Holly Araneus

This article is about **the Oktarachian resistance fighter**. You may be looking for **the Mauan child**.

## Descriptive Information

### Hair Color

Dark teal (with pink and white highlights)

## Professional Information

### Affiliation

* The Dawns
* Oktarachian Resistance
* Solitude Plaza

**Holly Araneus** was a female Oktarachian resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate the Sentinel of her homeworld Oktarach. She was a member of the Oktarachian Resistance, a group of rebels on Oktarach wishing to rid their homeworld of the lies and deceptions so deeply rooted into their culture. She had a close relationship with Amber Lafayette, a member of the Dawns.

Araneus was forcibly held at an infamous Vundorian psychiatric facility, the Criminally Inclined Rehabilitation Center, for a considerable amount of time. Five years later, Holly was broken out by Amber Lafayette, Rhodo Lax, and Mai Mysorin; all members of the Dawns. She came to live on the Solitude Plaza space station alongside the rest of the Dawns, where they kept her safe. When her mind was restored by the Dawns, Araneus officially joined their ranks.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5930 ASA, Holly Araneus was born on the planet Oktarach. Holly was always dissatisfied with how Oktarachian society functioned. She grew tired of the lies and deceptions that continued to give her planet a bad name, and made life worse for its inhabitants. This sentiment would eventually lead to Holly joining a secret resistance movement against the Oktarachian government years later.

### Meeting Amber

Between the years 5947 and 5952 ASA, Holly met the Borealan woman Amber Lafayette during her time on the planet Cassiopeia Prime. Amber was staying with her grandparents, Agatha and Horace Lafayette, as the rest of her family was in captivity on the Borealan penal colony of Hailstorm.

Holly got to know Amber and the two eventually formed a romantic relationship. They dated each other for several years, before they eventually broke up on amicable terms.

### A Failed Assassination Attempt

Holly's sentiments regarding her homeworld of Oktarach were shared amongst several other Oktarachians, and together Holly joined them to form the Oktarachian Resistance.

The year was 5952 ASA. On one fateful night in an Oktarachian city, the resistance movement planned to assassinate the Sentinel of their homeworld, hoping to put an end to the cycle of blackmail and intimidation that had plagued Oktarachian society for so long. As the Sentinel and Chancellor Matus van der Sterne of Oktarach made their way to an opera house within the city, Holly was on her way to get the job done. She scaled the opera house and got to a point where the building's glass dome was fully visible to her. Holly had a clear view of the opera house interior from the outside. The Chancellor and the Sentinel relaxed in their box seat for quite some time, enjoying the show as well as everyone else inside the opera house. The opportunity was perfect.

With her sniper rifle in arms, Holly took the shot, killing the Sentinel. Screams filled the opera house down below, and it seemed like everything was going as planned. But Holly knew something was wrong when the Herald never made an appearance to declare the new Sentinel of Oktarach. Holly was fooled; the supposed Sentinel was actually a body double for the actual Sentinel, as the true Sentinel of Oktarach was known to be a paranoid and cowardly individual. Oktarachian authorities swarmed around Holly before she could escape, and so the entire assassination plot came to a bitter end.

### In Cruel Psychiatric Care

Holly was detained and declared clinically insane after her attempt to murder the planet's Sentinel. She was sent to the planet Vundoria to a Vundorian psychiatric facility called the CIRC under orders of Chancellor van der Sterne. The chancellor gave the asylum staff extremely specific details on Holly's assigned condition. Using methods outlawed by the United Cassiopeian Republic, the Vundorians extracted her individuality with the use of magic. Araneus was essentially lobotomized, and was kept in psychiatric care for five long years. Amber Lafayette would continue to do visits to Araneus at the facility every few weeks to a month, unable to break her former lover out of her confinement.

### Escape

Five years later, or by the year 5957 ASA, Amber visited the planet Vundoria to see her former lover, who remained in a poor mental state after her operation. Before arriving at Araneus' hospital room, Amber realized that she was being followed by two of her own teammates; Rhodo Lax and Mai Mysorin, who were both members of the Dawns. After her initual frustrations blew over, Amber filled her two friends in on Holly's situation before she introduced them to Holly herself. After bittersweet introductions were made, Mai and Rhodo felt compelled to break Holly out of her imprisonment. Using modified Wishian technology, Mai offered to cloaked the four of them into invisiblity so that they were able to make their escape. Mai and Rhodo waited for Amber's consent to throw the Wishian cloaking die onto the floor. While Amber was hesitant at first, the three Dawns overheard the asylum staff already suspicious of them. Amber gave the command to Mai, and so Mai threw the die on the floor, cloaking all four of them in invisibility.

The plan was going well, although it didn't take long for the Oktarachian-Vundorian staff to find out that Holly went missing, as they were already suspicious upon Mai pulling out the die. The Dawns were close to escaping to the Vundorian shipyard, but were stopped by Sentinel Vundoria herself. While the four of them were still cloaked in invisibility, Sentinel Vundoria was able to sense their emotions. Holly and the three Dawns barely managed to escape, with guns being fired in their general direction as they fled off-planet.

Holly was taken back to Solitude Plaza, where a party celebrating the Unoculan Dawn Bowen's return to the station was coming to a close. Holly remained safe at Amber's apartment, which was shared by fellow Dawns Samayo Nishikiyama and Jet Lignite.

### Retelling of Memories

While Holly continued to stay under the care of Amber and her teammates...

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### Trial of the Dawns

Not too long after Epi's magic procedure was done, a Praeliorian emissary named Gris Véridémi spoke to the Galactic Embassy about the supposed crimes of the Dawns. While Holly herself was not necessarily involved with the hearings, her name was brought up during the initial and final hearings. During the initial hearing, Vundorian ambassador Adela Maslow claimed that although Holly was labelled clinically insane and was to be treated at a Vundorian facility, the Dawns still hatched an escape plan for her. This swayed many ambassadors into believing that the Dawns were terrorists.

During the final hearing, the Dawns made a surprise entrance with the Cascadian Quaestorium in order to clear their names. Oktarachian ambassador Dana Lycosa reminded the embassy that the Dawns illegally freed Holly from psychiatric care, to which Annesidora brought up how Holly was lobotomize. The evidence collected by the Quaestorium clearly depicted all of the wrongdoings of both the Vundorian and Oktarachian governments. This was enough to cement a victory in the eyes of the Dawns, clearing their names in the eyes of the galactic stage.

## Personality and Traits

Holly Araneus was an Oktarachian woman with pale grey skin, four pale blue eyes, and dark teal hair with pink and white highlights. Her cheeks were decorated with dark teal freckles. Like all Oktarachians, she had a humanoid upper half and a large, spider-like lower half. She often wore a heart choker and kept her hair short.

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## Skills and Abilities

As a freedom fighter on her homeworld, Holly was skilled in combat and primarily used a sniper rifle. She was skilled in staying quiet when she needed to, able to take on most stealth missions despite her size as an Oktarachian.

## Trivia

* Holly was originally named Hollandite as a former *Steven Universe* fan character.
	+ "Spider quartz" is another name sometimes used for the mineral hollandite. This spider motif was present in Holly as a *Steven Universe* fan character and was translated into the *Conjuring Cosmos* continuity by making her an Oktarachian.