Anomaly

**The Anomaly** is a powerful cosmic force from House of Eternal Return. Her appearance resembles a glowing, pulsating mass of purple bubbles with magenta, vine-like appendages, but in other descriptions, flashing and fading lights.

## History

In the beginning, everything existed as a single, perfect tone. It was eventually no longer satisfied with perfection; It became curious and longed for the unknown. The tone faltered and the Anomaly was born, bringing chaos along the multiverse. This also gave birth to the Shadow Beings. As the Anomaly grew, a war seemed likely. Instead, the Shadow Beings proposed a truce, forming the Charter. The Charter controlled the Anomaly through laws of physics. The Anomaly was allowed to freely create because it weakens her power, agreeing to inevitably return back to order. However, this is of course stated through the mouth of The Charter, which has a characteristic distate for her. There is a possibility she may had never agreed, as well as that she may not even be weakening, as it is said by Jean Selig's funeral program that one returns to the Anomaly upon death, meaning that some of the energy that leaves her may actually return.

The Anomaly is kept in the courtyard of The Pyramid, apparently able to be seen through the windows of certain Charter offices.

The Anomaly sent her essence to humans on Earth, causing the Charter to respond by asserting control over humanity rather than fighting her directly. However, in recent installations, there could be signs that Eemians born after Convergence may have recieved some kind of gifts similar to the humans. These gifts are numerous and vary greatly between eachother, from Lucius Selig's Dimension Hopping, Lex Pastore's Scientific accument, Marin Dram's glitter dreams, and even Morgan Pastore's ability to speak to plants. It seems these gifts could be genetically passed down (both Piper Pastore and her children, as well as Jean Selig and Emerson Selig, all related, have these powers), but can also be falsely acquired, such as Lucius Selig's instance. The Charter has the ability to lock these powers away from their users if push comes to shove.

On March 17, 2016, the Anomaly was let through by the portal that the Seligs opened when attempting to retrieve their son, Lex, with the Transducer. It is thought that her embroiling chaos is what caused the other portals in the house to tear open, as well as why these locations related so directly to the family.

She is decscribed as mindless by The Charter, but this is a lie. This is most likely to depersonalize the Anomaly, as The Charter often also refers to her as "It", even though she is described to have only She/Her pronouns. There are several instances of The Anomaly being said to speak to the humans she gifted. In his Last Will and Testiment, Emerson Selig claims that as he grows older, he begins to see flashes of colors that speak sweetly to him in the same voice as his passed wife, Jean. He also says that Jean described these same occurences before she died. As well as this, a suspicious dream from Jean's Dream Journal, "The Dream of Them Watching", sounds quite similar to the Anomaly's plight, which could've been her communicating directly to Jean. This dream could also imply the idea that the Anomaly had never agreed to the Charter's terms, with its themes of entrapment. This can also be supported by another dream from Jean, "The Dream of Fields of Me ", where she says "Ancient Egyptians believed gods could communicate with them through dreams. are you a god?". In fact, many of Jean's dreams could be the result of this.

In an Ask Me Anything event on the r/meowwolf subreddit, the meowwolf story team confirmed that The Anomaly is also the Source, with the term "Source" simply being a catch-all for anomalous energy and its effects. This means meowwolf tweets like "The source is real and it loves you" could also apply to the Anomaly.