PERUVA, the Clinging Pokegirl

PERUVA, the Clinging Pokegirl

Type: Near Human
Element: Plant
Frequency: Uncommon
Diet: Omnivore
Role: Construction support, trap-makers, ambushers
Libido: Average
Strong Vs: Electric, Ground, Plant, Rock, Water
Weak Vs: Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison
Techniques: Air Recovery, Bloom, Draining Rain, Leech Seed, Legsweep, Lure, Lust Dust, Mist, Napalm, Poison Powder, Rapid Stroke, Resin Bomb, Seed Bomb, Sleep Powder
Enhancements: Enhanced Durability (x2), Enhanced Speed & Strength (x3), Enhanced Reflexes
Evolves: None
Evolves From: None

Before the Revenge War began, Sukebe's genetic factories were working steadily to produce his warriors for the attack on humankind. One of his first obvious problems was a lack of facilities that were tailored to the need to provide cover and hiding places for his factories, as most places above ground could be easily seen overhead by scout planes or even satellites. In order to help solidify and support what eventually became his underground factories, one of the first creations was a breed that could secrete a proto-resin, toughening numerous substances into an approximation of concrete, though of dubious quality depending on what the proto-resin was mixed with. As the war went on, the breed became known and were found to be relatively simple targets despite their agility. However, their support roles were discovered near the midpoint of the war, when a number of human platoons converged on a site that was being built to become a frontline base for Sukebe's forces. Even as a steady number of soldiers stormed the field and managed to catch most of the Pokégirls by surprise, the human forces themselves became trapped as pod-like things rained down all around them, spreading various dusts, powders, and disruptive mists among the attackers long enough for the Pokégirls to must up enough reinforcements to defeat the humans, shattering the assault and forcing those who survived to retreat. After the war, a large number of these Pokégirls went with the Pokégirl armies that allied with the humans, and assisted with construction of their warships and new buildings.

Physically, the Peruva appear mostly as a short female human, though they possess a very long tail that gives away their heritage. Rarely ever reaching five and a half feet in height, their prehensile tails are typically over twice as long as the Pokégirl is tall, commonly averaging between 9.5-11.5ft length in general. The longest tail ever measured for a Peruva was nearly 14ft. The tail is long and somewhat thin, only around a third of the diameter of one of their arms, but the end splays outward for the last seven inches or so, splitting into a quartet of digits that rest against each other while emerging from around the diameter of the tail, to form a type of calyx that protects the tail's odd adaptation of a floral tube. The tube itself extends a short ways inside of the tail itself, and is where the tail secretes the proto-polymer base that the Peruva uses to create resins or to mix with other substances to create a resin that is much stronger than it is alone. The 'calyx fingers' are fully useable, much like the fingers on a human hand, and are used to grasp , lift, and manipulate just as well. The tail itself is very strong, and can hold the Peruva's own weight (and then some) when clinging upside down to something, like a branch or even a ceiling (which can be adhered to thanks to the use of the proto-resin).

In battles, the proto-resin can be used to form a bubble-like shell around techniques that are otherwise considered to be short-to-mid distance attacks, such as Sleep Powder, Lust Dust, Bloom, and other techniques like them. Doing this, which is unnecessary to make the techniques viable in a battle, allows the Peruva to launch the attacks into becoming distance techniques, lobbing the resin-pods filled with the technique with their tail and hands into the distance to let them go off like a grenade upon impact with a target or the ground. The oddest variety that the Peruva can manage is the Napalm technique, which has a comparatively shorter range due to the nature of the attack eating away at a hastily created resin shell (though its range can be maintained by taking twenty seconds to create it carefully, rather than a rather hastily constructed standard pod that only takes about five seconds to create). Researchers are uncertain as to how the Peruva is capable of even utilizing the Napalm technique in the first place, but it has been confirmed that using it takes a lot of energy from the Pokégirl and can lead to exhaustion in short order. Utilizing Leech Seed in this matter also makes the technique even more effective, by seeding any target within the blast radius with the technique, the user can regain her strength from each target that had been seeded, rather than only a single one.

Within harems, a Peruva gets along well with most other Pokégirls. They do seem to have an inherent need to hold others, whether it be her tamer, a fellow harem sister, or even a child. Cuddling with a Peruva appears to be something that the breed wants almost more than taming at times, given the breed's average libido. This can lead to issues with some Pokégirls breeds, and usually makes it difficult to recommend the average Peruva as any form of leadership within a harem. However, some have become Betas, most of whom have been successful in such roles according to reports. Outside of a harem, tradesmen often utilize them in construction, though is often seen as cute and a joke by most other Pokégirl breeds that often have a calling when it comes to such construction work. Their resin takes only a few hours to solidify once it has been set into position (up to twelve hours for tougher, more durable mixes of the resin and another substance, like steel, concrete, or other refined materials), and each Peruva can only secrete so much of it each day, which makes their specialty in construction more like works of what in the 20th century might have been called 'modern art.' Outside of a construction site, they are often used by hunters to subdue or distract their targets, and are even used by police forces and militaries around the world for their resin bombs. Other than a Napalm-encased Resin Bomb, so long as they are kept in a cool place, a resin bomb can last for over a year before it must be replaced. Taming a Peruva is relatively simple, and it has been found that the Peruva enjoys using their tails during the act. Some have claimed that the tube within the Peruva's tail can be used to give a tamer a 'tail-job', though due to the size of the average Peruva's tail, this is unlikely save for the lesser endowed tamers. They do, however, use their calyx-like fingers at the end of their tails for dexterous manipulation, so handjobs are far more likely to be what's been alluded to as a 'tailjob' by tamers of the breed. Female tamers and other Pokégirls, on the other hand, have found other forms of 'tailjobs' to enjoy.

Feral Peruva are somewhat rare sight worldwide, but can be found relatively commonly in tropical regions. Ferals are at home at the top of tall trees, using their resin to build shelters that keep the weather off them and protect them while they sleep. Often found in bands of 8-25, these groups usually create their shelters among several trees within a short range of each other for safety and stability of a tree. When aerial Pokégirls or monsters approach, the band of Peruva often bomb them with their attacks until they leave the area or have been killed. Ferals have also been known to stage raids in villages and towns near their forest homes, using their resin bombs to distract and defuse a situation long enough to rush in and steal food and linen before escaping back into the wilderness. This is also one of the best times to attempt to capture a Peruva, if one can keep their wits about them during a raid. Threshold cases are fairly uncommon and are rather painless save for the first hours of the transformation process, when the tail begins to grow from the base of the spine.