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Welcome to my domain!

My name is Tear Manifold!

As you can see I'm not allowed to set up shop anywhere else on the site (I'd take a spot on the front page if I could but i'll just have to settle for this (for the time being)), so consider this my personal lounge. This explains why it took so long for this page to load even though you might have realized that wasn't a valid page on this website. But now it is.

And as you can also see i'm a... mascot? a cartoon character? What do they call 'em these days? Oh yes, an OC!

You know, i've always taken exception to that term. What character isn't original? No, a better question would be what character is original? Everyone knows Superman is just the Biblical Moses crossed with John Carter of Mars, and that Goku is a cross between Superman and Sun Wukong. It's impossible to make a character that's totally unlike anything else. Everything is based on something. So what's the cut-off that's supposed to set apart a character that's merely based on another from just another unoriginal sonic recolour? Who's the guy who decides a character is different enough from another character to be its own? I mean, you tell me.

What the hell are you?

That being said, you could say i'm a self-insert of sorts (a self insert of a self insert of a self insert), but what character isn't? We always put a bit of ourselves into our character whether we want to admit it or not. Anima and animus, superego and id and all that - but you're probably tired of hearing me blabber about how such-and-such which we take for granted is actually subjective. So what the hell am I?

I'm the seven-degrees-removed emanation/version/iteration of an incredibly powerful and ancient entity whose name I won't disclose, since he's very dear to the webmaster. On top of that I'm also part trickster god, since part of me comes from a spontaneous being who goes by the name Deus Ludens.

Empirically I'm a stickman (the term "stick figure" is derogatory and dehumanizing). And we're not a species. In most universes we don't have any kind of national group identity. A few scholars (speaking with an obvious anthropocentric bias) like to call us hyper-human or arche-human because we typically embody the same things humans do (rational thought, transcendent existence) in a simpler, more purified form. With us the gap between signified and signifier is pretty much non-existent.

In the days to come you'll find a lot of detailed descriptions of all kinds of things but my race, species, or true nature won't be any of them.

So i'm... something, I guess.

Where'd you even come from?

What universe am I from? Oh it's boring, it's tiny. Stagnant, too. And everything that was there at the beginning of creation is still there today. It's not like yours with all that entropy smashing everything up and slapping it back together in all kinds of shapes. You really wouldn't want to visit (assuming you're an earthman). Not even worth describing, really. (Since leaving i've set up camp in one I even had a say in making (i've even dabbled in demiurgy a few times) but that's beside the point.)

So that's why i'm an interdimensional traveler. Yep. You called it. Just like every other annoyingly chatty, faux-witty, chipper, all-powerful, self-insert character we made when we were like 14 years old and wanted to imagine ourselves-but-not-quite-ourselves cracking snarky, meta-ironic jokes in our favourite TV shows and animated series; I'm an interdimensional traveler. I can go anywhere and that includes the places no plane or truck or starship can take you.

On the way here I took a detour through several different universes which in my personal opinion were far too interesting to ignore. Without further ado let's go on a journey!