Crimson King

“Why must you be so coy, principessa?”- Crimson King, teasing Princess Peach.Crimson King is a horrorbrew owned by DruidLucid. He is part of an alternate universe where Mario is the one killed and taken over instead of Princess Peach in the Coronation Day (‘the) ROM hack. He appears as the main antagonist in his story called ,IT, which can be read here.
After Mario was ambushed and ultimately slaughtered by pagans in a satanic cult in a mysterious forest he and Princess Peach made themselves home to, the plumber’s corpse was promptly possessed by a demonic being who led the cult along with the forest’s essence. He now serves as the god of this forest and perpetually torments Peach for her shortcomings.
==Appearance==
Crimson King looks just like Mario outfit-and-all, but his clothes and signature yellow cape are torn and stained with stale blood, much of his exposed skin is scratched up, and his physique has a somewhat duller hue overall. The former plumber no longer dons his signature red cap, but instead wears a smooth wooden crown adorned with little rubies. Large dark horns also stick out from his matted hair.
His sclera is completely black, and he possesses a single eye with a red and white iris and a small black pupil. He has bad rashes under his eyes that are sometimes unnoticeable due to his coarse mustache. He possesses some light stubble on his chin. When he opens his mouth, it’s revealed that he has an uneven set of teeth that have a rotten yellow coloring. The skin on the sides of his jaw are somewhat torn, revealing flesh when he opens it wide. In older designs, there are cuts that stretch across the sides of his mouth instead.
The man’s gloves are now fingerless and are now a dull maroon instead of white. Small brown roots can be seen protruding from a few different spots on his head and shoulders. His stomach has been viciously cut open and his intestines can be seen dangling out of the large gash. He only has the thigh portion of his legs as the rest had been cut off, displaying a small part of his bones.
==Personality==
Crimson King is extremely unstable and is mostly known for being rude, manipulative, manic, and violent towards others or even himself. He is also quite sadistic and cruel, taking enjoyment in deriving others of their sanity and sense of self. As long as he gets what he wants out of his victims, he has no care for them whatsoever and will even insult them. Since he has a generally poor temperament, he is prone to outbursts of rage and savagery.
Under this rather vicious exterior, he represses a deep fear of being overthrown by other god-like entities as he is very possessive over his position as king. Even when he isn’t acting up, he still holds up a rather brazen, stubborn, and teasing attitude. He can be a bit modest and even sweet at times, though it’s almost impossible for others to see this side of him.
Aside from both of these, Crimson has suffered a pretty bad past long before he was summoned and was able to possess a vessel, which created a lasting sense of guilt and shame in himself that he’ll typically hide from others due to embarrassment. His mind sometimes leads him to believe that he really isn’t as perfect and beautiful as he believes himself to be, causing feelings of insecurity (especially when it comes to his body), despair, and self-hatred. As much as he wants to, he is unable to let go of his trauma, so all he can do is repress these negative feelings and hope that he’ll eventually forget everything and be fine again.
==Biography==
Long before the events in the story took place, there was an unnamed dark spirit who resided in Hell, much like other demonic beings who were born off of Satan (who the spirit herself referred to as “Father”). Like them, she was self-governing and had a clear sense of things she wanted for herself. However, one particular desire of hers caught the attention of many for how abnormal it was.
She wanted to be a king.
She abhorred the idea of becoming a queen and being subservient to other people. She wanted to be like Satan and rule with an iron fist, to overthrow the weak and become something beautiful.
Something like a butterfly.
But the others thought she was absurd in her mind, and even Satan himself ridiculed her and her wishes to be like him, saying that she could never truly be beautiful nor be a true king. This prompted the others to begin abusing her and echo Satan’s harsh words.
It would only get worse and worse, and the dark spirit felt utterly betrayed by everyone. She was began to convince herself that she really was imperfect and that she was nothing but a worthless waste—and she started to hate herself for everything she spoke up about as she became more and more of a doormat to her peers.
