Ara-ara

Ara-ara (Romaji: Ara-arajin; Kana: あらあら人) are a species of mortals which are unique to Universe 6.

The Ara-ara are (in)famous for exhibiting a child-like form known as their Halfling (Romaji: Hāfuringu; Kana: ハーフリング) and an adult-like form known as their Fulling (Romaji: Fururingu; Kana: フルリング). The Halfling is the base form that an Ara-ara is born in, while the Fulling is a super form that an Ara-ara is able to access whenever they attain a sufficiently high power level and then transform into at-will.

The Ara-ara are also (in)famous for lacking a female population, for all Ara-ara are born as males. Consequently, in order to reproduce, an Ara-ara has to copulate with a female of another species. It is for this reason that a supermajority of Universe 6's deities have come to regard the Ara-ara as the most dangerous parasite and destructive pest in the universe. For in the distant past, before the Ara-ara were hunted into the brink of extinction, the Ara-ara came frighteningly close to bringing about the extinction of all sapient life by breeding out the rest of the universe's sapient lifeforms and thus leaving themselves without any females to reproduce with.

Lastly; the Ara-ara are just as (in)famous for their status as nomadic, omnivorous foragers. The Ara-ara are able and willing to eat just about anyone and anything. To the point where, over his millennium-long lifetime, a single Ara-ara is able to devour the entirety of a planet! Needless to say, the Ara-ara's ability and willingness to consume and drink any amount or type of energy and matter means that the Ara-ara are the worst nightmare of environmentalists everywhere! To make matters worse, it is not uncommon for the Ara-ara to drive an intelligent species into extinction by consuming all of its males and then copulating with all of its females. Consequently, once the Ara-ara have been introduced to an ecosystem with a species that they are able to sexually parasitize, it is nigh-impossible to non-violently remove the Ara-ara from the ecosystem. And since the Ara-ara have to be quite strong in order to access and transform into their Fulling, any Ara-ara who is capable of reproduction is more than capable of defending himself from and surviving a supermajority of the universe's dangers and threats.