Unbeasts

Unbeasts are paradoxical entities native to the Dreamlands. They do not “exist” in the conventional sense—instead, they inhabit negative space, conceptual gaps, and moments you fail to notice. You never truly see an Unbeast; at most, you sense the absence of something you should have seen. They are most active when you're distracted, unfocused, or emotionally vulnerable. Unlike predators, they don’t hunt. They lurk, quietly blooming in the folds of forgotten thoughts.

Unbeasts
First appearance	Unseen
Species	Dreamlands Entity
Residency	Unbeast Lair
Role	Ambient Threat

Nature & Behavior

• Invisibility by Nature: You cannot look directly at an Unbeast. Doing so causes your attention to slide away, like trying to grasp fog in a mirror.
• Observer-Driven Presence: The more you avoid noticing them, the more real they become. If you acknowledge them, they dissipate—temporarily.
• Emotionally Absorptive: They feed not on fear, but on misplacement, doubt, and unspoken tension. The subtler the unease, the stronger they grow.
• Non-Aggressive, Yet Dangerous: Unbeasts rarely attack, but their presence distorts thought, weakens memory, and occasionally bends time in minor but irreparable ways.

Abilities

• Conceptual Cloaking: Can embed themselves in crowded memories, unused words, or corners of the room you didn’t look at twice.
• Disruptive Aura: Prolonged proximity causes misplaced items, fragmented thoughts, and looping dreams.
• Entropic Footprint: Environments where Unbeasts linger may subtly deteriorate—paint peels, clocks desync, lights dim slightly too early.

Appearance

Unbeasts have no defined shape. Descriptions vary wildly depending on who didn’t see them:

• Some say they appear as gaps between furniture.
• Others report hearing shapes or remembering textures that never existed.
• Dook once described one as “the sound of forgetting the word ‘umbrella’ while being rained on.”

Known Interactions

• Dook: Aware of their existence and occasionally speaks to them indirectly. Believes they are not evil, just displaced.
• Flops: Unknowingly attracted one during a particularly anxious dream. He woke up with three mismatched socks and one unresolved emotion.

Trivia

• Unbeasts cannot cross into waking reality, but items from the Dreamlands may carry trace impressions of them.
• They are often mistaken for recurring feelings of déjà vu or moments when you forget why you entered a room.
• Recalling an Unbeast causes static on audio recordings, even retroactively.
• No known artwork depicts them accurately. Attempts result in missing ink, glitched files, or artist amnesia.

“They’re not watching you. They’re not doing anything. That’s the problem.” — Dook