Bubblegum: it/its

RemyRaccoon followers might not know or remember this fella much, but I used it as a mascot for my former NSFW accounts since, fun fact, it’s as much of a sona to me as Remy is :]

Bubblegum is an assistant to a prolific but secluded manetic energy researcher, who volunteers to become the first person in documented history to successfully have their soul ripped from their body and placed in an artificial one - at least, willingly (this thing happens a lot but it’s never of anyone’s own volition due to being triggered by miasma and old cursed artefacts).

Things don’t go to plan - where Bubblegum was supposed to wind up in a robotic form, it instead ended up with its soul bound to that of a blue and pink pooltoy resembling the faerie dragon mascot of an old 3D platformer named “Bubblegum Panic!” The sudden lack of dexterity, a feeling of weightlessness and the complete inability to make any other sound than “sqrrhk?!?!” was distressing and disorienting, to say the least.

Bubblegum persists in its research however, and has even grown to like various aspects of its predicament. The soul infusion has rendered its PVC exterior enormously tough and almost entirely resistant to sharp objects, making Bubblegum effectively immortal (last time I checked, inanimate objects don’t age). It also seems to have been granted further mana channelling proficiency, and despite the failure of the experiment, it has still made history - the soul infusion somehow granted it *two* abilities, whereas you can normally only have one. How? It doesn’t know yet, but as a result, it doesn’t mind if it has to stay like this. Somewhat. The whole “being stuck with a permanent grin” and “having handles grafted to your body” thing makes it very self-conscious.

Some other tidbits!
- Bubblegum can temporarily form an artificial voice to circumvent the inability to speak, however this is incredibly taxing and drains mana fast. It resigns itself to silence most of the time, only speaking when it needs to, and with a very deliberate, intentional infliction - not a drop of mana can be wasted!
- Bubblegum has two abilities on top of its wind mana (these abilities are currently undefined. I’ll update this later when I figure it out.)
- Handles and valve are NO TOUCH ZONES without consent!! They are, for whatever reason, rather sensitive.
- By default Bubbkegum is 3’11” but using wind mana allows it to grow in size fairly quickly. It would not be incorrect to draw Bubbkegum as being over six or seven feet, but typically it likes to remain at normal size.
- Bubbkegum is a tier 3 mana channeller (for reference, tier 7 is little to no mana and tier 1 is reserved for gods). It’s immensely powerful and has a huge mana pool, while also being impervious to most attacks due to its fortified vinyl body, so one of the only ways to subdue it is immobilisation or to try to get in close and pop that valve open. Bubblegum can’t do anything but wriggle in a deflated state.
- When people run out of mana, their bodies turn to stone until restored by someone else giving them more mana. As a man-made object Bubblegum can’t exactly turn to stone, so instead, when it depletes its mana reserves, it simply enters a state of total inanimacy. No moving whatsoever, not even its eyes. Since it doesn’t turn to stone, its method of mana regeneration isn’t cut off, so it can recover on its own after about 24 hours.
- Its former identity is unknown and that’s how it likes it !!!! Do not ask !!!! Not even its closest friends know, but they’re respectful enough to not pry.