Cuddle

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## Description

### Appearance

Cuddle stands 10 feet tall in height with dark deer like horns coming out of her head, and slender body, an androgynous look to it. They wear light clothes that are tattered from travel as they don't particularly care much about their appearance. Short dark brown hair with golden highlights, a pointed face with almond shaped eyes that hold a dark look to them, a straight narrow nose with full lips that always seem to be turned so Cuddle looks like they are frowning. The main physical characteristic that people would notice is the lick golden lacquer lines that seem to hold their body together. They are still regaining some of their motor functions so its very easy for them to get hurt, which is why they air on the side of caution rather than recklessness. Their blood is white, not the normal red that a human's blood is.
### Personality

Cuddle is a reserved person tending not to speak to much because its hard for them to do so, being brought back to life the way that they did has been taxing on their body. Its getting easier as life goes on, but she is more so quiet and polite to others. They can be reliable if asked for something and generally doesn't wish any harm upon another person. They will protect those they cherish. She sees herself as a mentor and protector if anything and only sees a reason to judge others harshly based on their actions. Other than that, they are generally supportive as long as its not hurting anyone else and if that hurt gets to them, then they see a reason to go after said person. They believe that they can trust people but also understand not to give it out freely to everyone. They are a little embarrassed by their appearance, but don't really like letting others know that and they don't think that they can change much about their life as of this moment and are content right now.
### Skills and Abilities

They're a type of mythological creature of my own design, having increased agility and strength as well as being used to harsher elements like the cold, not that it doesn't affect them, but they can handle it better than a human would. A forest dweller that uses its impeccable sense of direction to help those lost out of the woods. They can't really die as long as their body is found within a reasonable time and put back together using the melted gold and lacquer from the trees of the forest, though this does cause the motor functions they have to be slowed as they are recovering from dying.
## Biography

There is mythology that talks of monsters in the latent spruce taigas of the Overworlds. To be honest with you, I never believed the stories that talked of these monsters. It seemed like something to scare children with so they would go to bed on time and continue to be good for their parents sake. The word 'monster' was never really used to describe the deer-kin that roamed the forest. Instead it was more aligned with the words beautiful and ethereal. That’s what Cuddle was always called when travelers roamed the forests she had lived in most of her life. The travelers never approached her because of her otherworldly looking nature and because it was relatively easy to scare them off. People are scared of what they don’t truly understand and never seem to have the time to understand what was seen as different or supernatural. Still, there were some who dared to speak to the deer kin. The travelers that did follow Cuddle as she roamed the taiga in search of food and animals to hunt seldom talked to her only asking for directions and then moving on when they had their fill of watching the being as she went about her day. Eventually, Cuddle came to notice that kids were getting lost in the woods from a nearby village. She would see them sometimes, but would end up scaring them so when bringing them back to the village it was quite hard to deal with a kicking screaming child. The families were thankful for her diligence on getting the children that did get lost in the forest back to their parents safely. The village never seemed to have a problem with Cuddle being around beside the fact that they had to duck to get into their houses being almost 10 feet tall with a stark stature to match and large stag like horns coming out of her head. It was easy to be friends with the village people when it was convenient for the deerkin. Cuddle would mostly come into the village to bring back children who had gotten themselves lost and would sell dried meats and items that the deerkin had gathered in the forest in order to make money so the cycle of the deerkin hunting for food and pelts and the villagers taking it for trades or money could continue. After some time of Cuddle not being around, the villagers were starting to get worried and started going into the forest in search of her. It was a long process of sending out search party after search party and them coming back with nothing that a lead finally happened. A piece of Cuddle’s clothing was found with a white-ish fluid that had dried and been caked onto the scrap of cloth. The villagers didn’t know what to think of it, but used hunting dogs in order to find the deer kin that had treated them so kindly. What was seen was not a pretty sight, the deerkin having been eviscerated, leaving a gruesome scene for many with a weak stomach having lost the food in their bellies, body parts found in places close to where the torso had been left, laying on the cold dark ground of the forest, splashing the dark colored trees with white. The white-ish fluid had been pouring out of the orifices of the body which confirmed the villager’s suspicions considering the scrap of cloth from earlier smelled like blood. The villagers had only seen Cuddle’s kind in the mythology books lining the walls of the library in their town. It only talked of legends in which if a deerkin of Cuddle’s kind was to die or if the body was chopped up and messed with, that it could be put back together with melted gold lacquer which acted a binder to the white-ish blood that leaked from the deerkin’s body. The village set to work in gathering the body of the deerkin and preserving it so they would have time to make the golden lacquer. They took portions of melted gold and ratioed the measurement with natural lacquer that came from the trees in the forest and painted it on the body parts of the deerkin. It was a task that took hours of careful measurements and painting in order to put their protector back together. Cuddle’s body was soon put back together and it was several days before they woke up from the coma that had been induced from being well; in layman's terms, dead. She had awoken one night cold and dressed in white clothing to the villagers all in sermon praying for her safe return to the living world. Upon seeing her, they rejoiced and helped her regain her motor functions because coming out of the coma had left her muscles atrophied and the deerkin feeling weakened. It was then that Cuddle had decided it was best to leave the village and travel away from the spruce taiga she had been living in for most of her quiet life. The days of travel turned into weeks and months and eventually Cuddle came upon a new civilization that wasn’t really known to her at the time as Cedar. It was an interesting place filled with interesting people and while she didn’t seem to know them, she only wanted to be around others for whatever reason, it made her feel safe.
## Relationships

