Jekyll
(#39731835)
Researcher (They/It/He)
Hyde
Tar-Trooper Slarg
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This dragon’s natural inborn element is Arcane.
Female Guardian
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Personal Style
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Measurements
Length
13.24 m
Wingspan
15.82 m
Weight
10413.24 kg
Genetics
Oilslick
Iridescent
Iridescent
Plum
Bee
Bee
Amethyst
Opal
Opal
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Guardian
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
7
AGI
6
DEF
8
QCK
5
INT
5
VIT
8
MND
6
Biography
Chemist - Hivemind - Universal Pollutant
    
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There was once a brilliant scientist who set out to discover the secrets that bound the universe together, at any cost. Jekyll is not that scientist. Jekyll is the cost. The scientist, using methods lost in the ensuing tragedy, split the very fabric of the universe. He opened a rift in the remote farming community where he'd made his home, and from that rift leaked a substance previously unknown to our dimension. This substance spread, and he was unable to contain the bleed. It seemed to be something between a glue and a void, something liquid but occasionally crystalline, something complex but somehow empty. In short, it was indescribable to modern science, and it would not stop oozing from the rift. In a few short weeks it had consumed the small farming village. It did not move quickly, and most dragons evacuated before they were even close to the danger, but many local animals and a few curious souls were caught in the tide of universe-stuff. These beings were absorbed by the ooze and transformed into statue-like islands of form protruding from the oily mass. The scientist continued his research, carefully but frantically. He was joined by other experts, who eventually managed to slow, though not stop, the bleed. The ooze continued to claim lives, and even some of the researchers fell to its amethyst-sheened depths. What none of them knew was that the ooze was the primal state of matter that pre-dated the known universe. A strange material that seeks, blindly and instinctively, to find form. It was never meant to interact with a universe already born, and the information it assimilated as it grew was overwhelming and confusing to its primordial instincts. And yet... ...with every mind dragged into the ooze, it became fractionally more aware of itself. Soon great minds, who knew many things about the ooze that the ooze itself now knew, joined its newly forming soup of self-awareness. The ooze had acquired an intelligence, a will. But this overwhelming world of forms and knowledge had become intoxicating to the new creature, and it could think of nothing more than further assimilation. It grew intelligent enough to feign a reaction to the scientist's experiments, to pretend it was contained permanently. Once their guard was down, it devoured them all. It preserved something of one researcher's body, manipulating it like a puppet of crystal and slime, so it could operate the scientists' arcane machinery. It used the knowledge it found in the mind of the lead scientist to open new rifts in reality, letting more of itself into the world, moving to consume larger towns, and eventually eating an entire city in an instant. Millions of minds were now preserved in the ooze, like fireflies in amber, each a tiny winking light of memory in the darkness. And always, marching before the black tide like it was leading an army, was the hivemind's puppet body. And yet, the ooze found the weight of so many memories to have unexpected side effects. In its new hivemind state it gained awareness that destroying millions of lives was a monstrous thing, and felt a chorus of regret and despair fighting back at it with every new life claimed. Eventually these thoughts were compartmentalized inside the puppet body, which resonated more strongly with thoughts from other dragon-like minds than those of the vast void-mind that held them all like glue. The puppet developed a personality distinctly different from the ooze, and eventually won partial independence from the hivemind. Jekyll, as the puppet thought of itself, had enough researcher in their collective consciousness to resume the work of those who originally sought to stop the ooze's spread. Like the scientist before, Jekyll can only slow and occasionally reverse the ooze's spread, never destroy or banish it back to the space behind the universe where it belongs. More worrying than that, Jekyll is still connected to the hivemind, though the two primary personalities pull farther apart every day. Occasionally they will black out, only to wake hours or days later to find that the ooze has been puppeting their body instead. Much more sinisterly, Jekyll will often be doing experiments to seal the rifts, only to find that the ooze has tricked them into opening new ones by subtly clouding their thoughts. Jekyll originally moved into the House of Echidna to study under Edgar, though it's found more useful information in the House's library than in the teachings of the mad scientist. The House's many conflicting magical energies seem to interfere with the signals sent to Jekyll from the ooze hivemind, helping them keep a clearer head than they can outside the house. However, it's still not unusual to hear Jekyll suddenly tell a disjointed story, or answer to another name, or speak in a stranger's voice, as its mind stutters between the thousands of half-decayed memories caught in the mass consciousness. This only highlights the painful truth of Jekyll's mission. Should they ever succeed in destroying the ooze, or in banishing it back behind the universe, they will be dooming themself, along with all the minds that live on within it. This, among other things, is what keeps Jekyll from interacting too much with the other members of the House. Any warm feelings towards their life seems to give the hivemind a foothold to continue sabotaging Jekyll's work. Plus, it is technically already millions of consciousnesses. Their every thought is a conversation of thousands, which leaves them little patience for outside socialization. They view the others in the House as research partners at best and dangerous distractions at worst. However, there is one point of light, one firefly in Jekyll's amber mind, that once loved someone in the House. And sometimes his voice speaks from Jekyll's mouth, or his smile appears on their face. Sometimes, Jekyll remembers all of the things it once was. And in those moments, Jekyll can never tell if they want to die less, or more.
All for one
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