Carrie

Carrie Stone (Tam'Ra by birth) is part of a humanoid subset of the Husk species known as Elvish Remnants. She lives with friends **Linda Lam**, **Lani Sykes**, Clark and Sir Cross on the uncharted planet **Imperium**. She is commonly acknowledged as the driving force behind the Gusbusters initiative, and is a sworn enemy of the Gus Corporation (Guscorp.)

## Appearance and Powers

Carrie's green skin, red irises and greenish-gray sclera are all typical of her species, as is her tremendous stature and superhuman strength. Because of their glitched nature and reptilian ancestry, Remnants possess navels and give birth to live children, but they lack nipples despite the females producing milk. Remnants have thus evolved to scrounge most of their nutrients from rocks and minerals rather than breastmilk, and the consumption of rocks is a universal practice in Remnant culture.

Remnants also possess astounding digestive systems that can compress digested food into dense, senseless stones, which take the place of feces. These unusual traits have reinforced the common conception that Elvish Remnants will eat almost anything. Though this stigma is mostly unfounded, Carrie's love of eating and lack of pickiness directly supports it in the eyes of the public.

Carrie's appetite is unrivaled, and even her well-padded form does not reveal the true depths of her hunger. Friends claim she never refuses an offer of food, and is as close to bottomless as any mortal can feasibly come. In addition, Carrie is openly voracious, and her favourite meal is an entire cow, which she consumes live and whole. Her terrifying eating habits tend to put off strangers, but those close to her seem to have little to fear, as Carrie reserves her appetite for food and enemies. She has been known to devour Guscorp workers and officials, and shows no remorse in doing so. Imperium is a largely lawless place outside of its major towns and cities, and Carrie's behaviour falls within the 'eye for eye' legal standards of most societies, despite its disturbing nature. Though those who fear her tend to stay out of her way, Carrie herself is known to be highly accommodating and friendly toward strangers, at least until they have proven themselves to be her enemies.

Like all Remnants, Carrie possesses a grasp of Earth Magic which complements her physical strength. She is known as a formidable force in battle due to her power and also her natural fortitude. With thicker skin and denser bones than most mortals, Carrie is extraordinarily difficult to harm. When in dangerous situations, she can rely on her powerful stoneform magic to encase herself in fluid bedrock and endure otherwise un-survivable assaults. Carrie also possesses an above-average poison tolerance and resistance to heat and cold, but due to her glitched nature, she vulnerable to the rest of the arcane spectrum and is especially helpless against Datamancy. She also lacks the ability to swim, and has an ingrained fear of sinking. Finally, although nekos and gatos do not bother her, Carrie is terrified of wild and domestic cats, utterly refusing to remain in their presence.

Because of remnants' lack of nipples, they are not held to the same standards of dress as most of Imperium, and frequently move about half-nude. Carrie has come to prefer the traditional garb of her people, finding it more comfortable, but she refuses to dress up. Overdressing is seen as temptress behaviour in Remnant culture, and fear of disrespecting cultural norms still figures heavily in Carrie's mind.

## Biography

Carrie was born in the Imperial Year 906 RH on Ancestor Isle, named Tam'Ra and belonging to mixed parents: Husk father Silas Stone and Remnant mother Tam'Lin. Like most Remnants, she spent her childhood and teenage years on the Isle and prepared to marry into a religiously significant Remnant family. Tam'Ra was the third of several siblings, and only the second to reach adulthood. Her older brother Tam'Sho, also a remnant, served as a mentor to her throughout her childhood, but her father assumed these duties after Sho was killed in a human-Husk border conflict near Blam Beach. Though the young Tam'Ra blamed the humans for the loss of her brother, her resentment dwindled over time as she began to educate herself with what books were available on the isle. Tam'Ra developed decent Remnant literacy through this reading, but it has not translated particularly well to her grasp of basic Imperial, and though she speaks it fluently, Carrie often has trouble reading and writing in that more widely-used language.

