I started to imagine my critter as a polar bear. It’s warm and strong. His heart is on the outside. He’s not afraid.
I’ve poetically added more to the backstory. It’s read in a dramatic narrators voice. There is a sound that emanates inside a snarl of brambles waiting to be released, the diamond molecules, compressed ages like sand. This sound was created by the first outstretched arm slicing through the air. The waves of sound pulsed out and away and this created the critter.
Critter cannot make any sounds. Not one. This is not simply in reference to speaking but any vocal sounds. Imagine stomping your foot on the ground in silence. Scratching your nails down a chalkboard or banging a trash can lid with a hammer only to hear nothing. Critters ears are fine but it’s ability to create any sound whatsoever does not exist. As a product of sound, it was left without the ability to willfully vibrate all matter leaving it focused on developing it’s visual communication skills. I interpret this as it lacks the ability to vibrate anything. Maybe Critter is naturally dampening, or maybe it absorbs all vibration.
It speaks through movement.
I’m also considering calling it “Stephen”