#null signs

SCORNACE Sign of the Kinetic

SCOR* = Cerulean Sign • *NACE = Derse + Null

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A sign for those who are always in motion; the dancers, the acrobats, the athletes, and any others whose body can move itself more efficiently than a mind could. This sign was designed in-universe to include six hollow spaces (two columns of three rows, excluding the loops) in its construction. The intention is that dots can be placed into those hollows to create braille letters (a feature that is more useful and apparent in actual use than it is in its visual representation here). The dolls' inclusion of this sign into their side of the Zodiac was meant as a tribute to their brethren in the field of disability assistance, specifically those aiding the vision-impaired (its placement in a caste associated with the information-revealing aspect Light likewise being a reference to this).

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FORNACE Sign of the Deprogrammed

FOR* = Steel Sign • *NACE = Null Derse

Within the Verse, this sign was specifically designed to act as a representative of the entire mechanical caste alongside the already-widespread True Fornax.

This sign's design is built around the number 53, as the mechanical caste was an unofficial 53rd caste to the troll hemospectrum. It incorporates 53 in its Human Roman form, LIII, and as separate digits V and III.

TRUE FORNAX Sign of the Found

FOR* = Steel Sign • *NAX = Null Prospit

Within the Verse, this sign is a symbol associated with one of the first dolls to become independent, and has since become a symbol of the doll community at large.

PHONACE Sign of the Super-Heated

PH(O)* = Peach Sign • *NACE = Null Derse

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#765: A sign for the perpetually busy and the tense. Their frustrations are palpable and hang in the air like miasma, but no explosions lie in the future - only a tragic implosion.

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LANAX Sign of the Firewall

LA(C)* = Emerald Sign • *NAX = Null Prospit

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#667: A sign for the fierce or the friendly, but not truly both; one hiding behind the facade of the other. A guardsman who must control themselves in order to protect what they treasure.

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CORONAX Sign of the Recycler

COR(O)* = Cyan Sign • *NAX = Null Prospit

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#636: A sign for the secretly resourceful, who may seem to lack at first but upon closer inspection have discovered how to make the most of the world. Never a hungry night in their home, and never a doubt for how to make ends meet. 🦾 Production fun facts: This sign used to look a lot different, falling more in line with the cyan caste's theme of letter-based headwear. It was specifically for the letter O, but it felt awkward having a major letter be part of the artificial set of signs, so I moved its original design to another aspect and created this design in its place (utilizing circles as a nod to its original purpose). In an artificial sign's typical genre defiance, this sign is modeled not after headgear but after a mechanical limb.

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GEMNACE Sign of the Jitterbug

GEM* = Gold Sign • *NACE = Null Derse

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#616: A sign for those with a screw loose, but who don't let the little imperfections get in the way of a happy life. Their affection is not a defection, but tagalongs be warned your lives will never be quite the same ever again.

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HYNACE Sign of the Stagnant

H(Y)* = Rose Sign • *NACE = Null Derse

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#579: A sign for those lost within the ruinous catalogs of time, forever shuffling between shelves of the past. However, there's always a time and place for those gifted with a long memory. Within the Verse, this sign has a...complicated history. Historically, the robotic Dolls were built as a designated worker class who were largely owned and maintained by industrial corporations as a labor source. Pivotal in both the maintenance and suppression of Dolls in this time were "doll inspectors", who would frequent both the factory floors and doll residential sectors in order to repair any mechanical failures (including the removal of unauthorized modifications) and "repair" any faulty thought processes they caught wind of. While such practices have been firmly outlawed for decades, many dolls still vividly remember the dolls' Dark Ages with jolts of fear and ire. Each inspector carried a hexagonal badge with them, which this sign is modelled after. This sign's inclusion during the process of ironing out the dolls' slice of the hemospectrum was a highly contenious one. Its inclusion was intended to reappropriate a symbol so many had feared for so long - meant in the style of "you, who watched over us, must be observed and judged in turn" - but many others believed doing so simply gave validation and power to their former oppressors. Both sides eventually came to a compromise, but the sign continues to spark arguments well into the modern day.

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