Clockwork Rat: Difference between revisions

The Clockwork Rat is, as his name implies, a mechanical rat built from various mundane objects.<ref name="intro">''[[Perdita's Story]]'', [[Perdita%27s_Story#Chapter_2:_The_Clockwork_Rat|Chapter 2]]: ''It was a Clockwork Rat, with wires for whiskers and a rubber wiper-blade for a tail, and pointy ears made from open safety pins. Instead of claws it had tiny hooked scissors on the ends of its feet, the kind that doctors use to cut you up. The creature was so terrified its whole body shook and made little rattling noises, and its tin teeth, which looked like they had been made from the scraps under her father's workbench, were chattering furiously.''</ref> His ears are made of open safety pins;<ref name="intro"/> his tail is made from a rubber wiper-blade;<ref name="intro"/> his whiskers are made from wires;<ref name="intro"/> his eyes are made from ball-bearings;<ref>''[[Perdita's Story]]'', [[Perdita%27s_Story#Chapter_Five:_The_Path_of_Red_Balloons|Chapter 5]]: ''Click, snap, went the Clockwork Rat's little scissor claws, and when Perdita glanced at him, his ball bearing eyes were hard as steel.''</ref> his claws are made from surgical scissors;<ref name="intro"/> his teeth are made from the scraps of tin from under [[Perdita]]'s father's workbench.<ref name="intro"/> Additionally, the rat's voice is a high-pitched metallic squeak. While without an actual sex the rat is often referred to with male pronouns.