Created Friday 06 May 2022
The Succban Hub.
The girl with the roasted pistachios.
Friend of the Walker.
Succubi have preternatural intelligence. Well, "intelligent" in the sense that they have a sense for the preternatural and have integrate that into the intelligence created in their race.
Being that close to the Mycon means that it's inherently pretty easy for them to communicate with each other. They can share things across distances farther than we could ever jump. You can't jump back in time, so any knowledge transfer older than you is something you can never learn about directly. But they can. The Mycon is instant (well, shorter than a Planch length, so as far as we know it is), but Succubi are not. They tend to only have regional knowledge. They do communicate about things farther away---and can ask questions to be passed over to another group of Succubi---but really prefer keeping a good tab on what's going on around where they are spreading.
But still the universe expands faster. And runs out of workable energy. They survive longer than most species, but they are dying out, too..
Precious Little and the Walker
I have no idea. But Precious Little is inherently kind. But weirdly experimental. (Man, I cannot avoid tropes and cliches.)
Well, I mean her goal is to find the best ways to procreate in an entirely unknown environment (and I mean even on a carbon- or silicon-based trophic cycle) Talking to humans to see what they'll tolerate you doing is who she is.
But she truly never means harm. Yes, she inherently is indeed a drain on your energy systems, but mostly through their young (the larval glunck that keeps clogging Deux ex drives. Sure, she will try to have Succubi die out after you do, but she has absolutely no interest in severely hampering your insterstellar travel. They'll make darner sure they're there to go with you on the ride, but they'll also really travel light and lean.
So, she first appears to the Walker as a weird memory of seeing someone, and then running into them on the street. But for some reason, he can never consciously remember waht she looks like.
He does wonder if he's just got this weird mental tick that he does that. But he is very good with time, and remembers exactly when (but rarely where) he remembers something happening. And the timing of those sightings followed a pattern that grew clearer. He came to learn when they would happen and could slowly remember more of what she looked like, but he compared versions of the memories with each other and saw that how she looked was different at different times. He then realized she was taking form. He didn't know what it was, but it became more and more real.
Thing is, he always remember having been talking with her, but he can never remember when or even what or why. It's a memory completely stripped of all color and character. Not so much a fact as a memory you realize you've been remembering more a little while ago.
The Walker shapes the appearance of Precious Little. He never becomes fully aware of that---he never realizes she's a---The---Succucus, but he realizes no one else can see her. But that that's how it was for him, too, until he could. And, he says, she's kind. And she is.
But the physcial Precious Little always hides and seeks only the company of the Walker. She is demure, and rightly horrified by what she sees. But she does seem to reel in fear a little too much. (But, no, Succubi do not fight. You go into battle, you won't have Succubi by your side.
So, you see, it's so trite is it to have him be the Hostage to Kindness. (And idea already growing on very thin soil.)
Yeah, so Succubi are kinda pushy. Tiger wife sorta thing. And Precious is the pushiest. Whiny and while saying some really unexpected things, but she persists. She helps you find her a way.