive cleaning ritual every week or so to evacuate, sweat, rinse, shampoo, condition, exfoliate, scrub, moisturize and otherwise go through the entire process of getting AS clean and relaxed as possible. Even though she doesn't like wasting the time on it, The Tiger Of Tibet might be convinced by the particularly persuasive to EVEN allow dedicated servants and servicefolk to pamper her as one might do at a modern spa.
Even so, she seldom spends time enjoying her newfound cleanliness before throwing herself back into her work and dirtying herself up promptly thereafter.
Social
Family Ties
It is a little known fact that "The Master" is Su's adoptive father and Martial Arts Mentor, the very same person who took her in from the cold Tibetan Plateau and trained her to be a Prime without ever knowing it some 1600 shifts ago.
While she seldom addresses them as anything other than "Master," there have been times where she has openly addressed them as "Dad," normally when embarrassed or trying to act rebellious. Other than The Master, however, Su has very few familial attachments; no children, no living direct siblings or parents, no obvious connections at least in Ta Mando. HYPOTHETICALLY her "Uncle Erik" is somewhere out in the ShiftVerse, making sure "Everything Is Going According To Plan," but she has not seen him in several hundred Shifts and does not suspect that she'll meet him anytime soon. Unbeknownst to her, "Uncle Erik's" adopted daughter and Su's childhood friend Linta has since arrived in The Mycelial Monarchy and taken up a role as head of the fungal hive mind that makes the peninsula unlivable to normal humans.
Though the two have not yet had the chance to talk, they would probably find each other's company very comforting if they did.
While she seldom addresses them as anything other than "Master," there have been times where she has openly addressed them as "Dad," normally when embarrassed or trying to act rebellious. Other than The Master, however, Su has very few familial attachments; no children, no living direct siblings or parents, no obvious connections at least in Ta Mando. HYPOTHETICALLY her "Uncle Erik" is somewhere out in the ShiftVerse, making sure "Everything Is Going According To Plan," but she has not seen him in several hundred Shifts and does not suspect that she'll meet him anytime soon. Unbeknownst to her, "Uncle Erik's" adopted daughter and Su's childhood friend Linta has since arrived in The Mycelial Monarchy and taken up a role as head of the fungal hive mind that makes the peninsula unlivable to normal humans.
Though the two have not yet had the chance to talk, they would probably find each other's company very comforting if they did.
Religious Views
Su has made a name from consuming the flesh of deities and preserving even the most delicate of divine corpses; ones that normally disappear back into the divine when the life flows out of them completely.
That being said, she doesn't take the idea of religion or gods very seriously. Not only has she met and defeated plenty of deities... she actively plans their consumption months or even years ahead of time.
And she seeks to continue this everlasting game of Deicide!
Because she wants to...
Because she knows, as a Prime, that she is greater than a deity could ever hope to be.
She is an Apex Predator and ever since her first taste of power she has decided that Deities would be her favored prey. That being said, Su is remarkably picky about what gods she eats; normally restricting herself to free, animal shaped deities.
To date she's never considered consuming legitimately humanoid deities, though does not object to simply punching them out of existence if push comes to shove.
That being said, she doesn't take the idea of religion or gods very seriously. Not only has she met and defeated plenty of deities... she actively plans their consumption months or even years ahead of time.
And she seeks to continue this everlasting game of Deicide!
Because she wants to...
Because she knows, as a Prime, that she is greater than a deity could ever hope to be.
She is an Apex Predator and ever since her first taste of power she has decided that Deities would be her favored prey. That being said, Su is remarkably picky about what gods she eats; normally restricting herself to free, animal shaped deities.
To date she's never considered consuming legitimately humanoid deities, though does not object to simply punching them out of existence if push comes to shove.
Social Aptitude
Su EXUDES Confidence!
Some could even say that's all she is; concentrated, extroverted confidence in a tiny, curvy package finely tuned to kick your ass at the time and place of your choosing.
She will arrive there before you, tell you that you're late and then show you how you shouldn't have bothered to make the effort of coming in the first place.
You've already lost and that's not up for debate. Ever excited for comfort and company, Su is often the life of the party at social events; drinking, joking, singing, flirting, sometimes dancing and otherwise getting into the same trouble party animals always do!
Anything to show the mortals how it's done!
