Shiva

"hi. i'm shiva. or just shiva"

- Shiva's introduction to Aurora May

Ian Shiva Repnin, or commonly known as Shiva is the main protagonist of Waluigi's Playhouse comic series, as well as the protagonist of the whole Shiverse. Originally an owner of a small playhouse, where visitors could eat, drink, sleep or entertain themselves, he unexpectedly became an intergalactic hero often called Dinoborn, or Aurenohk in dinosaur language, as he is descended from humans with the blood of dinosaurs in their veins. Destined to save the Solar System from the evil King Gondrak of dragons, he embarks on an adventure throughout planets of Solar System and even different dimensions.

Shiva was based off his own creator, Ian Shiva Repnin. According to his author, they are completely the same person, apart from a comic hero having unreal powers of a dinosaur.

Appearance
In his most appearances, Shiva wears a white suit with a black shirt and a red tie, as well as black shoes. He has long nougat-colored hair mostly often tied in a long ponytail (sometimes even when he goes to sleep). Unlike his other male friends, even from his crew, he is pretty short in height (some character even say he has almost the same height as a dwarf of Titan), however, just like most other characters in the comics, his eyes are just black and with no pupils, although this changes, when Shiva awakens his dinosaur powers, as his eyes turn green with reptilian-shaped pupils afterwards, as well as he grows a transparent green dinosaur tail and transparent green dinosaur hands with fangs.

In some other appearances of his, Shiva is seen wearing different clothing. For example, in some occasions he is seen wearing a black hoodie with Guns N' Roses logo and black jeans with a silver chain hanging from his belt. Sometimes, in addition to this, he also wears a checkered yellow-gray fur coat. When he goes to sleep, he is always seen wearing his favorite cyan t-shirt with a dinosaur playing a guitar and a yellow "Rockin'!" sign, as well as dark gray pajama pants. In his younger appearances, Shiva appears with much shorter hair, wearing a green top and light blue jeans, while in his older appearance he is seen wearing the aforementioned black attire with an aforementioned coat in addition to the black cowboy hat, silver earrings and glasses.

In almost all of his appearances, Shiva is carrying his lovely raptor toy.

Biography
Ian Shiva Repnin was born on August 29, 2001 in the city of Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Since being a kid, he has dreamed of becoming a famous hero who could save his neighborhood, city, or the entire galaxy. Being always very imaginative, he imagined many adventures of heroes who could bear his name, so that he could take a very little part in their adventures as well. Little did he know, that his dreams have strangely led the Multiverse to creating several dimensions which exactly portrayed everything from little Shiva's imagination. In all these dimensions its inhabitants began considering him their Creator, who could one day come and pay his visit to them.

Meeting Bobay for the first time
"You do remember our first adventure guys. It ended up with me being stuck between two dimensions!"

- Professor Bobay to Shiva and Arthur

Shiva, however, never knew about existence of other dimensions until he and his best friend Arthur met Bobay, a weird video game youtuber, whom they were continuosly seeing in their dreams, while Bobay was continuosly seeing them in his dreams. By the time they all met, Shiva and Arthur were 13 and 12 respectively, while Bobay was 20. In their dreams, they all saw themselves going through a dangerous adventure in a mysterious realm of fantasy fairy tale. Soon enough, they all discovered a portal opened to the same realm from their mutual dream, which they entered with an intention to investigate only. This investigation, however, ended up with the trio defending the portal back to their home from evil forces of mischievous Willa the Witch. According to the trio, Shiva was very scared to fight these forces due to being just a harmless kid, however eventually he overcame his fears and saved his friends and himself from being defeated by the evil witch and her army of undead.

In conclusion, as Willa was destroyed with her army, the trio began quickly escaping to the portal back to their dimension from Willa's most trusted champion, Yugobaht. Since the witch was the one to open the interdimensional portal with her magic stone, Bobay was the one to carry that stone, so after escaping with Shiva and Arthur, he could finally close the portal and never open it back. Yugobaht, seeking revenge for his mistress' death, kept chasing the trio straight to the portal, almost jumping inside the interdimensional corridor after them. Knowing that they would bring a new threat to their home realm if Yugobaht follows them, Bobay quickly pushed out Shiva and Arthur out of the corridor and sacrificed himself, closing both portals with him stuck between the two dimensions. Unsure if Bobay survived or not, Shiva and Arthur were very remorseful over the loss of their new friend.

New adventure
"it's bc those adventures were different. nothing there did depend on us, we were just looking for an answer. here, the fate of the whole fucking universe is in my hands"

- Shiva

Six years later, Shiva grew up and, experiencing several business opportunities, he became a business veteran, which led to his decision to open Waluigi's Playhouse, the place where visitors could eat, drink, sleep and just have fun. According to Google Maps, he opened it 69420 kilometers away from the French town called Nice. By that time, he has befriended several people, who were either Russians or Americans, so these people were constant (and usually the only) guests to the playhouse.



