The Zoologist

Thought this would be a fun character to do a shrine for
The Zoologist's by far my favorite NPC in Terraria. Their design is cute, their personality is cute, they're just a really really cute NPC and I love zoologists so much because of that. It's to a degree where I get a little sad whenever I see a message that a Zoologist died while watching a Terraria video. Just a very very cool NPC that I love very much :]]

Mardy!!

Mardy! That's the name of the Zoologist that showed up in my town back in 2022. She's never died once since she first stepped foot in the world of Ceppah World idfk, and I think if she ever did die I'd have to reset my world and commit seppuku.
In fact, I love Mardy SO much, that when I submitted a teamup of a Zoologist and a Party Girl for a mashup tournament also in 2022, I decided to have the Zoologist specifically be Mardy, alongside the Party Girl also from Ceppah World idfk! (I forgot her name and I'm too lazy to boot up Terraria to check atm, apologies). Even made my own render for them! As seen below

I tried combining the hair she's usually seen with with the dreadlocks she has in her uncursed state seen during the credits when you beat Moon Lord. This was to "Meh" Success I'm fairly certain. She & the Party Girl went by the team name Party Animals, and though the tournament never actually happened I'm sure they had fun with all the other characters who joined it! :]

For most of my time in Ceppah World idfk she lived inside the aerial base I had built hovering just above the central grasslands; Inside the leftmost tower, where she would research animals and whatnot. However, when I was getting ready to fight the Moon Lord, I escorted her alongside all above-ground NPCs to a temporary abode in my underground base, bringing their belongings along with them. I ended up dying when I tried to fight Moon Lord, and Mardy and the others remain in that temporary underground hotel to this day...