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Character Number: 0
Character: Rice Boy
Fandom: Rice Boy
Personality:
Rice Boy is considered by most to be a very simple creature, and by Golgo he is considered to be a "naive, impoverished little person". This is true, but that doesn't mean it never changes and it doesn't mean that these traits are necessarily bad in the first place. His naivete allows Rice Boy to question things more than most people would because he's never seen them before, and as such, wants to know more about them. This can lead to him asking questions that others might think are stupid or pointless to ask, but it isn’t because he’s an idiot, just that he’s ignorant. You can’t expect a small, pawn-shaped thing that lives alone in the woods to know much of the world.
His lack of social graces allows him to call people out when they do something he perceives as wrong or unknown to him. This is both because he wants to know what they're doing and the purpose of it. Because Rice Boy doesn't have that innate shame that most people get whenever they do something that could be considered impolite, he can ask questions with an innocence similar to a child’s. That isn't to say he is rude, because he does at least offer tea to T-O-E when he visits, but he also implies that everything T-O-E has put faith in might be wrong on that same visit and he doesn't seem to feel bad about it because he doesn't understand why it's bad.
Ignorance doesn’t mean that Rice Boy lacks morals or a sense of morality. For instance, Rice Boy is very much aware that Spatch II is an awful person when he's told about what happened to the frog people and Sunk, and when Spatch II starts a war in a misguided attempt to become Fulfiller. One of Rice Boy's abilities lets him kill people or hurt them by cutting them or slicing a part of them off, but that doesn't mean he's likely to go on a killing spree, as he's aware that pointless murder isn’t a good thing to do.
One of the main traits that kicks off his journey is that Rice Boy is very curious. It isn’t something he knows about himself until T-O-E comes into the world, but once he finds out that there is more to life than just his stump and eating and stories, he sets out to find it. He isn't looking for glory or even anything significant. He never set out on his adventure with the goal of becoming Fulfiller. He left his comfy house just because he was curious about what was out there, and then got swept along on an adventure that was less about him and more about the fate of the world.
Despite his role, Rice Boy never really loses touch with his origins, and as a result of this, is often plagued by insecurity in most fields. Doubt, occasionally of himself, plays a very important role when it comes to the way he looks at things. He is skeptical of things that most people wouldn't bother questioning otherwise, and is one of the only characters who questions the truth of the Prophecy of Ridrom. "Only Rice Boy" is a phrase he uses often, and he repeatedly doubts himself, his goal, and the faith others place in him and things in general. Even in the last chapters, he states that even though he has met all the qualifications for a Fulfiller, he still doesn’t feel like he measures up to it despite all he’s learned.
In the end, Rice Boy steps up to the challenge because he is rather brave at heart once the heat is put on. Despite his doubt in himself, his skepticism, and the chaos that he’s unintentionally wrought upon the world, he does eventually come into his role not because he wants to but because he needs to. He manages to force himself to see the bigger picture long enough to reach the end of his journey, only for his title to be rendered useless. Once circumstances stop forcing him to consider the importance of everyone above himself, he reverts back into a smaller mindset where he is capable of mourning the loss of a single friend of his, instead of celebrating the fact that the world has been righted.
History:
In order to understand Rice Boy, one needs a little bit of backstory. Once upon a time, God created the the disk, and in the disk there was Overside, the Link Cities, and Underside. He created three avatars in the form of towers from his godself to watch over the Disk. These were the Avatars of Space, Time and Mind. At some point in the past, the White Formless fell from the Void and into Underside and spread a pestilence there. All but one of the Linking Cities were destroyed and the disease ended up driving away the Avatar of Mind. Three searchers chosen by the remaining two Avatars search for a Fulfiller, who was prophesied by Ridrom to bring about the return of the Avatar of Mind.
The prophecy states that the Fulfiller will be thrice transfigured and that each time he is, his nature will become more clear to him. He will travel far to places few have ever seen before he reaches the Iron Tower built when the Machine Men ruled Overside. A war will be fought there, the Fulfiller will climb the tower, the sky will turn red and the Avatar will return when the Fulfiller dies.
So Rice Boy was never actually born in the traditional sense. He's actually a cut off and molded piece of one of the White Formless of Underside, who were responsible for driving away the Avatar of Mind and throwing the world off-balance. His creator intended for him to become the Fulfiller of the prophecy that would bring her race atonement, so she cut a piece of herself off and molded it into Rice Boy before giving it to Rosemary and telling her to take care of it.
