Characters/English Word Name

A Ballad of Her Looks

Blue. A gentle pale blue all over, lightly speckled flatteringly here and there with sky blue scales. Her eyes deep sky blue, her lips shiny with royal blue gloss, her hair differing by deciding to be violet. All subtle matte tones such that it would take a second look or a touch to realize her latex composition. Deelyboppers antennae, shiny purple balls of tinsel bobbing upon springs extended out from her head.

Her purple overalls look like some sort of fuzzy denim, with a large pocket in front embroidered with interlocking ivy vines. Her curves flow gently rather than protruding, her body language flows with a fluid serenity, and she has the blissful smile common to the Bubble Dolls.

Her name tag hovers just over her left breast: "English Word Name".

The Story of Her Name

"At least one epoch ago, when the Warps were not quite as they are now, when the shapes of today were just beginning to form, trembling in newborn spasms, the first Terran came."

"Yes, a human! One from the storied planet called Earth. The very first Terran known. Not particularly significant, just another awkward gawky Outboxer stumbling around in an alien environment, and yet it would omen the floods of Earth natives to come." Dramatically, English gestures.

English's nose wrinkles amusingly, just like a bunny sniffing. "It smelled unique, but did not seem particularly distinct."

English points in the directions of each Warp as she mentions them. "The Terran stumbled through the Warps, with many narrow scrapes and unintentional bumbling affronts and amazing experiences. It narrowly escaped being enslaved by a Chitin Queen for its sheer unknowing indolence. It took part in a hella rock party in Down and became so sheerly amped up with drugs that it did not even know it was wandering into Strange. But fortune favors the fool, and it met the Forgotten Queen, perhaps one of the least worst things it could have found. And she favored it with her razor caresses so that it floated up to Up's hospitals atop a stretcher of sheer bliss...."

"The Terran, it abided in the warm security of Up for a long time before becoming restless and venturing into Bottom for fresh excitement and delights. Atop a caravan of dayglo neon rats it was carried into Charm, where it saw many bewildering wonders, such as the Windmill-in-the-Sea. And then, continuing its wandering, it came across... me." English winks.

"We stuck up quite a conversation about its history on Earth, its experiences in the Mess, general philosophy and so on. And then, not aware of the full implications of the automatic translation system, the Terran exclaimed bemused, 'There are so many people, their names are English word names! Sky! Machine!' And I smiled and told it, 'Well, that's certainly a coincidence, for my name is in fact English Word Name!' And so ever since my name has been thus." Now English bows.