Toon
Toons are entities comprised of a substance known to planar scholars as living ink. There is only one known race of Toon, which is the ink. The ink comprises all material in ToonRealm, and appears to reshape itself almost constantly. Toons "live" for only as long as they are observed. It is currently unknown if Toons even exist when they aren't being observed by an outside sentient. Toons are believed to only be self aware if they are in the shape of a person, object with eyes, or animal (and even that is up for debate). When the ink forms itself into a shape used before, the Toon remembers all that happened to it before within the Laws of Comedy. It has been determined through experimentation that the ink is one being until it takes a shape, then it is seperate beings. Despite having once been and inevitably returning to the same mass, individual Toons are unaware of what the others are thinking or even of how they will react to stimuli unless it would be funny to do so. Individual Toons that leave ToonRealm are stuck in that singular form and as that singular person ("character", to use the parlance of the Toons themselves), and they lose some of their abilities unless they are in contact with other Toons.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Toons often manifest their ink to resemble humanoid anatomy, including skeletons (though this is usually only visible when a Toon recieves an electric shock and does not seem to exist otherwise). Ignore the physical appearance of a Toon, the only anatomy they have is the ink, everything else is incidental. The only known exception to this is when a Toon manifests eyes, they do seem capable of sight through eyes. Toon ink is able to hold a shape, but is malleable and practically indestructible. It cannot be destroyed by burning, shocking, cutting, bludgeoning, magic, consuming, acid, or explosions. Toons can only be destroyed with rubber and only when they are outside ToonRealm. When outside ToonRealm, they can be injured by any normal method but cannot truly be killed.
Genetics and Reproduction
Toons are "born" from the ink when they need to be to perform for observers. Outside of the ToonRealm, they are able to reproduce with non-Toons but not each other, creating children that are of the non-Toon race but usually capable of anomolous magic similar to but distinct from Bloodline Mutations . While the first generation descendents of Toons do not usually manifest further abilities, they universally are drawn to physical comedy and are prone to malicious pranks. Further descendents of Toons can manifest a Blood Curse akin to those of the upper or lower planes. These manifest themselves as True Clowns on occasion, but if exposed to native Toon ink will always become Clowns.
Scientific Name
Outsider, Toon
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