One day, while she was still down in Hell, she would suddenly be summoned into the mortal world in a large forest by a cult called ‘Sanguine Sect’ who worshipped her. It was revealed that they were well aware of her troubles and wanted to help her become a true king.
Over time as the dark spirit began to inhabit the forest and become a part of it, the cult would fail time and time again trying to please their leader as they were unable to find any person to kill and have their body taken over by her, which was irritating her greatly. She was just as desperate as they were, but nothing appeared to be working.
However, they would eventually find their targets: Mario Mario and Princess Peach Toadstool, two lovebirds who were just trying to find peace by hiding away from their archenemy Bowser and his Koopalings.
Offended by the presence of the princess in the forest alongside the plumber in a treehouse they built out of the forest’s own materials once they were found out, Mario was the one who would became the target to teach her a rather cruel lesson.
And even after the king was eventually able to fulfill his wish, Princess Peach wouldn’t be going anywhere either.
Some time after this started to take place, someone else, a young queen, found this very forest and started to wander it out of pure curiosity, not knowing what she was getting herself into. And though Crimson King was initially displeased when he discovered her presence in his home, he seemed to have taken a rather particular interest in her. But that tale is for a different day.
==Abilities/Weaknesses==
===Abilities (Crimson King) ===
Hallucination Inducement- Crimson King can induce perceptive distortions and visions into the minds of his victims to toy with their sense of reality.
Reality Warping- Crimson King can manipulate the reality he created in the forest to indefinitely repeat it.
Plant Manipulation- Crimson King can manipulate different kinds of undergrowth and such found in the forest and use them in any way he likes to his advantage. He prefers manipulating anything with thorns.
Enhanced Strength (Applies to both Him and the Forest Demon)- Crimson King is slightly stronger than a normal version of Mario and isn’t afraid to use this strength he has when in a struggle with something or someone. For the Forest Demon, the Heart Flower’s ability to generate strength throughout her being sprouted this power further into the corpse vessel upon her being tethered to it. This energy is also the reason why the corpse vessel is unable to rot.
Detection- Crimson King is able to easily sense others near or in his forest, though this ability can flare up late at times.
Flight- As Crimson King does not have the rest of his legs, he is only able to get around by hovering.
===Abilities (Forest Demon)===
Ghost Physiology- Since the Forest Demon is a spirit, she has both the natural abilities and physiology that any other supernatural being like her would have outside of a vessel.
Darkness Manipulation- The Forest Demon can control and manifest into the shadows of her victims to play tricks on them, though she doesn’t do it often.
Voice Replication- The Forest Demon is able to replicate most voices she becomes familiar with, albeit imperfectly. She uses this ability whether she’s in the corpse vessel or not, even using it for simple fun sometimes. When she becomes angry while still imitating a voice, she drops the act entirely to reveal her true voice, though she can really drop it whenever she feels like doing so.
Biological Essence Manipulation- The Forest Demon can control the ceaseless essence of her own forest at will. This ability is mainly used if rituals that need to be done require this essence.
===Weaknesses===
Threats To His Power- Crimson King is at risk of being overthrown by other entities of god-like power if he isn’t careful.
Overstraining- At times, Crimson can get ahead of himself and overstretch his abilities. This causes him to become physically and mentally stressed and he would need to take a brief rest to recover.
Emotional Instability- Because of his typically negative and shifting personality tied along with his bad past, Crimson is clearly isn’t the most sane person in the room.
Disease(?)- Being part of the forest doesn’t come without a cost.
== Trivia== 
*Crimson can contort his face in a variety of ways, such as unhinging his jaw and morphing his true face with the face of Mario’s corpse.
**Though it rarely happens, his jaw can fall off if he unhinges it too wide.
*He occasionally feeds on the bodies of Koopa Paratroopas after killing them when he gets hungry.
**If given the chance, he’ll eat the bodies down to the bone. He wouldn’t know what to do with the shell, though.
* He has a distaste for other royals entering his home, finding their presences disparaging due the belief that HE should be the only ruling party present in the forest and before his cult. It’s a special case when it comes to Princess Peach however, primarily because of how close she was to Mario before he became Crimson King. A similar situation occurred when him and Queen Lumina crossed paths for the first time.
