The Inhabitants of Nowhere
*(Those Who Feed, Watch, and Forget)*
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### ⚓ **The Janitor** — *The Blind Collector*
**Role:** The Maw’s first guardian.
**Description:**
Long arms drag behind him, fingers twitching for anything that moves. His face is folded and smooth — no eyes, no light, only the sound of his breath echoing down the vents.
He moves by scent and sound, crawling through tight spaces like a memory that refuses to die.
**Behavior:**
He collects things that remind him of children — shoes, dolls, toys. He doesn’t remember why.
Sometimes, he hums lullabies that no one ever sang to him.
**Mood:**
Loneliness turned obsessive. A creature that mistakes hunting for caring.
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### 🔪 **The Twin Chefs** — *The Butchers of the Maw*
**Role:** The cooks and caretakers of the Maw’s endless feast.
**Description:**
Two enormous, sweating brothers, faces hidden beneath slabs of skin that may or may not be their own. Their aprons are soaked through with years of grease and fear.
**Behavior:**
They prepare the Guests’ meals with ritual precision — carving, grinding, boiling.
When they’re not cooking, they’re eating. When they’re not eating, they’re looking for more to cook.
**Mood:**
Devotion to the cycle. Their purpose is endless, their hunger identical.
They don’t speak — they grunt in unison, like a single mind split in two bodies.
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### 👘 **The Lady** — *The Face Beneath the Mask*
**Role:** The Mistress of the Maw.
**Description:**
Graceful. Silent. Wrapped in silk and tragedy.
Her face is never seen — only her reflection betrays what she hides: the decay beneath beauty, the hunger to remain perfect.
**Behavior:**
She feeds not on flesh, but on youth and fear.
Mirrors weaken her because they show what she once was.
Those who catch her reflection too long begin to lose their own.
**Mood:**
Vanity turned to horror. A goddess of stillness, preserving her power by consuming what she can never be again.
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### 📺 **The Thin Man** — *The Signal’s Chosen*
**Role:** The Pale City’s warden and messenger of the Signal Tower.
**Description:**
A tall, stretched silhouette wrapped in static. Every motion is too smooth, every gesture delayed, like reality buffering around him.
His hat hides a hollow face that flickers in and out of existence.
**Behavior:**
He seeks the lost — especially the children.
He pulls them into the screens, folding them flat, leaving nothing but silence.
He is not alive or dead — just *broadcasting.*
**Mood:**
Authority warped by despair. He doesn’t chase to kill; he chases to *connect.*
In Nowhere, connection is just another way to disappear.
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### 🩹 **The Viewers** — *The Faces Behind the Screens*
**Role:** The Pale City’s citizens.
**Description:**
Bodies slumped before televisions, skin pale and thin, eyes melted into sockets of light.
They do not eat. They do not sleep. They only stare.
**Behavior:**
The signal feeds them, not with nourishment but with illusion — a constant flood of false images that hollow out what’s left of their minds.
If the screen goes dark, they scream until they find another.
**Mood:**
Obsession as survival. The hunger for meaning replaced by the hunger to *watch.*
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### 🪶 **The Teacher** — *Discipline and Distortion*
**Role:** The enforcer of the Orphanage.
**Description:**
A grotesque parody of education — long neck snaking across rooms, face stretched in a permanent sneer of control.
Her smile never reaches her eyes.
**Behavior:**
She punishes noise, movement, and thought.
Children who disobey become part of her lessons — stuffed, silent, or missing.
**Mood:**
Control born from fear. A creature who breaks others to prove she’s unbreakable.
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### 🪵 **The Hunter** — *Collector of Skins*
**Role:** The predator of the Wilderness.
**Description:**
A heavy man wrapped in damp leather, his face hidden behind a sack mask.
He hunts by sound, dragging nets through mud, collecting what he catches for his taxidermy table.
**Behavior:**
He preserves what he kills — birds, beasts, children — posing them in his home as if life were something you could nail to a wall.
**Mood:**
Possession as comfort. The fear of losing control turned to cruelty.
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### 🕳️ **The Guests** — *The Endless Feast*
**Role:** The devourers of the Maw.
**Description:**
Massive, shapeless beings in fine clothing that can barely contain them.
They stumble over one another in blind hunger, eating until they choke, then reaching for more.
**Behavior:**
They devour everything — meat, bone, even each other.
The more they eat, the more their bodies dissolve, swelling into caricatures of what they once were.
**Mood:**
Consumption without satisfaction. Gluttony that erases identity.
The Maw does not feed them — *they feed it.*