One Fine Pig
The murderous Tigran pig-throuple team — eliminated when Carl's hidden traps dissolved both husbands, leaving Penelope's fate a mystery.
Story so far
One Fine Pig, the Tigran pig-throuple team of Nico and Dario (devoted to the god-warded sow Penelope), meets its end after murdering Carl's whole mercenary squad at Upano. When Carl's rage-fueled garage assault leaves their own gremlin Lipstick crushed by their shield, they hunker in their APV — while Princess Donut's spoken 'All Eyes on Me' charm ('relationship advice' for the pig) distracts them long enough for Carl to plant two silent, Tigran-only disintegration traps flush against their truck. Both traps fire during the pit stop's track shuffle: Nico and Dario are dissolved, and the team is eliminated for the expiration of both racers, leaving five teams.
Crucially, no death notification comes for Penelope — the Taranis-warded pig apparently survives, and Carl now covets the winner's key to the team's garage precisely to claim her, having grasped that her thunder-god protection (the clear-sky lightning that answers her every panicked squeal) is a way out of something.
Appearance
A boxy armored Tigr APV wrapped with a garish anime image of two Tigrans kissing a fat pig; its crew now dissolved, only the pig remaining.
Role
The eliminated Tigran team whose surviving god-warded pig becomes Carl's new objective.
Relationships
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
- The team that won Heat One, running a big military vehicle — front-runners the party has yet to properly meet.
- A Heat-winning race team: two Tigran husbands, a hired Taurin merc, and Penelope — the pig they're both married to.
- The Tigran pig-throuple race team, now murderers — running down and crushing Carl's entire mercenary squad on Upano's street.
- The murderous Tigran pig-throuple team — eliminated when Carl's hidden traps dissolved both husbands, leaving Penelope's fate a mystery.