Arini
it/its, Shadow's Shadow
What Is It?
Watchful entity. Hungering void. Demon dragon bird.
Presence
- Wide eyes and polarized eye contact -- either locked in or not at all.
- Step-by-step: tell you something with text to speech, then emote about it.
- Speech through mimicry, if any.
- Halting speech, if without mimicry.
- Easily distracted by sensory input.
- Stiff posture, stiff gait, arms bent up, head tilts.
- Frequent animal noises.
- Copying you is a show of positive feeling.
Associations
- Taste: sweet, spicy, astringent
- Sound: cawing corvids
- Texture: the membrane between bat fingers
- Animals: Psittacidae, Varanidae, Simiiformes
- Blanket: lightweight with some stitched in decorations
Essence
Wide-eyed mornings.
A loosened bud before blossom.
Standing up on hind legs to get a better look.
Satellite ears, perked up and turning.
Watching the front door and waiting for it to open.
Slugs emerging after heavy rain.
The call and response of a choir.
Hollow feather shaft with a sharp quill.
Tide pools revealed when the ocean recedes.
The window of opportunity on a freshly cleared surface.
The sharp breath between lighting and thunder.
The crouch before the pounce.
The precipice of an answer
in hypnagogia
before the pieces dissolve to slumber.