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Zil(chexo)'s Biology and Lore
5 years ago
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RORE™!!!! k so
I've been meaning to do this for literally years because I end up having to explain whatever parts of it are needed/convenient for the scene, and incidentally, right about now I feel like it's reached a point of internal consistency where I can use it without it being overpowered. I'm going to do sort of a fun facts run-down of what Zil is, deeper than the surface.
1. I call Zil a draguar, but that's not exactly right. Zil is a five-dimensional, shapeshifting entity made up of self-reprogramming cells, that takes the form of a draguar. Between those two properties, Zil would seem omnipotent to a three-dimensional creature. This also means Zil doesn't perceive time as linear and fleeting. However, Zil restricts their own access to their powers to keep things from getting boring. Zil has also placed charms on themselves which disempower Zil until reversed that only close friends know.
2. You may have noticed me refer to characters with different appearances as Zil. All of my draguars right now are Zil, even though they have different canons and personalities. Effectively, Zil is one of my fursonas, and Zil has personas, which are the main mechanism Zil uses to restrict their own powers. They include:
-Zilchexo, feral draguar, often powered
-Zilligan, cartoony, chubby anthro (often plush), weakly powered
-Zillian Mâkhtcekso, punkish anthro, mundane
-Zillian Rajayamuy, forest-dwelling muscular anthro draguar, powered but pretends to be mundane
-Chexxi, feminine anthro draguar, mundane
-Zilchie, agender anthro draguar, mundane
-just Zil, can be in the form of all of the above and more, powered
The distinctions between these characters can be blurry. I honestly don't think about it too much.
Vore related things follow:
3. Three-dimensional food does not sustain Zil themself, although they can taste it. They subsist on what they usually call "devotion", or the care others give them, as a five-dimensional energy source. They can only digest anything that has been imparted with devotion, usually that which has been given to them or that which personally cares for Zil.
4. Consequently, Zil is only capable of digesting people who enjoy it on some level. The moment the other party fully retracts consent, Zil can't harm them (at least not by digestion).
5. Zil stores a compressed genetic backup in hibernation of their digested prey inside them. From there, several things can happen.
- Zil can use their own body to simulate prey's bodies and bring them out of stasis in a way such that they will feel like they physically are a part of Zil's body.
- Zil can interface with prey as if they were speaking by inserting pieces of conversation into their sleeping memories and gathering a reaction.
- Zil can transmit memories, for example a full memory backup, between them and their prey, and/or establish a communicative link between them that transmits everything automatically.
- Zil can reform prey by "printing" them a new body from their own. This is usually done supernaturally and instantaneously, and with matter taken from the original body, though it can be with matter taken from Zil's greater 5D body, or take place naturally in a womb too. (An unmodified Zil egg would result in prey reforming as a draguar ;3)
All of the above requires consent, because the mechanism of action requires a reciprocity from the prey that they cannot really be forced to give.
6. What about when most people digest Zil? Zil ceases to be a distinct idea from the predator, and their essence is subsumed by their predator. Zil effectively becomes another body part subdued to the command of the brain. (Zil's special digestion is consent/devotion-based and therefore requires another agent, and does not do this, though it can closely simulate it.) If the predator decides Zil should be an independent entity, their freedom of choice is granted back to them, and from there, things proceed like they do with Zil's own prey. Alternatively, before/during digestion, Zil can set terms on their surrender, like a time limit, and when those terms are met, Zil will be extracted by their own powers. Remember that this would only feasibly happen if Zil let it.
EDIT: Characters who are not Zil are typically mundane or way less powerful, but they know Zil and are held accountable to Zil, who will do "magic" favors for them or override what they're doing if they don't like it. So they basically work by the same rules.
What does all this mean for you? Well, probably nothing. Zil can still be as "mean" as continued devotion will allow. Zil can't and doesn't eat prey that is 100% unwilling and cannot be coerced into being 100% unwillingly digested. Even the most powerful limit charm disables itself when it has none of Zil's devotion to power it, and thus requires consent. This is how it's always been in my head, and I see it mostly as a metaphysical manifestation of the fact characters need interested players driving them. For those of you who like the darker side of me, hopefully this doesn't "woobify" the character for you.
