A little derpy sketch gift for my precious Enaxn!! She has treated me with a subby on DA and I wanted to doodle her a quick something! *3*
Here is her baby Eathum, an electric Aysse! If you want to know what the fabulous beasts known as Aysse ARE then GO BOMBARD HER WITH LOVE AND ATTENTION:
The Aysse sheet re-process BEGINS ahahaaaaaa. Representing the Ceslestial Aysse we have Beccat, both in Aysse-y and low-energy form! I might put Sonsie up there too just for kicks.
This sheet will tentatively also have Sirius/Snow (maybe, maybe not?) for the Cosmic Aysse, Fayen, Resnien, Yasi, Nagane uhhhh I guess Eathum for the Sparkies, probably Buckshot again for the Icees and then he can go stand with Resnien. I'll probably put Obiq and Proca up as the Sexual Dimorphism babies.
I'm trying to put in at least one Aysse for anyone that made one. I hope I'm not missing anyone. If I am, it'll be a big enough sheet soooo >__>.
MORE BRAIN SPECIES BLATHER. This time with even more space! With some quantum theory and animism thrown in just for funsies!
This isn't very organized yet, but okay.
So I'm still going with the Space bits. Because Space. So okay. I'm going with Multiverse. And the universe that Switchback and co. lives in was created from a Big Bang event. This event was caused by a black hole in ANOTHER universe. Instead of destroying matter sent into the black hole, the black hole compacts everything and it's sent to an alternate plane of existence where literally nothing exists. This matter, while GREATLY compacted, still has consciousness. Consciousness is neither energy NOR matter and it will NEVER be destroyed, but the collective consciousness of everything sucked up in the black hole just bonds. And it sits. And sits. And sits.
Eventually, the black hole fizzles out after a few trillion years or whatever. When this happens, the gravitational hold the black hole had in the other universe is clearly severed, and all of this matter, energy, and consciousness, is freed. This collection of consciousness is the first Aysse. An Aysse is simply a collective physical image of all the consciousness gathered. Idk apparently the black hole sucked up a lot of bats and tigers and fur or something >__>. But anyway. Once the energy is freed, it bangs into the universe. The ambient consciousness is what makes the first Cosmic Aysse. (Formerly Celestial Aysse, now they're cosmic). They make up the first stars, and their energy burns and singes and is... .idk starry. They're INCREDIBLY powerful and have the most energy and power to their disposal. They don't have physical bodies as they're just energy and fusion and the first, what? 2 elements? Until they blow up more and then go up to Carbon or Iron depending on their size ANYWAY. If they want to send off a small portion of their consciousness for whatever purpose, they can gain whatever physical form they wish. They usually take the SpaceCat form that the rest of the Aysse have, though there are exceptions.
Cosmic Aysse have nothing but good intentions in mind. They essentially burn themselves alive for the benefit of others. They are large and sweet and are DEEPLY deeply angered by pain and destruction and general sadness and injustice.
The first few Cosmic Aysse lived out their lives as stars, and supernova'd. The only way you can kill a Cosmic Aysse is this way. Or the dwarf star way. I need to work on this.
ANYWAY. The flinging of consciousness into the young universe makes the opportunity for the collective consciousness to divide. Supernovas also create the rest of the elements in the universe, so they're necessary for life as we know it. WE ARE ALL STAR CHILDREN. Anywayanyway.
This fission of consciousness and energy created a smaller version of the Cosmic Aysse, called the Celestial Aysse. They're the middle ground of the species. Celestial Aysse are still extremely, extremely powerful, but they're no star. They have physical bodies, but it's basically just for fun. It enables them to have corporeal fun on planets when they're bored of space and just being floating wills. However, their bodies aren't *necessary*, and so they can still dance through space and have it not be fatal. Celestial Aysse also have the SpaceCat form, though they can take a second lower energy form that helps them to blend in or hide their massive energy signatures. These second forms don't tend to deviate much from their SpaceCat form, but they're still distinct. Think SpaceCat ---> lion.
Celestial Aysse can also take a gigantic Higher Energy form that's unstable, short-lived, and generally ends in pain and explosion. Celestial Aysse themselves typically have a wide range of agendas and they are absolutely not to be trusted until they have earned it, and even then look out.
