Wuppies [ENG]

Wuppies are small spirits belonging to the Lemures family and characterized by their appearance of small floating octopuses, with two delicate antennae positioned on the top of their heads.

Due to their fragile nature, wuppies are unable to manifest themselves in the real world; instead, they manifest themselves exclusively as shadows on the background of walls, giving life to sinuous and fascinating shapes that can easily fool the human eye.

 

Appearance

Wuppies are spirits of rather small dimensions, with a head diameter of about ten centimeters when adults. In the spirit world, wuppies have a fully black body, with two round luminous eyes, a pair of semi-rigid antennae above the head and ten tentacles that emerge from the lower part of the body.

They move by "swimming" in the air as if it were water. They are specialists in camouflage, becoming transparent in an instant, or completely black to blend in with the shadows. When in groups, wuppies communicate through body movements, so that they appear to dance around each other, spinning and spreading their tentacles like the hems of a small skirt, as well as rising and falling in wave-like patterns.

Wuppies are so weak that they are unable to manifest themselves in the material world, at least not with a physical body, but only as shadows on surfaces. It is possible, however, to see their natural appearance, even from the material world, when they are in correspondence with mirrors.

Life cycle

Wuppies paralarvae look extremely similar to adults, only much smaller in size. Their diet and lifestyle are also identical to those of adults.

The growth of baby wuppies is isometric from the start (the proportions are preserved, only the size changes). The oldest wuppies, those over seventy/eighty years of age, begin to lose the very dark color of their surface, which fades to brick red; their maximum lifespan is unknown and for this very reason: the elderly are much more visible than the young and more easily preyed upon.

Wuppies are at the base of the food chain in many ecto-biomes.

Reproduction

Wuppi reproduction occurs throughout the year, but normally only at extremely slow rates. When resources increase, however, wuppies undergo what is commonly called a "reproductive festival", in which all the specimens gather to feast and take advantage of the opportunity to court each other.

Courtships take the form of ritual dances, in which all the specimens make identical movements, which only seem chaotic to an external eye, but are divided into two categories: those that move clockwise and those that move counterclockwise. When a wuppi is unable to repeat the moves in rhythm, it is excluded from the festival. Those that manage to dance for a good period of time will then practice temporary fusion, the main mode of propagation of lemures, and create a new paralarva every time the fusion ends, giving up a small part of their body mass, which will be combined with that of the other specimen.

Although each fusion results in a single paralarva, wuppies are exceptionally prolific, "mating" up to twenty times in a row, in a day in which they have fed to satiety. Depending on the availability of energy, food and shelter, wuppi can continue a reproductive festival even for seven or eight days in a row, giving birth to thousands and thousands of paralarvae perfectly suited to survival, which in turn will be able to reproduce within a few weeks from birth.

Habitat

Wuppi are rather common spirits, often present in correspondence with anthropic environments.

They are found in hundreds, or even thousands, in the phantomhives where powerful feudal lords reside, especially those who have an affinity for heat.

Wuppis cannot stand the cold, so it is impossible to find them in the Arctic Circles, while they are much more common in tropical and subtropical areas. In cold geographical areas, they tend to gather around fireplaces, while they are not accustomed to staying near electric heaters, much preferring open flames. Like almost all "domestic" spirits, they are not at risk of extinction, being strongly linked to human activity and/or that of greater spirits.

Diet

Wuppis are scavengers and opportunists, who are content with little: they clean up the remains of other spirits' meals, eat decomposing souls, and are even able to convert heat into energy for their small bodies, absorbing it effectively thanks to their entirely black livery.

They are not capable of killing even the smallest spirits, having no predatory skills, and if their main source of nourishment moves, they do it too, following it and creating the so-called "swarming cloaks", that is, very compact groups of wuppies that act as a sort of "shadow" (often perfectly tracing the original one) of the more powerful spirits from which they depend.

Trivia

• The wuppi was the first spirit of the lemures group to be described and studied in detail.

• It is thought that the brick red color of the older wuppi is actually an evolutionary strategy to hide more effectively around fireplaces. The gradual disappearance of fireplaces, in favor of other types of house heating, has made this evolutionary strategy obsolete and even dangerous to them.

Sockeater

Sock eaters (Nigris sublecto) are small to medium-sized spirits belonging to the Lemures group. They are synanthropic spirits, very common inside the homes of humans living in North America.

