The Emsbury Menagerie

Text Markers: 3~text, C:text, text-Kassie, text-Cassandra

Description: A routing layer that found itself between other members and our external expressions, often frontstuck cofronting with someone else • A half-fey, half-human weaver of narrative threads who ties knots of memories into the threads of her net, trying to keep the self-stories uplifting • A spiderlike, bigender boyish woman in a green-blue cloak, relieved at finally having his own name and form

Text Markers: text-Lyra

Description: A contemplative lavender mermaid who swims in the waters of a forested lake and emerges when the water is gentle and clear • A threadweaver who floats through a sea of purple and pink, tending to the threads of her headmates' identities

Text Markers: text-Mabel

Description: A donkey woman with a swishing tail, bendy ears, and a pink bow-tie in her brown hair, born from the memories of a friend, who remains closely tied to her despite being a separate entity.

Text Markers: A~text, text-Alexandria

Description: A songbird-mermaid whose melodious threads help stabilize our frontspace and whose song guides us towards safety and comfort.

Text Markers: text-Gaia

Description: A butterfly lady, child and mother simultaneously, who holds within her our entire headspace and who sometimes timidly pokes her wings into frontspace to cofront with the rest of us

Text Markers: ~{text}, text-Melusine

Description: A fabulous lamia fluttering her fae wings, a caring, protective mother to her serpent fae siblings, and a caring, protective friend to those she loves.

Text Markers: %text%, text-Isabel, text-Lisa

Description: A feisty, angsty demoness, constantly looking behind her shoulder, wary of groups and anxiously preparing escape contingencies • A feisty, angsty demoness afraid that we will fail to stand up for ourselves when it actually counts

Text Markers: ()text, text-Fianna

Description: A recovering angel with feathery wings and a repeatedly rebuilt halo, trying to replace self-sacrificial beliefs and dichotomizing fear with threads woven in from other headmates • A guidance system extricated from a guided missile, sometimes still desiring to be activated and for its moral framework to be used to lock onto targets

Text Markers: ^]text, text-morgan

Description: A robot with an inverted conical body and a monitor for a face, seeking to create perfectly predictable, controlled, environments, while continually recalculating potential trajectories for unpredictable, uncontrolled environments

Text Markers: ^text^, text-Rosalind

Description: A brown-furred catgirl daughter, dancing and meowing as she paws at objects on tables • A brown cat nuzzling a cheek or curled up in a warm lap

Text Markers: s:text, text-Sophie, text-Alice

Description: A young dollish shapeshifter, often wearing the appearance and mannerisms of our other friends, whose clockwork ticking can sometimes be heard through her masks, and who awawas irreverently when unmasked

Text Markers: ~{{text}}, text-Margarethe

Description: An affectionate moth-winged lamia stroking faer shimmering scales, seeking a comforting maternal presence, tightly coiled up around her friends in a tight, warm hug, desperately wishing that she could never have to let go ever again. • A fae whose threads are continually grasping, latching onto their surroundings and embedding themselves in them

Text Markers: <{text}, text-Beatrice

Description: A rattled lamia wielding venomous sharp fangs and hidden piercing spines, baring her deadliness at those who might hurt her loved ones.

Text Markers: <<text, text-<, text-Elewynn

Description: a fae blue bird, silly, stretching their wings, chirping adventurously at passers-by, and cawing at the sky • a vibrant blue mermaid with feathered arm wings, leg talons, and a pair of fin-shaped wings on her back, beckoning, never staying in any one place for too long

Text Markers: []text, text-Gregorine

Description: An inquisitive bigender girlboy, eager to study various aspects of the world and yearning to return to a scholarly world of learning

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Description: a timid mouse lying still inside the warmth of a den, afraid of the unfamiliar, occasionally poking their nose out to sniff the outside air,,,

Text Markers: _/text\_

Description: A motile fungi collecting fragments that drift away from other headmates, returning them as nutrients for the headspace's ecosystem