### Cursive - The Ex Multiverse Traveler

Cuddle first met Cursive by sort of wandering over to his house to which she heard a fox cry coming from there as he stepped out to meet her. From there, she built her house on the beach a little farther from his bunker. They got to talking and for the most part have become good friends, experiencing the village slowly becoming bigger and electing a mayor. Cuddle views Cursive as a kid, even though he is an adult by the way that he seems to make stupid decisions on the fly. Cuddle was saved by him twice, first when she had lost feelings in legs due to her previous injuries and nightmare that had spurred those injuries to become worse and the second when Cuddle had experienced a cave in leaving her stuck underground. Eventually his actions came to a head when he got himself killed trying to stop Zombie from turning on The Machine to which after coming back from a long week of being dead, he was promptly yelled at by Cuddle for his stupidity in dealing with the situation and told him to grow up.
### Jayden - The Mage in Blue

Cuddle met Jayden along with Suni and Cursive almost all in the same day. From what Cuddle can tell, Jayden seemed a little bit easier to rile up and had random bursts of energy at times when around friends. He also seemed a little mysterious when Cuddle first met them, but in light of Jayden's house being blown up and losing his kid in the aftermath as well as his own life, he became depressed and started to keep to himself more after the fact. Cuddle has tired to be there for him in his moments of grief, but has found it hard to be around due to her own condition. From then on, Cuddle hasn't really seen them since then besides the appearances at festivals and the signing of the Village Chart. After a month of no contact, Jayden came back to the village to catch up with friends and caught Cuddle in a conversation in which he had mentioned two old friends by the name of Dawn and Robin who he used to go to Magic School with.
### Suni - The Single Mother

Cuddle met Suni along with Jayden and Cursive pretty early in Cuddle moving to the village. As she got to know Suni, she found that she was a loving mother to three of the kids in the village and is the therapist that shares an office with the detective. From what Cuddle can tell, Suni is a strong woman with an even stronger need to protect her kids from harm. Cuddle also sees how much she cares for people in the village as some residents seem to care more about what they can bring to the table more than taking care of themselves. Cuddle feels calmed in their presence and knows that if Suni is around, there's other friends trailing not far behind.
### Zombie - The Aggressive Ex-Lawyer

Cuddle has had multiple encounters with Zombie on multiple occasions all ranging from somewhat calm conversation to Zombie's more rambunctious side of his personality coming out and him taking over said conversation. From the start, Cuddle didn't really like Zombie mainly because of his aggressiveness towards others and how that seems to more likely get him in trouble than a cat is to bathe in water. Cuddle's dislike for him more recently showed itself when the machine went off and killed Cursive who Zombie claims to be his best friend. Since then, Cuddle has not seen him because he was kicked out of the village for his misdeeds.
### Liz Lizzerd - The Cedar Village Mayor

From the talks that Cuddle has sat in on regarding the making of the government when Liz had won the election, she views Liz as a hardworking and very homely person. From the conversation she has had with Liz, she can also see that the lizard person seems slightly overworked, but perseveres in the face of uncertainty and hardship especially when it came to the situation regarding Zombie and his machine exploding. Cuddle can only imagine how stressful it is to run a village and keep people from committing crimes.
### Ina - The Snooty Elf