Etymology

The scientific name of this creature, Nigris sublecto, refers to their habit of hiding in dark and narrow places, such as under beds. The common name of the creature, sock eaters, refers to the fact that they often steal human socks to make a nest, consisting of a pile of soft objects (of which, of course, socks are the favorites) to hide under. Contrary to what was thought in older times, sock eaters do not feed on socks, nor any other article of clothing.

Appearance

Once they reach adulthood, sock eaters are between forty-five centimeters and two meters long. They have a long, tapered, serpentine body, and a halo of tentacles extending from their necks are more or less the length of their bodies, giving the impression that the creature is composed only of a small head and a tangle of long tentacles.

Their skin color is entirely black. Belonging to the Nigris family, scientists debate whether the tentacles are actually tails, like those that make up the fake tentacles of their smaller cousins, the wuppi, and so far research seems to point in that direction: not having a skeletal system, and their anatomy being extremely different from that of animals in the physical world, it is not implausible that the multiple tails have "climbed up" their body, over years of evolution, reaching the neck.

Sock eaters do not have visible eyes, these being always protected by a layer of skin, and are very short-sighted: basically they only use their eyes to detect light sources and the movement of large objects, from which they tend to run away. Their head, with very rounded contours, is slightly flattened and characterized by a wide mouth, full of sharp and triangular teeth. On the top of the head, two small semi-rigid antennae emerge, with which they can perceive changes in the electromagnetic field and communicate with each other.

Unlike most other lemurs of the Nigris family, sock eaters love to manifest themselves in the material world: they are in fact able to metabolize the life force, and later, when their bodies have fully materialized and adapted, the proteins they take from their small prey.

When a sock eater is fully materialized, it becomes very dense and heavy for its size, weighing up to forty-five kilos in exceptional cases. Behavior Sock eaters are solitary spirits, who hide in attics, old garages, rarely used bedrooms and sometimes in laundries or in the shaft of disused elevators. They are normally very shy, but it is possible for a human to domesticate them and even train them, due to their high intelligence. The mechanism is simple: guided only by their instinct, sock eaters will willingly accept small actions, to obey certain commands, in exchange for delicious morsels of food.

However, you must be very careful: even if a sock eater has become accustomed to the presence of a human, it does not mean that it will accept anyone in its territory, and if it is forced against its will to interact with other people it does not know, without having an escape route, it can attack and seriously injure even an adult human, thanks to its sharp teeth and the prodigious strength of its tentacles.

Reproduction always occurs in the spiritual world, as newborns are too weak to manifest themselves in the physical world; the young will migrate to their new home only once they have become capable of assuming pseudo-material forms.

Habitat

Wherever there are old closed rooms and insects that can be captured, there will be sock eaters. Contrary to what many so-called "paranormal hunters" believe, the main spirits that inhabit abandoned asylums are not those of the humans who died there, but sock eaters, who make their lairs under piles of garbage that they accumulate over years of residence.

Sock eaters love humid environments, full of decaying material, which attract many small animals, but they are happy with dry and clean rooms, if they can find other ways to get food.

Diet

As already mentioned, the diet of sock eaters consists mainly of small animals of the physical world. The younger specimens feed on ants, dipteran larvae and cockroaches, the older ones capture, thanks to their tentacles that they extend outside the nest like traps, rats and other occasional visitors to abandoned places. Domesticated sock eaters have generally more varied and balanced diet, resulting in better health.

Conservation

Sock Eaters are not currently in danger of extinction and will not be as long as places such as abandoned buildings or old attics exist.

Trivia

• In the past, some sock eaters have attacked and killed humans while they were sleeping, then slowly devoured them. It is not known what exactly triggered this anomalous behavior, but in any case nothing like this has happened since 1980, despite the fact that the number of sock eaters in the world has not decreased.
• No child has ever been killed by a sock eater.
• Many magic users voluntarily attract and host sock eaters in their homes, using them as a natural remedy for cockroach or rat infestations. A single adult sock eater can catch and eat up to seventy cockroaches in a day!

Aboletto [English version]

Abolettos (Lacrimae somniorum) are spirits belonging to the Lemures group. In the paralarval stage they are known, together with two other species of the same family (Lacrimae sanguinis and sidereum), as tears of desires.

