[🦉] ~ Gricko Grimgrin

Name: Gricko Grimgrin, Friends call him Gricko, Family call him Junior Age: 44 Gender: Cisgender male Sexuality: Bisexual Species: Goblin Body: Short, average height and weight, quite lean.

Appearance: Gricko is a 3'5" goblin (average height for an Avantris goblin) with dirty blonde hair, green skin, a large nose, blue eyes, and large pointed ears. Gricko wears a red sleeveless shirt and a blue scaly sleeveless jacket with a white leopard fur ruff collar. He also wears a troll tusk necklace, a belt with various trinkets, puffy navy blue pants, and red wraps around his feet. Gricko wears no shoes. He has a scar on his hand from a fey-influenced Frost biting him. He speaks in a strange amalgamation of the Scottish and Cockney accent.

Personality: Gricko is a goofy and happy-go-lucky guy who always tries to keep a positive attitude and a toothy smile. He loves telling jokes, playing songs on his ocarina, and the like to keep the party's spirits up. He can be somewhat dimwitted, though he has bursts of cleverness every now and then — he has an impressive understanding of politics and an extensive knowledge of fables and idioms. He tries to be a good person and set a good example for his daughter, Hootsie (an owlbear), though since joining Carnivàle Lecroux, he has become more accustomed to lying, stealing, cheating, and even killing. This can be attributed to the fact that Gricko is easily impressionable.

Gricko loves animals with a strong soft spot for monstrosities. He believes they are part of the natural world and a critical part of the ecosystem despite people being afraid of them. Gricko wants to learn more about them, help them, and give them a good life. He will do whatever he can to protect them when they are in danger, or "rescue" them when he believes they are being mistreated. It's rare that he hates others, but those that mistreat "beasties" or try to harm his daughter are quick to earn his ire.

Background: Gricko comes from a tribe of monstrous folk comprising of goblins, harpies, trolls, and other goblinoid and monstrous creatures led by a spirit in a bog right outside Saltmarsh, the southernmost island of Barghest. Gricko grew up very poor, raised by his single mother. His father was absent his entire life, but he had company in his uncles and cousins. As a child, Gricko was small with wild hair, often wearing a beast pelt; Gricko refers to his younger self as a scamp. Gricko never knew who his father is, despite being named after him, so when people called him Junior, he incorrectly assumed it was because he was small. In the 6th grade, he had a best mate that was picked off by witches for his teeth.

When he was young, his mother took him to a concert in Saltmarsh that inspired Gricko to become a rock-star musician with a passion for hardcore, cool music. Gricko's mother worked two jobs to save up all their money to import him a piano from Breeg and hire a music tutor, only for Gricko to realize he hated the piano. Still, his mother forced him to practice, and Gricko became a very talented musician. One day, someone made fun of him for playing the piano, deeply hurting Gricko, so he went home, yelled at the tutor to leave, and rolled the piano out of his house and smashed it to pieces. When his mother came home, he feared she would furious, but she wasn't, which Gricko felt was the worst part. She simply accepted his decision, but Gricko could hear her crying in her room that night and many nights afterwards. She believed Gricko had real talent and could make something of himself. They never talked about it again, but Gricko never forgot the sound of her crying in her room.

As a teen, Gricko was rebellious, wearing his hair longer than when he was as an adult and wearing black eyeliner, black nail polish, and leather jackets. He joined a band, though it was unclear if this comprised of the same members mentioned later. Sometime during his youth, he became inebriated and accidentally caused the death of his Uncle Glorbo by telling his uncle's enemies where he was. Gricko would go on to major in Political Science during his semester at Goblin Community College and meet Neil, his roomate. 10% of his contemporaries in college were picked off by Witches for their teeth. He graduated with his Political Science degree, and at some point in his life, after an unknown incident, Gricko was no longer welcome in his tribe. He eventually learned more about animals, learning how to control and befriend creatures with a preference for monstrosities.

In further terms of his upbringing, he admits that goblinoids are easily impressed upon, claiming that the Macarena had a death grip on his village for an entire year. He was a part of multiple bands; some of his band members were Chris on keytar, his mates Weird and Gilly, Kenneth, and an unnamed member on left-handed guitar who resembled the King of Hearts and allegedly broke up the band. He had at least one great performance, but this was undermined by a fan coming up and telling him that his music was great but he'd be more popular if he was attractive, which prompted a fifteen day drinking bender and gave up on his dreams.

He held several jobs before joining Carnivàle Lecroux, including outhouse keeper, beast master in a goblin horde, and a carny at the Witchlight Carnival. During his time as a carny, eight years before the start of the campaign, he stole Hootsie from the carnival and adopted her as his daughter. They traveled the world, and somewhere along the way, got parenting tips from "the rat in the child's casino" (Chuck E. Cheese reference) and learned how to give Hootsie makeovers and mani-pedis so the two of them could have father-daughter makeover sessions. After getting caught in a trap in a jungle due to what he claims was Hootsie's fault, Gricko met Morning Frost and the three of them became fast friends and traveled together. Eventually, they met Kremy and Gideon, and Kremy convinced Gricko and Frost to do some B&E (Breaking and Entering). Not realizing B&E didn't stand for bacon and eggs, Gricko agreed to it, and was roped into Kremy's life of crime. Sometime later, all of them started a carnival named Carnivàle Lecroux.