AD203 Character Design Continued

The Fraiser Werp

Back Story

The Fraiser Werp - cute, big eyed, vacant looking creature with whiskers and two useless arm/wing like flapping appendages, grows up to about a foot tall and similar in shape to a bouzouki.

The Fraiser Werp is a little known obscurity, in fact if you mentioned the name to any leading biologist or historian they would suggest that you had simply made the name up. This is due to a number of unbelievable and unique characteristics of the Fraiser Werp.

The first being the airborne hormone they excrete through their skin which has a curious numbing effect in the part of our brain that recognises the specific shape of a Fraiser Werp thus resulting in us quite simply refusing to believe their very existence even if one was sat on your lap at this very moment. It’s worth noting that ‘biologists’ have recently discovered that the appearance of a bad picture or signal on a TV screen is quite often our mind’s way of interpreting a Fraiser Werp jumping up and down on our lap and blocking our view without us knowing.

  

More often than not it’s only once you have been told of their existence that it becomes possible for the brain to acknowledge their existence. The interesting thing is that this applies both to its physical presence and to pictorial or photographic records. Resulting in whole pages of detailed studies and observations by leading biologists and historians to have been both read and immediately forgotten about.

For example if one looks at a picture of the Mona Lisa and then you are told a Fraiser Werp was sitting on her lap, it become apparent that even Leonardo Da Vinci himself painted a Fraiser Werp without realising it.

  

Leading biologists have yet to find a more convincing explanation for this than that of the renowned 18th century biologist Professor Armitige Shanks, the first person on record than we know of remembering to actually write it down, which in itself is quite a remarkable feat considering amongst all of the world’s species that have actually been described only less than 1% have been studied beyond simply even noting their existence.

Professor Shanks concluded that their unique physical attributes cleverly trick the human mind into perceiving the creatures in the ultra-violet band of the visible spectrum. As our eyes are unable to see ultra-violet light we therefore believe Fraiser Werps are not actually there.

Interestingly, during the early 1940’s scientists tried to simulate these effects with the intention of applying them to armored vehicles and war planes during the second world war but the confusion that ensued during the development and testing lead to the rather embarrassing effect of hundreds of leading scientists spending an unaccountably large amount of time and money on technology and prototypes that can neither be found or remembered to this very day.

Indeed there are no records that can explain how the Fraiser Werp arrived at its name, logic depicts that it involved someone or some place called Fraiser and it apparently took some great effort to remember what it looked like whilst exclaiming a werrrrrping sound.

  

As there are few direct records of Fraiser Werp in existence, or at least that we are aware of, we are left to deduce their first discovery and existence from unexplained events and rumors throughout history books that don’t actually describe the Fraiser Werp itself thus preventing our minds from ignoring the information by concluding what has not been said about them.

  

Scientists have deduced that the Fraiser Werp’s skin is effectively nothing more than one large ear drum and that they extract all the energy they need to grow and survive in a process similar to the way that plants use photosynthesis to convert carbon-dioxide from the air with the help of sunlight, only Fraiser Werps harvest the energy generated by sound waves within their skin.

Surely with such big ears you might assume these creatures are continuously deafened by sound but an in-built compressor channels only the sound it needs to comprehend the sound around while diverting the majority to its wave farm glands.

With humans being the largest generators of noise on the planet it becomes unsurprising to find that Fraiser Werps pay so much attention to human activity. It is said that each and every one of us has at least one Fraiser Werp following us around at any one time. Needless to say they are greatly attracted to human conflict it is often wondered just how much an influence a Fraiser Werp could have on the mind of someone hell bent on world domination.

  

Intensive research has recently lead to the conclusion that both the Battle of Trafalgar and the unorthodox winning tactics of Nelson were in-fact both orchestrated by the insatiable appetite of a group of Fraiser Werps desperate for a bit of nourishment during an otherwise long peaceful voyage by jumping up and down in-front of the direct line of site of man on lookout. 73 Fraiser Werps crowded on the bow of each ship was a more than big enough number to absorb the sound of approaching cannon fire and the British were completely unaware they were about to slice through the Spanish Armada until they could smell Tapas.

Of course the British public could never be expected to except this version of events and would lead to an immense amount of confusion with regards to what the pigeons were sitting on at the top of Nelsons column.

Further detailed development sketches of the Fraiser Werp, I've not quite decided how detailed the character should be but at least I can pull back once I'v drawn everything up.