Squire Psykha
Squire Psykha was the Embodiment of Thought in the Void Between Worlds, occasionally mislabeled as the Embodiment of Information or the Embodiment of Consciousness.
Description
Physical appearance
Psykha broadly resembled Lord Thymon in broad shape, but instead of tentacles, their vertical, column-like body “seemed to be made of endlessly-shifting, conjoined bubbles, enmeshed in a net of neurons and dendrites”. Like Thymon, they had a single, great eye, which took the form of “a particularly large bubble, with a multi-coloured, vertical coil of neural matter in its axis for a pupil”. Also like Thymon, they wore a hat. The bubbles making up the lower half of their body could burst as easily as mundane bubbles, which did not appear to constitute any kind of serious injury for Psykha, though it did annoy them. (PROSE: Family Business)
Personality
Psykha was generally held to be the nicest of the three Embodiments; (PROSE: Family Business) indeed, Jenny Everywhere once described Psykha “a sweetheart”. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) However, despite their polite demeanour, Psykha had a callous disrespect of mortals, and believed that the Embodiments should not interact with them more than absolutely necessary. They took their duties very seriously, and their personal domain was a spartan, nearly-featureless room. (PROSE: Family Business)
Powers & abilities
As the interdimensional Embodiment of Thought, Psykha was omniscient and had the ability to manipulate concepts and language on a multiversal scale, once “obscuring” the gender-neutral version of the English words “uncle” and “aunt” on a whim to settle an argument and thereby rendering it unusable across the Multiverse. They also displayed the ability to teleport people out of their domain. (PROSE: Family Business)
Biography
Origins
According to Jenny Everywhere the origins of the three Embodiments were disputed; some believed that they arose in the Void out of the amalgamated perceptions of all its other dwellers, while others claimed that they had once resided in a specific universe from which they had been banished, subsequently imposing their own perception on everyone else. However it came about, however, the perceptions of the three Embodiments of the Void provided a “consensus reality” experienced by all who travelled through the Void, thus allowing for permanent constructs inside the Void, such as the Interdimensional Tavern and the Interdimensional Hotel, to arise. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)
Psykha was the sibling of Lady Spatium, the Embodiment of Space, and Lord Thymon, the Embodiment of Time. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) In fact, at any one time, three Shapechildren, birthed by Lady Spatium, existed, any one of them ready to specialise themselves and take over if one of the three adult Embodiments was incapacitated. This meant that for any given Psykha and Thymon, “Lady Spatium”, in different iterations, was both a sister and a mother. (PROSE: Family Business)
Meeting Sophie Everytime
On June 17th, 2022, Prime Universe time, Lord Thymon and Jenny Everywhere dropped in on Psykha in their home domain to introduce them to their time-shifted niece Sophie Everytime. Despite the young girl's best attempts to endear herself to Psykha, the Squire disapproved on principle of a half-Embodiment child in the family, and refused to take any responsibilty over her, going as far as to “obscure” the gender-neutral word for “aunt” or “uncle” all across the Multiverse to avoid being called it. After Sophie tried to hug Psykha anyway, resulting in some burst bubbles, they ejected the three visitors from their domain and back into th Void. (PROSE: Family Business)
Other references
A Temp once tried impersonating Psykha to trick Wendy VII. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)
Century Smith once swore “by Psykha!”. (PROSE: Century Smith and the Time Terror)
