Jupiter

An experiment failed; twice drawn. Though, this time around, *everyone* is subject to its ramifications.

## Physical Description / Biological Information

Jupiter is a humanoid husk created from the DNA of Archer Atticus and several creatures of Chorus. Its physical matter is akin to that of a jellyfish -- gelatinous, translucent, and lacking any visible organs. The rings and wings that surround its body only manifested after it was inhabited, and are not biological by any means. Looking at them for too long will induce a headache.

Jupiter's wings are metaphysical, and thus do not grant them flight. The images on these wings can distort and manifest into varying shapes, though often rest still as eyes, and always remain the same colour.

Jupiter's face remains stagnant in an expression that can only be described as abject indifference; no matter the emotions its inhabitants are experiencing. It does not blink, nor does it open its mouth when it speaks. Despite this, its wings are quite emotive, along with any gesticulations and other physical mannerisms that come packaged with whoever of its inhabitants is controlling the body.

All of Jupiter's inhabitants live inside of it both in a physical and psychological sense, almost comparable to the mechanics of a Pokéball. Some sort of physical form of its inhabitants exist inside of there *somewhere,* and can be affected physically by other inhabitants and occasionally outside influences.

## All Things Considered, A Favourable Outcome

Jupiter, at its core, is a vessel created by Titan with the aid of Talbot Grimes -- With its intended purpose being a body for the reformed consciousness of Archer Atticus. The five moths that his mind had been split between -- Titan, Ganymede, Rhea, Io, and Callisto -- did successfully recombine, and his consciousness was pieced back together. Though, what was failed to be considered was the fact that the moths had three years of personal growth -- meaning that even though those fragments of Archer remained inside of them and were the building-blocks of their personalities, they were all now their own developed, separate people, with traits and memories unique to them. Subsequently, when they recombined, all five of them remained intact, in addition to the reformation of Archer.

This immediately caused a heaping amount of chaos. From Archer's perspective, he had just died back in his office, only to wake up moments later; in a body that was not his; alongside five large anthropomorphic insects that were also incredibly confused.

After several long, *long* explanations, Archer was caught up on the situation. He had died 103 years ago via the event now known as the Aberration, and these 5 moths were indeed the vessels he had attempted to transfer his mind into. Titan had created this vessel for them, and the moths remaining intact was not intended, though a pleasant outcome. The subject matter of the Blight was not touched upon for Titan's sake.

With Archer now informed and left to unpack all that, the six of them now had a new obstacle; figuring out how the hell they were going to control this body.

Jupiter was not designed to house multiple inhabitants. Though they could all communicate locally, the six inhabitants of Jupiter quickly discovered only one of them could move and speak through the vessel at a time. They decided to give Archer primary control; as he was the most used to using a more humanoid body, and had a post-apocalyptic world to see the sights of. The moths were happy to stay on the backburner.

With that decided, came the second obstacle; Residency. They all needed a safe place to stay while they continued to figure things out amongst themselves. Jupiter had awoken in Breach's laboratory, where it had been created -- a location that was absolutely not safe, especially in a post-war environment. Jupiter's incorporeality was a helpful aid in their hasty departure from Chorus, their return to Aberrant a welcome one for all six of its inhabitants. In an attempt to return to the moths' original abode, Outpost Jupiter, an unfortunate realisation was made. Outpost Jupiter was built to house moths, not 6ft tall humanoid vessel that could not comfortably inhabit the space, let alone fly up to its entrances.

With the Outpost ruled out as a safe place to stay, Ganymede proposed a location; Their friend, Sheriff Jefferson, most likely would have returned to his town Shadestump after being relinquished from the hold of the Blight. Ganymede knew that if he had, he would happily let them stay there. To their relief, the Sheriff had indeed returned, and was happy to house his old friend alongside their companions in their new form.

## Remember, Requiem

Titan, unsurprisingly, was not of the most sound mindset after everything they had been through to end up in Jupiter. They did not intend to exist post-reformation, and now did not know how to feel about it or what to do with themselves. Though they had their siblings and Archer to offer them consolation, there was still one, looming shadow that haunted Titan; the presence of The Chariot.

