The WHATverse
Welcome to the hub page for what is arguably the titular Draggian Universe, in that it's the OC lorebase I initially made this website for that's set on a planet called Dragga. It's also known as the WHATverse after W.H.A.T. (Weird, Horrible Abomination Trappers), the organization my main characters belong to, which is the term I'll use from now on.
This is a lorebase built on concepts I've had since 2018 and first officially written down on Neopets in early 2020 before being moved offsite in Fall 2021 due to concerns about some pages' themes getting too dark for Neo and discomfort with keeping my OCs there. It's set in Dragga, an Earth-like world of creatures that resemble anthropomorphic animals. It's heavily inspired by Neopia in aesthetic, but that's about where the resemblance stops. That was the case even when it was still technically set in Neopia. It's a story about a lot of things, including and not limited to explorations of abuse and trauma, a rich in-universe mythology, delving deep into what aliens taking Earth culture as their own would look like, how folks manage their daily lives and avoid despair in a world that's fundamentally doomed, and the part you're probably all here for: anthropomorphic snakes fighting monsters and playing Pokemon. It's told via different snippets of short stories and lore on different characters' pages, which are intended to reveal what's going on as you read more of them but to also all function on their own.
Most pages here are ported from their original forms as petpages on Neopets, including art by others I got there. If your art is on one of my pages and you don't want it there or you're being credited under the wrong username, contact me with one of the outlets on the homepage and I'll abide by your wishes.
Worldbuilding Information
My worldbuilding page describing Dragga as it's relevant to the story and how things work is located here. Also, don't create characters in Dragga or of my original species. This is a personal project based heavily on personal philosophy and experience and I'm not comfortable having other people in it, including for roleplay. If you want to write fanfic or draw fanart of my characters, I'd love that (although it wouldn't be canonical), but don't insert yourself into my world.
Characters
This won't list every being who appears in Draggian Universe stories, only the characters who are notable enough to have pages of their own.
Cosmic Concepts & Mythological Beings
These aren't really "characters". They do, like, exist, but they're cosmic forces that don't care about much of anything. No one is going to meet them and they don't have agency and characterizations in ways that humans or Dragites can understand. They do have plenty of mythology attached to them, though, and that's what will be discussed on their pages.
Vipheriv, Xinonix, and Lixoa - Incarnations of Order, Chaos, and Void Page (under construction) Pronouns: she/it for Vipheriv and Xinonix; it/its for Lixoa The beings who created the world and maintain its animum balance. The Incarnations of Order and Chaos are considered to be deities by many Dragites and a number of religious sects worshipping them exist. The Incarnation of Void is only an "Incarnation" in the abstract sense. It is literally just the void from which everything sprang. The Void is the Void. What more do you want? | Reference image not found. Try again later? |
Likoa - The Degenerate Page Pronouns: she/it A real nasty piece of work, put shortly. The former Incarnation of Chaos who got jealous at the Void and chopped off part of its power for herself, giving Likoa power over creation and destruction and no restraint in said. It fled to Distortion, a twisted dimension of its own creation, to avoid the consequences of its actions and now lives there, spewing out unrestrained animum and causing problems for everyone. | ![]() |
Dragites
The primary inhabitants of Dragga and the focal characters of the story. There are many species inhabiting the planet, but Sluslan make up the majority of the population in the area in which it's set and also I like drawing snakes and I'm not good at drawing any other kind of anthropomorphic animal.
