Harenae

Bradley Hand

**“***Got sand in your eye?***”**

― Harenae

Harenae is a non-canon plantoid made by TinMines. They are intended to eventually become a character for Rivals of Aether.

They are two plantoids combined into one body, one being a modern cactus who is the owner of the body(Harrison) and the other being a sand demigod from over a thousand and a half years ago (Arrae [pronounced Array]). They have the power to control, create, and harden sand.

## Appearance

Harenae is a cactus plantoid that's a bit on the shorter side. Their headleaf is a big desert flower with floppy, red-ish petals. They have normal green cactus skin, but have a large, yellow gem sticking from their chest with the skin around it looking darker. The gem glows yellow when Arrae is in control, and glows even more when he uses his sand powers. Their eyes are dark yellow with white pupils that get increasingly more yellow the more sand powers are used(I think you can see a pattern here). Uniquely to them, their eyes are connected like Sonic the Hedgehog’s are. Due to cacti lacking leaf skirts their usual appearance is shirtless(the gem gets itchy) with cargo shorts. After use of sand tornadoes their clothes often get torn up.

## Summary

The origin story of them is Harrison was an explorer who lived in a desert village and liked to explore the ruins nearby. He liked to collect and document the treasures that he found, solving ancient riddles with his findings. Eventually his village was put under siege from terrorists who wanted to use the village as a war base, holding several plantoids hostage and using their resources. Word spread around of a gem that gave the holder the powers of a god. Eventually Harrison figured out its location, but was confronted by the terrorists at its location. They fought and in the exchange the terrorist captain got ahold of the gem and stabbed the sharp end into Harrison’s chest, piercing directly through his heart. Where this normally would have killed him, it instead filled him with the power and consciousness of the demigod warrior of centuries past: Arrae.

Arrae was an extremely feared warrior in his time, with the power to control, create, and harden sand. These magic attributes that were gifted to him by the gods made him one of the strongest beings in the land. But due to this it caused him to have many enemies, and one day he was cursed by one of his enemies to have him be formed into a crystal. Said crystal was locked into a chamber, not to be found for over a thousand years.

Arrae, now in Harrison’s body, promptly defeated everyone in the room with ease. After the initial threat was dealt with, they conversed and explained the situation to each other. With their newfound power, the both of them soon were able to evict the terrorists from the village with relative ease, and were now dubbed Harenae

Harrison and Arrae share senses, and can communicate to each other through thoughts. They take turns over who gets control of the body, usually Harrison handles the social and thinking situations where Arrae takes the combat. Harrison is able to use the sand powers, but are much more limited than when Arrae uses it, like the equivalent of a new player to a video game compared to someone playing it since launch.

Harenae continues to explore ruins, and is able to easily defend themself and go to extra risky locations now. But they stay extra cautious in non-desert or beach locations because their powers are more limited without free sand.

## Trivia

* Harenae translated from Latin is sandRivals Sprite by Bradley