Homunculus

Homunculus are artificial living beings that inhabit Remnant, in all the history have only existed 11 of them.

## **History**

### **Early History**

The first ten homunculus were created in secret by Ozma and a few selected scientist of the midevil times. The main purpose of their creation was to make an army of beings able to fight Salem and actually defeat her, all of the homunculus had the same process but some variations were made to get different results. For example the addition of rare materials or different kinds of procedures to increase their powers, or even different DNA.

Very powerful beings were created in that secret lab but one of the homunculus got out of control and killed all the scientists and some of the other homunculus in the process, the ones that survived ran away and remade their lives.

### **Scissors Dan Victims**

Sadist and horrible murders started happening all around the old Kingdom, all of them having something in common, the victims presented a scissor stabbed in the chest, left behind by the homunculus Daniel who started to be known like Scissors Dan. He was an inmortal homunculus since he was created with Salem's DNA and his only weakness was the magic, he had a messed up mind that forced him to kill at least each two days to don't go insane, he practiced many inmoral things like cannibalism, torture, public exhibition and necrophilia. Scissors Dan was ambushed by the maidens and Ozpin to then be locked up in the old Blackgate where he remained until the modern times.

### **Beginning of the Vampire Strike**

In many parts of the world started being reported bodies that would be completely dried off and initially everyone thought Scissors Dan came back but after some autopsies it was determined that their deaths weren't cause by a semblance. Soon enough the homunculus Lanfear, started her plan towards human annihilation after have a decent army of undead vampires, unfortunately for them, they were annihilated by Ozma, the vampire hunters and the Lycans. The only reason the race survived until modern times was that Lanfear escaped and restarted her plan in the shadows.

### **Lycan tribes**

At the beginning it seemed like if the population of wolf faunus shot up so nobody really cared but what the world didn't know is that they were another race that started after the first Lycan, the homunculus Dorian, decided to have a pacific life and form a family with a wolf faunus that eventually led to the increase of the Lycans. Dorian saw the mistreat towards faunus and by extention Lycans so he decided to work with Salem for a brighter future until his death in the hands of a maiden when he protected his brother Scissors Dan. The Lycans cried his death but that only made them distrust more on the other races leading to contact the vampires to then reject their offer to join forces since they didn't want to enter in a war with the whole world, unfortunately that started the Lycan-Vampire Conflict that prevailed until modern times.

### **Gargoyles Gang**

A group of humans started gaining fame suddenly without an explanation when they were one of the weakest gangs in the Old Kingdom, the reason was because they were being led by the homunculus Sonja, who was able to manipulate the shadows and reincarnate in a similar body after death. They would only rob and traffic weapons since the only thing they wanted was money. Scissors Dan got contact with them to make an alliance in the name of their sake to defeat Ozma. Later Daniel would grant the members with eternal youth except Sonja since she already had a way to trick death. After Scissors Dan was arrested, they simply kept a low profile until the modern times.

### **Nadali's Normal Life**

Nadali was the only homunculus to never get in trouble into society and worked hard to get a good life being a famous lawyer and getting an expensive lifestyle. At difference of all the other homunculus, he refused to use his powers. He was killed off by Scissors Dan after being considered a threat to Sonja and him since he was too weak that it would be easy for Ozma to recapture him and find a weakness for the homunculus. He came back to life partially in the modern times thanks to Zeke's Semblance.

### **Brainpire - The Beginning**

The first homunculus created by Ozma was a simple test to be able to create artificial intelligence, a brain capable of acting in their own and evolve without need to be commanded. The result was a "super-brain" or like he call himself, brainperor (Brain Emperor), with a superior intelligence than any other living being, it developed multiple abilities out of that world, mostly because of the fungus "01010000 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01101001 01100100" (Phalloid) Or how it was called in Remnant "Asteroid Fungus". Ozma thought it was fascinating how the brain alone was the most advanced intelligence in all the world and decided to preserve it with a bit of his magic and Brainperor's instructions to create the "01001011 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01101110" (Keraton) which was told to be the perfect perserving chemical but in fact it was an articial way to create a substitute for the blood of the Phalloid specie. Brainperor developed telekinesis, mind control and telepathy. Once Dan broke out, killing some homunculus and all of the scientist including Ozma, Brainperor was left alone with Frost, instantly he knew it was bad news since Frost aggresive behavior and the fact that he couldn't just control him all the time meant that his preserving container could be broken any minute so he decided to wait until Frost either died from age or killed by something to start acting. In another note, it is important to say that Brainperor told Ozma a better way to create homunculus without the use of the extremely rare fungus so in a way he is responsable of the creation of the homunculus.