One night, however, Shiva had a weird dream with him jumping in newly invented springheel boots and accidentally meeting Rick Astley who kept singing "BRO YOU JUST POSTED CRINGE, YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE SUBSCRIBER" until Shiva woke up. While normally he would consider this just a dream, something, however, told him that it wasn't just a mere dream, as it could tell him something. Following an accident with Muffin's alive Chocolate Milk falling to its death in the playhouse garden, Shiva went into the bathroom and had a small dialogue with his own reflection in the mirror, while all out of the sudden playhouse was attacked by the orks of Triton led by General Moloch. Nobody was hurt during the attack, however it still resulted in orks taking Shiva and everyone else in the playhouse to their spaceship, where Shiva and Moloch had a dialogue about meeting King Torrapius, as according to him, Shiva is "the only King's hope". Not understanding anything, Shiva only went to bed in the living quarters of the orks' spaceship where his friends were already awaiting for him surprised none of them was imprisoned or intentionally hurt. During his sleep, Shiva had another similar dream to his previous one, this time with Robbie Rotten singing the same song to him.

Soon enough spaceship arrived on Triton, the satellite of Neptune, where King Torrapius was awaiting for Shiva. While Shiva's friends were let go and have some walk on Triton with local GPS devices (which could also be used as smartphones), Shiva and Moloch proceeded right to Torrapius' castle. Much to his amusement, among the inhabitants of Triton Shiva also saw real and intelligent dinosaurs, to which ork general told a story about dinosaurs leaving the planet Earth due to their kind evolving too fast and making their way to Triton where its original inhabitants, orks, trolls and goblins, were living a barbarian life. Together, four kinds have built a civilization which Shiva and his friends could see while roaming the streets of Triton city.



In the king's castle, Shiva was told another story, this time by Torrapius himself who turned out to be an old giant dinosaur. His story was about the War of Dragons and Dinosaurs, an event which happened above the Solar System a very long time ago: two powerful kinds, dragons and dinosaurs, couldn't decide which planets of the Solar System would they let each other conquer, and so, fueled by their greed, both kinds began a war with each other, resulting in dragons dominating in the war, due to their knowledge of magic, and thus winning the war over dinosaurs. According to Torrapius, however, dragons proved to be nothing but powerful tyrants over the Gas Giants of Solar System which they all control, especially their powerful leader King Gondrak. Universe was in need of a hero to defeat Gondrak and save the Solar System from his magic, as Torrapius said to Shiva, also telling him a prophecy of Aurenohk, human born with dinosaur blood and destined to defeat evil dragons. As Shiva correctly suggested, Torrapius and his forces knew Shiva was the one to be that Aurenohk. Old dinosaur king tasked our hero with bringing peace into the universe using his secret dinosaur powers which could be activated only with his unique blood, and as the first clue he told Shiva to visit alive Bobay, who became a professor on Neptune.

Shocked and very surprised of his origins, as well as of Bobay's survival, Shiva reluctantly accepted his task, and with help of General Moloch gathered a crew for his adventures, consisting of his friends from the Earth and his ancestor Ancient Shiva, a Norse pirate from the 17th century. Ancient Shiva turned out to be an experienced spacecraft pilot, while other Shiva's crewmates gained their classes after receiving level-up systems from Goblin Trader. Shiva and his crew were also provided with a spaceship by Torrapius, which turned out to be Waluigi's Playhouse a little bit reconstructed into spacecraft. Once they finally entered their vessel and checked their levels for the last time, Shiva and his crew flew away to Neptune to complete the task.

After running into several troubles and even making their first enemies, Cecil and Alfred the bounty hunters, Shiva and his crew finally made it to the residence of Professor Bobay, Tower of Science in the snowy region of Crystal City on Neptune. Surprised to see both Shiva and Arthur alive, Bobay agreed to help them and told them a story of his survival: he had been rescued by agents of Neptune Investigations Center, counterpart to federal government services on the Earth, as only NIC also knew about existence of other dimensions. Bobay had been providing them an information he knew while NIC were aiding him in his researches and experiments, thus giving him a status of professor in the interdimensional science. Along with his closest ally from NIC, Agent Reevs (who also turned out to be a human of the Earth), he built his own interdimensional portal, which, according to Bobay, would help Shiva in defeating Gondrak: evil king of the dragons knew King Torrapius would have sent Shiva after him, so he protected himself with a magic barrier destroyable only if several artifacts were destroyed as well, however these artifacts were hidden in different dimensions by Gondrak himself. The only thing required for professor's second portal to work, however, was a rare crystal, which has been serving a sacred symbol to elves of Neptune and Saturn for a very long time.