1. I call Zil a draguar, but that's not exactly right. Zil is a five-dimensional, shapeshifting entity made up of self-reprogramming cells, that takes the form of a draguar. Between those two properties, Zil would seem omnipotent to a three-dimensional creature. This also means Zil doesn't perceive time as linear and fleeting. However, Zil restricts their own access to their powers to keep things from getting boring. Zil has also placed charms on themselves which disempower Zil until reversed that only close friends know.
2. You may have noticed me refer to characters with different appearances as Zil. All of my draguars right now are Zil, even though they have different canons and personalities. Effectively, Zil is one of my fursonas, and Zil has personas, which are the main mechanism Zil uses to restrict their own powers. They include:
-Zilchexo, feral draguar, often powered
-Zilligan, cartoony, chubby anthro (often plush), weakly powered
-Zillian Mâkhtcekso, punkish anthro, mundane
-Zillian Rajayamuy, forest-dwelling muscular anthro draguar, powered but pretends to be mundane
-Chexxi, feminine anthro draguar, mundane
-Zilchie, agender anthro draguar, mundane
-just Zil, can be in the form of all of the above and more, powered
The distinctions between these characters can be blurry. I honestly don't think about it too much.
Vore related things follow:
3. Three-dimensional food does not sustain Zil themself, although they can taste it. They subsist on what they usually call "devotion", or the care others give them, as a five-dimensional energy source. They can only digest anything that has been imparted with devotion, usually that which has been given to them or that which personally cares for Zil.
4. Consequently, Zil is only capable of digesting people who enjoy it on some level. The moment the other party fully retracts consent, Zil can't harm them (at least not by digestion).
5. Zil stores a compressed genetic backup in hibernation of their digested prey inside them. From there, several things can happen.
- Zil can use their own body to simulate prey's bodies and bring them out of stasis in a way such that they will feel like they physically are a part of Zil's body.
- Zil can interface with prey as if they were speaking by inserting pieces of conversation into their sleeping memories and gathering a reaction.
- Zil can transmit memories, for example a full memory backup, between them and their prey, and/or establish a communicative link between them that transmits everything automatically.
- Zil can reform prey by "printing" them a new body from their own. This is usually done supernaturally and instantaneously, and with matter taken from the original body, though it can be with matter taken from Zil's greater 5D body, or take place naturally in a womb too. (An unmodified Zil egg would result in prey reforming as a draguar ;3)
All of the above requires consent, because the mechanism of action requires a reciprocity from the prey that they cannot really be forced to give.
6. What about when most people digest Zil? Zil ceases to be a distinct idea from the predator, and their essence is subsumed by their predator. Zil effectively becomes another body part subdued to the command of the brain. (Zil's special digestion is consent/devotion-based and therefore requires another agent, and does not do this, though it can closely simulate it.) If the predator decides Zil should be an independent entity, their freedom of choice is granted back to them, and from there, things proceed like they do with Zil's own prey. Alternatively, before/during digestion, Zil can set terms on their surrender, like a time limit, and when those terms are met, Zil will be extracted by their own powers. Remember that this would only feasibly happen if Zil let it.
EDIT: Characters who are not Zil are typically mundane or way less powerful, but they know Zil and are held accountable to Zil, who will do "magic" favors for them or override what they're doing if they don't like it. So they basically work by the same rules.
What does all this mean for you? Well, probably nothing. Zil can still be as "mean" as continued devotion will allow. Zil can't and doesn't eat prey that is 100% unwilling and cannot be coerced into being 100% unwillingly digested. Even the most powerful limit charm disables itself when it has none of Zil's devotion to power it, and thus requires consent. This is how it's always been in my head, and I see it mostly as a metaphysical manifestation of the fact characters need interested players driving them. For those of you who like the darker side of me, hopefully this doesn't "woobify" the character for you.
