#cosmiers

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might do something with cannibalism

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i think i once implied pretty heavily that you can become plural by being a cosmier and combining another cosmier's core with your own but i never really elaborated on that

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if a guardian is created from a core's radius and then they grow up and turn that core into a cosmier, could they be considered each other's parents

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i remembered the fact that undeveloped cores literally just spawn and appear in places and i was like "why don't the orchurists just pick up the cores off the fucking ground. are they stupid?" but the thing is ☝️ undeveloped cores are like. intensely powerful and seep magic into the very earth and are capable of altering the beings that live within its radius so i figured that undeveloped cores are simply too strong to feed to an indulypse and would be like trying to drink sulphuric acid, and when cosmiers are born this overwhelming power is removed from the core (recycled to make the cosmier's body?) which would then render it edible to the indulypse. and this is actually great because i've been needing to figure out what you do to get rid of an indulypse (which is the correct course of action) and this would probably tie into it well

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crying is generally a signal that something is Wrong (even if you can't see the apparent cause) but cosmiers don't really have tear ducts. i've imagined them producing a substance that functions similarly to tears but it doesn't really make much

wait hold on their eyes are pretty much like. the main connection between their core and the outside

a core can be located anywhere within a cosmier's body but the face must always be where the core is

the state of a cosmiers eyes change depending on the stare of their core, it could absolutely be plausible for them to produce something akin to tears as a result of their core becoming overwhelmed with emotion

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waitttt i should even more nonsensical and silly with the indulypse stuff

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okay so like

cosmier dies and an indulypse sprouts from its remains -> the indulypse chooses a messenger to feed it during its youth -> grows enough to gain the ability to act more independently -> becomes less of a tangible(?) thing as it grows and consumes more -> starts to spread across the cosmos and destroy everything in its path -> reaches the universe's core and starts to eat through it -> owner of the core becomes seriously ill and is compelled to go to a specific spot to collapse -> cosmier dies and an indulypse sprouts from its remain -> cycle repeats

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just had a thought about an indulypse functioning a bit like cordyceps