Didn’t think a Cosmic Horror can come in a small size? So, this here is just the first part of a larger set I’ve been working on. So why not I show it to you?
By the way, the tentacles are hard to do. Now then.
Kwami: Kluulu, Kwami of Imagination Jewelry Type: Mask Transformation Phrase: “Kluulu, Let’s get Weird!” Transformation Phrase: “Get Real!” Power Activation Phrase: “Phantasmagoria!” Tool: Puzzle Cube Power: “Phantasmagoria” - With the power of Imagination, the user can conjure anything the user imagine through mere thought. - These imaginations look and feel as real as the user imagines and more. - User can create living and even sentient imaginary beings, such as imaginary friends. Can even a whole environment and landscape as far as the user can see or know; creating an entire fantasy world or “Mindscape”. - User creates their own rules in their fantasy world and imaginary beings and objects; having fully control over them. - The Octopus Miraculous can read the user’s minds down to the deepest subconsciousness; automatically and randomly conjuring imagination based on the user’s deep inner thoughts, emotions, and desires. - Similar to the Prodigious, the user can still see and communicate with Kluulu after being transformed and only the user can see, hear, and feel him. - Time dilation; time pass differently in the imaginary reality; usually slower compare the Real World. Possible for days to even years passed in the mind while seconds to few days passed in the Real World. - When creating imaginations into the Real World, they are invisible and intangible; has no physical effect in the Real World; only the user can see and feel them. - Other people can only experience these imaginations if the user allow them; by projecting “Phantasmagoria” into their minds with the user’s mind. - User can telepathically communicating with other people. - One of two ways. These affected people can see and feel the user’s imaginations in the Real World through hallucinations. Or they enter a trance or dreamlike state where they are unable to move their bodies. - “Phantasmagoria” can be used in combat conjuring imaginary/psychic attacks; inflicting pain or mental damages to their enemies even their physical bodies are unaffected; causing them to go through into a shock which they will suffer from psychological trauma, psychosis, seizure, catatonia, coma, and rarely but possibly even death such as heart attack or stroke.
Sub-powers: - Hallucination: Cause people see and feel things that are not there physically; including pain and injury. - Insanity Inducement: Victims can become irrational even if they stare at the user too long. - Mental Invisibility; people cannot see the user through mind trickery. - Shapeshifting; user can impersonate anyone through mind trickery. - Glamour/Quantum Masking; the user can change their appearance in anyway they imagine; making themselves unrecognizable by other people despite resembling to their civilian forms. - Power Mimicry: copy almost any powers from enemies by imagining themselves have the same powers; though imperfect imitations.
Bonus Abilities (without activating its primary power): - Low-Level Telepathy: the user can read minds of another person but only what the person is currently thinking; not like deep-dive telepathy that can see or read people’s memories or deep thoughts. Though the user can sense a person’s thought or emotion if stronger than the person’s can hold. With telepathic ability, the user can sense presence of people and other living things with complex minds through brainwaves, brain activity, or psionic energy. - Empathy; sense emotions of other complex living beings. - Increased creativity and artistic skills and some level of intelligence. - Good at swimming and staying underwater.
Weaknesses/Limitations: - Time limit is 5 minutes after power activation until detransformation for young and inexperienced wearer. - Cannot sense anything without a complex mind or consciousness, such as plants, some small invertebrate animals, or even nonsentient robots and AIs. - Enemies with strong will can withstand most form of imaginary/psychic attacks and could defeat the user in their own imaginative reality and even overcome the “Phantasmagoria”. - User is vulnerable from attacks by those unaffected by the user’s “Phantasmagoria.” - If the user has suppressed/repressed deep negative thoughts and emotions, those dark aspects could leaked into the user imaginary world and turn it into a nightmarish reality; becoming out of control. If the user and their victims stayed in the nightmare reality too long, they are likely to become permanently insane.
History of Kluulu and the Octopus Miraculous: Not much is known with Kluulu’s early history. Only that Kluulu was born from a concept like all Kwamis born from concepts, only that it is likely that Kluulu was born when the first being in the Universe learned to imagine. Neither was the Octopus Miraculous of Imagination is much known, only that it is constructed from a strange green stone that cannot be found on Earth and it is believed to be made by someone or somebody other than the Mage, the creator of all the Miraculouses, or at least the Miraculous belonging to the Chinese Miracle Box.
