Lenses

Mirrored art of a bat like creature, Mr Lenses, looking directly at the viewer with its two glowing yellow eyes, draped in brown and yellow robes. Its left hand is raised upwards, placing a magnifying glass in a hand reaching to it from below, while with its right hand it reaches for a knife being placed on its palm. The mirror image underneath, is Mr Lenses with its hood up to look enigmatic, however 5 eyes are now visible, two yellow, two orange and one red. Mirrored art of a bat like creature, Mr Lenses, looking directly at the viewer with its two glowing yellow eyes, draped in brown and yellow robes. Its left hand is raised upwards, placing a magnifying glass in a hand reaching to it from below, while with its right hand it reaches for a magnifying glass being placed on its palm. The mirror image underneath, is Mr Lenses with its hood up to look enigmatic, however 5 eyes are now visible, two yellow, two orange and one red.

Anyway here’s some weird bat (based, loosely, on a Spectral Bat/False Vampire Bat!) who is obsessed with lenses. Be it magnifying glasses, spectacles, telescopes, …crystal balls!? Anything that acts a a focus like a lens does! The fun thing about this character’s past still being in development is I get to do things and go “Oh! Yes… ha ha. YES! >:3c”

When I was showing this off to people as a sketch, people said it did have a “tarot” feel to it, which was unintentional, but welcome!

Explaining what this is! Kind of long!

Y’ever start playing a browser game, and then learn that these mysterious Masters might be batty and then you do this whole “Destiny” thing and you get this?

A sketch page featuring snippets of journal pages from a Fallen London character The first sketch, two wings of a creature that has been scribbled out, as if unfamiliar with its own shape. Above it is captioned: "A conversation on the road... wait road? My... WINGS!? And fondness???" "...year of your journey. Your wings have never been spread to their fullest extent, and as you approach..." "You shrug. Your wings ripple like the skin of space." The second sketch, looking directly at a pair of clawed hands, flexing, with the captions above "My talons... my. Talons. Yes. Yes you're right, Hearts. Thank you W..." "...Spices." You flex your talons. "We are what..." Underneath another, but full, journal entry: "Like it? But it's right. Why wouldn't I like my form, my wings, my talons... my beaing 10 September, 2026 (a Long Road) - You have seen a possible future; perhaps you even like it." The final sketch, loose and scribbly, of a humanesque form, sitting bolt upright in bed, all of it scribbled in dark. It looks at its hands, faint white claws emanating from them, along with a faint wing off it's back, implying they are not physically there any more. Another entry follows: "A start. A panic. Where are they!? Where are my talons!? Where... WHERE 10 September, 2026 (Your Lodgings) - Were you dreaming?"

And thus a fan character is born. Or well, its future after the game’s events is divined at least~


Former former human (who became so obsessed with solving a lover’s murder it lost almost everything before trying to get its teeth stuck in every strange and interesting thing to solve in the Neath) ■■■■■ sees a dream of destiny of them as, potentially equals, with these mysterious robed figures they grew accustomed to since coming to the Neath, and thus their course (and internal view) changed forever.

…But that’s boring. You’re here for the good Mr Lenses of course! Not some creature of lower origins! No, instead a creature that is deliberately of mysteries and one who seeks them out! While it habitually hoards lenses, that is not its true calling.

Its calling is to solve.

It would argue that solve life’s mysteries, to find one’s truths, is one of the most pure forms of love. To hunt down a killer of a loved one with nothing but a few petals to follow, to understand words that should be beyond one’s own comprehension, to drown yourself in secrets, and to transform yourself to what you know you are. These are what it argues those that follow its steps should learn for themselves.

And sometimes to find a truth one must focus through a lens, thus its collection of lenses isn’t always obvious. Sure there is magnifying glasses (it likes them a lot because detectives), telescopes, microscopes and other similar lens based objects in there, however there’s also things that most people wouldn’t consider a lens at all. Crystal balls and magical foci and other such like are in there too. If it can act as a lens for something then it can’t help but want to get its talons on it.

(insert DO rambling more here…)


But yes, on the 10th of September when I first got that destiny for my character I was just “Look there’s no way you can say that my character had a dream where it is told ‘you flex your talons’ etc. while currently being a human without me going ‘it is θΔ now'”

The Masters in question, are enigmatic beings who are totally normal cloaked figures and totally not weird space bats that obsessively hoard a specific kind of item (or even concept).

And Lenses here, a former human of mysteries, found itself very attached to that which focuses as it became its true self. I bet it hates that it couldn’t ever hoard a gravitation lens, RIP.

“Those robes look very… Sherlock Holmes, DO”, Lenses is a DORK okay? It wanted to look cool like that detective.

“What’s with all the EYES though, DO?” ……Well, what’s in an eye~? As a creature that transformed, it might have…

Decided that it needed… more

Sketch art of a batlike creature, finger up against it's snout as if to go "shhhhh" while holding a magnifying glass up to it's left eye. On the right hand side it's the same sketch, but it's grinning now... but the three lines on its head that looked like eyebrows and a line down it's forehead have opened up revealing that they were actually 3 more eyes.

 

And the knife? Well. It’s entire story was truly started by chasing down who killed it’s lover… a knife is fitting… no?

…

It’s also related to the symbol of the ambition my character has, “Nemesis” lmao

The icon used in Fallen London for the Ambition: Nemesis.

Though I went more with a kitchen knife than a dagger.

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Bloody Alt!

A Jack-of-Lenses

Mirrored art of a bat like creature, Mr Lenses, looking directly at the viewer with its two glowing yellow eyes, draped in brown and yellow robes. It's left hand (likewise in the mirror image) is covered in blood, with some on its face too. It's unhooded eyes are unnaturally focused, wild even. Its left hand is raised upwards, placing a bloodied magnifying glass in a hand reaching to it from below, while with its right hand it reaches for a bloody knife being placed on its palm. The mirror image underneath, is Mr Lenses with its hood up to look enigmatic, however 5 eyes are now visible, two yellow, two orange and one red.

The cry goes up, “a Jack!”

The human that would become Mr Lenses wasn’t simply satisfied about merely solving the Jack case… even if it just washed its hands of it for the constabulary (and technically the Masters too) to deal with…

It had to know just exactly what the mechanism that caused it, how it felt. The feeling gnawed at its heart to understand exactly every part of Jack… even if it meant taking those knives in hand and losing itself for a while…

Those almost 3 weeks may have changed something about them… it’s not as unsettled about some extra smiles any more.


I might’ve actually spent a little Fate on doing a… murderous… story option uwu

But even if I hadn’t… the human that would become Mr Lenses has willingly killed its lover’s murderer… so.

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