My intention of making this story because the heroes' background stories are far too short compared to the champions from League of Legends. For role-playing purposes (Yes, I'm a role-player for years in Twitter. Hail Furry Fandom!), I'm doing a background story, loosely based on Slark's lore, so the Deep Ones is true, but its description is just made up. I'm planning to do several chapters, and this is the first one. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: the following names mentioned (no matter they are hero names or places) are belonged to Valve's Dota 2 created by IceFrog. And the story here is not the official background story of a fish named Slark. Read with cautious!
Chapter 1: Slithice and Slark
For hundred years, the Slithereen were living peacefully under the Pacific Ocean, and they named the place as the Deep Ones due to geographical location, with a few thousand kilometres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. To this date, their presence was unknown and undetected by the human beings above the sea surface because human didn't explore the Deep Ones yet, without sufficient technologies. In fact, a Slithereen much resembles a mermaid that appears in children storybook: a few parts of a Slithereen resemble human body parts while retaining the characteristics of a fish, due to the fact that he or she is living underwater. They have two separate respiratory systems, and they will choose to breathe by either gills or lungs, depending on their surroundings, justifying the fact that they are amphibians.
For hundred years since the first two Slithereen were created by Poseidon, the God of Sea, their body structures were mutated by their survival needs. Most female Slithereen are basically mermaids while most male Slithereen are fish with a pair of extra hand and a separate respiratory system, borrowed from human and mammals on land. The Slithereen could be made up of different species like sharks and swordfishes, as long as they have hands and the extra respiratory system. A marine mammal like dolphin could be a Slithereen too if he or she could grow gills out of nowhere.
The Deep Ones, dubbed by the Slithereen due to geographical reasons, is basically a huge fortress, surrounded by stone walls which are 20 yards tall and, in terms of perimeter, a thousand miles long. The area was roofed by endless of stainless steels and a portion of concretes which separated the Deep Ones from the unknown world outside. Only small Slithereen could swim through the roof, while the larger Slithereen had to get through the only gate located at the north east region if they wanted to communicate with the outer world. The walls were guarded by honoured Slithereen, who were simply dubbed as Slithereen Guards. The Slithereen Guards took shift every day to make sure the residents were safe from attacks. And there is an untold secret to the residents: there was a large amount of treasures hidden beneath the floor of the Deep Ones: it's over once enemies invaded and destroyed the place.
Due to lack of lights even in daytime, bioluminescent lights were used to light up the Deep Ones. Some Slithereen had one in front of their forehead, as their portable light source. You could see corals and seaweeds on the sea floor within the Deep Ones, as corals made the underwater city beautiful while seaweeds are oxygen supplier for the residents of the Deep Ones. Most building were made up of rocks, and the remaining ones were basically caves. The Slithereen who lived in the caves were considered as the "Chosen Ones" because they would be elected as the Slithereen Guards, and there was no exception for their children when they grow up.
Slithice was one of the Deep Ones residents, who lived in one of the caves.
Slithice was still a young girl before she would be elected to be one of the Slithereen Guards. The mermaid used to live alone as her parents were on duty as the Slithereen Guards. When she was a kid, she was taught by her parents about every skills related to living skills and survival skills, including hunting, culinary skills and housekeeping. She understood and memorized the skills since then despite she was not an adult yet, as her parents reminded her that they wouldn't be home anytime soon. Her hobby is singing, and the Naga Siren would spend hours practising her vocal so she would impress the male Slithereen when she reached her mature age. Every day, she would swim around in her house to clean the house, and sometimes she would explore outside her house to search for fresh food.
Her routine would repeat every day, but one fine day, that was not the case anymore.
That day, she was having her lunch when she heard someone knocking the door of her cavern house. The knock only lasted for 3 seconds.
Slithice felt something unusual behind the door. She swam gently and reached the door. When the door was opened, she was surprised as a giant clam was left in front of the door. There was a message lettered on the clam which reads: Please take care of him. He's different from any Slithereen you knew. So sorry but he was a burden for us. Slithice gently opened the clam and to her surprise, there was a fish sleeping inside. For the first time in her life, she noticed the young fish growing limbs: apart from two hands which were no stranger to any Slithereen, the young fish has two legs as well.
"Gosh," the mermaid gasped, before carefully carrying the small fish into her hands. The fish was awoken upon that, and his yellow eyes were looking at her. The small fish attempted to talk by opening his little sharp jaws, but no sound was made, his limbs were moving instead, like how a foetus moves inside a pregnant female mammal's body.
"Alright, you little, I'll take care of you from now on," Slithice decided at this point as she knew her parents would took forever to reach home, and the poor little Slithereen was abandoned in a shocking fashion. Using the clam provided as the bed for the little Slithereen, Slithice was making a nice home for him.
The little fish waved his upper limbs; in fact, he was happy as he was given a home.
Days passed by, and with every culinary and baby-sitting knowledges she learnt from her parents before, Slithice took the role as the mother of the little Slithereen temporarily. Slowly, the little Slithereen started to walk, fully utilizing both feet of his, and he managed to spit out some vocals like "Ah" and "Oh". Despite that, Slithice was still thinking how to name this walking fish, and the only clue she noticed was about the fish: apparently the little fish was a descendant of a shark, judging from the cyan scales. Still, the Naga Siren knew that he is a truly Slithereen as he has the main characteristics of a Slithereen: hands, nose (as a part of lung respiratory system) and gills.
"What shall I name you then, you little shark?" she asked, while teaching him to utilize his feet for swimming one fine day. The fish was still wobbling while trying to swim, despite his best effort, but Slithice was positive that he would swim gracefully and walk like no other Slithereen one day.
"Li… ttle… Sl… ark…?" the fish started to talk, and those were the first few words he could say. As a young fish, he said the word "shark" with the letter L replacing H by accident. Slithice tried to gather the information what he was trying to say and eventually she knew the answer was "Little Slark".
"Hey, your name is Slark. You'll love the name," said Slithice, holding the little fish.
"Sl… ark… Slark! Slark!" the little fish was delighted, waving his upper limbs randomly.
And this is how Slark got his name.