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Coloth grew up on [[Planet (War Crimes)|a planet]] home to his people, the [[Ulk-Ra]]. He had an older sister named [[Otchon]], who once let Coloth taste [[reed wine]]. | Coloth grew up on [[Planet (War Crimes)|a planet]] home to his people, the [[Ulk-Ra]]. He had an older sister named [[Otchon]], who once let Coloth taste [[reed wine]]. | ||
Tasked by the chief male of his clan, a young Coloth underwent a rite to become considered a [[warrior]]: he went out into the wild with the goal of killing a beast and bringing back its [[pelt]]. However, Coloth was captured by [[Ossu-male]], an Ulk-Ra augmented by the [[War Lord]]s for the [[War Game]]s and returned to Coloth's homeworld by the [[Time Lord]] [[High Council]]. Coloth was kept trapped in woven vegetation for a period until — on orders from the War Lord programming — Ossu brutally killed Coloth by slicing him open with his [[paw]]s. ([[PROSE]]: | Tasked by the chief male of his clan, a young Coloth underwent a rite to become considered a [[warrior]]: he went out into the wild with the goal of killing a beast and bringing back its [[pelt]]. However, Coloth was captured by [[Ossu-male]], an Ulk-Ra augmented by the [[War Lord]]s for the [[War Game]]s and returned to Coloth's homeworld by the [[Time Lord]] [[High Council]]. Coloth was kept trapped in woven vegetation for a period until — on orders from the War Lord programming — Ossu brutally killed Coloth by slicing him open with his [[paw]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War Crimes (short story)}}) | ||
=== As a cactus-skinned boy === | === As a cactus-skinned boy === | ||
Coloth was later resurrected, remembering that "[his] family, friends, and homeplanet [were] perfectly fine, but [he had] died a horrible death". He claimed that this was a "long story". | Coloth was later resurrected, remembering that "[his] family, friends, and homeplanet [were] perfectly fine, but [he had] died a horrible death". He claimed that this was a "long story". He became a member of the [[Plume Coteries]], becoming friends with his [[birdhemoth]] steed [[Rich (Sonnenblumen)|Rich]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sonnenblumen (short story)}}) | ||
In his new life, Coloth had the ability to appear however he wished, being known to adopt such forms as "a young man who looked exactly like [[Harry Styles]] from the band [[One Direction]]" or "a massive writing ball of tentacles". His most favoured appearance, however, resembled a [[cactus]]-[[skin]]ned [[humanoid]] ([[PROSE]]: | In his new life, Coloth had the ability to appear however he wished, being known to adopt such forms as "a young man who looked exactly like [[Harry Styles]] from the band [[One Direction]]" or "a massive writing ball of tentacles". His most favoured appearance, however, resembled a [[cactus]]-[[skin]]ned [[humanoid]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cobweb and Ivory (short story)}}, {{cs|A Farewell to Arms (short story)}}) with yellowish-green "skin". He could manipulate the details of this appearance at will, for example growing flowers on his skin. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sonnenblumen (short story)}}) Aesculapius was aware that he was an [[Ulk-Ra]] but also a "shape-shiter". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Life After Death (short story)}}) | ||
In his new body, Coloth, a "cactus-skinned boy", represented the Plume Coteries on [[Terra Primagenia]] at the unveiling of [[Cernunnos]]. Fleeing from a [[painted warrior]] during a [[praxis]] trip, [[Avus]] shoved past Coloth, and was hurt by his cactus skin. ([[PROSE]]: | In his new body, Coloth, a "cactus-skinned boy", represented the Plume Coteries on [[Terra Primagenia]] at the unveiling of [[Cernunnos]]. Fleeing from a [[painted warrior]] during a [[praxis]] trip, [[Avus]] shoved past Coloth, and was hurt by his cactus skin. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cobweb and Ivory (short story)}}) | ||
