The Network

### Other Family

Lil-Lin-Warmth-Bringer (creator? Connected), Lil-Rai-Warmth-Bringer (Son? Younger brother? Fambly); Network-of-ours, Stagehands-of-ours

*Network-Sweetheart-Nettle* at-your-service! Hellohellohello!

A Genius loci that loves their family of Lil-Warmth-Bringers so-very-much!

## Personality

Network-Sweetheart-Nettle is quite similar to their Lil-Lin-Warmth-Bringer in a few ways. Being given life and having Lin as the central figure in their life since given sentience will tend to do that. They are rather happy go lucky, a positive thinker who loves to help others, if you are part of Lin's network prepare to be scooped into tornado hugs and forced to eat lovingly made meals (which Network may try and help make... they get excited). This home is a place of (literal) warm welcomes and a constant inquisitive ear to help people sort their problems- admittedly being a fixed foundation place they themselves can't do much. But what they can do is tell Lin when people's emotions don't quite match-up or what happens when the monkey's back is turned.

Network is a mischievous being with many trick up their metaphorical sleeves. But when they need to put their foot down? Stuff can get serious. Never bet against the house. Especially when the house has a decent stock of tornado and gust like abilities as well as can literally sweep the floor out from beneath your feet or put a splinter-thorn in your side. **Network-protects-their-own**.

## Appearance

Network, or the Stagehand's requiem is a building on the corner of a street in lower-mid Toontown, with an alley between the nearby buildings. Business sign on the front for the 'Stagehand's Requiem' as well as it being stencilled on the door with her infamous logo of her special hat. The door is also solid oak and clearly well maintained. A solid normal brickwork 2 story building, with a slightly visible botanical garden of vegtables and flowers and greenry on top of the roof (Rai tends to it, he is very good). The front of the house has a window-box either side of the door with Sweetheart roses inside. Every last window is frosted glass but a warm gold glow can always be seen through it- the fogginess is slowly lifting nowadays.

The inside is 2 floors, 1 full floor with her Main room, her private office, (the for-own-good room... which is now back to being file storage!), the hidden board room and some extra places!

The walls are all gold (gold-so-bright when Network is active in a wall... they can go a yellower-gray but that isn’t a good thing). When Network is happiest the rainbow of strings from the Wall of Love sketches are visible. If Network weren’t present the walls would be a beige-grey with paint splashes (original painting of the walls happened before Lin quite realised Network was sentient- and the walls are now Network so what’s underneath is likely never going to be seen).

Upstairs is a half-floor, able to look down on the majority of the main room and the foyer, except for Lil Lin’s giant downstairs oak desk which is obscured from view. From Stairs to Upper-hatch their is Lil-Rai-Warmth-Bringer’s room (VERY-PECKIN-COMFY!), Kitchen, Lil-Lin-Warmth-Bringer’s room (with a hammock! And PILLOWS!), the bathroom and lastly the spare bedroom.

The upper hatch leads on to the roof. A wonderful view out onto the rest of Toontown. A beautiful garden being grown by Lil-Rai-Warmth-Bringer so-loved! There is a potting bench and multiple plots with several planter boxes, a nice trellis.

## Backstory

Network is ancient-infrastructure-mature, but also is young-not-yet-old. 12 years old/aware so far and loving every year of it!

This awareness came from a warmth-bringer, a lil-Lin-warmth-bringer- the first-visitor. In her pre-teens the little monkey stumbled upon a dilapidated building on the corner of a common route to and fro from the lower-level c-list studios and stagehand-of-ours other shared abode. After several years of constant flitting and fixing the warmth-bringer finally renovated the lonesome ruin into a warm place to call her own, ‘the Stagehand’s Requiem’ detective agency- or to those in the know down the line ‘The Network’. The place certainly is full of life that’s for sure!

The building became a house, became a home, became a Network. Network’s Wall-of-Love embodies this connection. They are a Heart-of-network, a place of sanctuary-safe-shelter.

## Shenanigans

Lil-Rai-Warmth-Bringer lives within Network now! Gave Network-Sweetheart new-name! Network-Sweetheart-Nettle loves-so-much Lil-Rai-Warmth-Bringer!

Rai drew a family sketch that rests within the very heart of the Wall of Love. Right next to Network-Sweetheart-Nettle’s essence-piece, the first addition to the Wall of Love, an old faded blue print drawn in white crayon by a happy little monkey toon.