Cuddle hasn't really spoken to Ina and seems to only see them when certain events come up that Ina wants to observe. Based off of passing comments that Ina has made to others, she seems more likely to trust a garden fairy than she is the people that have come into her village, especially considering the stories that Cuddle has been told recounting the tale of Zombie and Ina's great fight and subsequent make up? Who really knows what goes on. Ina to Cuddle at least seem a little snotty save for the fact that Ina gave her a shiny peridot while visiting her library with others. Other than that, Cuddle tends to avoid the elf and is sure Ina does the same to her.
### Vi - The Dreaming Detective

Cuddle met Vi in the trail associated with the explosion that took Jayden's house and child away, from there they learned that that the goat hybrid was a detective for the village hell bent on figuring out who committed the afore mentioned crime. Cuddle also noticed that Vi seemed to have become a workaholic that spent a lot of time with the Suni who also worked as a therapist in their shared office space. In further conversation that Vi and Cuddle have had, Cuddle sees Vi as a fun loving guy who has expertise in certain things like detective work, but seems more or less naïve on most other things regarding the world and seems easily manipulated due to him growing up in a sheltered setting. In finding out that Cedar was his brother in a rather dramatic show performed by Cedar, Vi became slightly depressed for reasons slightly unknown to Cuddle, but she surmised that it was because of the shock of the secret finally coming out that Vi had a long lost brother. Cuddle also knows Vi as the goat that got second place in the election nd is part of the mayors cabinet.
### Cedar - The False Human

Cuddle has met Cedar on occasion, but has only been truly introduced to them once in regards to Vi finding out that they were in fact also a goat hybrid and Vi's brother. Cuddle does think that the way that it happened also seemed a little dramatic on Cedar's part, but with how naïve that Vi seemed at the time, it was definitely needed. Cuddle also views Cedar as this diplomatic person more because of the way that he holds himself compared to other people, but also sees that Cedar can be condescending towards others at times, especially Vi. Cuddle also knows that Cedar is part of Liz's Mayoral Cabinet, but has yet to make it to any of the meetings.
### Dylan - The Reticent Lumberjack

Cuddle has seen Dylan around and knows of his shop in the village but finds him to be a rather odd duck compared to the other villagers, often giving copious amounts of food on occasion to people, but for the most part, not really speaking unless addressed by other. It makes Cuddle think that he has more secrets hiding underneath that bushy mustache than he is willing to tell. Cuddle has met Greg as well, a reformed pillager that was taken in by the lofty lumberjack and stays in a small home by Dylan's house. Cuddle also knows that he is part of the mayor's cabinet and seems well liked by most of the villagers.
### Neptune - The Winged Wonder

Cuddle has met Neptune on occasion, but doesn't really know much about them besides the fact that they became a member of the Mayor's cabinet and almost always seems to be willing to lend a hand for anything that might be happening in the village. Cuddle is curious to know more about them, but can't seem to find them during the day. Neptune also showed up around the same time that Cuddle did and is still getting used to the village.
### Larrikin - The Duke of the Tundra

Cuddle has seen Larrikin around and knows that he runs the general store in the village market, but has never really spoken to him besides being tagged with the Tag Knife while in Eba's tavern. He seems withdrawn from the village in a way with how he has a mansion right across the water from the harbor of the village, other than that, Cuddle knows that he is part of the mayor's cabinet and seems like a nice fellow who is into music considering the instrument that he carries on his back.
### Sprocket - The Panda Mechanic

Cuddle has seen Sprocket around and seems a little uneasy towards bear. Pan to her seems a little too nice and also quiet, too quiet. Quiet people usually have something to hide right; though that might be Cuddle knows that pan is also apart of the mayor's cabinet and seemed to be abruptly added by Liz. Cuddle does really know much else about pan and decided that it is best to stay away.
### Stik - The OtherWorlder

Cuddle met Stik when Zombie's machine went off and caused the explosion. Cuddle was bombarding him with question in the aftermath of the event about Cursive and couldn't really think of much else to do because they were panicking about where Cursive might be and if they were alright only to realize that he had died to the explosion. Cuddle took Stik back to their house and said to remain there till Cursive came back, it was only then that Cursive came back a week later that Stik was able to build a house of his own and move his stuff out of Cuddle's house. From what Cuddle knows of Stik, Cursive and him have somewhat rocky relationship due to what happened in Everglow. She has also learned that Stik is deathly afraid of water in any form, but overall has a pretty calm composure to him.
### Lunar - The Watchful Guard