It's unknown how much time passes between his creation and his adventure, but it can be assumed that he's still rather young, since his creator states that his youth will be brief. He spends his life picking orange popping plants in the Matchwoods, listening to Rosemary's stories, and watching sunsets. He also lives in a stump.
Eventually, The One Electronic (nee Terrin Oculon) comes to him and asks him to be the Fulfiller and to start his journey by going to the Dorlish Wood and talking to the Tree Keeper. Rice Boy says that he cannot because he isn’t the kind of person that gets sent on important journeys like that. He’s just Rice Boy and he can’t do much other than live his life. However, after T-O-E leaves, Rice Boy wakes up the next morning and decides to set off out of curiosity, just to see what this prophecy nonsense is all about.
On his way to the Dorlish Wood, he meets a Hornèd named Gerund, who gets on his boat because he thinks Rice Boy is dead. Gerund eats most of his food, but then saves him from going over a waterfall, so there’s that. They continue through the forest, where Gerund shows amazing survival instincts by eating random berries in a strange forest, while Rice Boy shoes a surprising amount of sense for an impoverished recluse and doesn't. Eventually night falls, and as the Dorlish Wood is magical sort of, all the plants change their natures at night. Gerund ends up poisoned (surprise!) and Rice Boy ends up worried sick until the Tree Keeper shows up and helps them get their shit together.
After Rice Boy is told the gist of the Prophecy of Ridrom by the Tree Keeper and told to go find Parod, Gerund and Rice Boy are put on the path to Lonely Land by two magical beasts called Pons and Oire, who can see things that have passed and things that will be respectively. Eventually Rice Boy and Gerund make it to LL only to be immediately separated and left to their own devices. Rice Boy drinks from a stream in Lonely Land, causing him to lose himself to despair. He is almost taken to Father Dimmon by the Dimmons, only for Brain Child to stop them. He takes Rice Boy and uses telepathy to rummage through his mind, getting angry when he finds the name of Parod in there. He then lets Rice Boy go and cures him of his despair, both for unknown reasons.
Rice Boy makes it through Lonely Land and to Whetton, where Arctaur tells him the story of the town. After this he is almost eaten by a serpent monster in the Greeny Weens, only to be rescued by Prince and his Grand Vizier. And then the Prince arrests him for trespassing in the land he claimed for Satuar five minutes ago and says he will execute him. Rice Boy fakes being a wizard in order to get the Prince to take him to Skorch.
They enter Backtown and Rice Boy leaves them before the Prince finds out he’s not a wizard. He meets a mysterious figure who advises him to go into the desert to meet Parod. He does so and passes out on the path into the desert. Then he wakes up in the mountain and a DIFFERENT mysterious figure gives him water and walks away. Then the mysterious figure from before escorts him to Parod’s house and turns out to be Parod (surprise).
Parod explains the history of the Heirs of Ridrom, people who were supposed to keep the secrets of Ridrom and explain them to the Fulfiller. Parod does his duty and tells Rice Boy he will need to die. Then they get attacked by a battalion of Frog People from Sunk who are trying to find Rice Boy and kill him because they believe their king, Spatch II, is the real Fulfiller. Parod shrinks Rice Boy and puts him in a bottle with Trills so he can learn to speak Trill-Tongue. the Bleach Beast, a huge dog-like creature beholden to the Heirs, takes him away to the Trench.
Rice Boy learns to speak Trill and accidentally kills two people in the process (or one of them has a heart attack or something). He meets Sir Huff and then breaks down and flings himself off the edge of the Trench, only to land on a mushroom. Without any particular direction, Rice Boy manages to find Seen. He has an audience with the king and is then locked in a room until he finds a secret passage to the library. A person reading in the Library explains his role to him and where to find the Iron Tower, and that the king of Seen will not allow him to leave because he wants Seen to remain the only Linking City left.
Rice Boy is taken to a passage to the underside and meets the White Formless. His creator tells him that he was created only to fulfill and basically implies that the person he is doesn’t matter because he was made to absolve them of their sins. The faceless White Formless cut their faces off and make clones of him to follow him and keep the citizens of Seen from killing the real Rice Boy. Then he meets the Avatar of Space, who teleports him to the Circle Sea.
To make a long story short, he sleeps a long time before he has a talk with T-O-E about how he doesn’t really have a choice but to fulfill the prophecy. He’s woken up when the Dimmons attack the camp and shown where the Iron Tower is. The Frog Army shows up and tries to stop him from reaching it, but he manages anyway and ends up confronting Spatch II at the top of the tower. T-O-E comes to his rescue and beats the hell out of Spatch II.
