FTWClutch:20/Eggs

FTW Clutch 20/Eggs

I Can Kill You With My Brain Egg

An almost majestic river of black runs along one side of this egg from the narrower tip to the wide end, stopping just before the bottom curves in. The black tapers to a near point, slightly ragged as it blends with the rest of the egg, which is mostly flesh colored. Distorting its shape, however, is an almost mist like grey that seems like it is hovering above the egg as opposed to being part of it. Only on closer inspection is the detail of the 'mist' determined to be little more than a trick of the light, revealing that it is indeed a perfectly formed egg.

Inspiration: The first time River is introduced on "Firefly".
Firefly: Nathan Filion, (2002, FOX)
Credit: Zilya

Instant Improvisation Egg

This egg looks more like an oblong container of some sort. Maybe something out of the smith hall. It appears to be held together, or held shut with long strips of gray streaks wrapped around it while bits of some sort of wire seem to be holding other parts of this haphazard container together. It appears to be made of a piece of wood on one side with the whorls and stripes of the grain and a rusty piece of metal on the other side, all some how crammed over a rock at the base. Near the base of the egg, almost buried in the sand of the grounds as if set hurriedly aside, is an oblong streak that resembles a small red-handled knife that has a tiny silver cross at the end of the handle. At the point of the egg is a tiny glowing dot of vivid yellow/orange that might give a hint as to the fiery hot core inside this container.

Inspiration: The duct tape, paper clips and swiss army knife MacGyver always seemed to have on hand.
MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson (1985-1992, ABC)
Credit: Eshandra

Blood Splatter Egg

A lovely egg sits nestled in the sand. It's round surface is a pleasing white color with some sort of rough, almost platter-like, shading to it. Now this egg may very well be lost amongst the others except for the one thing which makes it stand out amongst all the others. A spray of blood red across one surface. Droplets and streams are streaked in a pattern as if they came from one specific direction. It is as if someone took a small can of paint a from a few feet away tossed the contents upon the surface. That analogy is probably the most comforting, as it also looks disturbingly like someone's lifeblood has been loosed upon this egg.

Inspiration: This egg was inspired by the show CSI. Just one piece of evidence to lead to solving the mystery!
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: William Petersen (2000 to present, CBS)
Credit: Danielle

Fantastic Voyages Egg

With a large shell of nearly perfect elliptical shape, this egg lures the eye with intimations of vast, unexplored expanses. The background of the smooth shell is an unrelieved ebony so deep in tone, one feels they might be lost in it. Scattered, sprayed over the inky blackness, the pinpoints of silvery-white 'stars' seem to wink and flicker from incomparable distances, telling quiet, lonely tales. The peak of the darkened ovoid, however, relieves those stark depths with a rare and breathtaking sight: a tenuous, yet lambent nebula, stroked with unearthly tones of vermillion, viridian, cobalt, saffron, and heliotrope.

Inspiration: This egg is based off of Star Trek:Voyager. Far from home, the ship encountered some incredible sights.
Star Trek: Voyager: Kate Mulgrew (1995-2001, UPN)
Credit: Valeryce

Festival of Fellowship Egg

Bright colors cover every inch of this otherwise night black and star speckled egg. Symbols are drawn all over it by many hands, who's prints and boot prints leave playfully bright tracks all over its asphalt and midnight black surface. The graffiti includes a mask, huge and white with red for eyeholes, a huge blade, easily as big as a man's body, a shimmering topaz flower with six petals and a small firelizard like shape at each point, a big fluffy feline stuffy, disk like shapes with bright colors, a bow as pale bright as a blue moon. A green and white hat and an old man's cane. It's as if each of the painters had taken something important to them, something that meant their heart and soul, and added it to a pile on a Hold's Courtyard. And on top of this, as though to sum everything up, is an insignia, almost like a stylized human skull, surrounded by a red, ribbon like shape on the very tip of the egg.