As part of his duties with the Coteries, he was present in the [[Plume Coteries' Library]] when it was visited by [[Graelyn Scythes]], [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] and [[Lady Aesculapius]], of the [[10,000 Dawns]], who were looking for a copy of ''[[The Book of the Enemy]]'' alongside a person claiming to be an agent of [[Time Lord|the mammoths' opponent in the War]], "[[the Emissary]]", but who was really solo operator [[Auteur]]. Coloth got [[Marissa (White Canvas)|Marissa]] to give him a glowing library card which would lead the travellers to the ''Book''. After they found it and discovered that their next destination would need to be the mammoths' [[alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|stronghold]], Coloth, stating that "an Ulk-Ra lives on bravery", abruptly volunteered to go with them, since his library shift ended in five minutes anyway. | As part of his duties with the Coteries, he was present in the [[Plume Coteries' Library]] when it was visited by [[Graelyn Scythes]], [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] and [[Lady Aesculapius]], of the [[10,000 Dawns]], who were looking for a copy of ''[[The Book of the Enemy]]'' alongside a person claiming to be an agent of [[Time Lord|the mammoths' opponent in the War]], "[[the Emissary]]", but who was really solo operator [[Auteur]]. Coloth got [[Marissa (White Canvas)|Marissa]] to give him a glowing library card which would lead the travellers to the ''Book''. After they found it and discovered that their next destination would need to be the mammoths' [[alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|stronghold]], Coloth, stating that "an Ulk-Ra lives on bravery", abruptly volunteered to go with them, since his library shift ended in five minutes anyway. | ||
Subsequently, he was turned into [[fiction]] by Auteur using the [[gauntlet (White Canvas)|gauntlet]], and existed as such within [[Auteur's Town]] as a series of ''Coloth Adventures'' films for [[17 (number)|17]] [[year]]s. One of them, which came out when Graelyn (who'd been reverted into a baby) was ten, was ''[[Coloth Adventures 4: The Patron of Doom]]''. Eventually, Graelyn remembered her original life and freed all the fictionalised characters from the town's [[cinema]]. In the following battle between the defictionalised prisoners and the inhabitants of the Town, Coloth was seen fighting a group of [[Faction Paradox|cultists]] who were [[Time Lord|members of Auteur's people]], back-to-back with Lady Aesculapius. They were all very briefly fictionalised again when Auteur manipulated Graelyn into completing her original [[ritual]], but this didn't last as Graelyn outwitted Auteur and used the gauntlet to reverse all the fictionalisations and send everything Auteur had gathered back to its proper reality. The next day, Coloth attended the [[Christmas Needle Agreement]] negotiations on [[the Needle]], and, after the document was signed, played a card game with Lady Aesc, Arch, and a great number of aliens; at one point, he won a hand against an alien with a tentacled face, to Aesc's amusement. ([[PROSE]]: | Subsequently, he was turned into [[fiction]] by Auteur using the [[gauntlet (White Canvas)|gauntlet]], and existed as such within [[Auteur's Town]] as a series of ''Coloth Adventures'' films for [[17 (number)|17]] [[year]]s. One of them, which came out when Graelyn (who'd been reverted into a baby) was ten, was ''[[Coloth Adventures 4: The Patron of Doom]]''. Eventually, Graelyn remembered her original life and freed all the fictionalised characters from the town's [[cinema]]. In the following battle between the defictionalised prisoners and the inhabitants of the Town, Coloth was seen fighting a group of [[Faction Paradox|cultists]] who were [[Time Lord|members of Auteur's people]], back-to-back with Lady Aesculapius. They were all very briefly fictionalised again when Auteur manipulated Graelyn into completing her original [[ritual]], but this didn't last as Graelyn outwitted Auteur and used the gauntlet to reverse all the fictionalisations and send everything Auteur had gathered back to its proper reality. The next day, Coloth attended the [[Christmas Needle Agreement]] negotiations on [[the Needle]], and, after the document was signed, played a card game with Lady Aesc, Arch, and a great number of aliens; at one point, he won a hand against an alien with a tentacled face, to Aesc's amusement. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|White Canvas (novel)}}) | ||
