PIXEL - THE PROTAGONIST LIFE FORM IN THE PIXEL UNIVERSE, THESE SIMPLE SQUARES HAVE A WIDE SPECTRUM OF PERSONALITY [AND ALSO COLOR]. THERE IS NO NATURAL GENDER, ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES THEY ACTIVELY CHOOSE TO LIVE OUT CERTAIN GENDER ROLES PERHAPS FOR REASONS OF SOCIAL STATUS. THEY LIVE AT A CONSTANT POPULATION OF 16,777,216 WHICH IS ALL OF THE POSSIBLE DIFFERENT COLORS WITHIN 24 BITS. AT ONE LANDMARK POINT IN HISTORY THEY HAVE DEVELOPED THE ABILITY TO EXHIBIT 256 DIFFERENT LEVELS OF TRANSLUCENCY, WHICH THEREFORE MEANS THAT THESE PIXELS ARE 32-BIT. FOR CREATING IMAGES THAT REQUIRE DUPLICATE INSTANCES OF A CERTAIN COLOR, EACH PIXEL HAS THE ABILITY TO RENDER CLONES VIA SCREENCAPPING THEMSELVES. THESE CLONES ARE SOULLESS AND TEMPORARY, AND THUS DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE POPULATION COUNT. PIXELS MANIPULATE OBJECTS VIA MILD TELEKINESIS. THE INFORMAL OR FIRST NAME OF A PIXEL IS THE 6-DIGIT HEXADECIMAL STRING OF ITS COLOR, AND THE PROPER OR LAST NAME IS THE EQUIVALENT BINARY STRING.
[ PIXELS APPEAR IN NEARLY EVERY STRIP ]
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YOUTH - A PIXEL IS BORN SMALLER THAN NORMAL AND WITH ROUNDED CORNERS THAT QUICKLY SHARPEN AS THEY BEGIN TO AGE. TYPICALLY, THE COLOR OF OFFSPRING IS VAGUELY SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE PARENT. HAVING NO GENDER, ABSOLUTELY ALL PIXELS ARE LIABLE TO GIVING BIRTH, AND IT IS AS COMMON AND SPONTANEOUS AND PAINLESS AS HUMAN SNEEZING. MATING IS NOT NECESSARY FOR REPRODUCTION, BUT COURTSHIPS CAN BE VOLUNTARILY ESTABLISHED. THE POPULATION OF PIXELS REMAINS A CONSTANT 16,777,216 BECAUSE WHENEVER ONE PIXEL DIES, IT IS INSTANTANEOUSLY REBORN THROUGH A NEW PARENT OF SIMILAR COLOR SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. TECHNICALLY IT CAN SO HAPPEN THAT A PIXEL GIVES BIRTH TO ITS OWN DECEASED PARENT.
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VOXEL - IF A PIXEL IS THE SMALLEST SUBSTANTIAL COMPONENT OF A 2-DIMENSIONAL PLANE, THEN VOXELS ARE 3-DIMENSIONAL PIXELS, OR THE SMALLEST COMPONENTS OF A 3-DIMENSIONAL SPACE. THEY ARE SUAVE, INTELLIGENT, CHARMING, SPORTING, AND PEACEFUL FELLOWS WHO ENJOY CASUAL SOCIETY AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION. THEY ARE ABOVE PETTY CONFLICT AND WAR. PIXELS TEND TO BE INFURIATED BY AND JEALOUS OF THE IMPECCABLE SUPERIORITY OF VOXELS. THE ABILITY TO TRANSGRESS THE Z-AXIS SEEMS TO GIVE VOXELS THE ABILITY TO FLY. THEY HAVE THE SAME CONSTANT POPULATION COUNT AS THE PIXELS. HOWEVER, THEY DO NOT DIE, BECAUSE THEY CAN ESCAPE ATTACKS BY SHIFTING OUT OF THE 2-DIMENSIONAL PLANE. THEY DO NOT MULTIPLY EITHER, BECAUSE WHEN THEY GET SPONTANEOUSLY PREGNANT, THE INFANT SIMPLY EXPANDS TO SPATIALLY REPLACE THE PARENT, WHICH THUS SENDS THE PARENT OFF AS AN INFANT INTO A RANDOM VOXEL ELSEWHERE. SO AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT THERE IS ALWAYS EXACTLY ONE VOXEL PREGNANCY OCCURRING.