Finding a crystal proved to be quite a challenge to Shiva and his friends. Unable to retrieve it on Neptune, crew of Waluigi's Playhouse went to Saturn which turned into the battlefield due to the massive anti-dragon riots organized by the dwarves of Titan and heavily supported by an army of Triton. On the way to Saturn, Shiva encountered Ysmir, his Dragonborn counterpart for the first time. Ysmir challenged Shiva for a fight above the Saturn, however Dragonborn, expecting Shiva to be unable to awaken his Dinoborn powers, wasn't prepared for Shiva actually doing so and even proving to be a capable fighter. Ysmir fled the scene, while Shiva, finally getting to Saturn, once again met General Moloch assisting Dwarf King Gorra, who was able to negotiate with dragons: an intergalactic race event would soon happen on Saturn, and if a racer representing rioters won the race, Saturn would be handed over to the rioters. Moloch told Shiva, that in his Dinoborn form, he'd be able to win the race without even any vehicle, offering Aurenohk to participate in the race, during which Shiva saved his friends from the band Unleash the Archers which had been kidnapped from the Earth as well, and won the race, also winning an amulet with a crystal Bobay had told him to find.



However, it turned out, since Shiva liberated Saturn from King Gondrak and his dragons, he would no longer be welcome on their territories, including Neptune. Seeking to find a way to return back to professor, he intended calling several NIC agents to back him up, however Reevs quickly told him that it would be no longer possible: the whole HQ of Neptune Investigation Center was brutally slaughtered by Cecil and Alfred, leaving Reevs the only remaining NIC agent. General Moloch, also revealed to be Reevs' stepfather, suggested on asking King Torrapius for help, which was the only possible variant Shiva could agree on. During their way to Triton, ork general also provided Waluigi's Playhouse crew with a chance to contact their friends or relatives on the Earth, yet Shiva was the only one not to contact anyone, since his only contact (his sister Areen) wasn't responding to his calls. From Torrapius, however, Shiva learned that Areen in fact was accidentally teleported to Neptune by a scientist gnome girl, whose dinosaur blood indicator indicated that Areen was Dinoborn, so gnome girl in panic called Dragon Patrol to imprison Areen in the Neptune Police HQ, even though she would be released soon thereafter, as female Dinoborns aren't able to awaken their powers, they are only able to understand dinosaur and dragon languages (same goes to female Dragonborns as well). Disguised as a dwarf diplomat (this idea was suggested by King Torrapius, who maintained contact with Dwarf King Gorra), Shiva went on to rescue his sister, while the rest of his crew headed directly to the Tower of Science with an amulet on their hands. There, however, Bobay allied himself with Cecil and Alfred, who decided to redeem themselves after discovering documents on King Torrapius and King Gondrak in the NIC headquarters. The pair was wanted dead by Dragon Patrol, just like Shiva, so they had to work with professor in hiding, but were exposed by one of Bobay's colleagues, who called the Patrol just to attack the Tower of Science and catch the former bounty hunters. At the Tower, Waluigi's Playhouse crew began fighting back dragons, while Shiva joined then immediately after successful rescue of his sister. There Shiva killed his first dragons, even scaring his best friend Arthur a little bit, however he couldn't help but watch a standoff between Agent Reevs and Cecil. Reevs was despising Cecil for slaughtering NIC, while Cecil unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate with agent, only leading to Reevs asking Cecil to shoot him to death: Reevs didn't want to be the last agent of NIC and preferred dying with its secrets rather than living and knowing he would have to ally with a murderer of his friends. Nobody was able to convince him to do the opposite, therefore Cecil fulfilled agent's request only to be called heartless by him and be forced to leave the scene for a while. Agent died on the hands of Shiva, telling him he would be the one to save the Solar System and also handing him over his shades, as they would be helpful to him in further adventures.



Immediately after the battle, professor Bobay reminded Shiva of his tasks considering the interdimensional travelling. As it turned out, he already tested amulet on his portal, making his creation MATA-U (a cyborg made out of a dead body of Shiva's and Bobay's mutual friend David) travel to the dimension Shiva and professor visited six years ago. Bobay mentioned, that Shiva's first adventure would be to another fantasy world as well, and also said that MATA-U would be very helpful to him as he is able to contact with professor through dimensions. He then immediately proceeded on to opening a portal for Shiva and his friends to embark on another interdimensional adventure.

Creator
"bobay, you fat son of a bitch, why didn't you warn me in the first place that i'm coming to the world i've "created" myself?"

- Shiva

Appearances

 * Waluigi's Playhouse Issue 1
 * Waluigi's Playhouse Issue 2