Opia

Opia joined Astral SMP sometime in late 2021. She was found by Adder and they shortly became close friends. Opia went on to kidnap Adder, aiding Streamless, Arrow, and Achlys into using Adder for power. However, Streamless’ reign was clearly faltering, leading Opia and Arrow to abandon their original plan and take Adder with them.
== Biography ==
=== Appearance ===
Opia is a black and white anthropomorphic cat with light cyan stripes and spots. She has a notable long hair bang covering part of her face. She has bright yellow-orange eyes that stand out against her darker fur. She typically wears lots of gold jewelry, or whatever she is able to steal or find. Her paw pads and inside of her ears are the same cyan color that her cyan markings have. These areas are dappled with a darker cyan color too.
==== Appearance in the dark: ====
In the dark, her cyan markings and skin glow. Her eyes also become slightly brighter. Depending on her emotions, it's said that the stronger emotions she feels, the brighter the markings get. However, it's always noticeable in darker areas that her fur is glowing, no matter the emotions she is feeling.
==== Drawn Reference: ====
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== Personality ==
Opia is very selfish but not in the way you would assume. She bases all her motives and choices on her survival. Due to her backstory, she has always been focused on putting her survival first and not being able to fully trust others. This in turn makes all her actions seem very selfish to others. She is typically viewed as nonloyal and untrustworthy due to switching sides depending on what benefits her at that time. She does have some empathy for a few people of course, especially people who have proven themselves to her. However if it came down to it, she would always pick her own survival over others. Opia can be overall snappy and sassy at times, especially if provoked, but she likes to keep her mouth shut and keep any important information to herself.
=== Background ===
Opia was raised in a smaller, different town in Midnight. The town was very religious and close to one another. Opia was raised in the town by her parents for a while till she was old enough to walk and talk. However, once she became older, her glowing markings became more noticeable. Her parents didn't know where it came from and tried their best to hide it, not fully understanding why she had these markings. However, someone found out and word got to the high priest of the town. The higher ranks in the town declared her glowing fur a curse from the gods themselves. Her glowing fur would attract monsters and bring harm to the town. So they exiled her. Her parents of course didn't want to leave their young child out in the wild on her own, so they left with her. However, the three of them on their own caused some fights. Opia's father wanted to go back to the town, thinking it's not worth it and that they would die out here. Opia's mother insisted they stay with their child, thinking Opia's father was crazy for wanting to leave. In the end, Opia's father abandoned them. However, Opia's mother was on her last life and the two of them wouldn't survive together long. Though, while they did stick together, Opia's mother taught her how to make food, tips and tricks on how to survive, etc. One day there was a huge group of monsters that attacked them, Opia's mother saved Opia however died in the process. Opia ran while the monster attacked her mother and had to live on her own for a long while. Over time she learned how to climb the trees to hide, find different abstract foods to eat, etc. She wanted revenge on the town though for what they did to her. So she went back to the town and had one goal, to get revenge. She slowly started killing off higher ranking members of the town every few days, spying on the town to see their reactions. No one knew what was happening until she got up to the priest who exiled her. When she tried to kill them, the town saw her in the act, but it was too late, the priest was killed and Opia left never to visit the town again, leaving them without any authority in charge and in shambles. She then found midnight and, never being to another town before, assumed they had the same mindset, especially due to the moon goddess shrine there. She had this fixed idea already the town would hate her, which is why she was more interested in Streamless's deal.
== Major Events ==
=== Arrow's Party ===
While Arrow was gathering up members to come to his party, Opia insisted she stay back and babysit Adder. While everyone left reluctantly, Opia took this opportunity to kidnap Adder and bring her to Achlys’ house to go through with their plan of helping Streamless.
Lore Sessions
 October 21st, 2021 - "A strange dream"
The lore starts when Opia is dreaming. She wakes up in a weird dream. She has had normal weird dreams before, but nothing like this. She walks down the hall and enters Fake!Adder's obsidian room. There, Fake!Adder says she has seen Opia before, spying on the town and mentions Adder has seen Opia slightly before. Opia confirms she has been spying on the town for a few days, but says she doesn't know much. Opia knows some people, a few names but nothing has any real meaning to her. Fake!Adder then offers Opia a deal, if she protects Adder, she will give Opia whatever she wants (Specifically, riches) Opia, a big fan of jewelry, gold, diamonds, anything that shines, likes this deal. Opia is not quick to agree however and starts to question why Opia should help a child. Fake!Adder explains how two others who promised they would help Adder have failed and that she needs someone who would actually do the job. Fake!Adder says she has respect for Opia and is willing to offer this deal to her once. Opia, after some back and forth with the exact guidelines of the deal, finally agrees. 
