Cheshire Cat from the “Wonderland” Dimension
I was going to include this in my FanFic, Wounded Healer:
These are the original drawings. The Cheshire Cat is, of course, from Lewis Carroll’s book, “Alice In Wonderland.”
The more recent animation is at the bottom.
We’ll pretend my sketchbook is actually a character’s journal/sketchbook from my story and is available in the Kamar-Taj Library (you can ask Wong to find them)... Pencil Crayon/Colouring Pencils and some black ink.
Cheshire Cat: not your Lewis Carroll Wonderland Cat
Excerpt from Wounded Healer Regarding Cheshire Cats:
Chapter 3: Living In An Ethereal World
Wong looked at a clipboard he had been carrying under his arm.
“On today’s ‘To Do List...’ There are a couple of sentient creatures that had been under our magical care that recently escaped, left, or were taken off the premises,” Wong advised. He sighed in irritation. “It’s really difficult to find something invisible, and not much easier to find something as small as a gnat.”
“Actually, Tai, our Master of Healing, advised me earlier today that the Cheshire cat wasn’t actually lost,” said Stephen. He provided the note from the Healing Master and Wong placed it under his list on the clipboard. “He knew I was heading to the New York Sanctum so he let me know to tell you.”
“Really??” asked Wong. “Then where did the cat end up then??”
Stephen explained that the Master Healer’s cat patient had come for treatment of lockjaw the day before The Return. As a result, the poor cat’s facial expression was frozen in an unsettling smile. Or, last he was seen, anyway.
“As everyone who has read Alice In Wonderland would know, a Cheshire’s smile is known to be the magical - *hem* - cat-alyst that begins the process of making him or her disappear into thin air. Those teeth are the last thing seen by anyone before the cat completely fades away.”
“Actually,” corrected Wong, holding up a finger, “A little bit yes, a little bit no. What the smile reallydoes is activate the antennas, usually mistaken for whiskers on the Cheshire cat’s face and some course hairs on the end of the tail.”
“Cat’s whiskers are antennas??” Stephen raised his eyebrows.
“Nope. Just Cheshire cats have antennas,” said Wong, shaking his head.
“Why does a cat need antennas?” asked Stephen.
“To project an electromagnetic field around itself,” replied Wong. “That field then redirects and scatters energy waves around the cat and makes it appear invisible. Or not appear visible, if that’s how you prefer to say it.”
“Fascinating!” said Stephen. “The more I learn, the more I realize I need to learn more!” He shrugged, “Well, it turns out our Cheshire was asleep inside his room for the entire time he was thought to be missing. He had just been sleeping deeply and at length because he was recovering from tetanus,” said Stephen, reiterating what Tai had let him know. “Oh, and because he’s a cat.”
If you would like to watch the animation of the Cheshire Cat on YouTube to hear the sound effects, music, and voices:
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A Master Naturalist’s Journal: A Multiverse’s Guide To Ultra-Dimensional Beings
— Digitally Transcribed by Dr. Stephen Strange, Sorceror Supreme
— Original Artist and Author: *** Aurynn Drakos
Chapter 4723: Cheshire cats are sentient creatures. If you’ve read “Alice In Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, you know now that this book is based, rather loosely, on an alternate reality. That particular dimension used to be called something very difficult to translate, and was originally discovered and recorded by Aurynn Drakos. But ever since the children’s novel was published, of course everyone in the mystic arts then and forever refer to it as “Wonderland.” However, Carroll’s books are much tamer than the actual environment of that dimension. This is likely why the beings and creatures there have developed some very surprising and complex ways to survive.
One such sentient being is the Cheshire Cat. Clever, enigmatic, rarely seen (for obvious reasons) they tend to avoid humans or other creatures unless they need something. If they want money, information, medical assistance, food, etc, they will be fine if you employ them in some manner, or trade something. These felines are highly sought for information gathering, or as spies, for example. But they will want something of equal value in return. They prefer to make transactions if it suits their own agendas and on their own terms. If you “require” such a feline, you better have a really delightful reward to offer or risk being turned down. And perhaps insulted.
They have a saying in “Wonderland:” It is much easier to be found by a Cheshire Cat than it is for a Cheshire Cat to be found.
They have antennas on their faces instead of whiskers. They have a third set of antennas on the tip of their tails that can be mistaken for coarse hairs. The antennas are electromagnetic.
When a Cheshire cat smiles it activates the antennas and disrupts the waves/frequencies of colours, so anything near the antenna-whiskers and between the face and tail is no longer seen. They are effectively invisible. If you shone a flashlight toward them when they have this magnetic field activated, the beam would just appear to pass straight through them.
Cheshire cats have very striking eyes. When threatened their eyes are able to shift colours and cause moving patterns that are rather hypnotic. This may give them just another precious second or two so they can become invisible without incident, as the transformation doesn’t happen immediately.
It’s obvious this information was somehow leaked into the nonmagical world, and as usual, humans have succeeded in developing an “invisibility cloak” that masks objects. Some of the first experiments and research produced this: https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/invisibility-cloak-demonstrated-first-time/
There was/is still research being done with varying levels of success. I have provided the links here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4302166/invisibility-cloak-technology/
https://boundless.utoronto.ca/impact/invisibility/
*** It’s possible Aurynn is a descendent of dragons, as she apparently lived for at least a couple of centuries, if we go by the dates on her research. Her journal entries were dated as early as 20 AD. She is credited for an impressively extensive library of journals at Kamar-Taj regarding dimensions, their fauna & flora, and sentient and semi-sentient beings. Very helpful if you have never been to a particular dimension.
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Voice of Cheshire Cat: Me (HyperDigiFocus/Holly)
Voice of Stephen Strange: David Freeman (my husband)
Used FlipaClip to create the animation.
Used Splice to record voices, sound effects, and choose background music.
P.S. In the 2016 Doctor Strange movie, I took some writing from the scene when Dr. Strange steps on a piece of paper with his name written on it over and over is shaky writing. It’s from the scene where Stephen is being a jerk to Christine after his accident.