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22. Ferdinand

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There's pretty inevitably a bias toward some of the characters that have been around Z'onn Z'orr for a long time, because there's just been so much more time to get used to them. Ferdinand hasn't been around from the very beginning but he feels like he has been because he's just such a powerful mainstay of Checkmate. He runs the mess hall, and thus has reason to interact with basically every player character, as well as most NPCs. Lush had an ongoing rivalry with him, Data 7 tries to pal up to him, Rozetta near got her ass beat by him, it's just a good time. In fact, Ferdinand... sniffle... Ferdinand was one of the first people Bloodfruit told a major lie to, as upon meeting she claimed to have been longtime family friends with Wonder Woman as a part of her pathological liar trait (which Saorise shares and remembers she has more often than I do).

Bloodfruit was drawn to the big lug right away, as she often is with characters that obviously stand apart from the typical Earth-born mundies. This is what really drew the two together early on. Much like the fae, the reputation of the minotaurs was awful, as many wrote them off as violent brutes, which is ultimately the exact opposite of Ferdinand and what he sets out to be. So bad that he absolutely hates even being associated with the line of -taurs stemming from Minos, instead referring to himself and his kind as kithotaurs (-taurs from Kithira).

Ferdinand has generally been a great and consistent friend to Bloodfruit, teaching her about mundy meals, helping her to cheer up a gloomy Goldilocks. Things wouldn't always be sunshines and rainbows between the two, but ultimately she still feels compassion for him.

Hint for #21: This character doesn't speak much English