Then Rice Boy reveals that they have both fulfilled the requirements of the prophecy, him on his adventure and T-O-E on his search of the Fulfiller. So now there are two Fulfillers and one of them must die to bring back the Avatar of Mind.
Unfortunately, the choice is taken away from both of them as Golgo stabs T-O-E through the chest, killing him. T-O-E’s death causes the return of the Avatar of Mind, and everyone rejoices while Rice Boy cries over the body of his friend.
Eventually he wakes up in his own stump after an undetermined amount of time and travels into Suntown. He visits the grave of all Angel Eye (Golgo), Calabash and T-O-E, the three Searchers. Suzy ushers him into The Hideous Child, a bar, and he sees Gerund again. They both share a moment of silence for the fallen before leaving the bar and walking down a street in Suntown together.
Timeline: Epilogue - Page 439
Abilities:
That Rice Boy has very little in way of extraordinary abilities is actually a notable part of his character. At the beginning of his story, he states that "all [he] can do is grow plants and watch sunsets and listen to stories". He also doesn't have a mouth, arms, or legs.
However, despite the fact that he has no arms, he can still manipulate objects as if he does have them, and he doesn’t seem to have a sense of the temperture of what he grabs, such as when he takes a hot tea kettle from a stove with no issue. He can't grab anything that would be considered out of reach for a creature of his scale, though. So while he wouldn't be able to reach the top shelf of something via not-telekinesis, he could go and drag a chair to it and hop on it. Rice Boy typically moves by shuffling around at whatever pace he thinks is suitable for the situation, from a walk to a run.
He can also speak without a mouth, and is rather good at picking up the sounds of languages, though it's doubtful he understand the meaning behind anything that isn't "Common". He can speak two words in the Trill-Tongue. One of the words is just a circle and doesn't really do anything as far as we see it. The other, which is probably the Trill word for 'split' or 'cut', actually does cause things to be cut in the general direction the word is spoken at.
Inventory:
Nothing
Link to an image of the character: Here!
Prose Sample:
Rice Boy remembers a time when he never woke up in strange places. He remembers waking up in his bed in his house in the Matchwoods everyday. He remembers going outside to pick his meals and watch sunrises and sunsets. He remembers talking with Rosemary and listening to her tell him stories about the world, but never wondering where they came from.
Now he’s been across Overside and back. He’s woken up in the Dorlish Wood and Lonely Land and on the hot mountains of Skorch. He’s come to after falling onto mushrooms and into Underside, and after being turned into lighting and dropped into the sea. Waking up in a new and unfamiliar place is something he’s very familiar with now, but it isn’t something he particularly enjoys. He thinks that it will probably always be strange to wake up in new places, but there isn’t much he can do other than continue.
Rice Boy picks himself off the floor and looks around. The place around him reminds home of Whetton, in that it’s old, overgrown, and was probably once home to a bunch of people who left to do something else and never came back.
“Oh,” he says.
It doesn’t seem to capture the gravity of the situation, but he isn’t sure what else to say. He doesn’t know why he’s here or how he got here, which is just slightly new, and so finding the right words isn’t on the top of his Things To Do list.
He shuffles forward just a little before he knocks into something that skids a little across the floor before stopping.
“Oh,” he says again. And then, “It’s a mirror.”
He bends down a little closer for a better look and his eyes widen and he shuffles back just a bit.
The mirror is made of dark gray stone and the border around the looking glass is a glass-like material that glows bright blue. It reminds him of Underside, of White Formless beings urging him to climb and die and Fulfill. He didn’t want to do any of it, but it had to be done, so he did. He chose to do it.
So he sighs and he makes his choice, picks up the mirror and looks into the glass. He sees only Rice Boy before seeing other things and other people.
It’s all very surreal.
Journal Sample:
[There is...
Well, it’s certainly something, that’s for sure, and it’s broadcasting using the mirror despite having no visible arms to speak of. Or legs. Or mouth for that matter. Which makes it all the more strange when it, or rather, he starts to talk.]
Hello? My name is Rice Boy. I’m... not supposed to be here. I was with my friend Gerund and we were walking and then I was here. I don’t think it’s a very good idea for me to stay. I think he will be worried if I’m gone for too long.
[Rice Boy looks small (because he is) and worried (because he’s that too).]
How do I get back to Suntown from here? Or the Matchwoods?
