#creators lore

He/him - 6’10” - Agender - AroAce - Obsession Deity

His cat’s name is Ping Pong! 

Ozymandias (sometimes called Ozzy as a nickname) is a serial collector of all things he finds cool. It doesn’t take much for him to find a new thing to obsess over. He’s typically pretty jovial unless something he has breaks/gets damaged/is lost. 

He also has a lot of obsessions that can be damaging such as drugs and self harm. Luckily since he’s a deity it manifests in ways different to a human would. In a sense it’s like how things work in the ghost council— there are different levels of ways you could poison yourself, except Ozzy cannot die no matter how poisoned. 

Now his collection of stuff is vast— so he has his own little pocket between time and space where he hoards all of it. Most of the time he just stays there and plays with his toys, gets high, and messes with the universe. He almost never lets people into his home since he doesn’t want people to mess with his stuff; he’ll only make exceptions for his friends and for important matters. 

Now his cat, Ping Pong, is his best friend. They go to everywhere together. He made Ping Pong on accident a long time ago. He was trying to create a drug powerful enough to kill a deity and somehow ended up with Ping Pong instead. He was reprimanded for this and originally had Ping Pong taken away from him, but he stole him back. 

As you might be able to tell, Ozzy is a bit of a troublemaker. He doesn’t necessarily do it because he wants to hurt people, he does it because his intrusive thoughts become his obsessions and he has to succeed to feel whole. For this reason he gets shunned away from the other creators to protect them. 

Notes about his design

Piercings- at some point he started poking a bunch of holes in his ears as a new stimulative obsession. He basically gave himself every piercing possible but ended up being annoyed with all the jewelry in his ears. He only kept the ones that he liked (then stretched his ear bc he saw humans doing it and thought it was cool).

Markings on the side of his mouth- he vomits a lot…

Pills in his eye/arm- He didn’t always have these. But once he became obsessed (then addicted) he sought to make them a part of him. He went through a lot of trial and error but was able to get them to grow out of his skin.

Tears- He cries a lot, happy and sad, so they ended up staining his skin (kind of like the vomit thing).

Hole in his neck- if he sticks his claw into the hole he can split up his neck and his torso. He does this as a defense tactic but also just to gross people out.

Pill+wings+blood (chest)- Kind of like a control center. He can turn off his body to hibernate by detaching the pill from his body. If the pill were ever destroyed, he could be technically destroyed. 

Torso diamond- Sometimes he likes to mess with his insides. He can close the diamond if he wants but like previously mentioned, it kinda grosses people out which he thinks is fun.

3 cuts- These cuts stay forever bleeding (which he did on accident– like most things) but don’t hurt him. Sometimes he’ll wrap his arm so he doesn’t get the blood on his stuff. 

Bloody paw- This is actually a tattoo+ nail polish. He did it one day when he was bored. 

Missing part of arm- He’s always had this. He’s unsure why, but it doesn’t really inhibit him much. The blood around it doesn’t drip, it just floats. 

Bruises- They are like the 3 cuts, they’re always there.

Tattoos- He has the chemical equation for acid on his arm, a mouth on the back of his neck, and a tramp stamp (haven’t decided the design yet but I’ll get around to it).

My "sona" Mx. Maledictus is, in reality, an extradimensional being belonging to a group I've come to call the Creators. They are powerful, able to create and manipulate worlds, dimensions, and realities of their own. We have no knowledge of them, nor do the inhabitants of the worlds they create. In fact, our reality is the only world not made by a Creator.

Our world mirrors theirs. Any creative person you know is the mirror of a Creator and every character and world they make is a person or world made by the Creator they're connected to - and I mean physically made: real people living real lives in real worlds, not just words and two-dimensional drawings. They really exist, all their troubles and flaws, and the Creators have the power to manipulate it all, or even create offshot worlds where they change one or multiple things and watch to see what happens. The human in our world that is connected to a particular Creator gets glimpses of these worlds; what they do with that is up to them. Some write it down. Some draw. Some let it fester in their minds.

If you, reading this right now, have characters or worlds or creative endeavors of your own, then you have a Creator counterpart.

And if that is you, then I have a challenge:

Design your Creator.

These beings exist outside of our comprehension and generally lack confined physical bodies, but nearly all of them have

1. A proper "godly" name that is used by other Creators and by the few inhabitants of their worlds that have some vague knowledge of their existence (often acknowledging them as gods/deities of some sort). The proper "godly" name of Mx. Maledictus (who I'll refer to as Mal from now on) is actually Meilyphodes.

2. A monicker/motif. This is a nickname often related to their personalities, worlds, limitations, or physical attributes (Creators occasionally take physical form; they generally choose how to apoear but some have traits they cannot change). Mal's monicker is "The Faceless One" because he always lacks a face in any form he takes. Other Creators' monickers are more abstract, such as "Anarchy" for a Creator that often excludes structure and control from their words. More examples are "Susurrus" (for a Creator that is softspoken and often appears with feathery wings that generate that soft rustling sound), Slumber (for a Creator that is often in a "sleep-like" state, though Creators don't sleep as we do), "Sentinel" (for a Creator with a knack for watching; they like to keep everything "safe," often interact directly with their worlds more than others, and have an eye and armor motif) and "The Timekeeper" (for a Creator that is obsessed with punctuality and making sure everything happens at the exact moment they desire, despite Creators existing outside of time).

3. A form (or several) that they appear in when necessary. Creators often choose a physical form when they need to communicate with each other in a formal setting (though casual interactions can be acheived without a physical form or word-based communication), but they also need a physical form if they ever choose to interact with the residents of their worlds (which is rare but not unheard of). These forms can take any shape, from a humanoid without a head, like Mal, to a many limbed monstrosity, to a floating eye, to a great dragon, often imitating the core inhabitants of the worlds they create (if a Creator focuses of humanoids, they're more likely to appear humanoid, but if they focus on animal characters, they're more likely to appear in an animalistic form; more still have creatures that cannot be defined as either and often appear in forms that would be hard for us humans to describe). Their appearance also often relates to their monicker/motif, such as the Sentinel being a suit of armor with an eyeball for a head, Anarchy having a form that shifts and constantly looks wrong or blurry, and the Timekeeper having many clock-related visuals.

Also, themes in an individual's Creator often bleed through to their human counterparts. Though I have a face, as I am human, I often experience depersonalization and a general disconnect from my face, body, and identity as a whole. I feel weird having a face because it goes against a core feature of Mal. I shouldn't have a face.

So, if this idea intrigues you, I'd encourage you to make a Creator of your own. Let your creativity run wild. I'd encourage you to draw from aspects of yourself to find your Creator's motif (such as Mal's facelessness being connected to my depersonalization), but I can understand that can be a bit too personal.

Also as a little incentive, I will draw every Creator that gets a design and some may (with permission) be featured in one of my stories that revolves around the Creators.

Reblogs are greatly appreciated, and thank you so much if you read all this and even more if you end up making a Creator. This is an idea I've struggled to articulate for a long time and I was very excited to be able to do more of an interactive thing with this and hopefully get other people in on it.