Monday, January 3, 2011

Pelican Bones


New character concept for my Engine Tree universe(so technically every universe, but whatever.) She's one of the many Librarians in charge of keeping dimensions organized--more notably, the ones that AREN'T meant to mingle. For instance, there are worlds much like ours that are very strictly set in their ways. Thus technologies, artifacts, or mere tupperware from other worlds could cause massive upset in these strict dimensions if they were discovered. Just as looser dimensions allow for wilder energies, forces, and possibilities, worlds like ours provide the balance that keeps things quiet on this end of the spectrum. If one of the stricter dimensions begins unraveling, it could mess with all of them, and then you have interdimensional catastrophe. Bad stuff.
This person, who goes by Pelican Bones, is responsible for people, largely because she doesn't like them very much. There are Librarians that keep track of objects, and then there's a whole other breed specialized for people, right down to specific races, worlds of origination--the list goes on. Pelican Bones deals with Deadly Individuals. These are generally interdimensional travelling assassins or mercenaries, etc, hired by someone in another dimension to kill people. Pelican Bones steps in and prevents this from happening among the stricter dimensions, though that's where her job ends. Actually finding the person who hired the assassin is the responsibility of another department. Pelican Bones draws the line at Politics.
As may be evident from her attire and her tattoos, Pelican is an individual of ultimatums. Black or white. There is no grey and there is no compromise. That is not to say she never quits. She does. And when she has, there's no convincing her to try again. She other Succeeds or she Fails.
Fortunately for the rest of the Library, she very rarely Fails.
I had trouble finding good references for pelican skeletons, so please forgive any glaring anatomical errors.

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a Time Cop figure done with alternate universes. Fun stuff.

    I like her outfit and her mask, very plague-doctory.

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