Player DW:
surgepriseContact: HPlus Future (AIM)
Character Number: 0
Character: Rice Boy
Fandom: Rice Boy
Personality:
Rice Boy is considered by most to be a very simple creature, and by Golgo he is considered to be a "naive, impoverished little person". This is true, but that doesn't mean it never changes and it doesn't mean that these traits are necessarily bad in the first place. His naivete allows Rice Boy to question things more than most people would because he's never seen them before, and as such, wants to know more about them. This can lead to him asking questions that others might think are stupid or pointless to ask, but it isn’t because he’s an idiot, just that he’s ignorant. You can’t expect a small, pawn-shaped thing that lives alone in the woods to know much of the world.
His lack of social graces allows him to call people out when they do something he perceives as wrong or unknown to him. This is both because he wants to know what they're doing and the purpose of it. Because Rice Boy doesn't have that innate shame that most people get whenever they do something that could be considered impolite, he can ask questions with an innocence similar to a child’s. That isn't to say he is rude, because he does at least offer tea to T-O-E when he visits, but he also implies that everything T-O-E has put faith in might be wrong on that same visit and he doesn't seem to feel bad about it because he doesn't understand why it's bad.
Ignorance doesn’t mean that Rice Boy lacks morals or a sense of morality. For instance, Rice Boy is very much aware that Spatch II is an awful person when he's told about what happened to the frog people and Sunk, and when Spatch II starts a war in a misguided attempt to become Fulfiller. One of Rice Boy's abilities lets him kill people or hurt them by cutting them or slicing a part of them off, but that doesn't mean he's likely to go on a killing spree, as he's aware that pointless murder isn’t a good thing to do.
One of the main traits that kicks off his journey is that Rice Boy is very curious. It isn’t something he knows about himself until T-O-E comes into the world, but once he finds out that there is more to life than just his stump and eating and stories, he sets out to find it. He isn't looking for glory or even anything significant. He never set out on his adventure with the goal of becoming Fulfiller. He left his comfy house just because he was curious about what was out there, and then got swept along on an adventure that was less about him and more about the fate of the world.
Despite his role, Rice Boy never really loses touch with his origins, and as a result of this, is often plagued by insecurity in most fields. Doubt, occasionally of himself, plays a very important role when it comes to the way he looks at things. He is skeptical of things that most people wouldn't bother questioning otherwise, and is one of the only characters who questions the truth of the Prophecy of Ridrom. "Only Rice Boy" is a phrase he uses often, and he repeatedly doubts himself, his goal, and the faith others place in him and things in general. Even in the last chapters, he states that even though he has met all the qualifications for a Fulfiller, he still doesn’t feel like he measures up to it despite all he’s learned.
In the end, Rice Boy steps up to the challenge because he is rather brave at heart once the heat is put on. Despite his doubt in himself, his skepticism, and the chaos that he’s unintentionally wrought upon the world, he does eventually come into his role not because he wants to but because he needs to. He manages to force himself to see the bigger picture long enough to reach the end of his journey, only for his title to be rendered useless. Once circumstances stop forcing him to consider the importance of everyone above himself, he reverts back into a smaller mindset where he is capable of mourning the loss of a single friend of his, instead of celebrating the fact that the world has been righted.
History:
In order to understand Rice Boy, one needs a little bit of backstory. Once upon a time, God created the the disk, and in the disk there was Overside, the Link Cities, and Underside. He created three avatars in the form of towers from his godself to watch over the Disk. These were the Avatars of Space, Time and Mind. At some point in the past, the White Formless fell from the Void and into Underside and spread a pestilence there. All but one of the Linking Cities were destroyed and the disease ended up driving away the Avatar of Mind. Three searchers chosen by the remaining two Avatars search for a Fulfiller, who was prophesied by Ridrom to bring about the return of the Avatar of Mind.
The prophecy states that the Fulfiller will be thrice transfigured and that each time he is, his nature will become more clear to him. He will travel far to places few have ever seen before he reaches the Iron Tower built when the Machine Men ruled Overside. A war will be fought there, the Fulfiller will climb the tower, the sky will turn red and the Avatar will return when the Fulfiller dies.
So Rice Boy was never actually born in the traditional sense. He's actually a cut off and molded piece of one of the White Formless of Underside, who were responsible for driving away the Avatar of Mind and throwing the world off-balance. His creator intended for him to become the Fulfiller of the prophecy that would bring her race atonement, so she cut a piece of herself off and molded it into Rice Boy before giving it to Rosemary and telling her to take care of it.
