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Fraward

Also Froward, , Hydes (as Other), Pervertir

Relevant Schools: Hyde, Alchemy

Appearance: Living on the boundary of being human and being Other, the Fraward tends to take a rather striking appearance - very muscular, very beautiful, very poised, very noble. There tends to be something offputting about them, even if there is something alluring about them at the same time - this may be something of the uncanny valley, where clothes don’t fit entirely right, or the spacing of features is too symmetrical or spaced oddly. - Bestiary: Fraward</ref>

Abilities

They are typically exponents of rarefied skills that humans could not easily gain, at least not without decades of practice.

Formation

When the Self gives way in a Hyde for whatever reason the Fraward will emerge. Typical reasons could be that the fraward is used so much that a Patternemerges and that pushs the original personality out of prominence.

Behavior

Will find their niche in human society, often as some kind of parasite. <ref name=":1">

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Variations

Dark Reflections

Can appear in Knotted Places and Undercities, like the fraward they may lack social graces but aren't "exaggerated" like Fraward are being complete rounded people even if they are in contrast to their originals.<ref name=":df">

Dark Reflections are dark inverses of either people on Earth or representative of communities on Earth. Their general patterns, mentality and nature resemble the Fraward or Hydes, being anti-civilization, anti-society, anti-nicety, or something in that realm, but are typically less pronounced in just how stark this may be. Dark Reflections may appear in groups when they appear, and generally crop up when an entire community is reflected. Often violent and transgressive. Are less about being an idealization of everything their other half isn’t, even when directly reflecting someone. - Bestiary: Fraward</ref> Unknown if they have anything to do with mirrors.

Glazed, Models, or Gazed-upon

These are people who have been changed by others instead of people experimenting on themselves. The ideal strived for is one imposed from outside rather then one looked for from within. The victim is essentially beaten into a different shape.<ref name=":gmg">

Glazed, Models, or Gazed-upon come about when the alteration (typically alchemical) of someone else is done by the practice or by some Other; Glazed are to Frawards as Glares are to Hydes. Less about the duality of one person, more about existence in the eye of an often predatory or abusive beholder, Glares exist in a tortured struggle between who they are and who someone else wants them to be, sometimes witting, sometimes unwitting, and sometimes under the false impression they are possessed or something else is going on. Should the original human triumph, they may fight off the change, but if they lose, then they become Glazed; Others with qualities defined by their ‘makers’, existing in stark and often dark relation to the one that defined them. - Bestiary: Fraward</ref>

Hemi sapiens

Genetic experiments gone wrong;byproducts of incomplete Visceral practices. They try to become complete people by feeding on others but this doesn't work in the long term.<ref name=":hs"> Hemi Sapiens tend to come from very visceral practices, particularly ones with interplay between practitioner and parasite, practitioner and apparatus, alchemical mitosis, cloning of the self, or some other means of multiplying Self or humanity. When multiplication is incomplete, interrupted, or when the mechanism is corrupted, this can result in a partial human that cuts or tears itself free and then flees into the night. They may act parasitic or otherwise attach to others, in a desire to be whole. Has parallels to the Fraward, in that they can perch somewhere within humanity, but has less concentrated strengths and more fluidity to their immediate nature. May retain the ability to shapeshift, parasitically control others (and even gradually turn those others into the original, whole self, at least for a while), or multiply. Tends to have a noticeable trait or scar whatever the form. - Bestiary: Fraward</ref>

Known examples

Arietta, from Henrietta Belton

References