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Parrapups, or Parras, are an omnivorous, aviary quadrupedal species that originated from tropical areas, but after they were domesticated, they gained more levels of fur and different beaks. All parras spend a lot of time cleaning themselves, and preening their feathers if they have wings. Parras come with a variety of tails and beaks, but good luck finding one that does! Having a large gene pool Parras also have the chance to show some mutations. They come in a large variety of colors including bright neons and dull greys. All parras are a very social in some way and love to whistle, sing, and chatter to others- Parra or not!

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~Illusion~


Illusion wrote:"To understand the reason for my name you must first fully comprehend the meaning of the word illusion. An illusion is a distortion of the mind. An illusion is something that falsifys and confuses.. I'd like to think of myself as someone who opens a crack in the door of the mind of the mentally chained; someone who has been gifted a very specific skill which allows me to escape the "reality" that consumes most everyone, and share this gift with others. I allow parras to take a step back from their preconceived notions of the world and instead peer into something they could have never imagined, if even for the briefest moment. In that way I do consider myself a deceiver; An illusionist if you will.



Illusion wrote:"I've never been much for music.. This song however was different. Nothing I'd ever listened to before had connected with me so profoundly. I feel that there is something so absolutely beautiful and tranquil about the chorus of voices. It's a shame my colleagues don't seem to share my opinion."

Illusion wrote:I felt consciousness wash over me like a wave, my heavy eyelids defiantly droop downwards again and I notice the swimming figments of reality lingering underneath them, as if tucked away simply for later use in some grander scale. I stretched my forelegs before me, startled to find bars of cold metal delving themselves between my toes. Where was I? And more importantly... who was I? I retracted my limbs, holding myself into a defensive ball. Hesitantly, I opened my eyes to observe the scene before me.
Upon cracking the darkness of swimming color, I noticed a drab and boring greyscale prison. How comical, I recall thinking, that after all I'd been through and all I'd accomplished I'd be locked up in a petty keeping such as this. But... what had I done? I placed a paw on my forehead, my memory foggy and my head pulsating violently at the attempt to recall the lost memories that once occupied it. I glanced down at my paws and noticed a white liquid dripping from my face... tears? Blood? Had this always been happening? It was oddly... painless. Almost as if by default, the secretion did not affect me. But as the droplets of white glowing substance hit the floor of the cave, I noticed small pools of vibrant colors expanding around them.
Illusions, people call them. I like to call them the Truth. The reality people refuse to see. Instead trapping themselves in a tame, watered down husk of what is really and truly real. I recall vaguely thinking it not pathetic or disgusting, but rather sad, and unfortunate, that with eyes as grand and beautiful as they possessed, they still could not see. With another surge of pain at the recollection I cringed, glancing at the colorful spots that decorated my otherwise drab and cramped cell.
I stretched my forelegs before me, noticing with apathy that the white substance had found it's way onto my paws. What truly startled me, was when with a normal and completely innocent action, I painted that reality across the floor of the cell. Rainbow phantasms trailed from where my paws had scraped ever so gently across the floor and truly, I had blessed this tragedy of monochrome unity with an unparalleled gift. The reality they ignored was now dancing at my paws, and I remembered now.
I remembered why, on that foggy November evening in the depth of winter, biting cold and snowfall, I had given myself a name. Illusion. It was what they called my reality. The true reality. I wanted to help them, really I did. Looking at their world I saw only sadness, a miserable world of grays with all work and no play. I saw something truly awful. What I saw was a world in which people were all the same, in which there was only motivation to trudge through the day with the sweet reward of slumber. The way I saw it, if you were to live in such a fruitless way, why not slumber forever, if it is what you desire? After all, the dreams of the inhabitants of this drab world were the closest thing they came to my world. The real world. And they rejected it, discarded it, and forgot it when the light of their somber white sunlight pried their eyelids and drug them from the comfortable embrace of my world.
My name brought with it vague remembrances of my past, various scenes which I couldn't piece together as a whole. Scattered puzzle pieces, which I could usually fit together- if not for their broken condition. So many of them simply discarded, gone forever... or at least hidden from me in a place I either hadn't found the key for yet, or maybe something as insignificant as underneath the mental couch. Regardless, this was not my current plight.
Observing the reality dancing at my paws I reached a little further, curious and a bit lightheaded from the pounding in my skull. At the touch of my nails I watched the bars deteriorate into a pleasant display of colors unseen by the common eye. I felt a small smile tug at my face and rising to my legs I breezed through the bars that were simply that, an illusion.
This is my world. This is my freedom.
I felt a fuzziness over my mind lifted as I left the trap of falsehood and slipped into the liberating embrace of open air, of true, real air.
I remembered faces, names, places I had been, likewise for places I had yet to go. Places I always wanted to see. To really see.
I recalled vaguely, that who and why were simple questions. If I had been in my true state of mind, I would have known all along. You see, I am Illusion, the parra brought to this earth for one soul purpose.
To restore reality in citizens who deny the blatant truth.
Why was I here? Also easy. Elementary, truly. I tried to spread my world, to give others the liberation which they had always sought. They had enjoyed it, too, the freedom I gave them. The happiness. And yet... there were some who clung so desperately to their own falsehood, they refused to acknowledge anything aside from their own, sad little world.
I did not understand.
Too stubborn to admit I was correct, or try to change their ways, they simply locked me away- as if it would silence me or keep the truth from the eyes of the public. Rumors are still spreading, the truth is spreading with them.
Their petty reality cannot hold me, and soon I will complete my mission.
Come, sit. I will show you the truth as well.







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