Inclined toward betting, playing games of chance and skill alike, showing off her abilities and derailing shrewd politicking in motion, Su never forgets her advantages in mixed settings and always seeks to make herself look a bit better by way of culturally legitimized competition. Chatty and inclined to butt into preexisting conversations, The First Disciple Of Dag Twa's superhuman senses and sharp mind allow her to automatically know how to slide into any conversation she's intruding upon, having already heard what's being talked about and coming up with an interjection suited to the occasion.
With this in mind, Su is also exceedingly NOSY, unable to keep herself from eavesdropping on everyone in a social setting regardless of their relevance to her agendas.
Some could even say that's all she is; concentrated, extroverted confidence in a tiny, curvy package finely tuned to kick your ass at the time and place of your choosing.
She will arrive there before you, tell you that you're late and then show you how you shouldn't have bothered to make the effort of coming in the first place.
You've already lost and that's not up for debate. Ever excited for comfort and company, Su is often the life of the party at social events; drinking, joking, singing, flirting, sometimes dancing and otherwise getting into the same trouble party animals always do!
Anything to show the mortals how it's done!
Inclined toward betting, playing games of chance and skill alike, showing off her abilities and derailing shrewd politicking in motion, Su never forgets her advantages in mixed settings and always seeks to make herself look a bit better by way of culturally legitimized competition. Chatty and inclined to butt into preexisting conversations, The First Disciple Of Dag Twa's superhuman senses and sharp mind allow her to automatically know how to slide into any conversation she's intruding upon, having already heard what's being talked about and coming up with an interjection suited to the occasion.
With this in mind, Su is also exceedingly NOSY, unable to keep herself from eavesdropping on everyone in a social setting regardless of their relevance to her agendas.
Hobbies & Pets
Su likes rabbit and fish farming.
Not only does it provide a ready source of easy food but watching the fish calms her and petting bouncing baby bunnies is a self evident method of relaxation for all.
Furthermore, as a genomics expert raised into the art of Animal Husbandry, she likes tracking the traits and lineages of her livestock, monitoring her flocks and schools for special peculiarities and quickly breeding them into stable mutations that last generations if not actively bred out. Su is also a bit of a conspiracy theorist, in a sense.
While she doesn't humor outright fantasies, she has a personal demesnes with a wall literally covered in thumbtacks and string, pictures and drawings, little investigatory notes and post-its all over!
In having a vested interest hunting down and eating certain GODS, Su has made a precise and extensive system tracking various divine figures all over the world so as to decide who to bite down on, who to make a friend and who to avoid!
SOME may consider it an obsession but she hardly ever seems to put much work into "The Board" these days, more busy with other things.
Not only does it provide a ready source of easy food but watching the fish calms her and petting bouncing baby bunnies is a self evident method of relaxation for all.
Furthermore, as a genomics expert raised into the art of Animal Husbandry, she likes tracking the traits and lineages of her livestock, monitoring her flocks and schools for special peculiarities and quickly breeding them into stable mutations that last generations if not actively bred out. Su is also a bit of a conspiracy theorist, in a sense.
While she doesn't humor outright fantasies, she has a personal demesnes with a wall literally covered in thumbtacks and string, pictures and drawings, little investigatory notes and post-its all over!
In having a vested interest hunting down and eating certain GODS, Su has made a precise and extensive system tracking various divine figures all over the world so as to decide who to bite down on, who to make a friend and who to avoid!
SOME may consider it an obsession but she hardly ever seems to put much work into "The Board" these days, more busy with other things.
Speech
Su speaks with a traditional Pacific Northwest American Accent, having been taught English as a child by someone from that region; clearly enunciating her vowels and consonants with some obvious words being casually shortened like "bein, havin, doin and runnin" alongside mainstream west coast ebonics and no small degree of regular conversational swearing.
Naturally possessing a husky, feminine voice, she's otherwise able to perfectly mimic almost any noise she hears and so can set up impromptu impressions if she so desires. (And generally loves to mockingly mimic people)
Taught to sing classical opera at some point in her lengthy education, Su is able to confidently hit glass shattering high notes before dropping all the way to deep bass tones and anywhere in between at a moment's notice, though HATES to sing unless there is good reason for it.
Relationships
Wealth & Financial state
Until recently Su was basically destitute, with exception to a little plot of land in The Place Of Peace where she keeps her personal Demesnes.