Inspiration: Bleach, Tite Kubo's breakout hit, is just finishing its first season in the US. Nominated multiple times in the first ever American Anime Awards.
Bleach: Morita Masakazu (2004-present: Japan. 2006-present: US, Cartoon Network)
Credit: Kailai

Otherworldy Porthole Egg

Rough shades of red envelope this egg, scarlet and rust scribbled together like a child's meaningless smear of colors jaggedly mixed together. A dark patch splashes across one side of the egg, vaguely circular though the edges are not even, funny darker dots in the red like the heads of bolts surrounding the opening. In the darker patch hovers a funny green splotch almost like three green balls merged together in a line, red smears glinting behind. Below the green a veil of lighter color floats in the dark. egg/emit 6=Soldreth seems to know almost before Niyath this time, looking up alertly at her. When she gets up to find another good spot on the sands he bugles proudly. The queen's response is a tolerant look, as she deposits the sixth egg on the sands.

Inspiration: This egg is inspired by the British television show Red Dwarf. The desc is inspired by an image used to promote the movie version showing a flying ship reflected in the curved glass of a porthole window, here replaced with the Starbug, instead.
Red Dwarf: Chris Barrie (1988-1993, 1997, 1999, BBC2)
Credit: Zahava

The Q Egg

There are red and black splotches all over this egg. Wherever there is a splotch of the deep red, a splotch of black is right up against one side of the red. Underlying all these splotches is a hint of the dark green of the marshes rippled along the dull grayish mottled shell, along with billows of paler fog, or is that the hot gasses that are sometimes found in the marshlands? The more this egg is looked at, the more those billows appear to be the hot air of some strange and empty place. The red and black splotches drift over this base coloring in an almost reckless manner. Above all this, or appearing to be painted over it all are thin jagged lines and bright flashes of purest white and pale blue. Looking like the St. Elmo's fire of the lightning in strong storms.

Inspiration: In honor of Q of the Q Contnuum of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Patrick Stewart (1987-1994, UPN)
Credit: Eshandra

Explosive Event Egg

This good-sized egg is more of a round shape than a true ovoid, its surface covered with many small dimples and irregularities, as if someone or something has molded the shell most imperfectly. What primarily draws the eye, however, are the multitudinous 'explosions' of incendiary reds, yellows, whites, and oranges that burst over its surface, as if many bunkers of TNT have gone off simultaneously. This garish, spectacular 'event' is only highlighted by smaller ignitions that pepper the egg with occasional tones of gas-flame blue, and what seem like blackened specks of charred debris hurled out from the combustions.

Inspiration: This egg is based off of 'Mythbusters,' and highlights all the things Adam and Jamie luv to blow up. Quote: "Jamie wants Big Boom."
Mythbusters: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (2002 to present, Discovery Channel)
Credit: Valeryce

Ball of Yellow Feathers Egg

This pale yellow puffball sits slightly apart from the other eggs, and raised on its own little cushion of sand. The leathery surface of the egg picks up an odd texture from the sand it was rolled in to dry, leaving the impression of hundreds of tiny feathers, all bound together in this, the largest egg of the clutch. The only variations in its golden, feathery hue are an odd pair of light garnet streaks, as well as two irregular orange blotches on either side of the shell. It fairly dwarfs the eggs around it, longer than it is wide.

Inspiration: This egg is based on "Sesame Street", from the Children's Television Workshop. Sesame Street has been entertaining children in many countries since 1971, for roughly 37 seasons.
Sesame Street: Carroll Spinney (Oscar/Big Bird) (1971 to present, PBS)
Credit: Jenna

Perfect Little Egg

This egg could very well be the ideal of all eggs. It's surface is lovely, smooth; an even shade of pale cream without a single blemish across the surface. The size and roundness of it is absolutely perfect, neither too big nor small. There are no obvious bumps or ridges to alter the contour of the shape either. In essence, it is perfect.