Corporeal Aysse are all the Aysse I have so far, save for Sonsie and Beccat, who are both Celestial Aysse, and Snow who is an outcropping of Sirius, who is a Cosmic Aysse because.... she's Sirius >__>. They are completely dependent on their bodies, cannot change form, and are much weaker than either Celestial OR Cosmic Aysse. Though their roles in creating life are still extremely necessary. Without their abilities to channel energy across their planets, there would be no life as we know it. They all contain very small amounts of the consciousness from the beginning of the universe. They all take the SpaceCat form. They are the most powerful truly *living* creatures in the known universe, however.
This consciousness is everywhere. There is nothing, not even the vacuum of space, that doesn't contain the information stored in this consciousness. When a corporeal Aysse, any living creature, or basically anything, dies, its consciousness/personality/whatever is flung off into space, where it wanders the cosmos until it finds the opportunity to re-enter a body. These living beings can't remember any of this at any given time, but it's still a fact. It's basically reincarnation with some animism thrown in.
ANYWAY that's what I got so far again. I'll probably read this in a few weeks and hate it BUT UNTIL THEN OH WELL.
What's this delicious writing in December thing you're planning on doing? Let me do it with you. I have some Space Aysse Creationist Quantum Mechanics.... things to that I need to deeply bastardize <__<
So basically, the Aysse as I know them are physical beings that are built to suck up excess Energy in one place, and drop it off where it's needed via passive diffusion. This keeps things running smoothly on the planet they live on, as otherwise Energy would pool up erratically and the planet would die or blow up or dance out of orbit etc.
But now I'm going backwards. Basically, those Aysse are the lowest and most Matter-y type of Aysse. But there's another type of Aysse, the Celestial Aysse. These are being of pure Energy. They are nothing but light and heat and glow. There was initially only one of them. He wandered around the then-empty Universe and was lonely. So he blew himself up. Big Bang, yes. This created Matter, and several more Celestial Aysse. They aren't *quite* the pure Energy of the first Celestial Aysse, but they don't have forms or bodies or anything corporeal at all, they just carry atoms around with them. They wandered around forever, seeing these floating, hollow, lifeless floating rocks, and thinking of what you could do with them. So one stayed put, burning and glowing and heating and watching as they can do, and the planet eventually showed signs of life as a result. This THRILLED the Celestial Aysse, as they wanted to share their existence with everything.
So some divided again. Celestial Aysse divide like fire. It's not a biological process, it's more like a chemical process. They shed more of their energy, which left more Matter. They eventually took residence on these new planets and evolved. This formed an Aysse about equivalent in power to a present-day Retromutant. They now have physical bodies, but don't necessarily *need* them. They can manipulate space and Energy so they don't need to use their bodies to still exist. So they can wander around space and space-pop from place to place. They aren't NEARLY the burning supernovas of their ancestors, but they are extraordinarily powerful. They can use their bodies to suck up and store Energy, and they have perfect control over when and where they release it. This, combined with their inherent and natural levels of Energy, create all sorts of nuclear-fusion-type energy things. So they can blow tons of shit up and can change into a badass godformly thing to blow MORE shit up and can do tons of crazy magic heat and light and energy.... things.
However, the Aysse eventually evolved hand-in-hand with their planets until the two couldn't exist without each other. The Energy needs and Aysse to transport it around, as Aysse will forever be the go-between for Energy and Matter, but the Aysse rely on the planet to keep them alive, as they became purely corporeal beings. Their Energy-storing channels don't open and close properly due to a (strategically-placed?) autosomal-dominant mutation that leaves the channels always at least partially open. They're still very good at transporting energy, actually now they're BETTER at it, as it now happens whether they want it to or not because of passive diffusion through the channels at all times. They can't dimension-hop or aimlessly wander through space on their own, though if an Aysse of higher power (Celestial Aysse, Retromutant Aysse, etc.) can beef them up with enough Energy that they can suspend their bodies and become just Energy and Consciousness and then they can wander across space as well. They're still righteously powerful, though. Like, leagues more powerful than regular living things, since their Energy-to-Matter ratio is still much higher, even if it pales in comparison to other types of Aysse.
Pretty much, Aysse are a ratio of Energy to Matter. The more Energy you have, the more powerful you are. The more Matter you have, the less powerful you are. But on the flip side, you get a body and friends and you aren't just hot and glow and consciousness.
tl;dr, everything stays the same, but now I have en excuse to draw more space and glowing stuff <_____<