Opia wakes up and right away goes to the town to try and find Adder. She finds Adder in the Moon Goddess Shrine. When Adder first sees Opia, she is scared. However Adder warms up to Opia after Opia talks about how she doesn't like the gods and asks about the building. Adder quickly forms a bond with Opia. Opia likes Adder, but doesn't care about Adder as much as Skye or others may. She is only doing it really because Fake!Adder said she would get dragged into this mess of a town either way, and at least this way she gets riches from it. Opia asks Adder to show her around and Adder shows Opia Okapi's, Dave's Leaf's and Skye's houses. At Skye's House, Opia asks if Skye and her are friends after Adder sits on Skye's steps (Which she hadn't done for the others houses) Adder says yes but seems unsure and starts to panic. Adder is thinking about how Streamless would react to her saying she was friends with Skye. This leads to Adder going into a full breakdown as she spirals. Opia doesn't really know what to do and she asks Adder what she can do to help. Adder suddenly hugs Opia which surprises her. Opia hugs back though. Soon enough Adder starts to calm down and fall asleep. Opia, who still has no idea where things are in this town decides to leave Adder in Skye's bed so that she had a safe place to sleep. Opia then leaves after that
 October 31st, 2021 - "Unfortunate foes"
Opia meets with Achlys to update her on Opia's new plan with Arrow. While doing this they find Rattlesnake in Achlys's basement. The two demand Rattlesnake to leave and after some arguments and threats, Rattlesnake agrees with the promise that the new area will have more light, warmth, and food. Achlys and Opia bring Rattlesnake to the town and let her live in a hole near the fireplace. After that, they run into Sanic and Leaf who interrupt them. Leaf threatens Opia's life. Leaf still does not trust Opia due to her talk with Streamless. Opia and Achlys leave to go to Opia's house where they talk more about the plan. While this happens Sanic tries to spy from the outside. Arrow notices Sanic and exposes them to Achlys and Opia. Leaf also arrives and it's revealed that Leaf knows what happened to Heidi. Before, when Opia and Arrow made an alliance, Heidi overheard and said they would tell people. Opia threatened Heidi's life because of it. Heidi gets away but never promised to keep the secret and apparently, she told Leaf. A fight breaks out and Achlys and Opia run back to Achlys' house. There, Opia says Leaf knows about the plan and they decide that Opia will speak with Arrow about the distraction and that they will kick this plan into gear, the faster they get Adder, the less likely people in the town will know about the plan.
 November 11th, 2021 - "Opia's Sleepover"
Opia meets with Arrow and Arrow says that they are ready for the plan. Arrow tells the town that they have set up a party and want everyone to follow. People agree to go but are cautious. Opia offers to stay back and watch Adder. They leave and Opia brings Adder to her house before suggesting they go see Opia's friend. Adder is unsure but goes with it. They go to Achlys's house. Apollo notices them enter but leaves to go back to the party after Opia insists he goes. 
In Achlys's house Adder is very nervous and unsure. They give Adder a tour and in the basement Opia suggest that Opia and Adder spent the night. Adder is very unsure at this point but they give Adder a room Achlys had in her basement. Opia comforts Adder and leaves to "Go tell the town adder is there and safe" which she doesn't really do. While she does that Achlys reads adder Green Eggs in Ham which fails to comfort Adder.
When Opia leaves she runs into Arrow. Arrow confirms the plan worked. Opia confirms they have Adder. Then Arrow goes to get Streamless.
After Opia comes back she comforts Adder more which seems to be working better now. Then Opia and Achlys talk outside the room. Streamless soon arrives and hears the good news about Adder. He goes into the room with Adder and blocks it off and Adder is now terrified. The three-team rocket trio get concerned due to this not being a part of the original plan. They interrupt, and Streamless mentions he had other parts of the deal he needed to do. The three grow concerned and Streamless leaves. 