Inspiration: This egg was inspired by the TV Series Nip/Tuck. Based on one of the main themes of the show of perfection that everyone who comes to the doctors is trying to obtain, though what may be inside that perfect shell...very well may be FAR from perfect.
Nip/Tuck: Dylan Walsh (2003 to present, FX Networks)
Credit: Danielle

Answer in the Form of a Question Egg

In the realm between deep, pure ocean water and clear summer sky is the dominant shade of this egg. Marred and dotted by only a few white tufts of clouds, the surface is almost perfect, inviting some cloud-gazing and perhaps a little speculation as to the shapes. The most prominent one resembles a large question mark, that one looks like a series of numbers, another could be a scrawl of unreadable lettering. The unusual thing about this egg is its shape; it appears to balance on the rather pointed end of its apex by preference, as though its azure rotundity were most content when almost in a state of jeopardy.

Inspiration: The classic and ever-popular game show, Jeopardy.
Jeopardy, which has had two hosts: Art Fleming and Alex Trebek. (1969 to present, NBC)
Credit: Nolee

Ghostly Spindle Egg

Deep grey shrouds most of this narrow little egg, mottled here and there with a silvery shade as though mist floating through the blackness of night. Here and there, red, green and yellow peak through like tiny points of light shining through the dark and fog. On one face, a pale rod seems to coalesce, three rays at the top supporting a wider structure almost like a pie, mounded atop with a greenish whipped topping. Suspended in blackness above the top of the splotch is a single red point, floating in the inky black. Down near the wider base of the egg, off to the left of the tower is a small, geometric splotch of red and white, box-like.

Inspiration: This egg is inspired by Frasier the television show Frasier, tenth-ranked American TV show of the 90s. The desc is based on the Seattle cityscape at night, shrouded in fog, the Space Needle poking out through the clouds.
Frasier: Kelsey Grammer (1993-2004, NBC)
Credit: Zahava

Lost Hatch-ing Egg

Supporting the bottom edge of this oddly shaped egg is a circlet of intertwined layers of mossy greens and verdant browns, forming a kind of jungle network of underbrush. Moving upward, creamy whiteness dominates the midsection, jagged pale gray patterns forming what might remind one of strong mortar or cement with several cracks, signifying an aging process. Upon one side of this egg are what appear to be a series of numbers, 4 8 15 16 23 42, which call to mind notations on a hide that the Headwoman would keep for food inventory. The apex is flattened out to some degree, slightly thinner in depth than the sides and bottom, glistening so brightly it might appear to be a window into the soul of its contents.

Inspiration: This egg's inspiration is taken from the first hatch discovered on the South Pacific island, in the television series, Lost. The series began in September, 2004 and has won numerous industry awards including the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series in 2005 and best American import at the British Academy Television Awards also in 2005.
Lost: Terry O'Quinn (2004-Current)
Credit: M'yr

Army Green Egg

This egg is a nasty, drab, olive that anyone with an ounce of respect wouldn't be caught dead wearing on their person. The egg is on the small side, with a crack bisecting it vertically, though it doesn't seem to draw the attention of watchful dam and sire. On the far side of the egg is a twiglike line of brown, with smaller straight horizontal branches off each side. Across the apex of the egg, a lattice-like network of browns and lighter greens slings a web of interconnecting net, nearly blending with the ugly background of the shell.

Inspiration: M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, as well as a groundbreaking dark comedy movie that was later turned into a highly successful and acclaimed TV series. Set in the Korean War, it was a satire of Vietnam and the Watergate eras.
M*A*S*H: Alan Alda (1972-1983, CBS)
Credit: Jenna

Circle of Flame Egg

Most of this stately egg is washed in black at first glance, though longer, closer inspection will find much of it is a deep rusty brown instead. A flare of brilliance near the narrow tip of the egg is nearly the only source of color, a knot of blinding white at the center, fading out through yellow, orange, red and finally melding into the darkness. Two thin arms of pale yellow reach out from this point, one up towards the tip, the other down towards the base, arcing back to make the marking look almost like a jewel embedded in a ring. Here and there a few little flares of color shine, like echoes of the brilliance.

Inspiration: This egg is inspired by the show Heroes. The description is based on the show's symbol - an eclipse. Though in its first season, the show has received much critical and audience acclaim. "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World."
Heroes: Hayden Panettiere (2006 to present, NBC)
Credit: Zahava