#ceremorph vibes

[eric-the-bmo]

UH- HEY GUYS???

SO YOU KNOW HOW VEN WAS FOUND WITH A VIAL OF ODD LIQUID IN IT RIGHT? AND HOW HE MADE IT INTO A NECKLACE SO HE CAN KEEP IT AROUND AND HOW ITS ACTUALLY FULL OF ELDER BRAIN FLUID??? AND HOW BOTH VEN AND CERE FIND IT COMFORTING?

WELL LOOK AT THIS

I’M GOING TO LOSE MY MIND THIS WAS ENTIRELY UNINTENTIONAL

#ven vibes #mind flayers #ceremorph vibes #dnd oc #eric finally speaks

[eric-the-bmo]

thinking about Cere and how its name is just a shortened version of the word ceremorphosis which is the process of becoming an illithid but also the word cere, is, of course, a prefix about the brain and knowledge-related things and it has Ven’s past memories

And also that cerecloth is a term for cloth used to formerly wrap bodies and how. and how it gets a wardrobe update after ven dies-

#and how it named itself after something it wanted to achieve and how it claims to be in the process of Becoming #like?? ourhg #ceremorph vibes #eric finally speaks

[eric-the-bmo]

Spin the wheel 4 times for da chart

So in the one-shot he was in, Adam tried to save what he thought was his mother, only to end up accidentally killing it- and he still didn't realize it wasn't his mother, so he was very distraught over this- especially since it called him by his father's name before it died, just to mess with him one last time. He's been through other things, like getting kicked out and having to kill his dad, but that's like the most traumatizing thing I think.

Memorja is,,, well, she's kinda killed a lot of people, but absorbing so many of their memories gave her a conscious so she's just got like. A lot of guilt about it, and wonders if she should be held accountable for her actions, or if she should be forgiven because it was merely her nature- the ghosts that follow her think she should be held accountable.

CEREMORPH?!?!? holy shit. It hasn't been through a lot of trauma, I think; It definitely has a lack of morals (ie it's a gaslighting cannibalistic bastard) and is fine with that, so?? I don't know if it needs therapy (it certainly doesn't think so, which is why its placement on the chart is like that), but once it got over its pride it would absolutely rant about its frustration about how Ven is still in control of the body and such (and trying to get it to talk about its dysmorphia and possible sense of inferiority would be like pulling teeth). Awful little creature, it would try to kill its therapist.

oh my god Quincy. Girl (ambiguous) you need help, you're so obsessive over your sire and that's not.... uhg. that's not good, to view him as a god.

#ask meme #eric finally speaks #ceremorph vibes #memorja vibes #adam vibes #quincy vibes

[eric-the-bmo]

Hold on i made picrews of some tttrpg ocs let me show them to you guys-

So this is John Doe, he’s a Monstrous Hunter for Monster of The Week! Kinda got hit by a car, and since they couldn’t figure out who he was at the hospital he’s been labeled as an unidentified living person. He works at a cafe, and is trying really hard to hide the fact he’s a man-eating monster from his best friend. He doesn’t know how to drive (he’s afraid of cars anyway, since he was hit by one), and opens up chip bags with his teeth.

Ceremorph my abhorred and beloved, this parasite bastard is the source of my sorcerer’s magic abilities in dnd. Can take over his body and is totally gonna be a cult leader. Gaslight gatekeep girlboss, it’s the reason i say Ven is in a psychological horror film (also check out the eyeball necklace as a reference to the fact Cere was inserted into Ven via his eye-)

Theodore Carter!!! My beloved!!!! His creation history is wild, but I think he’s found a home in Changeling the Dreaming! He’s a college student (dropout?) with an eccentric fashion sense who discovers he’s a reincarnated fae, and oh yeah, there’s so much going on in the fae world in terms of political drama and extinction due to lack of joy and wonder, jesus christ. He can pretty much Macgyver inventions from anything, but they never work the exact way he wants them to, much to his frustration [autism be damned my boy can make inventions]. He likes giving gifts to people.

Final guy! Technically, Brian Jules Anderson is the oldest OC on this list in terms of creation, but I’ve never really done anything worthwhile with him. He’s always had a lovecraftian vibe to him (he was originally a professor-turned-cult leader), so I’m slowly reworking him to fit Call of Cthulu. He’s a librarian struggling with his religion, but since I’m a huge fan of characters mistaking monsters and eldritch horrors for god you can probably tell where I want his story to go.

