we should start having thalassaphobia/cosmic horror stuff for the Sea of Simulation. hope this helps 👍
…ok there is a LOT of potential there, wow
…the Sea is so unexplored, and yet in passing mentions we’ve seen:
- contains scary sea monsters (novelization of 1982)
- generated the ISOs (Betrayal comic)
- got poisoned to stop the ISOs (Betrayal comic)
- was where Rinzler ended up (end of Legacy)
so many ways we can GO from that…
…an angry Sea spitting Rinzler out regenerated in the form of a vengeful kaiju kraken monster was only the first idea that occurred to me here
Rinzler is already kinda scary, I don’t want to think about him with like… tentetecals or something
yeah, honestly I wouldn’t be the one to write any of this horror because I don’t wanna see Rinzler any scarier.
it’s definitely some people’s thing but….. I’m not a horror writer, I’m a “let the original encom programs all live happily and sexily ever after” writer
and if I do tentacles they’re on the subbiest tentacle monster who ever lost his virginity to Ram (I did this fic already and it was weird and silly and kinda sad but definitely not scary)
Orrrr…… there is just so much comedy potential there if Rinzler stays in the water for the most part - and is not only not alone, but is the youngest in the Sea.
On land? Rinzler was scary before, now he’s So Much Worse. Everyone flees from him etc etc. Here is your horror, explore as much or as little as you wish.
In water though? Rinzler is. A baby. The rest of the Eldritch Things (an amalgamation of the few ISOs partially formed by the time the Sea was poisoned, Yori like that one fic someone wrote where she was a Rusalka, A Mass Of Tentacles And Eyes, and assorted others) coo over this little baby bapping at them with its soft claws. He hasn’t even reached his thousandth cycle yet, look at him being so fierce! Yes yes, very scary, I am very scratched, it is naptime now.
For extra comedy/angst, whatever made Rinzler Like That also split Tron out and did the same thing to him. He’s handling it much better (relatively speaking - most of the early cycles involve a lot of “Yori please help I have no idea what I’m doing”) and is trying to split his time between making sure Rinzler doesn’t terrify too many of the land-dwellers, and making sure he’s not too terrifying to the land-dwellers because he maybe. Sort of. Adopted a kid without telling Yori before All Of This Happened and wants to introduce her to said kid and vice versa (Beck is having A Time, especially given his mentor not only came back but now is difficult to look at because shapes shouldn’t work like that).