It's unknown how much time passes between his creation and his adventure, but it can be assumed that he's still rather young, since his creator states that his youth will be brief. He spends his life picking orange popping plants in the Matchwoods, listening to Rosemary's stories, and watching sunsets. He also lives in a stump.
Eventually, The One Electronic (nee Terrin Oculon) comes to him and asks him to be the Fulfiller and to start his journey by going to the Dorlish Wood and talking to the Tree Keeper. Rice Boy says that he cannot because he isn’t the kind of person that gets sent on important journeys like that. He’s just Rice Boy and he can’t do much other than live his life. However, after T-O-E leaves, Rice Boy wakes up the next morning and decides to set off out of curiosity, just to see what this prophecy nonsense is all about.
On his way to the Dorlish Wood, he meets a Hornèd named Gerund, who gets on his boat because he thinks Rice Boy is dead. Gerund eats most of his food, but then saves him from going over a waterfall, so there’s that. They continue through the forest, where Gerund shows amazing survival instincts by eating random berries in a strange forest, while Rice Boy shoes a surprising amount of sense for an impoverished recluse and doesn't. Eventually night falls, and as the Dorlish Wood is magical sort of, all the plants change their natures at night. Gerund ends up poisoned (surprise!) and Rice Boy ends up worried sick until the Tree Keeper shows up and helps them get their shit together.
After Rice Boy is told the gist of the Prophecy of Ridrom by the Tree Keeper and told to go find Parod, Gerund and Rice Boy are put on the path to Lonely Land by two magical beasts called Pons and Oire, who can see things that have passed and things that will be respectively. Eventually Rice Boy and Gerund make it to LL only to be immediately separated and left to their own devices. Rice Boy drinks from a stream in Lonely Land, causing him to lose himself to despair. He is almost taken to Father Dimmon by the Dimmons, only for Brain Child to stop them. He takes Rice Boy and uses telepathy to rummage through his mind, getting angry when he finds the name of Parod in there. He then lets Rice Boy go and cures him of his despair, both for unknown reasons.
Rice Boy makes it through Lonely Land and to Whetton, where Arctaur tells him the story of the town. After this he is almost eaten by a serpent monster in the Greeny Weens, only to be rescued by Prince and his Grand Vizier. And then the Prince arrests him for trespassing in the land he claimed for Satuar five minutes ago and says he will execute him. Rice Boy fakes being a wizard in order to get the Prince to take him to Skorch.
They enter Backtown and Rice Boy leaves them before the Prince finds out he’s not a wizard. He meets a mysterious figure who advises him to go into the desert to meet Parod. He does so and passes out on the path into the desert. Then he wakes up in the mountain and a DIFFERENT mysterious figure gives him water and walks away. Then the mysterious figure from before escorts him to Parod’s house and turns out to be Parod (surprise).
Parod explains the history of the Heirs of Ridrom, people who were supposed to keep the secrets of Ridrom and explain them to the Fulfiller. Parod does his duty and tells Rice Boy he will need to die. Then they get attacked by a battalion of Frog People from Sunk who are trying to find Rice Boy and kill him because they believe their king, Spatch II, is the real Fulfiller. Parod shrinks Rice Boy and puts him in a bottle with Trills so he can learn to speak Trill-Tongue. the Bleach Beast, a huge dog-like creature beholden to the Heirs, takes him away to the Trench.
Rice Boy learns to speak Trill and accidentally kills two people in the process (or one of them has a heart attack or something). He meets Sir Huff and then breaks down and flings himself off the edge of the Trench, only to land on a mushroom. Without any particular direction, Rice Boy manages to find Seen. He has an audience with the king and is then locked in a room until he finds a secret passage to the library. A person reading in the Library explains his role to him and where to find the Iron Tower, and that the king of Seen will not allow him to leave because he wants Seen to remain the only Linking City left.
Rice Boy is taken to a passage to the underside and meets the White Formless. His creator tells him that he was created only to fulfill and basically implies that the person he is doesn’t matter because he was made to absolve them of their sins. The faceless White Formless cut their faces off and make clones of him to follow him and keep the citizens of Seen from killing the real Rice Boy. Then he meets the Avatar of Space, who teleports him to the Circle Sea.
To make a long story short, he sleeps a long time before he has a talk with T-O-E about how he doesn’t really have a choice but to fulfill the prophecy. He’s woken up when the Dimmons attack the camp and shown where the Iron Tower is. The Frog Army shows up and tries to stop him from reaching it, but he manages anyway and ends up confronting Spatch II at the top of the tower. T-O-E comes to his rescue and beats the hell out of Spatch II.