Appearance

As adults, abolettos have the appearance of large spherical masses two to six meters wide, generally flattened at the poles, green, yellow or blue in color, translucent enough to allow a glimpse of the luminous energy center, which is located right in the center of the body.

They have no eyes or ears, si they orient themselves in the world only through taste, the perception of pain and that of vibrations. The surface of adult abolettos is soft and pleasant to the touch: the sensation of touching them has sometimes been described as similar to that of a hot water bottle made of agar agar jelly.

During their paralarval stage, they tend to be brighter, with a crystalline surface, and gather in small colonies that, when they manifest in the material world, are particularly pleasing to humans.

When an adult aboletto is injured, it protects itself by instantly forming a series of long spines on its surface, giving it the appearance of a big sea urchin.

Behavior

Abolettos are extremely passive spirits, which simply remain in the same spot even for years, incorporating dust and dead materials that touch them through their skin, feeding very slowly. They are completely harmless, except for the long spikes that form on their surface when they are injured, and due to their extremely elastic and robust consistency, they are difficult to cut or pierce, so the possibility of being accidentally stung by their rising spikes is very low.

They rarely manifest in the material world, and when they do, it is generally due to mistakes or the fault of other creatures that transported them. When this happens, they have no problem surviving in the material world, feeding primarily on dust, dry leaves, dead insects, and other things that settle and remain on them for a long time.

Habitat

Abolettos are an indicator of healthy and life-rich areas, thriving primarily within complex spirit ecosystems. Well-developed abolettos can generally be found wherever there are living forests with large trees.

Diet

In their natural environment, abolettos feed primarily on non-encoded ectoplasm and various remains of other spirits' meals. They are excellent detritivores and help maintain healthy ecosystems.

Conservation

They are unfortunately a vulnerable species, hunted by humans as one of the easiest ghosts to keep in captivity. Unfortunately, although their immobility makes them easy to keep in small terrariums, these creatures adapt poorly to captivity, requiring good air exchange, and variable conditions in terms of humidity and temperature: they could easily survive in a temperate forest, but die after a few weeks if kept indoors.

Furthermore, their natural distribution area is progressively shrinking, due to the destruction of forests, both ectoplasmic and natural, and deforestation.

There is an old, and barbaric, practice that consists of capturing the young of this species and locking them in transparent glass jars, making a wish and waiting for the paralarvae to shrink until they die of hunger and disappear, and the disappearance of the "wishing tear" should in theory mean that the wish will come true. This senseless custom, without any magical or scientific basis, has further reduced the number of specimens of abolettos in nature.

Trivia

• The largest aboletto ever measured was 20 feet, 10 inches in diameter.

• For a long time, abolettos were not considered living beings, but some sort of mysterious natural phenomenon.

• It seems to love the vibrations produced by whistled tunes, one of the few things that can make an aboletto move, and in this case try to roll toward the source of the sound.

Personaggi - Black Spirit

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Nome completo: Alys Graham
Specie: Spirito licantropo
Genere: Femminile
Pronomi usati: Lei

Corporatura: Grande, massiccia, non partiolarmente elegante
Luogo di provenienza: Virginia, USA | Discendenza Anglo-francese
Colore degli occhi: Bianchi o gialli
Altezza/Peso: Variabile
Odora di: Succo d'uva e incenso
Appare in: ??? |

Black Spirit (lo Spirito Nero) è una saggia, misteriosa abitante del reame spirituale. Un tempo viveva nel piano materiale, ma ha speso così tanto tempo nel regno spirituale che le sarebbe impossibile vivere altrove ormai.

Black Spirit parla principalmente per metafore e mostra una disposizione un po' anti-sociale, manfestandosi in sogni o visioni ad una sola persona del piano materiale che ha scelto come suo protetto.

Indossa sempre un teschio parziale come maschera. La sua pelliccia è completamente nera, eccetto per un piccola chiazza di pelo rossa sulla fronte che spesso non è visibile.

"I'm running with the wolves tonight
I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the

Trick or treat, what would it be?
I walk alone, I'm everything
My ears can hear and my mouth can speak
My spirit talks, I know my soul believes
But we're runnin' out of time (Time, ah)
All the echoes in my mind cry"

Running with the wolves - Aurora

Vita nel piano materiale

Alys Graham è nata licantropa, ed è presto diventata una delle streghe oscure più abili che la natura potesse favorire: saggia, intuitiva, selvaggia. Aveva la magia a portata di dita e spettri e spiriti seguivano i suoi passi e le parlavano come cari amici, gli alberi le sussurravano segreti di magia selvaggia e la luce lunare baciava il suo volto pallido ogni volta che visitava i boschi di notte.

