Anon

Anons are a humanoid species with grey skin and sunglasses. They're based off the popular ask blog portrayal of Anons as powerful, chaotic beings.

## Anatomy & physiology

Anons start out physically completely identical, with most distinguishing themselves with clothing alone. Anons have inherent magic, and as this magic develops and becomes more powerful, they develop physical mutations that distinguish them from other Anons. The nature of these mutations depends on the individual. The first mutation developed is always an off black crescent marking on the side of the face, witch coincides with the first magical ability that is learned, the ability to enter and exit spacetime on will. anon inherent magic is very peculiar, being able to replicate anything that normal magic can do, at the cost of having to be learned instead of more or less being known as instinct.

theyre born with the sunglasses.

Upon reaching maturity, Anons cease aging. They will not die until they're killed.

Anons can create fertile offspring with any other sapient species.

Anon blood is the color of their aspect. Anons are born with grey blood, which changes color as they age.

anon eyes are a solid, glowing color. but if they dont want you to see their eyes and you take off their glasses, what is under them will change constantly. sometimes it will be another pair of sunglasses, sometimes it will be a smooth expanse of skin, etc. unless, of course, it would be dramatic for their eyes to just show

if the recipient is another anon, they insert the egg sac by cutting the recipient's stomach open. there are mechanisms for safely getting everything out come time.
because of this, if you press on an anon's stomach, they'll go completely limp.
also anons can do that thing kangaroos do where they pause the development of the fetus, but only for up to about five earth years
there can be up to 14 eggs in an individual sac, but typically only 1-7 end up becoming baby anons

### Diseases and disabilities

anons are pretty fleshy, they likely have their own versions of diseases like the flu

## Society & culture

Anons do not have one single culture. They live in a city outside of space-time, light-years in size. Though it's mostly just a bunch of Anons that agree to not kill each other.

The Anon city physically expands with its population.

Many Anons continuously seek more and more powerful magic, so as to distinguish themselves further from the masses.

By default, anons are anarchists. but this can change.

anon symbols are any traditionally non-linguistic (or characters from a long dead languages/forms of languages like cuneiform or ancient egyptian hyroglyphs) unicode symbols, usually related to their current name but not always.

### Factions

There are several groups of Anons that hold quite a bit of sway in the city.

* The first of two cults worships the fallen angel Azazel and believes in a paradise that will only come if they exterminate all non Anons, Anon hybrids, Anons that don't belive in their religon, and disabled Anons. they call themselves the knights of azazel
* The second of two cults believes it is the sacred duty of all Anons to maintain the city as a metaphorical seed vault for the multiverse, and abduct members of other species to further this goal. These two cults were started by brothers.
* A nation-state (city-state?) with a monarchy. like the other factions, they want to conquer the City.

## History

Anons have always been, and always will be. Even after everything else is gone, Anons and their city will remain. There is only a vague cultural awareness of this fact.

though they have existed since before the begeinning of time, sburb has adopted Anons as a failsafe. After the death of the last universe, Anons will still be there to play Sburb and restart the eternal cycle. Skaia knows not to target the whole city.

## Naming convention

Anons are usually named [x] Anon (i.e.; Chaos Anon), and are often referred to by the first part of their name by other Anons. the first part of the name is earned via the Anons' behavior, and may change over time.

## Notable individuals

True Prophet Anon (he/him): Known as "False Prophet" by those in his brother's cult, True Prophet Anon is the founder and leader of the other cult.
Arcanist Anon (she/her): Arcanist was a devoted Anon. Her life's work was the discovery of hidden and arcane knowledge, eventually leading her to fall in love and reproduce with the great old one Kthaw'keth. Unfortunately, when the child was due, the genocidal cult was in the process of violently conquering Arcanist's neighborhood. she teleported her obviously hybrid child away into spacetime, but not before the cultists saw. In the events proceeding, she ended up being forced to birth Prophet's grandson. She was then executed by Prophet's son, but she mortally wounded him in the fight. With the Arcanist Anon's last breath, she cursed Prophet Anon.
Purge Anon (he/him): Purge is Arcanist's son. The curse on his grandfather works slowly, leaving him on the brink of death for years. So he sent Purge Anon out on a quest into spacetime to prove his worth. He was to kill as many non-Anons as he could, slay any Anon hybrids he came across, and convert or kill any nonbelieving Anons he came across. Purge is only to come back when Prophet dies. He feels guilt for his actions.

### Individuals only notable on a meta level

Chaos Anon (they/it): Chaos Anon is Arcanist Anon's first child. They raised itself out in the woods of a narratively Alternia adjacent planet. They're feral, illiterate, and eat live chickens. However, Chaos is very much a person. It's pretty much never interacted with another anon, so they named themself after the first word they ever spoke. It doesn't have their own voice, every word instead being an exact mimicry of the first time Chaos Anon heard it. Chaos is VERY obviously an Anon hybrid, having large catlike ears, fur, two tails and a mouth that opens by flipping their face up.

Bloodlust Anon (they/them in the plural sense): Bloodlust is less an Anon and more a group of evil Horrorterrors stumbling around in an Anon body after being sealed there to stop their vicious tyranny over the original occupants' homeland. Their goal is to to cause as much bloodshed as possible, which is much less now that they all share a body. Bloodlust tends to accomplish this goal by manipulating others, turning friends and family against each other. bloodlust has been trying to master the anon magic their host never learned, but cant because theyre not really an anon.

hero fled the land, becoming a wandering hero. they grew up like this, wandering the lands and eventually acruing a party of fellow adventurers.
but hero never forgot the plight of his homeland.
hero anon knew what they had to do. he sook out their castle, unguarded due to the horrorterrors collective hubris. of course they noticed hero anon in the end, but by then it was too late. they sealed the tyrants in his body with a talisman from a powerful wizard (hero never learned any anon magic by himself), a seal witch can not be broken until the hero's death. but what hero did not know was that this action would give them control over their body, creating the bloodlust anon.
recently, however, hero has gathered the strength of will needed to take control for short periods of time, up to an hour now

fun fact anon (she/her): fun fact is arcanist anon's littermate. she was very close with her sister when she was alive, sharing in her mission of learning arcane knowledge. where arcanist discovered, scribe (what fun fact used to be called) recorded. every discovery made was thouroughly and dutifully cataloged. but, eventually, arcanist was killed. in an attempt to distract herself from her sister's death, scribe buried herself in recording her remaining work. but, eventually, that ran out too. so she started recording whatever knowledge she could get her hands on. she lost her status as a highly respected scholar and eventually became known as fun fact anon due to the triviality of most of her current recordings.

## Trivia

* Anons' crescent face mark is reminiscent of the Anonymous icon from Tumblr.

## Etymology & Inspiration

Anon comes from "anonymous" meaning "an unidentified person"