Nermal

### Birthdate

66 millions years ago, October 29th 1986 as a supposed date of birth in our era, if he was the age at which Joly brought him back to life.

### Favorite food

Chocolate

Nermal is Kitty Pride's main antagonist, he comes from millions of years ago and lived among dinosaurs, he's a skelynx, the species that has served to define all of today's felines, he was brought back to the present by Joly and her power of temporal manipulation to help Gatto learn magic, but after he did so, he decided to mess with the rest of the cast for entertainment.

## Personnality

Nermal is a brutal, unemotional feline who will always force his way in to get what he wants. He is extremely calm and remains in total control of the situation no matter what happens, even when attacked. Having grown up in a time when violence was normal, as opposed to modern times, Nermal has a visceral animosity and desire to fight, and can't understand why people don't solve their problems with violence.

The various arrangements in his cave in the wool forest and the way his kobolds talk about him also indicate that Nermal is satisfied with ordering his kobolds (and SkullCat) around and easily make authority among them, but also hints that he's lazy to an extent.

## Powers

Nermal's power is to manipulate people by substituting their strength for his own.

When Nermal physically touches someone while activating his power, if he puts strength into it that is greater than that of the person he touches, a skull appears on his body and Nermal can control that person from a distance as if he were them, or give them orders. If Nermal withdraws his control, that person retains the strength Nermal used to control him, and he can control as many people as he likes at once.

Nermal usually uses this power to enslave weaker people, but he also uses it to make them more powerful, by controlling their minds and then immediately withdrawing his control.

The Flesh Star gives Nermal access to all the powers acquired by Pluto for as long as SkullCat remains in his body. He explains to Gatto during her kidnapping that he himself doesn't know what powers the Flesh Star gives him, so he usually tries things at random and see if they work.

## History

2. Nermal lived a normal life, ruled the Jurassic and built up an army of kobolds, then supposedly died of old age after decades of boredom. In SkullCat's flashback, we see him confronting and domesticating a t-rex.
3. Nermal was brought back to modern times millions of years later by Joly's time powers, who, at Drake's request, was looking for someone who would be able to give Gatto powers, and found his name in a book listing people who had eaten flesh stars in history.
4. While he was planning to ignore Joly and Drake's request and eat him and Gatto, SkullCat noticed that Joly and Drake's story had interested him anyway, and to entertain him he proposed to steal Gatto's feelings as well, and incorporate them into her relatives, whom she could only get back by killing them.
5. Looking at Gatto's memories, Nermal sees that Gatto is a gentle girl who has had an unhappy life, and takes a sudden interest in her after hearing her purr. Eventually, Nermal agrees to give Gatto powers, and gives her an extremely powerful distance-canceling power without SkullCat knowing about it.
6. Nermal sends everyone to a distant planet with the Flesh Star's powers, and remodels the planet to resemble places on Pluto that evoke things to Gatto, he also integrates places made especially for him into the planet, and recreates dinosaurs and kobolds with his powers to feel more at home and get the Jurassic climate he was used to.
7. In preparation for Gatto's quest for feelings and his future entertainment, Nermal kidnaps Fineas, the nostalgia, to ask him to use his powers to create a receptacle for Gatto's anger, as he didn't know who to give it to.
8. Once the wrath has been created, Nermal realizes that he has kept part of Fineas's personality, and deprives him of his feelings too, turning him into a docile being.
9. As SkullCat also wants a body, he orders Nostalgia to create five sons of Anger, of different appearances, so that SkullCat can take the time to choose a body to reside in, as well as to store the feelings stolen from the wrath, and to add drama, he also tells him that if he kills one of his sons, he will eat him. Nermal tests his power on modern species to make sure he can possess today's animals too.
10. Nermal creates a cave in the wool forest where he goes with his kobolds and waits for Gatto to wake up, meanwhile he continues to learn about Gatto by observing her memories and decides to bring in other people from Gatto's environment whose backgrounds he gradually learns about, including Bakura, whom he will place in Drake and Gatto's path on purpose so that they can save her, and Magus.