**Despite this, he would eventually warm up to other royals if they are courteous enough and he is able to deem them worthy.
*If he ever met Coronation Day Princess Peach or Widow, he would be very aloof towards them due to them reminding him of the normal Princess Peach. With these demonic beings also being entities of god-like powers, he fears they would become competitive and attempt to overthrow him like he believes others would, so he and his pagans would constantly be on the lookout.
*Since the crown he wears was made by the pagans in his cult as recognition of their devotion to him. He cares about it deeply and would become very upset if he either lost it or if someone took it away from him.
*The night Mario was killed and became Crimson King was the day that the International Day Of Forests was first observed, March 21st, 2013.
*The Forest Demon’s horns become an extension when possessing the corpse vessel and assume the Crimson King form, hence why they look the way they do.
**Just like the rest of her ghostly being, they cannot be physically touched or else whatever is trying to come into contact with them will phase through.
==Miscellaneous Trivia == 
*Crimson has a very keen obsession with the color red and isn’t afraid to let it be known.
*He is multilingual and can speak languages such as English, Spanish, Italian, and Latin.
*Crimson has bad habits like biting at his nails and pulling at his hair.
**He has a few general phobias as well, including being watched (when he wants to be alone), being touched unexpectedly, hole clusters, needles, and failure.
*Crimson has an affinity for cats. He finds their meowing to be the most adorable thing about them. 
**His favorite cat species is the Himalayan.
*The ship name between Crimson and Lumina is called “CrimsonMoon”.
*Crimson has mastectomy scars, and they are canon.
*His favorite flowers are Marigolds (A.K.A. Tagetes) and Lily of the Valley.
*Crimson has hyperosmia, a condition where a person has an overwhelming sensitivity to smells.
* He has an allergy to mold and latex.
*If Crimson was a Pokémon, he would be a Trevenant.
*He has a semi-canon connection to Past Lives and his world as he (PL) is afraid of him.
==Gallery==
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File:Forest Demon V2.png|The current appearance of the Forest Demon.
File:CKOldestDesignDoodles.png|Doodles of CK’s oldest design.
File:CKOldestDesignFHIK.png|Ditto, but the brim of his hat is now black and the lower half of his face is skinned.
File:CKInitalRedesign.png|Crimson King’s initial redesign (V2).
File:CKMXPowerForest.png|A PowerForest doodle of V2 Crimson King and MX.
File:CKHowPathetic.jpeg|A traditional notebook doodle of V2 Crimson ridiculing the viewer.
File:Pretty Boy Crimson.png|A drawing of Crimson King wearing the sparkly red variant of the Sanrense Cocktail Party Dress (with Peach staring him down in the background).
File:ALL IS RED.png|V3.5 Crimson in what seems to be a rendition of his forest, appearing irate.
File:Face To Face.jpeg|Crimson facing a terrified Cabo, the latter holding a Rex he had killed and shown to her.
File:I Watch.png|He watches.
File: Whoopsies.png|Crimson and Queen Lumina panicking after the latter rams into a rear-view car mirror offscreen, based off what happens by timestamp 6:05 in the “MEET MY BOYFRIEND” Larry and Twaimz video.
File: Color Magic Crimson.png|A doodle of Crimson using a five-color palette generated by Color Magic. The sticks on his shoulders and head + his cape were accidentally forgotten here.
File: CK Color Magic Palette.jpeg|The palette in question.
File:MM Freeplay Portrait.png|A Freeplay Portrait concept made for Crimson King if he was in Mario’s Madness.
File: Such A Tease.jpeg|A non-canon interaction between Crimson and The Gr00m (a Horrorbrew owned by @LissitaSycamore, who is also the creator of Queen Lumina).
File:Tea Talk (Part 1).png|Crimson having a chat with Uncanny Mary. Part of an art collab with @Thestupidsimps1 . (1/2)
File:Tea Talk (Part 2).png|Ditto, but with Mary choking on her tea after Crimson mentions how his backstory/situation is similar to hers. (2/2)
File:A Kind Offer.png|Crimson offering Maaco a strip of bloody flesh.
