Pride

* True Form

**Pride** is an Ectonurite from the planet Anur Phaetos. He was first introduced in *An Anurable Mission*.

## Appearance

Pride has the exact same appearance as Ghostfreak. However, his eye is purple and his skin is lavender. It can be assumed his outfit would be different if he was out of the Simplicitrix. When Alan looks in the mirror, he sees himself with Pride's eyes, and when Pride talks, the reflection talks.
When Pride was temporarily separated by Alan, his chains simply went into his body, as the Simplicitrix was not attached to him.
Pride's true form is much larger. He has dark purple skin, as well as black and pale purple tentacles coming from his chest. His fingers are large, bony claws, and his head is an upside down skull with a singular eye.

## History

* At some point prior to the start of the series, Pride's DNA was sampled for the Simplicitrix. This, however, caused him to be trapped inside it.
	+ This was explored in *Character Short: Pride*. In this, Pride intended to have a "clone" of himself stored within the Simplicitrix when his DNA was sampled, given the way Ectonurite consciousness transfers with DNA. However, when the DNA sampling chamber was activated, Pride ended up being trapped within the device instead of being simply scanned.
* In *An Anurable Mission*, Pride first gained control of in the form of Blitzwulf. He later defeated Vapor while Snare-Oh. When Alan transformed into Whampire to try to test the likelihood of Pride taking control again, Pride took control almost instantly and flew towards a cave. When confronted by both the heroes and villains, Pride transformed into Frankenstrike to fight them. When the Simplicitrix timed out, it didn't differentiate between Pride and Alan, and had them in the same body. Alan then transformed into Ghostfreak to fight the Vapor and Phazz Magistreen, with Pride again taking over. Pride was defeated by Alexis Dwyer after he transformed back into human.
* Pride resided in Alan's mind after his debut.
* For whatever reason, in *Magnetic Personality*, Pride helped Alan with his NASCAR antics, but refused to sing *Fallen Kingdom* with him.
* In *RWBYA*, Pride, under Alan's command, went into Oscar's mind and then into Ozpin's mind to discover the latter's secrets. Pride then discussed with Alan what he knew of the Sin Aliens. Alan said he was "gone" after the destruction of the Simplicitrix. Pride later returned during the final fight to keep Alan from killing Salem, and also kept him safe when he was knocked out. This lead to Pride discussing the Sin Aliens with Richard Nomaly for the first time, confirming that the remaining Sin Aliens were an Appoplexian and Arburian Pelarota.
	+ In a credit scene, Pride made Alan slap himself in his sleep, and inappropriately grab Yang Xiao Long, causing the later to wake up and punch him out of the air ship.
* In *Paging Mr. Nomaly*, Pride messed with Alan's dreams when angered by Alan refusing to go back to his friends. He took control of Alan to top a high speed chase, catching the attention of the news. When they finally found Alan, Pride prevented him from running away, even forcing him to teleport to where they were. Pride was unintentionally separated from Alan with the use of Helheim's powers, which lead Alan to escape to Earth-ERTH. When Alan returned he eventually fell unconscious, something Pride called an "episode" where Alan leaves to the back of his mind and goes limp. Pride merged with Alan, causing his DNA to be put back into the Simplicitrix.
* In *Alan Normally*, Pride attempted to take control of Samael Missbrauch after the latter obtained the Stabilized Simplicitrix. However, Samael was able to convince him not to through his manipulation powers.
* In *The Awakening From a Living Nightmare*, Pride explained how the Umbra Exterreri work, and found Phantasy within the device for Alan to become him. He joined Alan in Jessica Nietzsche's dreamscape where she had been trapped by Mananofy. There, Pride was able to bypass the laws of the real world, escaping Alan's body and accessing his true form. Pride would then go on to save Jessica from her nightmare. Becoming annoyed with the constant arguing between Jessica and Alan, Pride explained his backstory as him being born knowing of his fate as a Sin Alien. To try to spite this, Pride found himself a lover by the name of Harmony and had children with her, but his family was eventually lost. He also elaborated that the true reason he wanted to be sampled for the Simplicitrix was in hopes that in a way part of him would be doing good outside of his Sin Alien fate. This backfired and resulted in him being trapped in the device. Pride uses this as a means to convince Alan to put aside his soul searching to help Jessica and make her forget Samael Missbrauch.

## Personality

Pride's name implies he is very self centered. He is also ruthless in combat. As with most other characters, he is annoyed by Alan's constant talking. Pride is very knowledgeable about the people who were DNA donors for the Simplicitrix, mentioning the Vladat that Whampire's DNA came from would probably be mutated or dead by now, similar to how Darama was mutated after donating his Vulpimancer DNA.
Pride describes his pride as something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. He says he was so prideful that he thought he could spite the universe's plans of him being a Sin Alien, and failed, twice. This resulted in the loss of his family (which he admits he isn't entirely sure he loved to begin with) as well as him being trapped in the Simplicitrix.
Despite his prideful nature, Pride reluctantly admits that Alan reminds him of his late wife Harmony, and this is the reason he tries to keep Alan in check.

## Powers

* Being an Ectonurite, Pride has all the powers of his species.
* Pride resides in Alan's mind, meaning he can take control of Alan, as seen every time Alan transformed in *An Anurable Mission*. He can also take control of his human form. If if Alan is transformed into Ghostfreak, Pride is automatically in control, as Alan is sort of transforming into Pride.

## Weaknesses

* Being an Ectonurite, Pride has all the weaknesses of his species.
* Pride typically can only take control of Alan's human self when Alan allows him to. However, he was shown to force himself into control in *RWBYA* before Alan could kill Salem. This was also seen again later in *Paging Mr. Nomaly*, implying that if Alan has less will, he has less ability to keep Pride from gaining control.
* Pride's control can be countered by Alexis using her powers to calm him down enough for Alan to take over again, as seen with both Blitwulf and Ghostfreak in *An Anurable Mission*.
* Pride is bound to the Simplicitrix, and also the chains given to him by the device. However, in some situations (such as a dream world), Pride can escape these confines, and access his true form.
* Although not inherently demonic, Pride's true form can be harmed by Indombrittable's holy light.

## Apparances

* *An Anurable Mission* (debut)

After this episode, Pride is planned to appear in every episode. The only episode he has not appeared in since then was *Merry CRSMS*, in which he was gone during the Simplicitrix's destruction.

## Trivia

* Due to being trapped in the Simplicitrix, Pride is not mutated like Darama was.
* In *The Alan 10 Skits*, Pride leaves and enters Alan's body at will.