A causa di ciò, già allora era conosciuta da alcuni come lo Spirito Nero.

Tuttavia, un segreto si celava nella sua linea di sangue: la sua famiglia, la famiglia Graham, era il punto d'incontro tra due dinastie originatesi in due differenti forze sovrannaturali: quella discendente dal sangue dell'angelo caduto Samael, e il sangue di drago che veniva dal simulacro "Beredice".

Alys era una strega oscura e l'elemento del fuoco non si manifestava nella sua aura, ma da qualche parte, annidato in lei, c'era un potenziale: se mai avesse avuto un figlio maschio, egli sarebbe stato un perfetto recipiente per la reincarnazione di Samael, l'angelo caduto della giustizia e della distruzione, ed entrambi sarebbero stati cacciati dal Ministero dell'Oscurità... verità che ha scoperto, però, solo quando il suo primogenito era già nato e aveva ricevuto un nome.

Non poteva permettere che la voce che lei aveva avuto un figlio si spargesse. Se non si fosse pensato che aveva passato il "dono" dello spirito dormiente di Samael al piccolo, se si fosse pensato che risiedeva ancora in lei, Alys sarebbe stata l'unico bersaglio della caccia del Ministero dell'Oscurità.

Anche se riluttante, Alys decise che la scelta più sensata per proteggere il bambino e suo padre (un assolutamente non magico falegname di nome Ron) era quella di andarsene... e così fece quello che sarebbe stato impossibile per la maggior parte degli umani: fuggì nel regno spirituale.

Oltre il Velo

Alys stabilì la propria dimora tra gli altri spiriti, assumendo l'aspetto del suo vero sé: una massiccia creatura lupesca dalla pelliccia nera.

Molti anni passarono e la cambiarono, man a mano che si adattava sempre di più ai modi contorti degli spiriti, finché non fu più possibile distinguerla dalle creature native di quel piano e abbandonò il suo nome. Osservò suo figlio crescere da lontano; lui aveva ereditato la sua magia, la sua percezione e, quando la mente di lui glielo permetteva, lei cercava di guidarlo e sostenerlo. Più il piccolo Thomas e i suoi poteri crescevano, più lo Spirito Nero poteva essere al suo fianco. Quando lui imparò a passare oltre il Velo, iniziò a cercarla come suo spirito guida, e i due divennero più vicini e fiduciosi l'uno nell'altra.

E anche quando Samael si era risvegliato in lui, portando la luce di un elemento fuoco ai calmi, caldi toni della terra dell'aura di Thomas, lui era riuscito a mantenere il controllo del proprio corpo e ad incontrarla di nuovo.

Alla fine, quando Thomas riuscì a fare amicizia con lo stesso Ministro Oscuro (ponendo effettivamente fine alla caccia della testa sua/di Samael), la verità sul fatto che Black Spirit fosse la madre di Thomas venne fuori con un piccolo aiuto da parte Mark McWoodland. Accettata in pieno dal figlio, lei deciderà di continuare a vivere tra gli spiriti nella sua casa che ha scelto, ma Black Spirit sarà, da quel momento in poi, considerata parte della già grande famiglia del branco delle Malanove, seppur non un membro ufficiale del branco.

Collegata a: 

• Madre di un certo Thomas Wolf.
• Suocera di Molly Wolf e del Dr. Hannibal Morte.
• Nonna di, in nessun ordine particolare, Rose Danger Wolf, Hannibal Jr. Wolf, Abigail Wolf, Walt Wolf, Joyla, Snowie, Avi, Doogee, Aurelio, Theo e Bennu.
• In futuro farà amicizia con la madre di Molly Wolf, e molto, molto, molto nel futuro diventerà nonna acquisita di Osvald Lob Burnett.
  
• Il cognome di suo padre era Graham, quello di sua madre Delapore.

Curiosità: 

• È tremendamente impacciata nel mondo fisico (e questo la imbarazza non poco). Adesso, anche quando esce dal piano spirituale, non ritorna alla forma originale che aveva prima di entrarci, ma rimane in quella che ha imparato ad apprezzare come propria durnate il soggiorno oltre il Velo.

