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...fictional ex-90s platformer mascot, nerd, plural, ΞΞ.
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in reply to @UnchainedLuna's post:
I always prefix any answers I give on these questions with: "Whichever you think is cooler for whatever it is you're trying to do!"
Since, in the end, they're a plot device to serve a narrative. So nothing I say is any kind of law or rule, just my opinion.
Ok! So I have considered this question before (it's a good one!), and the way I thought it through is based on how they work (https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/User:Wotterotter/Cloaker). As a plot device, they hide the user's true size. So each cloaker has a default size (the size at which it was originally made to serve its user). If it breaks, it should return to that default size.
So in short, yes! A nano could be gawking up at a cloaker that used to fit them, but is now broken and towering above.
Oh wow! Thank you for the response.
Admittedly most of my experience with the concept is from hearing about them through likely 3rd hand sources or beyond. So it is interesting to get to see the origins of the term.
I am surprised that as per point 2. of the common characteristics and behaviour that they function in a manner similar to The One Ring (LotR) and affect the wearer upon being worn, rather than a device that needs to be activated after being worn.
Given the typically technological flavouring that they have I had always assumed they would require some form of interface to activate or deactivate, potentially lending to accidental activation or deactivation through incidental contact with non-destructive outcomes.
You have given me a lot to think about and read.
I think making it so that they have to be activated could be an interesting way to go. Definitely makes one more sensitive about others touching or interacting with it!
I'm glad that you find the idea interesting.
Thinking on it further, with the way that some cloakers can be interfaced with wirelessly, I imagine that there might be an opportunity for stories in which someone attempts to, or succeeds at remotely disabling, or enabling a cloaker.
I feel it would potentially be a possible variation or progression of the idea that cloakers can be detected. Either being a genuine threat to all users, or alternatively a problem that users who don't bother to update passwords/security face.
They're such fascinating tools, with so many story options.
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