Hellmouth (town)/IF-79.403

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This article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community. It is just one of many Residents that we've found in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill. You can find more Residents about Hellmouth (town) at their Resident Registry.

by Eli

Perseo Mariposa Friendo (he/xe) is an Associate Professor of “Entomology?” at Hellmouth Community College.

Having grown up in the Hellmouth, Perseo (nicknamed “Percy”) found his love for insects in childhood by wandering into highly populated areas in hopes that being bitten by one would give him cool powers. It was here he started his tradition of gently tapping the ground, going “pspspspspspsp” until any number of insect-adjacent creatures inevitably emerged. Friendo has been bitten by every type of creature he’s ever summoned, though he avoids any major consequence thanks to his immunity to venom. When venom of any source is injected into him, it will not enter his bloodstream, instead immediately crystallizing into a surface-level amber scab before inevitably fading away. While Friendo doesn’t think he’s made of amber, his parents do both have backgrounds in Bad Geography and archery, so he’s accepted that anything is possible. He happily considers this immunity to be the cool power that he was seeking, citing that it was, after all, only activated upon being bitten.

Friendo’s enthusiasm for the local insect populations did not abate after these initial encounters. Instead, they became the Hellmouth’s most avid bug enjoyer— distinguished from a bug collector by Friendo himself, saying “I don’t collect them. They just follow me around. I hang out with them. I throw them parties.”

Originally, his expertise and supposed influence over the local insect populations earned him a job as a Fearmongering Ambassador with the Hellmouth Anti-Tourism Board, tasked with educating would-be visitors about the extreme hostility of these creatures and threats that they pose to those who would be unable to avoid them. After only two years in this position he was asked to step down, for his genuine adoration of the insects he presented were only serving to draw fellow bug enthusiasts in rather than keep them away.

Despite no longer being a Fearmongerer, xe can still always be found in the company of xir two favorite insect ambassadors, Amun (the orange one) and Halo (the blue one). Both are 4 and a half foot long myriapods who were first summoned by Friendo throwing a “caterpillar rave”. It was their first time attending such a function and they enjoyed Friendo’s company so much that they simply never left. Friendo xemself is not certain of the exact relationship between them, so xe refers to all three of them as very close friends. Despite both myriapods frequently biting Friendo, xe insists that they’re both quite cordial, certain that venom injection is how they display affection.

Nowadays, Friendo spends much of xir time educating the eager students of HCC about the local insect populations. Xir lengthy and in-depth lectures began as a correction of misinformation xe had heard in a class xe attended as a student. While the misinformation was soon corrected, xir monologue was so verbose and xir presentation so strangely well-prepared that xir fellow students began to consider it a class of their own, eventually petitioning for it to be recognized as such so that Friendo could be compensated properly. When the students were asked to specify what exactly the topic of the class was, each of them responded “Hmm.. well.. I guess….. Entomology?” with the exact same inflection. Xir class soon became quite popular with the students, many of whom lost their aversion to insects thanks to Friendo’s care and enthusiasm, much to the extended dismay of the Anti-Tourism Board.

Despite his surname, Friendo does not claim any relation to Sunbeams Player Brisket Friendo, though xe does claim to have been bitten by Brisket on multiple occasions, saying “I’m not very good with cats”.