#castor morimens

[yelling-space]

some scribbles

some u were way easer 2 draw then others ,

these were og 4 a hc/relastionship chart but that was looking so ugly so u can just have the scribbles instead , youd nevber gsss some tehse were drawn at diffent times

[espritradieux]

I'm sure they have some tragic and gruesome lore but I'm sorry they look like juvenile chickens when they still look at lol like chicks but they have the long necks and legs of growing chickens and just a few adult feathers here and there

[revalefan]

Doodles

[beastenraged]

out of curiosity, do you have any more snippets of "a folly of []"? (no worries if not, of course!)

Castor limps. All he wants to do is sit down, lay down. But this is his chance. It might be his only chance. To get his brother out. 

He’s seen all kinds of different bodies, among those Chosen by the Lantern. But this is different somehow. More real, more physical, where he can smell sea salt and fish in the air, and hear the slapping of finned feet, marks of wetness left by tails and fins on the marble floors. 

There is a physicality present that the Chosen lack. Except for him and Pollux. 

He tugs at the arm of the last in line. Someone both gray and pink, lighter and darker than his compatriots. 

Caecus, blind and not, human with this inside from birth. It ate him alive, the becoming. 

“What?” Pale, almost pupilless eyes turn to glare at him. 

What does he say, what does he tell him? Hali, he needs help. For once, Castor wants her to say something. And she does, hissing out as many words as she can. Anything that he can use. 

The vessels fail due to what cannot be seen with eyes alone. / The Divine Maiden alone is not enough. / God sleeps and that is the Divine Realm sought, an eternal dream. 

“You’re getting tainted vessels from the Church. That’s why the rituals with them keep failing.”

“...what?” Caecus pauses in place, and it’s enough, along with what he says, to get the rest of the fish-people to pause as well. 

Lemurians. 

“If you take me with you, I can tell you more!” 

Caecus’ face twists. “Tell us that our allies are apparently ruining our vessels? Lady Miryam would have seen-”

“Hold on, that’s interesting.” The tallest, the leader. Gray and tattooed and surrounded by octopus-like tentacles circled about his legs. 

Goliath, giant among men. 

“But Caecus is right. Our High Priestess, she’s no fool, she would’ve caught on by now if that’s true.”

“Not if it’s invisible. Or nearly so.” Castor lowers his eyes, lets his long hair brush into his face. “And not if the Church doesn’t think it’s a taint. We call a blessing from the Lantern, you’ve seen the dark oils, haven’t you?”

And even if he hasn’t...there are other things to try. 

Harder to tell the lack of a dog’s bark, than the presence of one. 

“Hm.” The tallest tilts his head slightly, slitted eyes narrowing. “How do we know you have anything else useful, kid? Other than some ‘ooh you’ve been betrayed.’ You think we’d take you with us just for that?”

The shark-man that leads them, with a sword larger than anyone else’s... How can Castor hope to convince him? 

By Goliath’s trickery, they drank the wine. He is cunning enough to find a way. 

The thing about having Hali in his brain, with all the information she carries and whispers, is that other things are there too. More than just the words she says. Like, for example, images of wine glasses shattering on floors and tabletops, their original holders twisting and turning into scaled shapes. A sharp-toothed smirk behind it all. 

If Castor has a say, he can figure out how to word what he sees, rather than just what Hali says alone. It’s what Juilette doesn’t understand, every time she drugs him so she can get what Hali says alone, is that without him, she’s missing things. 

And maybe, if she wasn’t planning to do that to him and Pollux, he would have warned her. But she is. He didn’t. He won’t.

Castor clears his throat. Picks his words once again. 

“You turned an entire country of nobles to Seafarers under your banner with the right words, I think you can figure out a way to get me out.”

Everyone freezes in place. Not completely, not like any Lantern Bearer would, but enough to show the shock. That the information that Castor’s picked to translate bleeds true. 

It is Goliath that breaks that silence first, a shiver running through the ridges on his skin. 

“Hm. That’s interesting.”

“Lord Goliath?” Caecus’ ear fins flick back and forth, as does his tail. Nervous, if Castor’s experience with his own wings is anything to judge by. 

He seeks after strength and Goliath stands at the pinnacle of what he wishes for. 

“Come on. There’ll be a place on my ship for you. Least I can do for someone who knows my deeds, huh?”

The shark-man turns, decision made. 

They’re leaving now?

“Wait, my twin-”

“There’s two of you?” The larger man raises an eyebrow. “Huh. Well if we run into him, we run into him. But you-” A shark’s grin, sharper and wider than any Castor’s ever seen before, aims at him. “You’ll do.”

