Mimeyeen (my friend's fursona)
by onlyuyupops
Worldbuilder Going Nowhere
8 years ago
I helped my friend spin up a hyena 'sona! they are the last known member of their species (the 'spotley hyena', which has diamond/motley patterning on its fur, and whose physical traits are a pastiche of various real-world hyena species), and also the last known member of their clowning tradition/magical school.
by day, they're a mild-mannered street-performing mime (depicted)!
by night, they mask up as their secret identity, a trickster-y acrobatic harlequin-themed ventriloquist vigilante!
they don't have a name yet, because good hyena/clown puns are hard. however, their masked persona is called Zan So-and-so, like with 'Zan' as an honorific, because Arlecchino (the commedia dell'arte stock character who gives us the word 'harlequin') is a zanni, or one of the eccentric servant characters developed from the original Zanni character; the stage names of many zanni performers were prefixed with 'Zan'.
they have a Magical Yeen transformation and a prop-cane/batte for clown magic, and their magic is narrative-based- they basically create comedy plots to solve problems. they can perform in-genre magic tricks called grandi lazzi (lazzo meaning something like 'gag' or 'routine'), including scenery changes (getting your enemies lost in a maze, or whatever), slapstick routines, misdirections, and probably some minor transformations (e.g., derived from the traditional Lazzo of the Cat, where the actor mimics a cat's behavior).
you bet your ass they call their attacks! "Grande Lazzo of the Fly!" [several people enter a place they're not allowed to be unobserved, as Arlecchino informs the guards that 'not a fly' has entered]. "Well, there are still no flies in there!"
they're limited to three grandi lazzi per adventure/comedy plot, and everything else has to be a 'freebie' trick (identity-swaps, their ventriloquism is supernatural but doesn't figure into the grandi lazzi count) or mundane trickery (perhaps called burle, again like the commedia dell'arte term?).
by day, they're a mild-mannered street-performing mime (depicted)!
by night, they mask up as their secret identity, a trickster-y acrobatic harlequin-themed ventriloquist vigilante!
they don't have a name yet, because good hyena/clown puns are hard. however, their masked persona is called Zan So-and-so, like with 'Zan' as an honorific, because Arlecchino (the commedia dell'arte stock character who gives us the word 'harlequin') is a zanni, or one of the eccentric servant characters developed from the original Zanni character; the stage names of many zanni performers were prefixed with 'Zan'.
they have a Magical Yeen transformation and a prop-cane/batte for clown magic, and their magic is narrative-based- they basically create comedy plots to solve problems. they can perform in-genre magic tricks called grandi lazzi (lazzo meaning something like 'gag' or 'routine'), including scenery changes (getting your enemies lost in a maze, or whatever), slapstick routines, misdirections, and probably some minor transformations (e.g., derived from the traditional Lazzo of the Cat, where the actor mimics a cat's behavior).
you bet your ass they call their attacks! "Grande Lazzo of the Fly!" [several people enter a place they're not allowed to be unobserved, as Arlecchino informs the guards that 'not a fly' has entered]. "Well, there are still no flies in there!"
they're limited to three grandi lazzi per adventure/comedy plot, and everything else has to be a 'freebie' trick (identity-swaps, their ventriloquism is supernatural but doesn't figure into the grandi lazzi count) or mundane trickery (perhaps called burle, again like the commedia dell'arte term?).
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