PERSONAL DETAILS#

Name: Bentley Racune ! (the ! is silent)

Pronouns: they/them

Kind: Continua

Occupation: Seam-walker, inter-reality drifter, occasional idiot

Age: Functionally ageless

Apparent Gender: Masculine-presenting, usually

ASSUMED FORM#

Fur: Light cinnamon-brown, with softer beige highlights. Faintly luminescent at certain angles

Eyes: Amber, flecked with gold

Build: Lean, flexible, 1 m tall, anthropomorphic raccoon phenotype

Markings: Facial mask a darker brown than the rest of the fur. Rings around tail irregular, jagged, asymmetrical

CLOTHING & GEAR#

Hat: Straw boater with a bright blue ribbon. Immune to dirt, gravity, irony

Coat: Long, brown, heavy canvas, fashionably worn but never seems to get any worse. Full of spatially inconsistent pockets

Top: Used-to-be-white canvas shirt under a grey, sometimes blue or green waistcoat. Often smells of 4711

Bottom: Brown or grey trousers, scruffy

Umbrella: A long dark brown umbrella with a hooked oak wood handle. As well as being generally a nice umbrella it also serves as their conduit for opening seams and directing their semiotic influence

TRAITS#

Semiotic Influence#

Bentley’s presence changes the relationship between symbols and their meaning
Street signs change, images manifest the physical objects they represent
Language changes meaning in their wake
This is not always voluntary

Inter-Reality Drift#

Bentley passes between realities almost without thinking
Moves with ease through temporal history
Forgets which reality they are meant to be in
Forgets a lot of things constantly

Narrative Immunity#

Mostly immune to authorial intent, fate, prophecy, etc
Bentley can step into your story and become the protagonist. Or the antagonist

Temporal Recall#

Bentley remembers not only their own past but also the lives they inhabit Unfortunately not always that well. But well enough to be an expert on anything (lol)

PERSONALITY#

Temperament#

Bentley has seen a lot and been a lot
They drift endlessly across seams They enjoy chaos and delight in unpredictability, always with a flash of style

Ethics#

The nature of Continua is barely knowable to other kinds, they tend to project their own moral codes onto Bentley
They are eons old and have lived millions of lives in millions of times and places. They are as ethical as the situation demands

Don’t ask questions you’re not prepared to hear answers to#

STRUGGLES#

Drift Saturation#

Prolonged presence of trans-reality beings injects entropy into realities
i.e. Bentley can cause problems just by being somewhere

Emotional Entanglement#

They grow attached to places and beings they shouldn’t
This is often detrimental to the places and the beings

Known Presence#

Monitored by custodians of timeline coherence
Bentley’s presence invites scrutiny. sometimes conflict