He called them "graft-chimaeras". What the Seekers had brought to him he had grown and spliced together at whim simply to show that he could. Any lab-mage could take given samples and unify them into a homogeneous whole, but none had ever tried what he had chosen to undertake. This one had the mouthparts of a squid and scaly braided tail, while that had mismatched feathered wings and bones showing through transparent flesh, while another bore a skull devoid of any tissues at all even though the rest of its body was piecemeal normality. Abominations, every one of them, but he had proven even such things as these could be given life.
And when he was satisfied he cast them away, disowned and forgotten, to land wherever they might, leaving those sorry monstrous creations to find whatever niche in life that the rest of the world would allow them.
To apply for one of these beasties, I am requiring actual storied candidates, but I'm not looking for masterworks. Just a few paragraphs are fine if that's all you can or want to do, as I know muses have been running low on the Nexus as of late. (I don't much care for writing, myself, anymore!)
Like the Flurry has a theme, so do does this, and it's of course "Misunderstood Monsters". Whether your candidates is one, knows one, made one, befriended one, slayed one, read about one, wrote about one... whatever, however you tie the theme to your story, "Misunderstood Monsters" is it. The candidate you write will be the individual that one of these chimaeras stumbles across, for good or ill.
One candidate per person, applications are go until October 30th. Barring calamity, the chimaeras will be distributed sometime on the 31st.
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[b]Candidate URL:[/b]They will be adults. A few days or weeks old, only, but adult.
They will not bond. They are incapable of it.
They will be sterile and cannot breed, whatever their gender. They also cannot be used in any kind of non-traditional breeding (fusions, synths, theurges, etc.) since they are piecemeal clones of the donors and do no possess a unique genetic code.
Candidates are not required to be benevolent towards whatever I'm crossing their path with. "For good or ill", as I said. There's no telling what kind of personalities these misfit creations will have, or even if the nicer ones will simply have the misfortune of encountering another mad scientist as cruel as the one who cast them out.
That said, the candidate doesn't have to be permanently attached to the graft-chimaera in any way. They can remain independent characters if you prefer -- the candidates just give me something/somewhere to START the poor beast.