Wait, no. He tries to back up, wings flicking out. Too late. A large hand shoots out to grasp him by the upper arm, and its owner, Goliath, begins to drag him along in his wake. Caecus is close behind, as are the other Seafarers, all watching him and their surroundings intently. To make sure he doesn’t get away. 

Another trap. But this without- no. Castor swallows. No. 

What about Pollux? What about his twin? Castor can’t leave him, not like this! 

“What do I do, Hali,” he begs, under his breath. “I can’t leave him.”

One remains mortal, the other becomes a god, that is the Dioscuri.

The next words, the next thoughts, are even quieter. Barely more than a whisper. 

I’m sorry. 

But this is our way out.

[miumiumola]

castor/hameln fic is done and posted to ao3!! yippee :-D and tysm sabotsen for the wonderful support, it truly means a lot to me!! <33

if you read it hope you'll enjoy, thank you so much!!!

to my irl friend who follows me here HI TWIN ILY!!! but if you read this fic i will actually explode from the humiliation

[espritradieux]

I had the vision for this when I finished Castor and Pollux's dreamscapes and I finally sat down and drew it I love them I love how fond of them Thais is

[revalefan]

Hi new hyperfix

[beastenraged]

this is a VERY good meta, however curious minds wonder -- how would yo go about making a genesis sorel, or a genesis castor/pollux, for example? what about a genesis caecus, would he be even more fish-ified? (via @hallowed-nebulae)

My thoughts on this are too long to put into replies, so here's another post for it. Okay, ideas on the possibilities of Genesis Sorel, Caecus, and Castor/Pollux/Twins.

Thanks, of course, to the Morimens fandom as a whole who have gathered the information from the game itself to help determine which different characters are most likely a reference to what exactly in Lovecraft lore overall. Makes my life easier, though I still have to do pretty heavy diving for the facts here myself.

Sorel- She is most likely a 'The Queen in Red' reference, who shows up only as an Avatar of Nyarlathotep in some CoC (Call of Cthulhu) stuff. Now, the only issue with making a Genesis version from that, is that we already have a Nyarlathotep present in Morimens.

(That's N, by the way.)

We could go for mixing some more references to his various Avatars for her Genesis form, if not for another problem. That is, Ryker is also an Avatar of Nyarlathotep reference and is N's specialist boy in Morimens, so if anyone is going to get really heavy Nyarlathotep imagery/connection in the future, it's going to be him most likely.

(Pandia is also associated with N/Nyarlathotep btw, but no one gives a shit about her, let's be honest here.)

BUT since 'The Queen in Red' herself may refer to the original Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland (plus Sorel with roses!), Sorel could get some hefty Wonderland Imagery to a possible Genesis form. I would also think possible vampirisms as well, with all of her connection to Caro/blood and her general 'beautiful and young and rich forever' situation.

Caecus- Now, Caecus' problem is that we technically already have a more fishified version of him in-game and that's the fish-people Seafarer minions we fight everywhere.

His thing is that Caecus is a reference to the Deep Ones as displayed in The Dunwich Horror, people with fishy features that mix their blood/seed with humans that worship the Old Ones. Caecus is a realization of the fear of what if we have the blood of fish people in us that will make US fish people that the narrator of said book faces at the end of the story.

For a Genesis Caecus, I would lean heavy into his continued connection with Goliath. Goliath represents Dagon in-game, who serves as the god of the Deep Ones, and any power Caecus might gain would be derived from that.

Castor and Pollux- I'm pretty sure that they are meant to reference the twins Zhar and Lloigor from The Lair of the Star-Spawn.

As for who is who, hm, Lloigor is supposed to have 'sourceless winds' when he appears, so I think he's supposed to be Castor. Zhar is considered the more powerful of the twins, like Pollux is by the Lightbearers. Strong star association with them both, like the names Castor and Pollux are.

From the lore of Zhar and Lloigor, without getting too much into it, I think a Genesis version of the twins would be conjoined twins and thus seen as a single individual most likely. Plus conjoined twins are kind of considered a horror trope-type, as unfair as that is to the real deal.

To really lean into the god part of their inspiration, I'd go for a backstory of maybe the Genesis Twins saw freedom in taking over of the Lightbearers Cult instead of running away like their canon counterparts did.

So, possible title/naming of Castor-Pollux: Lantern! Or perhaps Starspawn. Like Fauxborn or Inferno and such for the others.