### Kitty Pride

2. Nermal eventually kills the mouse by stepping on him when he's defeated by Drake and Gatto, he's accompanied by Magus, to whom Nermal hasn't yet found a role at this point.
3. SkullCat eventually chooses the second Son of Wrath as the body in which to reside, and Nermal sends Gatto's wrath to kill him, then uses his powers to absorb his body and give it to SkullCat.
4. When Gatto, Drake and Bakura arrive at the entrance of the Tear Abyss, Nermal decides that SkullCat's suggested quest for Gatto's feelings can wait, and that he'd rather discuss with her what felines have become through the ages, inviting her and her group to join him in his cave by taking the Tear Train to the Wool Forest.
5. Mai arrives in front of Nermal just before Gatto's group, and asks Nermal to send him to Magus, which Nermal accepts.
6. Once in front of the group, Nermal explains his intentions, but Drake refuses to give up Gatto to Nermal, so Nermal sends SkullCat to deal with them, and sends Bakura, whom he doesn't know what to do with, to fight the remaining Sons of Wrath, whom he also doesn't know what to do with.
7. After Drake has defeated SkullCat, Nermal appears to see how their fight is progressing, and stops a surprise attack from Drake with two fingers. He then rips off Drake's snout and kills him without the slightest difficulty, before kidnapping Gatto as he had originally planned.

2. Nermal begins to discuss the history of felines with Gatto.
3. Nermal sends kobolds to the outskirts of Wolftown to stock up on supplies and hunt wolves for food. The kobolds confront Mai, whom Magus is training at the time.
4. Nermal sends bears, Romi Wedge, Anxiety, Doubt and RockLiger after Magus, who hasn't been tracking Joly as Nermal ordered.
5. Nermal tastes Gatto's chocolate for the first time and discovers modern cooking. He explains to Gatto what his era was like and how his powers work.
6. Nermal hears Mai and Bakura fighting SkullCat in the prison and arrives, frees Drake and Gatto, blocks one of Mai's attacks and defeats all 4 of them without the slightest difficulty. He then kills Mai by knocking him to the ceiling of his cave, and leaves, taking the doubt with him. Now that he's finished chatting with Gatto, Nermal decides to let them go, as he wants to see Magus meet Mai in Drake's company because he's Joly's son, and insists that the story of Magus and Joly is a particular favourite of his.

2. Nermal kills Joly and leaves her corpse to rot in her home, causing Gatto to recover her joy.
3. Nermal uses the powers of the Flesh Star to create the sub-place and Gatto's liminal space and places a copy of Joly there, created with his powers, and also puts the anxiety there after using his magic to possess his mind and make him stronger, he then moves into the sub-place to wait for Gatto, he creates creatures to put in the group's path which include the House Eater.
4. When the group arrives in the sub-place, Nermal speaks to them in their heads to explain where they are, what he likes, his relationship with Gatto now that they're nearing the end of this story and explains that he plans to live apart from civilization once they all return to pluto.
5. Nermal confronts the group with the intention of stealing Gatto from them for good, but Joly's powers in heaven prevent him from winning the fight even with his infinite powers, and he ends up bored in the long run. He finally decides to abandon the idea and send them all back to Pluto in a fit of frustration.
6. An outro indicates that Nermal is still there and is now on pluto.

## Relationships

 SkullCat
 The doubt
 Mai Coccolo
 Magus Marthym
 Julia RockLiger
 Drake Biggs

## Trivia

* Nermal's main inspiration is a mix of Nosferatu Zodd and Kaoru Hanayama.
* Nermal was initially one of Gatto's feeling and initially had a purple, smaller and lighter form, the appearance he currently has was planned as a transformation for his last battle.
* Nermal's name is a reference to Garfield.
* The "Unholy cat" nickname Mia gives Nermal is a reference to Tod the Grim Reaper, an rpg maker game.