203 - Freudian Chimera

Unnatural Entity: Freudian Chimera

There’s an agrimancer who fancies herself a therapist. She’s no such thing, she never finished high school, but she reads about it every moment she isn’t experimenting with animal husbandry. Theories of mind and compulsion, traumas buried in the subconscious that conventional aid can only root out after years of painful introspection. This seems uncertain and primitive to her. Instead in the same way that she has shortcut around nature in the microcosm of messy expulsions, animal midwifery and selective breeding, she births her client’s inner demons into the world to deal with them directly.

It’s an involved process combining the extraction of a number of bodily fluids and tissues (including marrow and bile) from the progenitor client and the carefully managed interspecies surrogacy of at least three cycles of different animals determined by a complex combination of astrology and personality testing. Unless magickally sped up (and she hates to interfere like that) the process can take years. The creatures spawned from the final birth are hideous freaks of nature, conglomerations of every previous animal involved in the process and animated with unnatural vigor.

The resemblance of any of their forebears is entirely superficial for these creatures. Dissected they are undifferentiated material the whole way through except for a trio or quartet of sacs containing an oily rainbow of fluid that reeks of hydrocarbons if they are punctured. They eat only the inedible refuse we throw away, plastics, glass, etc. In most respects chimeras are only as smart as the dumbest animal in their combination, excepting in cases of their progenitor’s passions. Their reaction to those is uncannily human.

Everyone has a different use for chimeras: journeys of self-discovery and transformation, an unnatural proxy for the excision of persistent traumas, a mirror to gauge their mental health against or an unusual pet or familiar. One repeat customer demands to be locked in a barn with his overnight, emerging bloodsoaked and victorious with the dawn. It would be more impressive if his weren’t mostly made out of chickens and cats. It is theoretically possible that a chimera might be used to indirectly control, monitor or hurt someone but their creator would never willingly make one for that purpose.

Used to further a relevant objective in the right way they are good for a weighty global/petty cosmic milestone. Even using one the wrong way is good for a milestone only one step down from that.

Freudian Chimera, Beast of Inner Nature
Wound Threshold: 30-120, depending on the size of the agglomerated animals.
Id 50%: Substitutes for Struggle, depending on the animals it is made from the chimera may have a +3 or +6 damage bonus. Can be flip-flopped against targets of its progenitor’s rage passion.
Ego 50%: Coerces a gauge. The same one tied to its progenitor’s fear passion, it can flip-flop rolls that relate to the passion directly.
Superego 50%: Cooperative. May shift its or another party’s rolls by exactly 10 points in either direction consistent with its progenitor’s noble passion.
Trauma 70%: Select a supernatural identity. This identity only exists for chimera’s birthed from progenitor’s with one or more disorders, to which its power is symbolic.