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A New Addition to the Department of Creativity
13 years ago
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-William Shakespeare From Damian:
Yeesh, two days or so and I’m already making a memorandum to those who occupy the Department of Creativity around here. Some ideas around here can be pretty forceful, especially when they do fit a niche that RS was looking for. Now don’t give me that look Rhaine, you weren’t exactly front and center when the call went out. Sorry, Rhaine was giving me a dirty look. I mean, I know I’m a muse, and with that comes a lot of power around here, but I’m not omniscient. Things slip my mind from time to time, and sometimes ideas have to say “what about me” to get my attention.
So if you haven’t figured it out yet, Rhaine’s the new regular around here. I’ll get to proper introductions in a moment, but I thought I’d share a little back story first. See, Rhaine’s an old character of RS’s, back in the days of the old muse, from a sci-fi story that lost steam. While the story and virtually everything about it has been filed away in the “can’t simply throw it away” archieves, likely never to be resurrected, Rhaine’s been in and out of here on an infrequent basis, but often enough for everyone to know her by name. And since the story’s been abandoned, the character hasn’t, she’s anthropomorphic, and RS was looking for another female non-fetish character to even out the genders a bit around here, today while RS was at work, she decided to pay a not-too-subtle visit and, well, you can guess what happened from there. For the last time Rhaine, I am not a bird! I just have wings!
Ahem, now, for the introsuctions:
Rhaine: (Pronounced like "rain" with a rolling "r" and the "ee" sound a bit more emphasized)
Rhaine is…well…to be quite frank I’m not entirely sure. The old muse didn’t leave a whole lot of notes on the matter, and I think that detail was kinda glossed over in the old original first draft. Even though I can see her, it’s one of those awkward “I know but can’t communicate with author intelligibly” moments. It happens a lot. All I can say is that she is a jungle born feline, definitely evocative of “cat-folk”, anthro (duh), and has elements of puma in her appearance. As her origin still matches the original incarnation more or less, she isn’t any specific animal, rather an alien that possess features both humanoid and feline. She’s 16 years of age, a young adult by her species standards though teen by ours, and stands about 6’1”. She’s quite lean and lithe, likely fitting into most people’s definitions of lanky. Her breasts (yes, that is a detail I do feel is worth a separate mention, for mature reasons) are on the small end of average.
What makes her stand out isn’t her appearance though, it’s her unusual ability. Her people weren’t space capable, though they interacted with those who were from time to time, for various reasons (mostly trade, which fell into some real legalese [wow, didn’t know that was an actual word. Could’ve sworn it was still just slang] compacts and legislations and such). Rhaine was abducted for use as a scientific test subject, by the type of people who seek to “advance” science no matter the cost. I’m not sure how they managed it, but when all was said and done, Rhaine possessed the ability to change her body from organic to robotic, and back again, at will.
As a machine, its workings and construction are almost identical in relations to parts of the body; veins replaced by tubes carrying other fluids, nervous system replaced by wires, and, well, even her internal organs have pseudo-counterparts. Even her exterior behaves almost like skin, though it is metal, and separate jointed segments are needed for full range of motion, as her outer “shell” cannot stretch like skill, though it has a very mild elastic property. Her brain is also quite literally a computer, almost supercomputer in computing power. The biggest correlation between her two forms is that anything that becomes stored in her electronic memory becomes a part of her organic memory. While her normal brain doesn’t have the perfect recall and computing power her mechanical brain does, the memories are still there, allowing the learning of new languages to be a simple matter, among other things. Having a computerized memory has also allowed her to create a “backup” of herself, though she has yet to have need of it, and is not even sure if it’ll work. The correlation of mind, body, and soul with her dual nature is something she meditates on from time to time, for which she hasn’t come up with even a solid theory yet.
She has since been rescued, obviously, and in time made her own way into the world, which has led her conceptual self here, as a character and fixture of the Department of Creativity. Now all I have to do is help Roaming Shadow define her looks and perhaps you will all be seeing her in the future along with the others.
