RipleyTheAxolotl

"Thoughts on pasta?"-RipleyTheAxolotl 2022

RipleyTheAxolotl is a humanoid, with the features of an axolotl, such as pink skin, and red gills on the sides of his head. He stands at 6'3", making him taller than average, due to his species slightly extended limbs, and just below the height to not have to duck when moving through doorways. He has purple eyes, with a scar over the left one, and he sometimes wears a redstone eye over his right one during combat. He is usually seen wearing an olive coat. On the right shoulder, are the tattered remnants of a hood attached to the coat. It is made if a strange material, as durable and protective as diamond, yet light and breathable like silk. Ripley has not elaborated on where he got his coat or what ripped the hood. On the harness he wears, he has a tough leather pauldron on the left shoulder, and a quiver of red fletched arrows strapped over his back. His footwear consists of riding boots with spurs on them. While Ripley is a well-known figure, no one has seen his entire face, being covered by his old brown tricorn hat, and/or with his grey scarf, the only one seeing his full face being his husband Ceannard Cogaidh V. Ripley can also be seen wearing various other outfits, such as suits and other coats. He is seen in Rathnir, manning his bar DaLounge with his friend HotDogDude42

Personality
RipleyTheAxolotl is mainly known to be quiet, unless he has something to say, and when he does so, he makes himself heard, often cracking witty remarks or jokes with his dry sense of humor, often coming off as charming. He can be described as humble, only boasting for comedic purposes, and prefers to cite his own accomplishments and capabilities instead of relying on relations with other famous people. Most of the time, he is calm, cool and collected, but has episodes of maniacal and homicidal tendencies when someone irritates him. With age, he has more control over his sporadic temper, but occasionally still has episodes. On the D&D alignment system, he best fits chaotic neutral/good. He does not like having allegiances to any nations, and can be described as a free spirit in that regard, who sees things solely on a personal level, being petty about matters at times. While he does not give his allegiance to any nation or group, he is exremely loyal to his friends, and dotes on his husband whenever he is around. He also seems to like pasta. Mainly fettucine.

Species
RipleyTheAxolotl is a part of a species called the Axolotians.

Experiments
The first 2 parts of a journal RipleyTheAxolotl stole from The Professor, the maker of the axolotian species, titled "Journey", and "Experiments" (Not published yet), document The Professor's journey on how he ended up making the Axolotians, with a majority of the information known about the Axolotians coming from it. The rest of the journal is used as a diary by RipleyTheAxolotl, documenting his many misadventures, and his early life on the run.

Skills
Being an Axolotian, he has all the abilities that come with it. (Incredible regeneration, which has allowed him to survive many normally fatal injuries, enhanced stamina, speed, strength, heightened senses, etc.). Aside from his natural abilities, he is a good marksman with a bow, skilled in the art of stealth, and assassination. He mainly prefers to hunt his enemies when they do not expect it, using intimidation and surprise tactics effectively, so in D&D terms, he is most likely a rogue/hunter. He has also proved to be an adept brewer when coming to Rathnir, founding DaLounge, his famous bar, which has risen to great success due to Ripley employing his charm to connect with the customers, and the use of his skill with marketing and advertising to interest people in coming.

Weaknesses
While Ripley is not bad with a sword, His mindset is reflected in his style of fighting in melee combat. Often using an aggressive and offensive style, keeping his opponent off balance and disoriented, but leaving himself open as well. People facing Ripley in a sword duel have often countered him with agility and speed to dodge his attacks, or like hitthepin, his friend who taught him to sword fight, and who has sparred with Ripley many times, has employed an extremely defensive form, while striking with extremely hard counter attacks. Also like the rest of his species, Ripley is weak to getting burned, and ingesting alcohol.

Ripley's Journal
Ripley's Journal is a documentation of much of Ripley's life. When Ripley left The Professor's lab, he took The Professor's journal with him. This is why the beginning part of the journal will be about how The Professor made the Axolotians. The rest of it is a first person telling of Ripley's life and adventures. The journal will be released in different segments, each of which are prominent parts of Ripley's life that shaped him into he is today. It it not yet released to the public as of now.

