i feel like ive never really gone into cosmos’ story that well, considering its littered with all sorts of complicated toxic relationship things
he lives on the same beforus as Akrine and Noraxi, but wayyyy off the bank in a literal ivory tower near the sea. he lives with Corall, who’s frankly an awfully toxic troll who has issues with being good. she often apologizes after doing heinous shit like being over possessive etc etc.
she and cosmos grew up together but since hes a perfect chimera mutation and shes a fuchsia, she really thought of him as a friend-pet. like when they were only kids it was more tame and more ignorance than anything and the shared corall’s lusus. but as they grew older, she sort of lost control of being able to subvert evil empire fuchsia stereotypes and sort of just got all possessive and thought of cosmos as less human (troll?).
and since cosmos is also sort of. weird. (isolated and sheltered his entire life and has a DEEP infatuation with colors) corall kind of just doesnt like that part of him, since cosmos is a littleeee bit obsessive im his own way, seeing as corall is the brightest fucking fuchsia known to man, like a fuckin neon genesis hit her genetics when her egg hatched or some shit. but cosmos isnt malicious with his whole color loving deal, and he loves collecting blood so much just to have that visual stimulation (and he sort of wishes his blood wasnt white, he copes by thinking about how all the colors of the caste system are in his blood)
anyways corall sometimes just is a straight up obsessive loser and that ends up with cosmos being bitten a few times
and corall ends up falling down the stairs of the tower and breaking her neck or something so she ends up dead
cosmos eventually goes downstairs to see whats up after shes been gone for a few days and sees her, its like a bomb goes off in his brain. his sort-of culler/sort-of friend/sort-of SOMETHING just is flat out dead and her body is in front of the only exit of the damn place.
so obviously he goes back upstairs, grabs his trolldoll that looks like corall (made for when hes sad and lonely n shit when corall is out and about) and he just stays up there. hes too terrified to walk over her body and too worried about jumping out the window since its so high up.
so he holes himself up in there and finds coralls palmhusk and figures out grumblr by himself.
i imagine that if or when he DOES get out, theres two options, he either gets over corallite and accepts the abuse she put him through and the fact none of it can be fixed and he steps over her body and walks away.
or he gets sick of the tower and jumps out of the window, hoping to land in that soft looking bush below, since the ocean is a little too far away to fall into
old art, my beloveds.
i imagine that in the world where cosmo walks out the door, that akrine and noraxi are midway through their story (akri is still accepting herself etc) and theyre on the beach
cosmos sees them, enamored by their closeness and he sits down on the sand and watches the moon set, with akrine and noraxi near the shore.
he would finally wash his hair and it would become more like cheries