Xiampe - WHAT Founder and Leader Page Pronouns: he/they They'd been raised their whole life in the Chaos Children Congregation in Shadowlawn, a religious group that worships Likoa as an embodiment of free will, creativity, and freedom. Unsurprisingly, Shadowlawn getting ripped apart by a dimensional rift into what's most likely Likoa's world itself and said incident also corresponding to his coming of age ritual and ripping holes into the void into his body has deeply troubled Xiampe. He's now working with Limina, questionably willingly on his part, to learn about and defend Dragga against the dimensional rift and anything that comes out of it. | ![]() |
Xyra - Limina CEO Page Pronouns: she/her The young entrepreneur CEO of Limina, Dragga's largest technology company, an avid researcher of animum and Insulan culture, and probably one of the most powerful and richest Dragites alive. She's very interested in the dimensional rift. Maybe a bit too much so. Regardless, the kids at WHAT are stuck with her because she provides their funding. And also the funding to most of the Pulklita metropolitan area. | ![]() |
Researchy - WHAT Combat Rep Page Pronouns: she/her During Xyra and Xiampe's work researching the void holes in his body, it was discovered that Xiampe could channel the near infinite animum contained within them to alter other Dragites' souls, heightening their animum processing enough that they could manipulate pure animum and carry other forms of energy with it. In short, he could give them superpowers perfect for fighting chaos entities. When WHAT opened for applications, Researchy jumped at the chance to live out her dreams of being a hero and brought her college roleplaying friends with her. Said roleplaying friends were...less enthusiastic. She doesn't do research. She just named herself after a random word in an Insulan dictionary for a former character and it stuck. | ![]() |
Sayendrix - Containment Caretaker Page (under construction) Pronouns: she/they A Dragite filled with love for all living creatures, including those that come from other worlds. When she first joined Researchy's roleplaying group, she thought that the elemental powers concept would be great for her to have power over nature and cute plant and animal friends. Researchy refused and insisted that they were going to be a blowing-stuff-up fire/ice/lightning trio, to which Sayendrix submitted. They're still doing the trio thing to this day, leaving them a bit concerned about Researchy's capacity to tell the difference between fiction and reality. While they can use animum to manipulate electrical charge, she usually stays home at WHAT HQ, maintaining the morale and observing any chaos entities they've captured. | Reference image not found. Try again later? |
Hurika - Animum Researcher Page (under construction) Pronouns: they/xe/she Xe's always seen xyrself as the voice of reason among xyr friend group. Unfortunately, by also being the youngest of xyr friend group, xe's rarely been listened to. Xe could really do without the whole magical powers thing; they're really quite content to stay on the other side of a measuring instrument or a computer screen from the chaos entities and being able to drain heat and freeze objects doesn't help with that. Xiampe's favorite staff member and the only one who actually remained in college once they signed on with WHAT. They're taking their classes online intending to finish a degree in animum studies. | Reference image not found. Try again later? |
Pacoro - Rose of Malice Page Pronouns: she/her She doesn't have a traumatic backstory. She has parents who love her and is quite financially well-off. She's got a good job at her dad's financial firm and graduated from college with high marks. She also sees herself as the best Dragite to ever live and everyone else as tools to build or draw attention to her power. At best, she perceives someone as a cute pet provided they cooperate. She was dismissive toward Researchy's job while they were dating, but ended up getting more acquainted with it than she'd have preferred upon them breaking up over acts Pacoro committed and her taking it badly enough to willingly fuse with a chaos entity that literally feeds on hatred. Then she tried to kill Researchy, destroyed a beloved local restaurant, and was ordered to get treatment for her issues, for some of which WHAT was the only game in town. So now she's a chaos entity containment and everyone would vastly prefer she not be. | ![]() |
Elixsha - Unpaid Intern Page (under construction) Pronouns: they/them A high school student who loves all things weird and happens to go to a very permissive school. Following in the path of one of their dads, a well-known animum researcher, they took an unpaid internship at WHAT, working the front desk and patrolling the fileshares for signs of anything anomalous. Which they're totally down for, because they spent most of their time looking for weird stuff online anyway and now they get to hang out with cool college students and tell their friends at school they have a job! | Reference image not found. Try again later? |
Chaos Entities
Mysterious beings of pure animum from the other side of the dimensional rift. In many cases, they're sentient beings with the motivations of any other sentient being and landed in Dragga not as an invasion, but in order to flee from a terrible world. Unfortunately, their animum encoding is fundamentally incompatible with Dragga's dimension and their very presence is widening the path between worlds for worse things to come through.
DW - Child of Chaos Page Pronouns: she/it A very young chaos entity who was either banished or fell through the rift. She's a curious and cheerful young child who loves all forms of life, considers Sayendrix a mother figure, and is delighted to have ended up in such a vibrant world. She's also got more than the industry-standard number of mouths and legs and like Dragite children, most of the noises she makes inflicts pain. Unlike Dragite children, it can also generate shockwaves that rip apart pavement. | ![]() |
XZNT - The Deceiver Page (shared with Xyra) Pronouns: any non-masculine pronoun A chaos entity that can use others' animum to mimic their thought patterns and physical forms, currently acting as Xyra's wife. She gives Xyra insider knowledge of the dimensional rift and access to distorted animum for science purposes. It's not clear what XZNT gets out of it. Companionship? Entertainment? A snack? | Reference image not found. Try again later? |