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This is a day early, but I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to read this info first before the fic on how the trio met their familiars, which will go up tomorrow!
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Kipling’s Familiar: Taro
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Species: Purple Pygmy Lemur (a cross between a ring-tailed lemur and a sugar glider). She got her name from the taro root, the inside of which is a pale lavender, the same as Taro’s coat. The fur on her belly is white. She has darker shades of purple concentrated around her ears and in the stripes going down her tail.
Taro is energetic, mischievous, and social. She has a tendency to leap onto the head of whoever Kip is checking out in the moment, regardless of whether or not Kip knows them. Kipling gets really embarrassed by this, but it still makes for a fantastic albeit awkward conversation starter.
Though they don’t share a mental link, Taro and Kipling are very sensitive to each other’s emotions/moods. Later on, Taro becomes integral to Kipling’s mastery over grey magic.
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Ozy’s Familiar: Abaco
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Species: Olive Capped Warbler. He’s named after the island in the Bahamas where these birds are the most concentrated.
Abaco is, in essence, Ozy’s personal secretary. He knows all the random places where Ozy leaves his various puzzles and works-in-progress. Whenever Abaco senses that Ozy is looking for something, he will retrieve it as swiftly as possible. This requires a lot of management on Abaco’s part since Ozy can be fairly scatter-brained, a bit of a hoarder collector, and can never stick to one project at a time.
Partial mental link. Abaco can read Ozy’s mind and react accordingly. Ozy, for all of his intelligence, still has not figured this out. He believes that Abaco is a glorified lucky charm and that all of his behaviors are entirely coincidental in nature.
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Khleo’s Familiar: Hefe
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Species: Southern African White Lion. She’s named after the German word for yeast. Pronounced like hey-fuh
Hefe is a tad... cosmic. She carries with her fragments of the Strength Major Arcana. She can take Khleo to Strength’s Gate whenever she wants. However, she won’t do this unless Khleo is in serious danger.
Khleo is the only one who shares a strong mutual mental link with her familiar. They talk all the time, often when Khleo is in conversation with someone else or working the bar. Their link can stretch several miles. This allows Khleo to communicate with Hefe when she can’t get away with a lion hanging out on the property.
Hefe is very sneaky. She is stealthier than normal lions and she can, to an extent, hypnotize people. Khleo deeply disapproves of her familiar’s use of hypnosis, so Hefe rarely taps into it.