Editing List of Others (section)

==Mimeisthai==
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Bugge]]''</blockquote>
Mimeisthai are a type of emergent ritual that forms out of patterns created by innocents.<ref>“You might be thinking of Anima Hysteria or something like that.  But Mimeisthai[sic] would be my guess,” Reid rasped.  “Imitated thing.  Like a fancy, or an urban legend.  Humans draw a lot of stupid things, come up with random ideas.  Emergent rituals- do you know emergent [[ritual]]s?”<br><br>“No.”<br><br>“Easiest to think of them as rituals innocents create by accident.  A large group of civilians repeat the same action or develop a pattern.  Urban legend takes hold and gets cemented in.  Innocents can’t practice but a million innocents doing the same thing can have meaning.  Usually has to be isolated.  City architecture can be that.  Schoolkids take to drawing the same thing, like some angular S, and it picks up steam, is niche enough and popular enough to start appearing in places it wasn’t drawn.  Some say that there’s hundreds that appear every day, but they’re all short-lived, too unintelligent to maintain or conserve power.  On occasion one finds a power source or gets associated with an event like a sensational murder, gets big enough to take over a town, occupy people’s thoughts, twist the aesthetic.  Practitioners like my family have to step in.”<br>[...]<br>“I don’t think he’s exactly that.  A Mimeisthai, a practice relevant meme, it’s ''like'' that, but focuses in on a singular point.  An accidental ritual that concentrates all power and creates the supporting architecture to create something like… well, that.”<br>[...]<br>Reid Musser wasn’t wrong.  One game designer and two different artists had coincidentally released images for a stylized face that resembled one another so closely that audiences were deeply confused about the origin.  The discussions had taken hold in comic communities, in question and answer sessions where many had recognized the face, an impossible question to stump even experts.  Faceful had manifested out of spirit and sentiment as a result. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/14 Excerpt] from [[Break 3]]</ref> In roughly the same basic typing as [[Bugge]]s and related entity's that interact with information.<ref>“For your talents.  As a scrivener, you work with fancies, mimeisthais, bugges, buggane, and a variety of Others who confound and poison ''information''.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref><!--Mīmeisthai is the ancient greek verb 'to imitate/ emulate'.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_KdiJguqIuHesu03tKF597JzhlL1YeeMRb_jJB6nZRo --><ref>“Much like Turtle Queen, but it doesn’t spread, it’s a single entity that grows, feeding into itself instead of infecting and converting.  Which isn’t to say they don’t pull in the weak minded,” Miss said.<br>[...]<br>
Verona chimed in, happy to have something to latch onto and sink her teeth into.  “Think giant lizards or monkeys that trample cities, but take the animal out of it and replace that part of them with really good branding, imagery, or symbols.  Oh, and when you pop them, they can explode into hundreds of Bugges- like mini Turtle Queens.  Or baby versions of themselves, which can grow up to be full-on Mimeisthais.”<br><br>
“How in the blackest hell is any city still standing?” Matthew asked.  “The shit we deal with.”<br><br>
“They tend to have enough weight that they have depressions, which we’ve talked about a lot.  Pushing the fabric of things down beneath them so they’re constanly in a crater that fills up with appropriate power and spirits and whatever.  Basically altered reality all around them.  Which is good, in a way, because it helps shield them against Innocent attention, take a chunk out of things before sealing it around themselves, becoming a pocket realm or whatever.  But also bad because they’re powerful in those spaces.  You know, obviously, stands to reason, right?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/09/16 Excerpt] from [[Loose Ends E.3]]</ref>

===Known Examples===
*[[Faceful]]
*[[Januray March]]