Kluulu and the Octopus Miraculous’ story truly began in the early 20th Century when a group of travelers landed on a strange uninhabited rocky island in the South Pacific Ocean, one of the travelers who found the Octopus Miraculous and later discovered Kluulu was Howard Phillips Lovecraft (or H.P. Lovecraft for short). In a way, Lovecraft was Kluulu’s holder of the Octopus Miraculous and wrote stories inspired by Kluulu, Octopus Miraculous, and the existence of Kwamis. For reasons unknown or too many, the ownership of the Octopus Miraculous are short-lived and frequently changed between hands over the years, giving them the inspiration for their writing careers and the power to wield their imagination.
Kluulu’s Personality: Kluulu is calm, curious, and playful but cold, careless, and arrogant toward other beings. Being a Kwami, he view most beings as inferior and insignificant to that of germs. Love to be worshipped by others. Kluulu connects to people as long they treat him well and if he believe they can satisfy his curiosity about Humans, life, existence, and nature of the Universe. Kluulu does not care if his powers being used for bad as long he sees what Humans are capable. Kluulu could use “Phantasmagoria” power without a holder but prefer not to; finds it “boring” and waste of his emmense power for little results. Kluulu’s favorite food is fish, preferably small and whole and/or raw, say sardines or anchovies.
Notes: Kwami: Obviously inspired by Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft. “Kluulu” is one of various ‘right’ pronunciation for “Cthulhu”, however, there are no truly right pronunciation in Human speech. Also inspired by Kyubey from Madoka Magica hence the ‘cute’ empty staring red eyes. Though Kluulu tentacled-face look more like Zoidberg from Futurama.
Miraculous: I admit a mask for a Miraculous is kind of redundant but so as a crown for a Miraculous. But a mask seems like a perfect choice as it gives a mysterious theme as it cover the user’s face.
I want it to be a simple design with blank expression, to look like those white porcelain mask with tentacles. Made various tries. Inspired by a Cthulhu cultist mask and Cthulhu’s face but also inspired by The Mask. I like to think of it as a magical VR-AR headset. The mask is carved from a strange rare green stone that is not of Earth, much like the small stone statues of Cthulhu in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
Tool: A cube is often used as some ominous object and yet simply-looking. Mainly inspired by the Soul Cube from Doom 3, the Lament Configuration from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and the Rubik’s Cube. Tried to give a more occult aesthetic. The Cube has somewhat a mind of its own and can change into virtually any shape the user desire and can float.
Power: Originally wanted a power that is versatile and equivalent to reality-warping, but since Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses combined to warp reality, I chose the power of Imagination which instead warps one’s perception of reality, such as through hallucination and mindscape/mental world. I borrow from many fictional media which all based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. I’ll admit even I’m still confused with Miraculous Power of Imagination. Basically, its hallucination, it ‘tricks’ people what user want them to see, hear, and feel when nothing there. As for the imaginary fantasy world. Think of as The Matrix except the user’s mind is the Matrix, though more The Evil Within. Only the user can control their personal reality and their victims cannot, except for strong-minded few.
Theories: Kluulu visited various alien planets and civilizations long before Earth, one of among them is where the Octopus Miraculous was construct where the mysterious green stone come from. Why it was created and what happened remained a mystery. Only that Octopus Miraculous with Kluulu inhabits it fell to Earth a long time ago, perhaps even before Mankind, perhaps when the Earth was far more ocean than land than today. You probably wonder if the Octopus Miraculous was made on an alien planet and yet the octopus is an Earth animal. Maybe that planet had octopuses or cephalopods, perhaps related to Earth’s cephalopods. Here is where things get wacky even in Real-Life, the octopuses and other cephalopods (squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses) on Earth is believed to be aliens. The coordinates of island where Octopus Miraculous was found is 47°9′S 126°43′W, exactly where the city of R’lyeh is located where Cthulhu sleeps in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. I want to put other famous artists and writers who had used the Octopus Miraculous besides H.P. Lovecraft. - Aleister Crowley - Tomoyuki Tanaka (Creator of Godzilla. His first monster idea was a giant octopus) - H.R. Giger (Artist for Alien) - Clive Barker (Creator of Hellraiser) - Wes Craven (Creator of Nightmare on Elm Street and others) - John Carpenter (Creator of The Thing) - Stephen King (It and others) - Guillermo del Toro? Only Kluulu who were his owners were.
The last and current holder of the Octopus Miraculous is going to be a surprise.
Miraculous Ladybug made by Thomas Astruc & Zagtoon
Cthulhu, The Call of Cthulhu, and Cthulhu Mythos made by H.P. Lovecraft Kluulu and the Octopus Miraculous of Imagination made by Redtriangle (me) Drawn by Redtriangle (me)