Yeesh, two days or so and I’m already making a memorandum to those who occupy the Department of Creativity around here. Some ideas around here can be pretty forceful, especially when they do fit a niche that RS was looking for. Now don’t give me that look Rhaine, you weren’t exactly front and center when the call went out. Sorry, Rhaine was giving me a dirty look. I mean, I know I’m a muse, and with that comes a lot of power around here, but I’m not omniscient. Things slip my mind from time to time, and sometimes ideas have to say “what about me” to get my attention.
So if you haven’t figured it out yet, Rhaine’s the new regular around here. I’ll get to proper introductions in a moment, but I thought I’d share a little back story first. See, Rhaine’s an old character of RS’s, back in the days of the old muse, from a sci-fi story that lost steam. While the story and virtually everything about it has been filed away in the “can’t simply throw it away” archieves, likely never to be resurrected, Rhaine’s been in and out of here on an infrequent basis, but often enough for everyone to know her by name. And since the story’s been abandoned, the character hasn’t, she’s anthropomorphic, and RS was looking for another female non-fetish character to even out the genders a bit around here, today while RS was at work, she decided to pay a not-too-subtle visit and, well, you can guess what happened from there. For the last time Rhaine, I am not a bird! I just have wings!
Ahem, now, for the introsuctions:
Rhaine: (Pronounced like "rain" with a rolling "r" and the "ee" sound a bit more emphasized)
Rhaine is…well…to be quite frank I’m not entirely sure. The old muse didn’t leave a whole lot of notes on the matter, and I think that detail was kinda glossed over in the old original first draft. Even though I can see her, it’s one of those awkward “I know but can’t communicate with author intelligibly” moments. It happens a lot. All I can say is that she is a jungle born feline, definitely evocative of “cat-folk”, anthro (duh), and has elements of puma in her appearance. As her origin still matches the original incarnation more or less, she isn’t any specific animal, rather an alien that possess features both humanoid and feline. She’s 16 years of age, a young adult by her species standards though teen by ours, and stands about 6’1”. She’s quite lean and lithe, likely fitting into most people’s definitions of lanky. Her breasts (yes, that is a detail I do feel is worth a separate mention, for mature reasons) are on the small end of average.
What makes her stand out isn’t her appearance though, it’s her unusual ability. Her people weren’t space capable, though they interacted with those who were from time to time, for various reasons (mostly trade, which fell into some real legalese [wow, didn’t know that was an actual word. Could’ve sworn it was still just slang] compacts and legislations and such). Rhaine was abducted for use as a scientific test subject, by the type of people who seek to “advance” science no matter the cost. I’m not sure how they managed it, but when all was said and done, Rhaine possessed the ability to change her body from organic to robotic, and back again, at will.
As a machine, its workings and construction are almost identical in relations to parts of the body; veins replaced by tubes carrying other fluids, nervous system replaced by wires, and, well, even her internal organs have pseudo-counterparts. Even her exterior behaves almost like skin, though it is metal, and separate jointed segments are needed for full range of motion, as her outer “shell” cannot stretch like skill, though it has a very mild elastic property. Her brain is also quite literally a computer, almost supercomputer in computing power. The biggest correlation between her two forms is that anything that becomes stored in her electronic memory becomes a part of her organic memory. While her normal brain doesn’t have the perfect recall and computing power her mechanical brain does, the memories are still there, allowing the learning of new languages to be a simple matter, among other things. Having a computerized memory has also allowed her to create a “backup” of herself, though she has yet to have need of it, and is not even sure if it’ll work. The correlation of mind, body, and soul with her dual nature is something she meditates on from time to time, for which she hasn’t come up with even a solid theory yet.
She has since been rescued, obviously, and in time made her own way into the world, which has led her conceptual self here, as a character and fixture of the Department of Creativity. Now all I have to do is help Roaming Shadow define her looks and perhaps you will all be seeing her in the future along with the others.
