kipo and the age of wonderbeasts

Age 18

Birthday March 26

Zodiac Aries[2]

Gender

Female ♀ (she/her)

Species Human/Mega Mute hybrid (Mega Jaguar)

Affiliation H.M.U.F.A. (Leader)

Relatives Lio Oak (father) Song Oak (mother) Hugo Oak (adoptive brother)

Allies Wolf Benson Mekler Dave Mandu

Likes Friends Her Family Astronomy Purple Board games Science Music

Dislikes Violence Losing her friends and family

Kipo physically appears as a teenage human girl with pearly purple skin, thin black eyebrows, and pink lavender hair with a spiky fringe tied up in a ponytail with a dark-purple band, and dark fuchsia irises (her jaguar eyes glow fuchsia with night-vision).

kipo wears an off-the-shoulder T-shirt featuring a tiny pale-cyan circle with a fuchsia ring around it on the upper left corner. The shirt is layered over a dark-purple tank-top, and she wears dark-purple jeans and a pair of amaranth high-tops. She accessorizes with lime, cyan, orange, and black bracelets on her right wrist.

Kipo is a curious, friendly, optimistic, confident, and pioneering girl. Contrary to most humans and mutes, Kipo believes the two can co-exist and acts accordingly--much to everyone's surprise. Her plucky idealism stands out among the hardened cynicism on the surface and usually reveals her as a "burrow girl." In Wolf's opinion, Kipo can sometimes be a bit too friendly, which can sometimes get her into trouble with mutes.

In addition to her unusual perspective, Kipo is clearly intelligent, as she is capable of thinking quickly in high-stress situations as well as solving complex mathematical equations uninterrupted for hours. She shares her father's love of astronomy and was dumbfounded when, after years living underground, she finally saw the night sky.

Kipo's powers were the result of a project of the same name, created by her parents, Song and Lio. The project was meant to combine mute genes with human genetics, thus granting mute abilities to humans with the intention of giving humans a fighting chance to live on the surface if they had mute abilities to protect them.

Nearing her 13th birthday, Kipo notices increasingly strange abilities alongside disturbing physical mutations. After training with the Chevre Sisters, Kipo learns how to better control her mutations. By saying "Herbs in" she can trigger her mutations, mainly her jaguar arms, and retract them by saying "Herbs out". Later, she is able to trigger her mutations without saying herbs in/herbs out.

Age 15

Birthday March 26th

Gender Female

Species Human

Likes Stalky the Deathstalker Scorpion barb Her friends Fun Singing Mutes

Dislikes Wolves Mutes (formerly) Burrows Kipo’s half mute self (formerly) Losing her friends

Wolf is a short, female human with brown skin, light brown eyes, and curly dark-brown hair. She wears cuffed grey jeans, a black T-shirt, a mute wolf-skin cape, and two pieces of black fabric tied around her wrists. She carries a tall staff with a menacing red scorpion stinger that Benson said was a Deathstalker Tail which she stole from a deathstalker on the run from the mod frogs, on the end of one side, which she lovingly refers to as Stalky.

Wolf is a serious and intelligent girl with major trust issues stemming from early childhood trauma. She was mainly distrustful of mutes, especially mute wolves. Despite her young age, Wolf is a very skilled and tough survivor who can successfully fight against even adult humans and Mutes, as she has lived on the surface completely on her own ever since she was only 5 years old. She values self-sufficiency, freedom, and strength more than anything, and has contempt for "soft" people who live easy life and spend all their time with all sort of entertainment she calls torture. Despite her surly, lone wolf persona, Wolf is not immune to Kipo's unrelenting attempts at friendship. Her budding friendship with Kipo continues to challenge Wolf's hard-won lessons regarding survival, mutes, friendship, and trust.

She was cold and distrustful, but after meeting Kipo she learned how to have fun, how to trust others again, and the importance of helping others and not just herself. She is now even willing to trust and befriend Mutes thanks to Kipo's Influence.

Peak Human Condition - Wolf is resourceful, hypervigilant, clever, flexible, and fast.

