FLEDERMUSE MUSE LIST
(Every muse on this blog is an original character or an original take on an existing concept!)
THING.
DISCLAIMER: This muse is horror-based, and contains depictions of body horror. To block this muse from your feed, please filter the tag #m:thing .
Pronouns: They/it
Age: Unknown, adult
Notes: Heavily based from John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing, Thing is an alien creature that seeks to gain DNA and knowledge from other species. While my portrayal is more or less the same basic concept, my interpretation does not like turning into humans. Thing is able to sustain itself on any kind of food so long as it has "claimed" a species that can eat it. Claiming is the process of completely digesting another organism by spitting dissolving acid onto the victim, and consuming the remaining fluids. Thing can be killed by normal means; they have the vulnerability of any creature they turn into.
More about Thing:
- They are possibly able to be redeemed/befriended
- There is a difference between claiming and consuming for nourishment. Claiming sacrifices the opportunity to eat, but gives another disguise to shapeshift into.
- Like any organism, Thing can starve to death. If it does not eat, and instead claims all of the time, it will die.
- Coat variations, such as a red fox vs. an arctic fox, are distinct. In order to have that coat, they must claim that specific color.
- Claims can expire. After 5 years of not claiming a specific animal, their DNA is lost and must be claimed again.
HORATIO ORION HUCKLE.
Faceclaim: Lestat De Lioncourt of The Vampire Chronicles
Pronouns: He/him
Age: 35 years
Orientation: Bisexual, male leaning
Skills: Guitar, getting into dangerous situations, being a dumbass
Notes: Horatio is a victim of the "reincarnation and rebirth" series. He was an average Australian-to-American man living in Georgia until a fatal car crash took his life and he awoke into a strange new world where, to his surprise, there is no record of him ever existing. He maintains the same memories, same body, and same thoughts, but there is absolutely no documentation of him ever existing in this world. Because of this storyline, he fits perfectly into crossovers with a differing timeline/universe (rdr, Bojack Horseman, Fallout, etc.), but he is at a bit of a disadvantage surviving in some of these worlds because he's... well, not the sharpest knife in the block.
Established verses:
NIPPY.
DISCLAIMER: All icons of Nippy are either from Fallout 4 gameplay or faceclaimed from the Air Bud movies.
Pronouns: She/her
Age: Unknown, adult
Notes: Nippy is a talking dog, mainly adapted for the Fallout 4 universe, but she can be adapted for other franchises and situations. Mainly, the gist of her story is that the intelligence and speaking capabilities she maintains is from a woman that was killed many years ago. Scientists of The Institute utilized the woman for an experiment, which involved placing a chip into a golden retriever's brain. This, along with more complicated wiring, allowed Nippy to speak. Nippy does not know this, thinking she must only be a hyper-intelligent canine by chance, but occasionally gets vague glimpses of the life she used to have as a human. She leaves the institute as she realizes that she is only a tool for them rather than a citizen.
HILDA.
DISCLAIMER: Icons of Hilda are made by tracing faceclaims of Rajah from the movie Aladdin. All other cartoon icons on this blog are hand-drawn without this technique.
Pronouns: She/her
Age: Unknown, adult
Notes: "Hilda the Heavenly", as she's titled, is a mystical maltese tiger of legends and myths. She's real, but she's suffering. Adopted into a sideshow circus, she was taken from the wild at a young age and has been trapped in circus acts ever since, miserable. With each passing day, the gawking grins of her fans have her fall into deeper despair. She wonders, sometimes, if there really is a life for her beyond the bars of her cage.