Varyon is, in IO’s words, named “because it seems to make things vary — in mass, luminosity, and response.” He hypothesizes it as “a new form of energy emitted by living beings, proportional to emotional intensity” — “the radiant field generated by living beings.” Its study is Varyology.
The discovery
The eureka moment came when IO Fox intentionally “completed” a hexagonal glyph through motion: his dumbbell “suddenly became lighter” and the Foxite solution flashed bright pink.
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Emotion has altered gravity.
The danger
Varyon leaves behind a Residual Field (or Varyon Field) — emotional energy that saturates spaces after PWR UP events, causing heightened empathy, impulsivity, emotional sensitivity, shared dreams, and nightmares. “Varyon saturation is spatial”: removed from a saturated field, symptoms clear. This becomes the crux of The June Incident.