Vespers (Mosaica vespera) are the most diverse species of Mosaic, serving as mascot and holotype for the entire class.
.anatomy
Vespers have no set anatomy. Each individual can very drastically in appearance, possessing an often abstract body plan. The one thing they all share is colouration, which is often bordering on the magenta spectrum.
.behaviour
Vespers are self-aware and extremely intelligent. The entire species is incidental, born as a side effect of Violence Against Art’s existence, which left behind and permitted the refraction and multiplication of specific light frequencies that ultimately crystallised from Anima contamination, leading to the formation of the pseudo-Devils later known as Vespers. This is also where their capacity for extreme violence and auto-translating speech originate, along with some of their anatomy, as Vespers will imitate traits and even body plans found in Devils. They are otherwise mostly cooperative and social.
.abilities
Vesper cells can expel infrared light for movement, using the momentum of the photons to reach extreme speeds. The process is done on an individual cellular level, with each cell negating air friction, and with the ability to instantaneously switch the direction of the emission, allows them extremely precise control in movement, bordering on teleportation. They can, similarly, use surrounding light sources for a similar effect, although this way their direction of travel is imposed by the light source and its intensity, while being considerably much easier to master and less mentally exhausting.
Vespers can similarly use strong electric currents as a means of transport, able to use cables or electric arcs to transpose their entire bodies. This also extends to electronic devices, which they can inhabit indefinitely as long as it has a current actively running through it, and can even alter the currents in such a way they can control the device from inside.
Vectors are powers and abilities native to Vespers.
.reproduction
Vespers reproduce through light. Certain imperceptible frequencies and wavelengths of light resulting from Vesper existence, in the presence of a high enough Anima resonance, will crystallise into a womb-like larva. This larva will then absorb the surrounding Anima and radiation, eventually reaching a point of saturation which will create a mature Vesper.