#skelecom

have you seen this man?

just today i realized its probably in the “horror” category. and for years ive actively avoided writing for it because of how depressingly heavy handed the mental health themes are and how it put my own brain-space at its worst to write damaged characters. but now i am strong enough to do it. so.

your thoughts on reading the most horrible imaginable set of events for likeable characters? skeletons are involved.

Maria, who was accidentally made into an immortal soldier of heaven at the young age of 7 over 1,000 years ago.

She hides her skeleton under layers and layers of intricately knit wools and can float/control wool as if it were her flesh. (skeleton knights are gifted a “second flesh” by paloma to represent their status but also serve as a means for the knights to use as weaponry. Paloma attuned Maria to wool, seeing that she was a child, in a cruel attempt to hinder her abilities. It backfired somewhat and now Maria is her #1 murder bitch.)

Maria is the leader of the Skeletal Knights and is extremely skilled with her use of wool as well as her attunement with light/thought, gifted to her by a different god. (typically knights earn a second attunement from one of the 3 other gods.) She is able to read active thought and sense emotion. She cannot dive into the brain and memories of someone’s mind. She CAN trick the mind and produce visual illusion however. These skills are also extremely refined.

* i hate feeling too.  ♫

* i’ll leave those chores to some pathetic sap like you.  ♫

* dunno bud. i mean, i guess i can’t blame anybody for automatically assuming that nothing good can come of anything anybody does and everything is awful but they could at least pretend to believe in me a little bit.

* oh, sure, everybody believes in you as long as you sit back and look like a misunderstood victim of circumstance but the moment you start taking charge of your own horrible fate it’s all “you’re a hypocrite” and “you look horrible” and “think about what you’re doing”.