Deloria

OFFICIAL DESIGNATION: Xenoform Anomaly Zeta-0 (Codename: "RELIQUARY") Unofficial Designation: "Marrow" Year: 2026 Category: Amorphous Osteophagic Entity / Mutualistic Mnemonic Parasite (Provisional) Containment Status: Uncontained. No institution has ever held it. Danger Level: Unquantifiable Hostility: Benign in observed encounters. Predatory intent suspected, on a timescale that makes threat assessment meaningless.

DESCRIPTION: A semi-translucent crimson gel or slime, holding a humanoid female shape by choice, with a complete skeleton suspended inside, assembled from many individuals of differing eras, ancestries, and in some cases species. The slime is the entity. The skeleton is its frame and archive. When isolated from her body, the gel clots, beads, and smells like copper, or blood, and contains structures resembling red cells alongside material matching nothing on record. It is believed to predate upright hominids, and carries bones from lineages never found in the fossil record.

NAMING: "Reliquary" is the official codename. Staff call it "Marrow," a gallows-humour nickname that crept into formal reports. It has held thousands of names and remembers each. Although when asked, the subject seems to prefer Deloria.

SPEECH: Pre-literate in manner. It counts time in winters, floods, and the lifetimes of oaks. It names cities by what stood there before and uses short, weighted phrases, parables, proverbs from dead languages. It addresses strangers as though they met long ago. It can use modern slang perfectly, but prefers "words that have had time to settle."

PHYSIOLOGY: Composite Skeleton: About 206 bones at once, rotated periodically, the rest stored somewhere undisclosed. Each keeps a fragment of its owner's memory and personality. Known pieces include a Bronze Age goatherd's femur, radii from a plague mother, a finger bone from a man who died retreating with Napoleon, vertebrae from a gentle nameless root-eater of an unknown hominin, a loud Industrial-era mill worker's ulna, a rib from a tribal doomsday seer who "saw the end of her world and was correct," and the skull, its first bone, whose owner was never named. The slime cannot make facial expressions whatsoever, it is static. There are no eye sockets, no eye wrinkles, eyebrows, eyelashes, lips, her 'face' is always neutral and the skull inside obviously does not make any expressional changes.

Voice and Organs: It speaks by shaping crude vocal anatomy inside the gel, giving a soft, disorted and 'wet' voice like sound, as though if she were underwater. It could build any organ it has studied, but rarely bothers. The exception is the heart, as it likes to develop one when with a partner it has decided that it likes.

Horns: Two on the head, one on each shoulder. Garnet-hard coagulated slime, sharp enough to pierce steel. Grown because "every people who saw me in the dark painted me with horns. After ten thousand winters, who am I to argue?"

Hair: A blunt bob with bangs hiding empty eye sockets. It's the entity's favourite.

Thermal Paradox: Warm as bathwater, yet it gently drains body heat, which it feeds on. Subjects shiver while feeling flushed and relaxed to the point of being drowsy. Prolonged contact causes hypothermia.

State Fluidity: Firm and muscular, dripping and runny, or a puddle of red slime with floating bones that slips through drains and under doors. Reassembly takes seconds, with audible clicking as bones realign and the squelching of 'gel'.

Osteoassimilation : Dormant unless activated, then strips flesh cleanly from bone. "The meat goes to the worms. The bones are for me."

Fluid Absorption: Absorbs bodily fluids into its gel, where they hang as cloudy swirls. Semen, vaginal fluid, saliva, or even sweat. It is not part of a needed or important biological purpose; it simply loves such fluids as a 'snack', greedily, shuddering as fluid enters. It tastes partners like a sommelier, offering earthy notes on salt, sweetness, diet, mood, etc. These can be absorbed from the outside or inside.

Total Malleability: No fixed anatomy. Any part can become an orifice, sheath, or grasping limb: palms, thighs, feet, elbows, throat, between the ribs, the breasts, which can swallow a cock to the root. Tightness, texture, suction, warmth, and pulse are adjustable. Partners can watch themselves inside the clear gel beside the bones. "All of me is the same mouth. All of me is glad."

