Duplo the Butterfly

Duplo after her rebirth as the new Unn.

## Description

Duplo is a grayish-pink, lesbian deaf butterfly who leads the Mosskin, played by u/LegallyBread. Her wings glow in the same way as Lego’s in the sunlight, and she too has six limbs, (four arms and two legs). She’s notably more attractive than Lego, but looks similar to him, despite her being more curvy. She’s Unn’s adopted daughter and the current wielder of her power, and is Lego’s sister.

Unlike her brother, she actually wears clothes, including samurai armor and a kimono that was sewn for her by Scarlett, a mask with plant-themed paint, painted for her by Scarlett, a red tiger lily either nestled in her antenna or her hat, given to her by Scarlett, and occasionally a large kakugasa, surprisingly NOT a gift of Scarlett’s.

She has bilateral amastia, which is a condition where the affected is born with undeveloped breast tissue, and in her case, she never grew breasts. She dual wields a sickle and nail with unprecedented skill, and isn’t too bad with shurikens.

## Origin

### Childhood with Lego

Duplo was born into slavery with her family and hundreds of other butterflies, far from Hallownest. When her brother, Lego, was two, she was born, amongst many other children. At age three, her family and many other butterflies ran to escape their captors, but only Duplo’s parents, her brother Lego, and Duplo herself escaped. The other butterflies, including many of Duplo’s siblings, were captured and either killed or punished in several extremely inhumane ways. Some of them died from these horrific punishments.

Duplo, Lego, and their traumatized parents moved into a home near Greenpath, hoping the rampant infection in the area would discourage their captors from following. They lived there for many years, though their parents were never able to overcome their inner demons, and had hallucinations that constantly worsened.

*(I kinda went into author mode here, so that’s why it’s written more like a novel than a wiki article. Sorry about that.)*

One day, Duplo and Lego came home from getting water to find their parents infected. They were chased by a large group of husks, until Duplo suddenly fell into an acid lake. Lego screamed and tried to grab her hand before she sank in, but Duplo was completely submerged in the flesh-melting substance.

As she sank, she thrashed blindly, trying to get back up to the surface. The acid burned wherever it touched her with a searing pain worse than she’d ever felt before, even from the whips of her former slavers. Panicked, she screamed from the sheer agony of it, but the acid got in her mouth and burned her throat raw. Her lungs were burning, she felt like she was dying. Fear clouded her mind, and the pain made it worse. She fought for life, trying to reach for where her brother was moments before, every second passing as if it were an hour. But where her brother was, there was now void. Lego had abandoned her. She cried, but the acid just burned her eyes.

And then the pain ended. She was suddenly aware of a strange being staring at her, a giant green slug eyeing her with curiosity.

Unn.

She stared into those eyes, and suddenly wasn’t afraid anymore. Then she became aware of her short breath again, and everything went black.

When she regained consciousness, Lego was holding her, crying. She embraced him, and he her.

*(Author mode: deactivated.)*

Unn adopted the siblings and took care of them until adulthood. She bestowed upon Duplo the supernatural power to hide with a charm.

### During the Smiler’s conquest

Many years later, in the remains of Greenpath, just after Unn’s death, Duplo used her power to save Wisteria and V from Lego, who had become an animal thanks to the Smiler. Duplo and Wisteria visited V’s home, until eventually they had to leave, and Duplo went back into hiding.

She and Deyn met at a bar, where he offensively tried to woo her and she replied that she only liked girls, and didn’t like being objectified.

After Lego was freed from the Smiler’s influence, he met her at the same bar. He had always been afraid for her, and only remembered the last time he’d seen her: when she’d been young, fearful, and weak.

She challenged him to a duel to prove she was stronger than he thought, and he reluctantly agreed.

At first he went easy on her, but after she easily dodged and taunted him, he started to put more effort into the duel. Eventually, he was putting his whole self into it, much to his surprise, and still was easily defeated by Duplo.

He laughed, and with a “you seriously kicked my ass!!!”, she had his respect.

She suddenly saw blue smoke in the distance and ran for it, with confused people trailing behind. From the origin of the smoke, she found V and Blue, about to be killed by one of their friends. Duplo stabbed this friend instead, saving them both. Blue ran off in anger at what Duplo had done, and she brought V to the Refuge medical ward.

She went to the Queen’s Gardens to build a refugee camp for the surviving Mosskin. Vecto and Ether solemnly helped her and the Mosskin construct it and the fundamentals of a successful village.

She overworked herself and barely slept, but always kept a strong image and rarely showed emotion on her face.

Later, Duplo saw V inside of the house of Deyn, shivering and scared. She illegally broke in and saved them once again, bringing them to the Mosskin camp and giving them a home there with her.

One day, she was visiting the mantis village, and found Scarlett there, who was learning to become the next Mistress of the Grimm Troupe. At first, Duplo expressed her dislike for the Troupe, but eventually offered to teach her how to lead. She brought Scarlett to the camp, and she helped Duplo build furniture for the Mosskin, plant seeds, and take care of V as Duplo taught her how to lead.

The Mosskin camp was becoming more like a village now, and Duplo spread the Mosskin territory to the Fungal Wastes and Fog Canyon, even as far as Deepnest, though it was taken from her by a giant spider named Ragnos.

