PERSONALITY
Imine is violently hotheaded. She finds genuine sadistic pleasure in others' suffering and has no qualms about murdering those who aren't the same. There's no amount of carnage that she doesn't see as justified in her mission of righting all the generational wrongs against her species.
Despite all of her hate, there is a deeper layer of misery hidden underneath it all. Her wish of having a hive of her own had been destroyed in front of her time and time again. She doesn't know why she can't be a proper queen, even after the awful experiments she was forced through during her captivity in The Complex, and it haunts her to the deepest and darkest cracks of her being. Even after that awful experience, she doesn't understand why she's broken.
She sees any and all Stem Slimes as her sisters and does her best to raise them up alongside her. The sense of community fulfills her.
TRIVIA
Technology disgusts her due to the physical torture she was subjected to in Stem Tower's tests.
Imine's core has a genetic defect, and that's why she's unable to become a proper queen. It's the same one that Hive Malfunction possessed centuries ago.
She quells other aggressive Stem Slimes with queen pheromones. Juke's tests had reactivated select doormant queen related genes inside of her.
Though Imine can speak, she has an extremely unique accent and a broken vocabulary.
XX820
Imine goes from hive to hive, teaching Stem Slimes the language that she learned while in captivity. She goes from hive-to-hive in the Fungal Wastes, telling them that one day they will band together and feast upon all that has wronged them. She occasionally leads hungry Stem Slimes to go out and raid Stemrails and small Outlander's settlements.
HISTORY
Imine was a Stem Slime drone born into an unremarkable hive in the Fungal Wastes. As the hive was overpopulated, she and three other Stem Slimes were sent out into the wild to create a new hive. Strangely, she found herself unable to create goolings. Growing frustrated with this, she cannibalized the drones that were meant to be her first workers.
She quickly went crazy, claiming a massive range as her "territory" and mauling anything that came inside of it. Despite the DNA relating to gooling production being flawed, she still had the enhanced physical abilities of a queen.
Nearby Stemrail cargo trains bothered her, the anger-prone slime seeking to destroy the trains when they came by. Doing this several times landed her in trouble with the Stem Tower government at the time. Groups of Lawmen Type-2s were sent out to deal with her; none of them survived.
For months, squads of Lawmen were unable to stop her. Stem Tower realizing they couldn't kill her, began to torch nearby hives in an attempt to make the species extinct. Imine's fled into a righteous rage, unable to do anything to save her people. In an act of revenge, she started to tear apart as much of the nearby Stemrails as possible.
It was then that a specialized killer robot, GWINO, was sent out to subdue Imine. The flying machine surprised Imine and captured her successfully, bringing her back to The Complex's furthest depths so the current research department could experiment on her. During this time, she started trying to grasp what type of place Stem City was above, managing to replicate their spoken language eventually.
Due to both the torture they inflicted and hearing of the Stem Rams abuse slimes, Imine grew even more hateful. It peaked when Juke Clorentine in XX813 started experimenting with her each and every day. Several times, Juke's tests almost killed Imine. Imine began using all those words she had picked up, slinging verbal hate at Juke whenever she could.
Imine watched in horror as Juke's magnum opus was made: After a long sequence of chemical filled syringes, Juke created a single gooling from Imine's DNA before promptly incinerating it. Juke made another, and another, and another. Imine was forced to watch Juke burn dozens of her children in front of her.
That was the moment that Imine set herself on the path of bloody justice.
In XX814, her opportunity to finally escape came. Juke prepared Imine to participate in Operation CHAINEDSLIME. Imine, having grown far craftier over the years in isolation, faked a defeated reaction to Juke's newly created neutralization device. When Imine was released, she played along for the sake of killing the Stem Rams the city had pitted her against.
She found the last one, Clara Kalstein, under some rubble. With a cruel smile, she spared Clara and broke free of her restraints. Wasting no time, Imine ran back into the Fungal Wastes; the Lawman chasing her had no hope of catching her.
It was then that she used her newfound intelligence to construct the ultimate plan: one where she united her species as one and raised them on blood-soaked ground. She crafted the idea of the Slime Rapture and got to work.
LOYALTY
RELATIONS
Mistress Gwino - Previous captor. Imine would love the opportunity to crush her.
Juke Clorentine - The last Stem Tower scientist to torture her. Imine noticed that Juke's treatment in particular was extremely cruel. Imine desires to find Juke personally when the Stem Slime rapture comes and wants to torture her until she turns old.
Clara Kalstein - The original target of Operation CHAINEDSLIME. Imine spared her only because she was instructed to capture her specifically, and Imine desperately wanted to spite Stem Tower before escaping.
Strawberry Von Galax - Imine finds her ideals disgusting and unrealistic.
The Large One - She doesn't find the mimickry of Stem Slimes flattering; in fact, Imine regrets not tearing it apart completely.