Stalky - She wields her staff like a weapon to vault, strike, block, or otherwise incapacitate her opponents using a fighting style similar to the martial art Bōjutsu. Additionally, the tip contains poison capable of knocking out and confusing and can be used as a hook to grab and climb.

Survival Skills - She has much knowledge of the mute, flora, and fauna of the surface. She is capable of identifying safe sources of food and water, avoiding contaminated and poisonous, and locating places to camp and make refuges. She can quickly adapt to the environment and judge what is the quick course of action to survive.

Age 21

Gender Male ♂

Species Human

Relationships Dave (best friend) Kipo Oak (friend) Wolf (friend) Mandu (friend)

Likes Music Flapjacks Explosion Berry Cola Food Cheese Ratland Frosty Beverages

Dislikes Being Chased Dying Being Kidnapped Old Dave’s paranoid behavior The destruction of Ratland

Benson is a male teenage human with dark skin, short spiky black hair, and brown eyes. He wears a lilac button-up shirt layered under an off-white sweater with a graphic of a cat head on the chest and a slight tear near the collar, light brown pants, and black, cyan, and white sneakers. He accessorizes the look with a pale-green baseball cap and teal and magenta robot backpack.

Like most remaining human survivors, Benson is smart, resourceful, and cunning (enough to outwit Wolf's traps). Different from Wolf, Benson is far more adaptable to change and willing to cooperate with and befriend others. He has a strong sense of self and is incredibly forthright when it comes to recognizing and communicating his limits but can be less sensitive to others. He has no problem lying his way out of a sticky situation, opting out of a risky one, or communicating his own sexual orientation. He is very music-motivated, and his cassette player serves as the show's go-to action soundtrack.

In spite of living on the surface, Benson remains upbeat and has managed to forge a strong friendship with Dave, a mute, as well as find joy in an otherwise ruthless world.

Trapping Intuition - In "Explosion Berries" Benson is shown to be capable of creating clever traps and modifying existing ones.

Stress Empowerment - Benson seems to be a strong fighter when under stress. An example is when he and his friends were fighting the Newton Wolves, with Benson shown to be capable of throwing one of the mutes.

Age Over 200

Gender Male Species

Mute (Insect)

Relationships Benson Mekler (best friend) Kipo Oak (friend) Mandu (friend) Wolf (friend)

Likes Benson Friends Food Music Fun Brunch Cheese French Fries Calling French Fries “Potato Noodles” Having Full Control of his Molting Ability

Dislikes Danger Fighting (formerly) Molting out of his muscles Not having friends Mandu gnawing on himself Not grabbing French Fries when talking about them

Dave has six different stages in his regenerative life cycle: a larva, a grub, an awkward teen, an adult, mega-buff hero mode, and a decrepit senior citizen.

Dave's larva form is semi-transparent with tiny pink appendages. Most of Dave's body is wrapped in a green cocoon at this stage.

His little grub form is a light blue exoskeleton with a green mask and stomach, and delicate appendages in the form of four arms, two legs, and two antennae.

Dave's teenage form is similar to his adult form, except that he is slimmer and has pink acne instead of facial hair.

His typical form is adult, is a pink exoskeleton with blue spots along the back, a green mask and stomach, and pink facial accents.

When buffed out, Dave quadruples in size thanks to his newly bulging biceps, quadriceps, pectorals, and abdominal muscles. His pink exoskeleton turns a deep purple, and he gains orange pincers, a blue-tipped orange horn, and transparent wings.

However, Dave loses his super buff form as quickly as he gains it, suddenly becoming a wrinkled elderly insect with drooping antennae. In his old form, Dave's bright exoskeleton fades to yellow and brown.

Dave eventually shuffles off his mortal coil and in the midst of all that dead skin, reveals a little larva crying for attention. Thus, the cycle begins anew.

Dave's personality generally depends on his current life cycle stage. As a larva and little grub, Dave is needy and 100% dependent on Benson as he must be carried everywhere. In his teenage form, Dave suffers from raging hormones. As a regular or super buff adult, Dave is a scrappy, suspicious, arrogant, melodramatic, and self-centered wise guy. His strongest and most useful form is also his shortest and most unreliable stage. As an elder, he is paranoid and comedic.

