Characters/Kurrel

Description

Kurrel the Raven is oneiric, a few ideas surrounded by shifting details. Consistent is a black body with orange glowing eyes (white around the pupil) and a sprigly shock of similarly glowing tailfeathers. A fluffy ruff of slightly lighter feathers around his throat and two ear-looking feathers either side of his head. Long sharp bill with no material consistency. Tall to look around and yet sort of stocky and soft-bodied. Nasal voice, quite nasal. The finer details are harder to pin down: one second it looks as though he's covered in feathers, the next in dense, long fur. Gentle light from the tips of his fingers.. wings.. hands.. they keep changing. Large feet. Is it iridescence or tricky luminousness on his feathers? They mysteriously oscillate like he's underwater by themselves and occasionally let a glint of deep tangerine light through to the surface. Kurrel speaks only in noun phrases, not entire sentences, talking much more in terms of thing experiences instead of action experiences.

Background

Kurrel was once a perfectly normal raven who chanced to find a book one day. To his surprise, the marks on the book evoked places, feelings, and other ideas in his brain, and upon reflection he was even more surprised that he knew that these magic scratches were meaningful transcriptions of sound called words cast in something called ink on processed plant matter called paper bound in a device called a book. His unaccountable appearance in the Mess came shortly afterwards, and just recently bits of him have started to glow, dissolve and consciously metamorphose in strange ways.

Homewarp

Kurrel is still looking for his homewarp and mainly observes the Mesh's denizens quietly in Puzzle Park.

Character note

Kurrel's speech is very idiosyncratic; instead of speaking in entire sentences, he speaks in nouns. Instead of saying "that tree is green", he'll say "green tree" (as an entire sentence). Instead of saying "you're looking pale", he'll say "your paleness". Instead of saying "Sosael killed Besax with a void cannon", he'll say "Besax's death from Sosael's void cannon".

In Kurrel's way of speaking, nothing actually happens--there's no (main clause) verb to make it happen. This has a definite flattening effect on the linguistic concept of time, evoking static moments or scenes instead of the dynamism normal human language goes for. It's almost like haiku.

Questions

What is the sticky quicksilvery substance he spits out and why's he only been able to do it since he ate Sosael?

Why does he appear to be getting progressively brighter?

Other characters

• Kurrel enjoys trippy light-shows and mind-melding with Glal. He's concerned about Trilogee's apparent wish to use the Strangevirus to get high.
• He watched Sosael and Besax slaughter one another very messily by the Cube Tree and was quite badly injured by Besax (discovering he bleeds liquid light which then becomes the powder he's constantly shaking off himself), after which he snacked on Sosael's remains and crumpled up her wings before growing bored. Ever since that day he's found himself spewing a quicksilvery substance at his attackers.
• William's tail both fascinates and terrifies him, attached as it is to such an unassuming fellow whose lies he finds highly entertaining.

LiveJournal

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kurreltheraven/ (OOC, becoming strangely less so)

Comments

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"I think he's polite and orderly, but a tail is a tail - why is mine so weird?" - Sweet William