Editing List of Others (section)

==Habiliment==
Living outfits empowered by nearly any immaterial power source,<ref name=hab>A Habiliment is an Other that looks like an animated outfit, related to some animated armors and Dullahans.  They can be rooted in any number of immaterial forces, such as omen, spirit, Lost, glamour, or echo, and use a strong connection to the outfit to maintain physical form. Oftentimes they are created as servants or assistants that also act as repositories for [[immaterial]] matter- a small battery of spirit, omen, Lost stuff, or ectoplasm that is taxed every day it is maintained.  They'll see use when the mundane assistance they render and the convenience of having material that can walk itself to wherever it is needed or kept in reserve outweighs the negative of the tax.<br><br>Rapacious Habiliments seek to take over the wearer, leeching immaterial essence from that target while controlling them. They are difficult or impossible to remove, especially when their power exceeds the Self of the target.  This can be the Halloween mask and cape that resist removal and slowly make the wearer act a certain way, forgetting their past self, or the wedding dress that, when tried on, becomes bloody, and has the would-be bride kill her romantic interest.<br><br>The longer a Habiliment is maintained (or maintains itself, in the case of rapacious ones), the more nuanced and developed its personality.  Correlations can be drawn to hatched objects.<br><br>Depicted, an Ominous Habiliment bids a youth to wear the hat of one of his peers, while a third is depicted on the screen.<br>[...]<br>Could be they drain your defenses to the omen. - Wildbow on  Discord</ref> with a personality that developes over time.<ref name="sh64">“My dad says I can’t get a familiar until I’m older,” Melody said, scratching Snowdrop.  “I have to turn sixteen, then live with it for two years before I seal it with the ritual. [...] Little does he know, I already have one in mind.  He’s a gentleman habiliment. [...] He’s an outfit, without the person to occupy it.  Walks, does stuff, smokes a pipe and the smoke sorta… it fills in where his head and hands would be.  I love the smell of pipe smoke. [...] He’s been looking after me since I was nine.  The posh boarding school Corbin and I go to was pretty scary at first, especially when I was younger and half a country away from my parents.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/07 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.4]]</ref> 

Just as there are outfits for every occasion one could say there are habiliments for every happenstance. Habiliments have several approaches, some are created by practitioners as batteries while others seek out power themselves as [[rapacious|predators]]. Have been known to "wear" people as [[Jockey]]s.

Have a similarity to various animated armors, Hatched Objects and the Dullahan.

===Known examples===
* The Smoking Gent<ref name="sh64"/>
* Two Individuals on [[The Promenade]]<ref>A man with a high collar and top hat, with only misty shadow between collar and hat, the shadows suggesting features while evidencing nothing.  There was a spider crammed into a business suit, somehow maintaining the angles that made the suit look like a person was inside it, one spidery leg reaching up to hold a bowler hat up roughly where it should be. 
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/27 Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.1]]</ref> (Speculative)
* Milagro,<ref>The first of the two on the ground floor looked vaguely like an echo, her black hair bleeding out wisps and blurring into itself, as it moved faintly, but was wearing solid clothes, a long black coat, and a good portion of her body was solid.<br>[...]<br> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/go-for-the-throat-23-5/ Excerpt] from [[Go for the Throat 23.5]]</ref> The [[Sable|Sable's]] [[Agent]] (Speculative)<!--Is Spanish for miracle, also the name of a clothing company, also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milagro_(votive)-->

===Trivia===
* Habiliment, a word of French and ultimately Latin origin, are those outfits associated with specific professions. A knight, nurse, nun or newsie for example.
* One can see animated outfits throughout all of fiction.