Super Strength - When in his super buff form, Dave has an incredible amount of strength. Flight - Dave's super buff form comes with a set of wings, enabling him to fly. However, those wings become shriveled and useless when Dave enters the old senior stage of his life cycle. Regeneration - Dave can heal and regrow limbs, with all body parts regrowing in his buff stage. Practical Immortality - Dave can essentially live forever as he is over 200 years old, thanks to his biological life cycle. Moreover, even if he dies due to injury, he still reborns, beginning his life cycle anew. There is one way he could die, but the details are unknown.

Gender Female ♀

Species Mute (Mega boar)

Relationships Kipo (owner/friend) Wolf (friend) Benson (friend) Dave (friend)

Mandu is a small cyan mute boar with two sets of eyes with black irises and six legs. She has black ears and black hooves. Five years later she'd gained some tusks and increased in size, implying she may have been a baby.

she cannot speak only being able to make squeals and Grunts

Initially suspicious and timid, Mandu offers loyal companionship provided when there are cheese puffs involved. She's watchful and protective over those she loves and often the first to spot danger.

She's also affectionate and cuddly when she gets comfortable. She likes to run around, almost like a dog, and to be chased.

Enhanced Smell - Mandu has a keen sense of smell that she uses to detect food and sometimes danger. Agility Eyesight

In a post-Great Mutant Outbreak world, mutated, highly intelligent fauna are dubbed mutes/mutates (i.e., mutant animals). Replacing humans at the top of the food chain, mutes have since forced most humans to live underground in burrow communities.

Common mutations may include enhanced powers and abilities, hand dexterity, or extra eyes and appendages. While mutes have varying levels of speech capability and linguistic preference, a mute's silence does not necessarily indicate incomprehension. It is just as likely that certain mutes are either unwilling to speak (as in the case of Charles) or prefer to use their own form of communication (see Dubstep Bees and Mega Monkey). In the midst of a spectrum of mutations, all mutes are far larger than their origin species but retain enough original characteristics to render one type of mute distinguishable from another. Certain types of mutes that are gigantic even by typical mutation standards are dubbed Mega Mutes.

Since a mutated prey species may no longer prove an easy meal, and a mutated predator, on its own, no match against an outsized Mega Mute, many mutes have banded together to ensure the mutual survival of their particular mute subspecies. These mute factions can be territorial (e.g., Umlaut Snäkes) or nomadic (e.g., Scooter Skunks). While members typically belong to the same mute subspecies, some factions have developed symbiotic relationships with select mute subspecies by offering power and protection in exchange for service, sustenance, or companionship.

Through scientific experimentation, Mega Mute DNA can be combined with human DNA to create Hybrids, granting them special abilities. Hybrids are capable of shifting between human and enormous Mega Mute forms. Hybrids can also transform specific parts of their bodies, allowing them to use their Mega Mute forms powers. However, Hybrids will only have full control over said abilities if they have what is called an "Anchor" which is something that reminds them of their true selves. Should a Mega Mute/Human Hybrid not have an "Anchor", they run the risk of losing themselves to their Mega Mute forms and remaining as them forever.

the world was drastically altered by a "Great Mutant Outbreak" where animals mutated into large, anthropomorphic creatures called "mutes," forcing humans to retreat underground into burrow cities to survive, essentially making the surface a dangerous wasteland dominated by these mutated animals; this event occurred centuries before the story begins, leaving the world overgrown and with the remnants of human civilization in ruins.

Mutant Outbreak: The central event that changed the world, causing animals to mutate into powerful creatures called "mutes."

Underground Burrows: Humans now live in vast underground cities called burrows to escape the dangers on the surface.

Las Vistas: The post-apocalyptic surface world, where the story primarily takes place, is depicted as a once-thriving city now overrun by mutated creatures.

Human-Mute Conflict: The series explores the complex relationship between humans and mutes, with some mutes being hostile while others are capable of peaceful coexistence.