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Pig

he/him · Protagonist · first appears in The Pig and the Box

Contents (4)
  1. Named in
  2. The archive
  3. Alongside them
  4. Using them

Finds a magic box that makes twenty-seven copies of anything you throw in it. Handles the resulting attention poorly. Just a smidge.

No kit released for Pig yet — this entry is currently a description only. The text above is already yours to use under the licence below.

Named in

And 41 blog posts — the archive is where most of the talking about these people happens.

What the archive says

Every line below is drawn from The Pig and the Box · 2009.

The box

Magic, and it makes twenty-seven copies of anything you put in it.

the line it comes from
When a pig named Pig discovers a magic box able to make twenty-seven copies of anything you throw in it, his life is turned upside down with excitement!
What the box costs him

Rather more than he expected. Being in charge of endless possibilities is harder than it looks.

the line it comes from
But as word spreads about his new toy, he finds it's not as easy as it seems to be in charge of endless possibilities...
How he takes it

Badly. He overreacts to the attention — just a smidge.

the line it comes from
And perhaps he overreacts to all the attention. Just a smidge.

Alongside them

Using Pig

Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Draw them, write them, animate them, put them in your game. Credit me, don't sell it, and license what you make the same way.

Attribution — copy this:

“Pig” from The Pig and the Box by MCM (2009), https://mcm.1889.ca/commons/pig — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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