Cuddle has met Lunar and has flirted with him on occasion more so to get a rise out of him as he seems to be withdrawn from the other residents of the village. Cuddle has been on adventures with him and from what she can see, he seems to have a sort of bad sense of direction that has gotten him lost multiple times both in and outside the village. Cuddle views him as a kind man with the occasional outburst if something seems to catch him off guard or anger him, however, he seems to have gotten better in that regard. Lunar has been busy with the Village Watch job that he has so Cuddle hasn't really had time to talk to him or drink with him even though Lunar owes them a drink.
### Ash - The Abandoned Child

Cuddle met Ash through Suni and at the start of the deerkin knowing the child, they had found out that Ash had been stabbed several times in and left for dead in the forests of Cedar village to which Vi and Suni had found her like that. Cuddle views Ash as a little bit shy, but can also be adventurous which can sometimes get the kid in trouble with Suni or Vi. Cuddle knows of both Harry, Ghost and Sam being friends with Ash. Cuddle is glad that Ash is protected by someone, but also worries them from time to time due to Ash not remembering much about their childhood or what happened to them regarding the state they were in when they came to village.
### Harry - The Child in Ice

Cuddle met Harry as Suni was showing him around the village, she then learned that he had been stuck in a cryopod somewhere a bit away from the village and had just woken up. From there, she saw him become friends with the rest of the kids in the village and also get hurt in the process of helping Zombie with his affairs in a supposed drug deal, Cursive was to blame for him missing an eye. Other than that, Cuddle doesn't really talk to Harry that much besides seeing him in the aftermath of the machine explosion injured and disoriented like everyone else.
### Sam - The Hell Child

Contrary to the title, Sam is not a bad kid at least as far as Cuddle knows, she just knows that Sam is best friends with Ash and is also friends with most of the other kids in the village. Cuddle was told by one of the other villagers that Sam was found in the Nether, but doesn't seem to know much else about the kid.
### Ghost - The Ghostly Child

Cuddle has met Ghost through Liz who seems to have a sibling relationship with them and is the one taking care of Ghost. From what Cuddle can tell, Ghost has a lot of energy and uses said energy to somewhat annoy the other villagers, but sees that it is in all good fun for Ghost and the others. It was only recently that Cuddle had gotten to know Ghost a bit more was because they had been missing for a few weeks before being found by the village residents as a literal ghost and from there, it caused an uproar in the village and Cuddle's heart has been aching ever since the loss of the child.
### Ghostness - The Half-Warden

Cuddle met Ghostness along with Fen because of Lunar and helped to move them out of Dylan's home into Lunar's home. Cuddle sort of mentioned that there were a variant of deerkin that lived in caves, looked bioluminescent and had sort of the same looking antlers as Ghostness did, but they didn't seem to like the comparison so Cuddle dropped the conversation all together.
### Fen - The Wolf

Cuddle met Fen along with Ghostness through Lunar, but knows less about Fen becasue they didn't seem to talk much when they first met before moving on to help Ghostness move out of Dylan's house into Lunar's home.
### Wren - The Elusive Woman

Cuddle has only ever heard of Wren from other people and doesn't really want to bother them to see who they are, they are aware of Wren living next to her and Cursive though.
### Ryn - The Human Fisherman

Upon meeting Ryn, Cuddle noticed that Ryn is not entirely human by the fact that they literally have a head the is floating. Cuddle was around for the tour of the village that Ryn got by Liz and was glad to know that there was another fisherman in the village.
### Eba - The Starry Eyed Tavern Owner

Cuddle hasn't really spoken to the elf known as Eba, but she just knows that they run the tavern in the village market that is currently under construction. She really misses the beer that Eba served, but knows that the tavern will be back soon.
### Bee - The Lone Drone

Cuddle saw Bee in the aftermath of the machine explosion in Liz's house as Vi was explaining what had happened. Cuddle knows that Bee is an insectoid and seems very interested to know more about them, but doesn't want to bother them.
## Quotes

"Vi, with all due respect, you're kind of dumb" - in regards to Vi finding out that Cedar was his brother
"You need to grow up, before it kills you... PERMENANTLY!" - at Cursive in regards to the machine explosion
"You're an odd duck Dylan." - at Dylan for standing behind her too closely
### Links

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrCuddleStein
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/drcuddlestein
## Gallery

Character Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gRLBpOtRZsoKDMRRgQCoJ?si=877880dd9a7647cb
Cuddle's House on the Cedar SMPCuddle tells Cursive to get out of her Cave