CHAR-154: Grisha

• Name: Grisha
  • Origin: Russian. Other Origin(s): Greek. Meaning: Vigilant, watchful. Also passable as Grigoriy, Russian form of Gregory. This name was borne by the Russian mystic Grigoriy Rasputin (1869-1916), more commonly known by only his surname.
• Age: roughly 7.000 (S) years 
• Sex: whatever crysalla have going on
• Gender: The Gannea talk about him using he/him, so male
• Orientation: Panromantic asexual, anyone is fine, reproducing isn’t

A bit of a strange Crysalla. Watches over a medium-sized Gannea village somewhere north, exact location tbd. Kindof like an antkeeper. A mutual sort of respect and appreciation lies between the 2 units, the Gannea feed them, and Grisha in return keeps them safe from potential dangers.

Grisha commonly drapes themself with iron chains around their neck to intimidate and scare off other Crysalla, purposefully weakening themself to make it seem like they are hiding their true strength. They have had a history of fighting and defeating other Crysalla whilst wearing the chains, making a status for themself as "Chainbearer". Grisha happily accepts this nickname as its dope as fuck.

Most other Crysalla deem Grisha to be a dangerous lunatic because of these chains and will often walk in a circle around their "territory" to avoid the guardian. Grisha sees no problem with this, they only need their Gannea to be safe and happy and to be only theirs.

Whilst not being particularly into having partners, Grisha does like having the Gannea around them whilst in their bipedal form. They're not a physically affectionate being however, mostly due to their icescales and the lack of experience being touched regarding that anyways. 

1 out of 10 sheds Grisha goes through will be donated or claimed by the Gannea living near them. They treat it as a sort of gift to the community, granting them the possibility to make clothing from the material to help protect them against the cold, and as a way to end the itchy-ness of the shedding process quicker and without less itching. A sort of full-body manicure! Grisha sees no purpose to the Gannea taking their non-fur shedded parts, and will just proceed to eat it like usual.

They do warn the Gannea who come to collect the fur to be cautious of touching the new layer of scales underneath their shedded layer, due to their icescale mutation. They want to keep their population alive, not frozen! The fur Grisha doesn't donate usually ends up being sold in exchange for treasure or magical items they might want.

Crysalla will shed once every Sialla month.

*Note: One Sialla month is 5 Earth-years.