Had an idea for Awakener oc inspired by mavkas from Ukrainian mythology for some time, but finished her only now (ironically when my Morimens hyperfixation passed, thanks Soulframe)
This isn't an OC created for Morimens ummm it's an OC from another world I'm created. I'd like to give my kid a little change and play in Morimens paro =P Real name is Herold, but call as Hesperos in Morimens
based off of “Cool Air” (short story)—since Lovecraft was scared of an AC unit i've decided to make an AC unit for fun! dunno if i'll draw her again but you can tell what inspired her lol
i am not good at gore or drawing skeletons but she's full of necrotic flesh and goop. i just wanted her to be ornate and have steam coming through the gap between the carvings and outer layer
she is a sentient fridge to preserve the skeleton of her self-proclaimed creator :D
extra stuff below the cut
Realm — Caro
Classification — Assault
Gnostic Index — 9.99999999
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
Iteration 5009385 "Shiver" is a silver woman, an automaton. With a face of flesh-like polymer, only the head is free of carved silver.
All throughout the ornate surface of her pristine, pure body are thinly-fashioned respirators in the form of filigree, collecting oxygen for preservation. Her body was made to automate the sealing and generation of coolants, releasing a visible vapor with each ‘exhale’.
The internal workings of Iteration 5009385 act as a blast chiller for long-term use, accessed via her front panel seam. She subsists off of what remains inside of her, eventually breaking down all manner of matter into an unrecognizable, primal ooze, despite the claims of "preservation."
She is not opposed to putting more flesh or bones inside to freeze.
Cold to the touch, Shiver is often seen covering up the majority of her limbs, aside from her face and bladed legs. Anyone around her vents long enough can attest to her internal temperature dropping their own—she is built to chill, and nothing truly lasts forever.
Do not crack open her panels, lest you lose a finger.
i did make her kit as well but its not solid. i'll update it in an edit when i like it enough :)
her silver is the actual metal rather than the core, but she does have a (secondhand) core as well. she doesnt wear much because her main method of dealing damage is attached to (and defending) the skeleton inside!
the eyes on her mask are her actual eyes and function as dials, connected to her skills. idk i put a lot of bullshit science in her bio so it's hard to describe. she's a fan of czort
He was a newborn when he was picked up and grew up in Remouahe (not Aramites). He worked as soon as he could after the foster house died down and nobody could take care of him. It cost him a lot but eventually he managed to find a nomadic group that’s willing to take him in. The arduous lifestyle developed his instinct early on. He worked to guard and take care of the group's livestock—it was no easy feat, but he was optimistic enough despite his rough life.
When Dissolution caught them in a journey, many of them fell victim and the rest eventually scattered. 13 years old Indra who could see D-Slime did try to tell the group, yet none of them believed him. He couldn’t risk his life, so he chose to run away. He ran to the nearest village, only to find the same black sludge in the entrance. Some people even had severe injuries with black liquid oozing out from the wound. It also happened with other villages he tried to enter. He survived with what he could find in the wild and with a bag of coins in hand, and soon realized he wouldn't be able to survive longer than a week if he kept it up. Luckily, he found a river, thus he followed its trail, a few miles away bringing him out of the endless sands.
When he looked around the place he was in, he saw big towers and complicated buildings, with lots of tall trees he had never seen around the street. He approached some stalls to get food and get a job within his ability. At the same time, someone shouted that they couldn’t find their wallet. Because of his rugged appearance, their eyes turned to him and slowly put him in the corner. The quick misjudgment eventually led things into a chaotic pursuit between cats and a mouse. He did not understand why he was being chased, but his instinct said it’s better to run. In a gravelly area, he hurt his feet and stumbled to the ground. They were hands away before someone called ????? brought him up. ????? quickly cleared the misunderstanding by telling them that Indra is a relative that's lost. Not a very convincing lie, but ????? managed to take him into their house.
????? cared for him a lot as he grew up, treating him like ?????’s own child. He observed and followed ?????, learned about education, manners and social skills. He was practically the face of ????? house for how far he improved. ????? also taught him about the sea, and their profession; a sea witch. ????? house was near the sea, and Indra quickly developed a habit of visiting it. He learned about meditation and protection by using resources from the sea. The witchcraft Indra learned mostly consists of various preparations for one ritual which is practiced for individuals.
8 years passed by, the person he thought was an embodiment of a perfect soul wasn't a flawless human with a good history. Under that evening rain, ????? made a fatal mistake by accidentally revealing their involvement in a tragedy of the city that had been buried with time. The people who had grudges didn't recover those old wounds. They quickly grabbed ????? and executed them on the spot.
The people became paranoid of anything related to ????? and began chasing after him, since he was the person closest to ?????. They assumed Indra must’ve learned something about ????? past and their “terrifying” witchcraft or rituals. They cornered him into the sea, and he performed the ritual. The submerging was slow and suffocating like when he practiced it, but he didn't know it would burn and tear his flesh apart from the inside. In the water, he was halfway turned into an aquatic being before the paranoid citizens’ weapons and explosives killed him in the process.
A few years later, a ship found a shining Silver cube inside a fish body during a heavy rain. Doctor ???????? who was aboard took it and performed an awakening ceremony. When Indra opened his eyes, he immediately jumped away. He questioned why he was alive, Doctor ???????? smiled and began to explain the world around him.
