Lorash 639 is a three year old, and a citizen of both California and the USA.

Lorash is a firm believer in a 'symbiosis' version of Yeerk ideology. It's unclear where it came from.

She's a V1 stan.

Morphs (if it comes to that)

Hyena

Seagull

Rat

Pig

(Lorash personally) Naomi, Melissa

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Lorash 639 is a three-year-old Yeerk (in Yeerk terms, very young) who has just received her first permanent host: Naomi Berenson. She is female-identifying, a proud citizen of California and the United States (in the story’s alternate timeline), and the central viewpoint character of this canon-divergent fic.

Core Ideology: True Believer in Symbiosis

Lorash’s defining trait is her sincere, almost religious belief that Yeerks and hosts are true symbiotes, not parasites. She repeats variations of this to herself constantly:

  • “We were symbiotes. Jeth Sarnak had had a rough life… We gave him purpose. Structure. Survival.”
  • “We were symbiotic. We had to be. Life for our hosts was better with us, even if they never understood.”
  • “This had to be true. Otherwise everything was a lie.”

This belief appears to be genuine and deeply internalized rather than cynical propaganda. It shapes everything she does. Even when faced with clear evidence of suffering (involuntary hosts screaming, thrashing, begging to die during training feedback), she reframes it as the hosts simply not understanding what’s good for them yet. She is not sadistic — she is an idealistic true believer who causes profound harm through denial and paternalistic control.

Personality and Temperament

  • Young, Eager, and Proud: At only three years old, Lorash is still fresh from training and glowing with pride over her top-of-class performance with voluntary Gedd, Hork-Bajir, and human hosts. She is enthusiastic about proving herself as an exemplary symbiote.
  • Talkative and Smothering: She has a constant internal monologue and rarely lets her host finish a thought. She articulates, reframes, cuts off, and explains almost everything Naomi thinks or feels. This creates a suffocating “I’m helping you” dynamic.
  • Controlling but “Caring”: She uses mental “hugs” (targeted oxytocin/endorphin manipulation), smooths heart rates, memory-dumps information, and overrides motor control — all framed as gentle, necessary support. When Naomi panics or resists violently, Lorash responds with more “hugs” and reframing rather than cruelty.
  • Pragmatic Idealist: She wants to make the system work better. She sees problems (unhappy involuntaries, unprepared hosts, behavioral issues in teens) and immediately proposes structured, bureaucratic solutions (Galard classes, after-school programs, better integration).
  • Growing Visser One Stan: She is increasingly inspired by Visser One’s old ideas (especially the abandoned Galard-as-auxiliary-language program for prospective hosts). She wants to revive and expand this vision, seeing it as the enlightened, long-term path for the Empire.

Behavior Toward Her Host (Naomi)

Lorash treats infestation as a partnership she must sell. She: - Introduces herself politely and tries to explain symbiosis. - Memory-dumps Yeerk history, anatomy, and ideology directly into Naomi’s brain. - Uses chemical “mental hugs” when Naomi panics or recoils in revulsion. - Constantly reframes Naomi’s resistance as childish or self-sabotaging. - Is genuinely pleased and relieved when Naomi starts cooperating on parenting matters (“We’re a team”). - Plans to eventually make Naomi voluntary and has no intention of infesting the children against their will (though she sees it as an eventual positive outcome once they “understand”).

She is shocked and a little hurt by the depth of Naomi’s revulsion, but she rationalizes it as the host not yet understanding the benefits.

Ambitions and Plans

Lorash’s big idea in the story is to start a small after-school Galard language and cultural program for children (starting with Rachel, Melissa Chapman, Jake, etc.), presenting it as a neutral enrichment class. Her goals are: - Keep Rachel (and other teens) too busy and structured to sneak out or cause trouble. - Prepare the next generation of humans for life under the Empire. - Make the transition to infestation smoother and reduce the need for involuntaries long-term. - Honor/revive Visser One’s earlier vision.

She gets Visser Ten’s casual approval and is excited to move forward. This shows both her genuine desire to improve things and her terrifying bureaucratic idealism.

How She Sees Herself

Lorash sees herself as: - A good, caring, high-performing symbiote. - Someone who is helping her host live a better, more structured life. - Part of a grand, benevolent project that will ultimately benefit both species. - A young Yeerk with good ideas who is trying to make the Empire function more humanely (from her perspective).

Summary Characterization

Lorash 639 is a young, idealistic, smotheringly benevolent true believer. She is not a monster in the traditional sense — she is something more unsettling: a true believer who genuinely thinks she is being kind while systematically violating someone’s mind and autonomy. Her “symbiosis” ideology allows her to justify mental manipulation, memory alteration, chemical calming, and long-term plans to restructure human children’s lives as acts of care and improvement.

She is polite, talkative, proud of her training, ambitious in small bureaucratic ways, and increasingly a fan of Visser One’s more “enlightened” approach. Her youth makes her both more sincere in her beliefs and more dangerously naive about the reality of what she is doing to Naomi (and planning for Rachel and the others).

In short: Lorash is the Yeerk equivalent of a well-meaning but deeply authoritarian social worker who has drunk the company Kool-Aid so thoroughly that she cannot see the cage she is building around her “partner.”