Metabolism VI - The Mask of the Thyroid, the Gambler, and the Conflux

THE TREEFROG - NATURAL CHARACTER OF THE THYROID

THE GAMBLER -NATURAL MASK
OF THE THYROID (TREEFROG)

We will now look at the mask associated with the natural character of the thyroid gland 'The Treefrog'.  Remembering back to the section on the physiognomical character The Treefrog is a fairly easy character to identify and a good place to start learning how to use this system practically.  Their size and metabolism tends to reign to the extreme - small, dextrous, fast (some may actually have something of a tremulousness because of the rapidity of the metabolism) with prominent, large eyes which bulge out of the socket a little or the complete opposite - larger with sunken eyes and slower metabolism.  The distinctive character traits were a love of the aesthetic experience, highly 'sensory' with an accompanying love of travel/tourism/adventure.



THE TIME LORD -
MASK OF THE THYROID
UNDER POSITIVE ATTENTION

The mask associated with the Treefrog is the Gambler - a highly adaptive mask that is good at altering itself to new conditions.  This does not mean that the person is a shape-shifter or actor, just that their behaviour will be riskier - they will happily go and meet new people and are very good at 'fitting' in to new groups and adjusting their social norms accordingly.  They will fit to the group as opposed to trying to make the group fit to them.  This drive to ''evolve'' is very harmonious with the nature of the Treefrog and its travels.  However, the desire to continuously 'fit in' means that new groups must be found so that the 'fitting in' can continue - thus the accompanying desire to travel.

THE DEMON - MASK
OF THE THYROID UNDER
NEGATIVE ATTENTION

Under the influence of positive attention, this mask will distort to the Timelord.  Under negative attention it will distort to the Demon.  In real terms then the behaviour of the Gambler who recieves too much positive attention will be to simply stop attempting to gather attention and sit on what they have (Timelords have metabolisms which do not require as much attention as other characters in order to maintain the integrity of the mask) - i.e. their attention metabolism will slow down, they will be quiet, perhaps withdrawn into themselves.  Under negative attention, the distorted mask will probably attempt to make Shards by causing drama in the group, possibly organising from the shadows.

The Treefrog is associated with the experience of the moment - using the diagram we see that negative attention drives them to 'analysis of the moment' and positive attention to changing the future.  Again, like the other central characters it is possible to force alternate moves, i.e. to make negative attention produce 'reducing the future' and positive to 'reaction to the moment' but only under favourable conditions (atmosphere, catalysts, etc).