Myrslok

basic beeping

• basics

  • Name: Myrslok
  • Gender: Other
  • Played by: feline
  • Nicknames: Myr, spacecat
  • Race: robot alien
  • Body Type: shapeshifter (generally feline)
  • Personality: playful and mischievous, but friendly
  • Mannerisms: casual beeping and whirring dapple use of otherwise normal language
  • OOC use?: 50/50

• incoherent story bits

  "What they're doing is making objects with their voices, singing structures into existence. They offer things to you, saying "Look at this! Look at this!" and as your attention goes towards these objects you realise that what you're being shown is impossible. It's not simply intricate, beautiful and hard to manufacture, it's impossible to make these things. The nearest analogy would be the Fabergé eggs, but these things are like the toys that are scattered around the nursery inside a U.F.O., celestial toys, and the toys themselves appear to be somehow alive and can sing other objects into existence, so what's happening is this proliferation of elf gifts, which are moving around singing, and they are saying "Do what we are doing" and they are very insistent, and they say "Do it! Do it! Do it!" and you feel like a bubble inside your body beginning to move up toward your mouth, and when it comes out it isn't sound, it's vision. You discover that you can pump "stuff" out of your mouth by singing, and they're urging you to do this. They say "That's it! That's it! Keep doing it!"." -- Terence McKenna
  

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  Myr is a non-organic alien, sort of a robot but not exactly, part of some unknown futuristic society that has transcended the physical forms and societal standards familiar to most. They exist purely to get up to trouble and make friends through pranks and create things that have never been seen before, just for a giggle or to confuse. Some people have encountered things that are nicknamed "Machine Elves". For me, they're known as SpaceCats, and that's what Myr is.

  
  

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  The creature known as Myr hitched a ride on a comet's tail ages ago, looking for a new start, and eventually came crashing through our planet's atmosphere - not before bouncing off of a few moons and other astral bodies, of course.
  
  The first living thing it encountered, before it had a Shape, was a small cat (or creature-which-resembles-a-cat). Over time, it collected more Shapes, especially variations on the feline. It has the ability to change its form, color, and other physical attributes at will, as well as warp through visible space by manipulating the space-time continuum, essentially teleporting. A few things always stay the same - green markings, usually in the form of stripes, and a bouncy pair of vaguely insectoid or television-rabbit-ear-ish antennae capped with blue boppers, the purpose of which are unknown.
  
  The name Myrslok is a mystery - it means "ant lick", and is a shortened form of the full word for "anteater", "myrslokar". The being, at present, is unable to transform into any type of anteater or similar beast, so it might be a joke directed at itself.
  

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  "We especially refer to the apparently autonomous and intelligent, chaotically mercurial and mischievous machine elves encountered in the trance state, strange teachers whose marvelous singing makes intricate toys out of the air and out of their own continually transforming body geometries." -- Terence McKenna

• art

  by Weiss on Furcadia - Not free for your use or anyone else's.

  Myrslok by Weiss