File: Confliction.png|Are you finally proud of him?
File: Inner Dread.png|Bad memories don’t fade so easily.
File: M&L Crimson.png|An attempt at drawing Crimson in the style of the Mario & Luigi (M&L) renders.
File: Beautiful.png|A lovely little butterfly.
File: CK MM OST Art (With Logo).png|Crimson if he had official OST art for Mario’s Madness.
File: CK MM OST Art (Without Logo).png|Ditto, but with the art by itself.
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File:Semi Canon AU Drawing 1 .jpg|Fanart by @LissitaSycamore featuring Queen Lumina and her first encounter with Crimson King (V2 design).
File:Crimson King Get A Little Demanding.jpg|Ditto, now with Crimson King demanding Queen Lumina (in a different outfit) to bow to him.
File:Crimson King Wants His Crown Back.jpg|A panicked Lumina holding Crimson’s crown, the latter demanding her to return it to him.
File:Old Memories Part 1.jpg|Lumina reminiscing about what could’ve been if Mario hadn’t died. Crimson slinks in, confused. (1/3)
File:Old Memories Part 2.jpg|Crimson startles Lumina when he speaks, interrupting her thoughts. (2/3)
File:Old Memories Part 3.jpg|An embarrassed Lumina pushes Crimson away, much to the latter’s anger. (3/3)
File:Lumina's Difficulty To Look At The Crimson King.jpg|Crimson (now with his V3/V3.5 design) expressing an assertive stance towards Lumina.
File:Lumina And The Crimson King Kiss Each Other.jpg|Queen Lumina and Crimson King sharing a kiss.
File:Queen Lumina And Crimson Dacing 2Gether.jpg|Queen Lumina and Crimson King having a dance together.
File:Smile.jpeg|Crimson smiling.
File: Never Leaving.jpeg|”YOU MIGHT AS WELL GET COMFORTABLE, BECAUSE AS LONG AS I’M STILL KING, YOU WON’T BE GOING ANYWHERE ANYTIME SOON.”
File: Clingy.jpeg |Crimson being clingy towards Lumina.
File:Wrapping Up.jpeg|Lumina wrapping up Crimson’s stomach wound, appearing flustered.
File: Intrusion Upon Seclusion.jpeg|Redraw from a screenshot taken in Super Mario Odyssey with Crimson taking Mario’s place. Features Princess Peach and Lumina.
File: MINE.jpeg|Crimson becoming overprotective of Lumina from Bowser, who has been cropped offscreen.
File:Possessive.jpeg|”They all preach about how love is such a fickle thing… For me, it’s PERFECTLY STABLE when it comes to you.”
File:Beach Episode Real?.jpeg|Crimson and Lumina both wearing swimsuits, both confused at one another’s attire.
File: SMILE FOR ME.jpeg | Crimson with his jaw unhinged, forcing Lumina to smile for him.
File: Sleep Paralysis.jpeg|”Even in your dreams, I lay. I’ll always be here, no matter what you try to do to rid my existence from your head.”
File:Internal Noodles.png|Fanart by @tomster1274 featuring Crimson King viciously gnawing at his intestines.
File: Bad Guy Crimson.jpeg|Screenshot taken from @Violettia1 ‘s EXE OC “Bad Guy” animation.
File:An Unforeseeable Encounter.png|Fanart by @Thestupidsimps1 featuring Uncanny Mary, who is staring confusingly at a rather exhausted-looking Crimson.
File: Flustered.jpeg|Fanart by @UArtist44 of Crimson being flustered.
File: Who Are You?.jpeg|Fanart by @GnavTou featuring Maaco coming across Crimson for the first time, the two staring at one another.
File: You Aren’t Him.jpeg|Ditto, but as a comic of a non-canon interaction between the two.
File: Stop It.jpeg|Fanart by @bl00dypillz depicting Crimson in a more vulnerable state.
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