Nevermore Usher/Introduction

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Nevermore first appears as a figure in a long, sweeping black coat and a black cavalier hat with a long white feather. Getting closer, one can see the sugar-skull embroidery on the coat, the frizzy brown hair, the rosy complexion, and the selectable pronoun pin with the label "Gender is a sometimes food." Of course, if you're that close, they've likely engaged you in a discussion of classic horror literature, so it's probably too late.

Nevy (as their friends call them) can often be found behind the counter of the bookstore where they work, or at a coffeeshop, writing or drawing in a notepad using a bic pen rubber-banded to a foot-and-a-half long ostrich quill, or in haunted houses, murmuring quietly to someone or something most people can't see.

When in doubt, assume they're doing it for the AestheticTM.

NOTE: Nevermore wears a pin at all times - "Gender is a sometimes food," with an indicator allowing them to select between "She/her" and "They/them." This pin always matches the narration being used for them in the scene, to cue others to their current preferred mode of address.

Language isn't carving. It's topiary.... Language grows. It changes. It flowers. Bits die off and fall away, or get diseased and have to be pruned.... And you... Get to choose how you prune your language.