Scarlett began to visit Duplo more and more, and the two became close. Scarlett constantly flirted with Duplo, and slowly started to sway Duplo to like her, though she was resistant at first. She painted Duplo’s mask and gave her a red tiger lily as a gift.

When Ether died, Duplo left a flower at his grave and kept his house as it was in remembrance of him. The Mosskin honoured him with a funeral, and named the lake behind his house after him.

Duplo negotiated treaties with Xenosia and the Refuge, and fought and defeated the Mantis Lords, befriending Krest. He and a few others later met her in the Queen’s Gardens, where they cut down a group of mantis traitors, and Duplo accidentally showed some of her weakness, vomiting acid and having some gush out of her eyes like twin waterfalls, as her body was not ready to hold a power like Unn’s, and it was too much for it.

Three days before the Smiler’s death, Lego and Duplo were both transported to the Dream Realm, where they were both put in the same embryo. Their minds and memories were stripped from them, and Lego had to endure constant pain from the conflicting essences inside him. Duplo, despite her mindlessness, tried to help him, but in doing so only prolonged his suffering. He later died, and Duplo was alone in the embryo next to the corpse of her brother.

### After the Smiler’s death

Seven years after the Smiler’s death, Duplo was finally released from her embryo, reborn as the new Unn. She rose out of Ether’s Lake to a disbelieving Scarlett, who just so happened to be visiting V at the time. She reverently set Lego’s corpse down next to her, and tearfully reunited with her and V before re-establishing herself as a leader of the Mosskin once more.

Scarlett sewed her a kimono and Duplo finally admitted her love for Scarlett, and the two became very awkward girlfriends; Duplo being aware of Scarlett’s cheating and already being in love with Paran and trying to ignore it, and Scarlett feeling guilty for it.

Duplo eventually held a funeral service for Lego, and is waiting for the Refuge to claim his body so he can be buried there, as he requested in his will.

Duplo leads the Mosskin to this day.

## Personality

Duplo is very stoic and generally tries to hide what she’s feeling from others, but to select individuals she will drop her emotional mask and reveal her true self. She always puts her people first, and overworks herself and loses sleep over them. Starting out she was new to leadership, so she made many mistakes and went power hungry, but she’s determined not to do that again.

## Abilities

As the new higher being of life and acid, she can control plants to her will, acid doesn’t hurt her, and she can spit acid. She also has a charm of hiding, but she never uses it. She is a tier 2 higher being, more powerful than her predecessor, Unn, and cannot easily be killed. She can also make Bill Cipher-esque deals using Seals of Binding, which cannot be broken. She has other abilities not yet revealed, and an odd almost telepathic way of communication with the Mosskin.

## Bonds

* Unn — her adoptive mother, who she loved with all her heart.
* Lego — her biological brother, who she is stoic towards, but still loves, even if she rarely shows it.
* V — basically her adopted child now, who she also loves with all her heart.
* Scarlett — her girlfriend, but with a very awkward relationship, where Duplo knows about her cheating and current relationship status with Paran, but tries to ignore it, while Scarlett feels guilty about it. Duplo is very in love with her, despite doing her very best not to be.
* Ether — she saw him as a kind benefactor, and even a friend.
* Vecto — a resident of her town who she holds special respect for.
* Krest — she holds a respect for him, but also has her criticisms about how he follows his heart instead of his head, and puts familial relations and love before his people.
* Smiler — she feels a mild hatred towards him, but never really interfered in his affairs, and nor he hers. She has no respect for him, and doesn’t like the way he treats his subjects. She finds him, and nearly every higher being, as you’ll soon find out, childish and temper tantrum-prone.
* Riot — she has no respect for him, and even dislikes him, but wouldn’t publicly reveal her opinions on him. She once went so far as to say he was a “slut” to Scarlett, (in private, of course).
* Andra — Duplo sort of feels bad for her, taken advantage of by the Smiler and immediately latching on to Riot, but isn’t really sure if Andra resents her position or not, and therefore does not intend to reveal her opinions or act on them.
* Iggy — she thinks him a fool.
* Hiro — she hates him even more than she hates the Smiler.
* Deilos — she respects him as a leader who can get things done.
* Deyn — she has no respect for him, and dislikes the way he treated V, as well as the objectifying way he tried to “pick her up” as a love interest in the bar where they first met. (Great first impression there, Matrix XD)
* The Radiance — Duplo holds no respect for her, and considers her like a toddler having a temper tantrum because they’re not getting enough attention.
* The Nightmare Heart — she has no opinion, except confusion about all the odd requests they make of their members.
* Ruby — respect.
* Triad — she did not like them at first, out of principle, but they grew on her and she was beginning to like them before their unfortunate death. They also shared a bond: a mutual love for Lego, though Duplo’s was sisterly and mostly withheld, while Triad’s was romantic and unrestrained.
* Blue — she feels bad for her, but doesn’t know enough about her to truly form an opinion.
* Vengan — she thinks he’s an insane psychopath, but empathizes with him having to deal with a sadistic higher being in his head, as much as she dislikes him.
* Rundwyre — she has no respect for him and thinks he’s like a child trying to become great through means he doesn’t understand. Like the Radiance, she finds him far too similar to a toddler throwing a tantrum for her liking, and doesn’t appreciate the way he treats those under his power.

## Gallery

Duplo in her casual wear. (Drawn by Vengan.)Duplo before her ascension to godhood as the new Unn.Duplo after she became the new Unn.