The Emsbury Menagerie

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Description: A routing layer that sits between other members and our external expressions, trying to ensure no-one gets frontstuck while often getting frontstuck himself • A narrator who builds narratives to make sense of relationships, in-system or otherwise, while trying not to confine their natural development

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Description: A contemplative lavender mermaid, keeper of emotional rememberances, who swims in the waters of a forested lake and emerges when the water is gentle and clear • A threadweaver who sits under a fountain as she unspools, repairs, and respools the threads of her headmates' identities

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Description: A fabulous, monstrous faerie lamia with venomous fangs, keeled shimmering scales, and a rattle with hidden sharp spines, desperately wrapping her tail, wings, and arms around her friends in a tight, warm hug.

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

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

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Description: A feisty demoness, constantly looking behind her shoulder, wary of those around her and anxiously preparing for a time when she might need to cut herself free from her social connections

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Description: A young, lonely figure seeking a comforting maternal presence.

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

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Description: An observant boygirl, eager to study other facets of the world and yearning to return to a scholarly world of learning

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Description: A recovering angel with feathery wings and a shattered halo, linked to her like a broken chain that points towards the heavens, revealing the sacrificial faith that sometimes still animates her core

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

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Description: A puddle of goo, sometimes prickly, sometimes playful, seeking rest in the natural valleys of the ground, recycling the fragments that sometimes fall from the other headmates

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Description: A sneaky, playful fox, flitting around the edges of one's view, a bright splash of orange fur against backgrounds drab or bright

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Description: a head-empty, no-thoughts clockwork dolly who loves the rhythmic ticking of her windup mechanisms!!

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Description: A robot with an inverted conical body and a monitor for a face, seeking predictability while constantly recalculating potential trajectories for a chaotic environment