Can we get more info on moonflower guardian he’s so cool. I want to know how he got cursed!
Okay so before we begin I need to give some context as to what this au is crossing over with and how things ended up at this point, SO-
Beastpocalypse is an in development au by @scarapanna where the bug beasts forms function more like a curse on the first virtues, transforming them into beasts. Silent Salt sealed everyone away including himself for the world's safety, the soul jams split and soon found by the ancients (except White Lily). However the curse carried OVER to the new holders so they're now stuck as beasts, leading to White Lily making her way to the Faerie Kingdom in search of a cure and releasing the beast cookies in the process (which are all halfway corrupted, and with a slightly depowered beast curse).
At the moment the story follows the Shadow Milk Cookie (Viper) and White Lily Cookie (Pandora) all over Earthbread in search of a way to reverse this curse.
Okay, cool? Great! Now, for another very short recap of the events leading UP to the incident. Basically what happened was Viper and Pandora, in their attempt to travel to Faeriewood, accidentally teleported directly into the Dual-Wielded Deceit universe and got seperated. Viper had met Gibbous (the DwD!Shadow Milk) and Eternal Sugar during that. Meanwhile since Spring was monitoring this situation, she yanked Blossom out of a post-awakening timeline and dropped him into this one for the sole purpose of a rescue mission, leading to him meeting Pandora first. The two quickly headed towards where the three beasts were after a very unsuccessful and repeated attempts to shatter the fully formed veil of deceit.
Due to the stress of the situation, Viper had shifted into his Beast of Deceit form after fleeing Gibbous and Sugar. After a small pin-down and deceit aura towards Blossom, it pulled back before it could do worse and fled, leading to Pandora and Blossom chasing after him... In the sky. Blossom used a soul link spell to find the root of the issue and gently eased the beast before they took a semi-crash landing underneath the trees, the beast form finally dissipating.
Keep in mind, Gibbous has his veil active. He is watching EVERYTHING unfold in real time, and he gets an idea... So he goes to the Fount of Knowledge to ask how to replicate the beast curse he just saw on Viper.
MEANWHILE after that incident, Viper and Gibbous get into a fight which leads to Viper biting Gibbous. Did you know that venom has hallucinogenic effects, can make them feel dizzy/nauseous, and tell the truth? WELL IT CAN. And Gibbous got to deal with the brunt of being back in the position of the Fount of Knowledge all over again.
Just until the trio fled, that is... And by that point it was already far too late. Due to the stress of the situation, Blossom did end up having a beast form manifest as a sort of deer/crow hybrid known as the "Beast of Blooming Truth".
And THAT'S how it started. This is how it looks in color, by the way, and is also the default beast form Moonflower can conjure up.
As for the blackened parts of his hair, WELL...
That's future events that are planned to become canon but basically; take the whole "Ultimate dough forcing Pitaya dragon to transform into the chaos dragon beast", trade out the dough for a dragontongue incantation, and throw it directly onto the Beast of Blooming Truth.
Leads to this thing manifesting instead. Where Blooming Truth is bizzarely docile, Black Moon is very aggressive.
Not explaining anything during this period but what happens afterwards is that, due to the balance dipping so heavily into the dark/negatives, it forcibly triggered the awakening of the Truthless Recluse in that timeline variant (due to Blossom existing he wasn't able to and was SEVERELY delayed), and once the beast of the Black Moon had its corruption lifted... Moonflower Guardian (a variant of Blossom since he goes under that name despite the title change) appeared from it.
That's generally about it :]