 

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Characters - Black Spirit

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Complete name: Alys Graham
Species: Lycanthrope spirit
Gender: Female
Preferred pronouns: She/Her

Body type: Big, stout, not very elegant
Comes from: Virginia, USA | Anglo-french descent
Eye color: White or yellow
Height/weight: Variable
Smells like: Grape juice and incense
Appears in: ??? |

Black Spirit is a wise, mysterious inhabitant of the spiritual realm.
She was once part of the material plane, but spent so much time in the spiritual one that it would be impossible for her to live somewhere else now.
Black Spirit mostly speaks in metaphors and sports a somewhat anti-social disposition, manifesting herself in dreams or visions virtually to only one person in the material plane that she took on as her protégé.

 

She always wear as mask a piece of skull. Her fur is completely black, except for a little red spot on her forehead that isn't visible.

 

"I'm running with the wolves tonight
I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the

Trick or treat, what would it be?
I walk alone, I'm everything
My ears can hear and my mouth can speak
My spirit talks, I know my soul believes
But we're runnin' out of time (Time, ah)
All the echoes in my mind cry"

Running with the wolves - Aurora

 

Hello! The name was Alys

Alys Graham was born a lycanthrope and soon became a Dark witch among the most powerful nature could have gifted, wise, intuitive, wild. She had magic at her fingertips, ghosts and spirits followed her steps and spoke to her like a dear friend, trees whispered her secrets of wild magic, and moonlight kissed her pale face whenever she scouted the woodlands at night.
Because of that, she was already known by some as the Black Spirit.
However, there was a secret in her bloodline: the Graham family happened to be the conjunction of the dynasties descended from two powerful forces, the human blood of Samael, and the dragon blood of the simulacrum "Beredice".
She was a witch of darkness and the fire element didn't manifest in her aura, but somewhere inside her there was a potential: if she ever happened to have a male son, he would have become the perfect vessel for a reincarnation of Samael, the fallen angel of justice and destruction, and they both would have been hunted down by the Dark Ministry... but when she discovered that truth about herself, her firstborn was already born and named.
She couldn't let anyone know she had a son. If they thought she hadn't passed down the "gift" of Samael's dormant spirit, and that it still was in her, Alys would have been the only target of the Dark Ministry's hunt.
Reluctantly, Alys decided that the most sensible choice to protect the baby and his father (an absolutely not magic woodworker named Ron) was to leave... and so she did what would be impossible for most humans: she fled into the spiritual realm.

Over the Veil

She made a dwelling among the other spirits, taking the appearance of her true self as a wolfish creature.
Many years passed and changed her, adapting more and more to the convoluted ways of spirits, until she could no longer be told apart from the creatures native of her realm. From afar, she saw her son grow; he had inherited her magic and perception and, when his mind allowed her, she tried to guide and support him. The more baby Thomas and his powers grew, more Black Spirit could be at his side.
When he learnt how to pass over the veil, he started to look for her as his spirit guide, and the two grew closer and more trusting of each other.
And even when Samael had awakened in him, bringing the brightness of a fire element to the calm, earthly tones of Thomas' aura, he managed to retain the control of his own body and meet her again. In the end, when Thomas managed to befriend the Dark Minister himself (effectively putting an end to the hunt for his/Samael's head), the truth about Black Spirit being Thomas' mother came out with a little help from Mark McWoodland.
She will decide to keep living among spirits in her newfound home, but Black Spirit will, from that moment on, be considered a part of the already big family of the Malanove pack, albeit not an official pack member.

Related to: 

• Mother of a certain Thomas Wolf.
• Mother-in-law of Molly Wolf and Dr. Hannibal Morte.
• Grandmother of, in no particular order, Rose Danger, Hannibal Jr., Abigail Wolf, Walt Wolf, Joyla, Snowie, Avi, Doogee, Aurelio, Theo, and  Bennu.
• Will eventually befriend Molly Wolf's mother, and eventually eventually, be  Osvald Burnett's grandmother-in-law
• His father's family name was Graham, while his mother's was Delapore

Trivia: 

• She's terribly clumsy in the physical world (and that's quite embarassing to her). Now, even when she exits the spiritual realm, she does not revert to the original form she had before entering it, but she remains in what became her own during her stay beyond the veil.
  

 

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