Welcome to Moctober week 2! This was an interesting challenge, since I don’t have any trading cards. I ended up going on a Pokemon card generating website for it. Without further ado, let’s get into it. I give you… Vespi, Second Liegeman of the Under King.
Species: Toa (mutated)
Element: Fire
Kanohi: Mohtrek, Great Mask of Time Duplication
Weapon(s): None
Abilities: Pyromancy; Flight; Can summon other versions of herself from the past
Affiliation(s): Makuta Girin’s Toa Hagah
Once a Toa of Fire, Vespi was never exactly the most sane member of her team. In battle she was a bit too vicious, sometimes even seeming to want to kill her enemies. Some of her teammates thought she fought more for the thrill of battle than for the Three Virtues. As she continued to serve as a Toa, she grew increasingly volatile and selfish. In fact, she even began slipping away from her town at night, much to the confusion of her team. What was she doing?
As it turned out, she was meeting with some Dark Hunters to do odd jobs for them. It was during these secret missions that she learned how powerful money was. In the coming years, she accumulated a decent chunk of Widgets through her work, and she desired more. In fact, one night she was followed by one of her Toa sisters. The Ko-Toa knew something was up and wanted to see. Vespi caught her and traded her to the Dark Hunters in exchange for a sizeable payday. That was the deed that sealed her fate, and her greed only grew. This hunger for power and wealth led her to contacting the Under King. Girin doubled her elemental strength and “arranged” for a Steltian Noble to transfer hundreds of thousands of Widgets to her.
Of course Vespi’s teammates soon found out about this and tried to stop her. It was then that the corrupt Toa realized no deal with the Under King ever ends well. During the battle, the flames of her anger burned a little too brightly and she was incinerated from the inside out.
In the Underplane, Girin cashed in on his end of the bargain. Vespi would become one of his Liegemen - what he called his Toa Hagah. She could do little to protest, not that she even wanted to. Girin was giving her a chance to terrorize the innocent. It wasn’t exactly her dream, but it was better than being terrorized for eternity herself. Of course, the Under King wasn’t content to just let Vespi be herself. She would be reminded of her demise every waking moment, constantly kept in a state of internal immolation. And of course, just a normal Toa was not nearly terrifying enough for Girin, so he mutated her into a half-Toa, half-insect creature of nightmares.
Here are the cards I pulled. The first card was a Weedle, so I went with an insectoid moc. The second card was a Sizzlipede, so the moc would be fiery. Lastly, I drew an Absol, meaning the character would be evil. (The Machop I accidentally clicked on while using the snipping tool.)