The Chariot that was present in Jupiter was not the Chariot that was present on the battlefield, as that Chariot and Titan are one in the same. This Chariot was a manifestation of everything that Titan believed to be the worst parts of themself; the parts they wanted to leave behind. Unfortunately, this did include a lot of their strongest traits, as those were some of the favoured parts that remained when they were pseudo-lobotomised.

The moths were aware of Chariot, though Archer was not. This resulted in incident involving Archer almost getting his eye taken out via a sort of fucked up 'Eye for an Eye' conclusion that this Chariot had come to. Archer was partially blinded by this, mirroring Titan's blinded eye, and by extension, Chariot's. Titan was sent into an even further spiral of despair by this.

With the aid of their siblings and a still-supportive Archer, Titan was eventually able to 'kill' the Chariot, and subsequently reclaim some of their lost-self worth. They still had a lot of healing left to do, but it was a start.

## Death Do Us Part

Meanwhile, Archer had been dealing with a whole other can of worms. Having been informed by Ganymede that his husband was miraculously still alive -- albeit heavily mutated and residing on the moon --, he understandably wanted to go and see him as soon as possible to pick things back up where they left off. Once Titan was mentally ready to allow a visit to Chorus, Jupiter made its way there to pay Fathomless a visit.

From Archer's perspective, he had closed his eyes, died, then woken up inside of Jupiter. It had barely been any time since he had last seen his husband, maybe a month at most -- he was on the final stretch to reunite with the lover that he had revived himself for.

From Fathomless' perspective, his old life had come back to haunt him after a century of personal growth and learning how to move on. A person he had already grieved for was standing infront of him, in a body that wasn't his, greeting him with the cadence that nothing could have possibly changed over such a long stretch of time.

Fathomless, fundamentally, is a different person than Maximus. Core parts of Maximus remained within him, but he had changed far too much to consider himself the same person he was when Archer knew him. Fathomless did not feel comfortable with acting on behalf of Maximus, a person he considered to be long-dead.

In the simplest of terms, things did not end well. Archer's advances were gently rejected on the basis of 'it has been far too long to pick things back up again,' which Archer took as best as he could. The whole reason he had enacted the experiment -- to see his husband again -- had been brought to fruition, in what he interpreted as the worst way possible; Maximus not being in love with him anymore, whilst his own love remained as strong as ever. To summarize; Divorce.

## Weird Science

The culmination of the whole Divorce Debacle was a long-overdue gender awakening and Archer wanting out of Jupiter. What Archer saw as her only purpose upon being reanimated had been squandered, and thus she wanted to forge a new path and identity for herself, which wasn't very possible within Jupiter. Un-fusing from Jupiter became an immediate issue, as the five moths fusing together is what reformed Archer's consciousness in the first place. Theoretically, if they were to un-fuse, Archer would once again cease to exist. Not ideal. Science wasn't of much help in the situation, meaning any expertise Archer had was rendered effectively useless. Jupiter was barely a vessel of science in the first place; most of its matter was magical and metaphysical.

When all hope seemed to be lost, the solution to the Jupiter problem was handed to them in the form of a slutty, slutty vampire; the infamous Count Jefferson. With his prowess in the arcane that the inhabitants of Jupiter lacked, the help she was able to provide was invaluable. Through various reality loopholes and invocations, the Count was able to successfully un-fuse Jupiter with all six of its inhabitants remaining intact. Somewhere in the mix, Archer became a vampire as well. Whether this was a key part of the un-fusing process or if Archer just wanted to become a vampire is up to interpretation.

With their regained individuality, Archer and the moths once again had to decide what to do with themselves. Archer decided to remain in Shadestump, both due to his proclaimed debt to the Count and his newfound attachment to the town. The moths were to leave, sticking together as they always have, finding new purpose in a post-war land.

Once Archer made them promise to visit every so often, the moths made their departure for greener pastures, and Archer thus remained in Shadestump.