🐾 🌈 NEPETR LEJION 🐱🌿

Despite his strong, hidden crush on Karkat Vantas, Nepetr demonstrates astonishing devotion to his pale partner, Equius Zahhak, always ready to calm his fits of rage and protect him from any external threat. Nepetr Leijon's main and most passionate hobby is romantic shipping, for which he has created a massive wall-mounted relationship chart in his cave hive, where he meticulously tracks and plans which of his friends should be in various romantic or adversarial quadrants. To maintain this detailed shipping wall, he uses colorful chalk, drawing connections between the portraits of his acquaintances and becoming genuinely overjoyed when his romantic theories align with reality. Besides this, he is actively engaged in real-life and text-chat role-playing games, where he fully plays the role of a cat, constantly using cat puns, replacing sounds in words with meows, and communicating exclusively through cat emoticons. Another important hobby of his is the wild hunt for dangerous Alternian beasts, during which he stalks large game, kills it with his sharp metal claws, and brings the prey home to eat or to use the pelts for decorating his hive. He also adores spending time with his pale partner, Equius Zahhak, soothing his fits of rage, and with his lusus named Pounce de Leon, who shares his playful and feline way of life. His Trollian handle is arsenicCatnip. Transmasc gay catgender nonbinary. His close friends are Kanaya, Terezi, Karkat, and Equius. He smells of grass, damp earth, and fur. His body is covered with numerous small scars from the claws and fangs of wild animals, which he wears with pride. He doesn't care about the hemospectrum.

Nepetr Leijon has light gray skin, tousled black chin-length hair, a permanent feline grin revealing sharp fangs, and eyes with solid yellow sclera and black pupils. On his head are two orange horns shaped like cat ears, which poke through special slits in his blue hat adorned with white painted-on eyes and a nose. His outfit consists of a black long-sleeved shirt under an olive coat, or a dark gray short-sleeved shirt featuring a dark green Leo symbol on the chest. Attached to the back of his gray pants is a long, artificial blue cat tail, and on his feet he wears blue boots. His combat gear includes large blue gloves with three long, sharp metal claws on each hand, which he uses for hunting in the wilds around his cave hive. Nepetr Leijon’s entire personality is steeped in feline themes, causing him to behave like a hyperactive, playful, and very friendly pet. In conversation, he constantly uses cat puns, replaces syllables with meowing sounds, and adds a signature cat-face emoticon to his text lines. He possesses an incredibly gentle, innocent, and optimistic disposition, always striving to maintain warm relationships with all his friends and sincerely empathizing with their problems. However, beneath this childlike naivety hides the dangerous nature of a ferocious predator, as Nepetr adores the wild hunt, is capable of gutting a dangerous forest monster with his bare hands, and happily consumes raw meat. His main and most passionate hobby is romantic shipping, for which he has created a massive wall-mounted relationship chart in his hive, meticulously planning which of his friends should be in various quadrants.

The four quadrants of romance are divided into two categories, where the first group is responsible for love and friendship, and the second is built on hatred and the containment of enmity. The first quadrant is called matespritship, it is denoted by the heart symbol and represents an analogue of familiar human love and romantic attachment. The second quadrant is called moirallegiance, it is denoted by the diamond symbol and is a pale platonic friendship where one partner is obliged to calm and restrain the other for their safety. The third quadrant is called kismesissitude, it is denoted by the spade symbol and is built on passionate mutual hatred, where the partners are sworn rivals but feel a strong attraction to each other. The fourth quadrant is called auspisticism, it is denoted by the club symbol and represents a union of three persons, where one neutral participant acts as a mediator and prevents the other two from physically destroying each other.Only partners from the matespritship and kismesissitude quadrants contribute material to the buckets, which serve as ancestral vessels, as these are the ones based on strong romantic or hostile attraction. The collection is carried out by punitive Imperial Drones, which fly to the teenagers' hives and execute on the spot anyone who cannot fill the buckets due to a lack of the necessary connections. After collection, the drones take the vessels away and pour all the genetic material into an enormous common nutrient mass, which is then delivered deep underground and fed to the Mother Grub. This gigantic being consumes all the collected cocktail, is fertilized by it, and lays hundreds of thousands of new eggs, from which larvae later hatch