Unlike her dislike of humans, Carrie's hatred of the relatively new Gus Corporation has never abated. As an avowed protector of the natural order, Carrie finds Guscorp's practices offensive on a spiritual level, and swore at a young age to fight against their lust for progress. Though her ideology has shifted since then to more of an individualistic viewpoint, her refusal to tolerate Guscorp has never faded. That said, she would have likely remained on Ancestor Isle and kept her assaults on Guscorp confined to the realm of the verbal had she not been abruptly exiled from the isle in 930 RH at the age of 21.

Carrie's exile resulted from a forbidden liaison with a travelling Selkie named Swift, who would coax the impressionable Tam'Ra into stealing food from the Isle's rations so he could feed it to her. This relationship was a turning point in Tam'Ra's life. It was through Swift that she took on the name of Carrie, which she at first kept secret but later adopted as her preferred name. Swift's feeder tendencies also awoke Carrie's formidable appetite, and in the years following the start of their relationship, her gluttony became too extensive to hide, and she was sentenced to permanent exile for robbing the Isle of so much of its food supply. When she sought Swift in the days surrounding her exile, he was nowhere to be found. Alone and cast out to sea on a meager raft, Carrie eventually washed ashore on the far off coast of Olive Valley, where she met the bone golem Clark. After discovering that Clark too was an exile, Carrie became fast friends with the skeleton, and has remained close with him since.

Together, Clark and Carrie built a home on the ridge between Olive Valley and the neighboring Pastrami Bluffs. Their presence there attracted the attention of the Air Knight Cross and traveling fighter Lani Sykes, who would eventually become permanent housemates. The arrival of Sluglam Healer Linda -who Carrie first encountered attempting to rob the house of its food supply- completed the quintet that is today known as the Gusbuster initiative.

Though it did not take much convincing to bring her new makeshift family aboard her anti-Guscorp cause, Carrie also has a history of conflict with the nearby Fire Lord Charon, and it is said that the only thing keeping her household from catching fire is the blessing of the Air Lord Zephryn, Charon's closest ally in the Elemental Pantheon. Carrie's lack of compatibility with Charon is largely due to her friendship with Lani, who is an avowed enemy of the Fire Lord, but Carrie herself has publicly voiced her dislike of Charon and his consistently hostile behavior.

It is commonly accepted that Carrie's public demonstrations against Guscorp did not begin in earnest until early 932 RH (present year,) a fact which makes the scope of her attacks on the company quite impressive. Carrie and her fellow Gusbusters are credited with chasing Guscorp out of Olive Valley, causing repeated damage to their advanced oil rig which sits far off the valley's coast, and coming to the aid of the far off Desert Pigmen, whom Guscorp has targeted through manipulating their naturally aggressive Mountain cousins. The clashes between the Gusbusters and Guscorp have become so well known that even some Elemental Dukes and Duchesses have expressed their amusement and interest in the struggle, though the Elementals themselves remain uninterested in Guscorp's affairs.

## Relationships

Carrie claims that though she had a healthy love life on Ancestor Isle prior to her exile, she has not had anything remotely resembling a relationship since that point. Her reasons for this shift are unclear, and she expresses little interest in finding a mate at this dangerous stage of her life.

## Notable Appearances

* Carrie is one of Axlwisp's more frequently drawn characters, and has appeared in comics, art sequences, stories, and most other forms of media used by Axlwisp. The comic *Clark* depicts a condensed version of her first contact with the bone golem Clark and the subsequent beginnings of the Gusbuster family.
* Carrie is a playable character in both ***Axugaem1*** and ***Axugaem2**.* She is a permanent member of the party in Axugaem1 but is only a temporary character in the second installment.

## Trivia

* Carrie's small skull totem is a gift from her mother that she wears at all times. The totem is precious to her, and she has been known to risk her life to retrieve it.
* Carrie remains in contact with her parents through her father's bomb shop, which has existed in various forms in settlements across Imperium. Her father frequently moves, often after accidentally destroying his own shop and enraging the locals.
* Despite her adherence to her culture's norms, Carrie strongly dislikes being called out for nudity, finding this situation embarrassing.