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VECTOR - INSTEAD OF BEING VECTORS, THESE BEINGS ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON VECTORS. IN OTHER WORDS, THE LINES THAT MAKE UP THEIR EDGES ARE THE VECTORS. THE SPACE THAT FILLS IN THE COMPLETED QUADRILATERAL IS THE LIVING BEING. CONTROL BOXES AND A CENTRAL ANCHOR POINT ARE THE PHOTOSHOP WAY OF DISPLAYING THAT THEY ARE MOVABLE AND WITHOUT LOCKED ANGLES. VECTORS ARE BRASH, UNINTELLIGENT, BELLIGERENT, AND ALSO INSECURE. THEY BELIEVE THAT THE VOXELS ARE HELPING THEM FIGHT A WAR AGAINST THE PIXELS, BUT ALL OF WHICH IS MERELY DELUSION. PHYSICALLY, VECTORS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO BE GREAT WARRIORS, WITH THE ABILITY TO FLY IN THE 2-DIMENSIONAL PLANE, AS WELL AS SHAPE-SHIFT THEMSELVES INTO SHARP WEAPONS. BUT RARELY DO THEY HAVE THE MENTAL CAPACITY TO REALIZE THEIR ADVANTAGES.
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PLASMA - THE TOP OF THE LINE IN FLAT PANEL MONITORS USES PLASMA PIXELS, AND MACINTOSH OFTEN USES IT FOR THEIRS. THUS, THE CHARACTER OF THE PLASMA PIXEL IS THAT OF THE STEREOTYPE OF A MAC USER FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PC USER. IN OTHER WORDS, THE PLASMA PIXEL IS EASY GOING, LAID BACK, A BIT trENDY, ARTISTIC, AND ANNOYINGLY ADVANCED IN MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY. PLASMAS ARE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED ENOUGH TO BE FOUND USING BLANK DVD'S FOR THINGS LIKE MUG COASTERS AND TILING THE BATHROOM WALLS. PLASMA PIXELS MOVE JUST LIKE THE MAC OPERATING SYSTEMS: WITH EXPONENTIAL CURVES OF ANIMATED ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION FOR MAXIMUM AESTHETIC SMOOTHNESS.
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POLYGON - A PECULIAR SPECIES, THEY SEEM TO BE 2-DIMENSIONAL, YET THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ROTATE 3-DIMENSIONALLY, GIVING THEM FULL ACCESS TO THE Z-AXIS. FOR THIS REASON, VOXELS AND POLYGONS ARE SOMETIMES DRAWN TO EACH OTHER AS TRANSDIMENSIONAL COMPANIONS. POLYGONS MOVE WITH EXTREMELY QUICK PRECISION AND ARE UTTERLY SILENT, WHICH HAS THE TENDENCY TO MAKE OTHER BEINGS UNCOMFORTABLE OR PARANOID. HARNESSING THEIR STEALTHY SPEED, THEY ARE AT CONSTANT WAR WITH NONE OTHER THAN EACH OTHER. THEY SLICE AND BISECT EACH OTHER IN HIGH VELOCITY JOUSTING MATCHES, WHICH INCIDENTALLY IS THEIR VERY MEANS OF PROCREATION. RECENTLY BISECTED POLYGONS ARE VULNERABLE CHILDREN, AND SO TO BISECT A CHILD THAT IS TOO YOUNG WOULD SURELY TERMINATE IT. BUT SURVIVING CHILDREN EVENTUALLY INCREASE IN SIZE, SPEED, AND SHARPNESS OVER TIME, CRAVING MORE THE CHALLENGE OF OTHER POWERFUL ADULTS.
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DOCTOR CHEMICALTRON - THE FANATICAL AMBASSADOR TO THE SCIENCE OF THE PURSUIT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCES. EVERYONE IS ALWAYS FASCINATED AND CONFUSED BY HIS FINDINGS. DR CHEMICALTRON HIMSELF IS NOT EVEN SURE WHETHER HE GAINS FAME BY SCIENTIFIC PROWESS OR MERELY BY THE FACT THAT EVERYONE TAKES LEAPS OF FAITH IN HIS ACTIVITIES. MANY ARE MORE INTERESTED IN HIS PERSONAL ECCENTRICITY THAN HIS SCIENCE.
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FATHER BROTHERHOODSON - ARGUABLY THE ANTITHESIS OF DOCTOR CHEMICALTRON, THIS INDIVIDUAL IS A REPRESENTATION OF OLDER VALUES BUT WITHOUT THE CRUSADING. HE IS LIKELY A PHILOSOPHER OF THE COSMOS, CONTINUALLY FASCINATED BY THE HISTORY [AND FATE] OF EXISTENCE. HE IS UNAWARE OF THE STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT PEOPLE MAY CONSIDER HIM A ONE TRACK MIND WHO INTRODUCES MORE CONFLICT IN THE SUPPOSED WAR BETWEEN PIXELS VECTORS VOXELS AND POLYGONS. THE SYMBOL OF HIS ROLE IN FAITH IS THE SMALL WHITE SQUARE HE WEARS, WHICH ITSELF IS SENTIENT AND POSSIBLY CAPABLE OF SPEECH.
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