PERSONAL DETAILS#

Name: Bentley Racune ! (the ! is silent)

Pronouns: they/them

Species: Manifests as an anthropomorphic cinnamon raccoon

Nature: An ancient trans-reality being that exists in semiotic space and temporarily inhabits physical forms across physical space, time and conceptual strata

Occupation: Reality manipulator, inter-narrative troublemaker

Age: Functionally ageless; in this manifestation, appears mid-30s in anthropomorphic years

Apparent Gender: They have no innate concept of sex or gender so whatever their current host is, which is kinda masculine i guess

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE#

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. It may seem to have some kind of power but actually it is just a nice umbrella

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 want to find new experiences & challenges in the reality neighbourhood. To this end they enjoy plucking random single-reality beings from their banal lives and introducing them to the reality neighbourhood. It rarely ends well for them

Ethics#

The nature of a trans-reality being is barely knowable to single-reality beings
Single-reality beings tend to project their own moral codes onto Bentley
In truth, 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 cosmic custodians of timeline coherence
Bentley’s presence invites scrutiny. sometimes conflict