First appearance: S1E6 — Belly of the Beast — Viago v Tetra · watch it on YouTube
Tetra Kincaid is a white-furred tabaxi monk the Arbiter found in “the parking lot outside of Disney” and pulled into the Void to fight Viago in the belly of a living ship. She charmed the Grandmaster within seconds, opened the fight by shredding a dire wolf with glowing astral arms, and rode a run of impossible luck deep into the match. Then a single kick to the back ended it, and the Arbiter fed what was left of her to his pet.
Story
Tetra arrived in S1E6 — Belly of the Beast — Viago v Tetra under a decorative sheet, unveiled like a statue by the Arbiter in the throne room of the Grandmaster. While Viago bellowed about rage and rock and roll, Tetra kept it cool: “I like to just keep it simple and murder.” She told the Grandmaster her kill count was “more than him, I’m sure,” and then sealed the deal: “Anything for someone so beautiful as you, my dear.” The Grandmaster declared Tetra the one she was cheering for, since “the flattery will get you everywhere.” Tetra even matched the Grandmaster’s hand at rock, paper, scissors before stepping through the portal.
The arena was The Siren’s Nautilus, a sunken, breathing ship-beast, and the two champions landed nose to nose. Viago turned into a dire wolf, and Tetra could not have been happier: “I love killing these stupid canines.” She summoned huge glowing astral arms around her own, raked the wolf with her claws, picked the stray hairs out of them afterwards, and later produced a quarterstaff from behind her head to bop him on the nose (“You’ve been a bad boy”). When the Acolytes demanded chaos, the Grandmaster brought out metal chairs. Tetra called her coin flip right (“Tails never fail”), so the Grandmaster borrowed the Arbiter’s chair and dive-bombed Viago with it instead. The rusty seat gave way and left the wolf wearing it as a collar. Tetra grabbed the chair and twisted it, snapping the wolf’s neck, and Viago dropped back into his seven-foot orc body. “Somehow you’ve gotten uglier from a dog,” she told him.
From there the fight turned against her. Every time Tetra tried to dart away, Viago’s greataxe caught her and rooted her in place, which drew out what the Grandmaster called “a glimpse into the true Tetra”: “Oh, well, you are quite an asshole.” Her attempts to stun him failed again and again, even when she spent the crowd’s favor to make it harder for him. She still landed some memorable blows. There was a flurry of claws to Viago’s scrotum (“It is like speed bag”), doing “11 damage to testicle, specifically left one,” and two darts went into his “eye holes” after the ship tilted vertical and dumped them both into its stomach. She escaped a grasping mummified sailor and shrugged off the stomach acid. When the floor briefly turned into a bouncy castle, she triple-bounced and came down claws first “with the fury of a thousand kittens.”
The end came in stages. Tetra climbed thirty feet up the stomach wall and did a cat’s wiggle dance up there, but Viago leapt up after her and suplexed her all the way down. Her feline slow fall turned the drop into an oddly tender moment (“You smell lovely”; hibiscus and mint, she explained). He then threw her into a green pool that turned out to be a gelatinous cube. She kicked her way out of it, took stock (“What is one life out of nine, right?”), and tried to tackle him into the cube, but his chest didn’t budge. Viago twice healed her just to keep the fight going, once with a slap on the backside. The Grandmaster urged her, “Even if you die, Tetra, keep your dignity.” Her last attempt to stun him failed (“Viago, the Stunless”), and Viago spun around and kicked her in the back. “Well, it was fun, but that is me and I go down.” The Arbiter knelt over her and told her that normally he would reserve a specimen like her for his army, “But in this case, my pet is hungry.” The cube engulfed her body and began devouring her bones, dissolving the beautiful fur, possibly as she gave a Terminator 2 thumbs-up. The Arbiter then vanished with her and the cube.
Personality and Abilities
Tetra is a feline tabaxi with white fur she has been growing “for decades” and keeps clean with a hibiscus-and-mint conditioner, so she takes it personally when Viago gets blood on it. She wears black because it is slimming. She speaks in a heavy accent and broken English, calls people “my dear,” and flirts shamelessly with both the Grandmaster and the Arbiter, whom she insists on calling “Inquisitor.” She offered to put him through an Inquisition. He replied that she was “not really my type. Usually something less feline.” She hates canines, has a dry, cutting wit, and keeps her composure until someone is “asshole” to her, at which point she says so loudly and often. After her death she remained gracious, saying she let Viago have the win “because sometimes every dog needs their day.”
In a fight she is small and fast, built by her player as “a Manny Pacquiao situation” against Viago’s bulk. She trained “as far as many people could train me” and taught herself the rest. She fights with claws, a quarterstaff kept behind her head, and darts, and she can wrap herself in glowing astral arms and an astral body that shield her from harm. She can try to stun foes with a strike, dance out of reach, double her speed in a burst of feline agility, climb walls like a spider, and fall slowly enough to land unhurt. Her luck that night was legendary. At the table, her player admitted he had never rolled so many natural 20s in his life: “It’s the only reason I survived as long as I did.”
Relationships
- Viago: Her opponent. She mocked him as a “stupid dog” and a “big ugly tusk man,” and called him an asshole at every turn. He healed her twice to prolong the fight, then put her down with one kick.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: Tetra won her over with flattery and became her early favorite (“I picked you early on”). The Grandmaster warned her she could not lose, then crowned Viago anyway.
- The Arbiter: She called him “Inquisitor” and flirted with him, and he politely declined. He chose to feed her body to his gelatinous cube instead of keeping her for his army.
Memorable Quotes
“My name is Tetra Kincaid, and I don’t need to do all the yelling and all of the bones. Disgusting. You’re very gross. I like to just keep it simple and murder.” (S1E6)
- “Classic fight between the dexterous and the dumb.” (S1E6)
- “Yes, I wear black because it is slimming. I don’t want to embarrass Big Tusk Man here.” (S1E6)
- “I come down with the fury of a thousand kittens.” (S1E6)
- “What is one life out of nine, right?” (S1E6)
- “Do not fight asshole at bottom of ocean.” (S1E6, Dried Blood)