Opia tries to comfort Adder, but Adder pushes Opia back.
Opia leaves, and the three-team rocket trio agree if Streamless does anything else against the plan they will do something about it.
 November 21st, 2021 - "An unexpected visitor"
Opia finds Rasp who entered the basement and immediately questions them, pointing her crossbow at them. Rasp is panicked and terrified but explains they were looking for Adder. Opia, with no one else around to help her, threatens and keeps Rasp locked in the basement until further notice. But because Rasp tried to escape, Opia had shot them once or twice with her crossbow to teach them a lesson. Opia tells Rasp she will suggest a deal to Achlys that will allow Rasp to leave, if Rasp gives up Zom the Axolotl. Opia leaves and runs into Achlys upstairs and questions her about why Rasp is here. Opia tells Achlys that Rasp told her Streamless had visited and done some damage. Opia argues that they can’t let Rasp out but Achlys is getting ticked off at Opia’s comments. Achlys runs downstairs and finds Rasp with wounds and it’s revealed Opia harmed Rasp.
Achlys explains how Rasp got down there; saying that Rasp got past her when she wasn't looking and somehow got into the basement. She locked them in there because they found Adder, and she then told Opia that she wanted to let them out, saying that they could let Rasp out in return for their silence. 
Opia says it's a stupid idea and that they should just threaten the child by maybe taking something valuable from them like their pet Zom, and Achlys bites back saying that she doesn't want to hurt the kid.
Opia and Achlys get into a small argument about Rasp and it soon escalates into an argument about both the kids and how Achlys broke down and told her Uncle about everything that's been going on.
Achlys gets fed up and goes down the basement to check in on Rasp and is enraged to see Rasp is wounded. She turns to Opia and demands to know what happened.
Opia explained that they tried to escape;
"So you shot them?"
"What did you want me to do? They were trying to break out and were going to probably tell the village--"
"So you hit them?!"
"What was I going to do?"
"How about not hitting them in the first place? There is a better way to go around that."
Opia then says that Streamless was down here and was the main cause of Rasp's injuries, to which this angers Achlys even more. She goes to Adder's room and Opia questions what she's doing.
Achlys says she's going to take these kids back to the village.
Arrow gets down to them and Opia quickly explains to him what's going on.
Arrow tries to make Achlys stop but she snaps at both of them, saying that she is tired of seeing these kids get hurt and that this isn't what she agreed to.
Opia says that Achlys agreed to help them in this plan, but Achlys snaps back saying she never intended for Adder to get hurt and that this plan was falling apart from the start.
Achlys then says that she won't leave them as long as they promise to not hurt the kids anymore, but Arrow and Opia just look at each other and back at her.
Achlys, trying to gain their trust back just a bit says that she'll go through with Opia's plan with Rasp, but as the other two are on the other side of the room, Achlys tells Rasp the plan and to make it look like Rasp handed her Zom.
Achlys then breaks the obsidian and Rasp runs out.
Opia asks if it worked and Achlys says yes and goes to check on Adder, being very quiet and dodging every question thrown at her.
Achlys then gives up trying to talk to Adder since she was just scaring her and turned her attention back on Opia and Arrow. 
Rasp comes back down and Opia calls Achlys' idea stupid and that she was making stupid decisions, during their argument Opia and Arrow ask her if it was them or the kids. Achlys, clearly fed up at this point makes Rasp leave first and then turns to Opia and Arrow.
She states that yes, she agreed to the plan, but she never intended for Adder to get hurt or even Rasp. 
Opia says that they'll now look at her as an enemy, but Achlys asks if they were ever really friends to begin with, since neither of them were ever really there. Opia says that she thought of them as friends, but Achlys doesn't believe it and leaves before Arrow could attack her.
Opia is frustrated at Achlys and sees this as a betrayal, Arrow agrees and the two decide they will need to leave Achlys' basement soon and locate somewhere else in order to protect themselves incase Achlys told the town.
 November 23rd, 2021 - "New location and a new close friend"
Opia and Arrow recently moved to a new cave Arrow had as a backup plan from the start. They had been staying there for a little while now.
