Hello again, guys!!
I finished my character sheet, so, uh, I guess that we can finally lay the "what does a Recycler look like" debate to rest. What does a Recycler look like? A filthy, skinny human child.
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Name: Maggot
Race: Recycler
Gender: N/A, Recyclers don't have gender because they reproduce asexually.
Age (apparent): At birth, the Recycler resembles an eight-year-old child. It will then age rapidly at a rate of one year per day until it has matured into its final form, which looks approximately fourteen-years-old.
Age (actual): 6 hours, as of the beginning of the RP.
Appearance:
There's something about Maggot (and, by extension, Recyclers in general) that's just… vaguely creepy. Could it be the bruised black eyes? The mop of dark, disheveled hair and skinny limbs? The atrociously ill-fitting clothes, which smell of garbage and look strangely like they've been taken off a corpse? The insect-like twitchiness? Maybe even its strange resemblance to every other Recycler in the universe?
Okay, let's be real. It's probably all of the above. There's nothing particularly wrong with Maggot's facial features -- in fact, they're rather finely formed and perfectly symmetrical down the center, too. What? Scientists can be artistic too. But there's something about looking at members of this species for too long that just freaks people out.
Biography:
Maggot hatched from its egg in a waste processing room. Specifically, Maggot was born in the waste processing room deep below Omnibus Academy, like thousands of Recycler generations before her. Many organizations that are "in the know" have a Recycler stashed away somewhere, after all. It's a cheap and easy way to get rid of your trash, and you get a new one every time the old one dies.
A garbage disposal room to a Recycler is what a bar is to an alcoholic -- when Maggot looked up from consuming the last of its parent's corpse and saw the mountains of trash everywhere, it should have been unable to resist. None of the Recyclers before it had been able to, and as a result, thousands of generations had lived and died in this single room. Maggot should have been the same.
But as the newly born Recycler wiped the traces of its first meal from its lips, it realized that in front of it was a door. And it wondered… what could be outside? Could there be more trash? Perhaps it was greed that propelled this young Recycler to do the unthinkable. Perhaps it was curiosity, or a sense of adventure, or just some kind of genetic defect.
Whatever it was, the result was the same. For the first time in generations, a Recycler born into the waste processing room of Omnibus Academy stood up, turned the knob on the door… and left.
Other:
- This is a little known fact, but Recyclers actually don't enjoy the taste of garbage. They find it as revolting as anyone else might. And yet… they just can't stop eating it. It's a compulsion that's built into the very fibers of their DNA.
- Maggot is so naïve that it's almost like it was born today. Oh wait… it was.
- The clothes that Maggot is wearing did, in fact, come off the corpse of its dead parent.
