Happy Storyteller Saturday! Tell us about your karragul characters!
Oh man. So, my beloved main Karragul character is Efrier, but she was made years ago as an Invader Zim fan character of all things, and I've been struggling to adapt her to the world I have currently. But I will do it, I swear! I need to see her!!
Efrier's original story was that she, and another Karragul, were kidnapped as children to guard a rich alien's house. When I was no longer an edgy 15 year old, I changed it to her being accidentally kidnapped to be an exotic pet, by a human hunter of alien big game. Once he realised she was a sophont (Karraguls and co all look like indistinguishable little wiggly things as babies), he kept her because he would be super arrested if he came forward. She spends years watching and waiting, learning to speak English as well as the lay of the house, routines etc., until she eventually busts out and kills him.
I also have/had Hathsha, who was made for a sandbox setting and is a grandma detective a la Miss Marple. Not much to her but conceptually she was quite sweet, it would be nice to fit her in somewhere too. She had one (1) child that she kept in a fishbowl.
In terms of Karraguls that actually do fit into my current worldbuilding, I'm working on a short story about... I guess religious politics? In this particular culture, there's a member of the village who serves as a vessel for one of their gods. Three Zero is slated to be the new Vessel, while Bent River Reeds is the current one. Three doesn't particularly want the role and is scared of what it entails, while Bent clings to the position even as they age out of it. Only teenagers can be Vessels; they're viewed as liminal beings that are inherently more spiritual because of said liminality.