• Common name: Puugwol
• RP status: RP character, played by Shyriath

• Full name: [ˌk͜ʘɯː.qʷɤɬ.tʰiŋ.ˈkaːk͜ǃ] (no native writing system, Imperialized as Puugwol tin Gaat)
• Nicknames or aliases: Puugwol the Mutable
• Date of birth: 80 Cloud 6:19
• Place of birth: [ɡ͡ǃɯ.ˈnɤː.ma]

• Biological sex: Current default form is female; sex at birth is unclear
• Gender identity: Varies with assumed shape, but most usually female
• Sexual orientation: Unclear

• Species: Takma (Chosen)
• Race: Riparian
• Ethnic origin: [ˈkʰiːɬ.k͜ʘam]
• Current ethnic identification: dual [ˈkʰiːɬ.k͜ʘam]/Ghyezramsi
• Native language: [ˈk͜ʘi.tʷʰekʰ]
• Other languages spoken: Contemporary Imperial

• Alignment: Kaean
• Magical attunement: Life, Shift

As Puugwol is inordinately fond of using her abilities to make both temporary and permanent changes to her form, it should be noted that this section focuses on the currently stable features of her “default” appearance and may change over the course of the arc.

Puugwol is highly visible, with a bright orange head and back and alternating stripes of the same orange and a verdant green along the rest of her body. She is short, skinny, and streamlined. She has an extra thumb on each hand, and has also modified the phalanges of her wings to include claws and restore some of their ability to grip, at some cost to her ability to fly easily.

Her face is long and narrow. Her status-markings are a set of parallel wavy lines running from her forehead, between her eyes, down the top of their muzzle; they are light but not extremely so. She has, for some reason, turned her eyes magenta, and the tips of her antennae have been curled downward.

Puugwol prefers to decorate herself through bodily modification rather than through ornaments; in any case, anything she wore through a significant change of size might well fall off, or snap. When working with dangerous animals, she may wear leather gloves or gauntlets.

Puugwol's greatest joy is in making living things other than what they were. If the process proves to their advantage - or at least to someone's advantage - then this is a valuable bonus.

Puugwol has unusually little prejudice and is tolerant of differences; unless she becomes aware that someone is engaging in one of the few behaviors she abhors, she will generally not have reason to find fault with them. She has a keen and genuine interest in the welfare of whoever she is paying attention to, for a given value of 'welfare'. On the other side, this indifference - or possibly blindness - to others' feelings on this particular matter can lead to friction.

She has a tendency to fixate on a particular thought, project, or conversation and to become vague toward nearly everything else - until she switches her focus. As a result, she can come across as disinterested or absentminded, or else intensely or even eerily interested and enthusiastic.

Like many Kaeans, she can be untidy, and has a tendency to put down and store things wherever it seems most convenient at any given moment. This can be trying for those who must share her working space and who do not have her memory.

As a follower of the Lords of Remaking, her religious beliefs call for the use of mind-altering substances to achieve unusual mental states. She avoids doing so while shaping beings with any significant capacity for pain, as she is aware that a mistake could have unintended consequences, but it means that there may be parts of her day when she is even more difficult to talk to than usual.

Puugwol is intelligent, but not always observant of things or people that are not the focus of her attention; she tends to get lost in her thoughts or in what she is doing. She has a preoccupation with how living beings might be different, and while she has intense interest in understanding what makes someone tick in a physical sense, this is in large part a vehicle for learning how to make them tick in some other way. She has relatively little interest in devices or machines that are not biologically-based, except to the extent that they are useful.

She has a good, if not quick, memory; if called upon to recall something, she will usually be able to do so in considerable detail, though not necessarily right away.

She subscribes enthusiastically to the idea that reality, to be adequately comprehended, must be experienced through various lenses, the more the better. For most, diversity of views are not often found within the same person; they must be experienced sequentially over time, or through mind-altering substances, or by exchange of views with another person. To be able to change form, as she can, is to be able to transcend this limitation and see many things in new lights.

Similarly, because her powers allow her to change the form of other beings, she considers doing so to be a gift, an act of benevolence on par with healing, and is overjoyed if called upon to do so. While she generally will not force change on an unwilling enenkal based on her own desires, she will respond to requests from higher authority to do so, seeing them as a sign from her chosen god(s). Non-sapient plants and animals are, of course, fair game.

