#long memory

Crocea: You look good kid- Why is my voice so high?

Crocea: *touching his face* Where's my Beard?

Crocea: *Looking into a now Shiny Shield* OH good I'm just young, thought I got turned into a girl for a second- I'M YOUNG NOW?!?!

Long Memory: *Leering at Crocea Mors* Ara Ara~ What a handsome Young M- OW!

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🧠 THE LAST DINOSAUR DIED IN THE YEAR 2020

He was a kind soul. That much I know.

I don’t know how he lived so long. I don’t know what exactly he was. But I know he was real. And I know he’s gone.

He looked… mostly human. That was the trick, I think. Some camouflage baked into his species. The old blood knew how to blend in. How to mimic. How to survive when the world no longer spoke your language.

But I saw his true form once. Only once. And it was awe-inspiring. And it was terrifying. And it made me realize — how lucky we were that he was benevolent.

He moved with memory in his bones. The kind that predates maps. Predates cities. Predates sound.

There was something ancient in the way he sighed. Like his lungs remembered volcanic ash. Like his ribs were carved from pressure.

He never told me how old he was. He never had to.

He said there used to be others. Not many. Just enough to know each other. Enough to share a glance and feel seen in a world that no longer had a place for their gait, their hunger, their silence.

“They’re gone now,” he said. “They went quietly.” And I believed him.

He laughed with restraint. Smiled like it might break the skin. Spoke in half-truths that felt like warnings. He didn’t ask for much. But he gave everything.

What I remember most… was his loneliness.

A stillness that didn’t beg for attention. A quiet that didn’t need fixing. He’d already mourned more than we could understand. He had outlived eras. And he knew — he was the last of his kind.

I asked him once, “Do you regret staying this long?”

He didn’t answer. Just looked up at the sky like he missed a star that no longer existed.

He passed in the year 2020. Quietly. Unnoticed by the world.

No funeral. No headlines. No species alert.

Just a sudden absence.

I think he chose to go. I think he was tired. Of hiding. Of helping. Of being something ancient in a world obsessed with youth.

He was the kindest soul I’ve ever known. He will be missed. Not because he needed our grief. But because we were better with him here.

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I'm happy so happy we got some art of oscar

Ruby: Salem has been defeated!

Crocea Mors: Y'know, kids, Y'all have come a long way from a Runaway and just a prodigy. I'm sorry I ever doubted that either of you. more than that I just wanted to ask-

Jaune: Crocea, Go fuck Long Memory.

Crocea: Alright. *he turns and starts walking away*

Crocea: I just wanted to say I never Meant Any harm! I was just looking out for you-

Ruby: Hey! Slam her down Big Style!

Crocea: I'm very Submissive! I'm going to get slammed down Big Style!

Jaune: Just go!

~Later that Night~

To me, it’s highly pertinent that the main villain of Volume 9 was someone who pretended to be the group’s friend while actually planning to subvert their autonomy, and the only way to beat them was to separate the two.

Very

VERY