Vinbre Malcos

After a childhood alone at the bottom of the ocean, raptly watching movies between schoolfeeds, Vinbre has a deep and sincere care for and fascination with other trolls and how they work - right down the DNA. Being brutally culled for that interest, and its challenge to genetically vested fuchsia right to rule, didn’t put her off for a second. Her post-recovery time as a deckworker in the mixed-strata navy only strengthened her resolve and her ruthlessly practical approach to saving what’s left of Al2rnia. All this world understands is blood, and Vinbre Malcos is going to give it to them.

Resume includes eight sweeps tenure supervising a giant, parasitic copepod devouring the planet’s mantle via a massive geothermal vent in the deep ocean. Culled less than a minute into her coming-of-age Shark Tank pitch. Failed to die adequately. Passed half a sweep healing in the deep ocean before joining the Al2rnian Navy. Off-duty, now, she lives off her savings with her moirail, scheming vaguely about the dissolution of hemocaste, for totally altruistic reasons, and considering how to survive the end of the world.

Baxter Boxrot
moirail. A terrible little gamer, serial killer, and escaped battery from the Malcos psiihives. Someone to care for, someone who doesn’t ask for much, or offer much, but who she’s sure she can help. If she could just get him to stop addressing every woman he meets by the nominative ‘cunt’.

Sasara Versii
friend. Spearmaiden Versii, Sasara, the most interesting troll Al2rnia has spit out in the past millennium. Someone to drink in and figure out until she’s no longer a fixation and a necessity; someone whose help Vinbre needs to end this world and create a new one. Her friend, maybe. Or more. Like a best friend.

Raigne Latoil
friend. Her team lieutenant and periodic source of counsel. Sometimes you simply gravitate towards the same wounds with different scar tissue stretched over them. Vinbre finds Raigne delightful and not uncomplicated, but the kind of troll she feels she understands, and might even trust.

Jacith Bacopa
friend. A cosmic counterbalance to Sasara turned sincere, reliable friend. It’s hard to play chess strategically when you keep getting attached to the little horses.

Aivide Thieri
respectful acquaintance. Uh.

Eubala Malcos
Ancestor.

Extra

 * VINBRE THE NOVEL (backstory document)
 * Vinbre The Novel playlist link