Danl Dump 10: Watcher

Watcher is a very dark-furred slugcat, fur so dark that it makes it easy for them to blend into the shadows. Watcher's tail has golden yellow feathers coming out of it (which isn't natural for slugcats). Watcher also has pure white eyes (no pupils), giving him an particularly unsettling gaze in dark, paired with his very dark fur. Watcher carries a reality distorting navy-blue aura, that which doesn't actually harm the reality around him, but is more like the residue of the power that resides inside of him.

Watcher has the ability to go invisible and be become intangible by transitioning into a higher plane of existence called Ripplespace. They were gifted this ability from an Echo by the name of Spinning Tops, a wildly childish that became an Echo, simply because they were forced alongside their family at a young age and didn't understand what was going on, nor were they ready (how would anyone had known at the time?). Watcher can warp to other places in time and space through vortexes called Ripples, which are essentially tears in space and time that he can fix by simply traveling through. Only Watcher (and other higher beings) can see or interact with these Ripples, though Watcher can pull a mortal through, even on accident, if they are nearby.

While in Ripplespace, Watcher is completely and utterly intangible to organic matter and many obstacles, with dangerous weather events or terrain not existing in the seemingly empty space that is Ripplespace. From Watcher's perspective, the world is also bathed in dark blue colors, similar to the aura he carries. Watcher will also briefly levitate upwards and his aura will pulse and ripple around him like drops of water as he chooses to enter or leave Ripplespace.

Watcher is an interdimensional demigod, gifted his abilities by Eldrich horrors (Echoes) and forced to understand Eldrich knowledge. He's been traumatized by these events and never looked back. Watcher is an orphan, his mother and sister slaughtered by another slugcat while he hid in the darkness, helpless to stop it. Watcher is slowly evolving into a celestial being, slowly becoming less and less of a slugcat as time goes on, losing his previous time in this reality.

The Void Sea is a sea that contains a miracle liquid powerful enough to melt the soul, so no one that's actually delved into the Void Sea has ever come back up to tell what's actually down there... Because they ascended beyond this reality. Void Worms are gods that swim around in the Void Sea, guiding souls down to the bottom of said void. No one knows about Void Worms. If Watcher comes into contact with Void Fluid, something not normal is going to happen... He will become something greater...

A slugcat is a rodent-like creature with paws, a hip-wide tail that tapers at the end, small floppy ears, and slick fur. A slugcat can store small objects in its stomach and consistently be able to regurgitate them for later use. Adult slugcats are usually around 3 feet tall. Slugcats come in many different colors of fur with differing abilities, though a decent amount of them lack any sort of particular ability.

Cycles refer to the day to day system in Rain World, also counting as this world's symbolism and rules for life and death. Every creature's soul is eternally trapped in the cycle, a sort of curse that prevents them from truly dying, at least from the creatures perspective. Cycles are like immortality, but worse. If a creature dies during a cycle, their soul gets transported over to another timeline or cycle where they didn't die, waking up at the beginning of said cycle like nothing happened. Slugcats will wake up in the last shelter they slept in, a shelter being a small room that they can safely hibernate in until the next cycle. A shelter will also protect them from the deadly rain that persists almost everywhere in Rain World. There is one way out of the cycle though, and that is through ascension.

Ascension is where escapes the cycle of life and death and ascends to a higher plane of existence, or finally move onto the afterlife. In order to successfully ascend, one must strip themselves of their connections and possessions of this world and their earthly desires. Then they must go to the Void Sea, where their body is melted by the Void Fluid and so is their soul, allowing them to escape the cycle and finally move on from this world. If they fail to ascend by not meeting the void sea's requirements, they become an Echo, their form forever bound by the cycle and spread across time and space, unable to interact with the world around them just like a ghost, and only allowed to watch. Meeting an Echo also unlocks a deeper understanding about cycles and more power, which is what happened to Watcher way too many times...

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