Rakim
Rakim is the bat in my belfry. Birdcages hang upside-down from the walls of his clock tower with their doors wide open. A lightning rod and wind turbines that he's installed on the roof power the light bulbs and turning gears in its top floor...
Myri
Their vaguely humanoid-shaped bodies' surfaces are porous, peppered with large holes, to the extent that there's about 1/4 to 1/3 of their outsides that isn't technically 'surface' but empty space leading in. The cavities interconnect inside in a...
Midas
Whoever came up with transmutation was extremely unlikely to have expected that anyone would ever use it the way that Midas ended up using it. It's not just the fact that he has no need to keep an alchemist's furnace in the cave that serves as his...
Karoshi
Tezcat the jaguar was out in the jungle on his own one day, minding their own business, when he was suddenly surrounded by zombies who threw a net over him and shot him with a tranquilizer dart, then fell into unconsciousness. When he woke up in a...
Diaz
TRIGGER WARNING for supernatural self-harm. Diaz is the self-appointed security guard of a museum he's built in which to hold his own artwork. He would never think it fit to expose his art to any other eyes than his own, and would feel too guilty...
Boko
"One enters a nation according to its customs just as one enters a river according to its flow." - Viet-Namese saying Boris Chrome is a self-styled hero, reviled villain, refined aesthete, world traveller, obsessive packrat, brilliant linguist,...
Argus
While most onlookers would at first glance think that the job description of Argus the rat is limited to being a librarian, he thinks of himself more as the caretaker to his own kind of aviary. Even though he's a warlock first and foremost, he also...
Still Life
Although it would've probably been considered a controversial approach to therapy at best by a lot of his peers, after having given it some thought, Mandrake had decided that it could've been a great idea to bring Diaz to the Bolgia. Then again, most...
Showtime
"Now you're going to see a real fight," Rakim told Klein on their way to their seats as they saw the next contestants on their way to take their place in the ring. But what did a real fight look like? The otter climbed up on the rope, using it like a...
Battle Bot
The bat had pretty much laughed in his face. "Are you sure you're supposed to be here?" With the crowd already cheering for them from around the ring as they sized each other up after the bell had just rang, it seemed a little late to the skunk for...
By A Thousand Cuts
"People get them without thinking." Fran and her roommate were watching her pets chasing each other around their living room. "They get them for their kids." "That's the thing!" she concurred. "They think of animals as lesser lifeforms than people for...
TransPlant
* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...