Editing Jockey (section)

==Notable Jockeys==
*Jockey contacted by [[Matthew Moss]] <ref>[[Out on a Limb 3.7]]</ref>
*'House' Jockey monster<ref name=HJ>“Possession class was a lot of what we already knew, but there were some good fundamentals,” Verona said. “Everything takes up space. Where it gets tricky is that there are a lot of things where Others will get their hooks into major parts of you. They can take your body, sometimes, but not your face. So their face will change over time.”<br><br>“There’s that Single White Female doppleganger,” Avery noted.<br><br>“I looked it up. That’s an old movie. Single white female seeks same,” Lucy said.<br><br>“Yeahhh, like that. Taking over your life and then getting rid of you, but I don’t think their face and hair change,” Verona said. “Then you have the Jockeys, which we heard about before, from a person I won’t name…”<br><br>“And in Famulus,” Lucy said. “It’s a danger you have to take into consideration if you’re going to tie yourself to Others or invite them in.”<br><br>“I wonder if there’s a house jockey,” Verona mused. “A ‘failure to launch’ Other who moves in and doesn’t move out.”<br><br>“There is,” Tymon said, walking behind them. “There’s a whole group of Others who invade human spaces like that. We’ve got a group of ’em at home, they’re a quote-unquote ‘family’ that finds ways into people’s houses and live in the walls, back of closets, and vents. Thin, twisted people, creep out at night and silently eat food, use toothbrushes, wash themselves at the sink. The Other kid would be awake under the bed while the house’s kid slept, creep out to play with the human kid’s toys in silence, then finish the night by urinating on the bed to make the kid think they’d done it. I won’t get into details, but we had to bind one that nearly killed an old guy by being ''really'' unhygenic about it, to protect people.”<br><br>“Why?” Lucy asked.  “Just… ''why''?”<br><br>“Because monsters reflect our anxieties. Anxiety creates vulnerability, and with all the varied, basic types of Other out there, something’s going to find it’s a near-enough fit for that point of weakness. Then they evolve to fit further.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/10 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.5]]</ref>
* Mr. Rudbeck<ref>As she paced, this time, the man in the fine suit with the snake and flowers instead of a neck and head turned to stay facing her, one hand casually behind his back, the other fiddling with a button on his suit. He was very still, but for the fact that he gave her his full and unerring attention, turning his body to keep her in his focus.<br>[...]<br>…Or facing possession by something like Mr. Rudbeck, a snake slithering into you, nestling into a part of you deeper than biology goes, and squeezing you out, because he can occupy the vessel of your body more easily than your Self and Soul can, just as his flowers and grasses will grow through every place and everything nearby, making it his. There is no mundane defense to this lightning, no easy recovery or being saved from the absorption, and no way to fend off the snake yourself. With a very quick friend, perhaps, but it could just as easily take them. What then?”<br>[...]<br>“Mr. Rudbeck is a Fancy, an old version of a Bugge or Buggane, or an old version of an Urban Legend, though I despise how imprecise that particular term is. In an era before the printing press, certain ideas or glyphs would take hold, recur in the public consciousness, and find something to latch onto or manifest within. The recurring story or idea feeds the Fancy, and the Fancy can, on rare occasion, become crafty enough to perpetuate the story that feeds it. Mr. Rudbeck is one such Fancy, and attained a level of influence approaching that of a lesser divinity.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/27 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.1]]</ref>
* [[Bridge]] - self-reports as a "living false accusation"<ref>“I am the embodiment of where trying to ‘talk’ gets you,” Bridge said, the babysitter’s voice soft and wary. “A living false accusation.” -[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/20 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.12]]</ref>
*The menagerie of [[Florin Pesch]]
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