#(since his mind is messy and chaotic according to lore)

[feli026]

Afk-ers do you have any headcanons abt the Graveborns? Like I've been trying to find some graveborn characters hcs but found little so !! Pour it over here I need to know y'all headcanons on them. ANY OF THEM!!

[ionlydatesassyelves]

@ghastly-fantasma requested backstories for each of the trio according to my lore, so I tried to do a small rant for each, cause I am trying to be a little conscious of spoilers when I actually get around to trio plot. Which will hopefully not be too far out!

-- KING BOO I have a lot of ideas and feels about what separates him from normal boos. His position, appearance, and name mark him as different in more ways than just he's the king. Boos have such a standard method to them, it's jarring when we see a character like Lady Bow or Bootler that are physically and personally different. For that distinction to be that you're the assumed king of everyone, that's a bigger deal. How did he fall into that power? Inherit it from a previous ghostly monarch? Was it given to him? Was he asked or given a choice? Did he take it himself?

On sorta that note, I will say my headcanons for KB's origins play a lot into how the boos tend to flock together. In my world building, boos are a largely unknown thing. There are the living, and there are the dead. But boos are... sort of neither. And I would say more than other zombie creatures like Dry Bones because they can function much more autonomously, and their origins and habits are much harder to pinpoint. So no one knows who they are or where they came from or how they got here. Not even the boos. But they draw power in numbers, boos know this on an instinctual level. They understand that not just emotionally, they are physically and magically stronger when they are in matched company. They understand one hurt boo weakens the whole. King Boo was the first one to really discover this. His interest was more to protect and care for as many of his own kind as possible, before it crossed his mind he could be building a kingdom or army, but it happened that through these efforts he gathered the largest known stronghold of boos together. --

DIMENTIO I've gotten absolutely the most absurd and convoluted backstories for. I don't want to spill too much because it does pertain to current plot events on the trio story, but if you follow my blog you should know by now me weaving my horrible OC into his story. Abscuro was created primarily as an explanation--a bigger bad that made the bad we know. Dimentio's detached and and whimsically chaotic way of going about his meticulous plans is half behavior he picked up from Abscuro from being too close to him, and half a wall of no emotion he put up to protect himself from Abscuro.

I created the inklings for Dimentio's species, because I wanted him to have a home and a culture that influenced him becoming who he is, a group he could belong to. But part of what makes Dimentio terrifying is that he is something unique and unknown, and I couldn't take that from him. His mask is the loophole he's worked out to cross that line. We'll get more into it later, but essentially there is no such thing as Inklings. They're beyond ghosts, they're fragments of something that was real but isn't anymore, surviving only on faltering memories of who they once were, like living ruins. They can strengthen that survival by possessing a host, but this can get messy and may sacrifice their consciousness to blending with their host's. Dimentio's mask is essentially his host, so he can maintain autonomy and play by mortal rules instead.

(The idea of Inklings not existing mainly accounts for why there are no "more Dimentio's." It also supplies me an excuse for the Dark Prognosticus. Dimentio did bring the book over from their world to ours, but he wasn't the author. That's just the rumor going around because if you trace the book's owners very carefully back, Dimentio is as far back as it goes, there's no possible evidence anyone had it before him) --

ANTASMA I will have to be brief with because unfortunately, most of his origin stuff I think may end up as spoilers. I haven't decided yet. I will say that the thing he is, is not unique. He is one of several, which is how he comes to be called the Bat King. He sort of is just gathering and protecting similar beings the same way Boo is. But this creature is a "bat"--something that is capable of consuming a nightmare (a non tangible idea) and that energy then corrupting their form. This is how we see Antasma in several forms--what is close to his original bat form, his fully corrupted form drawing energy from nightmares, and what sits comfortably between the two, since I imagine it spends more energy to flip to either extreme.

I thought this would be a spoiler, but I don't think it's a surprise to anyone at this point that I ship Antasma and Bowser. I think I've settled on the idea that it was very much one-sided. Antasma probably knew all along that he didn't have a shot, but he tells us in game the sort of energy and power he could draw from Bowser, and he may have been a little drunk on it. He grew infatuated with the idea of ruling the world at Bowser's side (I think Antasma shows substantial evidence he doesn't work best alone, he likes to have a cohort in his plans) and he was eager to please Bowser to make that happen. If he wanted the power, the dreamstone, the princess, you name it, Antasma had no issue handing it over. Really this whole time he was after his freedom and ensuring it couldn't be taken from him. We see that from his dreamstone wish--he only wanted to avoid being trapped again.

So all that said, Antasma is painfully gay for Bowser, but he sorta realizes he doesn't have a chance in hell, especially the way Bowser obsesses over Peach. So Antasma keeps it to himself. But this poor soul can't help his hopes, and he does hand Bowser power and revenge and victory on a silver platter trying to get on his good side. Bowser doesn't ever make an indication he could return Antasma's feelings (I don't think... I'm conflicted...) but he did go on this whole time like their partnership was a success and he was glad to have Antasma around. The betrayal took Antasma by complete and total surprise, and it really fucked with his head for a long time. It's a lot of what's affecting his shift in character in the trash trio, so I do count it a part of his backstory.