#eric finally speaks #my ocs #picrew #fun fact john doe was originally a placeholder name but oops! i got attached #theodore was originally inspired by the mad hatter #theodore's name is actually inspired by the man who Inspired the original mad hatter art #brian's name is taken from a front bottoms song bc i heard a tiktok audio #and i went oh im taking that for my oc now #his middle name is taken from jules verne #john doe vibes #ceremorph vibes #theodore vibes #brian vibes

[eric-the-bmo]

1, 15, 22, 34, 41

1. which ocs are the most touch-starved? Oh my god APOLLO. This man hasn't been touched by another being for as long as he's been in the City, and even then he's not sure how long he's been down there. Literally the best thing he can do to simulate contact is just,,, holding his own hands. This man is gonna Freak Out when he goes up to the Surface and someone shakes his hand. I'd also like to say Rhidian as well. He's been stuck in a library with only a ghost in a book as his only companion for quite a few years now, and the people who found their way into the library never really wanted to get near him.

15. which ocs are too self-sacrificial? I want to say Ophelia. She's dedicated her entire life to serving and protecting the town she grew up in, as well as the added tasks of making sure her wife is doing alright. She's always wanted to go to the ocean, but feels bound by her duties to stay home. However, the more I think about it, Apollo is also a great answer and might be a better answer. Due to his, uh, current worldview, he will in fact do anything Silvidahl tells him to, even if it's self-detrimental. The more I think about this, the more I realize I've got more self-sacrificial OCs than I've realized. Those are the top two, however. Ios comes in right afterwards, being the Chosen One for a sun cult and all.

22. which ocs are most flexible? which ocs are least? Amazing question. Gel and Memorja are very close ties for being the most flexible, but that's only because they're both made of slime. The non-slime answer would be Gemma :-) She was a contortionist at a circus! As for least-flexible, I want to say Zachariah Cain. He is a walking corpse, after all.

34. which ocs are clumsiest? which ocs are graceful? Hm, I've never given this much thought before. But Monarch is the most clumsiest overlord you will ever meet, there's a reason he's died so many times (besides from eldritch horrors and The Bit). John and Sildar might be close contenders- John walks as if he's new to being in a human body (he is), and Sildar is just very clumsy when he gets nervous- and that happens a lot, since he's not the most charismatic man. He's also like 7 feet tall so yknow. I think as an Archfey, Reese was incredibly graceful, being a powerful spirit and all that, and I think she'd still try and attempt to mimic that. I feel as if Ceremorph would be graceful as well, being a charismatic cult leader, but for the first few times it took over Ven, it would definitely be in the Most Clumsiest category.

41. which ocs enjoy gazing at the sky? APOLLO APOLLO APOLLO, Listen!!!! He hasn't seen the sky for fucking ages!!! He canonically enjoys watching the sunrise and he's been underground for so long and aauuuggggh, I feel like he'd just really enjoy seeing it all again but not really realize it, I have many emotions about this man And while Michael doesn't really enjoy it anymore, he used to do it a lot! With the place he lives in, the sky can be all sorts of colors. Sky-watching's taken a bit of a turn for him, though, ever since he realized it should be blue instead of whatever apocalyptic color the sky decides it should be for the day.

This has been fun, thank you! I've got two more of these in my ask box, I will answer them later :-)

#brb tagging this as every oc i mentioned in this post #apollo vibes #rhidian vibes #ophelia vibes #gel vibes #memorja vibes #gemma vibes #cain vibes #monach vibes #john doe vibes #sildar vibes #reese vibes #ceremorph vibes #michael vibes #ven vibes #ask

[eric-the-bmo]

-kicks down door-

CEREMORPH’S CLOTHES HAVING SUBTLE EYEBALL IMAGERY TO REPRESENT VEN’S EYE THAT IT WAS INSERTED INTO

#ceremorph vibes #eric finally speaks

[eric-the-bmo]

Tysm for the ask about my OC Isaac- I was so happy when I saw it. So this is an ask about your OCs! I've seen quite a few posts of yours tagged with Ceremorph vibes- who are they? 👀

Also I just love hearing about other people's OCs in general. Feel free to use this ask to rant about like. Any OC you want :D

hi hi hello!! aaa ok so! let me explain the tag system i've got real quick! It's always "[character name] vibes," to show that it kind of has? the vibes of one of my OCs, in a sense. (they're almost all dnd ocs because that's my special interest ig) This might be incoherent because I don't know how to talk about my characters in a way that makes sense but here we go!

