Proapter

A proapter is the reanimated soul of a deceased grandmother, fashioned into an effigy of EmPtA pOmPtA by Opra Poapra.

Origins
When Opra Poapra first encountered EmPtA pOmPtA 10,000 years ago in her corner of the universe, she immediately fell in love and attempted to woo her using the materials she had available. Strangely, this only included the departed souls of grandmothers, which she attempted to shape into portraits of EmPtA pOmPtA. Their immediate purpose is to exact the will of EmPtA pOmPtA, but her motives are entirely alien even to the proapters, so they mostly just float aimlessly and mindlessly through space until they are sucked into a black hole or collide with a particularly hot star.

As portraits of EmPtA pOmPtA, proapters are convincing only from the neck up; the head vaguely resembles EmPtA pOmPtA in some way, often with the characteristic single large eye and tonguelike wings, but the body of a proapter is that of a comparatively diminutive elephant that hangs lifelessly below the head on a trunklike neck. On the rare occasions that proapters find themselves on the surface of a planet, the head is unable to levitate and must instead be dragged along by the straining elephant body.

Oligobabushkas
On very rare occasions, by some as-yet-unknown mechanism, a proapter will acquire sentience and independence and pursue enlightenment, gaining an immense amount of power in the process. These enlightened proapters are known as Oligobabushkas, and only five can exist at a time.