The Horse Thief
Although Ripley's journal is not available to read, he has told stories which he had recorded in his journal. The first known story in the journal was of how Ripley lost his eye. In a far off land from Rathnir, Ripley lived peacefully, and worked at a horse stable. One day, a thief stole a prized stallion under Ripley's care, and got it killed. It was blown up by a creeper, an explosive creature that is abundant outside of Rathnir and Eldham. In his anger and desire for justice, Ripley takes up a sword and attempts to take his revenge on the horse thief. Even with his specie's abilities, Ripley was young, inexperienced, and far outmatched by the cutthroat bandit. In the ensuing battle, Ripley was defeated, and his Eye was slashed by a cursed flaming sword, burning it. The pain and burning of this wound had tormented Ripley for a long time, until he decided to gouge out the burned eye to allow a new one to grow back. The scar can still be seen over his left eye though. Then, to add insult to injury, Ripley staggered home to find his home and the rest of the town ransacked and burning, the rest of the horses and other people that lived there massacred. With nothing left their, Ripley scrounged up what money he could, and boarded a boat off the continent.

The Fight Pit
The details of this story are much more unknown. The time at which this took place is difficult to determine. All the information known is that Ripley was 6 years old at the time, making it a year or less until he would come to Rathnir from that point. Ripley has not disclosed much on this story. Only that he and his friends were captured by someone who Ripley had angered in the past. They were then forced to brawl in a fight pit, where people would bet on them. In one such fight, Ripley had to face his best friend, a 16 year old human boy. Initially, Ripley did not want to fight him, but ultimately ended up breaking the boy's neck. Afterward, he would stop caring about his life, and the lives of those around him. He became hollow, and in the pit, he killed without remorse, whether or not it was one of his friends, or someone else who was forced into the life of suffering like him. It is unknown how he escaped, but it is clear that this was the most mentally scarring event of his life. The tipping point where many of his mental problems and erratic behavior originated from.

Coming To Rathnir
RipleyTheAxolotl decided to come to Rathnir when his friend/father figure hitthepin contacted him for his skill at mining, to get diamonds for Vraelea. Ripley decided this would be a good decision, since he was once again on the run. So immigrating to Rathnir, he meets an old fisher name HotDogDude42, and gets equipped with quality tools and gear, and sets off to find diamonds for Vraelea.

Working as a Miner
Ripley's first occupation was a miner, that supplied Vraelea with a large amount of diamonds. Mainly uneventful. But an interesting story when first coming to Rathnir, is how he acquired an emerald trident, named the Green Death. He found this weapon in the depths of the ocean. This was the place in which the ruins of an old villager kingdom lay. Swimming through the ruins, he saw that this kingdom worshipped the Neo-axolotians, a species related to his own. He came across the tomb of the villager king, and finds the Green Death. He then restores the trident, and he charges himself as the caretaker of the weapon until a worthy hero comes to claim it.

Sandburg
In his early days on Rathnir, Ripley would come across a town called Sandburg when traveling in his spare time. It was a humble little town in the middle of the desert. Ripley would continue to come back, and make friends, such as Dominik of Sandburg, Clokemaster123, BMKERR, and Valeania. By this time, Ripley and the other three had come to Rathnir recently, all before their rises to fame and power. When Ripley first came to Sandburg, Lilyprism would pull a "prank" on the citizens, goading them into war, and then massacring them. Ripley would then donate some of his money he got from mining for Vraelea. Afterward, his visits to the town would decrease, and it would fall on times of turmoil once again, in which today, it is now a ghost town.

Creating DaLounge
DaLounge is a renowned bar in Rathnir located under an outhouse at 4870/64/520. It was a lush cave found by Ripley on a mining trip. Thinking it would be a great place to put a bar, an idea that hitthepin, and HotDogDude42 had been talking about to Ripley for a while at the time. So they began construction of a fancy looking bar with the the highest quality drinks for everyone to enjoy. But after a while, the natural plant life of the cave began to creep back in.