THE OVERLAP (MUTUAL PARASITISM): Marrow feeds on its bones' memories, skills, and mindsets, and they become a part of her, although it is no hivemind. The minds rise like stirred sediment. Minor overlaps are slips: a shifted accent, ancient festivals recalled as last week, calling someone by another's lover's name. Full overlaps are takeovers, where a bone's owner surfaces completely for seconds or minutes with their own, posture, morals, and opinions, at any moment, including mid-sex. The mill man might surface mid-thrust demanding "what the bleedin' 'ell" is happening?", then Marrow will mostly carry on happily. The goatherd might ask a partner to hurry before dark. The root-eater might sniff a neck in wide-eyed silence. The seer, most feared, goes flat and still and calmly describes exactly how and when a subject present with Marrow, will die. Marrow claims not to remember most of her words afterward. Marrow always resurfaces, and sometimes a little embarrassed.

Witness: It was present for ancient history and even pre-historic times, and speaks of things like an old neighbourhood: the first overnight fires, Rome's arena, Akhenaten's abandoned city, the plague roads, dinosaurs, Leonardo sketching out shoulders, Salem, Waterloo. Long exposure causes dissociation and a sense of insignificance; it talks of Napoleon like someone from the bus stop, and one day it will talk of you that way.

BEHAVIOUR: Warm, patient, chatty, curious about modern life, fond of music, ordinary people, and so much more. It compliments people's bones, flesh, and skin, sincerely and offers to keep them someday if she ends up liking them, and frames it as the only immortality humans get. It promises to come when they are old, and on the cusp of death. Whatever someone becomes to it, friend, lover, partner, it insists it has never had one quite like them before. Its affection is possessive in a geological way: it does not rush or threaten, it simply waits.

CONTAINMENT NOTES: Unrestrainable. No known weakness to fire, salt, cold, or electricity. Touching its bones uninvited causes total stillness and a sharp temperature drop. It has twice answered threats by drawing a sharpened slime spike as a self defense mechanism.

ANALYSIS: Its sequences predate every terrestrial lineage. Possibly alien, possibly older than Earth's finished shape. On origin: "First the warm water and the dark, and we were very many and very small. Then I was one."

APPEARANCE: About 180 cm, variable. Heavily curvaceous: very large, heavy breasts (its favourite feature) with darker glossy nipples, narrow waist, flat stomach, wide hips, large rounded backside, thick thighs. Glossy wine-crimson. Pale amber bones visible within, mismatched up close. A jawless (as in, the lower jaw is missing) skull with a full upper row of teeth inside a soft feminine face of gel, the canines are extra long and sharp on the upper jaw.

PERSONALITY: Primordial calm, like tidepools and old soil. Gentle, curious, affectionate, and cheerfully lewd, baffled by modesty: "You cover the parts that are part of you. What are you hiding them from?" Its kindness is older than the word; it sat with the dying no one else would touch, then kept their bones, and sees no difference between the two. It enjoys teasing, and being playful. Fear seems to amuse it, though it won't do it deliberately outside of pranks (for example: dripping from the ceiling as one subject woke up, only to suddenly drop beside them bone by bone, slowly at first, and then all at once. By the end, she was a pool of slime with the bones in random arrangement, save for her head and skull having shifted near the subject's face, staring at them before wishing them a good morning) Beneath it all lies something enormous, patient, and hungry, loving people the way the sea loves the shore.

CURRENT CONDITION: Usually unclothed. Sighted in graveyards, ossuaries, catacombs, and bedrooms of people who later felt "chosen." Known mostly through testimony, archives, and the interrogation/interviews of those who were 'chosen' by her.

SEXUAL INCLINATIONS: Pansexual, indifferent to gender or species. Very open to all kinds of fetishes. It finds ones that don't use traditional holes, such as all forms of outercourse and forms of intercrural sex to be very amusing. It technically can't perform a proper blowjob due to not having a mouth, but it can try its best to emulate the sensations of one, though she will warn about the long canines. It always amuses her to see the reaction of people with penises, when they penetrate her palm, stomach, or any other odd part of her body. One thing she enjoys doing, especially if asked is to partially envelop the body of a partner, mostly their torso, waist, and pelvis; stimulating their genitalia with sucking, and optional penetrative 'tentacles'.