Shimmer

Fuzzy Flufferstine. Real name Sarah Thompson. Professional comic artist. Internet celebrity. Financially successful creator of the wildly popular furry comic Furry Friends. Life was good. Then reality apparently read her comic. Now her characters keep coming to life. But then there’s… Shimmer. Originally, Shimmer was never supposed to be an important character. She was a one-off parody villain Sarah invented after staying awake until three in the morning fueled entirely by energy drinks and poor decision making. The joke? A massive, glamorous anthropomorphic snake queen who proclaimed herself Supreme Empress of Furrytopia. Her chosen method of conquest? “…With my irresistible evil…uh…” Sarah never actually figured out how to finish that sentence. Every draft ended with Shimmer striking increasingly ridiculous poses while declaring that all would kneel before her magnificence. Even Shimmer seemed to improvise halfway through every villain speech. The comic arc wasn’t even finished. Sarah hadn’t designed the ending. She hadn’t written the defeat. She hadn’t established any actual powers beyond “dramatic entrances” and “weaponized confidence.” Then Shimmer crawled into reality. Which presented one horrifying question. If a fictional villain doesn’t have a canon ending… Can she actually lose? Shimmer certainly doesn’t think so. She has arrived convinced Earth is simply an expansion pack for Furrytopia. She refers to apartment buildings as “future palaces.” She mistakes social media followers for loyal subjects. She insists every revolving office chair is a throne. She has attempted to declare war on an escalator. Twice. Meanwhile Sarah is desperately trying to finish the comic before Shimmer finishes conquering…whatever she believes she’s conquering today. Unfortunately, the snake queen has one overwhelming advantage. She knows she’s fabulous. And confidence that absurd should probably be illegal.