#mors

MORS — allegory of death

Let me clear, I don't like Mors. In fact I probably hate him, but in Korina's Origin, I couldn't help but feel awful for him... and I could see why Mors turned out the way he did.

To start this off, I have to admit that I don't believe Thanatos was a good father to him. I know he loves Mors, that he only wanted the best for him and had the best intentions but...

Mors is an offspring of a Keres, a personfication of violent death. Vulture-like hags who rip and tear at those who die on the battlefield, to cruel diseases, and of course murder. Though these being cannot cause death, only able to scavenge and feast on the dead, they can still hurt you.

It's in Mors' very nature to be violent and cruel, to be vulture: clawing and ripping at the dead. That's not something you can change, and you can either work against it or with it.

Thanatos chose to work against it.

He chose to supress Mors, he chose to ground him everytime he hurt someone which would make sense for a normal child, but Mors was no ordinary child. He was a demon, a vulture in human form, whose nature is being violent.

Instead of giving Mors an outlet, maybe a place to let his anger out, like a rage room or a remote place where he could destroy things. He keeps Mors in his room and takes away the one person he genuinely cares about, Korina.

Korina is among the very, very few people that could probably keep Mors calm, and Thanatos just kept forbidding him from talking to her, from his first ever friend. Gave him no room, no where to express himself. If he left a hole in the wall, he was in trouble for it. He had nowhere.

Thanatos wanted to supress the Keres' blood inside of Mors, but all he did was surpress Mors. This supression left him with no outlet, nothing to support him, and thus caused Mors to have explosive outbursts of violence and cruelty. For example, when he burnt the ghosts' village for apparently no reason other than 'why not?'

Thanatos loves Mors, I know he does. But Mors deserved better than being supressed and afraid of himself. Mors thought himself a monster for who he was and it's Thanatos's own fault.

Sorry for this rant, I just wanted to get it off my chest. What are your thoughts on Mors? Do you agree, do you disagree with me? I'm curious. 🤍