Managing DaLounge
With hitthepin, and HotDogDude42 busy, It was mostly up to Ripley to man DaLounge, since he owned the land. At first, he knew nothing about brewing, mainly there to make sure there was no trouble at the bar. But one day, he was taught the basics by a mysterious cloaked stranger. He would then go on to hone his skill at the craft, and now holds himself responsible for making the high quality drinks sold at the bar with the DaLounge team, consisting of hitthepin, who invested money into the bar to initially get it off the ground, and HotDogDude42, who is the official manager of DaLounge. There is also DenoraDoodles, CrashSyndicate, Laughedcoast817 who were additionally employed by Ripley and Hotdog to help out with brewing. Dommic would later be hired to sell cheese at DaLounge as well. During his time off from working the bar, he mines and hunts phantoms.

Meeting The Gaians
After Ripley and his bar would become well established figures in Rathnir, He would come across a town called Iabet inhabited by an environmentalist tribe called The Gaians. He loved the lushness of the town, and it's large trees, reminding him of a place from his past, though, his memory of it is somewhat blurred for some reason. He would make friends with the matron of the Gaians, the Assoti Adashi Cornaro, who would teach him about the Gaian culture, and how to use the Assoti weapon, the Koruma. He would also make friends who are still with him to this day. Those being Behetee, Aule the Faded, Noctis, Rasana, and others.

Getting Married
Ripley first met his husband Ceannard in Athazolant, where they became acquainted with each other. They grew closer from the time they spent together. Ripley was by his side when he got married to four people, helped him through his alcoholism and when he got the plague. When Ceannard confessed his love for Ripley one night at DaLounge, Ripley made him promise that he would get his act toether. With Ripley's help and support, he did so. They got engaged during the merging of the Frosterium, and married months later, where Ripley would take the last name Cogaidh. (He did so because he previously had no family nor last name)

Exile
One day, Ripley decided to visit a town called Leolia. When he went there, he got bored after a while, and began pretending to set things on fire in the town. The leader of the town, Tpiddles, then stabbed Ripley, and killed his horse. This triggers Ripley, who then traveled back to the town, and after staking him out, Ripley brutally beat and stabbed Tpiddles. Right after this, Ripley gets banished. It is largely unknown what Ripley has done during this time, but he has told a select few a little bit about his experience in exile. He describes how he was suddenly teleported to a jungle island, where many monsters resided, such as zombies, skeletons, and creepers. During his time in exile, Ripley hunkered down in a treehouse, and would fight the sinister creatures off every night, wearing him down greatly. Then, when his exile was over, he immediately was teleported back to his bar, looking very much disheveled.

The Defense of Tortuga
when the war goddess Segra attacked Tortuga, Ripley took up arms with many others against her forces. When he arrived in Tortuga, the island was in total chaos. The monsters and men clashed in the water, and on the docks. The carnage almost sent him into a mental breakdown. But he leapt into the fray, slaying many of the undead, and even downed a giant with his longbow. He fought hard, throwing himself on the enemies until his armor cracked off of his body. Then, after a long, hard battle, with many losses, Ripley was taken from behind by a traitor. A worshipper of Segra. They were silently picking off people during the battle. Ripley was slumped over. Battered, bloodied, and exhausted. He staggered around the docks, looking at the carnage, coming across Jepen. He was too exhausted and injured to defend himself when Jepen attacked him. Using a weapon called the GodSlayer, which appeared to have extremely powerful fire magic. horrifically injuring Ripley, taking off his arm and leg, and severely burning the right side of his face making him half blind and deaf. He would be one of the many that would fall by Jepen's blade that day. He would eventually be recovered from the battle field, and his husband, who has had experience with welding, fashioned him prosthetic limbs powered by redstone.