Her position being a public one; she is fed, clothed, washed, sheltered and even given a degree of spare time but she is NOT given anything in the way of real wealth... there would be nothing to spend it on anyway. While still unable to leave The Place Of Peace, The Cosmic Knight Of Interstellar Neighborhood C193D17-Erba HAS finally begun to gather up a bit of money with the recent appearance of Kandia through The Circle Of The World.
Thanks to the Teleportation Grid being stuck on a single location, The Place Of Peace has begun building a visitor's compound around the area, leaving Su in charge of its administration.
Running "The Welcome Center" and introducing the wealthiest and most academically inclined of Soteri's denizens to this legendary land beyond the exploration of any civilized nations has started to bring in considerable dividends, providing The Master Of Death with a small fortune she hopes to eventually use in the event that Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health actually manages to free her from her duties as Guardian Of The Place Of Peace.
Her position being a public one; she is fed, clothed, washed, sheltered and even given a degree of spare time but she is NOT given anything in the way of real wealth... there would be nothing to spend it on anyway. While still unable to leave The Place Of Peace, The Cosmic Knight Of Interstellar Neighborhood C193D17-Erba HAS finally begun to gather up a bit of money with the recent appearance of Kandia through The Circle Of The World.
Thanks to the Teleportation Grid being stuck on a single location, The Place Of Peace has begun building a visitor's compound around the area, leaving Su in charge of its administration.
Running "The Welcome Center" and introducing the wealthiest and most academically inclined of Soteri's denizens to this legendary land beyond the exploration of any civilized nations has started to bring in considerable dividends, providing The Master Of Death with a small fortune she hopes to eventually use in the event that Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health actually manages to free her from her duties as Guardian Of The Place Of Peace.
Divine Classification
Prime
Alignment
Compassionate Selfish ("Basically Good")
Current Status
Guarding And Training The People Of The Place Of Peace
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Age
Physically 23 (Chronologically Around Half A Million Years)
Circumstances of Birth
A Typical Proto-Tibetan Tribal Girl
Born To Nomadic Parents On The Plateau
Born To Nomadic Parents On The Plateau
Circumstances of Death
Su Has Died MANY Deaths... But She Always Got Better!
Birthplace
The Tibetan Plateau Near What Would Eventually Become Lhasa
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
The Monastery Of Eternity, Place Of Peace, Basin Of Eternity
Pronouns
She / They
Sex
Female
Gender
Non-Binary
Presentation
Feminine
Eyes
Hair
Straight, Perfectly Black, Hair.
Normally In A Tight, Central Braid.
Often Has A Blade Woven Into The End Of Her Hair
Normally In A Tight, Central Braid.
Often Has A Blade Woven Into The End Of Her Hair
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Unblemished Copper, Lustrous, Soft To The Touch
Height
4' 5" (134.62 cm)
Weight
483 lbs (152.861 kg)
Belief/Deity
Su Does Not Believe In Gods... She Consumes Them!
In Fact, Su Has Been Known To Assimilate Entire Languages In Mere Weeks Of Dedicated Study. (Including Divine Languages)
The Following Is NOT An Exhaustive List;
Merely Languages She Speaks With Native Fluency! Just From Earth, Su Speaks These Languages With Native Fluency!
Proto-Tibetan (From 10,000 BCE)
English
Russian
Arabic
Mandarin
French
Spanish
Japanese
Tagalog
Chinook
Miwok
German
Hindi
Swahili
Italian
Latin
Samoan
The Entire Kx’a Language Family Of The Standard Ta Mando Languages, Su Can Confidently Say She Speaks The Following Languages With Native Fluency!
Kandia
Hu-Lao
Futharna
Eldinia
Ditwina
Aireen
PeaceTalk
Mangor
Elven
Riverlander Trade-Speak
All Yeti Languages Finally, Being The God Eater, Su Knows Several Inherently Divine Languages Native To Ta Mando!
Peaceland Sky-Tongue
PassionTalk (Nearly Extinct)
The Songs Of Seven Passions
Deep Basin Undertalk
Kandia Pantheonic CourtSpeech
Draconic (Western) While This Is Hardly An Exhaustive List Of Su's Linguistic Prowess, It IS About As Much As Is Going To Be Shown
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