Meat golem

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Meat Golems have green, ivory, and gray patchwork skin with stitches running across it and in cases of the golem women a pair of silver streaks running up their hair from their temples with some Meat Golems having cataracts on one of their eyes.

They are assembled from the bones out so their eye catching stitches continue all the way through connecting muscle to tendon to bone. Their insides can be gray-green with decay or otherwise dyed unnatural colors due to the industrial broth they have instead of blood which is a milky greenish liquid.

Golems have an asymmetrical appearance with limbs being slightly longer than the other owing to being constructed from multiple people. In cases where their creator didn't take time ensuring they matched these asymmetries can be quite pronounced with aspects like a hunchback, a much longer arm with disproportionately more developed muscles, legs that are wiry and bent, or a misshapen skull that that came from more than one person. But even a well made Meat Golem will lack whatever grace they had in life only able to clomp around.

If a Meat golems stitching isn't maintained and replaced periodically they can simply fall apart, also resewing their stitching can make them a lot more durable.

Unlike other monsters who remember who they were before their change each meat golem are functionally a new person with only a few memories and feelings left over from each part they're created from.

The green skin tone is something meat golems get after being in the sun for more than a day although they no longer sweat.

The Meat Golem woman are no longer able to talk only capable of making hissing noises of anger and irritation. However the men can still speak but only in short two word sentences like “Jane good. Why here?” that said the woman do laugh although completely silently.

Meat Golems smell like rain and lightning.

## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Due to the innate knowledge Meat Golems possess which is needed to build new Meat Golems and maintain themselves they make excellent medical practitioners. For this reason they are a frequent sight in medical establishments (even human ones) but due to prevailing sexism only male meat golem are doctors while the women are relegated to nurses at best.

The Meat Golem woman have a form of sign language only they know and teach it to each other in a "sacred trust" with no one else speaking or even knowing about it.

Other monsters tend to be very cautious around golems do to their tendency to turn violent at a moment’s notice something meat golems talk about from time to time in furtive conversation.

custom-assembled stitched-together by the owner animals are the preferred pet of meat golems, wolfhound being the in thing in LA and ants being it out in the Arizona desert.

## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Composite Undead Physiology:**

* **Pain Suppression:** injures that would be crippling agony for a human are nothing more then a nagging itch for Meat Golems.
* **Limb Reattachment:** limbs that had been severed can simply be stitched back together.
* **Cellular Memory:** While each Meat Golem are in effect a new person they still retain some memories from the bodies they are made from ranging knowing how to read, eat, and even drive to vivid hallucinations of past events.
	+ **The Green:** These memories result in urges that can’t be controlled and these confused feelings can end in violent fits called 'The Green' because it is perceived as a rising green tide in which they are submerged and lose conscious thought.

**Enhanced Strength:** Strong enough to rip a door from it's frame and hurl it.

**Enhanced Durability**

**Enhanced Endurance:** Meat golems don’t need much sleep or food.

**Conversion:** can turn humans into Meat golems by by hitting with lighting a newly constructing form built of at least 6 people (5 for the body 1 for the brain) which can be dug up from the grave or "made fresh".

* **Medical Intuition:** have innate medical knowledge allowing them to build new Meat Golems and maintain themselves.

**Fire:** phobia, fire will cause Meat Golems to panic and flee.

**Electricity:** weakness, while a strike of lightning raised them a second strike of electricity will kill a Meat Golem.

## Notable Meat Golems

* Burke O’Hare
* Jane Stitch

## Trivia

* skin-dolly is the derogatory term for Meat Golems.
* despite female meat golems being mute one working at Fer-de-Lance with the stage name 'Sherry Smith' was seen talking in full sentences, she was also seen wearing makeup thus unlikely to be a Doppelganger.

## References

1. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 412-415)
2. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 264-265)
3. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1802-1804)
4. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 432-433)
5. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 2181)
6. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1805-1807)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 90-93)
8. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 586-589)
9. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1664-1665)
10. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 634-635)
11. ↑ I went to the back room where we had a sewing kit with good, medical-grade sutures. You don’t employ a gaggle of meat golems without providing a way for us to fix ourselves. After all, how well we’re put together depends entirely on our creators. Sure, a bolt of lightning will kill us dead—how’s that for irony?—but you’d be surprised at how many simply fall apart due to shoddy workmanship. I’m very good at sewing. If I ever decide to make a kid for myself, that little—well, full-sized, but a girl can be poetic—fella will be tough as a panzer. I’ve popped nearly every stitch in my body since I was created, and believe me, resewing them has made me a lot more durable. It also gave me a closer look at my hand. - A Touch of Verdigris
12. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 1932-1933)
13. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 260)
14. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 3665-3666)
15. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Location 418)
16. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 602)
17. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Location 3636)
18. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 3924-3925)
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 2308-2310)
20. ↑ Oh, a meat golem. I hope my son becomes a meat golem. I’ve always wanted him to have a medical practice. Sure, who wouldn’t? Go into a hospital and it’s filled with my kind. Fighting diseases, patching people up, making monsters and humans feel better.Look closer. Go on, pick any hospital in the City of Angels, even one of the human ones. What do you see?The meat golem doctors? All men. The women are there too, but we’re nurses at best. Sure, lots of people make fun of the way our boys talk. It’s all “Fire, bad,” here and “Twenty CCs of morphine, good” there. But that’s a damn sight better than I can manage. - A Touch of Verdigris
21. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 196-197)
22. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 956-958)
23. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 319-321)
24. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 560-561)
25. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1800-1802)
26. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 2315-2318)
27. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 316-319)
28. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 2312-2313)
29. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 2926-2927)
30. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 63-67)
31. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 1496)
32. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Location 422)
33. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 435-436)
34. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 133)
35. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 881)
36. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1812-1813)
37. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1370-1372)
38. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 1031-1033)
39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 2202-2204)
40. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 1153-1154)
41. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Location 418)
42. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 1946-1948)