### **Ozma's Hunt**

In an attempt of Ozma to fix his mistakes and balance the world again, he started hunting down the homunculus, he recaptured the homunculus Frost and forced him into submission with an electric necklace. This way he almost recaptured Dan and got Nadali killed in an indirect way, even though Frost was defeated by Dan, it was considered a victory because the most dangerous homunculus was arrested. He also started the vampire annhiliation but allowed the Lycans to live since they were mostly pacific.

### **Brainpire - Medley**

Being impatient and also knowing that most of the facilities were still intact under all the destruction, he used his telekinesis carefully to seal all of the entraces to the -4 floor, leaving Frost in the superior levels, as a part of the fungus family, he started to grow mycelium that slowly reached to each corner of the whole laboratory, extending his range of action, first thing he did was to find all of the documents left behind and experiments, most of what was there was irrelevant to him except for two things, apparently spores that would allow Ozma to control Salem, of courses it was a complete failure and a failed artificial relic, which was an artifact that was intended to act like all the four relics in one, it was an abandoned project as it was impossible to do but Brainperor had all the knowledge he needed to finish both experiments. It took him years to finish his projects, in that time Ozma had taken Frost away and left the ruins of the laboratory, asking the maidens to cover everything with earth, Brainperor would have died if it wasn't for Ozma's magic in the container constantly creating fresh oxygen for him, once he finished all of the calculations, he used his power to control minds on the animals nearby in an ettempt to attract humans, faunus, vampires or lycans there, once he got to do it, used an expedition group to dig to the entrance and controlled them to create the spores that now were linked with himself. It was just a matter of time until he exposed a village with the spores and took total control of them, forcing the people to go to the lab and fix the lab and improve his container in order for the third part of his plan.

### **Fourth Beacon of Darkness Creation**

Because of how hard is for the Fourth Beacon of Darkness to appear, the Covenant decided to create her artificially and it resulted in an absolute achievement since they were the first one to create a homunculus without Ozma's help. Flame Fall fitted what the Beacon needed and instantly became one.

### **Brainpire - Braincide**

The Brainperor expanded his empire underground and became the most advanced settlement, soon created an efficient way to be always in control, using the system "Living Battery" in which he forced multiple intelligent beings to transfer him aura during all the day, changing the batteries based on a schedule. Normally the batteries would be the ones that became too old and fragile to work, thanks for his mycelium, they kept aging but didn't die, it reached a point where they were practically mummies being forced to live even if they couldn't even move, talk, see or feel. But in any case, he and his empire kept a low profile to don't attract unnecessary attention until his plan was finished and it was to use both the artifical relic and the spores. During centuries he had been reuniting living batteries to use the artifical relic which he made work but consumed an extremely high ammount of aura to work, if he did everything right he could expose the whole world of Remnant to the spores and take control of every living being, besides plants and brainless animals but for them, he would dominate them with the mycelium that he would allow to cover all of the planet surface once nobody could stop him. His plans failed due to the Anti-Beacons Alliance discovering the Brainpire thanks to Ozma who told everyone about his plans to create an artifical relic and that the documents should still be there. During a short but intense fight Brainperor suffers a stroke after accidentally break his container and dies, letting the eldest living batteries finally die and freeing everyone else from his control.

### **Modern Day**

Today, there only exist three homunculus alive (Or just two depending on the alternative ending) And they are kept like royalty and high ranks of the new world the Beacons of Darkness created.

## **Homunculus**

The homunculus were classified by Ozma as he made the experiments with numbers. It's also wise to show that the number of an homunculus don't prove their level of power.

1. 01000010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110010 (Preserved - Mind Control/Telepathy - Brainperor [Brain])
2. Unnamed (Deceased)
3. Dorian (Deceased - Lunar strengthening - Lycan)
4. Unnamed (Deceased)
5. Nadali ("Multiple"/Zeke's Semblance - Teleportation - Human)
6. Unnamed (Deceased)
7. Sonja (Reincarnation - Shadow Manipulation - Human)
8. Daniel (Immortality - Blood Manipulation - Human)
9. Frost (Deceased - Transformation - Faunus)
10. Lanfear (No aging - Corpse Manipulation - Vampire)

Since the Covenant weren't really interested in creating artificial life for the moment there was only one homunculus they had to do in order for the Beacons of Darkness' plan to work.

* Flame Fall