Q. Can a Being Contract to another Being?
A. No. Nor can they be contracted to animals. (For the record, there aren’t any sapient extraterrestrials in this universe.) It only works with humans.
Q. I wondered if beings ever get jealous of their masters, either if they’re paying attention to other beings or other people. Probably is different from being to being, but I know that their emotions aren’t quite human, so they might not at all.
A. Yes, Beings can get jealous. (That’s what’s going on in this strip with Patrick, for instance.) It varies from Being to Being, and it also depends a lot on how secure they are in their Master’s affections. The current version of Patrick has a hard time trusting in his importance to Bianca; a lot of the other Beings we’ve met are more secure.
Q. Could Beings use their animal identity as a name? With multiple languages you could even find a name that sounds halfway normal, for example, My name is Cat, my name is neko, my name is Kassi.
A. Afraid not. The limits are based on underlying meaning, so you can’t get around them with clever phrasing. A Being can say things like “I am the Cat,” but it’s just a characteristic like “I am a blonde” or “I am tall”, not an individual identity.
Very Important Question that i can’t believe noone’s asked yet: how many distinct forms – as in, injurys won’t transfer between them – do Beings have?
less important questions: can the Cows be aurochs? can Beings in general be extinct animals? did someBeing inherit the Mouse’s animal form(s)?
also: what makes a name True, since Timothy was able to Contract as Camellia before, i think, he started using it regularly?
Thanks for the questions!
1) Three distinct forms. Human, animal, and monster.
2) The Cows can’t become aurochs, even the one that was originally the Auroch. Once a species or subspecies goes extinct, a Being can no longer take on that form.
3) Beings can’t “inherit” each other’s forms. They’re all individuals, not connected in that way. They’re not like Time Lords ;)
4) Your true name is the one you identify with, whether anybody else knows it or not. (Entering into a mystical Name-based contract locks it in, though, so the contract would still apply even if your name changed later on.)
“…the terror that flaps in the night”
“…Groot”
“…DA LUH”
I can’t believe you just confirmed that aliens are not real.
Ah, but many French last names include an article and the name “Lechat” means “the cat”, for example.
Other languages may have similar constructions.
Come to think of it, homophones could also be a nice loophole.