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Ade had been vacationing with his best bud Gliese for months. Days passed by slowly, but enjoyably slow. There was little to do in the badlands other than lay about, relaxing, and eating, and they were both quite content to do so. The occasional rock climbing venture kept Ade's weight in check, compared to the more sedentary preferences of the roo-dragon, but even a few ventures of exercise didn't stop the priest from starting to fill out his clothes. Still, he always had Gliese's guiding hand at the ready, helping him if he needed extra footing, or pointing the way forward when his vantage was poor. Over the weeks and months, he'd become talented at the climb and knew the cliff faces well. He could even scale the cliff on his own, with no assistance at all from his giant friend; of course, over the same weeks and months his friend's growths had only hastened, and it was becoming increasingly difficult for Gliese to offer assistance. Such a blessing that Ade didn't seem to need it any longer.
A shame it was, then, when all his experience meant nothing when faced against his diminished stamina.

One of Ade's hands slipped, and then a foot, and suddenly he was falling backwards away from the cliff face. There was an initial panic as he tried uselessly to reach for anything in the open air.
Panic echoed in Gliese, and he crunched forward, his hand so far from his falling friend.
It all felt like slow motion, surreal.
Despite his panic, Ade knew he could count on Gliese, right? Right?

Gliese could do it, he could catch him. Despite his issues with mobility, he still had a trick up his sleeve ~ He willed himself forward. He didn't need to go that far, just to the other edge of the canyon, but swiftly. Swiftly!
But his body didn't move. W-why?!
His stomach lurched, the abundance of fluves inside reacting to, something. He was slammed with the sensation of something like a pull, a vacuum jolting away some intangible part of himself.
His confusion compounded a moment later, when he saw his arm reach out from.. his arm.. His head emerged from himself, his knees hunching forward and his torso pushing itself out of.. himself, with such haste!

Ade felt the familiar soft padding of his friend's hand as he landed with a thud in the giant palm. But, when he looked up, it wasn't Gliese at all holding him, but, something so similar.

The entity was vaguely transparent, wreathed in a soft, divine glow, and becoming more solid by the second. It looked at the man in hand in confusion, and then in equal confusion back at Gliese, in whom his rear leg and tail were still partly Inside-Of, like a ghost not quite passed through.


And just to blab out a bit of background ~

As a priest of gufnork, one of Ade's abilities is to manifest fluves ~ multipurpose coconut-sized balls of fluff, something of a cross between wool and cotton candy. They come in any range of colour and flavour, and can be eaten as well as serve as any function a ball of wool otherwise could provide.

Now, each fluve actually has a sliver of divine energy within it, an innate and holy consecration that connects it to Gufnork, the divine god of fluff and comfort. Typically, eating a fluve doesn't have any strange ramifications, no more than eating any other food would. Even if a person replaced every meal with fluves, so long as the fluves represented a balanced diet, they could go on just like normal.

However, this is complicated when factoring someone of Gliese's size. Gliese has been eating several small hills of fluves daily. There has been a build-up of all these motes of divine energy in him, thousands of little drops of water that have come to sustain a consistent sea. As a quasi-divine being himself, Gliese's body had thus far contained this sea with no signs of abnormalities.

The fluves' divine energy baked within Gliese for months, his senses, his thoughts, his feelings, sculpting it, leaving deep impressions in its malleable structure. It perhaps, could have gone on baking indefinitely, possibly even growing into a secondary mana pool for the roo-dragon. Until Gliese unwittingly ripped it out of himself.

Gliese's abrupt and intense drive to save his friend ended up being the definitive catalyst to ejecting that extraneous divinity. When he attempted to teleport himself forward and save his friend, it was not his body, but the mass of energy that sprung forth ~ resulting in the manifestation of a new entity.

I'm so so happy to finally have an origin for this lovely roo <3 and a huge thank you to Plant-Lady for all the help in developing his character and story!
(Rori's creation was also loosely meant to be a reflection of Gliese's origin ~ Gliese being crafted from the earth at hand to protect the area thereof, and so, Roureik being crafted from the divine energy at hand to protect the priest thereof, or something along that gist xD)

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Gliese belongs to plant-lady
and was originally designed by Reagan700
Rori & Ade are my own ^_^