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🕑 Added 2021-09-17 11:48:17 +0000 UTCA maze of mirrors where distorted reflections are tracking you until the exit.
The rest that I picked are horror themed ones, as I'm getting geared up for next month's horror theme and some of these were too good to not do! So here we go~
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This is an entity known as a Zhànshì or mostly as a Reflection, Shimmer Facet, Fractal Doppelganger, or a Mirror Mimic.
These creatures are related to the Shimmer Men that I'd posted in years prior, and are among the lowest ranks of the mirror entities.
Long ago, the realm of man and the mirror realm, known by some as the mirror world, the reflection world, or by some esoteric scholars, "The Fractal". The beings of which emerge from within are known as the Fauna of Mirrors.
Thought to be some of the first beings that existed within the cosmos, they wander a constantly shifting and reflecting universe that has no true shape and simply reflects the universes around it through it's infinite facets. As other worlds and realms came to be, their dimension would take the shape of those worlds, reflecting the images and shapes of those worlds.
The Shimmer men, take the form of and mimic those beyond a mirror's edge. Silvered or reflective surfaces that shed light through the fractal to be a window into another dimension, however end up reflecting nothing but our own. The entities within exist as reflections of ourselves, mimicking our every movement and following our every motion, though some notice reflections changing or warping on occasion, or seeming somewhat off.
The entities beyond the mirrors could once come and go as they wished from the realms. In China there were legends of fish swimming through the shimmering walls of a mirror, and of some who were mauled by "Tigers" that would emerge from the reflective surfaces and tear them apart with great violence. However in 2697BC the beings ceased their mimic and emerged from mirrors and reflective surfaces and began attacking humans until the Yellow Emperor sealed the mirror dimension with an alchemical silver, barring the entities from returning. It is unknown why they attacked humans. Some scholars believe that they may be forced to mimic us due to strange dimensional or eldritch laws of space, and others believe them to be jealous of our world, while some also think a darker reason, that it was done simply to inflict carnage or to feed a violent curiosity.
Whenever a Shimmer man takes a creature's reflection, it becomes a culmination of every bit of that person's physical being, and as such it possesses millions of limbs, faces, and actions constantly ready to present at a moment's notice. Whenever a mirror is broken when a creature is being viewed through it, or when a creature enters a hall of mirrors, these ideas become fractured and split apart, breaking the shimmer man into fragments. This can also be done on the Shimmer Man's behalf, splitting it's self into various fragments to pursue a creature. When in this form it is a twisted, parody of the original creature's form, and cannot use it's full form, but can still shapeshift using what little ability it still possesses to do so. By touching another Reflection they can fuse back together. Shimmer Men possess a hive mind between themselves and all of the other reflections so they can coordinate their attacks, and to ambush an enemy that may be prepared otherwise. When fragmented like this however they do have a singular mindset and once they set out to complete a task they can focus on little else but that task for as long as they remain solitary.
Some of the reflections have been trapped as fragments after being separated from the others for too long and slowly become almost zombie like mindless killing machines over time.
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vamoris
I would just like to add that I also suggested this music not because the title of this music is "mirror". X'D But because the echo effect that we expect in music, as if the sound hit something, made the universe mirror perfectly. I have just read your additional text and I must admit that it was really complete. I'm having a hard time coming up with another idea to tie into the world of mirrors, but I'll try. X'D
Indeed! That song is definitely fitting for strange mirror people, and it definitely does have some similarities to "Us". This is the second Mirror based creature I have in my lore, Some of the lore was repeated here but if you want more info on the Shimmer men when they aren't split apart as well as some of the other mirror monsters I have in my story continuity it's here. https://www.deviantart.com/darkmastern/art/Mirror-Man-841071205
vamoris
I was just planning to ask for a horrific idea related to the world of mirrors, but I think I was ahead. X'D I'm probably going to try to imagine another theme related to the mirror, but otherwise, I like the idea that its existed long before our existence and that it has copied our behavior, with gesture for hundreds of years. Its really scary. That's remind me the movie "US". It reminds me of this music that I like to listen to when I want to have chills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beYJOB63CAM
