Jabber is an alchemical Other[1] made out of the same clay the gods created life from. Made as a hallow to store power.[2]
Personality[]
He is very noisy and spends most of his time gargling nonsense.
Matthew keeps him in a box at night.[3]
Relationships[]
Spends a lot of time with the Goblins.[4]
Appearance[]
He is three feet tall and made from white clay with metal rods attached to it for additional support.[5]
Has an overly large head with empty eye sockets and a triangular hole for a nose. His mouth is wide like a bear trap and filled with blunt teeth. Over his face he wears a white mask made from paper mache or plaster with hole cut out for his eyes nose and mouth and a metal band around his head.[5][6]
He has a glove on one hand and misshapen legs that cause him to limp.[5]
Abilities[]
Draws out happiness from other people turning innocents into a gibbering wreck in the process.[7] They experience this time as if it their a black out and are depressed afterwards,[8]. Lasts as long as he remains nearby or until he can no longer hold any more. This energy slowly leaks out of him until he’s empty.
It seems to disrupt the mind and keeps Connections from the innocent and aware from forming.[9]
Chronology[]
He was created by an alchemist as part of a set, one of them would have the job of stirring up emotions, another would collect it and a third would refine it. Jabber managed to escape but the rest were smashed because they were used to capture civilians and harvest them.[10]
Joined Kennet after Bristow’s aware invaded.
Biscuit crawled inside him and planned a prank on Avery.[11]
As part of the preparations to counter Maricica and prevent her using him he was hidden in a box and surrounded by other decoy boxes, each one trapped in some way.[12] It's later revealed that Lis had planned to use him as a power source so that she could turn into Ken.[13]
References[]
- ↑ Jabber is an alchemical other created by an alchemist who wasn't among the kinder souls in practitioner society. - Excerpt from 8.7 New Other Correspondence
- ↑ Jabber is fashioned of the same kind of clay that gods would breathe life into & was hollowed out to serve as a hallow and host of sorts. - Excerpt from 8.7 New Other correspondence
- ↑ I don’t think Jabber is coherent enough to even notice he’s been bound. Matthew puts him in a box at night!- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.8
- ↑ Goblins are taking their time escorting Jabber."
"You put Jabber and the Goblins together?" Lis asked, already most of the way to the front door by the time he finished talking. - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.1 - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 He was three feet tall, thin, with an oversized head, his body pale to the point of being off-white, and undefined by nipple, by bellybutton, or other real features. There was staining in the recesses, like mold, which seemed to have gone straight to near-black or black, and this same staining filled empty eye sockets, the rough triangle of the hole where the nose should be, and the inside of the very wide mouth that would have been ear to ear, if he had ears. That same mouth was lined with blunt teeth that didn’t look like they’d been set in with any care or organization. The various details of the face were hidden behind a plate-shaped mask that had holes cut out for the eyes, just a bit bigger than the too-round eye sockets, a triangular hole for the nose, just a bit bigger than that indentation, and a jack-o-lantern semicircle hole for the mouth, which only really lined up if his mouth was open, which was sometimes.
The plate was held in place by a ring of metal with screws extending between it and his head, another band encircled the jaw, reinforcing it. He had a bar at the neck, three bars at one upper arm, and a kind of stiff rubber glove over one hand. No pants, no genitals, just an askew pelvis that sat perpetually thrust forward.
- Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.1 - ↑ In the poor lighting he could be mistaken for a goblin but he has flesh resembling wet white clay braced with splints/screws/rods where it wasn’t strong enough on its own. He has a mouth like a bear trap and a crude white mask that could be paper mache or plaster. Metal bands looped around his head and screwed into bone help keep his skull from collapsing sideways and keep the mask in place. When still he could be mistaken for a macabre doll but he is rarely still– he limps and drags himself around and makes incessant noise. - Excerpt from [8.7 spoilers] New Other Correspondence #2
- ↑ He draws out happy energies and mirth and acts as a battery. In actuality Jabber's laughter and smile could be considered infectious or viral. This lasts as long as he remains nearby or until he "tops off" on what he can absorb through air. - Excerpt from [8.7 spoilers] New Other Correspondence #2
- ↑ Affected civilians experience lost time as a blackout or disconcerting daydreams and are depressed & emotionally imbalanced after the fact. - Excerpt from [8.7 spoilers] New Other Correspondence
- ↑ [Avery] looked for the connections, and the fact Jabber was effectively blocking the connections between people by making his victims unable to think made the coast a lot clearer. - Excerpt from False Moves 12.8
- ↑ He was made as part of a set of dolls with interlocking functions. One to stir up feelings and another to collect/ one to refine and one to recycle. They were smashed because they were being used to gather up civilians and then keep them in place while they were harvested of all relevant fluids and parts. - Excerpt from [8.7 spoilers] New Other Correspondence #2
- ↑ She picked up Jabber from the bench, and his arms moved, legs kicking at air. “Walla!”
And, twisting him around a bit, found Biscuit with her face pressed against Jabber’s armpit, traces of clay dust on her hair and face. There was a crack there. - Excerpt from False Moves 12.10 - ↑ Jabber was in a box, in a sea of ‘boxes’. Matthew had gone the extra mile, getting coolers, cases, crates, and other containers, piling them into the back of his truck and delivering them to three different factories. Many were bound in chains, straps, and cords. Jabber was in one. Various explosive runes and tricks were in others. Verona had used some stray alchemy stuff to lace some with scents, to confuse senses.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.10
- ↑ “You hid Jabber away, that was a wrinkle… we had to figure out other options.”
“Power?” Avery asked.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.12