Symbiotician of the Arsenal · male
Mandelbrot should be dead. He was born a male, and male ants live a few weeks: they fly once, mate once and die. Instead a mycelium grew into his wings and his gut during his nuptial flight and kept him alive for its own reasons, and he has spent eleven years since then studying the cousins of the fungus that owns him. Pale filaments run through his joints; small fruiting bodies glow on his back when he is agitated, which is often. He is wiry, frenetic and brilliant. He speaks in rapid bursts, ...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.