Still trying to make sense of his surroundings, Doctor ???????? told Indra to follow him. He said he would need his help. Indra hesitated, he remembered the people who cornered and killed him because of something he's never done. He couldn't forget how they easily turned their backs on him, as if they never knew one another. Maybe he was a fool for thinking like that. Maybe people aren't as kind anymore.
He said he would think about it, but Doctor ???????? told him to think fast because Indra wouldn't be able to stay sane for long without a linker and he would bring out an emergency lifeboat to go back to the land for him. It was easy to say that Indra couldn't trust him with how he guardedly backed out. Indra could see something in Doctor ????????’s face, something that became clear the more he saw it. He wasted no time when he immediately leapt to the water.
Another pursuit, but Indra was in advantage. His unnatural body quickly adapted and he went deeper into the sea, hiding from humans. But Doctor ???????? is not a fool, not after his numerous awakening experiments. He used magnetic materials in Indra's body which would react greatly when he's near a source of iron or steel. Doctor ???????? planned to hunt him back later or someday, but Indra had swum farther away. He soon arrived on the seafloor and stayed there silently. The sea is a place devoid of human lives. Silent, cold, and lonesome. He wanders from one ruin to another.
????? the Sea Witch once believed in Lemuria’s reawakening, but never said it directly. ????? served for Miryam several years prior, but escaped after finding out the true ritual to form the Seafarer troops, then chose to live on that seaside for the rest of their life. ????? remembered how Miryam depicted those poor fish-turned-folks as the ones who gain “true peace” and “blessing” from the Gods, using their sacrifice as a weapon and fuel for her ideal version of “betterness”. It inspired ?????, thus they created a new ritual. They taught some citizens about it. They believed the ritual would complete their soul and enhance their body/physical quality. They are to embrace and become one with the sea. They use anchors to sink quickly for a few minutes. Right before seawater fills the body, they will be brought back to the surface. You could say they were still developing the technique, since none of them ever truly gained the effect. But perhaps that's for the best, because until the end of their fate, they never realized the ritual they created brings forth a similar result.
“The ocean drowns and leaves one forgotten. Let the water envelop you, let it take your senses, and let it become a part of your perfect soul.”
The part of the ritual that ????? changed was numbing. The original ritual would turn humans into fish or other Aequor creatures with a painful process. ????? "deleted" the hurtful side effect so the performer may transform painlessly. Indra's ritual succeeded as he nearly turned into an octopus, although ????? didn't really succeed in precisely adding the nullification part since Indra suffered in the process. Yet it was there, numbness was successfully implemented in it because Indra gained the numb effect, but only after he died.
More Info
Age: 21 (death)
Pronouns: He/him
Gender: Cis male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Date of birth: Unknown
Height: 182cm (human body) | 223cm (with tentacles)
Voice Claim: Chiaki Kobayashi
Accessories: Anchors that are ????? the Sea Witch's symbol and wrist shackles. The magnetic energy from his body material made those heavy items stick to his wrist and move easily. The anchor weighs (at least) 8 kg each. The chains are used to connect the anchors to his shackles, but later removed.
Other features: 7 tentacles connected to his back, they are flexible & unretractable, but he finds it troublesome—they get into his way when doing things like sleeping and entering small areas. Though awakeners usually have their body shaped the way they want, Indra’s case is different. It's not the way Indra wanted, it's just what the ritual made him to be.
Plus: Can lift heavy stuff, spray black sticky ink, camouflage underwater, become a shield or a bed(?). Sturdy, resilient, and has high stamina.
Minus: he can survive any injuries but don't let anything heavy hit his body. Even though nobody knows how heavy or how hard the hit needs to be, the body could break apart again and if it happens he would need conscious surgery. Weird enough, he can use it to lift or throw people easily. He would try and retry too hard, stubborn, a bit too cautious around people or too reckless when by himself, defensive to new people.
Likes: Clownfish, peaceful silence, starfish, chicken dumpling, donuts, strawberry ice cream, turtles
Dislikes: Silence that isn't peaceful, confusion, cold soup, eel, sea snakes, rat, blades, explosives, barnacles
Trivia:
- His body was actually crushed when he was awakened (just like the trust that he had was destroyed by one betrayal after another). Doctor ???????? used a lot of materials and methods to piece his body parts back perfectly, mainly using magnetic material. Thanks to his great feat, Indra gained a fully intact body, but still has visible cracks on the torso. There was a tracking device in his body too, but it doesn't work if it stays underwater for too long and later removed in Mythag.
- He's guarded and kind of self-conscious. Bcs of what happened to him back then, he cares about his appearance/attitude and other's thoughts to some degree. Not too shy, he can be a bit challenging when he's not trying to be humble.
- He doesn't speak as much as before, but it's always loud and clear when he does, with a thick ((Indonesian)) accent. But he becomes talkative in certain times, for example when bargaining. A bit too frugal when it comes to expenses, spends too little that he tries all kinds of hacks to avoid using money.
- Very attentive and protective to the kids, especially kids like Jenkin bcs he can see himself in her. He can tolerate robbers—who are forced to steal because of economic struggles—and would probably give them some cash (as long as they don't harm him too badly).
