Brimble - Fact File

Core Emotion: Regret


Species: Thornhollow


Age: Born the moment someone realized too late and said, “I wish I hadn’t…”

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The Neverback Path, where everything moves forward except the feelings.

👾🧚Personality

Quiet and self-contained, always rewinding old choices.

Finds patterns in pain, even if they don’t want to.

Thinks before they speak… because once, they didn’t.

Wants to apologize but doesn’t know how to fix things.

✨Appearance

Head encircled with jagged, spiky lashes, like the past clinging to their skin.

Tired, tilted eyes that avoid mirrors.

A tiny mouth, stuck between frown and whisper.

Limbs like rows of sharp regrets, they move stiffly, like walking on memory shards.

Wears a broken crown or triangle—once hopeful, now bent by hindsight

  ⚡Powers

Echoglance: 🔮 Shows glimpses of the past, especially the moments they’d redo.

Spineshiver: 🌫 Emits a ripple that makes others feel the weight of “what if” deep down their spine.

Looplock: 🔁 Freezes a moment in a loop, unintentionally trapping themselves or others in rumination.

Shadowstep: 🕳 Slips silently through memories, hiding in the spaces between “then” and “now,” making it hard to move forward.

Undo Flicker: 💡 For a split second, time almost rewinds — but never quite does, leaving a lingering ache for what might have been.

    🧘 Disarming Steps for Brimble (Regret)

Gentle Glance” 👁: Look back only once, then say aloud what you’d like to do differently — and step forward.
👉 Untangles Echoglance & Looplock.

“Shoulder Drop” 🫶: Take a slow breath and drop your shoulders — regret often hides there.
👉 Softens Spineshiver.

“Now Step” 👣: Touch something around you (floor, table, your hand) and name where you are now.
👉 Brings you out of Shadowstep.

“Kind Rewrite” ✍️: Write (or imagine) what you’d say to your past self , kindly, not critically.
👉 Balances Undo Flicker.

“Carry Forward” 🌱: Turn one lesson from the past into a seed for something better today.
👉 Restores balance across all powers — transforms regret into wisdom.

  🌈 Secret Soft Side

Brimble doesn’t want to dwell, they just don’t know how to let go. If someone reminds them that growth can follow mistakes, their spikes soften… and they finally start to face forward.