(urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

[António Pedro Marques]

Marc Aramini wrote (16-11-2011 18:50):
> --- On Wed, 11/16/11, Roy C. Lackey<rclackey at stic.net>  wrote:
>> First of all, Babbie's spirit-travel body looks generally like a man's
>> body, but not quite. His hands aren't really hands; his hands have only
>> two big fingers, suggestive of his normal cloven hooves (RTTW, 354).
>> And he wears glasses (346). Yet the spirit-traveler's body is supposed
>> to be a manifestation of how that person perceives himself to be at his
>> core, in his heart, if you will. Horn never wore glasses.
>
> Scylla in Oreb looks like a mix between a big fat crow and something more
> humanistic, but defintely not purely like the human.  Animals possessed
> don't seem to look purely human.

In support of this:

- the inhumi look completely human because they have only one soul, and that 
is the human one they develop from their prey;

- the Rajan looks a bit like Horn because there's still some Horn in him, 
but there is Silk also (and Pas?), so there's more than one soul;

- Oreb looks strangely anthropoid because there's Scylla in him along with 
the real Oreb;

- when Scylla leaves, Oreb, for all his specialness, looks just like Oreb;

- Scylla looks quite strange, what with snakes for arms, which *may* suggest 
some serious problem with her, possibly related to hear dealings with the 
sea monster;

- Babbie looks anthropoid because he's got some human soul alongside his 
own, but it's a good point that Horn wears no glasses, though maybe that can 
be explained. (NB Oreb+Scylla doesn't have snake wings)