Quarantine Hive Cake Full Ref

Invader Name: Quarantine Hive Cake

Official Name: Spli Je’vveq

Height: 5’7’’

Technical Gender: Male

Age: 20

Nickname(s): Hive Cake

Species: Mixed Qwuedeviv

Official Specialty: Interrogation: In training under Nettle Soup’s instruction.

Rank: Private First Class

Disguised As: Just a random person

Appearance: Hive Cake has dark red fur with a tan face, chest and belly. It also has a weirdly sharp stripe that twists around its arms, taking up about a third of it in a gradual swirl. The outer side of its legs are lined by several oval shaped glowing markings that gradually narrow as they reach the foot. It also has one of these large glowing ovals on the back of each ear. Its sclera is oddly enough, dark red, with light icy blue eyes glowing the same color as its oval markings. Its tail is narrow, widening at the tip where there is a mouthed appendage with oval shaped, glowing red eyes.

Hive Cake’s invader uniform is black with gray inside lining. It has a single red-orange stripe just below its shoulder on the left side.

Hive Cake’s disguise consists of a black shirt with two red-orange stripes and a pair of light brown pants. It wears gray gloves with a rectangle chunk out of the back and black shoes. It also wears a hood and black trench coat with a gray stripe down the outside of the sleeves and side of the coat. Furthermore it covers its tail tip in a black sock.

Personality:
Hive Cake is always in some sort of bad mood. Most assume it’s because the ‘deviv feels it should be at a higher rank than it is. It lets its pride and independence get the best of it, leading it to be angry, reclusive and bitter. It gets itself in trouble regularly with Nettle Soup—its mentor and instructor.

Hive Cake listens passively to what Nettle Soup tells it. It usually doesn’t look as though it is listening, but later on it is able to repeat what it has been told or taught—this is probably its only saving grace in dealing with Nettle Soup. It is alert of its surroundings and spends more time observing and listening than speaking—aside from occasional argumental outbursts and sarcasm. It isn’t a professional yet and tends to make rookie mistakes, overlooking details that Nettle Soup sees as obvious. This infuriates Hive Cake because it is largely rushing its training and sees the mistakes as huge setbacks.

Hive Cake’s personality gets it in trouble with superiors, other crews and random Qwuedeviv frequently as it refuses to back down unless it is simply overpowered. To a certain degree it will only grin at pain anyway.

Nettle Soup states that the strong will Hive Cake displays is perfect for its job perusal as an interrogator and that their military leaders will be thankful one day as long as Hive Cake can keep control of itself—which it doesn’t seem to have any problem doing; it’s just incredibly stubborn towards authority.

Nettle Soup has to fight with Hive Cake frequently to keep the rookie in line. Working with Nettle Soup is by no means a walk in the park; Hive Cake is constantly pushed to the brink of its ability and at times, sanity. It gets very few compliments, but much criticism. Despite its rebellious nature, Hive Cake does respect its instructor even if the two greatly struggle to get along.

Background:
Hive Cake was abandoned as a kitten; it was found on a routine practice run far away from the main cities. At the time no one really knew how the kitten had ventured out so far or which city it had come from for that matter. Regardless, it was brought back to one of the core Qwuedeviv cities.

It was placed with the other kittens that were without a parent or mentor for one reason or another and raised there. It wasn’t long before the strong willed kitten began getting itself in trouble and locked up regularly. The kitten care and discipline Qwuedeviv grew tired of it quickly and its lack of response to their guidance.

By chance, Nettle Soup happened to hear of some of the officers’ great complaints about the kitten when it was in town. Curious as to if the kitten was really that bad, it requested to meet with the little monster. After a few weeks of evaluation, Nettle Soup decided that the kitten was in fact as terrible as they stated. It offered to mentor Hive Cake personally and was approved within days.

Knowing Nettle Soup’s reputation, the other kittens insisted that Hive Cake was doomed. The red and brown kitten argued that no dumb Qwuedeviv would scare it. Not surprisingly, there was quite a bit of fighting between Nettle Soup and Hive Cake initially, but the kitten soon learned that it would just have to submit—at least until it got bigger.

It has been with Nettle Soup for quite some time and grown significantly over the years. Now that it is older and taller, it has begun to attempt overpowering its instructor again—but not with the same ferocity it had as a kitten. It doesn’t want to harm Nettle Soup. It just wants to prove that it is better than them and can beat them—it has been unable to thusfar.

Hive Cake did not get assigned to go along with the crew but since Nettle Soup is its mentor and would be a part of the crew it was allowed to go along. Of course it feels that this is a right of its own so it doesn’t feel privileged to be a part of the effort.

Hive Cake gets bored regularly since it is not allowed to go out and do anything on its own. Nettle Soup will allow it to tag along and observe sometimes, but Hive Cake believes that it is ready to handle things without guidance. So Hive Cake sneaks off on its own little missions when Nettle Soup isn’t watching. Of course there are always consequences, but sometimes Hive Cake finds it worth it anyway.

Warped Visions rather likes the initiative the Qwuedeviv takes and so half the time it encourages it and the other half it yells at Hive Cake and Nettle Soup. Hive Cake doesn’t much care regardless though and continues to do as it pleases.

Through quite a deal of research over the years and general curiosity, it was discovered that Hive Cake’s tails is a living organism of its own, sharing some organs and nerves with Hive Cake but having a brain and digestive system of its own. How it got there, the Qwuedeviv are still unsure.

Most medical officers insist it couldn’t have happened naturally and so the two were probably grafted together at a young age by some kind of creep rogue scientist. Others state that there’s always the slim chance it did just happen when the kitten was morphing with its environment; perhaps having become entangled or trapped to its tail. Either way it is decidedly odd and unnatural by Qwuedeviv standards. No further research is scheduled for Hive Cake.

The tail works like a flytrap plant. It tries to capture small bugs but will also clamp down on meat or anything else it thinks might be tasty. This is fairly problematic and usually has to be dealt with by one of the medics as the mouth has a lockjaw response and cannot digest large portions. It simply sits in the clamped mouth and rots.

Random Facts:

A swarm of blackish bugs follow Hive Cake around giving it a rather dark, menacing look—or just dirty. Some think it just hasn’t taken a bath in awhile. These bugs are attracted to the glowing colors of Hive Cake and its Tail.

Hive Cake has taken on a lot of the same views Nettle Soup has, and since Spork hurt its mentor in the past, it holds the same hatred for the Qwuedeviv that Nettle Soup does.

Sometimes it gets itself pretty seriously hurt thanks to challenging Nettle Soup’s authority.