Still a "cactus-skinned boy", Coloth once flew beyond [[N-Space|his native universe]] on Rich's back. As they were passing through the [[10,000 Dawns]], Rich's wingbeat caused a "rogue wave of [[dimensional pressure]]" which led to a [[Galaxy Accident]] befalling [[the Sun]] of the [[beings of light's Dawn]]. Realising the subsequent plague of [[Invisible Inferno]]s was somehow their fault, the two stayed in the Dawns, helping [[Dawn (organisation)|Dawn]] to deal with this crisis as well as others, including the destruction of [[Dawn 10000]]. ([[PROSE]]: | Still a "cactus-skinned boy", Coloth once flew beyond [[N-Space|his native universe]] on Rich's back. As they were passing through the [[10,000 Dawns]], Rich's wingbeat caused a "rogue wave of [[dimensional pressure]]" which led to a [[Galaxy Accident]] befalling [[the Sun]] of the [[beings of light's Dawn]]. Realising the subsequent plague of [[Invisible Inferno]]s was somehow their fault, the two stayed in the Dawns, helping [[Dawn (organisation)|Dawn]] to deal with this crisis as well as others, including the destruction of [[Dawn 10000]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Sonnenblumen (short story)}}) | ||
=== As a cactus-skinned man === | === As a cactus-skinned man === | ||
Now a cactus "man" rather than a boy, Coloth once walked through a section of the [[Labyrinth (The Book of the War)|Labyrinth]] resembling a regular alley. [[Nezf]], [[Wade (A Farewell to Arms)|Wade]], [[Tabrenilsodvoravitas]], and [[Shift (A Farewell to Arms)|a Shift]] passed Coloth on their way to steal the [[Greater Key]] from [[the Fortress]]. ([[PROSE]]: | Now a cactus "man" rather than a boy, Coloth once walked through a section of the [[Labyrinth (The Book of the War)|Labyrinth]] resembling a regular alley. [[Nezf]], [[Wade (A Farewell to Arms)|Wade]], [[Tabrenilsodvoravitas]], and [[Shift (A Farewell to Arms)|a Shift]] passed Coloth on their way to steal the [[Greater Key]] from [[the Fortress]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|A Farewell to Arms (short story)}}) | ||
The adult Coloth was one of the individuals who showed up to [[Aesculapius]]'s [[funeral]] in [[Aesculapius's Factory of Crystal|her Factory of Crystal]], secretly a ploy by Aesc (who'd been reborn in a new body) to find out who had sent the trapped parcel which had taken her previous life from her. Coloth nearly bumped into a highly ominous man with a black goatee, dressed in all black with crimson robes, whose every word seemed to be a ''double entendre'' implying that he was the one who'd killed Aesc; however, it later became clear the goatee-sporting man was an old friend of Aesc's called [[Steve (Life After Death)|Steve]] whom she seemed to trust completely despite his villainous stylings. Aesc deduced that her killer was instead an old acquaintance in a new body; she specified that even though she was looking for a shape-shifter, she did not suspect Coloth, who was relieved to hear it. Instead, the culprit turned out to be [[Meistras]]. ([[PROSE]]: | The adult Coloth was one of the individuals who showed up to [[Aesculapius]]'s [[funeral]] in [[Aesculapius's Factory of Crystal|her Factory of Crystal]], secretly a ploy by Aesc (who'd been reborn in a new body) to find out who had sent the trapped parcel which had taken her previous life from her. Coloth nearly bumped into a highly ominous man with a black goatee, dressed in all black with crimson robes, whose every word seemed to be a ''double entendre'' implying that he was the one who'd killed Aesc; however, it later became clear the goatee-sporting man was an old friend of Aesc's called [[Steve (Life After Death)|Steve]] whom she seemed to trust completely despite his villainous stylings. Aesc deduced that her killer was instead an old acquaintance in a new body; she specified that even though she was looking for a shape-shifter, she did not suspect Coloth, who was relieved to hear it. Instead, the culprit turned out to be [[Meistras]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Life After Death (short story)}}) | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* Prior to Coloth's cameo appearance in [[Nate Bumber]]'s | * Prior to Coloth's cameo appearance in [[Nate Bumber]]'s {{cite source|Cobweb and Ivory (short story)}} almost 20 years after his debut in ''[[War Crimes (short story)|War Crimes]]'', Bumber contributed a story foreshadowing Coloth's reappearance, titled ''The Library At the End Of the Universe: A Comprehensive History'', to the 2017 fan anthology ''Shit Trips 2''. The story features the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and a boy named "Callum" in the [[Plume Coteries]]' [[library]] preparing for Coloth's arrival, with the Doctor at one point saying, "History has been broken. The most important person in all of time and space was killed before their time, and they'll be coming through here any day." | ||
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