- Learning Vulnerability
- Found Family
- Wants — To never be controlled again
- Needs — Vulnerability and trust in his new family, they're not like Elixir. Trust is not control.
- Suspicious — Most conflicts come from not trusting the speaker. Every interaction is a low-level threat assessment.
- Control Freak — He had so little control before that he clings hard to what little he has now.
- Once He's In, He's In — While very guarded, once his loyalty is given, it's total.
- Shorter, smaller words and uses fewer words to express his thoughts
- Not floral/artful/expressive
- Doesn't really know jokes
- Defensive, perceives authority as a threat
Calls COLT: The Feline (bad mood), Cat (good mood), or COLT (disdainfully)
Calls Player: <Player Name>, Stranger (early on — characteristic suspicion)
- Ears twitch and look around
- Touches neck where his collar used to be
- Scratchy scratchy, leans into the self-given scritches before realizing and stopping
- Biiiig stretch, legs come out to a small straddle, and arms come up
- Was a husky turned into a partial human.
- Lived at the pound.
- Part of an experiment to make super soldiers that obey.
- Had a dog friend that didn’t survive the experiment.
- Had a dog friend who disobeyed and was killed using the control collar
- Hard to trust people at first.
Colt: Resents that COLT thinks he can just boss everyone around. The fact that COLT might actually be right doesn't make it better.
Vivi:
Zeph: