Ewen Godot

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EWEN Godot ✦ NOT FIRED YET



Isn't it the opposite of Icarus where we find our meaning?

An accomplice, an abettor, and the best friend you didn't know you needed, Ewen is always there to lend a helping hand out of nowhere in exchange for nothing but the privilege of assisting you. Sure, they might have appeared out of a tear between universes and seem unusually desperate to cooperate with anything you so desire, but they're so useful that it'd be a waste to say no.

So? Do we have a deal?


Meet the character

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Chapter 1: Calcination
Meaning oxidation by heating.

After a few decades serving a wizard of the high tower, Ewen probes and tries to get some answers as to why any of this happened to them.

Chapter 2: Solution
Meaning ”dissolution in “sharp” (or mercurial) liquids.” This means breaking a substance down by bathing it in acids.

Dredging up the memories of where their world began...and ended. Well, it started with a desk job and concluded with the world being devoured.

Chapter 3: PUTREFACTION
Decomposition. Now that you’ve broken your substance down with acids, you gotta boil it in warm compost to induce fermentation. This part turns a nasty black color.

The Macrocosmic Void. How did Ewen stand this for as long as they did? What did they learn?

Chapter 4: Reduction
The recovery of the fugitive “spirits” (Spirit in this context means a volatile substance) during the calcination process by means of a fluid (“philosophical milk”), whereupon a yellow coloration (citrinitas) appears. Basically, you’re adding back what you boiled off earlier. You know you’re doing it right when it turns yellow.

Gashes between dimensions open up frequently...and Ewen's just gotten back from one. Many turns have passed now. Ewen's getting used to this, too used to it. Jaded. So when they stumble upon an orphanage in need of a savior, they become its guardian angel.

Chapter 5: Sublimation
Adding the volatile, “spiritual” matter back to the vessel causes a violent reaction, and a red coloration. Alchemists often describe this as the raging of the “red dragon.” This is where Rubedo occurs.

Why me. Why this. Why now. They ponder over their predicament while idly bringing a dimension to ruin, just like their Macrocosmic kin are wont to do. Are they really so different from those things at this point?

Chapter 6: Coagulation
The reaction dies down, and the substance begins to solidify. This is the coagula part of solve et coagula. Congratulations, you have yourself some stable Prima Materia.

Chapter 7: Fermentation
This is a rare step. Some alchemists like to add a little bit of gold at this stage to act as a sort of “Yeast of Gold” to speed up the process.

Chapter 8: LAPIS PHILOSOPHORUM
The Philosopher’s Stone! Now your prima materia can grow into ultima materia, (supreme matter). This bit is usually described as a heavy, dark red, mildly shiny, powder or stone.

Chapter 9: Multiplication
Now that you have your philosophers stone, you can shave off bits of residue, and use that to make more. Like a mushroom.

Chapter 10: Projection
So you’ve got your Philosophers Stone, time to make some gold. All you gotta do is get some Philosophers Stone dust, and mix it into your base metal. If you’ve done your alchemy right, it should make the base metal change color until it looks like gold. In later, medical applications of alchemy, this is the point where you apply your panacea.

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The Story So Far...

The Meandering Present

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To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Style
they can wear other clothes, but won't!
Age
41 when their universe died, now ageless

Gender

whatever you want them to be, bub
Weight
paper and pencils don't weigh much...
Happy?
absolutely not.
Entity
The Unknown

Backstory

Atlanta, Georgia • 1969


Once part of the Marketing, Research, and Development team at PLEUR; Ewen Godot has been steadily promoted to their place as the personal Executive Assistant to the CEO. They are responsible for tending to her every need, and do this job with a blank stare on their face and a "yes ma'am." on their tongue. After working here for so long, nothing can or will phase them.

N O T H I N G.

Ewen's been at the company for longer than a lot of other people there, like, a LOT of other people there. They worked for another company, Qualitix, then after leaving (quit? fired? who knows) and transferred in ‘69 to the company that eventually merged with PLEUR. unless they're actively doing their job, they only care to have one eye open at a time. Disdain? Sleepiness? Who knows. Who cares.

After some unusual orders from the Boss, PLEUR got...chaotic. Ewen quickly became used to all the weird chaos stuff. Screaming? Don't bother, they'll be right as rain in a couple minutes. Shadowy figures and glitched out coworkers? Give them some space, they'll either be fired or calm down. Don't interact, don't look, don't do anything that might show that you're affected too.