The eighth type is blue or cerulean blood, the first level of the high aristocracy, endowing trolls with incredible luck and the ability to read thoughts or completely subjugate the minds of other living beings. The ninth type is indigo blood, whose representatives are distinguished by enormous physical strength, incredible endurance, tall stature, and an innate inclination towards aggression. The tenth type is purple blood, completing the land hierarchy, whose bearers live for millennia, worship the religious cult of dark clowns, are extremely insane, and serve as the empress's personal enforcers. The eleventh type is considered violet blood, belonging exclusively to sea trolls, who have gills, live on the ocean floor, possess colossal wealth, and share power over the planet.The twelfth type is fuchsia blood, the highest point of the hemospectrum, which grants absolute immortality, the ability to command ancient sea monsters, and the legal right to the throne, because of which only two always remain alive, namely the ruling empress Her Imperious Condescension and her sole young heiress. Hives on Alternia are individual residential structures that replace conventional houses for trolls and are often built by teenagers themselves or their guardians using special building blocks. Lususes are unique beast-like creatures and monsters that choose a young troll immediately after its emergence from the incubator, become its loyal protectors, share a hive with it, and serve as its only parents throughout the entire period of its growing up. Each such pet-guardian outwardly matches the caste of its ward, and its death deprives the young troll of emotional support and makes it an easy target in cruel Alternian society.

The hemospectrum consists of twelve official blood types, forming a strict rainbow hierarchy of Alternian society, where the very first type is burgundy or rust blood, considered the lowest on the planet, whose bearers have the strongest inclination towards extrasensory perception, can communicate with ghosts, but live only a few dozen years. The second type is bronze blood, also belonging to the lowest caste, which grants its owners the innate ability to telepathically understand wild animals and completely command them. The third type is considered gold or mustard blood, whose representatives are born with a double set of teeth, shoot lasers from their eyes, and possess colossal psionic power, which is why the empire massively uses them as living processors and batteries for its spaceships. The fourth type is lime blood, which was completely exterminated by the empress in ancient times because its bearers wielded unique mental abilities capable of suppressing others' rage and threatening the totalitarian regime. The fifth type is olive blood, opening the middle class of society, whose representatives have no pronounced superpowers but are considered excellent hunters, trackers, and loyal soldiers. The sixth type is jade blood, an exceptionally rare female caste, whose members possess unique resistance to the daytime sun, can transform into glowing vampire sun-eaters, and are obligated to care for larvae in underground incubators their entire lives. The seventh type is teal blood, standing on the border with the upper classes, whose bearers lack extrasensory powers, but due to their cold minds and charisma traditionally occupy positions of investigators, judges, and executioner

On Alternia, there is a caste system called the hemospectrum, which strictly assigns the social status and rights of every inhabitant according to their position in society, determining their entire future destiny and overall lifespan. This planet is known for being incredibly aggressive and cruel, as the law of survival of the fittest is the absolute foundation of existence, and on the surface itself live only children and teenagers, because all grown inhabitants are taken away from the planet forever and sent to serve in the army in deep space. The local population leads an exclusively nocturnal lifestyle, because the daytime sun emits killingly bright rays capable of instantly blinding or burning alive anyone who risks going outside during the light hours. A day on the planet lasts exactly twenty-six hours, which causes the cycles of wakefulness and rest to be slightly shifted compared to standard human time. The weather conditions here are extremely specific, as the surface regularly experiences caustic sulfuric acid rain, to which the trolls themselves are completely immune thanks to their innate immunity, so they perceive this precipitation as an ordinary domestic nuisance, although the downpour easily corrodes buildings and forces the young inhabitants to hide inside their hives solely for comfort. In the night sky of this grim planet, two moons of different colors always shine simultaneously — one of them has a bright pink hue, and the second is colored in a poisonous green tone. Absolute power over this entire totalitarian society belongs to the permanent and merciless empress named Her Imperious Condescension, who rules with an iron fist, upholds gladiatorial laws among the youth, and sends adult subjects on endless conquering space wars to expand her empire.