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Beloved took over a young child's memorial urn, and took the ribbon for remembrance. Mushrooms grow from her inner skin!
Pottery Dogs are semi-parasitic scavenging canine creatures who have been on
earth for millennia. They are composed of a soft, fleshy inner skin, and a hard, pottery-based outer skin. They take over manmade cups, bowls, urns, jugs, vases, pots- anything meant to hold something else- much like a hermit crab takes over discarded shells. Once inside, they begin to bend and expand the pottery to their body shape, keeping the design and structure of the pottery in tact. The design on the pottery piece they take over transfers over onto their new bodies -leaving them decorated just as exquisitely as the urn or vase they wove around themselves as their second skin. They have survived years and years of human habitation, and before that time they wandered among the earliest creatures clad in clay and stone. New ones form spontaneously, and survive from every era imaginable. They tend to collect objects from their time period as the years go on, surrounding and decorating themselves with armor, coins, old ribbon, string, shiny bits and baubles, stolen objects, letters, feathers... really anything they can get their paws on that remind them of their "birth" time. There are egyptian, mesoamerican, native american, japanese, english, australian, norwegian- any imaginable culture that has ever created any form of pottery, any form of early tool, no matter how prehistoric, has pottery dogs from its era. They take on the designs from their time and sport so many different variations and combinations that, just like handmade pottery, THERE ARE NO TWO POTTERY DOGS EXACTLY ALIKE. COLORS: Pottery dogs can be virtually any color, but generally
they are natural shades and hues. Modern-pottery based dogs will be more colorful and abstract, but they're not very common. * NOSE AND INNER SKIN COLOR USUALLY MATCH; INNER EAR IS USUALLY LIGHTER SHADE OF MAIN COLOR. THESE ARE NOT STRICT DESIGN RULES, HOWEVER, BUT IT'S UNCOMMON FOR THERE TO BE DEVIATIONS FROM THIS. COMPLETE BREAKAGE: Unless completely shattered, Pottery dogs can shed their outer hard skin much like a hermit crab abandons its damaged shell. They will take over the nearest piece of habitable pottery and become that object. If no pottery is close enough to take over, and they cannot reach a new home, they generally die from lack of protection. Many pottery dogs actually choose death over a new skin- they would have been so used to their original skin for so long that a new one wouldn't be a comfortable option. HAIR: Hair and hairdo's actually ARE possible for pottery dogs. Plumes of dust, grit, pottery shards, ash, and other natural elements can form everything from mohawks to braids... but this isn't all that common, so not many pottery dogs sport such 'dos. PAWPADS: While Pottery dogs go not have 'pawpads' in the sense that dogs do, they DO have painted on pawpads on the bottom of their feet. While they aren't much use for feeling, it's the thought that counts! |
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