Opia wakes up to a scream and Arrow and Opia realize it’s Adder. Arrow tries to explain to Adder why Streamless isn’t here due to the kitten asking constantly for Streamless. Arrow gets frustrated and walks away to the fireplace in the cave area they are staying in. Opia turned to Adder when Adder asks to be let out of an obsidian room in the cave. After asking Arrow, Opia lets Adder out. Adder’s mood changes quickly into curiosity. She runs into Arrow and Arrow hands her his cape which she starts to play with while Opia and Arrow talk. Long story short, Opia tells Arrow her past. Why she came to the village and why she is the way she is. She explains that the village she grew up in exiled her for her glowing fur, saying it was a curse from the gods. She asks Arrow if arrow believes that too, which he responds no and explains that the gods would never give out curses like that without reason, especially to a child. Adder interrupts by calling Opia’s name due to her getting stuck in one of the glow berry vines. Arrow and Opia get her unstuck and then Opia turns the questions onto Arrow. Arrow starts to explain where he grew up but suddenly started to panic when mentioning “she” Opia quickly rushed to comfort him and says that whoever this “she” is can’t get him here. Arrow eventually relaxes and falls asleep and Adder had previously fallen asleep due to her running about and playing with Arrow’s cape. Opia puts Adder back into the room and falls asleep herself by the fire.
 November 28th, 2021 - "New plan"
Arrow puts Adder back into the obsidan cell in their small hide out. Adder screams, wanting to be let out but Arrow ignores her. Opia shows up and is shocked until Arrow explains the story, excluding Alastor. Opia hates having Adder in the cell but knows it's for her own good. Opia then asks Arrow about the plan to get The Axe of War to which Arrow suggest Opia speak to Apollo and get him alone at the Shrine for Fen. There, Arrow will be waiting with the place rigged with tnt. They will convince Apollo to tell them where Fen is and go from there. This makes Opia feel better and Adder eventually stops screaming.
== Relationships with Other Members ==
Relationships	Relationships 	Relationships 	Relationships
Name 	Status 	Notes 	
Arrow 	Positive 	After Streamless's deal failed for Opia and Arrow and after Achlys left them, Opia and Arrow where left. Arrow and Opia ended up becoming closer and stuck together when no one was there for them, causing Opia to see Arrow as her most trusted friend. 	
Adder 	Neutral-positive	Arrow and Opia took Adder from Streamless's control after the deal failed as a sort of payment for them helping the villain. While Opia doesn't treat Adder fully well, she has no negative opinions on the kitten, in fact, she has some empathy for her due to seeing herself in Adder. Though as mentioned before, Opia puts herself over others, meaning Adder is still a tool Arrow and her are using to keep some kind of power over the midnight town. 	
Achlys 	Negative 	Achlys used to be good friends with Opia, especially due to the fact they could bond over their shared characteristic of glowing markings. However, Achlys wasn't fond of the Adder situation and threatened to take Adder and Rasp back to the town. While Achlys was only able to take Rasp back, it still left Opia with a feeling of being betrayed by Achlys, therefore making their relationship now negative. 	
Leaf 	Negative 	Leaf was one of the most prominent people in the town to never accept Opia. As soon as the town found out Streamless spoke with Achlys and Opia, they had their suspicions. However, they had no real proof that they had agreed to any deals. This enforced Opia's previous assumption that the town would hate her for her markings or for other unessesary reasons. not only that, but Opia and Leaf had gotten into a fight before which ended in Opia and Achlys running off.	
Asight 	Negative 	Similar to Leaf, Asight also wasn’t fond of Opia. They didn’t have as many fights, but they continued to be on bad terms 	
== Items ==
Personal items 	Personal items 	Personal items	Personal items
Name 	Notes 	 	
Opia's Crossbow (unnamed)	Opia's main fighting weapon, she used it once to threaten Rasp and tends to use it to threaten multiple people when it comes down to it.	 	
== Trivia ==
*Opia's name has a specific meaning. The word "Opia" represents the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can make the person feel vulnerable or anxious.
*Opia's blue fur markings glow stronger when she feels strong emotions. However they naturally will always give off some kind of glow
*Opia actually does enjoy Adder's company and part of her feels like Adder deserves a better chance at life. She sees herself a lot in Adder. But Opia will always put herself first, and keeping Adder captvive gives her and Arrow power and keeps them safe.