Some new pics I doodled while reading The Krill Report and this one guy's beautifully fictional dossier of the Men in Black.



And a few notes, some taken directly from MiB lore webpages (written in italics) and some of my own ideas/twists written in standard type.

Some regard the mysterious Men in Black as "galactic enforcers." Their main goal seems to be to make sure that people who have seen something they are not supposed to have seen, or somehow acquired information that they are not supposed to know, keep their mouths shut.

No one really knows who the Men in Black really are. Some people think that they may be some sort of robot or android because of their erratic, robotic movements and strange voice.

They are erased men. Remade in reality's defense. Kept and redesigned in large tubes of amber liquid.

The Men in Black get their name from the fact that they like to black.

Black ties, white or black dress shirts, black shoes and black Fedora hats. In the case of my Custodians, white gloves as well.

They speak like a computer; dull and monotonous. Their favorite mode of transportation are big, black cars, such as Lincolns, Cadillacs, and Buicks. The cars normally have the the interior lit by a strange greenish or purple glow. Unusually insignia have been seen on the doors, and the license plates can never be traced or identified.

Very sensitive to bright light.

The Custodian cubes: Two kinds of cubes exist within Custodian disposal. Vertigo Cubes emit certain high frequency modulations to confuse and sometimes rewrite a target's brain patterns. This helps the Custodians cover their tracks and wipe away any evidence of their actions as well incapacitate victims with nausea.

Prescription Cubes serve as both snares and imprisonment devices. The cubes will expand to quickly swallow a victim within their obsidian black walls and then quickly shrink back to their original size of a 1 3/4" cube. The victim does not feel any difference in the cube's variant sizes. To them, they are occupying a 10 X 10 X 10 X 10' room with minimal light, no entrance or exits and strange patterns carved on the walls. Custodians can often times enter these rooms (the miniaturized cubes usually being carried by another Custodian in transport) to perform acts of interrogation or, if necessary, surgery. The walls of the room can slide out necessary arms for a black metalllic table, utilitarian seats, as well as various closets and compartments of necessary equipment a Custodian might need in the course of his interrogation. Only a Custodian can open or close a Prescription cube.

At last, as the chase went on down a valley-side, Finn saw the fawn stop and lie down, while the two hounds began to play. round her, and to lick her face and limbs. So he gave commandment that none should hurt her, and she followed them, playing with the hounds as she went.

The same night Finn awoke and saw standing by his bed the fairest woman his eyes had ever beheld.

"I am Saba, O Finn," she said, "and I was the fawn ye chased to-day. Because I would not give my love to the Druid of the Fairy Folk, who is named the Dark, he put that shape upon me by his sorceries, and I have borne it these three years. But a slave of his, pitying me, once revealed to me that if I could win to thy great D?n of Allen, O Finn, I should be safe from all enchantments, and my natural shape would come to me again. But I feared to be torn in pieces by thy dogs, or wounded by thy hunters, till at last I let myself be overtaken by thee alone and by Bran and Skolawn, who have the nature of man and would do me no hurt."

"Have no fear, maiden," said Finn "we, the Fianna, are free, and our guest-friends are free; there is none who shall put compulsion on you here."

So Saba dwelt with Finn, and he made her his wife and so deep was his love for her that neither the battle nor the chase had any delight for him, and for months he never left her side. She also loved him as deeply, and their joy in each other was like that of the Immortals in the Land of Youth.

Then Saba hastened to the great gate, and we could not stay her, so eager was she to rush to the phantom. But when she came near she halted and gave a loud and bitter cry, and the shape of thee smote her with a hazel wand, and lo, there was no woman there any more, but a deer. Then those hounds chased it, and ever as it strove to reach again the gate of the d?n they turned back. We all now seized what arms we could and ran out to drive away the enchanter, but when we reached the place there was nothing to be seen, only still we heard the rushing of flying feet and the baying of dogs, and one thought it came from here, and another from there, till at last the uproar died away and all was still. What we could do, O Finn, we did ; Saba is gone."

One day as he was following the chase on Ben Bulban, in Sligo, Finn heard the musical bay of the dogs change of a sudden to a fierce growling and yelping, as though they were in combat with some beast, and running hastily up he and his men beheld, under a great tree, a naked boy with long hair. And the lad was tall and shapely, and as the heroes gathered round he gazed undauntedly on them, never heeding the rout of dogs at his feet.

The Fians beat off the dogs and brought the lad home with them, and Finn was very silent and continually searched the lad's countenance with his eyes. In time the use of speech came to him, and the story that he told was this:

He had known no father, and no mother save a gentle hind, with whom he lived in a most green and pleasant valley shut in on every side by towering cliffs that could not be scaled or by deep chasms in the earth. In the summer he lived on fruits and suchlike, and in the winter store of provisions was laid for him in a cave. And there came to them sometimes a tall, dark-visaged man, who spoke to his mother, now tenderly, and now in loud menace, but she always shrank away in fear, and the man departed in anger. At last there came a day when the dark man spoke very long with his mother in all tones of entreaty and of tenderness and of rage, but she would still keep aloof and give no sign save of fear and abhorrence. Then at length the dark man drew near and smote her with a hazel wand; and with that he turned and went his way, but she this time followed him, still looking back at her son and piteously complaining. And he, when he strove to follow, found himself unable to move a limb, he fell to the earth, and his senses left him.

When he came to himself he was on the mountain-side on Ben Bulban, where he remained some days, searching for that green and hidden valley, which he never found again. And after a while the dogs found him; but of the hind, his mother, and of the Dark Druid no man knows the end.

Finn called his name Oisin (Little Fawn), and he became a warrior of fame, but far more famous for the songs and tales that he made.