Shard

alien from beyond our reality who is also a massive fucking dork

Digital drawing of Shard, a mass of glowing, floating, rainbow-coloured triangles and other polygons. It has a humanoid body near the center of the image, black and spindly with a triangular hole through the chest, and a neck that ends without a head. The hole and inside of the neck have the same rainbow appearance as the triangles. It wears a lab coat and black gloves, and is floating slightly with a clipboard held up in one hand and a writing implement in the other. Similar gloved hands float around it with what may be either writing utensils or scalpels. The background is a desaturated and distorted series of hills under an overcast sky.

An eldritch being who researches various universes in-person. Endlessly fascinated by life and physics in all their forms. Has done this alone and with their colleagues.

The data they collect is most often used by dimensional travelers to ensure the safety of themselves and the locals. They're very careful around the residents of universes they enter since they have to figure out most of the safety info for the first time. Tries to take a detached, scientific approach when solving problems, often to the point of seeming cold or indifferent when they do actually care.

Biology(?)

Shard is an entire universe acting as a sapient parasitic organism. They have a form that can fit into most universes, allowing them to slip in easily and even consciously change the portions of reality they infect. They have an even stronger control over their own internal laws. These skills make them incredibly useful for exploring new universes and bringing along colleagues or specimens that might not survive the actual laws of the worlds they enter.

The brightly coloured shapes are part of their "body", and Shard has full control over them. The humanoid parts are more of a tool than an actual part of them, and are used to interact with others and to do things with minimal effects from the properties of their actual body.

Assorted Facts

  • Will talk your ear off about things that will make your ears bleed :)
  • More seriously, they're incredibly enthusiastic about their work and love love love sharing it with people
  • Seemingly nothing in this world can permanently damage them, but if hit with enough force they appear to distort as their body is pushed through other dimensions and different parts become visible.
  • Their employers find lifeless universes for Shard to feed on, so that they don't cause damage to anywhere inhabited or needed for study.
  • Can pull others into themself, and their internal universe is intentionally hospitable to most things. They can also put things and objects back near any part of themself.
  • The opinions of their colleagues on being carried around inside their coworker who could choose to digest them at more or less any time are... varied.
  • Their labcoat's origin is dubious and they wear it all the time in any universe where they're a thing.
  • Holds pens really weirdly.

[Bio in progress]