(woahoho, old-ish art! ^)

Ceremorph is one of my villain ocs! It originally started as an AU version of one of my other characters, Ven- that AU was based on the idea of "what if he embraced his magic instead of being afraid of it?" and then oops! Ceremorph eventually became its own character in Ven's canon story. Because they're so entwined with each other (quite literally), I have to talk about Ven for a short moment.

oh wait uh quick CW for kidnapping, talk of parasites, starvation(?), cannibalism, loss of bodily autonomy/possession

Ven is a human who got kidnapped by illithids and was put through the process of ceremorphosis- it's the process of how illithids reproduce, where they lay a clutch of eggs which hatch into tadpoles. The tadpoles cannibalize each other for a while, before eventually being inserted into a suitable host. They latch onto the brainstem (or eat through the brain? not sure) to take over the mind, and slowly, the host's body changes into the body of an illithid. Ven had a tadpole inserted into his eye, it latched onto his brain stem, and perhaps this was a new experiment the illithids were doing or perhaps something went wrong, but the transformation didn't happen correctly. Ven was found two months after his disappearance, still looking like a human but with no memories of his past. What he did have, however, was a parasite in his brain and the new ability to cast magic- of course, he didn't know about that.

Ceremorph is the source of Ven's magic and has all of Past Ven's memories, but is aware that those aren't its own- in fact, it hates Ven's wife because she stirs up all of the emotions Ven had felt towards her, and Cere is very emotionally repressed and doesn't like that At All. Its people aren't very big on emotions, and it carries itself with a logical and manipulative coolness, though it can have a flair for theatrics and can be prone to anger. Cere, like all illithids, eat brains for the psionic energy, and the hungrier Cere gets, the more... feral/ less sentient it gets.

Currently, Ceremorph can observe almost everything Ven does from inside his brain- it occasionally takes a step back if things get boring, but it Watches. Cere can also take over Ven's body, but almost never does this when Ven is awake, and prefers to do it when he's asleep so it can be passed off as sleepwalking. Given how Cere can mimic Ven really well, the reason it doesn't take over when Ven is awake is due to the fact Ven himself would question the gaps in his memory, possibly causing Cere to be discovered. Also because as good as an actor Cere is, it's not perfect- it dislikes touch, and some of its mannerisms and movements are off. Despite being hidden, Cere talks to Ven: as far as Ven is concerned, it's just his anxiety or part of his subconcious. Cere was actually the one who pushed Ven to unlock their magical abilities- Cere was thrilled at the magic finally being unlocked, and Ven was horrified over the fact he tore a man apart with sorcery he didn't even know he had.

There are some scenes I'm excited for, actually: Ven is currently travelling, and locks the door from the outside so he can't leave while he's "sleepwalking." Eventually, perhaps some other characters will wake up to hear Ven's voice asking them to open the door, please, why don't you? Another scene is where Cere's hunger finally gets the best of it, causing it to take over Ven's body while he's awake and attacking a low-level antagonist, smashing open their skull with magic and devouring their brain in front of Ven's friends. Cere unintentionally reveals itself, and Ven has to wake up and realize he's committed an act of cannibalism, there's a parasite in his brain, and oh yeah! He's becoming a monster that can only live if it kills others.

And of course!!! If Ven ever dies, Ceremorph will in fact take over his corpse!! I don't know what it's planning, but it will absolutely form a cult, and Ophelia will have to fight the monster that looks like and can almost perfectly mimic her dead wife.

Since it's a dnd villain npc, I truly don't know what it's planning. Where does it try to go at night when it's not hunting? Why did it form a cult?

I had a whole paragraph talking about the seperate physical differences Ven and Cere are drawn with (sharp teeth, webbed claws and ears, etc). but even then Ven gains all those traits once his body starts to change. The floating hair is difficult, since Ven has that when he uses his magic, and Cere really only starts to float off the ground once it realizes it doesn't have to pretend to be Ven anymore and can use its magic however it wants. I'd argue the glasses, but Cere wears those when pretending to be Ven (although Ven!Cere's glasses always have a lense flare to hide its eyes). It's all a wild mix.

(behold! quasi-illithid Ven, he's not doing okay ^)

I have no idea if that was? Making sense? I'm aware there's not much to it, it's just a typical dnd villain, but I have a lot of fun with it- Cere is surprisingly easy to joke about

Anyway this probably didn;t make sense and it is! 12am now, oh goodness

but yeah i just think it's cool and tbh i made Cere bc I wanted a self-indulgent au for myself where my nervous poet was a very dangerous and pretty villain

any-vay goodnight, it's so so very cool someone's intrigued by my ocs, thank you ☆

#dont even get me started on apollo #he has a 40 masterdoc #ceremorph vibes #eric finally speaks #ask answered #sorry if this was poorly written #i dnot know how to desrcibe character personalities

[eric-the-bmo]

Tadpole/Voice: It’s me boy im the ps5 speaking to you inside your brain

#ceremorph vibes #i cant stop thinking about this

[eric-the-bmo]

Diversity win! The person who ate your brain is nonbinary!

#ven vibes #ceremorph vibes #like ok ven and ceremorph are the same person #its just that ceremorph is like #an evil au version of ven