The Defense of Ecclesia
As Kartek tried to invade all of Sparwood, The Confederation of Sparwood founded by Ecclesia, and a few other nations would oppose them. Although he was not a citizen of any of the nations part of the confederation, and just lost an arm and a leg the day before, he would join the fight. In the first battle he participated in, half of their forces could not show up, and they were heavily outnumbered by the enemy. Despite the odds that they faced, the soldiers stood tall. Before the battle, Ripley made a campfire in Voskovy, for the other soldiers to come and relax, in order to put them at ease before the fighting began. Then, when the site of the battle would move, he traveled there with his friend mezur. As they traveled, the friends talked about how they were doing, and how Ripley's marriage was going so far, catching up with each others lives as this was the first time they saw each other in a while. When they got to the bunker, Ripley would rally the troops with inspirational speeches, and crack light-hearted jokes about how all of them were there to solely protect his bar. He would be on the wall when the fighting began, being seen sniping enemies from the high vantage point. Then, when the Kartek forces breached the walls, the order to fall back would come. But Ripley and a few others stayed behind at the wall, delaying the enemy as the main force would retreat to a more defendable position. He would be brought down by several men, being chased down and brutally stabbed beyond the point of fighting. Fortunately, he would end up recovering from the battle, and rejoining the fight against Kartek.

Motivations
Ripley does not have any affiliations nationalities to countries. When questioned as to why he would fight for the Confederation, he said,

"I do not fight for Ecclesia, or any nation at all. I fight for myself. You see, if Kartek gets what it wants, thats bad for business. Right now, things are good as they are, and my bar is doing great. So, by supporting the Confederation and making sure Kartek never takes over all of Sparwood, the status quo is maintained, and my interests are protected."-RipleyTheAxolotl 2022

Ripley' bar (and the rest of Sparwood) would be protected, as The Confederation would continue to resist Kartek. After years of death and bloodshed, peace would be negotiated, and Kartek's conquest to massacre Sparwood would be stopped.

New Limbs
As new threats such as Segra, and mythical monsters invading Rathnir, Ripley decided that he would have to be more agile and dextrous. More than what Ceannard's prosthetics would provide him with. With this goal, he rode to Iabet, where his friend behetee performed a surgery on him. The process consisted of his spine being infused with assoti cells. While this would not change him in appearance, it would make him susceptible to the flowering, in which an assoti would experience significant neurological changes, and their muscles and skeletal structure would be replaced with plant life. This was an extremely risky operation where if anything did went wrong, Ripley would have been permanently changed from his old self, and not for the better. Fortunately, everything went according to plan, and Ripley would grow new limbs consisting of lush plant life and spore blossoms. Overtime, the plant life decayed and the wood of the arm and leg decayed and began thinning to a skeletal shape. At this point, his flesh grew back over the substitute bone and his limbs were restored.

Joining the Alastir Family
Ripley's husband Ceannard would join the Alastir family, meaning by extension, Ripley would also become a member of the Alastir family, being related to the likes of Acerina Alastir, Hizen, and others. Ripley finds his age to be a rather strange topic. Although he has been in peak physical condition his whole life, the axolotian body not deteriorating as a human body does, he is old enough to be a beloved grandpa of the family.

Losing his weapons
One day, something strange was happening at Arundel. Ripley gathered his gear and took to go investigate. When he got there, there were already a few people there. Suddenly, dozens of fiery birds appeared. One of them threw Ripley up into the air. As he struggled, and tried to kill the bird, he got in a good stab, killing it. But by doing so, he fell back down, hitting the ground hard. The impact broke every single bone in his body and knocked him unconscious. After ten days and nights, he woke back up. His bones healed, but he still felt extremely sore. As he gathered his bearings, he noted that all of his armor and weapons were gone. This was a devastating loss for Ripley, losing the Green Death, and a katana gifted to him by hitthepin. He does not know if his weapons were stolen or destroyed, but he hopes to find them again one day.