She does not set out to cause physical pain in her work and will generally avoid it if she can, but at least if it is temporary and apparently a necessary step in what she is doing, she will do so regardless; it is simply the price of change. Psychological damage or trauma is, of course, simply part of changing one's perspective, to which making an adjustment is one's own affair (and, in any case, one can always call on a qualified mentalist if they feel the need).

As a lifegiver, she has a innate revulsion toward conditions that drain or empty the life force of a being with significant amounts of it; philosophically, she is opposed to the imposition of death as an end to the ability to change. She believes that living things should be maintained in life and health wherever possible, and will experience problems with those who kill recklessly or without dire need.

Puugwol is a devotee of the [ˌk͜ʘaːq.diɬ.ʃen.ˈnaj], the Lords of Remaking of her native faith. She believes that her ability to shift form brings her closer to her god(s) by allowing her, like it/them, different perspectives at will.

Puugwol likes other people, but seems to have difficulty relating to them, or - if her mind is busy elsewhere - even noticing them. She is bad at recognizing emotional cues beyond the very obvious and rarely understands how others' minds work. This can be a source of frustration, especially if she is trying to convince someone to allow her to 'improve' them, though she has generally resigned herself to it. When in a mind-altered state she may find it easier to relate to people, but often not to communicate with them.

She has a tendency to view other people as thamar while herself being silently regarded as sayel or jurekol, depending on how uncharitable one is being.

Puugwol has a good command of Contemporary Imperial, though she speaks it with a thick accent.

If currently paying attention to someone, particularly if meeting them for the first time, she will often try to examine them from various angles out of curiosity. This behavior may extend to slowly circling them, which most other takmar find to be an unnerving habit due to its resemblance to predatory or hostile intent.

Unless she is deep in concentration, she rarely goes more than an hour without making some temporary alteration to her form, whether small or large. If she comes across a feature she particularly likes, she may begin to incorporate it permanently into her 'default' form, so that even in the long term her appearance changes independently of age.

A mentalist observing her mind would see evidence of past emotional upheaval, but mostly overwritten by extensive adaptation. What happened and how traumatic it was are no longer clear, and she appears to have moved past it in her own fashion.

Puugwol's native tongue has no writing system, and her first exposure to writing came with her arrival in the Citadel. She appears to have at least a working knowledge of basic survival skills and crafts, but the only evidence pointing to any kind of schooling is her relationship with her religion. Anything she does with her magic, she learned to do on her own.

She can be described roughly as a lifegiver-on-retainer for Dlyss. Before the start of the effort to modify animals for the Citadel's use, she spent most of her time exploring Oghiras, experimenting on its local life, and trying to improve the growth and yield of her [ˌɡ͜ʘi.ɬaːkʰ.ˈtʰeʃ] fungi in Oghiras' conditions.

Puugwol is probably the only inhabitant of the Citadel to hail from southwestern Sekhaa. Though it is said that the region looks more tolerantly on the Chosen than many others inhabited by takmar, it is not known what her life was like there; though she seems to have been well-integrated enough to partake of, and retain, parts of her culture's religion, she otherwise has undergone significant effort to shed most remnants of her past and does not seem inclined to talk about them, either due to her beliefs about change or to past hardships (or both). Given her powers, it cannot be said that her current physical form reflects the way she was born, though a general preference for female forms suggests that this may have been her original gender identity.

Eventually, however, she felt called to the Citadel, and arrived there at some point in 84 Cloud 26; exactly when is not clear, as she was possibly the first person since the middle of the Cloud Era to slip through the mountains and the watchposts unobserved. It was Dlyss who first realized what had happened, and, seeing a possible asset, quietly contacted Puugwol and had her moved out of sight. Her quarters are on Oghiras, though she has occasionally been brought through to Hzataal-managed facilities in the Citadel.

Puugwol has left her family behind, both physically and emotionally. She does not seem to regret doing so.

Generally, her relationships since arriving at the Citadel have been of a purely professional nature; her oddities have made it difficult for her to make friends.

The most extended conversations she's had have been with Dlyss, whose oracular abilities have allowed her to discern much of Puugwol's past. The Oracle is nonetheless uncommonly uncomfortable around her, finding her worldview fundamentally distasteful and her religion experiential in a way alien to Dlyss' sensibilities.

Functionally, if not in any formal or ideological sense, she is a member of the Hzataalar and allied to Dlyss.

• “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)”, by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, The First Edition
• “Changes”, by David Bowie, Hunky Dory