And that was how Ewen spent their days working for PLEUR, not thinking about what was happening to their coworkers or what their boss was doing with all those candles and motor oil up on the roof. Don't look, don't think, don't bother. It's not your job to ask questions.

It's your job to follow orders. Nothing more.

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Behind the Design

• it's hard to see, but they've got heterochromia! became pink and cyan after the ritual, but was brown and blue before it.

• the concept for Ewen came from wanting a deceptively chill guy in the office and who loses the battle of chicken with their eldritch boss.

• used to be that they only had one eye open at a time since they were so sleepy. also was a coffee addict! those carry over into their present design with the heterochromia and coffee allusions.

• their story's title, Rumination, is both a reference to how they refuse to spit or swallow their situation AND referencing sheep!

• sheep are the backbone of their design. docile lamb, wolf in sheep's clothing, the fluff at their jacket collar being the only non-cymk part of their color palette...

Trivia Tidbits

• fun fact, they have an MBA and are actually very proud of that! ...listen, things were different in the 60's, be nice to them.

• they're a whiz at copying handwriting from all the fraud they did back in Atlanta.

• since their ribcage is a metal mesh trashcan, you can actually stick magnets to them, haha. they tend to fall off as they move though, since the metal isn't very strong.

• Ewen doesn't do hobbies, but enjoys sudoku, and even does it by hand in pen!

• their favorite food is watermelon! it has all the colors they don't have.

and now, a word from our actors

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How does it feel to be wrapping up this trilogy?

"Oh gosh, it's like a dream come true. I genuinely had no hopes for my story to be salvaged, if you can believe it!"

"I was originally created to be a character for a fan rp, but after that went under, I was plumb out of work. No original story to stand on and the other actors weren't too keen on sticking to the script anymore."

"After that it was, oh, two years of dormancy? I didn't know WHAT to do with myself! That all changed though at the discovery of OCTs, specifically ParaSomnia. Got a whole new look inside and out!"

"And now for it to end up being part of the main trilogy? The endcap at that? Truly humbled, truly truly humbled."

Supporting Cast

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The Boss [she/her]

Way back when Ewen was working for PLEUR in their original universe, their boss used her influence over the company to attempt summoning eldritch forces, but instead brought about the end of the world.

Ewen would like to forget her name.

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Petunia O. [she/her]

A recluse heretic nun running an orphanage deep in the woods, Petunia needs a miracle or five in order to save her from increasingly dangerous situations threatening her and the children's way of life.

Her desperate prayers bring Ewen into this world, but how long will they be able to play angel for her?

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Toby Moucheté [he/she/they]

After landing in a world eerily similar to their own, Ewen links with Toby's mother and, through it, becomes the biological uncle to a pair of siblings, one of which being little Toby.

I'm sure this will have no impact on anything whatsoever.

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Sonny Sparkles [he/they]

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire," Ewen thinks while adjusting the aperture of the studio cameras. "I didn't think I'd end up actually working for another boss trying to bring about the end of the world, y'know?"

PTSD central for poor Ewen over here.

the lost city of atlanta: another world

what was their life before their backstory?

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Ewen before the whole cult thing was a door to door salesperson who lost their job when it started being less valuable to do stuff in person. They worked for a place called Qualitix which has it's OWN shady underbelly, but that's a different story for another day.

Atlanta, Georgia is where it all went down. PLEUR was a marketing and advertising consultancy firm that had plans for taking over the world one way or another. Honestly, if the whole "summon an eldritch being" didn't work, they had lots of ideas on the backburner for getting the world under their thumb.

Their home universe was one that had a different kind of magic than the one they end up in with Sonny Sparkles and Toby Moucheté which is how they were able to tear the veil like they did. Fun fact, if Ewen tried the exact same ritual their boss did to bring in an eldritch horror when in the world that Sonny and Toby are in...it wouldn't work! Different rules per universe!

They don't regret what they did by the point that they enter the main universe's story. Their sense of right and wrong were already shakey before the whole ritual and only deepened as time went on and universes were traversed. oops! no morals!

(heads up, this is HEAVILY edited; check out Eggy for the second and third parts, Hj7 for the first part, and picture galleries code from this)