Squizzle

A little albino squirrel, of the standard non-anthropomorphic size and build. It has neat and clean white fur, beady red eyes, and somewhat orange-tinted teeth. The squirrel is wearing a neatly-pressed purple band uniform, with a double-buttoned front and red piping down either side. On the chest is, perhaps, a signifier of rank: a single bar. Around the squirrel's tail is a pink satin ribbon, tied into a tidy bow.

Background

Litston model SKR5, unit number (pending), commonly known as "Squizzle", is one of an indeterminate number of small creatures of various cute-'n'-fuzzy species, manufactured by [Litston Technologies]?, originally intended as child's toys.

That's all in the long past, though. The Litston manufacturing system was left to its own devices, resulting in its product becoming increasingly eccentric over time; they've developed an obsession with data-gathering and -dissemination, to the point of being nicknamed infocritters.

Relationships

• lives and works in the Grand Museum as a Curator, and is frequently fired by Mel
• Runa has a similar companion of the N6R1-PS "black-footed ferret" line, commonly known as "Chester"

Links

• Influences:
  • Brian Aldiss's story "[Supertoys Last All Summer Long]"
  • latter parts of Isaac Asimov's novella "Bicentennial Man"
  • [Masahiro Mori]'s concept of the [uncanny valley]

Involved in

Being cute --Zoe

Having gone quite mad --System

Museum stuff.

Comments?

So cute! I can't help but reach down and pet him. - Morty

You're still fired. - Mel

You can't fire me! A Wiki is hardly an appropriate forum for executive decisions. --Squizzle

Inhatti says, "Thou art [infuriatingly impassive], rat."