Hyde of Seachange

Biography:

Hyde first appears in A Gathering of Leaves.

Correspondence Chart Entries from The Portable Grove

Denotation	Hyde of Seachange (English: the amount of land needed to support a family, certainly a reference to the literary Mr. Hyde, also a play on hide as both a place of concealment and an animal pelt; all Ophion emanations have the surname of Seachange, Early Modern English: a change wrought by the sea, a transformation, something rich and strange.)
Numeration	67th emanation of Ashtara; 5th branch of Ophion; 89 on the correspondence chart.
Age	35
Hotness	7/10
Vital Statistics	1.94 meters tall, cock size 17.53cm when erect.
Description	Large and muscular, he is rough and handsome in a very masculine way. His hair is disheveled with razor cut bangs, a muddy brown streaked with ash blond. He sports an enormous coat of animal furs under which he wears a Bendigra Tigrons jersey – he’s a huge MayaXtreme fan.
Skills	Hazmat specialist.
Sexual Prowess and Kinks	Food porn.
Average Duration of Play	15 minutes, 5 seconds.
Totem Tree	Zelkova serrata, the Japanese zelkova.
Fixed Star	Dubhe, the bear (α UMa).
Color
Esoteric Symbol	The Minchiate trump Il Capricorno, Capricorn.
Function	Exegetic resistance.
Official Title	Ipsissimal Food-taster.
His Prophecy	He bites.
Dessert	Roasted nau’gsh and rambat cheese tart.

Persistence of Weeds Addendum

Branch Growth Characteristics	Ophion branches grow immediately when their spark is absorbed into the pleroma due to the excess of nul-energy in Ophion’s ocean.
Nul-history	Tara attempted to coax him out from a root in Ailann’s pool; he responded by biting her. Davy immediately conscripted him, fearing that he’d become a threat to Tara if not incorporated into the pleroma.
Proto-conscious Root Concept	Appetite, designated Hunger.
Prime Number of Energy Resonance	461
From Self-Portraits Not-of-Me II: Baby Pictures by Driscoll Garrett