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Designation: Green Zone Bioengineered Super Predators
Classification: Licensed Companion-Class Warbeasts
Region of Origin: Proprietary Green Zone Labs

Overview

The Purigalie Tigers are a Green Zone–exclusive breed of bioengineered super predators, created in the late industrial era of the Green Zone's rise to dominance. They were not designed to be apex predators, because the Green Zone does not believe in apexes. They were designed to be iterative: to be built upon, perfected, and improved without limit.

The result is a creature as contradictory as its makers: a towering predator with a second set of jaws hidden inside its mouth, capable of tearing through reinforced plate… and at the same time, a creature that will curl up around its bonded human with the gentleness of a housecat.

Their nickname among Green Zone handlers is "the paradox on paws."

Appearance

Size:

Up to twice the height of an adult human at the shoulder, weighing nearly a tonne and a half.

Build:

Reinforced bone lattice sheathed in dense, corded muscle, giving them explosive acceleration and devastating stopping power.

Fur:

Blue-black and flame-retardant, smooth enough to shed water and resistant to most chemical contaminants.

Markings:

Thin, glowing neural seams run along their spines and limb joints. These brighten with emotional intensity, a dim pulse when calm, a brilliant white-gold blaze when fully engaged in combat.

Eyes:

Metallic amber with slit pupils that can dilate to full black, giving them an unsettling mirror-like stare in low light.

Jaws:

Their most feared trait. Each has a

dual-jaw system,

the outer jaw clamps to hold prey, while an inner shearing jaw hidden just behind the outer teeth scissor forward to cut cleanly through armor, bone, or plating.

They move in silence. When they strike, they strike like machinery.

Bonding and Companion Chips

Purigalie Tigers are bond creatures, designed to pair with one person through a companion chip.

These chips emit a unique biosignature that the tiger imprints upon during its first contact. The imprint is permanent. Once bonded, a tiger will defend its human against all threats, including other Purigalie Tigers.

The bond is

not control.

It is emotional and instinctive, not mechanical.

Tigers respond to their bonded's

emotions more than their commands.

A smile will calm them faster than a leash. A flinch can trigger them into killing.

The bonded human can

"mark" others as safe

, which the tiger usually accepts, unless it has reason not to.

If the bonded shows

fear, anger, or resentment

toward someone, the tiger will reflect that hostility without being told to.

They can also choose who they like. Consistent gentleness, play, and care can earn a tiger's trust even if its bonded dislikes that person. Conversely, disrespect or cruelty will make it permanently hostile.

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If their bonded dies, the tiger becomes catatonic, entering a dormant grief state. If given time and therapy, it may accept a new chip, but it will never love as strongly again. Most are euthanized rather than risk emotional instability.

Temperament

Purigalie Tigers are creatures of extremes:

With their bonded:

Gentle, playful, deeply affectionate. They purr loud enough to rattle windows, press their heads against their bonded's chest to hear their heartbeat, and show clear emotional care.

With strangers:

Neutral until marked or self-convinced of safety. They will watch silently for hours without moving.

With threats:

They do not roar. They do not posture. They simply kill.

They are highly intelligent, capable of puzzle-solving, complex learned behaviors, and even humor. Some play pranks on their bonded. Others are known to sulk if ignored.

What makes them feared is that they do not bluff. Once they commit to attack, they do so without hesitation and without warning.

Ownership and Licensing

The Green Zone allows private ownership of Purigalie Tigers, but only through the Companion-Class Warbeast Licensing Bureau, a department infamous for its paranoia.

Requirements include:

A

massive credit outlay

(equivalent to a small mansion in central Kaarushkaa)

Full

psychological evaluation

to screen for aggression, instability, or dissociation

A

minimum age of 25

to ensure emotional development

A

maintenance contract

guaranteeing enrichment, medical care, and training facilities

Even after licensing, owners undergo quarterly evaluations and unscheduled audits. Licenses are revoked if owners display signs of breakdown, violence, or reckless behavior.

The logic is simple: if you scream in panic during an argument, and your tiger hears fear in your voice, someone is going to die.

Social Instincts

Though often seen as solitary, Purigalie Tigers are deeply social. They form long-term emotional attachments not just to their bonded but often to their bonded's family, household staff, or even pets.

They enjoy play, especially complex fetch or stalking games.

They teach their young to hunt through cooperative play, showing restraint until the final strike.

They mourn their dead. Some have lain unmoving for weeks over the graves of lost bonded.

Their affection is not programmed. It is real.

Role and Symbolism

In the Green Zone, a Purigalie Tiger is both a status symbol and a liability.

To be licensed one is to be seen as powerful, disciplined, and trusted, but also as someone who walks through the world with a living loaded weapon curled at their side. Many high nobles walk their halls with tigers trailing them like shadows.

Others see them as a quiet threat.
A reminder that even love can be engineered.
And engineered love can kill.

Name and Origin

Purigalie Tigers take their name from Dr. Purigalie, the Green Zone geneticist who created them. Purigalie engineered them on a heavily modified cheetah framework for speed, control, and precision, but chose to give them the striped patterning and imposing silhouette of a tiger purely for visual impact.

They are not true tigers.
They only look like tigers because Purigalie believed people would fear a "tiger" more than a "scaled-up cheetah."

The name endures as both his signature and his boast: a predator powerful enough to carry his name.