Polymer

Everyone's favorite goopy little staff member!

## Life

### Pre-SMP

Polymer was created in a lab ███ years ago. After unknown complications, the lab fell into ruins, and Poly drifted throughout the world, dying and being regrown periodically as they faced the dangers of the wilds. This was stopped one day though when they were found and brought into the castle.

### Kid days

As a young kid, they were unruly and unable to help around much, thus being used mostly as a therapy goat and involuntary janitor. Her slime body picked up debris around the castle and with a quick spray down of water she's washed off like a living mop.

Her charm was undeniable though as she quickly befriended many of the staff despite her many, many issues. At this time in her life, she was not used to having a permanent home and had to undergo lots of training to keep her in the castle and safe from both harming herself and others. Her appetite was much larger than everyone else as well, needing food to grow. She could eat just about anything, but fresh meat was her favorite. Many chickens and other smaller livestock went missing until they had her trained and under control, but many table scraps and other trash was also consumed by her in favor of throwing them away.

Her only real threat to others at this time was her toxic blue goop. Many species have to cover their skin in order to safely make contact with Polymer for extended periods of time for safety reasons. There are exceptions to this, an example being other slime creatures. Her teeth were dull and so were her horns, besides a bruised calf from headbutting she could do little harm on purpose unless you happened to be small enough for her to consume whole.

She was often kept in a baby cage or bottles to keep her under control or out of the way especially when guests were visiting. She'd often slip into the castle's pipes or ceilings, walls, and sewers when left unattended for too long.

### Teenage Years

At this point Polymer has grown a tad bit, growing lankier and more awkward somehow.

Now that Polymer had been properly tamed, it was time to begin training her for jobs to help around the castle, along with other useful commands for her to follow. This was when she began to be trained as a guard, staff had no idea how large she would grow so this job was largely a shot in the dark for them. In the early days of training Polymer remained chained in place in order to stay in place, this was not distressing for it but she was very restless.

During these years she gained the same attitude many human teenagers do, her larger size and talkative nature at this time proved to be a pain for many to calm. Time-out corner ended up as a common place to find her.

### Full Maturity

As a fully grown adult, Polymer had mellowed out and matured since it's younger devious days.

She has a much more concrete job among the castle now, working mainly as transportation and a fully trained guard. Polymer's size makes hauling cargo and trailers easy, much easier than horses, with the added bonus of being a formidable opponent in combat and easily able to hold her ground making dangerous or dark travels possible as well. Her intimidating stature and fantastic senses make guarding a fantastic job for her as well. More often than not she wears a large and comfortable harness that serves as both protection for her and for others from her toxic skin. She's taken to being trained greatly now and can be ridden and directed with little issue. Her new lazy nature though requires many bargains to be made with Polymer, often the exchange of food or playtime to get her to do something.

### The Egg

During the early research of the egg Polymer was around young adult age, not yet at her full size but quickly approaching it as her horns and teeth grew. While she never came into direct contact with the egg itself the vines that littered the SMP had caught everyone's attention, including hers. She couldn't help but feel threatened by these new growths, tearing them apart and consuming them to clear the castle of them. The staff designated her one of the main disposal methods of the vines as she faced no consequences for consuming these vines, so far.

As the Egg's power grew and as many people fell under the influence of it, as did Polymer. The vines she had been consuming began to take effect as they stopped being digested, instead lingering within her and slowly controlling her. They could not be safely removed, as they wrapped around her skeleton and lingered deep within her body.

Under the control of the Egg, she became uncontrollably aggressive, as if everyone and everything around her that wasn't part of the egg was a threat. She had to be fought off and physically harmed in order to keep her at bay as she prowled around the outskirts of the castle. An attempt to restrain her proved to work for a while before she managed to get loose from them, one of her horns snapping in the process.

It took until the Egg itself was contained for her to return to normal, now smaller in size, having suffered so much combat resulting in losing slime. She would recover and continue to grow, weary of harming her humanoid friends from here on out and hating the sight of red plants. Her horn oddly enough would not recover, staying chipped at the end.

## Appearance

Overall, her body is always orange while her insides are blue. She lacks organs, but has a rubbery skeleton that cannot be seen inside her semi transparent body. She has various bones along her spine poking out of her body though, and these can be seen clearly. The rest of her body is a slime-like substance that can be penetrated, torn, or separated with no harm. Beyond her orange skin is a purely blue slime substance similar to blood, that makes up all of her insides.

Despite her slimy biology, her body cannot be rearranged to appear differently. Her head cannot be moved to a different place on her, her limbs cannot be rearranged or swapped out. Her skeleton does not allow this.

*Her appearance changes with age.*

As a kid, she resembles a young goat (a kid) with small horns and big ears and beady eyes. Her tail is about the size of her body though, and resembles that of a smooth reptile's. Her front two legs harbor little clawed paws, while her back legs are hooves like that of a goat.

In her teenage phase, she grows longer and slinkier with just as much of an attitude. She becomes tall before she gets any metaphorical meat on her bones, resulting in a lanky mess of slime. One of her horns begins to grow, while the other stays at its nub phase.

As she grows to maturity, she takes on a more tiger-like appearance. She becomes much taller, much heavier, and much stronger too. Her face matures to no longer be that of a young animal and more so that of a menacing predator with large teeth and a piercing glare. Their horns grow unevenly, they become tall and sharp and stand straight upward at different lengths. Her body becomes much heftier, pseudo-fluff lining her neck and her spinal bones grow longer as well. Her tail is smaller than her body now, but still grew with her.

## Biology

As a slime-like creature, Polymer cannot feel pain and can survive a barrage of wounds with no hindrance. Until decapitated or other limbs are cut off she will not be phased. Even as she loses a limb or more they can be regrown over time or easily reattached, head included, in the meantime she will be incapable on movement. A decapitated Polymer will not be able to move it's body beyond twitching, but will remain conscious and in full control of her head.

If "killed" Polymer can be regrown in a nutrient liquid with a sample of their previous body. The regrown Polymer will have amnesia and only some deep-rooted memories in-tact. Polymer is a slime-like creature and as such, can move like liquid, fitting in small spaces and clinging to walls or ceilings. It can be mixed in with other liquids and it's "fur" is relatively sticky and toxic to the skin.

Taking a sample from Polymer and regrowing it can result in an additional Polymer! These two Polymers will be instinctively drawn to each other and will combine to be one being though, memories and everything combined. As such, it's impossible to have two Polymers in a room together.

Not much can harm or kill Polymer permanently, it would take being completely torn apart or decayed with no evidence left to kill her. Alternatively, she is not built for harsh temperatures. The extreme heat or chill can put her in a coma, decaying her body given a decade or so depending on her age.