Then Rice Boy reveals that they have both fulfilled the requirements of the prophecy, him on his adventure and T-O-E on his search of the Fulfiller. So now there are two Fulfillers and one of them must die to bring back the Avatar of Mind.
Unfortunately, the choice is taken away from both of them as Golgo stabs T-O-E through the chest, killing him. T-O-E’s death causes the return of the Avatar of Mind, and everyone rejoices while Rice Boy cries over the body of his friend.
Eventually he wakes up in his own stump after an undetermined amount of time and travels into Suntown. He visits the grave of all Angel Eye (Golgo), Calabash and T-O-E, the three Searchers. Suzy ushers him into The Hideous Child, a bar, and he sees Gerund again. They both share a moment of silence for the fallen before leaving the bar and walking down a street in Suntown together.
Timeline: Epilogue - Page 439
Abilities:
That Rice Boy has very little in way of extraordinary abilities is actually a notable part of his character. At the beginning of his story, he states that "all [he] can do is grow plants and watch sunsets and listen to stories". He also doesn't have a mouth, arms, or legs.
However, despite the fact that he has no arms, he can still manipulate objects as if he does have them, and he doesn’t seem to have a sense of the temperture of what he grabs, such as when he takes a hot tea kettle from a stove with no issue. He can't grab anything that would be considered out of reach for a creature of his scale, though. So while he wouldn't be able to reach the top shelf of something via not-telekinesis, he could go and drag a chair to it and hop on it. Rice Boy typically moves by shuffling around at whatever pace he thinks is suitable for the situation, from a walk to a run.
He can also speak without a mouth, and is rather good at picking up the sounds of languages, though it's doubtful he understand the meaning behind anything that isn't "Common". He can speak two words in the Trill-Tongue. One of the words is just a circle and doesn't really do anything as far as we see it. The other, which is probably the Trill word for 'split' or 'cut', actually does cause things to be cut in the general direction the word is spoken at.
Inventory:
Nothing
Link to an image of the character: Here!
Prose Sample:
Rice Boy remembers a time when he never woke up in strange places. He remembers waking up in his bed in his house in the Matchwoods everyday. He remembers going outside to pick his meals and watch sunrises and sunsets. He remembers talking with Rosemary and listening to her tell him stories about the world, but never wondering where they came from.
Now he’s been across Overside and back. He’s woken up in the Dorlish Wood and Lonely Land and on the hot mountains of Skorch. He’s come to after falling onto mushrooms and into Underside, and after being turned into lighting and dropped into the sea. Waking up in a new and unfamiliar place is something he’s very familiar with now, but it isn’t something he particularly enjoys. He thinks that it will probably always be strange to wake up in new places, but there isn’t much he can do other than continue.
Rice Boy picks himself off the floor and looks around. The place around him reminds home of Whetton, in that it’s old, overgrown, and was probably once home to a bunch of people who left to do something else and never came back.
“Oh,” he says.
It doesn’t seem to capture the gravity of the situation, but he isn’t sure what else to say. He doesn’t know why he’s here or how he got here, which is just slightly new, and so finding the right words isn’t on the top of his Things To Do list.
He shuffles forward just a little before he knocks into something that skids a little across the floor before stopping.
“Oh,” he says again. And then, “It’s a mirror.”
He bends down a little closer for a better look and his eyes widen and he shuffles back just a bit.
The mirror is made of dark gray stone and the border around the looking glass is a glass-like material that glows bright blue. It reminds him of Underside, of White Formless beings urging him to climb and die and Fulfill. He didn’t want to do any of it, but it had to be done, so he did. He chose to do it.
So he sighs and he makes his choice, picks up the mirror and looks into the glass. He sees only Rice Boy before seeing other things and other people.
It’s all very surreal.
Journal Sample:
[There is...
Well, it’s certainly something, that’s for sure, and it’s broadcasting using the mirror despite having no visible arms to speak of. Or legs. Or mouth for that matter. Which makes it all the more strange when it, or rather, he starts to talk.]
Hello? My name is Rice Boy. I’m... not supposed to be here. I was with my friend Gerund and we were walking and then I was here. I don’t think it’s a very good idea for me to stay. I think he will be worried if I’m gone for too long.
[Rice Boy looks small (because he is) and worried (because he’s that too).]
How do I get back to Suntown from here? Or the Matchwoods?