Dish

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This Dish spirit, or just Dish is seemingly a spirit of porcelain, fine dishware and related products. Was welcomed into kennet after the defenses fell again. Has been a cooperative member of the supernatural community since.

Personality

She is prim and proper but unspeaking, much needs to be inferred by body language established decorum.<ref>Avery shuffled her weight nervously, then reached for her bag.  She dug inside, and grabbed the roll of paper towels she’d stuffed inside.  “May I?”

The spirit stared at her.

Avery approached the shrine itself, stared down by the blue eyes.

“I was a bit rushed the last time I stopped in, bit awkward,” Avery told the spirit, “or a lot awkward.  But I didn’t mean to be rude.  I guess with the fine china type stuff, you might put a lot of stock in being polite?”

Silence.
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The spirit put a hand on the back of Avery’s head, then gently pushed down.  Avery felt like she could fight back or resist, but doing so might break this fine dishware spirit.

So she let her head be forced down toward the water.  She bent down, head low, face nearly touching water, and then kinda had to roll her shoulder to accommodate the movement the spirit wanted her to make with her hand.

The first movement was apparently a failure, because the spirit moved closer to her, hand sliding down from wrist to hand, to manipulate Avery’s fingers.

This time Avery got it.  She cupped her hand, and brought water to her mouth.
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Dish was able to lift the candy, and tried to be overly decorous and subtle in how she put the candy in her mouth, as if even being seen with her mouth open would be gauche, but by trying so hard at that, she ended up being far more awkward and noticeable. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>

Her actions immediately after Edith's arrest are most likely due to the environment around her.<ref name=":0">Verona used water, blasting at a spirit with skin that looked like it was all cracked porcelain, with a very realistic, very clear eye peering through face cracks, that stood out in the gloom.  “Go away!  Not here!”

“They don’t really listen.”

“They’re supposed to.”

“It’s like they’re pushed by the ones behind them.”
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The cracked porcelain spirit advanced, and as Verona moved to the side, he fixated on her, following, picking up speed.  Corners and points of the hard, cracked edges bristled, shivering with more intensity as he got closer.

“Nah, buddy,” Verona told him.  “We’ll both be happier if you don’t-”

He came at her, picking up speed, pulling on mist and things to puff himself up, individual pieces moving away from skin.  She took two quick steps to get onto a dirt path, then swiped out a pouring of salt, straight across ground.

He hit the line and shattered.

One shattered half of him flowed or spun off to the side, regrouped, and came at her, smaller, half of him turning into two-thirds of a person.

She met hard with hard, using the ‘quality of earth’ diamond shaped rune she’d put on her elbow as a quick emergency smackage tool.

He broke apart.  The rest of his subdivided self was reforming into a smaller figure, wandering off toward the side of the mountain, where it looked like he’d be diverted off toward the east again.  There wasn’t a good road to go up the mountain and west. - Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.5</ref>

Appearance

Dish appears to be a women dressed for a tea party; her skin is patterned like blue porcelain covered with small flowers the white parts are cracked and scaled due to age, she has blue ceramic eyes and wears a matching dress with a ruffled hem that blends seamlessly with her skin, she wears her hair is in coiffured rolls.<ref>A woman-shaped spirit lounged by her shrine, her skin patterned like an old fashioned china plate, blue florets on white, where age had led to some of that white taking on a faint gray cracked or scaled appearance beneath the smooth surface.  Her hair was coiffured into tight rolls, hard as anything else, her eyes orbs of blue-painted ceramic, but it was a watercolor-y blue.  More than anything, what made the spirits stand out was how the colors and light seemed to hit them differently.  Like they had been painted in after, or the saturation of the colors didn’t match up with the light, shadow, and lesser lights around them.  Dish was too bright, too blue, not dappled enough by shadow.
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Her ‘dress’ was hard to distinguish from the spirit’s skin, with no lines or seams to mark the distinction where one stopped and the next started. The ruffled, decorated hem didn’t move in the wind any more than the stones that made up the shrine did. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref> Before Dish had a shrine her appearance was much rougher.<ref name=":0"/>

Abilities

As a Spirit she can show people the spirit world by touching them.<ref>and paused before reaching out, to take Dish’s hand in her own.  It was her turn to be gentle, to be careful in how she reached out between human and spirit.  Her hair stood on end before she made contact.

She saw through Dish’s eyes.  She saw a version of the forest with bright colors, rolling fog, everything as vivid as the individual spirits were against their backdrop of normal reality.  A collage reality, where everything was either too distinct and sharply outlined or separated from the rest, or they were blurry, blending in and blending definitions, fog and foliage mingling until the eyes started to lie.  Avery recognized it as the spirit world.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>

She can put her own power into an object to make it more like porcelain, she used this ability on the barrier to make it stronge and on Avery's branch to create razor sharp ceramic leaves as sharp as glass.<ref>That viewpoint raced, traveling along the perimeter.  Dish pushed her own power into the perimeter, even though she wasn’t the strongest of spirits, and the same patterns that marked her skin traced their way along a wall, a border.
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Dish swooped into the whacking stick.  Avery whipped it through the air, and the leaves on the end caught the bird.  Each leaf a chip of ceramic, sharp as glass. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>

She isn't fully solid but can lift small objects.<ref>The spirit wasn’t solid, but the rules got blurry, especially as the spirits got more powerful.  Dish was able to lift the candy - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>

Shrine

A construction matching her nature over, essentially being a large bowl, time she can alter the glass and china inside her shrine.<ref>A collection of smoother stones were arranged in a loose bowl shape that caught a lot of rainwater into a shallow depression.  Broken glass and bits of porcelain had been arranged in a pretty little pattern, filling up the gaps.  Moss and clover found purchase in between the stones at the base and ‘stem’ of the shrine, but didn’t actually encroach into the basin.
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“Oh hey, the glass and china we put in there changed,” Avery said, as she looked into the stone bowl shape, lined with a mosaic of bits of glass and plate.  “It’s a bit more filled in, pieces connecting.  That’s going to be really cool to see as time goes on.  Nice!”- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>

Dish can create fresh drinking water from what collects in her shrine, which gets cleaner with each visit and serves as spirit water.<ref>She cupped her hand, and brought water to her mouth.
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“I wouldn’t drink any still, standing water in most places in the forest here, I’d be worried about mosquito larvae and stuff, but I’d drink that again.”
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“Just a bit cleaner for every visit, right?  Bit of shrine TLC?” she asked. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>

Chronology

She arrived in Kennet after Edith's arrest, Verona managed to convince her to stopping attacking and enter a vessel, promising to build a shrine later.

It was one of those built over the next few weeks.

She informed Avery that the fae ephemera had breached the perimeter, she and Lott acompanied Avery when she confronted the intruders.

Trvia

• Was named Dish by the Kennet Trio, unknown if she had some other identity outside of it.<ref>“It helps if you name it,” Jessica said.
  
  “Which is why we named the shrine spirits, yes, for sure,” Verona said. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.6</ref>
• While effectively sexless she uses the female gender pronouns, originally be called a "he" was due to time not being taken out to identify them, in fairness she was attack them at the time.<ref name=":0"/>

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